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What Explains the Decline of Serial Killers?
Since a dramatic peak in the 1980s, serial killers in the U.S. have been in decline for three decades. Experts have a few theories that can help explain why.
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Kobe Bryant Law Signed By CA Gov, Bans First Responders from Taking Death Pics
The governor of California has signed a new "Kobe Bryant Law" -- which makes it a crime for first responders to take unauthorized pictures of a dead person at an accident scene.
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Serial Cleaners is a '90s set sequel that has you mopping up crime scenes once more
Making its world premiere at the Future Games Show, Serial Cleaner enters the era of Pulp Fiction with a bucket, mop, and vacuum
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Ark. Woman Befriended Mom's Killer Out of 'Spiritual Obligation' — and then He Murdered Her
Big-hearted, gregarious and always up for an adventure, Martha McKay surrounded herself with friends. “There was something about her that people really loved,” her sister Katie Hutton tells PEOPLE. “She left an impression on people. She had that gift.” McKay’s family and friends were devastated when she was killed on March 25, 2020, at Snowden House, the historic antebellum-style home on Horseshoe Lake, Arkansas, she bought from her family in 2004, restored and reopened as a luxury bed-and-breakfast.
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Frank Abagnale on the death of the con artist and the rise of cybercrime
WIRED talks to Frank Abagnale – a former conman and the subject of 2002 movie Catch Me If You Can – about fraud, cybercrime and security
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Rich robbers: why do wealthy people shoplift?
Evidence suggests the rich actually do steal more than the poor – and shoplifting is only ‘the first layer of the onion’
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The Messy Consequences of the Golden State Killer Case
Tools meant to reunite families are now being “used essentially to get families to put their members in jail.”
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Modern Life Has Made It Easier for Serial Killers to Thrive
They get away with their crimes about 40 percent of the time.
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Study Sheds Light on How the Justice System Can Affect Physical, Mental Health
New research finds that being convicted of a crime is associated with a decline in health, even if there’s no jail time.
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Disappointed Love and Dangerous Temptations: Textile Factories and True Crime
True crime–based accounts in mid-nineteenth-century “sensational fiction”...exposed the dangers of the big, bad city for country girls turned cash-earning urban workers. But what these cautionary tales truly exposed was a cultural uncertainty about women in the workforce.
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Victims are often criminals, and that is a paradox American policing can’t solve
Police cannot truly safeguard the same people at whom they regularly point their guns.
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Cops Are Offering Ring Doorbell Cameras in Exchange for Info
Amazon-owned Ring has cozied up to law enforcement, and critics say it's using police departments to help market its surveillance cameras.
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Why Lie Detector Tests Can't Be Trusted
Federal agencies embraced the polygraph in the 1950s to reassure the public that they could unmask spies
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How Norway turns criminals into good neighbours
Twenty years ago, Norway started focusing on rehabilitating prisoners, and sharply cut reoffending rates.
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Think twice before giving results of your home DNA kit to the police
Users of FamilyTreeDNA might be surprised to learn the company permits the FBI to search for matches without a warrant.
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This psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit
At 16, Huwe Burton confessed to killing his mother. He was still in shock from discovering her body when New York City police began to interrogate him. After hours of being threatened and cajoled, he told the police what they wanted to hear. He soon recanted, knowing he was innocent and hoping the justice system would clear him.
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Police turn to private doorbell cameras to help catch criminals
Authorities in Iowa are asking residents to register their cameras so police can quickly request footage if an incident occurs nearby.
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Terrifying AI matches DNA to facial recognition databases
"In practice, we don't usually get any further than a sort of reference face, such as 'a European male.' That's not much use to a forensic investigator."
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He spent 15 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Now he's on a mission to help others.
After he was fully exonerated, Richard Miles used some of the money he received after his wrongful conviction to help others transition to life outside prison.
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Study suggests imprisonment does not deter future crime
A team of researchers from the University of California, the University of Michigan, Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research, the State University of New York and the University of Colorado School of Medicine has found evidence that incarcerating people who commit serious crimes does not prevent them from committing more crimes once they are released. In their paper published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, the researchers describe a study they conducted using statistics from people incarcerated in Michigan prisons for committing violent crimes, and what they found.
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