Chicago

A 2004 documentary by John Borowski covering the crimes of H.H. Holmes, the fraudster and serial killer who built a 'Murder Castle' near the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

The House of Suh is a 2010 documentary film about the 1993 Chicago murder of nightclub owner Robert O'Dubaine, allegedly orchestrated by his fiancée Catherine Suh and carried out by her teenage brother Andrew.

Surviving R. Kelly is a Lifetime documentary series covering the sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and racketeering case against singer Robert Sylvester Kelly, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2022.

Hunt for the Missing: Chicago is a 2026 Investigation Discovery docuseries in which retired Chicago detective Pamela Childs re-investigates six unsolved missing-person and homicide cases across Chicago and nearby areas.

The H.H. Holmes murders are a series of killings attributed to con artist Herman Mudgett in 1890s Chicago, with only some victims confirmed and many claims disputed by historians.

Robert O'Dubaine, a 31-year-old Chicago nightclub owner, was murdered by his girlfriend Catherine Suh and her brother Andrew in a staged robbery on September 25, 1993.

The R. Kelly case is a U.S. federal sexual-abuse and trafficking case in which R&B singer Robert Sylvester Kelly was convicted in 2021 and 2022 of racketeering, Mann Act violations and child-pornography offenses.

The Chicago Tylenol Murders are an unsolved 1982 product-tampering case in which cyanide-laced Extra Strength Tylenol capsules killed at least seven people across the Chicago area.

This podcast episode examines John Wayne Gacy, who murdered at least 33 young men and boys between 1972 and 1978 while performing as Pogo the Clown at local events.

Chicago's darkest history comes to life on a 90-minute bus tour covering landmarks from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre to H.H. Holmes' Murder Castle. The Crime and Mob Bus Tour takes passengers through the streets that shaped America's most notorious gangster era. Tickets start at around $35.

From H.H. Holmes' murder castle to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Chicago's mob bus tour puts America's darkest history on full display.

Chicago Crime Tours runs a bus tour through the Windy City covering H.H. Holmes, Al Capone, John Dillinger and the city's darkest chapters.

In 1892, H.H. Holmes constructed a three-story building in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood that would become synonymous with some of America's first confirmed serial murders. What locals called the 'Murder Castle' was actually a hotel marketed to World's Fair visitors—a place where at least six confirmed victims vanished.

Aileen Carol Wuornos, convicted of murdering six men and suspected in a seventh case, was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002, in the United States. The former sex worker claimed self-defense in all her murders, stating she killed in response to rape and attempted rape.