Criminal Psychology

Villisca Murder House

Villisca Axe Murders

Villisca, Iowa, 1912: eight victims, one axe, zero convictions. Explore America's most chilling unsolved murder case.…
Ed Kemper

Edmund Kemper

At 15, he shot his grandmother to 'see what it felt like.' By his mid-twenties, Edmund Kemper had murdered his own mother and six college…
Servant Girl Annihilator

The Servant Girl Annihilator

Before Jack the Ripper, Austin's Servant Girl Annihilator killed eight victims in their beds in 1884-1885 and was never caught…
Cleveland Torso Murderer

The Cleveland Torso Murderer

Twelve dismembered bodies. Two names confirmed. Zero convictions. Inside Cleveland's most notorious unsolved murder series — and the 2024 genetic genealogy effort finally trying to…
D.B. Cooper

D.B. Cooper

On November 24, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Flight 305, extorted $200,000, and parachuted into the night never to be found.…
The Unabomber

The Unabomber

The Unabomber: Words That Ended a Seventeen-Year Manhunt | The Dark Side of Humanity Glossary Case Terms X Confirmed device A bomb attributed to Kaczynski…
Zodiac Killer

The Zodiac Killer

Zodiac Killer dossier: confirmed attacks, disputed suspects, and the 340-cipher finally cracked in 2020 but the killer's identity remains unsolved.…
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Ted Bundy Case

From the Pacific Northwest to a Florida electric chair, Ted Bundy used charm, impersonation and sudden violence to abduct and kill young women across four…
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Aileen Wuornos

Aileen Wuornos confessed to seven Florida highway killings between 1989–1990, was convicted six times, and executed in 2002 a case still split by contested self-defence…
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Folie à Deux Madness for Two

Folie à deux: inside the psychiatric condition where shared delusion binds two people into one closed, self-reinforcing reality…
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David Parker Ray

Known as the 'Toy-Box Killer,' David Parker Ray built a mobile torture chamber in New Mexico to control and torment victims. Explore his M.O., accomplice…
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Black Dahlia Murder

On January 15, 1947, the bisected and drained body of Elizabeth Short was found staged in a Los Angeles vacant lot. This…

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