Bugsy Siegel case file art: Siegel portrait, the Flamingo in Las Vegas and a Linden Drive window, Beverly Hills, June 20, 1947

Who Killed Bugsy Siegel? The Unsolved Murder on Linden Drive

Standing just a tad under six-feet tall, with a thick head of black hair and piercing blue eyes, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel seemed to be a gangster sent from central casting in Hollywood. He was charming…

Diane Downs case file art: Downs's portrait, the words Old Mohawk Road Shootings, and a dark rural road in Springfield, Oregon, 1983

Diane Downs and the Old Mohawk Road Shootings

Even though the sun had long set over the verdant hills of Springfield, Oregon, Thursday, May 19, 1983, remained as warm at night as it had at noon. There was a quiet to the evening,…

The Crime Ledger: October 31, 2026

This edition gathers verdicts, sentences, charges and arrests from 23 countries, all reported since the evening of Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026. In Manchester, a jury convicts Simon Richardson of murdering Stretford Grammar School head teacher…

Lizzie Borden case file art: Borden's 1890 portrait and the Second Street house in Fall River, labeled Acquitted, 1893, Murders Unsolved

Lizzie Borden: The Fall River Murders

The day is stiflingly hot, over one hundred degrees, even though it is not yet noon. The elderly man, still in his heavy morning coat, reclines on a mohair-covered sofa, his boots on the floor…

Allan Pinkerton case file art: a Brady-era portrait, a locomotive and Chicago factories, labeled Spymaster, Strikebreaker, Legend, Chicago, 1850

Allan Pinkerton: Spymaster, Strikebreaker, Legend

"Human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered."…

The Crime Ledger: October 30, 2026

This edition gathers verdicts, sentences, guilty pleas, trials, charges and arrests from 24 countries, all reported since the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026. In Melbourne, Victoria's Court of Appeal dismisses Erin Patterson's appeal and…

Sylvia Likens case file art: her portrait, a roller skate and the words The 1965 Indianapolis Case File, 1949 to 1965

Sylvia Likens: The 1965 Indianapolis Case File

Sylvia Likens, 16, was left to board at a house on East New York Street in Indianapolis in the summer of 1965. By October 26 she was dead, with more than 150 wounds. This case…

Winnie Ruth Judd case file art: her portrait and a railway platform, labeled The Trunk Murders of 1931, Phoenix to Los Angeles

Winnie Ruth Judd: The Trunk Murders of 1931

In October 1931 two trunks shipped from Phoenix to Los Angeles held the bodies of Agnes Anne LeRoi and Hedvig "Sammy" Samuelson. Winnie Ruth Judd was convicted of LeRoi's murder and sentenced to hang. This…

The Crime Ledger: October 29, 2026

Verdicts, sentences, guilty pleas, trials, charges and arrests from 41 countries reported since the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026. A 42-year-old man is charged in Monaco with involuntary manslaughter after Prince Albert II's cousin…

Clifford Olson case file art: his portrait over a British Columbia forest and highway, labeled 11 murders, 11 life sentences, and the cash-for-bodies deal, 1980 to 1981

Clifford Olson: The Cash for Bodies Killer

Case snapshot The victims: 11 young people, eight girls and three boys, between the ages of 9 and 18, abducted and killed in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia between November 1980 and July 1981…

Phil Spector case file art: the record producer's portrait for the 2003 Lana Clarkson shooting at his Alhambra, California mansion

Phil Spector and the Death of Lana Clarkson: The Case File

Lana Clarkson, 40, was shot dead in the foyer of Phil Spector's Alhambra house hours after they met at the House of Blues. The defence said she killed herself. One jury could not decide; a…

Case-file artwork for Eugène François Vidocq: his portrait beside a French street, labeled The Convict Who Ran the Sûreté, France, 1775 to 1857

Eugène François Vidocq: The Convict Who Ran the Sûreté

A forger's sentence at Douai in 1796, escapes from the bagnes at Brest and Toulon, then twenty years as the informer and chief of the Paris Brigade de Sûreté. This case file separates what the…