Looking back on when a brutal, satanic gang terrorized Chicago by torturing and killing women at random in the 1980s. One of the killers, Thomas Kokoraleis, was released from prison in 2019. Many are unhappy that he's a free man.

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.

For over a decade, Whitey Bulger was America's most wanted gangster—the FBI's biggest domestic target. Wanted for 19 counts of murder, he hid in plain sight for 16 years with his girlfriend Catherine Greig. Read how he was caught.

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.'

Kathy (Kate) Ann Jewell fled her home when her boyfriend, John Branden, raped and attempted to kill her. After that, he disappeared—and she spent years trying to ensure he'd never find her.

Stephen Port had a type: young, gay men, preferably unconscious while he raped them in his East London apartment. Careless police work enabled the serial killer to carry on undetected for years. Read more.

Josef Fritzl imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth for 24 years in a windowless basement. When she finally emerged in 2008, the story of his sadism shocked the world. Read about this shocking case.

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.