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The Baker Street Bank Heist
Sept. 5, 2013The tunnel started in leather goods shop Le Sac and ended inside the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank.After taking almost three months to tunnel under a branch of Lloyds Bank on Baker...
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Justice in New Zealand Cold Case
Sept. 9, 2013Menzies HallettFor 33 years, Menzies Hallett got away with murder because a New Zealand law prohibited Hallett’s wife from testifying against him without his permission. by Lisa AgnesBy...
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History of Crime in Greece
Sept. 23, 2013Greece’s criminal profile is one fitting to its Mediterranean temperament of boiling blood, twisted romance and redeemed honor.by Faye KaravasiliAs expected, Greece’s criminal profile is...
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The Silent Witness: DNA from a Leech
Sept. 30, 2013A forensics first occurred in 2008 in Tasmania when DNA harvested from a leech led police to a robber. by Liz PorterOn a late spring afternoon in 2001, two intruders broke into a house in...
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Count Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley: The Assassin who Sparked the Rise of...
Oct. 24, 2013 Count Anton Graff von Arco auf Valley by David Robb “Wach auf!” the prison guard shouted in German – the language best for shouting orders. “Wake up!”It was November 11, 1923, and Count...
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Life Imitates Art: How the Pink Panthers Purloin and Plunder
Nov. 25, 2013Smash and grab job by the Pink Panthers (Photo The Guardian)In the annals of international diamond heists there has never been a group like the Pink Panthers. Of the estimated 200 members...
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Murder in Versailles
May 19, 2009the Palace of Versailles It took the French government 14 years to bring American expatriate Barrie Taylor to justice for the 1993 murder of her lover's estranged wife. After three trials...
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Princess Diana’s Death
April 11, 2010Princess DianaWas her death really an accident, or was there a hidden hand at work? Many still say that she was assassinated. Not long before her tragic end, she predicted in a letter to...
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The Papin Sisters: France's Crime of the Century
June 19, 2010The Papin sistersThe strange case of the Papin sisters is notable not only for its shocking violence but because the gender of both the perpetrators and victims was female. The case became...
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Beauty, Wealth and a Dead Bride
Jan. 10, 2011 Updated April 1, 2012Shrien and Anni Dewani on their wedding day. (Photo was handed out to the media.)Both brilliant and beautiful, Anni Dewani was shot to death on her honeymoon outside...
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Stealing the Crown Jewels
Jan. 6, 2014“Colonel” Thomas Blood, who stole the Crown Jewels of England in May, 1671.The theft of the Crown Jewels in 1671 was the crime of its age, but King Charles II inexplicably pardoned the...
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The Real Lady Macbeth: Countess Erzsébet Báthory
Jan. 13, 2014Countess Erzsébet Báthoryby David RobbLady Macbeth is perhaps the most famous fictional female villainess in all of literature, but in 1606, while William Shakespeare was creating her...
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The Meredith Kercher Case
Jan. 20, 2014Meredith KercherIn absentia, Amanda Knox is being tried for the third time in the death of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy in 2007. Knox and her co-defendant, Raffaele...
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History of Crime in Greece
Greece’s criminal profile is one fitting to its Mediterranean temperament of boiling blood, twisted romance and redeemed honor.by Faye KaravasiliAs expected, Greece’s criminal profile is one fitting to...
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Murder in Monaco
The Principality of Monaco leapt onto front pages across the world on May 6, 2014 when an assassin fired a volley of gunshots at billionaire Hélène Pastor and her chauffer. Both would die later from...
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Pistorius: A South African Legacy
(Photo CBC.ca) The Oscar Pistorius trial has everything: a narrative about a system, a psychology, an issue spanning something far beyond the act of killing Reeva Steenkamp. By Binoy KampmarkThe Oscar...
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The Murder of Porn Star Red-Hot Carla
Her face – and body – were known to millions of men who crawled the Internet for web-sex. Her stage name was Red-Hot Carla and her fans agreed that the name was well chosen. However, the way she looked...
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The Dripping Killer
Kate Webster at the Old Bailey before she was sentenced to be hanged for murder - July 1879 Victorian Britain was horrified by a 30-year-old Irish woman who murdered her employer, dismembered the body,...
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Jack The Ripper -- We Still Do Not Know Who He Was
In early September world media splashed the headline that Jack the Ripper had finally been identified by amateur sleuth, Englishman Russell Edwards. The latter, in his book, Naming Jack the Ripper,...
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Terrorism in Paris
(Photo AP) While protests in Muslim countries against France are increasing rapidly, the French president, government and people continue to support the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo whose editor...
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