How Fear, Faith, and Factionalism Devoured a Puritan Community In the winter of 1692, in the small farming settlement of Salem Village (today’s Danvers, Massachusetts), two girls began having fits. By the following spring the colony’s jails were overcrowded, a special court was hanging people on the strength of dreams and visions, and a respected grandmother had been condemned after a jury’s not-guilty verdict was overturned. By the time the hysteria burned itself out in 1693

On the night of December 10, 2003, Kent and Tricia Whitaker dined at a Pappadeaux in Stafford, Texas, with sons Bart (24) and Kevin (19). It was meant to celebrate Bart’s supposed graduation from Sam Houston State University. None of it was true. By the time they reached their Sugar Lakes driveway, two were dead—and the person who set it all in motion was sitting in the back seat.

The Crash That Wasn’t an Accident: Remembering Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan At first, it looked like the kind of wreck that makes even veteran first responders stop cold. A black Toyota Camry had slammed into the brick wall of a manufacturing building in Strongsville, Ohio, with such force that one responding officer said the car looked as if it had been cut in half. Inside were three young people: 20-year-old Dominic Russo, 19-year-old Davion Flanagan, and 17-year-old M

Published by Hitched 2 Homicide | True Crime Podcast "These were blokes who were pulling their shirt across after they'd been stabbed by her. Blokes who'd had their heads caved in with a frying pan. And it's even harder to imagine when blokes like these––hard Aussie blokes––lived in fear of their lives." — Sergeant Graham Furlonger, NSW Police ⚠️ Content Warning: This blog and its companion podcast contain detail

This is the story of James "Jamie" Carroll — hairdresser, drag queen, meth dealer, and a man whose magnetic personality made everyone in the room feel like the most important person alive. It is also the story of Jeffrey "Jase" Mundt and Joseph "Joey" Banis — two men bound together by drugs, obsession, and secrets so dark that even the city's beloved Victorian shadows couldn't keep them buried forever.

The Case That Shocked the Nation What happens when a grieving widow publishes a children's book about loss — and turns out to be the reason her children lost their father? Welcome to one of the most chilling and audacious true crime cases in recent American history: the story of Kouri Richins , a Utah mother of three who was convicted on March 16, 2026, of murdering her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl — and then had the nerve to write a book about grief.

A mother disappears—and a fire answers nothing There are cases that feel like a locked room mystery: all the terror is inside, but the key is missing. In early July 2007, 33-year-old Joey Lynn Offutt vanished from the 90 block of Fugate Drive in Sykesville. Days later, neighbors reported a loud explosion and her home was engulfed in flames. When firefighters put the blaze out, they discovered the body of Joey’s six-week-old baby boy in a bathtub. Joey was not there. Investi

Evelyn Nesbit’s name became tabloid fuel after her husband, Harry K. Thaw, shot architect Stanford White on the rooftop of Madison Square Garden. This is the true story behind the scandal that helped invent America’s celebrity murder trial.