Ivan Milat: The Backpacker Murders and the Record

Seven young travellers vanished from the roads south of Sydney between 1989 and 1992. Their remains were found in the Belanglo State Forest. A British hitchhiker who escaped a gunman in 1990 identified the man,…

Douglas Clark

Between June and August 1980, six women and girls were killed in Los Angeles. A confession by Carol Bundy led police to Douglas Clark, who was convicted of all six murders in 1983 and died…

Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen

In February 1910 the music hall singer Cora Crippen, known on stage as Belle Elmore, vanished from her home in north London. Her husband said she had gone to America and died there. Five months…

Edward Gingerich: The 1993 Killing of Katie Gingerich

On March 18, 1993, Edward Gingerich, an Old Order Amish man in Rockdale Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, killed his wife, Katie. A jury found him guilty but mentally ill of involuntary manslaughter, not murder. This…

Mountain Meadows Massacre case file art: the Mountain Meadows site in southern Utah, where about 120 Arkansas emigrants were killed in September 1857

Mountain Meadows Massacre: The 1857 Killings and Trials

On September 11, 1857, Mormon militiamen in southern Utah, with some Southern Paiutes they had recruited, killed about 120 emigrants from Arkansas at Mountain Meadows after a five day siege. Seventeen young children were spared.…

Al Capone: The Chicago Boss the Government Convicted on Taxes

The FBI says the Chicago suburb of Cicero became "a fiefdom of the Capone mob," and the 1929 killing of seven men in a North Clark Street garage was "generally ascribed" to his gang. He…

The Main Line Murders: Susan, Karen and Michael Reinert, 1979, and the Conviction That Did Not Stand

In June 1979 Susan Reinert, an Upper Merion English teacher, was found dead outside Harrisburg, and her children Karen and Michael were never seen again. William Bradfield was convicted of all three murders in 1983.…

The Clutter Family Killings: Holcomb, Kansas, and In Cold Blood

Herb, Bonnie, Nancy and Kenyon Clutter were killed in their farmhouse near Holcomb, Kansas, on November 15, 1959. Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were convicted in 1960 and hanged in 1965. Truman Capote made the…

Sam Sheppard: The Bay Village Murder, the Press and the Supreme Court

Marilyn Reese Sheppard was beaten to death in her Bay Village home on July 4, 1954. Her husband was convicted in 1954, and in 1966 the Supreme Court ruled he had been denied a fair…

Carlos Marcello: The New Orleans Mafia Boss, the Courts and the JFK Allegations

Federal investigators called him the boss of the New Orleans Mafia for thirty years. He was deported once, acquitted several times, had two convictions wiped out and served time on two others. A congressional committee…

Pretty Boy Floyd: the Kansas City Massacre allegation and the disputed death in Ohio

"Then he took to the trees and rivers to lead a life of shame.Every crime in Oklahoma was added to his name."…

The Crime Ledger: October 28, 2026

Verdicts, sentences, appeal rulings, charges and arrests from 48 countries since the evening of Monday, Oct. 26, 2026. Two men are arrested 17 years after the CCTV-recorded killing of Mariano Bacioterracino in a Naples café.…