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For seven years, she was locked in a small, coffin-like box.
On Halloween 1974, a Texas man poisoned his young son with cyanide-laced candy in an attempt to collect the insurance money. He became known as 'The Candy Man.'
It's an exceedingly rare group of people who escape the clutches of a serial killer—only to find their lives forever changed by the ordeal.
Angeline Hartmann of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and A&E's "Live Rescue" on the role the internet plays in facilitating child abduction.
Saldivar was convicted 30 years of killing the Tejano singer.
Eddie Seda, Matthew Milat and Michael Madison are just a handful of killers who claim to have been inspired by other killers.
A popular theory claims three childhood behaviors—animal cruelty, fire setting and persistent bedwetting—can indicate a serial killer in the making.
A&E speaks with Alan Feuer about how a encrypted cell-phone system and a young technology specialist led to El Chapo's capture.
It's been over 40 years since Jeffrey MacDonald was convicted of killing his wife and daughters. But he still claims he is innocent.
The 27-year-old morning news anchor failed to show up for work.
He murdered 33 male victims, some as young as 15 years old.
We explore the serial murders committed by Earl Taylor, Robert Spangler and Jack Reeves: men who killed more than one of their wives.
They escaped a house of horrors. Now the three women help others.
Griselda Blanco built a $2 billion cocaine empire, but her reckless thirst for blood made the Cocaine Godmother a target.
From William Williams to Jimmy Lee Gray to Jesse Joseph Tafero and others, the executions of a number of death-row inmates have not gone as planned in the U.S.
Writer Jeanette Hurt explains how her father helped expose corruption at the Chicago Truck Drivers, Helpers and Warehouse Workers Union.
Although it's a common plot in young adult novels, it's rare kids help police solve cases in real life. But some young people have helped crack cases. Read their stories.
Looking back on when a brutal, satanic gang terrorized Chicago by torturing and killing women at random in the 1980s. One of the killers, Thomas Kokoraleis, was released from prison in 2019. Many are unhappy that he's a free man.
There have been many high-profile crimes over the years, but only a fraction have been successfully translated into film.
The two cases helped usher in the age of milk-carton notices.
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.
