Harry Bosch, Michael Connelly’s fictional LAPD detective. On Oct. 30, 1966, an 18-year-old high school classmate of mine, ...

The gritty, dark film that can't be contained in a single genre is probably David Fincher's best film, and has seen somewhat ...

Leonard Nash, 71, was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison after a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder in the ...

Killer in the Code’ shares the story of citizen sleuth Alex Baber’s investigation to a pair of notorious cases, and the ...

The crime genre operates as a guilty pleasure but also as a cultural symptom, revealing the conditions that make such stories feel necessary and persistently resonant.

They are two of the longest unsolved crimes in American history, inspiring countless theories, books and films. The Zodiac Killer was linked to five murders in the late 1960s; the 1947 Black Dahlia ...

An amateur sleuth and self-taught cryptography expert is convinced he’s cracked the notorious unsolved Zodiac and Black Dahlia murders — and that the killer is the same man. Alex Baber — a 50-year-old ...

A self-taught code-breaker says he has identified a single suspect that he believes was behind two of the country’s most infamous unsolved crimes. Alex Baber, who runs a firm called Cold Case ...

Between 1968 and 1969, the Zodiac killer terrorized northern California, murdering at least five victims while claiming to have slaughtered dozens more. The phantom taunted the media and police with ...

When police questioned Marvin Margolis following the murder of Elizabeth Short — who became known as the Black Dahlia — he lied about how well he had known her. The 22-year-old Short had been found ...