True Crime
CASE STUDIES, GENERAL
Crime Magazine
http://www.crimemagazine.com/
Crime Magazine is about true crime: organized crime, celebrity crime, serial killers, corruption, sex crimes, capital punishment, prisons, assassinations, justice issues, crime books, crime films and crime studies.
COLD CASES
Cold Cases Investigations Discussion Forum
http://officialcoldcaseinvestigations.com
This website is an online forum for discussions about cold cases.
Cold Case Squads Around the Country
http://www.echonyc.com/~horn/restless/ccslist.html
Links and postal and e-mail addresses for law enforcement cold case squads in the U.S., as well as a few volunteer groups.
Cold Case Toolkit
http://www.ncstl.org/education/Cold%20Case%20Toolkit
Lots of links to cold case-related organizations, including NIJ/DOJ Resources, state resources and a Word document with web sites of police departments that solicit cold cases, training opportunities, victim assistance and prevention resources, and general links.
Doe Network
http://www.doenetwork.org/
The Doe Network is a volunteer organization devoted to assisting Law Enforcement in solving cold cases concerning Unexplained Disappearances and Unidentified Victims from North America, Australia and Europe. They also cooperate with Project EDAN (Everyone Deserves A Name), a group of volunteer forensic artists donating time and skills to create reconstructions and age-progressions of the Missing and Unidentified. The artists' work is offered to law enforcement agencies and featured on the Web site.
DNA.Gov
http://www.dna.gov/uses/solving-crimes/cold_cases/
Lots of helpful information using DNA to solve cold cases and details about CODIS, the computer software program that operates local, state, and national databases of DNA profiles from convicted offenders, unsolved crime scene evidence, and missing persons.
How Cold Case Squads Work
http://www.ncjrs.gov/html/bja/coldcasesquads/bja2.html
A nice overview of cold case squads
Implementing a Cold Case Homicide Unit
http://leb.fbi.gov/2005-pdfs/leb-february-2005
An FBI article which gives an overview of the difficulties and budget restraints involved in setting up a cold case unit. Includes a brief checklist form titled “Criteria for Opening Cold Case Homicides.”
Missing Pieces Radio Program
http://www.missingpieces.info
Missing Pieces is a one-hour weekly radio program “designed to raise public awareness and encourage communications of information between people who can help locate or identify individuals in cases that have been classified as Unsolved, Missing, Murdered & Unidentified."
National Institute of Justice
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/194197.htm
This web site has a report in PDF or ASCII formats from 2002 about using DNA to solve cold cases. It’s a decent overview of the subject.
Resurrecting Cold Case Serial Homicide Investigations
http://leb.fbi.gov/2005-pdfs/leb-august-2005
This PDF article introduces the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) and how it can help local and state agencies solve cold cases.
Unresolved Homicides
http://www.unresolvedhomicides.org
The web site of the organization Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons, Inc.
Unsolved Mysteries
http://www.unsolved.com
The web site for the long-running U.S. television show hosted by Robert Stack. The site includes cases from the show.
Using DNA to Solve Cold Cases
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/194197.pdf
A PDF document from the U.S. Department of Justice
Vidocq Society
http://vidocq.org/
The Vidocq Society is an unusual crime-fighting group of forensic professionals and citizens who apply their collective forensic skills and experience to "cold case" homicides and unsolved deaths. Although the web site doesn’t include current cases they’re working on, it does have a listing of news articles about the society which detail a few success stories, and includes web sites for some of its forensic members.
Yahoo Cold Case Forum
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/coldcases
This discussion forum is dedicated to persons investigating or researching unsolved missing, murdered or unidentified cases from the past.
CRIME AND POPULAR CULTURE
Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/jcjpc_home.html
The online files of the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, with topics such as “A Descriptive Analysis of Police Corruption in Film” and nonfiction book reviews.
CRIME NEWS
Crime and Punishment
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4327893/
MSNBC’s site of crime news.
Crime in America
http://www.crimeinamerica.net/
Crime news, statistics, and research
Crime Scene USA
http://crimesceneusa.blogspot.com/
Officer.com
http://www.officer.com/
Daily crime news from around the U.S
Pulp News
http://pulpnews.com/
They really don’t make this stuff up, although it’s hard to believe.
MOST WANTED
Active Most Wanted
http://activemostwanted.com/
This is a compendium of sites all over the Internet where assistance is being sought in solving crimes or locating fugitives.
America’s Most Wanted
http://www.amw.com/
The site for the TV show by the same name, which has helped catch over 950 fugitives to date.
