Maxi Trial: History and Key Facts
The Maxi Trial (Italian: Maxiprocesso) was a criminal trial against the Sicilian Mafia that took place in Palermo, Sicily.
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Unbelievable (miniseries): History and Key Facts
Unbelievable is an American true crime drama miniseries starring Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever.
D. B. Cooper: History and Key Facts
On November 24, 1971, an unidentified man using the alias Dan Cooper, subsequently known as D.
Prohibition in the United States: History and Key Facts
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft: History and Key Facts
In the early hours of March 18, 1990, 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
Manson Family: History and Key Facts
The Manson Family (known among its members as the Family) was a commune, gang and cult led by criminal Charles Manson that was active in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Dennis Rader: Biography and Background
Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), also known by his pseudonym BTK (for "bind, torture, kill"), is an American serial killer and mass murderer who killed at least ten people in Wichita and P
Meyer Lansky: History and Key Facts
Meyer Lansky (born Maier Suchowljansky; July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983) was an American organized crime figure associated with gambling operations and illicit finance in the United States, Cuba,
Hinterkaifeck murders: History and Key Facts
On the evening of 31 March 1922, six inhabitants of a small Bavarian farmstead, commonly referred to today as Hinterkaifeck ([ˈhɪntɐˌkaɪfɛk]), were murdered by an unknown assailant.
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Black Dahlia: History and Key Facts
Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – c.
Jack the Ripper: History and Key Facts
Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of the East End of London, in 1888.
Disappearance of Asha Degree: History and Key Facts
On February 14, 2000, Asha Jaquilla Degree, a nine‑year‑old girl from Shelby, North Carolina, United States, disappeared after leaving her family's home during the early morning hours.
Order of the Solar Temple: History and Key Facts
The Order of the Solar Temple (French: Ordre du Temple solaire, OTS), or simply the Solar Temple, was a new religious movement and secret society, often described as a cult, notorious for the mas
TikTok: Murder Gone Viral: History and Key Facts
TikTok: Murder Gone Viral is a British true crime documentary series produced by Nine Lives Media for the streaming platform ITVX.
Gordon Cummins: Biography and Background
Gordon Frederick Cummins (18 February 1914 – 25 June 1942) was a British serial killer known as the Blackout Killer, the Blackout Ripper and the Wartime Ripper, who murdered four women and attemp
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: History and Key Facts
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day 1929.
Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary: History and Key Facts
In April 2015, an underground safe deposit facility in Hatton Garden, London, owned by Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd., was burgled.
Operation Wasteland: History and Key Facts
Operation Wasteland was an undercover investigation into organized crime rings that controlled New York City's waste disposal industry from the 1950s until 1995.
Lindbergh kidnapping: History and Key Facts
On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.
Lizzie Borden: History and Key Facts
Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts.
In Cold Blood (miniseries): History and Key Facts
In Cold Blood is an American true crime drama television miniseries directed by Jonathan Kaplan and written by Benedict Fitzgerald.
Timothy Evans: Biography and Background
Timothy John Evans (20 November 1924 – 9 March 1950) was a Welsh lorry driver who was wrongfully accused of murdering his wife Beryl and infant daughter Geraldine at their residence in Notting Hi
Rajneesh movement: History and Key Facts
The Rajneesh movement is a new religious movement inspired by the Indian godman known as Rajneesh or Osho (1931–1990).
Great Train Robbery (1963): History and Key Facts
The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.61 million (worth about £49.67 million in 2026) from a Royal Mail train travelling from Glasgow to London, on the West Coast Main Line, in the early
In the Best of Families (miniseries): History and Key Facts
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness is a two-part American television miniseries directed by Jeff Bleckner and written by Robert L.
Great Basin Murders: History and Key Facts
The Great Basin Murders is the name given to a series of murders of at least nine women committed between 1983 and 1997 across the states of Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and Idaho.
Camorra: History and Key Facts
The Camorra (Italian: [kaˈmɔrra]; Neapolitan: [kaˈmorrə]) is an Italian Mafia-type criminal organization and criminal society originating in the region of Campania.
John Cooper (serial killer): Biography and Background
John William Cooper (born 3 September 1944), also known as the Bullseye killer, is a Welsh serial killer.
Peoples Temple: History and Key Facts
The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, originally Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church and commonly shortened to Peoples Temple, was an American new religious organization that existed betwe
Lufthansa heist: History and Key Facts
The Lufthansa heist was a robbery which took place at John F.
Born to Kill?: History and Key Facts
Born to Kill?
Apalachin meeting: History and Key Facts
The Apalachin meeting ( AP-ə-LAY-kin) was a historic summit of the American Mafia held at the home of mobster Joseph "Joe the Barber" Barbara, at 625 McFall Road in Apalachin, New York, on Novemb
Disappearance of Ben McDaniel: History and Key Facts
On August 20, 2010, 30-year-old Ben McDaniel, of Memphis, Tennessee, United States, was reported missing after employees in the dive shop at Vortex Spring, north of Ponce de Leon, Florida, notice
Robert Maudsley: Biography and Background
Robert John Maudsley (born 26 June 1953) is an English serial killer.
Aum Shinrikyo: History and Key Facts
Aleph (Japanese: アレフ, Hepburn: Arefu), better known by their former name Aum Shinrikyo (オウム真理教, Ōmu Shinrikyō; lit.
Baker Street robbery: History and Key Facts
The Baker Street robbery was the burglary of safety deposit boxes at the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank in London, on the night of 11 September 1971.
City Confidential: History and Key Facts
City Confidential is an American documentary television show, originally airing on the A&E Network, that singles out a community during each episode and investigates a crime that has occurred the
American Mafia: History and Key Facts
The American Mafia, commonly referred to in North America as the Italian-American Mafia, the Mafia, or the Mob, is a highly organized Italian American criminal society and organized crime group.
Murder of Harmony Montgomery: History and Key Facts
Harmony Renee Montgomery (June 7, 2014 – disappeared c.
Thomas Neill Cream: Biography and Background
Thomas Neill Cream (27 May 1850 – 15 November 1892), also known as the Lambeth Poisoner, was a Scottish-Canadian medical doctor and serial killer who poisoned his victims with strychnine.
NXIVM: History and Key Facts
NXIVM ( NEK-see-əm) was a cult led by Keith Raniere, who is now a convicted racketeer and sex offender.
Millennium Dome raid: History and Key Facts
The Millennium Dome raid was an attempted burglary of the Millennium Dome's diamond exhibition in Greenwich, South East London occurring on 7 November 2000.
'Ndrangheta: History and Key Facts
The 'Ndrangheta (, Italian: [(a)nˈdraŋɡeta], Calabrian: [(ɳ)ˈɖɽaɲɟɪta]) is a mafia-type criminal syndicate originating from the Calabria region of Italy.
Monster (American TV series): History and Key Facts
Monster is an American biographical crime drama anthology television series created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan for Netflix.
Harold Shipman: Biography and Background
Harold Frederick Shipman (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004), known to acquaintances as Fred Shipman, was an English doctor in general practice and serial killer.
Connecticut River Valley Killer: History and Key Facts
The Connecticut River Valley Killer, also known as the Valley Killer, is the moniker for an unidentified American serial killer believed to be responsible for at least seven murders of women in t
Heaven's Gate (religious group): History and Key Facts
Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement known primarily for the mass suicide of its members in 1997.
Murder of Kitty Genovese: History and Key Facts
Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender, was raped and stabbed to death on March 13, 1964, outside the apartment building where she lived in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of the Queens borough of