An exploration into the heart of America's most enduring criminal mystery, the Villisca Axe Murders of 1912, diving into a chilling narrative straight out of a horror film, yet tragically real.

Paradox being a defining feature of the Victorian age, it was a period of unprecedented progress and unimaginable horror

Ahmad Suradji was an Indonesian serial killer who was responsible for the murders of at least 42 women between 1986 and 1997.

Andrei Chikatilo murdered, raped and tortured over fifty known victims. And may have hurt many more before he was finally caught. Moving around a lot, he was able to evade capture for decades.

Elizabeth Berry has the odd distinctions of being the first woman to be hanged at Walton Prison in Liverpool and the only woman to be hanged by a man with the same surname as herself.

Mass Child Abduction in 1976 in California

This all-female, the real Peaky Blinders, gang tormented London at the beginning of the 20th century.

Dr. William Chester Minor's life is stranger than fiction. That an American surgeon came to be one of the largest contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is surprising.

Death by boiling stands apart from other methods of execution

What happened to the offspring of some of the evilest people in history?

Originally touted as a humane execution, the guillotine used to kill thousands