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Horrifying High Profile Cases In Which Cops Were Accused Of Framing Suspects

They're supposed to protect and serve, but sometimes law enforcement officers cross the line and carry out injustice. While it's not exactly common, there are plenty of cases where cops framed...

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The Craziest Death Row Romances

Believe it or not, you can find love on Death Row. Yes, there plenty of men and women who married criminals despite the fact they committed some of the most gruesome crimes on Earth. Why in the world...

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Disturbing Facts About Ahmad Suradji, The Shaman Serial Killer

Serial killers aren't solely an American phenomenon. There are plenty of serial killers in other countries, such as Ahmad Suradji, an Indonesian murderer. Suradji, also known as the Black Magic...

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Why Were There So Many Serial Killers In The '70s And '80s?

There are many defining characteristics of the different decades that we have lived through and, for the '70s and '80s, serial killers were a large part of the narrative. But why were there so many...

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14 Facts About The Rampart Scandal, A Corrupt Anti-Gang Unit That Terrorized LA

Gangs like the Bloods and Crips are well-known criminal enterprises and are often vilified as evils of society. But another gang, a gang in blue, walked the streets of Los Angeles in the 1990s: the...

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Disturbing And Fascinating Facts About The 'Preppy Killer,' Robert Chambers

While there are scary stories of murders in universities, Jennifer Levin's horror story occurs between high school and college. In the summer of 1986, Jennifer Levin was happily college-bound when she...

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Startling Photos Of Kids, Gang Signs, Guns, And Cash In '80s & '90s Los...

The most prevalent pop culture images of gangs in Los Angeles can be traced to the explosion of gangsta rap in the late 1980s, when NWA, led by Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, and MC Ren burst out of...

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10 Backpackers Who Mysterious And Tragically Disappeared

The practice of backpacking comes with all sorts of risks, the least of which is ending up on a list of the many backpacker disappearances over the years. Given the various creepy experiences...

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Things You Didn't Know About Amy Lynn Bradley

On March 24, 1998, Amy Lynn Bradley went missing from a cruise ship en route to Curacao from Aruba. Although the disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley did not initially generate the same media response...

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8 Murderous Drug Cults Who Got High And Took Things Too Far

What happens when you combine hardcore hallucinogenic drugs and dangerous cults? A terrifying and often deadly situation.Cult leaders are known for being megalomaniacs who will use a variety of...

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Terrifying Charles Manson Facts

There is perhaps no American criminal more iconic than Charles Manson. The diminutive cult leader and madman who led his followers on a streak of bloody homicides during the late 1960s - including...

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The Scariest Serial Killers In California's History

For many, the thought of California elicits notions of surf and sunshine. The massive, majestic state forming a boarder between much of the US and the Pacific Ocean represents a dream: a laid-back,...

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12 Terrifying Stories Of Truck Stop Murders That Are Still Unsolved

People travel every day, stopping, at times, in rest areas to take quick breaks. As anyone who has been on a road trip knows, some rest stops are creepier than others, and some travelers become the...

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The Horrible Crimes Of Juan Corona

Juan Vallejo Corona is one of the most famous serial killers of men who murdered at least 25 people in 1971. An immigrant from his native Mexico, Corona worked as a labor contractor in Yuba City, CA,...

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The Most Infamous Ponzi Schemes in History

Here in the modern world, most of us have developed a healthy cynicism that helps us look past "get rich quick" schemes with a smirk and an eye roll. So you'd think we would be able to avoid the total...

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18 of the Most High Profile Court Martial Stories

The Court Martial is one of the oldest institutions of justice in the world today. We can draw a direct line of descent from the modern military trial all the way back through the British Articles of...

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Ambien Crimes And Horror Stories

Who knew that Ambien, that lovely little pill that puts so many people into a syrupy thick sleep, could cause so many people to have drug-induced freakouts? Crimes committed on Ambien aren’t like...

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Nauseating Facts About Joe "The Cannibal" Metheny, Who Sold His...

In 1996,  Joe "The Cannibal" Metheny joined the ranks of serial killers who decided to serve their victims' bodies to people in food. He claimed to have killed several women, dismembered their bodies,...

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People Who Solved Their Own Murders

There have been multiple cases where murder victims left messages and notes for the police to point them toward the killer. In some situations, victims created a digital trail for investigators to...

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The Horrorcore Murders Were A Case Of Online Courtship Gone Wrong

Farmville is a sleepy little town about sixty miles west of Richmond, Virginia. It is a college town hosting Longwood University and the second oldest college in the country, Hampden-Sydney, just down...

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