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.

The non-profit Texas EquuSearch, which helps find missing persons, has sparked a renewed effort to find the remains of possible additional victims of the ‘Candy Man’ serial killer.

Throughout the years, some murderers have turned to the popular classifieds advertisements website to find their victims. Here's why.

Decades after a series of unsolved murders of redheaded females throughout the 1980s, a profile of a mysterious serial killer known as "The Bible Belt Strangler" emerged.

Read about the death of the businessman and children's entertainer, who liked to dress as 'Pogo the Clown' and was convicted in March 1980 of murdering 33 boys and young men, making him the worst serial killer in American history at the time.

People with disabilities are especially vulnerable to becoming victims of financial, mental, physical or sexual abuse because they are often isolated and dependent on others for their care.

From Mary Stauffer to Colleen Stan to Elizabeth Shoaf and more, read the unbelievably horrific true stories of women and young girls who were kidnapped, raped and tortured—in some cases for many years—before they escaped.

SVU detectives are trained and equipped to handle cases involving sexual assault, abuse and interpersonal violence. Hear from one detective what it's like working a real-life SVU.

Posthumous DNA testing proved what Roger Keith Coleman repeatedly denied—that the Virginia man raped and murdered his sister-in-law in 1981.

Peter Sutcliffe had the makings of a serial killer before he claimed his first victim and continued on a murderous spree that terrorized England for nearly five years.