12+ hour, 5+ min ago  (76+ words) Watch Beyond The Headlines: The Watts Family Tragedy A&E Includes exclusive never-before-seen footage and new interviews with Tammy Lee, the agent with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation who elicited Watt's confession during an extended polygraph and interrogation session, and…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (644+ words) The farm labor contractor murdered 25 migrant workers between February and May 1971. Any list of the United States" most prolific serial killers includes the usual names: John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgway. Yet Juan Corona, who has around the same…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (781+ words) After 18-year-old Angie Zapata was killed in Colorado, her murderer tried to use her identity against her in court. Instead, the case became the first successful transgender hate crime prosecution in U. S. history. On an average summer day in Greeley, Colo....

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (659+ words) The remains of dozens of girls and women have been found along Interstate 45 in Texas since the 1970s. The roadside along Interstate 45 between Houston and Galveston, Texas, is dotted with oil refineries, bayous and piney woods. On that route, near the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (836+ words) Ted Bundy and Rodney Alcala are among the suspects in the murders of least seven girls and young women'all of them hitchhikers'in Sonoma County, Calif. , between 1972 and 1979. A series of murders dubbed the "Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders" have remained unsolved…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1529+ words) The serial killer murdered his first known victim on June 18, 1986. The Sacramento Slayer has become one of the most notorious serial killers in the state of California'but his murderous rampage lasted for years, all without the public truly taking note....

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1178+ words) Parnell kidnapped Stayner in 1972 and held him captive for more than seven years before taking another boy, Timothy White, in 1980. On February 2, 2004, Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Timothy Wellman summed up the Kenneth Parnell case as follows in his opening…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (969+ words) Suzanne Sevakis' death uncovered Floyd's horrific past, which included kidnapping, abuse and murder. On an April day in 1990, a woman named Tonya Hughes was hit by a driver who then sped off. The 20-year-old died five days later in an…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (630+ words) Scott was initially sentenced to death but then re-sentenced to life without parole for the 2002 murders of his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son, Conner. Scott Peterson's trial for the murder of his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (697+ words) Yates has been committed to a state psychiatric hospital since killing her five young children in suburban Houston in June 2001. The case became one of the most widely debated criminal cases of the early 2000s, raising difficult questions about mental illness,…...