Tag: USA

The Zodiac

Five murders. Two survivors. Four ciphers, two of which are still uncracked. More than fifty years of suspects, theories, documentaries, and confessions that turned out to be nothing. The Zodiac is the most famous unsolved case in American criminal history,…

Waco

What began as a federal raid to serve a search warrant ended, fifty-one days later, with seventy-six people dead in a burning building in the Texas scrubland. The Waco siege is one of those events whose facts are agreed upon…

H.H. Holmes

He is often called America’s first serial killer, the man who built a hotel of horrors to murder hundreds of fairgoers at the Chicago World’s Fair. The reality is darker in some ways and far smaller in others. This is…

Ted Bundy

Few names in true crime carry the weight of Theodore Robert Bundy. He has been called handsome, charming, articulate — adjectives that, applied to a man who confessed to thirty murders, still unsettle. This is the full account: who he…