Adam Janos is a New York City-based writer and reporter. In addition to his work for A&E's Real Crime blog, he has reported for The Wall Street Journal and The Budapest Times, amongst others.
A&E True Crime talks to retired FBI profiler Dr. Mary Ellen O'Toole about serial killers, like Ted Bundy and the Toolbox Killers, who had well-defined victim preferences.
Forensic science may be on the verge of a straighter path to exposing lies: Through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a brain scan that maps cerebral activity by measuring blood flow. Early results of fMRI for lie detection are promising, with accuracy rates higher than 75 percent.
David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center and author of the book 'Nursery Crimes,' on why some babysitters kill and how parents can prevent their children from falling victim.
On January 13, 1982, there were two major accidents in Washington D.C.: a commercial plane crashed and plunged into the Potomac River, and a Metro train derailed. Police officer Steven O'Dell was deployed to the plane crash site and tells his story of working through the chaos.
Even though there have been 51 strangulation murders of women in Chicago that have gone unsolved between 2001 and 2017, Chicago police have been reserved about acknowledging they may have a serial killer on their hands.
James Atkinson, who has spent decades designing and installing listening devices for the FBI, CIA and other agencies, tells A&E True Crime about some of the dangerous undercover work he's done and unusual things he's bugged.
A&E True Crime looks at some of the most notorious twin wrongdoers, and explores the roots behind their shared skirmishes with the law.
Some criminals get their crimes tattooed on their bodies, write 'fictional' books detailing murders they've committed or turn their own wanted posters into profile pics on Facebook. We talk to an expert to better understand why some criminals implicate themselves in their crimes by communicating about them.
