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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……

Location of Grand Haven Charter Township, Ottawa County, Michigan

The House on Riverside Trail: The Karolkiewicz Family Annihilation

Riverside Trail. A husband shot his wife and six children in Grand Haven, MI, then set fires and killed himself. Inside the Karolkiewicz family annihilation.…

Shreveport, highlighted within Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Cedar Grove Killings: The Warnings Before the Familicide

Eight children were killed before most of Shreveport had awakened. The violence lasted minutes. The warning signs had been accumulating for years.…

Sleepover Shattered: The DeKalb County Shooting

DeKalb County, Georgia, highlighted. The shooting took place in the county. Credit: David Benbennick / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). Just before 4 a.m. on Thursday, July 2, 2026, someone fired dozens of rounds from a…

East St. Louis Family Homicides: Five Killed, Two Teens Charged

Five relatives dead, two survivors wounded, a severed thumb used to unlock a phone. A 16-year-old boy and his 15-year-old girlfriend face murder charges in a targeted family attack across three East St. Louis locations.…

An aerial view of the California Medical Facility prison complex in Vacaville, with low buildings, yards and perimeter fencing.

Ed Kemper (Edmund Kemper): The Murders, Victims, Evidence and Conviction

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 students around Santa Cruz, decapitating most of them and keeping…

Paul Bernardo: The Scarborough Rapist, DNA Delay and Victim Record

He was a well-dressed, well-liked professional in an affluent suburb, before DNA evidence connected him to a string of Scarborough rapes that predated the murders of Leslie Mahaffy, Kristen French, and Tammy Homolka. The file…

Autopsy of a Sadistic Killer: The Case of Joanna Dennehy

Peterborough, highlighted within England. Dennehy killed three men in and around Peterborough in March 2013 before the attacks in Hereford. Locator map only. Credit: TUBS / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). The Peterborough Killing Spree…

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…

The George Washington Bridge seen from the Manhattan shore of the Hudson River

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…