Elizabeth Short was only 22 years old when her brutal murder launched a thousand headlines. Dubbed the Black Dahlia, her story dominated newspapers all over the country in an era long before national news outlets. More than seven decades later her moniker as well as her story endures in pop culture and the true crime community. That's likely because we still don't know who killed and bisected Elizabeth Short.

During the Wars of the Roses the rival sides of the Plantagenet family bitterly fought over the throne of England. The Yorkist and Lancasterian sides would stop at nothing to obtain absolute power. Richard III would take that insidious ambition a step further by imprisoning his nephews, 12-year-old Edward V and 9-year-old Richard, Duke of York. What followed is a Medieval mystery that has endured to this day, 641 years later. With a cast of noble characters filling the court and the suspect list, who killed the Princes in the Tower?

The quaint, peaceful town of Speedway, Indiana had hardly been heard of before 1978. Starting that summer, a crime spree ripped through the community until late fall, when it ended in the mysterious death of four Burger Chef employees. A botched investigation that produced no physical evidence is the reason this case sits cold today, 46 years later. What really happened to the Burger Chef night shift in 1978?

Johnathan Luna was a Federal Prosecutor working at the Baltimore US Attorney’s Office. Having turned his family’s fortunes through hard work and determination, he epitomized the American dream. A friendly, outgoing man with a solid work ethic surely had the world almost within his grasp. It would all fall away on one cold winter morning in 2003 when his remains were discovered in Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County, one-hundred miles from his Elkridge, Maryland home. In a confusing case where nothing is known for certain, his fate continues to remain unknown. What really happened to Johnathan Luna? Was it murder born from conspiracy, a staged scene gone wrong, or suicide?

In the fifth and final part of this series Alex Murdaugh faces the consequences of all of his actions. As white-collar charges and civil suits pile up against him the investigation into Maggie and Paul’s deaths points in his direction as well. When finally charged with their murders, he and his defense team scrambled to prove him innocent.

In Pt. 4 Mallory Beach’s remains are found as the public goes into an roar over her untimely death. As her family’s wrongful death suit threatens to expose everything Alex Murdaugh has been trying to keep under wraps, he starts to bend under the pressure. Compulsively continuing to rip off his clients, he adds even more shocking crimes to his long list of wrongdoing just to cover his tracks.

In Part 3 of this epic we witness the downfall of Paul Murdaugh, which leads directly to the downfall of the family. All the while Alex his plundering the settlements of his trusting clients and even stealing from his own brother. This all leads up to the fateful boat crash that brought it all down around their heads.

In Part 2 of the Murdaugh saga we examine the tragic, untimely, and suspicious death of Stephen Smith. We also see the start of Alex’s financial crimes and the opulent lifestyle he afforded his family on the misfortune of others. As we work our way further into this complicated story we will also take a look at the partying lifestyle the family was leading straight into their demise.

For nearly a century the Murdaugh family name held much clout in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. They had survived scandals before, but nothing like the kind that actually brought the dynasty down. Learn about the early Murdaughs that founded the enduring legal dynasty in South Carolina. The early scandals that they brushed off like dirt from their shoulders. The rise of the man that would eventually bring it all down.

Most of us know Slender Man as a fictional character, dreamed up for a Photoshop contest only to capture the world’s imagination. He captured attention in a different way when the shared delusion of two adolescent girls drove them to attempt murder to gain the fictional monster’s favor. Read about the brutal attack and the miraculous survival of Payton Leutner.

If enough people are willing to band together for the greater good then change can occur. No other community has proved that more than the Town of Skidmore in Missouri. After twenty years of harassment, torment, abuse, and fear they took matters into their own hands, ending the oppression that one man held them under. Learn about how an entire community took out the trash and got away with it.

The San Francisco LGBTQ community faced many dangers in the 1970s, but none so violent as The Doodler. This serial killer of gay and trans men remains free to this day, an old man now. Renewed interest in the case in the last few years has brought attention to The Doodler in a way that never was during his year-long reign of terror in the mid-70s.

At the height of the Cincinnati Strangler’s reign of terror in 1966, the Bricca family was brutally murdered in their home. Cincinnati residents were beside themselves as they locked their doors for possibly the first time and armed themselves against would-be attackers. A young family was murdered, a community was traumatized, and a killer was never caught. This unsolved mystery continues to spark wild theories to this day as the fifty-seven year old case remains open, and tragically cold.

Danny Casolaro was the kind of man you only see in movies. A man with many talents and passions, it was writing that made him his living. When he found himself tangled deep into several intertwining conspiracies his life took a major spiraling downturn. At the center of something so big he couldn’t properly put it into words the threatening phone calls began to plague him. While traveling to meet a source that could break it all open, he was found dead in his hotel room. What happened to Danny Casolaro? Was it suicide as the coroner ruled, or was he murdered for digging too deep into the wrong places?

If Ann Woodward’s social climb was impressive, her fall was epic. Accused of murder, cast of high society, and banished from the States by her mother-in-law, she likely thought that things could get no worse. She couldn’t have been more wrong.

What do you call a man that survives death around half a dozen times? You call him Rasputin of the Bronx, Iron Mike, or simply Michael Malloy. Read the unbelievable story of a man that survived multiple attempts on his life for insurance money.

Ann Woodward’s social climb was almost athletic in its speed. Once she broke free from the binds of her unstable past, she never looked back and had no intention of returning to poverty. What would you do to earn your seat at high society’s table and keep it? Learn about Ann’s early life and her rise to the society pages of New York in the first part of this jaw-dropping case.