true crime USA

When Lori reached her hand out of a window in an abandoned Ohio house, she had already done the impossible: called 911 on her kidnapper Shawn Grate's own phone. The case exposed a man suspected of killing at least five women in the area.

The Steven Stayner case is an American child abduction case in which 7-year-old Steven Stayner was kidnapped in Merced, California, in 1972 and held for seven years by Kenneth Parnell.

The Caylee Anthony case is a Florida homicide investigation into the 2008 death of 2-year-old Caylee Marie Anthony, whose mother Casey Anthony was acquitted of murder in 2011.

The Sherri Papini case is a 2016 American kidnapping hoax in which a 34-year-old California mother faked her abduction, later pleading guilty to federal mail fraud and false statements.

The Nathan Carman case is a US federal murder-and-fraud matter in which Vermont man Nathan Carman was accused of killing his mother Linda at sea in 2016 and his grandfather in 2013.

The Aileen Wuornos case is an American serial murder case in which a Florida sex worker shot and robbed seven men along central Florida highways between 1989 and 1990.

The O.J. Simpson case is a 1994 double homicide in Los Angeles in which Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were stabbed; O.J. Simpson was tried and acquitted in 1995.

The Moriah Wilson case is a solved 2022 Texas homicide in which professional cyclist Mo Wilson was shot dead in Austin by Kaitlin Armstrong, driven by romantic jealousy.

An Indiana softball coach was convicted of planning and arranging the murder of his ex-fiancée Shea Briar. Together with a former player, he executed a crime rooted in deception and personal conflict.

On February 22, 2022, Jared Bridegan was shot and killed on Sanctuary Boulevard in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. The case exposed a tangled web of hatred, manipulation, and hired murder rooted in a bitter custody dispute. His ex-wife Shanna Gardner-Fernandez and her husband were ultimately charged with orchestrating the killing.

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.