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Jack the Ripper: Crime’s Most Enduring Mystery, Whitechapel Murders, 1888

To understand the series of brutal homicides that occurred in the autumn of 1888, one must first analyze the environment in which they took place. The Whitechapel district of London’s East End was not……

Black and white portrait of Elizabeth Short, a smiling young woman with dark curled hair and a white ornament in her hair.

The Black Dahlia Murder: Elizabeth Short, Los Angeles, and the Making of an Unsolved American Crime

Black Dahlia Murder. The 1947 murder of young Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia, remains one of Los Angeles's most famous unsolved cases: an American cold-case mythology in the same cultural register as……

Ambrose Small Disappearance

What happened to Ambrose Small? Follow the missing Toronto millionaire's final day, theatre sale, Grand Opera House, suspects, evidence and unresolved theories.…

Leonarda Cianciulli: The Correggio Murders, Victims & Soap-Maker Myth

Leonarda Cianciulli was an Italian serial killer convicted in 1946 for the murders of three women in Correggio between 1939 and 1940. She targeted victims with promises of marriage or employment, coerced them into……

The Servant Girl Annihilator

The Servant Girl Annihilator case terrorized Austin in 1884–1885. Explore the eight commonly linked deaths, victims, evidence, suspects and why the murders remain unsolved.…

Belle Gunness, the La Porte, Indiana, killer

Deadly Women: Phenomenon of Female Serial Homicide

For centuries, women have been overlooked as serial killers, but their numbers are on the rise. Murderesses driven by motives, from revenge to insanity, are beginning to make their mark on the annals of history.…

The Marquis de Sade Criminal Profile: Violence, Power and the Man Behind “Sadism”

A sourced Marquis de Sade criminal profile reviews the confirmed allegations, overturned death sentence, imprisonment, writings, and origin of “sadism.”…

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

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

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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…