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Five young women played a key role in Manson's cult.
The leader was sentenced to life behind bars in 2011.
The 'Long Island Lolita' left prison in 1999.
Robert A. Jensen speaks with A&E about the impact of reuniting families with personal items.
The Richland County Sheriff's Department senior deputy and law-enforcement vet spoke on how technology makes his job safer and more fun.
We spoke to Zeman about the findings that made him, along with investigative journalist Maury Terry, question the official account that serial killer David Berkowitz acted on his own.
Paul Holes, a forensic scientist who helped catch the Golden State Killer, talks about the life of a homicide investigator.
True crime writer Billy Jensen empowers readers to become citizen detectives, using social-media resources to identify uncaught criminals.
In three decades as an undercover operative for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Vincent A. Cefalu risked his life investigating groups from outlaw motorcycle gangs to the Ku Klux Klan. Cefalu spoke with us about the undercover moments that frightened him most.
On A&E's *Court Cam*, surveillance cameras captured some extraordinary moments. As viewers await Season 2, here's a glimpse at 10 startling courtroom moments from some of the nation's most riveting high-profile cases.
In three decades as a forensic psychologist, Dr. Kris Mohandie has met one-on-one with some of the most violent men ever to grab headlines: Joseph Paul Franklin, Herb Mullin, Willie Woods and others. He talks to us about whether violent criminals are born or made.
Could a strapping prep school athlete have been so afraid for his life that he strangled his sex partner as an act of self-defense during a late-night tryst? That was the question posed to jurors the winter of 1988 during the 'Preppy Killer' murder trial in New York City.
Christopher Bernard Wilder became known as 'The Beauty Queen Killer' during a frenzied 1984 spree, where he criss-crossed the U.S., luring young women into his fancy cars and dangling the promise of work as a model, if they would just allow him to take their photographs. Some took the bait. Others, he took by force.
The chief suspect—her estranged husband—took his own life.
Dr. Michael McCart on what a crime victim can do to get help later.
Mafia 'freelance contractor' and actor Gianni Russo spoke to A&E True Crime about his polio-afflicted childhood in the Little Italy section of New York City to friendships and feuds with legendary mob figures like Frank Costello and John Gotti.
California serial killer Michael Gargiulo was convicted of murdering two women and attempting to murder a third. What was his life like before he turned to killing and how did he find his victims?
Marie G. Broder, D.A. for Griffin Judicial Circuit in Georgia, talks about the 1983 racially motivated murder of Timothy Coggins, and how 34 years later, she led the prosecution against his killers.
The serial killer brought fear to the University of Florida and surrounding area after murdering five young women over the course of three days in 1990.
Ron Franscell, author of 'ShadowMan,' speaks with us about the first case in which the profiling technique, often used by the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit, successfully apprehended a suspect.
Richard Rogers preyed on gay men he met in bars and clubs, dismembering them and leaving body parts in trash bags strewn alongside roads in three states.
In a murder that shocked New York City in December 2010, Sylvie Cachay, a rising swimwear designer, was murdered at a members-only club by her unemployed boyfriend.
John Glatt, author of 'The Family Next Door,' spoke with us about how the Turpin children are doing now, whether Louise's history of abuse repeated itself with her own children and how the torture was allowed to go on for so long.
A notorious Boston mob boss serving a life sentence for his part in 11 slayings, James 'Whitey' Bulger, 89, was ailing and confined to a wheelchair on October 30, 2018, when he was slain at the U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton. But the details around his death remain murky.