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.
The U.S. originally started the federal witness protection program to protect people from the mob. And the people who received protection? They were usually part of the mob too.
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.