ATF Most Wanted
http://www.atf.treas.gov/wanted/index.htm
From the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agency
Cyber Criminals Most Wanted
http://www.ccmostwanted.com/
News and listings from the U.S. and around the world
DEA Most Wanted
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/fugitives/fuglist.htm
The top listings from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Environmental Protection Agency Most Wanted
http://www2.epa.gov/enforcement/epa-fugitives
FBI’s Most Wanted Criminals
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted.htm
FBI’s Most Wanted Stolen Artworks
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/arttheft/arttheft.htm
A description of the art crime team, the national stolen art file, the Top Ten Art Crimes, and the latest news about thefts
Interpol
http://www.interpol.int/Public/Wanted/Default.asp
Fugitives wanted by national jurisdictions and the International Criminal Court
The Missing and the Wanted Pages
http://www.pimall.com/nais/links-wanted.html
A listing of links from PI Mall
NCIS Most Wanted
http://www.ncis.navy.mil/ContactUs/Pages/WantedFugitives.aspx
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service listing
Unsolved Mysteries
http://unsolved.com/wanted.html
Wanted fugitives and cold case files from the TV show of the same name
U.S. Customs and Immigration Most Wanted
http://www.ice.gov/most-wanted/hsi.htm
U.S. Marshals
http://www.usmarshals.gov/investigations/index.html
Their 15 most-wanted criminals
U.S. Most Wanted Criminals
http://www.fugitivehunter.org/usmostwanted.html
Has a database by state and county of criminals wanted in each jurisdiction
U.S. Secret Service Most Wanted
http://www.secretservice.gov/mostwanted.shtml
World’s Most Wanted
http://www.mostwanted.org/
In addition to U.S. listings, there are most wanted postings from various law enforcement agencies around the world.
World’s Most Wanted Art
http://www.saztv.com/page103.html
A comprehensive guide to art crime information and directory of stolen art web-sites
SERIAL KILLERS, SPREE KILLERS & MASS MURDERERS
Crime Library
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/index.html
Profiles of famous serial killer cases
Criminal Cases: Serial Killers
http://www.lacriminaldefensepartners.com/serial-killers/#.U3_YySjb5Kk
An overview of some of the most notorious.
Death and Dementia
http://www.deathndementia.com/category/crime.html
Lots of links to sites about famous serial killers and crime-related information
Internet Crime Archives
http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/archives.html
If you can get past the annoying design of this site, there is a lot of information on various serial killers and mass murderers, including recent news and headline makers
Serial Killers and Mass Murderers
http://crime.about.com/od/serial/Serial_Killers_and_Mass_Murderers.htm
STATISTICS ON CRIME
Bureau of Justice Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
Statistics about crime and victims, criminal offenders, special topics, law enforcement, courts and sentencing, corrections, and more
FBI Uniform Crime Reports
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
Includes reports on overall crime in the U.S., hate crime statistics, and aw enforcement officers killed and assaulted.
MADD Online: Statistics
http://www.madd.org/statistics/
Statistics on drunk driving cases, with information on minimum drinking age laws
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/
The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States, displayed in over 1,000 tables.
Statistical Resources on the Web
http://guides.lib.umich.edu/content.php?pid=95628
Links and more links
Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web
http://www.bls.gov/bls/other.htm
Links to government statistical sites from countries around the world
Transaction Records Access Clearinghouse
http://www.trac.syr.edu/
Independent, nonpartisan information about federal enforcement, staffing, and spending
TRUE CRIME
About.com: Crime and Punishment
http://crime.about.com/
Includes articles on current and past high-profile cases
Alcatraz Island
http://www.nps.gov/alcatraz/
Includes the history and culture of this famous prison, now a park operated by the National Park Service
Arrested.com
http://www.arrested.com/
Links to crime news, arrest records, mug shots
Corrections Connection
http://www.corrections.com/
News from the world of corrections, and a host of links
Crime Case Files
http://www.crimecasefiles.com/
Highlighting crimes that need public attention.
Crime, Law, and Justice
http://www.karisable.com/crime.htm
Overviews of various types of crime with links and recent cases
Crime Library
http://www.crimelibrary.com/
Crime stories on serial killers, the mafia, terrorists, spies, assassins, and gangsters
Crime Magazine
http://www.crimemagazine.com/
Articles on high-profile cases
CrimeNews 2000
http://www.crimenews2000.com/
Despite the name, this site contains up-to-date cases making the news
Famous Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
Prof. Doug Linder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School has put together information about famous trials in history from the trial of Socrates in 399 B.C. to the O.J. Simpson trial in 1995.
Homicide In Chicago 1870-1930
http://homicide.northwestern.edu/
The Chicago Police Department Homicide Record Index – chronicling 11,000 homicides in the city during those years.
Murderpedia
http://murderpedia.org/
The “encyclopedia of murderers.”
Officer.com
http://www.officer.com/
Includes the latest law enforcement news, among many other features
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
A searchable online database containing 101,102 trials, from April 1674 to October 1834
The Smoking Gun
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/
Large collection of public documents on crimes, celebrities, politicians, and the FBI.
Stalking Victims Sanctuary
http://www.stalkingvictims.com/
Although obviously geared toward victims of stalking, there is information on what to do if being stalked, steps to take, and other aspects of stalking.
Studies in Scarlet: Marriage & Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K., 1815-1914
https://libraries.ucsd.edu/info/resources/studies-scarlet-marriage-and-sexuality-us-uk-1815-1914
Studies in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections. Included are a number of trials of the wealthy and renowned such as an account of the adultery trial of Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, the sodomy trial of Oscar Wilde, and the trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford White, the famous architect who was Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's lover. The larger part of the collection, however, consists of the stories of ordinary men and women thrust into the public eye when their marriages and love affairs went wrong or their relationships did not conform to social standards.
Top 10 Evil Women and More Evil Women
http://listverse.com/crime/top-10-most-evil-women/
http://listverse.com/crime/another-10-evil-women
Yep, they’re evil all right.