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The 27-year-old mystery of what happened to nine-year-old Angie Housman, who vanished just a few hundred yards from her home in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1993, has finally been solved, and the identity of her killer has sent shockwaves through the community. The man who lived among them, never suspected for decades, was a convicted … Read more

The final day of Troy Anthony Davis began as all his days on death row had begun, with the heavy clank of a guard’s footsteps approaching his cell. At an hour usually reserved for the deepest sleep, a light snapped on, and an officer peered through the bars. Troy turned his head. The guard was … Read more

SING SING PRISON, NY — The year was 1899, and the machine was new. Electricity, once harnessed to light the nation’s cities, had been repurposed as an instrument of state-sanctioned death. And on March 20th of that year, a 49-year-old woman named Martha Place sat in total silence inside this maximum-security prison, waiting to become … Read more

The final gavel fell in an Arapahoe County courtroom on Friday, closing a 37-year chapter of horror that had haunted a Colorado community and left a single 3-year-old girl as the only witness to an unspeakable crime. Alex Christopher Ewing, now 60, was convicted on all six murder counts for the brutal 1984 hammer killings … Read more

The clock struck midnight in Texas, and the nation held its breath, standing on the precipice of an unprecedented moment in American history. Charles Brooks Jr. , a 40-year-old convicted killer, lay motionless on his bunk in a death row cell, the first man ever selected to test the state’s newest invention for ending a … Read more

The hunt for Aileen Wuornos, the woman who would become known as America’s first female serial killer, reached its climax in a gritty biker bar in Port Orange, Florida, after a year-long investigation that stretched from stolen cars to blood-soaked crime scenes. Undercover officers posing as bikers named Bucket and Drums had finally cornered their … Read more

The final hours of Danny Harold Rolling, the man known as the Gainesville Ripper, were marked by a last meal of indulgence, a handwritten confession that solved a 17-year-old cold case, and a final act of song rather than remorse before he was pronounced dead at 6:13 p. m. on October 25, 2006, at Florida … Read more

The basement of 3520 North Marshall Street in North Philadelphia held a secret so grotesque that it would forever change the way America viewed the monsters living in plain sight. For four months between November 1986 and March 1987, Gary Michael Heidnik transformed his home into a house of horrors, imprisoning six women in a … Read more

The man who terrorized America for years with a campaign of racial hatred finally met his end in a sterile Missouri execution chamber, offering no apology, no final words, and no visible emotion as the lethal drugs began to flow. Joseph Paul Franklin, 63, was pronounced dead at 6:17 a. m. on November 20, 2013, … Read more

The last hours of John Wayne Gacy’s freedom unraveled in a haze of alcohol, confession, and desperation, as the man who would become one of America’s most notorious serial killers spent the night of December 20th, 1978, locked inside his attorney’s office, surrounded by police who had no idea the full horror they were about … Read more