Introduction: A Crime Seen Before The Repeat Performance That Isn’t Coincidence There’s something deeply unsettling about hearing the details of a violent crime and realizing you’ve heard them before. Same method. Same motive. Ne…
Conspiracy theories have been around forever. From secret societies pulling strings behind the scenes to government cover-ups, people have always loved a good hidden truth. But thanks to the internet, these theories have evolved from whispered suspi…
A New Name, a New Country, and the Birth of Harry Powers The Great Depression didn’t exactly come with a warning label. One minute, people were building futures. The next, they were broke, hungry, and hanging on by a thread. And while most fo…
The Incel Ideology — Roots and Radicalization The term “incel” is short for “involuntary celibate.” It started decades ago as a simple label for people… mostly men, who were struggling with loneliness and the fr…
Growing Up in a War Zone: Sally McNeil’s Early Years in Allentown The Allentown, Pennsylvania that young Sally Dempsey grew up in wasn’t exactly the stuff of Norman Rockwell paintings. In the 1960s, her childhood home was more like a li…
Bonnie and Clyde vs. Their Darker Shadow: Meet Charles Starkweather When you think crime duos, Bonnie and Clyde pop up like the original poster kids. They’re the legend, the blueprint everyone else gets measured against. If you buy into the i…
When Naked and Bloody on a New Mexico Road Means Trouble Spring, 1999. A woman bolts down a dusty road in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. If that name sounds like a bad joke, you’re not far off. This place is famous for two things: meth la…
The Boiling Point in Brooks County May 1918. Southern Georgia. Things weren’t exactly peaceful, but they were holding—barely. Tensions simmered just beneath the surface, like a pot someone forgot they left on the stove. And then someone…
The Attack That Should Never Have Happened Lisa Knoefel was 41 years old, and on the night of November 26, 2012, she was exactly where she should’ve felt safest—her own bed, trying to get some sleep. No alarm bells. No warning signs. Ju…
Nasim Aghdam and the Viral Path to a Tragedy On April 3, 2018, a 39-year-old woman walked up to YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, with one very specific objective. What that objective was—and how long she’d been planning it…
Something Was Hunting the Forgotten on Skid Row 1978, downtown Los Angeles. The city’s heartbeat was loud, but in the background, barely audible to the people not paying attention, something much darker had started to stir. In the alleys, ben…
He scammed, seduced, and stabbed... business in the front, murder in the back. The Final Act of a Serial Seducer On May 15, 2025, Glen Edward Rogers... serial killer, grifter, and self-declared ladies’ man, was executed by lethal injection…
The Man at the Door On July 9, 2014, a man in a FedEx uniform knocked on the front door of 711 Leaflet Lane in Harris County, Texas. Inside, 15-year-old Cassidy Stay was holding down the fort. She was a student at Klein Collins High School, oldest …
Beige Boy in a Gray World Before he called himself BTK. Before he was binding, torturing, or killing anyone... Dennis Rader was just a quiet, awkward kid growing up in Kansas. And not the kind of quiet that screams “deep thinker” or &ld…
The Last Normal Afternoon of Sandra Cantu March 27th, 2009. A Friday. One of those warm, pre-summer afternoons where the school bell rings and every kid in town turns into a heat-seeking missile for snacks, bikes, and their best friend’s fron…
The Baby With a Secret Ted Bundy was born on November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont. His birth certificate said “father: unknown.” Which was true. But everything else about the situation? Not so much. He came into the world as Theod…
The Strange, Self-Made Life of Susan Monica Susan Monica wasn’t exactly what you’d call average. Born Stephen Buchanan in California in 1948, she served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War as an engineer before deciding to trade mil…
Jack the Ripper’s Brutal Legacy: The Eleven Women and the Theories That Followed By the end of the 19th century, London wasn’t just grimy—it was scared. A series of brutal murders had gripped the city, leaving eleven women dead on…
The Last Normal Night: Kelly Tinyes Gets a Phone Call On the night of March 3, 1989—just one day before her fourteenth birthday—Kelly Tinyes was holding down the fort at her family’s home in Long Island, New York. She was the resp…
The Lone Woman of Virginia City: Juliette Bulette’s Wild Gamble Most people who chased the American Dream back then didn’t find a dream. They found hard dirt, broken ribs, and disappointment that smelled like cheap whiskey. But Juliette…
High School Sweethearts, Hall of Fame Expectations, and the Start of Something Expensive Late 1940s, Buffalo, New York. Two high schoolers, side by side. Donna Carnevale was bright, sharp, and the kind of beautiful that stops a crowded room cold. L…
Hollywood on the Outside, Something Else Brewing Inside Elliot Rodger grew up in a world that looked, from the outside, like privilege wrapped in prestige. Born in London, he was the son of Peter Rodger, a filmmaker who would go on to work on major…
The Day Andrea Yates Stopped Being Just a Name June 20th, 2001, is the day Andrea Yates went from anonymous suburban mom to headline shorthand for something unthinkable. For some, she was clearly broken. For others, she was evil. There wasn’t…
From Wannabe Pop Star to Spiritual Power Broker: The Reinvention of Mona Fandey If fame were a currency, Nur Maznah binti Ismail was ready to go bankrupt chasing it. Born into a modest Malaysian family, she came out of the gate with two things: am…
