Crime

Cindy Watts still describes her son Chris as a good person and rejects his admission that he murdered his daughters. He’s serving life without parole for killing his pregnant wife, Shanann, and their children, Bella and Celeste, in 2018. In an interview with Melissa G. Moore, whose father is serial killer Keith Jesperson, Cindy defended…

Elizabeth Banks grew up in Massachusetts, where she says the Karen Read case divided families, friendships and towns. Now she’s set to portray Read and executive produce Amazon’s newly approved drama, a project she says her team has spent years developing. The untitled series will run for 8 hour-long episodes and draw on “Karen,” the…

Christa Pike survived the lethal-injection drugs meant to kill her, then woke up days later and asked the people around her, “Where am I and who are you?” Her attorney, Randy Spivey, described the question during an Oct. 7 news conference outside a courthouse in Tennessee. He hadn’t witnessed her waking up and said this…

Patricia Krenwinkel, 78, has received a 3rd parole recommendation after spending about 56 years in prison for the Manson family’s Tate-LaBianca murders. California Gov. Gavin Newsom blocked her release after the previous 2 recommendations and can intervene again. The preliminary approval came on October 6. Her release still depends on review by the Board of…

Flair was among thousands of children moved through the Memphis branch of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society under Beulah George “Georgia” Tann. From about 1924 until 1950, Tann arranged an estimated 5,000 adoptions, many involving kidnapping, coercion or fraud. Ric Flair entered Georgia Tann’s adoption pipeline shortly after his birth in Memphis on February 25,…

Most couples picture a garden, a ballroom, or a beach for their big day. Tori and David Avery pictured a crime scene. For two self-described horror fanatics, the perfect wedding venue wasn’t a matter of flowers and linens — it was a matter of atmosphere, history, and a genuine good scare. Tori and David Avery…

Nearly 30 years after 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found murdered in her family’s basement, the case still has no resolution — and Melissa McCarthy, who plays Patsy Ramsey in Netflix’s upcoming limited series, has made up her own mind about who wasn’t to blame. After stepping into the role, McCarthy says her gut tells her…

While the nation followed every development in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, a very different set of cases played out almost entirely in silence. From July 24 through Aug. 31, 2026, seven men killed or were suspected of killing members of their own families in separate cases across six states — and most of their names…

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) began as a home-movie love letter to Zachary Turner, the infant son of Kurt Kuenne’s murdered childhood friend, Dr. Andrew Bagby. Kuenne set out to assemble interviews and old footage so the boy could one day know the kind, funny man his father was.…

In the winter of 1959, nine experienced hikers set out on one of the Soviet Union’s hardest winter routes. They were skilled, well-prepared, and their final diary entries showed no sign of distress. Then something drove all nine of them to abandon the shelter and equipment they needed to survive temperatures as low as -40°F…

Bridget “Maggie” Sullivan was the only person besides Lizzie Borden known to be at the Borden home when Andrew and Abby Borden were killed on August 4, 1892. That fact has kept the family’s live-in maid at the center of an alternate theory about the still-unsolved Fall River murders. Abby was struck about 18 or…

In 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were found hacked to pieces with an axe in their own home in Fall River, Massachusetts — Andrew struck roughly 10 times as he napped on the couch, Abby even more upstairs. The prime suspect: Andrew’s own daughter, Lizzie, a 32-year-old Sunday school teacher with a bitter relationship with…

“I never witnessed John Paul abuse Mica,” Mark Kaufman wrote in a statement addressing nearly every role Netflix’s “Death of a Pastor’s Wife” put him in. “Had I witnessed abuse or believed that Mica was in danger, I would not have ignored it.” Kaufman gave the statement to Florida creator Robbie Harvey, who has covered…

Few horror films feel as unsettling as the ones rooted in something real. The killer in “Jeepers Creepers” may be a supernatural creature, but the terror at the heart of the story likely came from a true crime — one that played out on a 1991 episode of “Unsolved Mysteries” and needed no supernatural elements…

In 2005 — a decade after the murders that made him one of the most notorious figures in America — O.J. Simpson filmed a hidden camera prank show called “Juiced,” where he pulled gags that played on his own notoriety as a onetime murder suspect. In one bit he stands beside a white Ford Bronco…

Rosemary Kennedy flew into rages her father couldn’t control. So in the fall of 1941, Joseph Kennedy had doctors cut into his daughter’s brain to calm her down. The surgery destroyed her. Rosemary Kennedy spent the next 63 years hidden away — and for a long time, her own siblings weren’t even told where she…

Death of the Pastor’s Wife on Netflix follows Mica Miller, a Myrtle Beach worship leader who met pastor John-Paul Miller at Solid Rock Church when she was 13-years-old and later married him. The three-part series traces how that relationship turned into isolation, surveillance, and control — slashed tires, a tracker on her car, alleged cyberstalking…