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Crime + investigation
Explore the rights victims of violent crimes have within the United States, and how these laws can vary by location.
On July 31, 1970, 4-year-old Heidi Jones found the body of her mother, 23-year-old Loretta Jones. Heidi Jones-Asay recounts the 46 years leading up to Thomas Egley's long-awaited guilty plea.
After spending nearly two decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit, the Wisconsin man was exonerated and released. But soon after, he was charged and convicted of the murder of Teresa Halbach.
'Phrogging' is the crime of individuals secretly living in someone's home—a reference to how frogs leap from place to place. We investigate the many different forms of this crime and the danger it presents to victims.
Ron Franscell, author of 'ShadowMan,' speaks with us about the first case in which the profiling technique, often used by the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit, successfully apprehended a suspect.
The ex-police sergeant was convicted of killing his third wife and is currently in prison, but hasn't been charged in the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, his fourth wife.
Ann Wolbert Burgess tells us about how her expertise in victimology aided the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit in their mission to capture rapists and serial killers in the 1970s and '80s.
In 2016 and 2017, 'Anna Delvey' scammed hotels, banks and others out of $275,000 while climbing the ladder of high-society and trying to launch the Anna Delvey Foundation.
Hired in 1921, James E. Amos was the first Black agent to work publicly for the FBI and worked high-profile cases involving murder, organized crime, Nazi spies and more during his 30-plus years of service.
The New Hampshire serial killer admitted to killing two men on her farm, but claims it was because God told her to punish pedophiles.
Many unanswered questions still remain about the death of U.S. Army soldier, Enrique Roman-Martinez, stationed at Fort Bragg, was found dead on May 22, 2020 in North Carolina.
Psychologist Fathali Moghaddam unpacks the motivations.
The Philadelphia-based forensic scientist discusses her experience being one of the few Black women in the field and the work her nonprofit, Association of Women in Forensic Science, does to bring STEM to kids.
The 1980s McMartin Preschool case was, and currently remains, the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American history. Seven teachers at the school were accused of abusing hundreds of students, sometimes as part of Satanic rituals.
Expert FBI profiler John Douglas shares how he turned the sophisticated and cruel tactics of murderer Larry Gene Bell against him.
In 2012, the Supreme Court's Miller v. Alabama verdict found that almost all juvenile offenders deserve a chance at release and must be resentenced.
In 2017, the investigation of a missing 20-year-old Indigenous woman from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana stalled, which resulted in it remaining unsolved today.
Was a dead woman found in Norway in 1970 a spy, a member of an international criminal organization or did she suffer from a mental illness?
Forensic psychologist Dr. Katherine Ramsland tells A&E about her over a decade-long correspondence with Rader.
The mystery of the Zodiac Killer still enthralls the public.