Boston

The Sean Ellis case is a landmark wrongful-conviction case in which a 19-year-old Black man spent over 20 years in prison for the 1993 murder of Boston Police Detective John J. Mulligan before being fully exonerated.

Trial 4 is a Netflix documentary series about Sean K. Ellis, a Boston teenager convicted of murdering Det. John Mulligan in 1993 and jailed for 22 years before exoneration.

Netflix documentary series about the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist in Boston — 13 masterworks stolen, none recovered, no convictions to date.

James 'Whitey' Bulger was a Boston mob boss and FBI informant convicted of racketeering and 19 murders in 2013, later killed in prison in 2018.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist is an unsolved 1990 art robbery in Boston, where two men posing as police officers stole 13 artworks worth an estimated $500 million.

The Charles Stuart case is a 1989 Boston murder in which Charles Stuart shot his pregnant wife Carol and falsely blamed a Black gunman, triggering a citywide racial panic.

The Boston Marathon bombing was a terrorist attack on April 15, 2013, when brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev detonated two pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line, killing three and injuring hundreds.

Boston's true crime walking tours bring the city's darkest chapter to life — tracing the 1960s killing spree attributed to Albert DeSalvo through the streets of one of America's oldest cities.