Gary Heidnick's crimes helped inspire Buffalo Bill's character in 'Silence of the Lambs.' We spoke with the killer and self-described pastor's defense lawyer, Charles Peruto, Jr., about what it was like representing one of Philadelphia's most infamous criminals.

Lisa McVey was 17 years old when she was abducted, beaten and raped by a serial killer—and managed to survive. We spoke with McVey, now a master deputy in the Hillsborough County (Florida) Sheriff's Office, about how she outsmarted her kidnapper, Bobby Joe Long.

Inconsistencies in a victim's story can often lead to skepticism. A&E True Crime spoke with leading trauma psychologist Dr. Rebecca Bailey about why asking victims to recount information under stress is problematic.

Parents might not report their missing child for a myriad of reasons: because they are the perpetrator in a crime against the child, immigration concerns and more.

Missing since May 2019, investigators fear that answers to their pressing mystery—what happened to Jennifer Dulos?—were lost with the death of their chief suspect, her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos.

For seven years, 20-year-old Colleen Stan was held captive and locked in a small, coffin-like box under Cameron and Janice Hooker's bed. What came next was a misery of unspeakable depth and duration.

Angeline Hartmann of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and A&E's "Live Rescue" on the role the internet plays in facilitating child abduction.

In the early 1980s, Johnny Gosch and Eugene Martin, two paperboys from Des Moines, Iowa, played a critical part in helping shape the era of missing and abducted children—from the Missing Children Milk Carton Program to the formation of the NCMEC and more.

Sex trafficking is big business. Globally, it generates tens of billions of dollars in profit every year. Here in the United States, it ensnares hundreds of thousands of victims. And while the stereotypical image of a trafficking victim is a foreign national, many of the exploited are underage American girls.

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.