Crime Spotlight

A recent Gallup survey suggests that about one in four Americans believe some humans can manifest supernatural psychic powers.

Films like Joker invite us to question the line between reality and fiction. Do such films reflect social conditions or do they, in the end, help create them?

According to the FBI, online conspiracy theorist groups are contributing to the recent rise of domestic terrorism and violence.

Some researchers have suggested that serial murder could, in fact, be a result of an addiction to killing, with similarities to behaviors seen in substance addiction.

Healthcare professionals are trained to heal but for some, termed medical serial killers, this can lead to a deadly game of multiple murder.

A look at the decline of lethal injection and stampede towards nitrogen gas for US prisoner executions, asking how much is actually known about this method?

Imagine waking to discover you have killed someone while sound asleep?  In these cases of alleged sleepwalking murder, that is exactly what happened.

Found guilty of manslaughter Michelle Carter encouraged Conrad Roy III to commit suicide via text messages. What are the implications of her guilty verdict?

Facebook has a dark side. A side where it is used to share details of crimes, impersonate someone else for sinister intentions, stalk a victim, bully a victim and in some cases murder a victim.

From true crime and wrongful convictions to criminal psychology and investigative reporting, here are 45 of the best crime blogs and websites on the internet today.

Should addiction be a mitigating factor that lessens the responsibility for crime? And should the issue of whether or not addiction is a disease make any difference to that judgement?

These are crimes which are most often picked up by the media due to their shock-factor and have everyone wondering just what makes a child kill.