Forensic science has a few tricks up its sleeve th...  ...ver know about unless they are used to solve some crime we are following. Cracked collected stories of crimes that were pulled off by seemingly competent crimi...  ...le conclusive evidence, until some genius hi-tech crimefightin...

As we discovered earlier this week thanks to the exploding poop package, sometimes the best way to deter a theif is to let them steal something that they never wanted in the first place. Now Jeff Wysaki, aka the famous O...

Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi...  ...as the Forty Elephants started their well-planned crime spree. The Forty Elephants (also known as The For...  ...acy as they browsed and tried on merchandise, the crimes were rarely witnessed. They sometimes robbed doze...

A successful criminal can rack up a lot of ill-got...  ...wn as “Fat Tony.”He began his life of crime in gambling and working as a loan shark. Salerno...  ...way up to the role of Consigliere in the Genovese crime family. He is thought to have been behind dozens...

Brian Edward Everidge was pulled over by Michigan police in April for speeding. His rented truck was found to contain 10,000 bottles and aluminum cans, which he was taking to redeem for the deposit money. In court this w...

Serial killing in America is as old as the country is. Micajah “Big” Harpe and Wiley “Little” Harpe were around for the Revolutionary War, but had little reason to fight. What they really liked wa...

Identity thieves are usually after your money, but...  ...a baby tested positive. A man goes to jail for a crime committed in a country he’s never been to....  ...ch: The man in question had been in jail when the crime was committed. Was it a mix-up in the system? No,...

Not all heroes wear capes. Sonia Ulrich, Marla Saltzer, and Monica Kenyon were celebrating Happy Hour together Thursday at the Fig restaurant at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica, California. Kenyon saw a guy slip somet...

Noela Rukundo of Melbourne, Australia, was visiting her native Burundi last year when two men kidnapped her. They had accepted money from Rukundo’s husband Balenga Kalala to murder her, and they called Kalala back...

We love to read whodunits and watch crime procedurals on TV. For most of us, those mysterie...  ...ntellectual exercise, as we try to figure out the crime before the cops and the forensic scientists do. A...