Murders And Crime

It seems like the debate over gun control has reached a fever pitch in recent years, but it also feels like not much has been accomplished. You can point the finger in any direction you want to, but it’s a combination of many factors: politicians, big business, the NRA, shareholders, etc. And as mass shootings...

This is one of the most disturbing and bizarre adoption stories I have ever come across. This couple believes that the 6-year-old child they adopted from Ukraine is actually a 22-year-old sociopath. Kristine and Michael Barnett adopted Natalia Grace at the (alleged) age of six. Three years later, the now-divorced couple left her alone in...

Online shopping is always a bit of a gamble—you never know what you’re actually going to get in the mail. But 25,000 ecstasy tablets? Now that’s a new twist. A middle-aged couple in Austria opened a package one morning that was supposed to contain dresses from a retailer in the Netherlands. To their extreme surprise, it contained...

Investigating crime scenes must be a tough job. They see things they can’t get out of their heads that most likely haunt them for years. And it’s the unsolved cases that especially leave an impression. AskReddit users who worked in the crime field shared the unsolved cases that still haunt them to this day. 1....

Investigation Discovery is loaded with quality programming, but one of the best is a newer show on the network called The Missing. The show profiles average, everyday people who disappeared without a trace under very mysterious circumstances. For anyone who loves true crime, this is a really engrossing watch. To give you a little taste,...

In the 18th century, a woman was accused of witchcraft. She died in prison while awaiting her trial, and since everyone in town was convinced of her guilt and feared her unnatural return from the dead, she was buried beneath a large, stone slab. It happened in 1704, in a town called Torryburn on Scotland’s...

Ever seen Silence of the Lambs? Or American Psycho? A Clockwork Orange? Pretty much any true crime documentary ever? Assuming you said yes to one of those, you’ve seen the way the media portrays psychopaths. Or, wait – sociopaths? Is Hannibal Lecter a sociopath or…? It’s confusing, right? There’s a reason you may not be totally clear on...

Violence against women is a pressing issue across the globe, but in some countries, it’s more extreme than others. In Turkey, for example, 42% of women over the age of 15 have suffered from physical or sexual violence. Last year in Turkey, 440 women were murdered by their own husbands. An artist decided to come...