True Crime

Poison is the weapon of the patient, the calculating, and the cowardly—but not all poisoners are alike. Deadly Chemistry dissects the critical divide between targeted killers (who murder with intimate...

For decades, Vincent "The Chin" Gigante ruled the Genovese crime family not from a throne, but from a psychiatric ward—or so he wanted authorities to believe. While other mob bosses held court in stea...

In the annals of forensic science, few breakthroughs have been as transformative as DNA analysis. Double Helix delves into how this genetic blueprint—extracted from a speck of blood, a single hair, or...

In 1992, the body of 17-year-old Dawn Marie Birnbaum—a runaway from Florida—was discovered dumped beside a rural Pennsylvania road, brutally beaten and strangled. Though she was an outsider, the small...

When a body is left to the elements, the first detectives on the scene aren’t always human—they’re insects. In Web of Clues, The New Detectives explores the eerie science of forensic entomology, where...

On a quiet night in Prince George’s County, Maryland, 1995, two law enforcement officers—Prince George’s County Police Officer John Novabilski and FBI Special Agent William H. Christian Jr.—were execu...

When a raging house fire tore through a quiet California neighborhood, firefighters initially thought it was a tragic accident—until investigators found no smoke in the victim’s lungs, proving she was...

On April 11, 1986, a routine surveillance operation in Miami turned into a nightmare of bullets and bloodshed when two heavily armed bank robbers—Michael Lee Platt and William Russell Matix—engaged ei...

In a justice system where eyewitness misidentification, coerced confessions, and flawed forensics can send innocent people to prison for decades, DNA analysis has become the ultimate truth-teller. Pro...

In the rugged wilderness of 1970s–80s Alaska, Robert Hansen—a respected baker, family man, and avid hunter—was secretly living a double life. By day, he sold cinnamon rolls to local cops; by night, he...