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For years, John Gotti appeared untouchable. The ruthless Gambino family crime boss, known for his tailored suits, swagger and ability to beat case after case, ruled New York’s Mafia world while authorities desperately searched for a way to bring him down. After earning the nickname “Teflon Don” for repeatedly escaping convictions, Gotti’s luck eventually ran … Read more

That’s all eight-year-old Christie Downs needed to say. After surviving a stroke and slowly regaining her ability to speak, this soft-spoken reply to investigators shattered the alibi of her mother, Diane Downs — and confirmed what many already suspected. On 19 May 1983, in a quiet corner of Oregon just outside Springfield, Diane Downs pulled … Read more

In the mid 1950s, envelopes quietly crossed the United States postal system containing small black and white photographs of a smiling woman bound with rope, gagged, or posed in carefully staged scenes of capture and restraint. They were not sold on newsstands and they were never advertised openly. Yet tens of thousands of Americans knew … Read more

There are certain events that become so widely known that their outline begins to replace their 𝓈𝓊𝒷𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒. The death of Kurt Cobain is one of them. I was 15 when it happened and the shorthand version is familiar: a greenhouse in Seattle, a shotgun, a note, and a date in April 1994. What’s less often … Read more

The last time Debra Tate ever saw her sister Sharon Tate alive, they were watching a major news event. “We had a lovely barbecue day,” Debra Tate told ABC News. “We all piled in her bed to watch the moon walk … and that was the last time that any of us would ever see … Read more

For more than three decades, the murder of Randy Gail Sperino haunted investigators in southern Illinois — a cold case centered on a young woman beaten to death and left in a rural field while her killer seemingly vanished without a trace. Investigators spent decades chasing leads and revisiting evidence, but the case remained unsolved. … Read more

Three-year-old Madeleine McCann has never been found after she went missing during her family holiday in Portugal. On the evening of May 3, 2007, she disappeared from her bedroom. Her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, realized she was missing close to midnight after returning from dining at a nearby rest The couple was vacationing with … Read more

The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office and the Middlesex Regional Medical Examiner’s Office did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s requests for comment on Sunday, May 24. Matthew’s death comes after a judge ruled in March that he was not legally responsible for his 26-year-old brother Joseph Hertgen’s death on Feb. 22, 2025, due to severe mental … Read more

Looking at photos of Ted Bundy now, it’s hard to see what unsuspecting people saw in the 1970s. Which, according to so many, was a handsome, charming man. That’s been the forever-buzz on Bundy, the serial killer who was executed 31 years ago and, when his story is being told onscreen, has historically been played … Read more

Early in the morning on November 5, 1989, Elisabeth “Betty” Broderick drove to Marston Hills, near San Diego, and entered the home of her ex-husband, Daniel “Dan” Broderick III, and his new wife, Linda. Moments later, she crept into the couple’s bedroom and shot them to death while they slept. At trial, prosecutors portrayed Betty … Read more