Genealogical DNA databases are helping solve more cold cases. We explore why that could be problematic.

Veronica Compton tried to murder a woman to make it look like the police had arrested the wrong man, Kenneth Bianchi, in the Hillside Strangler killings.

Police have solved, or are close to solving, a number of cases that have been cold for decades. Investigators are using new technology and research techniques and re-examining leads that previous investigators may have ignored.

In May 1980, Mary Stauffer and her young daughter were kidnapped by Stauffer's former student, Ming Sen Shiue. Over the next 53 days, Shiue held them at his house, repeatedly raping Stauffer and threatening Beth until they finally managed to escape.

The unbelievable story of how a rape victim in Lynnwood, Washington was charged with falsely reporting the crime and how two female detectives, who believed her, teamed up to find the serial rapist responsible: Marc Patrick O'Leary.

Over a decade after she was found alive after being kidnapped as a child, Dugard has learned to drive, written two books and started a foundation to help other survivors.

At 89-years-old, David Carpenter—the 1980s serial killer known as the 'Trailside Killer'—is the oldest death row inmate in California. We explore Carpenter's early life, crimes and trial.

Jan Broberg, the subject of a high-profile, captivating story about her abduction and rape when she was a child in the 1970s, spoke with us about her 'amazing' parents, how her abductor—a close family friend—so successfully groomed her family before the first kidnapping (there were two) and whether he might have other victims.

In 1989 amid a media frenzy, five Black boys were arrested for raping and beating a Central Park jogger. After years in prison, their charges were vacated—but their lives were changed forever.

In December 2012, protests broke out across India after news of a horrific gang rape exploded into global view. The crime—the gang rape of 23-year-old physiotherapy student, Jyoti Singh, committed by six men on a bus in the capital territory of Delhi—was so brutal that it shocked the world and jolted the Indian legal system into reconsidering its protections for women.