true crime

On the morning of 19 April 1995, a yellow Ryder rental truck pulled up outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Moments later, a blast tore through the heart of the structure, killing 168 people—including 19 children in a day-care centre—and injuring hundreds more. In the hours that followed, authorities believed it might've have been foreign terrorists. But the truth would shock the nation: the ... View more

On a warm autumn afternoon in April 1996, visitors wandered through the historic site of Port Arthur in Tasmania, soaking up the scenery and history of the old penal colony. Families, tourists, and locals alike moved between the ruins and the Broad Arrow Café, unaware that within the hour, Australia would be changed forever. The Port Arthur massacre, as it would come to be known, remains the deadliest shooting in ... View more

There are few scenarios more terrifying than being buried alive, it’s the stuff of nightmares, horror films and gothic fiction. But in December 1968, for one young woman from Florida, that fear became a gruelling and all-too-real experience. Barbara Jane Mackle, a 20-year-old university student and heiress to a multimillion-dollar fortune, was kidnapped at gunpoint and left in a purpose-built box beneath the Georgia soil. ... View more

Few names evoke as much dread in modern Iraqi history as that of Uday Hussein. Born into privilege as the eldest son of Saddam Hussein, Uday could have led a life of diplomacy or governance. Instead, he chose a path of unchecked brutality, making even his father’s brutal regime appear, by comparison, coldly pragmatic rather than maniacally sadistic. For Iraqis, the name Uday came to symbolise more than corruption or power—it ... View more

In 1969, a North Carolina home went up in flames. Inside, Thomas Burke, husband to Velma Barfield, was found dead. At first, no one suspected a thing. But this incident marked the beginning of a deadly pattern. Over the next nine years, friends, family members, and employers of Velma Barfield would die under suspiciously similar circumstances. Velma Barfield would become the first woman in the United States to be ... View more