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Scott Kimball presented himself as a successful businessman and family man, but behind the facade lurked a serial killer who murdered at least four people in and around Colorado between 2000 and 2004 — including his own stepfather and niece. Kimball operated as a registered FBI informant during part of the killing spree, a status he allegedly exploited to deflect suspicion. In 2010 he pleaded guilty to all four murders and was sentenced to 70 years in prison.

Witchcraft executions, medieval death sentences and hidden dark history — Zurich's sinister past is waiting to be explored on foot.

Paris hides centuries of murder beneath its elegant façades. These verified tours take you from Revolution-era execution grounds to FBI-profiled serial killers.

BlackBook Tours leads small groups through Munich's old town, uncovering centuries of murder, executions, serial killers and terrorism from €29.99.

From the factory floors where Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews to the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau — Krakow holds the weight of the Holocaust in stone and silence.

From the 1907 Crown Jewels theft to the 1996 murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Dublin's streets hold more dark history than most cities dare admit.

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.

A guided walking tour takes visitors through 500+ years of murder, kidnapping and theft at real crime locations in Cologne's historic city centre.

In 1828, William Burke and William Hare murdered 16 people in Edinburgh's Old Town. Today, several guided tours retrace their deadly steps.

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

A guided tour through St. Pauli traces the murder sites of serial killer Fritz Honka and the violent pimp wars that defined the district in the 1980s. The neighbourhood's notorious streets reveal decades of organised crime, prostitution, and bloodshed. Few areas in Germany carry a darker criminal legacy than this stretch of Hamburg's waterfront quarter.

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.

Zodiac Tours guides visitors through real Bay Area crime scenes tied to one of America's most notorious unsolved serial killer cases.

Between August and November 1888, an unidentified serial killer murdered at least five women in the poverty-stricken streets of Whitechapel and Spitalfields in London's East End. Though the killer was never caught, the murder sites remain accessible to visitors today.

Born Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth in Selbu, Norway, in 1859, Belle Gunness immigrated to Chicago in 1881 and became one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. Operating from her La Porte, Indiana farm, she systematically murdered between 14 and 40 victims over nearly three decades—a dark chapter in Norwegian-American history that remains unsolved in crucial details.

Jack Sheppard, a 22-year-old carpenter turned burglar, escaped from London jails four times in 1724 before his execution at Tyburn. His remarkable feats of escapology made him a celebrity among the working classes and inspired popular ballads, plays, and prints across England.

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 August 8, 1963, a gang of 15 thieves stopped the Royal Mail train near Buckinghamshire, England, and made off with £2.61 million in used banknotes. The heist shocked the nation and launched one of the era's most dramatic manhunts—one that would span continents and decades.