Crime Stories

In the early 1990s, the tourist hotspot of New South Wales, Australia became a place of fear when backpackers started going missing. Over the course of a year, the bodies of seven missing backpackers were found.

During a time when immigration to Sweden was growing, feelings of racism were also on the rise. On August 2, 1991, one man began to act by shooting young immigrants on the streets of Stockholm. His weapon of choice, a laser-guided rifle, would earn him the nickname 'The Laser Man'.

In 1985, a brutal killer had Southern Californians fearing for their lives. Richard Ramirez, known as 'The Night Stalker', entered homes in the dead of night to terrorize the people inside.

On July 26, 1983, police in Vero Beach, Florida received a report of a nude man firing shots at a naked girl on a residential street. When they arrived on the scene, officers found the body of a 17-year-old girl hidden in the trunk of a car.

On August 8, 1973, police in Pasadena, Texas received a phone call from a young man who had just committed murder. He claims that his victim, Dean Corll, was going to kill him just like he had done to so many others.

In the late 1990s, a string of disappearances in Rockhampton, Queensland left police searching for a killer they couldn't identify. The murder of a 9-year-old girl on her way home from school blew the case wide open when ex-con Leonard Fraser was arrested and convicted for her murder.