Melinda Beck

Retired investigator Joe Kennedy established a coalition of active and retired investigators who help police departments in the U.S. solve cold cases. A&E True Crime spoke with Kennedy about how advances in DNA analysis have revolutionized such investigations.

The body of the Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina woman was found in a ditch with injuries consistent with being thrown or dragged from a moving vehicle.

After the Golden State Killer's arrest in 2018, dozens of rape victims learned their assaults weren't isolated incidents but the work of a serial killer. Read how many survivors bonded through mutual trauma.

Lisa McVey was 17 years old when she was abducted, beaten and raped by a serial killer—and managed to survive. We spoke with McVey, now a master deputy in the Hillsborough County (Florida) Sheriff's Office, about how she outsmarted her kidnapper, Bobby Joe Long.

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. Read what happened afterward to five survivors.

The idea that people have a right to defend themselves—even using force that would otherwise be illegal—harks back centuries to English common law, which formed the basis of the American legal system. We navigate the murky and still-evolving world of self-defense laws in the U.S.

In very rare instances, people who suspect their fathers, brothers or other family members are long-sought serial killers are dead right and help authorities solve a notorious cold case. But far more often, they pester police with circumstantial evidence backing up wild theories.