Growing up on Washington state’s Mercer Island in the 1960s and ’70s, the writer Caroline Fraser got used to hearing people puzzle over why the Pacific Northwest was such a hotbed of infamous ...

Newland-Davis and Giacalone agree, yes, serial killing is on the decline, and for several reasons. Newland-Davis, who founded the state-registered nonprofit corporation Oklahoma Cold Cases, said ...

Apple released the podcast app in the App Store in 2012, but it wasn’t until October 2014 — the same month that the first episode of “Serial” released — that the podcast app came as a ...

The remains belong to 23-year-old Karen Schepers, who was last seen leaving a bar around 1 a.m. on April 16, 1983 in Carpentersville, Illinois.

The podcast series Serial profiled the case in 2014. He served nearly 23 years in prison until September 2022, when his conviction was vacated but reinstated a year later.

A judge reduced his sentence to time served in the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, ending a case that drew widespread attention when it was dissected in the “Serial” podcast. By Simon J. Levien ...

Forensic scientists are still working to identify victims of the 9/11 attacks using advancements in technology and techniques developed over the past two decades.

A Baltimore judge ordered the release of Adnan Syed after overturning Syed’s conviction for a 1999 murder that was chronicled in the hit podcast ‘Serial.’ Sept. 19, 2022 ...

DNA recovered from Lee’s shoes excluded Syed as a suspect, prosecutors said.Syed’s case was chronicled in the “Serial” podcast, which debuted in 2014 and drew millions of listeners who ...

A 2022 court hearing that freed Adnan Syed from prison violated the legal rights of the victim’s family and must be redone, Maryland’s Supreme Court ruled.

Syed’s case was chronicled in the “Serial” podcast, which debuted in 2014 and drew millions of listeners who became armchair detectives as the series analyzed the case.