Family Violence & Homicide

Despite overwhelming evidence of guilt, Simpson was acquitted following the longest and most televised criminal trial in United States legal history.

Steve Vogel gives an interview on his book Reasonable Doubt, a true crime classic digging deep into the case of a mother and three young children brutally murdered in their beds, and a father and husband accused of being their...

Did Melanie McGuire kill her husband in New Jersey in April 2004? An interview with Criminologist and Direct Appeal co-host Dr. Amy Shlosberg.

An in-depth look at familicide and family annihilators through the use of case studies, exploring the psychology, characteristics, possible trigger factors and profiles of individuals who decide to take the lives of multiple members of their own family.

At 16 years old Sarah Johnson murdered both her parents in a shocking case of parricide in Idaho in 2003. Although she has always protested her innocence, she remains behind bars with no chance of release on the horizon.

In the concluding part of the series, witness testimony and the decisions not to let the jury hear their evidence is examined during MacDonald's 1979 trial.

A closer look at the complex evidence in the 1979 murder trial of Green Beret Captain Jeffrey MacDonald in the second of a 3-part series on the case.

In the first of a 3-part series, Australian true crime writer Stephen Karadjis discusses the case of Green Beret Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, who was given three consecutive life sentences in 1979 for the murder of his family, but is he...

The role of first-love and powerful emotions in adolescent female parricide including the cases of Jasmine Richardson, Erin Caffey, Kim Edwards and Sarah Johnson.

When multiple wives suddenly die in mysterious accidents it is often not until the second death occurs that police begin digging a bit deeper.

While love can be a wonderful thing, it is a powerful emotion and one that can prove deadly. In October 2016, Stuart Gallear stabbed his wife to death after discovering she was having an affair with a man he considered...

The judge in Casey Anthony's murder trial from 2011 suggests she killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee by accident using chloroform trying to keep her quiet.