Oct 14, 2009
To control-freak Steve Colosi, wives were trophies, adornments to his 111-acre estate on Virginia's Eastern Shore and his 52-foot yacht. When his fourth wife left him, he arranged to have her beautiful face so disfigured that no other man would want her.by Peter Davidson...
Oct 14, 2009
Kathleen Foley staged her husband's murder to look like it was part of a robbery, but she left behind one telling detail.
by Peter Davidson
Kathleen Foley tried very hard to convince cops she didn't kill her husband -- and she almost succeeded, but a backwards pair...
Oct 14, 2009
Bothell's Lake Pleasant RV Park
February 5, 1997 would have been Steve Ver Woert's 44th birthday, but he didn't make it to work on time that day at his job at a cellular phone company in Redmond, Wash., home to software giant Microsoft and many other high-tech firms. When...
Oct 14, 2009
Alex Baranyi Jr.
David Anderson
On Jan. 4, 1997, two boys were playing in a park in Bellevue, Wash., an upscale suburb east of Seattle, when they spotted what they thought was a pile of clothes concealed by shrubs about five feet off a trail. When the...
Oct 14, 2009
Robert Cosgrove "Bobby" Greenlease, Jr
A sensation of 1953, $300,000 of the $600,000 paid in ransom has never been recovered. Two police officers and a gangster are commonly thought to have stolen the money -- but did they?
by J. J. Maloney
One of the more...
Oct 13, 2009
October 07, 2007
Main street, village of Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. It was here that Dr. Petiot murdered for the first time.
Sixty-one years after Dr. Marcel Petiot, dubbed "Dr. Satan" by French newspapers, was guillotined for the murder of 26 people, he remains France's most...
Oct 13, 2009
February 29, 2004 Richard Loeb with his arm around Nathan Leopold. Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold were as unlikely a pair of cold-blooded murderers as ever appeared in U.S. history. Privileged, brilliant, and coddled, they conjured up the perfect crime – just for the...
Oct 13, 2009
Updated 3/12/07
Emmett Till
The brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955 galvanized the fledgling civil rights movement like no other killing of a black by white racists before it. After an all-white, all-male jury acquitted Till's two killers, the...
Oct 13, 2009
The introduction to the book Cricket in the Web by author Paula Moore about the unsolved 1949 murder of Las Cruces, N.M. waitress Cricket Coogler.
by Paula Moore
Editor's Note: The University of New Mexico Press released Paula Moore's Cricket in the Web on March 31, 2008,...
Oct 13, 2009
Truman Capote's ground-breaking "non-fiction" novel about the murder of a Kansas farm family. We take the position that the book is not only flawed, but dishonest. by J.J. Maloney The publication of In Cold Blood, in 1966, launched Truman Capote firmly into the top rank...
