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The Crime Ledger: Aug. 14th 2026

Luigi Mangione entered a federal guilty plea for the killing of a healthcare executive, highlighting a day of significant legal movement. Law enforcement is also managing a multi-scene mass shooting in Michigan and separate incidents…

1980 Florida Department of Corrections mugshot of Ted Bundy

The Ted Bundy Victims: A Chronology of Loss and Evidence

Ted Bundy, Florida Department of Corrections photograph, February 13, 1980. Executed January 24, 1989. Credit: Florida Department of Corrections / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). This chronological history traces Ted Bundy’s crimes from 1974 through his…

Villisca Axe Murders: Victims, Suspects & Theories

During the night of June 9–10, 1912, eight people were murdered inside the Moore family home in Villisca, Iowa. The victims were Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four children, and two young overnight guests, Lena…

The Tesla on Bluebird Avenue: Celeste Rivas Murder Case

The Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, downtown Los Angeles, where Los Angeles County felony cases are heard. Credit: Coolcaesar / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). For months, a missing child’s life and an ascendant…

Everett, highlighted within Snohomish County, Washington, where the spree began on September 26, 2011, with the murders of David "Red" Pedersen and Leslie "DeeDee" Pedersen

Pedersen Grigsby Murders: A White Supremacist Reign of Terror

In 2011, David Pedersen and Holly Grigsby launched a 10-day murder spree to start a "revolution." Dive into the case of prison radicalization, hate crimes, and the systemic failures.…

Greenwich Harbor in Connecticut on a clear day, with wooden pilings in the foreground and boats moored across the water

The Murder of Martha Moxley: Belle Haven, 1975, and a Case Without a Conviction

"Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented."…

The Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, a tall white office tower in downtown Los Angeles

O.J. Simpson Trial: Acquittal, Civil Liability and the Record

A Los Angeles jury acquitted O.J. Simpson of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1995. A civil jury…

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The Crime Ledger: October 22, 2026

Verdicts, sentences, appeal rulings, charges and arrests from 43 countries in one worldwide edition. A retired NYPD detective is charged with murder…

The Crime Ledger: October 21, 2026

Verdicts, sentences, an execution, charges and arrests from 32 countries in one worldwide edition. Alabama's governor commutes Toforest Johnson's death sentence. Florida…