In the late 1980s, university libraries start to notice items missing from their rare book collections and suspect they’ve been... more

In 2018, a band in Bristol, England, is asked to open for Threatin, a successful hard rock group from Los... more

In 2017, Italian authorities uncovered a multimillion-dollar scheme as part of a big Mafia bust. But it has nothing to... more

An original drawing by famed artist Salvador Dalí is donated to the Rikers Island jail inmates in the 1960s. It... more

Police respond to a burglary call at an Iowa state courthouse on a brisk September night in 2019 and are... more

In the early ’80s, Boston is nicknamed the arson capital of the world. Hundreds of fires crop up across the... more

Toby Dorr is a middle-aged mom trapped in a loveless marriage—until a cancer diagnosis changes her from someone who’d never... more

In the summer of 1980, Harvey’s Casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, prepares for the busy Labor Day weekend. But when... more

In the ’80s and ’90s, fraudulent telemarketing is booming, often bleeding senior citizens dry. Law enforcement is nearly powerless to... more

Welcome to Scamtown! It’s a place where the true crime is stranger than fiction and the stories are filled with... more