Tag Archives: true-crime

Ann-Marie Delsol squints against the humid Caribbean sun as she points down at the rutted dirt track where the bodies were found in December of 2023. Her employers had been shot and left in their car, which someone set ablaze and pushed into the underbrush. The vehicle could have been …

When Virginia Giuffre publicly accused well-known millionaire Jeffrey Epstein of sexually assaulting and trafficking her as a teenager, she was thrown into a world of lawsuits, depositions, and public scrutiny. Her first suit, filed in May 2009 with Giuffre listed under the pseudonym of Jane Doe 102, accused Epstein and …

When Ajike “AJ” Owens went to Susan Lorincz’s door on June 2, 2023, the confrontation was one in a series of years-long disagreements between the two neighbors. Lorincz, 58 at the time, and Owens, 35, lived in a housing complex in Ocala, Florida, a small community of duplexes filled with …

For almost 30 years, the city of Wichita, Kansas was terrorized by a serial killer. He called himself BTK, a nickname patterned after the phrase “bind, torture, kill” —the signature way he would leave bodies for police to find. His victims varied, first a young family, then women of varying …

Ryan Murphy loves to take what the audience thinks they know and turn it on its head. He did it with the O.J. Simpson story, making us question whether prosecutor Marcia Clark had been unfairly maligned. He did it with the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, presenting the story in a way that …

Toward the end of March, Rachel Ganz had what she calls “a premonition of doom.” At the time, she couldn’t quite explain this foreboding. She and her husband, Jon Ganz, ages 45 and 49, respectively, were in the midst of what should have been a happy milestone: The couple were …

Why now? Amanda Knox is well aware that’s a question people might have when they watch an episode of The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox. It’s been 18 years since Knox returned home to her Perugia, Italy apartment to find her roommate Meredith Kercher brutally stabbed to death. Eighteen years …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. It’s been 34 years since four teenage girls were brutally murdered at an Austin, Texas, yogurt shop. Amy Ayers, Eliza Thomas, and sisters Jennifer and Sarah Harbison were …

You don’t often find a true crime journalist who lives on the other side of the bars, but, then, John J. Lennon isn’t your typical crime writer. Which is why Michael Shane Hale — Shane, for short — trusted him with his story for Lennon’s debut book, The Tragedy of …

“I have a hook for your story,” a podcast producer told me as soon as I called her up earlier this summer. “Pineapple Street announced it’s going out of business today.” I’d already been reporting on the collapse of the narrative podcast industry for several weeks, talking with executives and …