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    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.

     

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