True Crime Stories

2026-10-30

The Sam Sheppard case: a press table inside the bar, five volumes of clippings, and a conviction set aside

A calm, source-led account of the 1954 killing of Marilyn Sheppard in Bay Village, Ohio, her husband's murder conviction, and the 1966 Supreme Court ruling that the newspaper campaign around his trial had denied him a fair one — followed through the retrial, the acquittal and the civil case that closed the record.

True Crime Stories

The Sam Sheppard case: a press table inside the bar, five volumes of clippings, and a conviction set aside

The Mississippi Burning case: a burned station wagon, an earthen dam, and a trial 41 years later

The Urschel kidnapping: nine blindfolded days, an airplane that passed twice a day, and the numbered ransom bills

The Brink's robbery: copied keys, a $2.7 million haul, and the confession that beat the deadline

The Flight 629 bombing: a mother's suitcase, a warehouse mock-up, and 25 sticks of dynamite

The Lynnwood and Colorado rape cases: a false-reporting charge, a pink camera, and a birthmark on a left calf

The Anne Marie Fahey case: a cooler found at sea, a brother's testimony, and a murder conviction without a body

The Boston Marathon bombing: the 33 terabytes, the boat in Watertown, and the 102-hour hunt

The D.C. sniper attacks: the fingerprint, the blue Caprice, and the 23-day hunt

The Golden State Killer: how family-tree DNA led investigators to Joseph DeAngelo

The BTK case: how a floppy disk ended a 31-year search and led to ten consecutive life terms

The Unabomber case: how the 1995 manifesto led to Ted Kaczynski's arrest

True Crime Stories

The Sam Sheppard case: a press table inside the bar, five volumes of clippings, and a conviction set aside

The Mississippi Burning case: a burned station wagon, an earthen dam, and a trial 41 years later

The Urschel kidnapping: nine blindfolded days, an airplane that passed twice a day, and the numbered ransom bills

The Brink's robbery: copied keys, a $2.7 million haul, and the confession that beat the deadline

The Flight 629 bombing: a mother's suitcase, a warehouse mock-up, and 25 sticks of dynamite

The Lynnwood and Colorado rape cases: a false-reporting charge, a pink camera, and a birthmark on a left calf

The Anne Marie Fahey case: a cooler found at sea, a brother's testimony, and a murder conviction without a body

The Boston Marathon bombing: the 33 terabytes, the boat in Watertown, and the 102-hour hunt

The D.C. sniper attacks: the fingerprint, the blue Caprice, and the 23-day hunt

The Golden State Killer: how family-tree DNA led investigators to Joseph DeAngelo

The BTK case: how a floppy disk ended a 31-year search and led to ten consecutive life terms

The Unabomber case: how the 1995 manifesto led to Ted Kaczynski's arrest