The Snitch
In Scott Kimball, the FBI thought it had found a high-value informant who could help solve big cases. What it got instead was lies, betrayal, and murder.
In Scott Kimball, the FBI thought it had found a high-value informant who could help solve big cases. What it got instead was lies, betrayal, and murder.
Jordan Michael Smith The Atavist Magazine Jun 2021 45min Permalink
She escaped a crazed psychopath at 16. Decades later, as the BTK serial killer terrorizes Wichita, she has to run for her life again. The identity of her tormentor is too chilling to believe.
Corey Mead Truly*Adventurous Mar 2021 40min Permalink
How history forgot Felipe and Vivián Espinosa, two of the American West’s most brutal killers—and the complicated story behind their murderous rampage.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Dec 2019 20min Permalink
Last September, law enforcement officers were confounded by a murderer targeting prostitutes along the border. As the investigation intensified, they discovered that the killer had been hiding in plain sight.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Sep 2019 Permalink
Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., known as the Golden State Killer, is alleged to have murdered 13 people in California during the 1970s and 1980s. He also raped 50 women. He’ll stand trial for the murders only.
Paige St. John Los Angeles Times Jun 2019 30min Permalink
Women vanished along a stretch of Oregon highway. One man might be responsible for it all.
Noelle Crombie The Oregonian Dec 2018 Permalink
The life of one of America’s bloodiest hitmen.
Jessica Garrison Buzzfeed May 2018 50min Permalink
On H.H. Holmes “an old hand at corpse manipulation and insurance fraud,” who built a house of death in 1890s Chicago.
John Bartlow Martin Harper's Dec 1943 Permalink
The search for a woman’s true identity and the unmasking of a serial killer.
Shelley Murphy Boston Globe May 2017 15min Permalink
With the 428th pick in the 1974 NFL draft, the Green Bay Packers selected…one of the most violent killers in U.S. history.
L. Jon Wertheim Sports Illustrated Nov 2016 25min Permalink
In the late 1990s, a serial killer found his victims in Yosemite National Park.
Joshua Hammer Outside Nov 1999 20min Permalink
How America’s first serial killer terrorized the city of Austin on Christmas Eve, 1885.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Apr 2016 15min Permalink
The story of H.H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer.
John Bartlow Martin Harper's Dec 1943 25min Permalink
On “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez,who terrorized Los Angeles and San Francisco through a string of over 30 home invasion murders starting in 1984 and ending when he was recognized and apprehended by an angry mob.
Joseph Geringer Crime Library Nov 2005 45min Permalink
A little after 9 a.m. on Sept. 15, 1990, the owner of a steel-products company pulled up to her office in Vinegar Hill, near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and spotted a black garbage bag sitting on the sidewalk out front. She parked her car and went to move the bag when she noticed it leaking blood. The woman called 911. Within the hour, Ken Whelan, a homicide detective from the 84th Precinct, peered into the bag. It was full of human body parts.
Nicholas Schmidle New York Times Magazine Jan 2012 20min Permalink
Using his good looks and charm to lure over young women into his VW, Bundy terrorized the Pacific Northwest and then Utah, leaving over 30 corpses in desolate forest gravesite clusters. After being caught in Colorado, he escaped twice, the second time fleeing to Florida by train and going on a murderous rampage.
The coldest of cases: During 1884-85, seven women and one man were brutally murdered in Austin, Texas.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jul 2000 20min Permalink