PEOPLE True Crime #2
True Crime: 50 Years of True Crime Stories • GRIPPING TALES OF MURDER, SURVIVAL & JUSTICE • EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS & UPDATES
50 Years of Mayhem • MURDERS, SCANDALS, TRIALS: THE BEST OF PEOPLE’S HALF CENTURY ON THE CRIME BEAT
Son of Sam Stalks N.Y.C. • ‘I LOVE MY WORK,’ WROTE THE SHADOWY MURDERER, THEN KNOWN AS ‘THE .44-CALIBER KILLER,’ AS HE TERRORIZED THE CITY AND DARED POLICE TO TRACK HIM DOWN
Ted Bundy’s Bloody Trail • THE ONETIME LAW STUDENT AND REPUBLICAN STAFFER WAS A HANDSOME CHARMER—AND ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST SAVAGELY PROLIFIC SERIAL KILLERS
Atlanta Child Murders • WHEN BLACK CHILDREN STARTED GOING MISSING IN 1979, THE CITY WAS WOEFULLY UNRESPONSIVE. A GROUP OF MOTHERS LED BY CAMILLE BELL REFUSED TO LET THEIR KIDS BE FORGOTTEN
Von Bülow on Trial • A DASHING SOCIALITE FACED CHARGES OF ATTEMPTING TO MURDER HIS AILING HEIRESS WIFE
Patty Hearst Talks! • AFTER DOMESTIC TERRORISTS KIDNAPPED HER, THE HEIRESS JOINED HER ABDUCTORS AND WOUND UP IN PRISON. ONCE FREE, SHE SPOKE ABOUT REBUILDING HER LIFE
A Killing in Central Park • ROBERT CHAMBERS ADMITTEDLY CHOKED JENNIFER LEVIN TO DEATH BUT THANKS TO A PLEA BARGAIN—AND HIS LAWYERS’ DISPLAY OF VICTIM-SHAMING—DODGED A MURDER RAP
Why Did They Kill Their Parents? • THE BLOODY ASSASSINATIONS OF JOSE AND KITTY MENENDEZ IN THEIR OWN HOME GRIPPED THE NATION—ESPECIALLY WHEN THEIR SONS LYLE AND ERIK BECAME THE PRIME SUSPECTS
Highway to Hell • AILEEN WUORNOS WAS CAUGHT AFTER A FLORIDA MURDER SPREE THAT CLAIMED THE LIVES OF SEVEN MEN WHO HAD PICKED HER UP FOR SEX
Long Island Tragedy • AT 17, AMY FISHER MADE NATIONAL NEWS WHEN SHE SHOT MARY JO BUTTAFUOCO IN THE FACE. MARY JO SURVIVED AND STOOD BY HER HUSBAND, JOEY BUTTAFUOCO, WHO LATER DID TIME FOR SEX WITH A MINOR
A Hero’s Hidden Side • EVEN BEFORE HIS ‘TRIAL OF THE CENTURY,’ THE ARREST OF O.J. SIMPSON IN THE MURDERS OF HIS EX-WIFE AND HER FRIEND FORCED A PUBLIC RECKONING WITH THE SPORTS STAR’S HISTORY OF DOMESTIC ABUSE
Who Killed Jonbenét? • WHEN 6-YEAR-OLD BEAUTY QUEEN JONBENÉT RAMSEY WAS FOUND BRUTALLY MURDERED AT HOME, POLICE FOCUSED FIRST ON HER FAMILY—BUT THE CONFOUNDING CRIME REMAINS UNSOLVED
The Murder of Tupac • ALMOST THREE DECADES AGO, RAP ICON TUPAC SHAKUR WAS GUNNED DOWN IN LAS VEGAS. HIS KILLING REMAINED A MYSTERY—BUT NOW, AT LAST, THERE MAY BE A BREAK IN THE CASE.
Elizabeth Smart Comes Home • PEOPLE EXCLUSIVE: THE FAMILY OF THE TEEN KIDNAPPING VICTIM CELEBRATED HER RETURN AFTER NINE MONTHS: ‘WE ALWAYS BELIEVED THE MIRACLE WAS VERY POSSIBLE’
American Monster • THE NATION GRIEVED FOR LACI PETERSON, MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD WHILE PREGNANT WITH A SON. HER HUSBAND, SCOTT PETERSON, WAS CHARGED WITH THE UNSPEAKABLY BRUTAL CRIME
In Cold Blood • ACTOR ROBERT BLAKE GAINED FAME AS A SCREEN TOUGH GUY—BUT MADE HIS BIGGEST HEADLINES WHEN HE WAS ACCUSED OF WIFE BONNY BAKLEY’S MURDER
The BTK Murders • CHURCH COUNCIL MEMBER AND BOY SCOUT LEADER DENNIS RADER KILLED AT LEAST 10 PEOPLE—WHILE HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT FOR DECADES
Did a Killer Mom Go Free? • ACCUSED OF ENDING HER 2-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER’S LIFE, CASEY ANTHONY WAS VILLAINIZED ACROSS THE NATION. BUT PUBLIC SENTIMENT WASN’T ENOUGH TO CONVICT HER IN A COURT OF LAW
The Killing of Trayvon Martin • HE WAS A 17-YEAR-OLD KID CARRYING A BAG OF SKITTLES. WHEN GEORGE ZIMMERMAN FATALLY SHOT HIM—AND CLAIMED SELF-DEFENSE—IT SPARKED THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT
Southern Gothic • IN A PLOT WORTHY OF WILLIAM FAULKNER, POWERFUL SOUTH CAROLINA ATTORNEY ALEX MURDAUGH MURDERED HIS WIFE AND SON AND COMMITTED UNTOLD OTHER CRIMES
The Mother Who Never Gave Up • HER DAUGHTER NATALEE VANISHED ON A 2005 GRADUATION TRIP TO ARUBA. FOR 18 YEARS BETH HOLLOWAY SEARCHED FOR...