True Crime

In the early 1930s women practicing criminal law were often held in the same low regard as the clients they served. When a corrupt prosecutor wa...

On a September night in 1958, three New Orleans college students went looking for a gay man to assault. They chose Fernando Rios, who died from ...

You are about to enter a world of drug smuggling, drug greed, and drug murder. With those words, the West Palm Beach assistant DA began the 1986...

If Americans were asked to select the best known and most celebrated outlaws, from among the many bad men produced by the Wild West, chances are Fr...

The tragic death of 13-year-old Danny Croteau in 1972 faded from headlines and memories for 20 years until the Boston abuse scandal--a string of...

It was one of the biggest crime stories of the decade-two deadly killers, desperate and on the run. After months of planning, Ricky Matt and David ...

In this memoir, recently-retired Chief Superintendent Kevin Moore reflects on an association with Sussex Police which stretches back over 50 years....

From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of a serial killer. The story has been the subject of short stories, novels, and the televisio...

Looking at the accounts of the time, historian Kristofer Allerfeldt provides a readable and informative analysis of how and why we arrived at our p...

When twelve- year- old Jesse Pomeroy tortured seven small boys in the Boston area and then went on to brutally murder two other children, one of t...

This is the story of those who ended up on the end of the hangmans rope at Norwich Castle Prison, Norwich City Prison on Earlham Road and the later...

In this new edition of a cult classic, Henrik KrÜger and Jerry Meldon have added new material and provided updates of the investigations Danish inv...

Smuggling in Cornwall: An Illustrated History tells the story of the smuggling trade that flourished in Cornwall during the eighteenth and nineteen...

Young mother Surinda du Preez stood transfixed, barely able to breathe. A single thought went through her head: I'm looking at the devil. She was s...

Liverpool has a deeply chequered past. As the second city of the Empire, she was a leading light in the influential story of Victorian Britain. Thi...

A smuggler ... honest thief or wretch? Opinion was divided some 200 years ago when smuggling was in its heyday and known as that infamous traffick....