“I heard you paint houses.” “Yes, I do. I also do my own carpentry.” A friend of mine once said that Martin Scorsese makes the same movi...

You know how many found footage flicks are based on tapes or film cans being discovered and exhibited, reflecting footage that had bee...

On 1 September, 1934, the badly burnt body of a young woman, viciously battered about the head and wearing only pajamas, was found in a ro...

“What’s one less person on the face of the earth, anyway?”

Dennis Nilsen was born on 23 November 1945 in Scotland to an alcoholic, Norwegian father and a strict Catholic mother. His parents divorce...

Warning: Graphic. Andrei Chikatilo, a.k.a Butcher of Rostov and Red Ripper, was a Soviet serial killer who sexually assaulted and mutil...

Warning: Graphic. In 1923, Marianna Dolinska, a Polish native, walked into the police station and said that she hung her four kids (rangi...

1/7/1947 - Newark, OH. Mrs. Laura Bell Devlin, 72, who murdered her 75-year-old husband, Thomas, then dismembered his body with a hacksa...

Jeff Franklin, 17, grins from the backseat of a police car after using a hatchet and sledgehammer to murder his parents and critically wou...

After stabbing a woman to death in 1945, serial killer William Heirens carved this message onto the wall:  “For heavens sake catch me...

Samantha Clairmont, 11, was a girl with Muscular Dystrophy who was beaten to death with a kettle and hammer by her grandmother and a ...

On the night of March 22, 1970, Kathleen Johns was driving from San Bernardino to Petaluma to visit her mother. She was seven months pregn...

  A good documentary can competently present relevant information in a non-biased manner. A great documentary can do all that, but also...

My unintended marathon reading of true crime books continues with The Cannibal: The Case of Albert Fish . This non-fiction account of Al...

As I’ve said before, there’s been no better friend to the horror genre than Edward Gein. Perhaps you’ve heard of him? He killed two wom...

The Murder House: Is site of decades-old murder haunted? June 30, 1987 marks the 25-year-old gruesome murder of a Boise man. Some s...

The Historic Houses Trust opens special exhibitions at different venues in its native Sydney, Australia. The below is a sample of one...

Dear Mrs. Budd:   In 1894 a friend of mine shipped as a deck hand on the Steamer Tacoma, Capt. John Davis. They sailed from San Franci...