Historical Crimes on Crime+Investigation

The Black Dahlia murder

With only a pile of bones, crudely wrapped in an offcut of carpet, detectives had to utilise the individual skill of multiple forensic experts, to find the killer of a 15 year old girl

On the 12th February 1993 two year old James Bulger was at the New Strand Shopping Centre, Liverpool, Merseyside, with his mother, Denise Bulger

Last week on Robbie Coltrane’s Critical Evidence Sundays 10pm, we saw how modern policing was utilised to solve an almost “perfect” murder

Flamboyant kingpin Al Capone, whose name has always been linked with the most notorious gangland crime of all time: the St Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929.

When former DCI Peter Brock first arrived at the Backhouse farm, little could have prepared him for the events that would unfurl over the coming weeks.

A series of horrific murders, remaining unsolved for over 30 years

Police arrogance or just sheer incompetence?

How do you solve a murder with no body ever being found?

The serial killer known as the Golden State Killer and East Area Rapist might finally have been arrested.

The forensic staple, which we now take for granted has a long and interesting story

Everything about Murdertown S1: Episodes

It was the crime spree that sent Hollywood into a spin of acute paranoia and terror in the late 60s.

The retired LAPD officer who's convinced his father is the Black Dahlia killer

Two killers who used the dark as cover for their crimes

The jobs you’re about to read about here were no piffling shoplifting trips or low yield house break-ins. We’re talking about tens of millions of pounds worth of diamonds, gold bars, bearer bonds and bags stuffed with used bank notes being stolen

The rare bond of two psyches stimulating and encouraging each other to rape and murder

The biggest unsolved serial murder case in British police history

Everything about Greenock: Crime Profile

Everything about Bristol: crime profile

While David Harker is perhaps the most depraved murderer ever to emerge from Darlington, there’s a grotesque runner-up in the shape of Peter Chapman

Everything about Ipswich: crime profile

A serial sex killer, a Ripper connection and a famous miscarriage of justice

From Tia Sharp to Sally Anne Bowman, Croydon has been the location of some high-profile murder cases

From killers high on crack to a faked kidnapping and bank robbery, this Warwickshire town has a dark history

The axe murderers of two teenage girls on the banks of the Thames by idyllic Teddington in 1953

Enter our book competition to win two hardback copies by acclaimed true crime writer Sinclair Mckay

Setting aside the ubiquitous anti-icon that Bundy has been made into, other stories deserve to be remembered, the stories of the women who fell prey to him and survived. 

Suicide In Soho or a mystery murder?

We may never know what became of three-year-old Madeleine but certain competing theories have persisted over the years.

Two decades later Sarah Payne’s case has left a lasting legacy and influenced the way police and the media approach cases involving children.

Blue light flasher atop of a police car. City lights on the background.

Few serial killer couples evoke as much repulsion and horror as Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

What was it like growing up in Yorkshire during Peter Sutcliffe's reign of terror?

It is now more than a decade since the murder of Jo Yeates – a case which shocked and gripped the whole country throughout 2010

When Steven naively climbed into a man’s car he never could have imagined he wouldn't return home for 7 years