Trials & Outcomes
Alex Murdaugh’s Federal Fraud Case: The Settlement Checks and the Sentence
The federal plea covered 22 financial offenses involving personal injury clients. The 2024 sentence belongs to that separate case.
True Crime Around the World.
Explore true crime by country: U.S. case files, UK crimes, and investigations from around the world.
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Family Crimes
Shanann, Bella and Celeste Watts: What the Guilty Plea Established
A guide to the nine charges Christopher Watts admitted and the decision that took the death penalty off the table.
Trials & Outcomes
Ireland’s Stardust Inquests: The Verdicts and the State Apology
The deaths of 48 people in a 1981 Dublin fire led to new inquests and a formal state apology in April 2024.
Missing People
The Highway of Tears and Project E-PANA: What the Case List Includes
The RCMP’s project reviewed 18 investigations involving missing and murdered women. Its scope is one part of the wider Highway of Tears history.
Cold Cases
The 1962 Alcatraz Escape: Where the Physical Evidence Runs Out
The evidence shows how three men got out of their cells. The FBI’s account leaves their fate after the escape unresolved.
Cold Cases
The Birmingham Church Bombing: Why the Prosecutions Took Decades
The 1963 bombing killed four girls. A reopened federal investigation helped Alabama bring two later murder prosecutions.
Cults & Coercion
Nancy Salzman and NXIVM: What the Racketeering Plea Covered
The former NXIVM president’s plea and sentence show a different part of the federal case against the organization’s leadership.
Trials & Outcomes
Enron After the Verdict: Why Jeffrey Skilling Was Resentenced
The federal case page shows how a revised sentence and forfeiture order changed the outcome years after the Enron trial.
Trials & Outcomes
The Madoff Victim Fund: How Forfeited Money Reached Claimants
The DOJ’s final distribution announcement shows how forfeiture recovered money and how to interpret the fund’s recovery figures.
Inside the Investigation
Norway’s 22 July Commission: Reconstructing the Emergency Response
Norway’s official inquiry reconstructed the response to the attacks in Oslo and on Utøya and examined gaps in preparedness and coordination.
Inside the Investigation
Christchurch: What the Sentencing Judgment and Royal Commission Each Cover
New Zealand’s criminal judgment and public inquiry record different parts of the response to the March 2019 attacks.
Inside the Investigation
The Unabomber Investigation: How Familiar Writing Became a Lead
The FBI’s case history traces how family recognition and comparison documents moved a long investigation toward an arrest.