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- Alcatraz Escape. The fate of three men—Frank Morris, John Anglin, and his brother Clarence Anglin—who made a daring escape from an isolated island prison in 1962 remains a mystery to this day.
- Black Dahlia. The 1947 murder of a 22-year-old Hollywood hopeful in Los Angeles has never been solved.
- Brink’s Robbery. A 1950 robbery of a Brinks bank in Boston by men in masks sets of a massive search for those responsible.
- Charles Ross Kidnapping. The FBI investigates the abduction and murder of a Chicago greeting card executive in 1937.
- O.J. Simpson
- Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
- Beltway Snipers
- D.B. Cooper Skyjacking
- The Zodiac Killings
- Watergate
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- Unabomber
- Jodi Arias
- Casey Anthony
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In what’s still probably considered the most-watched criminal case ever, Pro Football Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the brutal murder of his former wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, a waiter at a local restaurant. From the time Simpson was declared a suspect to the day the jury delivered its verdict, Americans from c...
Believed to have been taken from his nursery bed while he slept, the infant son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh was found dead about two months after going missing from his family’s New Jersey home. An enormous investigation proceeded into the death with public suspicion falling at various points on several different people connected to the fami...
Over the course of about three weeks during the fall of 2002, more than a dozen people had been mysteriously shot by an unknown sniper in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. On one single day during the spree, Oct. 3, five people were murdered by the sniper in Maryland and D.C. Eventually, the massive manhunt ballooned to include 400 FBI agents. Lee Boyd...
In a case that remains unsolved to this day, a man who said his name was Dan Cooper hijacked a flight bound for Seattle in November 1971, jumping out of the plain with a parachute on his back and the ransom money he’d demanded and gotten in his arms. While the case has captivated the public imagination, nobody has ever faced charges in the case, an...
We know Ted Cruz isn’t the Zodiac killer, but to this day, authorities have yet to charge any individual with any of the murders attributed to the Zodiac. Operating in northern California at various times in the 1960s and 1970s, between seven and 30 murders are attributed to the Zodiac. The murders remain the source of public fascination, and autho...
When a 1972 break-in was reported at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel in Washington, D.C., few people could have predicted where the investigation would lead. When all was said and done, multiple individuals were in jail and President Richard Nixon left office in disgrace.
The gruesome discovery of the body of a young woman sliced in half at the waist became a national obsession, as both the Los Angeles police and the FBI interviewed dozens of suspects across the country to find the killer or killers of Elizabeth Short. Nicknamed the Black Dahlia by the L.A. press, Short was a 22-year-old aspiring actress when she wa...
Once a well-respected math prodigy, Ted Kaczynski came to national prominence thanks to a series of bombings that killed three people and injured nearly two-dozen others. About 16 bombs have been attributed to Kaczynski, nicknamed the Unabomber. He is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole and remains incarcerated at a supermax p...
Over the course of a five-month trial, much of which was broadcast on television, Jodi Arias was convicted of the brutal 2013 slaying of her boyfriend, Travis Alexander, who had been both stabbed and shot. Arias alleges she killed Alexander in self-defense, but a jury took just 15 hours to decide that Arias was guilty of premeditated murder. She wa...
The day after she reported her daughter, Caylee, missing in 2008, Casey Anthony was arrested for child neglect and the following day, authorities say cadaver dogs picked up the scent of human flesh in Anthony’s car. In a trial broadcast nearly every day on cable TV, Anthony was acquitted in the death of her young daughter, though she was found guil...
Learn about the most notorious and captivating crimes and trials in the U.S., from O.J. Simpson to JonBenet Ramsey. Find out the details, outcomes and controversies of each case and how they shaped American culture and justice.
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- John Wayne Gacy: The Killer Clown. An entertainer who played "Pogo the Clown" at children's parties, John Wayne Gacy was one of the most infamous serial killers in America.
- Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy is probably the most notorious serial killer of the 20th century. Though he admitted to killing 36 women, it's speculated that the actual number of victims is much higher.
- David Berkowitz: Son of Sam. David Berkowitz (born Richard David Falco) terrorized the New York City area in the 1970s with a string of brutal, seemingly random homicides.
- The Zodiac Killer: Unsolved. The identity of the Zodiac Killer, who haunted Northern California from the late 1960s to the early ’70s leaving behind a trail of lifeless bodies, is still unknown.
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- Osage Murders. In the early 1920s, discovery of oil under Osage land in north-central Oklahoma made members of that tribal nation among the wealthiest people in the world.
- Lindbergh Kidnapping. On the evening of March 1, 1932, one or more kidnappers abducted the toddler son of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh. They left behind a ransom note demanding $50,000, some muddy footprints and a broken ladder.
- Bonnie & Clyde. When the infamous crime spree of Depression-era outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow ended in a barrage of gunfire, it was local police officers who staged the ambush.
- Rosenberg Espionage Case. As the Cold War heated up in the late 1940s, U.S. military intelligence agents working to decode Soviet “diplomatic” cables made a stunning discovery.
Jun 12, 2021 · It's one of the oldest criminal cases cracked with the new DNA technology. The murders of teen sweethearts Lloyd Duane Bogle and Patricia Kalitzke had gone unsolved for more than 60 years.
Notorious crime couple Clyde Champion Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death by officers in an ambush near Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana on May 23, 1934, after one of the most...
Apr 7, 2020 · April 7, 2020. All true crime stories start as crime reporting, often in the daily newspaper. Before the narrative is shaped for your streaming device, earbuds or bookshelf, the facts are...
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