Digital Forensics

forensic-investigation

Rex Heuermann was caught through a combination of digital evidence, genetic genealogy, and traditional police work. After long Island killings in the late 1990s, investigators u...

technology

Timestalks are investigative techniques that link activities, events, or subjects to specific moments in time. Rather than focusing only on what something is, timestalks emphasi...

Crime & Criminal Behavior

The phrase Toybox Killer refers to a real criminal case marked by severe abuse of vulnerable children and a distinctive MO that prompted widespread media coverage and long term...

true-crime-cases

The Toy Box Killer refers to serial offender John Edward Robinson, whose case became a benchmark in linking cold‑case investigation, digital evidence, and victim identificatio...

verification

As of the latest available court and law enforcement records, the individual charged in connection with the Brown University shooting is a former student who faces federal and s...

true-crime

Dennis Rader, known as BTK for Bind, Torture, Kill, terrorized Kansas for decades until his arrest in 2005, ending a 31-year manhunt that began with his first confirmed murder i...

security

A ransom note is a written or digital demand for payment in exchange for the return of a person, property, access, or information. This explainer outlines how ransom notes funct...

true-crime

For three decades the man known as BTK sent letters to police and news outlets describing his murders in Wichita, Kansas. The case went cold, then active, then cold again, until...