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Dorothea Puente was a serial killer who murdered elderly tenants in her boarding house in Sacramento, California, between 1985 and 1988. In the years since her arrest and convic...

The Zodiac Killer was an unidentified serial assailant active in Northern California from December 1968 to October 1969. The killer claimed to have murdered 37 people, but polic...

Blaze Bernstein was a 19-year-old gay Jewish college student from Lake Forest, California, who was found deceased in November 2018. His death initially raised fears of a hate cr...

The Wayne Mi church shooting occurred in the early morning hours at a local church in Wayne, Michigan, when an armed individual entered the building and opened fire during a con...

The phrase “Clear Lake murders” refers to a series of high-profile homicides in and around Clear Lake, Iowa, that drew sustained regional and national attention. This overvi...

Elizabeth Short, later known as the Black Dahlia, died on or around January 14–15, 1947 . Her body was discovered in the early morning of January 15, 1947, in Leimert Park, Lo...

The 1980s produced a disproportionate number of high-profile homicides that continue to shape criminal justice discourse and popular understandings of violence. These cases ofte...

The so called Hello Kitty murders refer to the 1997 killing of 18 year old Japanese schoolgirl Honomi Muroi by members of a youth gang in Tokyo. The case drew international atte...

Martha Moxley, a 15-year-old neighbor of the Kennedy family in Greenwich, Connecticut, was found beaten to death on October 30, 1975. Michael Skakel, a neighbor and family acqua...

The phrase pizza delivery guy bomb Pennsylvania describes a specific criminal incident in which a delivery driver became involved with an explosive device in Pennsylvania. This...