Criminals & Outlaws

The prostitutes working New York City’s Times Square were more than a little bit nervous. A deranged serial killer who apparently melt...

When Chris Bryson was discovered nude and severely beaten stumbling down Charlotte Street in Kansas City in 1988, Police had no idea they wer...

During fifty one days in early 1993 one of the most tragic events in American crime history unfolded on the plains outside Waco, Texas. An ob...

In the 1970s and early ‘80s, southern California was shocked when dead boys began turning up with disturbing regularity alongside some ...

Arguably the largest and most successful criminal enterprise in history, at times the Medellin drug cartel was smuggling 15 tons of cocaine ...

Pablo Escobar Murderer, philanthropist, drug dealer, politician, devil, saint: many words have been used to describe Pablo Escobar, but one i...

"A soulless man with a broken mind.""Not even qualified to run a lemonade stand""Has an 8th grade understanding of World affairs""He's a race...

While some would say that American serial killer Cary Stayner was influenced by family tragedy – his already-troubled family was shatte...

In the world of American serial killers, few can beat Donald Henry “Peewee” Gaskins when it comes to depravity, cunning, and quit...

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Michael Hall's "The Trouble with Innocence" is now available as an audio download, where the length and ti...

November 1, 1932 was a fine autumn day in the sleepy, cotton-farming city of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, the heart of Sequoyah County. The blinding ...

Captured in the 1930s before the words psychopath and pedophile were part of common vernacular, notorious serial killer Arnold Sodeman murder...

For the first time ever, we can now go deep inside the mind of the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy. In this never before heard ...

I am a pornographic actress, or was until 2015. And I’m still not totally out of the ‘biz’, even though I’m not in th...

Though few people are familiar with the story of his life, Charles Ponzi’s name is almost instantly recognizable thanks to the famous ...

Sprightly swing music spills across the dimly lit club. The grayish curtains of cigarette smoke part every once in a while to reveal a sparkl...

"This horror story made international headlines. It shows brutality in its most extreme form, a wilful act of cruel injustice for which the L...

Before there was Charles Ponzi, there was Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith II. The famed Old West con artist and gangster's crim...

In the span of scarcely more than a half century, the West developed from a handful of scattered fur trapping enterprises predominantly inhab...

There was no shortage of targets for thieves in the West, and some infamous criminals struck dozens of times. Billy the Kid was rumored to b...

On November 12, 1971, Bernard Patterson, a much decorated Vietnam War hero, turned a real-life version of Don Quixote, Butch Cassidy, and Rob...