• True Crime

    My Top Five Female Detectives, Real and Imagined

    An author takes a look back at some of the most iconic women crime-solvers.

    August 28, 2020  By Bella Ellis
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    Surveillance Cameras Are Everywhere. And They're Only Going to Get More Ubiquitous.

    A crime writer's thoughts on our increasingly watched world.

    August 26, 2020  By Laura Griffin
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    What the Mythology of El Chapo Guzmán Tells Us About the Reality of Drug Trafficking in the Americas

    Was he a bandit, a ruthless killer, or a sacrificial lamb set up by other leaders? Answers are elusive, and that's the point.

    August 25, 2020  By Alan Feuer
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    How an Indiana Preacher's Son Transformed into a Western Lawman—and a Killer

    Ed Cantrell went to Wyoming and cast himself in the mould of Western gunslinging icons. Then, he was charged with murder.

    August 14, 2020  By Rone Tempest
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    Faces on the Milk Cartons: The Lost Boys of Des Moines

    In the 1980s, three Iowa boys went missing. Their disappearances loomed large in my childhood, and have haunted me ever since.

    August 13, 2020  By Kali White
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    Fraud of the Century: The Ponzi Scheme, 100 Years Later

    In 1920, Boston’s Charles Ponzi gave a classic confidence trick its name. Why are investors still falling for such a notorious swindle?

    August 11, 2020  By Dean Jobb
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    My Life in True Crime

    Kim Powers' life has been spent writing about crime. But the suspicions about his own mother's death were kept secret.

    August 6, 2020  By Kim Powers
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    A Faked Obituary and the Search for a Missing Sister

    If my sister was dead, then why did her email have an account of her death written up before it happened?

    August 5, 2020  By Betsy Bonner
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    Whatever Happened to Eliot Ness After Prohibition?

    The legendary Prohibition agent who took on the Capone mob was banished from Chicago after his glory days. Why?

    August 5, 2020  By Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz
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    The Roaring Twenties—Prohibition, Cocktails, Crime and….Mystery Plays?

    A run of murder mystery plays, many based on recent sensational real-life crimes, spiced up theater life in 1920s Chicago.

    August 4, 2020  By Susanna Calkins
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