True crime

I studied Ted Bundy as a case study while he was still alive on death row and still saying nothing. Fifty-two years on, DNA has closed one of the blank lines on the page I was reading.

A boy vanished from a pharmacy in Des Plaines. What police found under the house of a well-liked local contractor changed how America saw monsters.

Twenty-five Cromwell Street looked like any other house. Twelve young women and girls were killed by the couple who lived in it, and the country took decades to see it.

A teacher, a sheriff's deputy, and a tip about one image. How a Louisiana parish learned what two trusted people had been doing behind closed doors.