“Man, do I have stories to tell,” James Patterson writes in his new autobiography, “James Patterson” (Little, Brown). The best-selling author does serve up stories, lots of them; the book is a grab ...

Serial killer Saffy Huntley-Oliver’s life is going great. She’s got a fabulous new boyfriend, Jonathan, she’s got away with murder (lots of murders, in fact) and now she’s no longer single, she can ...

This database originally covered cases from 1982 to 2012 and has since been updated and expanded numerous times. For analysis and context on this data—including how we built the database, and a change ...

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