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For the third season of the wildly popular true crime series Monster, creator Ryan Murphy chose Ed Gein as his subject. The Butcher of Plainfield’s crimes would go on to inspire the book Psycho, as well as the movie adaptation, and other films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Silence of the Lambs. Gein was … Read more

Over the course of several weeks in 1984, Christopher Wilder traversed the country terrorizing women. Wilder, who became known as the “Beauty Queen Killer,” was linked to the serial sexual assaults and murders of several women. But not every person he encountered was killed. One, who was 16 years old when she was abducted by … Read more

She was put in a shredding machine, people said. Or kidnapped by a pack of bikies, buried at a vineyard or gang raped and then hit in the head with a brick. When intellectually disabled teenager Amber Haigh disappeared from Harden, south of Young, rumours abounded. Twenty years after she vanished in 2002, the arrest … Read more

CHILLING details have been disclosed about the currents around the uninhabitable island where the body of a promising college football player was found that could explain his mysterious death. Brian Trascher, the national vice president of the United Cajun Navy, recalled the calm, warm air over the Mississippi Gulf Coast while surveying the waters below … Read more

A lot went wrong after the Costa Concordia hit a rock formation in 2012 — but had the cruise ship stayed on its original itinerary, it might not have crashed at all. Netflix’s Shipwrecked at Sea looks back on all that went wrong on Jan. 13, 2012, when the Italian cruise ship capsized after it … Read more

Florida began searching a Hernando County property this week for possible additional victims linked to convicted serial killer Billy Mansfield, decades after four bodies were discovered during an investigation tied to his family. The search began Monday, and involves investigators from the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office, the FBI and the State Attorney’s Office, who are … Read more

Betty Broderick “remains an unreasonable risk of danger to society.” So maintained the prosecutor who successfully argued against Broderick’s most recent chance at parole in 2017. And she has her reasons. When Broderick shot her ex-husband and his second wife to death in their bed in 1989, the reason for her actions became a hotly … Read more

A woman whose remains were found in a shallow grave in Riverside County, California, more than four decades ago has been identified as a multimillionaire real estate investor who vanished in 1981. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Coroner’s Bureau said advances in investigative genetic genealogy, along with dental records, confirmed the victim was Thelma Gaston, 80, … Read more

In a 1991 episode of Seinfeld, Elaine, trapped in a boring conversation with another woman, utters an iconic line: “Maybe the dingo ate your baby.” The quip may have seemed nonsensical, especially to Americans unfamiliar with dingos. But it was actually based on a true event. Eleven years earlier, a nine-week-old baby disappeared from a … Read more

The crystal chandeliers of the Washington Grand Ballroom threw hard white light across rows of dress blues and medals. Elena Vale stood near the center of the polished floor, one hand resting on the high curve of her seven-month belly. The blue wool of her service dress strained a little at the middle. Her medals … Read more