The Jonestown Massacre: Jim Jones, Peoples Temple and the System Behind 918 Deaths

Recruitment, racial and political legitimacy, surveillance, dependency, isolation, armed enforcement, and the mass murder-suicide of November 18, 1978…

Santa Muerte Cartel, Narcocultura and Ritual Violence

Santa Muerte is a widely venerated Mexican folk saint associated with protection, healing, and everyday hardship. While millions of lawful devotees follow her, drug cartels and criminal networks have also appropriated her imagery within……

Painting of a large crowd with tricolour and red flags outside the Paris Hotel de Ville in 1848.

The Gendered Blade: Women, Politics, and the Guillotine in the French Revolution

The guillotine, an invention of grim and rhythmic efficiency, stands as the enduring symbol of the French Revolution’s most violent chapter: the Reign of Terror. Conceived in the spirit of Enlightenment humanism as an……

Hand-coloured 16th-century woodcut broadsheet showing villagers, burning houses and gallows.

Flesh and Symbol: The History of Human Cannibalism

Explore the chilling history of cannibalism, from the desperate survival of the Donner Party and Andes survivors to the pathological minds of killers like Jeffrey Dahmer. Uncover the stories that test the absolute limits of…

Rostov Ripper: Soviet Horror Story

Explore the chilling narrative of Andrei Chikatilo, the Soviet serial killer whose gruesome crimes challenged the perceived social harmony of Soviet ideology.…

Tiananmen Square Massacre (1989): The True Story of Protest & China’s Deadly Crackdown

The events of Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, reverberated beyond its borders and into history. The violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters seemed to be a decisive moment in China's relationship with the democratic world.…

Order of Nine Angles (O9A): The Nazi-Occult Network Built for Radicalization

Understand the Order of Nine Angles (O9A), a neo-Nazi Satanic cult with roots in esoteric Hitlerism. Learn about its violent ideology, recruitment tactics, and the counter-extremism efforts to combat its spread.…

Fiery Protest & Conspiracy Manifesto: The Max Azzarello Case

Max Azzarello, a man who set himself alight in front of a New York courtroom, exhibits erratic behavior and writes a conspiracy-laden manifesto.…

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…