Dec 4, 2014
Doreen Heskett When the badly decomposed remains of 5-year-old Doreen Heskett were discovered in a cow pasture eight months after she was abducted from a busy street, the citizens of Napa discovered that living amongst them was a sexual predator responsible for child...
May 19, 2014
The kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker by William Edward Hickman in 1927 was considered a clear indication of the “moral imbecility” of the Jazz Age.
by Benjamin Welton
We should not stop with Hickman; in fact, we need not wait to begin with him. The...
Nov 4, 2013
Nov. 4, 2013
Natalee Holloway
In 2005, 18-year-old Natalee Holloway was in Aruba on a high school senior trip. On the last night of her vacation she took a late-night ride with islander Joran van der Sloot and two of his friends, brothers Deepak and SatishKalpoe. She was...
Jul 22, 2013
A Polaroid photo found in a busy parking lot in Florida gave two families in New Mexico hope that their children were still alive.
by Paul Buchanan
On June 15, 1989, a woman in Port St. Joe, Florida pulled off Route 98 into the parking lot of a Junior Food Store. She parked...
Jun 6, 2013
Ariel Castro
Update: Ariel Castro was sentenced to life plus 1,000 years by Judge Michael Russo on August 1, 2013. To avoid facing the death penaly, Castro pled guilty to 937 counts, including murder and kidnapping. On September 3, 2013, Castro was found dead in his cell,...
May 14, 2012
Special to Crime Magazine
This is an excerpt from The Kalinka Affair by Joshua Hammer. The full ebook single is available for sale from The Atavist, through Kindle Singles, iBooks, The Atavist app,and other outlets via The Atavist website.When André Bamberski’s daughter...
Mar 14, 2011
John Paul Getty III
By the time John Paul Getty III died on February 5, 2011 – at age 54 – he had lost far more than the ear his Italian kidnappers had sliced off when he was 17 years old.
by Denise Noe
The old saying that “money can’t buy happiness” may never have been...
Nov 17, 2009
Updated Nov. 7, 2011 and June 22, 2014
André Bamberski
For 27 years the heartbroken André Bamberski kept an eye on the fugitive serial rapist who murdered his 14-year-old daughter. Then he arranged a vigilante kidnapping to deliver the murderer to the police. ...
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
March 4, 2007 More than seven decades after his execution for committing "the crime of the century," Bruno Richard Hauptmann still has his defenders and sympathizers. by Lona Manning As Bruno Richard Hauptmann counted down the days to his execution at the State Prison in...
