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Two thieves left the Boston museum with 13 masterpieces in 1990.
How a notorious facility evolved through the arts.
A brutal crime turned its accused killer into a symbol.
The father of six was convicted of murder in July 2025.
Moore was the one person Wuornos couldn’t bear to lose.
The Texas mom said she had postpartum psychosis.
Certain acts can be tried under both state and federal law.
The murderer also burned one victim's eyes with cigarettes.
The PhD student killed four University of Idaho students in 2022.
The perpetrator referred to himself as “Freddie Krueger."
The Colorado facility is America's only federal supermax prison.
Edmund Schreiber was strangled in Buffalo, N.Y., in June 1983.
The officer had been embezzling from his police training program.
Thien Ho sentenced Joseph DeAngelo decades after his first kill.
It took five decades to determine Hiram “Ross” Grayam’s killer.
Forensic testing and a key tip helped ID her after a decade.
Their murders happened within years of one another in San Diego.
Female killers' motives also tend to differ from those of males.
He was caught after the 1928 murder of 10-year-old Grace Budd.
Institutional rules prohibit inmates from getting inked.
The Florida killer was convicted in 1992 of murdering seven men.
The "Killer Clown" killed at least 33 young men and boys.
For years, Rader terrorized Kanasa as the "BTK Killer."
Jim Jones led 900 followers to mass suicide in Guyana’s jungle.
Lyle and Erik Menendez infamously killed their parents in 1989.
Dahmer’s murders went undetected until his arrest in 1991.
Escobar was reviled by some and celebrated by others.
Police discovered 39 Heaven’s Gate suicides in California.
The mystery of the Zodiac Killer still enthralls the public.
Blanco made it to the top of the drug trade in the 70s and 80s.
Ramirez terrorized California during the 1980s.
In the panoply of American killers, Gary Ridgway stands out.
Gein was notorious for his fascination with women’s body parts.
Letourneau's affair with her student stunned America in 1997.
The case of Hae Min Lee’s murder captivated the world.
Laci Peterson vanished in 2002—Scott was later convicted.
Broderick fired five shots at her ex-husband before fleeing.
David Berkowitz’s 1977 arrest ended a year of fear in NYC.
The 1969 Manson murders marked the dark side of the ’60s.
A fashion icon’s murder capped Cunanan’s killing spree.
Hernandez’s case raised questions far beyond football.
The Murdaugh murders exposed a web of deceit and financial crime.
Caylee Anthony’s disappearance shocked the nation in 2008.
