Hilary Shenfeld is a Chicago-based freelance journalist who has written for A&E Real Crime, People magazine, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune and more.
To find out how one might escape a captor, A&E True Crime spoke with Lt. Chris Zimmerman, commander of the New York Police Department's Hostage-Negotiation Team.
There were three homicides or suspicious deaths on cruise lines operating in U.S. ports in 2017. And authorities have also reported over a hundred other crimes, including sexual assaults and kidnappings. But some advocates say even more crimes are taking place aboard.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Working as a real-life crime-scene investigator is far different from the way it's often portrayed in crime dramas. A&E True Crime clears up some of the biggest misconceptions about being a CSI, according to actual crime-scene experts.
