This Is How Crime Boss Paul Castellano Was Killed
The murder of Big Paul Castellano in 1985 shocked New York City, which had been caught in the cold grip of organized crime for decades.
Read MoreThe murder of Big Paul Castellano in 1985 shocked New York City, which had been caught in the cold grip of organized crime for decades.
By Cody Copeland Read MoreAlong with Al Capone, John Dillinger has achieved a place in popular culture that at once demands he should be forgotten forever and ensures that he won't be.
By Chris Littlechild Read MoreFor sheer audacity, profit, and old-school cool, nothing beats the Great Train Robbery of 1963. Here's Britain's notorious Great Train Robbery explained.
By Jeff Somers Read MoreEventually, the stream of corporate chaos ended in tragedy when Maurizio Gucci was shot dead in the foyer of his office in 20 Via Palestro, Milan, in 1995.
By Tyler MacDonald Read MoreFor nearly 20 years, people have worked to unmask one of this country's most-prolific, active serial killers, who is sometimes called the 'Craigslist Ripper."
By Samantha Sanders Read MoreFormer mobster Henry Hill and his wife Karen filed for divorce in 1990 after a tumultuous marriage and life in organized crime.
By Samantha Sanders Read MoreThere were a number of reasons the killing of Elizabeth Short made headlines across the nation. First among these was the name "The Black Dahlia murder."
By S. Flannagan Read MoreAlmost 100 years after her death, Lizzie Borden remains an object of fascination -- not for what she did, but for what a jury said she didn't do in 1892.
By Anna Harnes Read MoreSouza was in headlines around the world. Police accused him of drug trafficking and of ordering murders -- all of it was orchestrated to boost his TV ratings.
By Allen McDuffee Read MoreFor over a decade, the elusive conman and murderer Charles Sobhraj left a trail of dead along Southeast Asia's Hippie Trail before he was caught and imprisoned.
By Tyler MacDonald Read MoreThe tale appears to be one of a cold-blooded killer and a helpless victim, but the real story of Bernie and Marjorie (Marge) Nugent is much more complicated.
By Samantha Sanders Read MoreThe story that defines Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci has it all: a marriage on a downward spiral, the hiring of hitman who then murdered Gucci.
By Tyler MacDonald Read MoreThose only familiar with the Gucci brand in recent decades might be surprised to hear that there's a more unsettling word it is inextricably linked to: murder.
By Tyler MacDonald Read MoreAlthough she continues to deny her crime, Reggiani was imprisoned for organizing the murder of her ex-husband after the evidence pointed to her as the culprit.
By Tyler MacDonald Read MoreIn the 1960s, members of the Québécois separatist movement began a bombing campaign. Kidnapping, murder, unrest: this is Quebec's 1970 October Crisis explained.
By Marina Manoukian Read MoreWhen DNA evidence cleared the Beatrice Six in 2008, it rocked the small Nebraska region of Gage County, and now they are owed millions.
By Alexandra Simon Read MoreIn 2009, the Beatrice Six were released after DNA evidence cleared them, following the years-long efforts of Joseph White, who maintained his innocence.
By Tyler MacDonald Read MoreRecent years have shown us that being incarcerated may in fact lead to the creation of criminal power, as evidenced by the story of the Tavon "Bulldog" White.
By S. Flannagan Read MoreBernie Tiede murdered 81-year-old Marjorie Nugent, a rich widow he had befriended after overseeing her husband's funeral. People didn't hold it against him.
By Cody Copeland Read MoreMost people recognize the "big name" serial killers, but one man remains by far the most sadistic, rampaging serial killer to ever have lived — Samuel Little.
By Jesse Gormley Read MoreThe kidnappings committed by Ariel Castro were part of a uniquely unsettling crime. The school bus driver used his home as a prison for his three abductees.
By Tyler MacDonald Read More911 operators in Cleveland answered a shocking phone call. The young woman on the line told the dispatcher, "I've been kidnapped and been missing for 10 years."
By Samantha Sanders Read MoreFred and Rosemary West liked young women. They liked to entertain them, and they liked to rape, torture, and murder them for perverse sexual gratification.
By Allen McDuffee Read MoreSobhraj drugged and murdered his unlucky victims until he was finally captured in 1976, thanks in no small part to Herman Knippenberg, a Dutch junior diplomat.
By Aimee Lamoureux Read MoreMia Zapata was the singer and frontwoman of the Seattle punk band The Gits when a sex worker found her lying in the street, murdered, the night of July 7, 1993.
By Amy Beeman Read MoreRobert Hansen, an award-winning big game hunter, raped and sent women naked and blindfolded into the woods, then hunted them with his trusty Remington rifle.
By Amy Beeman Read MoreDanny Rolling, known as the Gainesville Ripper, was put to death in 2006 for the murders of five college students over the course of four gruesome nights.
By Amy Beeman Read More