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The arrest came quietly, almost without notice, for a man who had terrorized the affluent suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey, for weeks. Robert Reldan, the charismatic 35-year-old nephew of a millionaire aunt, was taken into custody on November 5, 1975, not for murder, but for two house burglaries. It was a technicality that would … Read more

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — The man who terrorized Long Island for nearly two decades, leaving a trail of strangled women along a desolate stretch of beach highway, was led from a courtroom Wednesday to the sound of cheers and jeers from the very families he spent years trying to silence. Rex Heuermann, the 63-year-old architect convicted … Read more

The final 24 hours of Teresa Lewis’s life unfolded inside the sterile confines of the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Troy, Virginia, where a woman described by her own attorneys as having the mind of a child prepared to meet her death. At 41 years old, with an IQ measured at 72 and functioning … Read more

Although he was convicted for the murder of his wife, Laci, Scott Peterson is now spouting his own theory for what happened on Christmas Eve 2002. Thanks to Face to Face, Peacock’s new true crime docuseries, audiences are dipping their toes back into the case of Scott and Laci Peterson. The three-part interview-style series has … Read more

The smoke had barely cleared from the hillside estate when the true horror began to surface, and by the time the last body was pulled from the swimming pool, the peaceful coastal community of Santa Cruz, California, had been thrust into a nightmare from which it would not soon awaken. Five people were dead, executed … Read more

The skies over the Suffolk countryside erupted in twin balls of fire on the evening of August 12, 1944, and with that blinding flash, the man groomed from birth to become the first Catholic President of the United States was obliterated from the face of the Earth. Lieutenant Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr., elder brother of … Read more

The state of Texas carried out the execution of Moises Sandoval Mendoza on Thursday evening, ending a two-decade wait for justice in the brutal 2004 murder of a young mother in Farmersville, a case that left a small community shattered and a family grieving for over twenty years. Mendoza, 41, was pronounced dead at 6:40 … Read more

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Richard Lee Tabler, the convicted quadruple murderer who terrorized central Texas over a single Thanksgiving weekend in 2004, was pronounced dead at 6:38 p.m. Thursday at the Huntsville Unit, closing a two-decade chapter of legal battles, security scandals, and a controversial spiritual transformation that divided even those who witnessed his final moments. … Read more

The state of Washington carried out its first execution in nearly three decades just after midnight Tuesday, sending convicted child killer Westley Allan Dodd to the gallows for the brutal murders of three young boys. Dodd, 31, became the first American inmate executed by hanging in the United States since 1965, ending a case that … Read more

The state of Washington carried out its first execution in nearly three decades just after midnight Tuesday, sending convicted child killer Westley Allan Dodd to the gallows for the brutal murders of three young boys. Dodd, 31, became the first American inmate executed by hanging in the United States since 1965, ending a case that … Read more