crime-history

In July 1971, a woman was found dead at 870 Greenwood Road NE in Atlanta, Georgia, in a crime that drew only modest attention at the time. The case was investigated by the Atlan...

This article examines widely documented murders and assassination events that have shaped public memory, law, and historical discourse. It avoids sensationalism and rumor, focus...

Ed Gein shoes are footwear linked to the infamous American murderer Ed Gein, made from materials such as human skin and other macabre components reported after his arrest in 195...

Lynette Alice Fromme is an American woman known for her involvement with the Manson Family and for the 1975 attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford. The following profi...

These pants are part of a historic, decades-old criminal investigation and cultural conversation about Ed Gein. This article explains what the pants are, where and how they were...

More than a century after the Whitechapel murders, new evidence Jack the Ripper continues to draw sustained interest because it touches on unresolved questions of policing, pove...

Jack the Ripper was active during a short, intense period in late Victorian London, generally framed by a small set of canonical murders and a concentrated investigation. This o...