Crime Stories

A string of disappearances in Rockhampton, Queensland left police searching for a killer they couldn't identify, until the murder of a 9-year-old girl on her way home from school blew the case wide open. Ex-con Leonard Fraser was arrested and convicted for her murder, but without evidence to connect him to the other disappearances detectives were forced to rely on one of his fellow inmates to get

Police in Pasadena, Texas received a phone call from a young man who had just committed murder. He claimed that his victim, Dean Corll, was going to kill him, just like he had done to so many others. Over the next 3 days, police uncovered the bodies of 27 boys who had all mysteriously disappeared and discovered the shocking truth that Corll's killer was also his accomplice.

Police in Vero Beach, Florida received a report of a nude man firing shots at a naked girl on a residential street. When they arrived on the scene, officers found the body of a 17-year-old girl hidden in the trunk of a car. David Alan Gore surrendered to police and confessed to five other murders, also implicating his cousin Fred Waterfield in the crimes.

In 1985, a brutal killer had Southern Californians fearing for their lives. Richard Ramirez, known as "The Night Stalker", entered homes in the dead of night to terrorize the people inside. After six months and 14 murders, Ramirez was chased and beaten by a gang of citizens and finally arrested for his horrendous crimes.

During a time when immigration to Sweden was growing, feelings of racism were also on the rise. On August 2, 1991, one man began to act by shooting young immigrants on the streets of Stockholm. His weapon of choice, a laser-guided rifle, would earn him the nickname "The Laser Man".

The tourist hotspot of New South Wales, Australia becomes a place of fear when over the course of a year, the bodies of seven missing backpackers were found in Belanglo State Forest, 150 km from Sydney. After an intense police investigation, local construction worker Ivan Milat was found guilty of these crimes.