Hilary Shenfeld

Katie Zejdlik, a biological anthropologist and curator at a forensic body farm, on why researching dead bodies is important.

Ridgway raped and murdered more than 49 women.

There were three homicides or suspicious deaths on cruise lines operating in U.S. ports in 2017.

Tricia Griffith, who runs the web forum Websleuths, talks to A&E about her close encounter with Ted Bundy.

Melting ice that exposed the buried bodies of missing people was one offbeat way a cold case was reopened.

Judges sometimes go beyond jail time, issuing creative punishments designed to fit the crime instead of standard incarceration.

In 2018, the New York con man and co-founder of Fyre Festival was found guilty of fraud and sentenced to six-years in prison. What's his life like at the Milan Federal Correctional Institution?

Cracking a murder case commonly draws on forensic evidence and eyewitnesses, but occasionally victims themselves—either before they die or after—are playing a role in helping find their suspected killers.

A&E checks in on what Casey Anthony has been up to in the last decade; her relationship with her parents and friends, her legal status and other lingering questions about her controversial murder trial.

For Jeffrey Dahmer, it was watching certain movies. Dennis Rader, known as the BTK Killer, set the mood by pretending he was a spy. Ted Bundy liked drinking alcohol before some of his slayings. Not every serial killer has a signature routine, but some of them do engage in some sort of ritual or preparation before a killing.

Doctors who murder are a rare breed, but perhaps because their entire mission is to do no harm, they are among the most chilling kind of killers. Texas surgeon Dr. Christopher Duntsch is one such physician who violated his oath so profoundly by intentionally botching surgeries that he became known as 'Dr. Death.'

The life of a crime-scene investigator is far different from the way it's portrayed in crime dramas. We clear up the biggest misconceptions.

To find out how one might escape a captor, A&E spoke with Lt. Chris Zimmerman.

Beatrice Yorker, an expert in serial killings in health arenas, tells us how killers in medical professions often get away with the crime.

From Green River Killer, Gary Leon Ridgway to Ted Bundy to Harold Shipman and more, experts on serial killers tell A&E True Crime who was the 'worst' serial killer and why.

Journalist Robert Rand speaks with A&E about what really spurred the Menendez murders, Erik and Lyle's reunion behind bars and why he thinks they should be released from prison.

Tom Stankiewicz, commander of the Erie bomb squad who responded to the 2003 'Pizza Bomber' case, tells us how bomb squads operate and what new tools his team started carrying after the Brian Wells case.

True-crime author Harold Schechter, author of 'Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men,' on what made serial killer Belle Gunness unique and if she tricked everyone into believing she died.

Serial killers often live fairly ordinary lives with normal employment, enabling them to blend in with colleagues. Their legitimate jobs also offer them one more key perk: an opportunity to help carry out or conceal their crimes, according to experts.

Thomas Hargrove of the Murder Accountability Project talks about the 2,000 or so serial killers he believes are prowling U.S. streets now.