Ed Kemper (Edmund Kemper): The Murders, Victims, Evidence and Conviction
Case statusConvicted
At 15, he shot his grandmother to 'see what it felt like.' By his mid-twenties, Edmund Kemper had murdered his own mother…
Leonarda Cianciulli: The Correggio Murders, Victims & Soap-Maker Myth
Case statusConvicted
Leonarda Cianciulli was an Italian serial killer convicted in 1946 for the murders of three women in Correggio between 1939 and 1940.…
Mary Ann Cotton: The Arsenic Murders, Victims & Evidence
Case statusConvicted
Britain's first infamous female serial killer, Mary Ann Cotton poisoned her way through three husbands, a lover, and up to eleven of…
Original Sin: Meaning, History & Christian Beliefs
Case statusArchived
Original sin represents a family of Christian doctrines explaining human mortality, moral disorder, and the need for divine grace following the Fall.…
The Servant Girl Annihilator
Case statusUnsolved
The Servant Girl Annihilator case terrorized Austin in 1884–1885. Explore the eight commonly linked deaths, victims, evidence, suspects and why the murders…
The Hinterkaifeck Murders: Evidence, Myths, and the Unsolved 1922 Cold Case
Case statusUnsolved
Inside the unsolved Hinterkaifeck murders: six victims, mysterious footprints, a contaminated crime scene, disputed suspects and the evidence that survives from 1922.
The Cleveland Torso Murderer: Victims, Evidence & Suspects
Case statusUnsolved
Inside the Cleveland Torso Murderer case: 12 canonical victims, Kingsbury Run discoveries, Eliot Ness, disputed suspects, forensic limits and modern DNA identification…
D. B. Cooper Hijacking
Case statusUnsolved
On November 24, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Flight 305, extorted $200,000, and parachuted into the night never to…
Chicago Tylenol Murders
Case statusUnsolved
Seven dead in one week: how a stranger laced Tylenol capsules with cyanide across Chicago in 1982, sparking a case that changed…
The Unabomber: Theodore Kaczynski and the UNABOM Case
Case statusConvicted
Theodore Kaczynski’s Unabomber campaign killed three people and injured 23. This dossier examines the bombings, manifesto, FBI manhunt, cabin evidence, victims and…
The Jonestown Massacre: Jim Jones, Peoples Temple and the System Behind 918 Deaths
Case statusClosed
Recruitment, racial and political legitimacy, surveillance, dependency, isolation, armed enforcement, and the mass murder-suicide of November 18, 1978
The Zodiac Killer
Case statusUnsolved
A source-led Zodiac Killer dossier covering confirmed victims, surviving witnesses, Bay Area attacks, letters, Z408 and Z340 ciphers, suspects and forensic limits.
Albert Fish: Grace Budd Letter, 1935 Trial, and the Case Record
Case statusConvicted
Albert Hamilton Fish. The name itself is a bile-flavored invocation of aberrant humanity.
Paul Bernardo: The Scarborough Rapist, DNA Delay and Victim Record
Case statusConvicted
He was a well-dressed, well-liked professional in an affluent suburb, before DNA evidence connected him to a string of Scarborough rapes that…
Aristocracy of Blood: Pre-Modern Serial Killers and Myths
Case statusArchived
Article OverviewIntroduction: The Anachronism of EvilPart I: The Semantics of SlaughterPart II: Imperial Sadism – The Reign of CaligulaPart III: The Marshal…
Consensual Annihilation: Armin Meiwes the Rotenburg Cannibal
Case statusConvicted
A forensic analysis of Armin Meiwes, the Rotenburg Cannibal, examining the consensual murder of Bernd Brandes and cannibalism.
Ted Bundy Case File Infographic: Victims, Timeline & Evidence
Case statusConvicted
From the Pacific Northwest to a Florida electric chair, Ted Bundy used charm, impersonation and sudden violence to abduct and kill young…
What Drives Evil Acts?
Case statusArchived
What Drives Evil Acts? Human Malevolence Dossier | The Dark Side of Humanity Glossary Case TermsX Moral disengagementCognitive and social processes that…
Consensual Mutilation
Case statusArchived
Consent didn't erase victimhood. The Rotenburg Cannibal case exposed the legal limits of 'willing' participation in murder.
Aileen Wuornos: Florida Killings, Trials & Execution
Case statusConvicted
Explore the Aileen Wuornos case: seven Florida highway killings from 1989–1990, six convictions, disputed self-defence claims, and her 2002 execution.
Sexsomnia and the Law: A Difficult Forensic Defence
Case statusArchived
Sexsomnia is a genuine sleep disorder, but proving it caused an alleged sexual offence requires careful medical, forensic and legal examination.
The Menendez Brothers Case: Murders, Abuse Claims and the Justice System
Case statusConvicted
Article OverviewThe Nightmare on Elm DriveThe Final HoursThe Crime SceneThe 911 Call and Arrival of PoliceInitial Police InterviewsThe Central ParadoxPart I: The…
The Body After Death: Necrophilia, Possession, and Erasure of Consent
Case statusArchived
A dark forensic true crime analysis of necrophilia, corpse possession, grave desecration, and killers who used death as ultimate control and love.
Headless, Dismembered Woman Found in Bus Freezer
Case statusArchived
A 34-year-old New Orleans man was taken into custody after investigators discovered a decapitated body inside a freezer on his property. Benjamin…
