true-crime-explainer

Karla Homolka is a Canadian convicted serial offender who, together with her then-husband Paul Bernardo, participated in the kidnapping, sexual assault, and murder of at least t...

The phrase "the nurse killer" is used in media and true crime to describe a person, often a healthcare worker, who has been convicted or suspected of killing patients or multipl...

The case of Lyle and Erik Menendez remains one of the most dissected crimes in modern American history. In 1989, the brothers were arrested for the shotgun murders of their pare...

The phrase blonde serial killers commonly refers to offenders with light hair who have committed multiple murders over time. This pattern is less about appearance and more about...

“What happened in American Nightmare” refers to the true-crime events behind the 2018 Lifetime television film, which dramatizes the kidnapping, sexual exploitation, and res...

At the center of one of the most analyzed criminal cases in U.S. history is the December 1996 killing of six year old JonBenét Ramsey in Boulder Colorado. Law enforcement inves...

The Lifetime film marketed as ‘Taken in Plain Sight’ presents a compressed, dramatized version of a prolonged family exploitation case. This evergreen explainer separates co...

Gary Michael Heidnik was an American serial abductor and kidnapper who terrorized Philadelphia in the late 1980s. Between 1986 and 1987, he confined multiple women in a dilapida...

The question of who killed Helen Wang in the true crime series His and Hers centers on a tragic murder and a complex joint trial that ultimately convicted her husband, Robert Wa...

O.J. Simpson stood trial in 1994–1995 for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The prosecution argued jealousy, domestic history, and a struggle...