There have been many high-profile crimes over the years, but only a fraction have been successfully translated into film. What does a true crime need to make it into the silver screen? Crime author Harold Schechter on what makes for good true-crime movies.

In the early 1980s, Johnny Gosch and Eugene Martin, two paperboys from Des Moines, Iowa, played a critical part in helping shape the era of missing and abducted children—from the Missing Children Milk Carton Program to the formation of the NCMEC and more.

After Candra Torres's husband was murdered by a man they had just met, she corroborated the stranger's story that it was an accident. But days later, she changed her story. Read Candra's story, which inspired the Lifetime movie, 'A Murder to Remember.'

Broderick killed her ex-husband and his new wife in 1989, but debate continues over the legacy of psychological abuse—and how it affected Betty’s actions.

Without a body, proving that someone has committed murder is difficult but not impossible. More than 500 no-body murder trials have been held in the United States, with a conviction rate higher than that of all murder trials.

In today's world, homicide detectives are expected to be jacks-of-all-trades: equally adept at chasing outlaws and identifying DNA evidence at the scene of the crime. But, in an overwhelmingly male-dominated field, Frances Glessner Lee, a Midwestern woman without a high school diploma, made contributions throughout the 1930s and 40s that earned her the moniker 'The Mother of Forensic Science.'

A&E True Crime speaks with Anne E. Schwartz, a former crime reporter for The Milwaukee Journal, who broke the story about Jeffrey Dahmer's arrest on July 22, 1991, about what it was like uncovering the life and murders of one of America's most notorious serial killers.

Christopher Bernard Wilder became known as 'The Beauty Queen Killer' during a frenzied 1984 spree, where he criss-crossed the U.S., luring young women into his fancy cars and dangling the promise of work as a model, if they would just allow him to take their photographs. Some took the bait. Others, he took by force.

For nearly two decades, Chicago faced a curious rise in the number of unsolved murders against women involving strangulation—all in certain areas of the city. We take a look at one of the unsolved cases and what police are doing to solve the string of murders.

Rickey Ray Rector always had a troubled mind—as an adolescent, he fought regularly with peers, and by 17, he was a career criminal. But over the course of four days, his disturbing behavior reached its peak when Ray shot five people with a .38-caliber pistol.