Massachusetts

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.

HBO's two-part documentary covers the Massachusetts case in which Michelle Carter was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after urging Conrad Roy III to kill himself via text.

HBO Max documentary series about the 1989 murder of Carol Stuart by her husband Charles, who falsely blamed a Black man and triggered a racially charged manhunt across Boston.

Netflix docuseries covering the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, the deaths of three victims, and the 101-hour manhunt that ended with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's capture.

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 Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal is a US evidence-falsification case in which state chemists Annie Dookhan and Sonja Farak tainted over 37,000 drug prosecutions between 2003 and 2013.

The John Mulligan murder case is a 1993 Boston homicide in which veteran police detective John J. Mulligan was shot dead outside a Roslindale Walgreens during an apparent robbery.

The College Admissions Scandal, known federally as Operation Varsity Blues, was a nationwide US bribery and fraud conspiracy involving consultant Rick Singer, charged in Boston on March 12, 2019.

Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her apartment in Stoughton, Massachusetts, on February 26, 2021. Her death was initially ruled a suicide, but subsequent revelations about decades of sexual abuse committed by law enforcement officers — including an FBI agent — have cast serious doubt on that conclusion.

Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment on February 6, 2021. What started as a suicide conclusion grew into one of the most shocking corruption scandals in American law enforcement history. The True Crime Today podcast now retells the story of abuse, betrayal, and systematic cover-up.

In 1692, twenty people were executed in Salem, Massachusetts. Today, guided walking tours retrace the exact streets where hysteria became lethal.

Christian Gerhartsreiter was a German con artist who lived under more than twenty false identities across the United States for three decades, most notably as Clark Rockefeller, a purported member of the famous Rockefeller family. In 2012, he was convicted of murdering John and Marlene Sohus in Los Altos Hills, California in 1985, crimes he had concealed through his elaborate web of fabricated identities.

Brian Walshe was charged with the murder of his wife Ana Walshe, who disappeared around New Year 2022–2023. Analysis of Google searches on his son's iPad revealed queries about body disposal and forensic evidence.

The Boston Globe's Spotlight team has exposed widespread abuse of confidential informant systems within the New Bedford Police Department in Massachusetts, revealing how officers coerced informants and stole drugs. The investigation, released in March 2025 as a podcast series called 'Snitch City,' highlights vulnerabilities in law enforcement oversight that resonate far beyond American borders.

On August 14, 1962, robbers dressed as police officers stopped a U.S. Postal Service armored truck on Route 3 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and made off with $1.5 million in cash. Six decades later, the money remains missing and no one has ever been convicted.

On March 18, 1990, two men posing as Boston police officers walked into one of America's most prestigious museums and walked out with 13 masterpieces worth over $500 million. Three decades later, the perpetrators remain at large and not a single painting has been recovered.

Albert DeSalvo confessed in 1965 to being the Boston Strangler, responsible for at least 11 murders across the Boston area between June 1962 and January 1964. Yet he was never charged with any of those killings, and his confession never reached a courtroom—a legal peculiarity that would haunt the case for generations.