Updated January 4, 2025: The FBI and Las Vegas police now believe that Matthew Livelsberger, suspect in the Tesla Cybertruck explosion on New Year’s Day, suffered from PTSD and killed himself for personal reasons. Livelsberger, who had served in Afghanistan, was an active duty Army Special Forces master sergeant and
December 13, 2024: San Francisco-based Peak Design, maker of the backpack worn by accused assassin Luigi Mangione, is facing social media backlash because its CEO tipped off the police. After Mangione allegedly gunned down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 4, Peak Design’s CEO Peter Dering alerted NYPD that
Updated January 21, 2026 The trial of Luigi Mangione, accused of shooting United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in the back and leaving him to die on a Manhattan sidewalk, could begin by the end of this year, the AP has reported. Meanwhile, Mangione’s supporters and detractors are following every move
DECEMBER 11 UPDATE Updated December 11, 2024 – Hannah Kobayashi traveled to Mexico after allegedly getting married to an Argentinian man. As of this afternoon, Hannah’s family has reported that she’s been found safe and sound. The attorney for Hannah’s mother Brandi Yee and sister Sydni Kobayashi issued a statement
Here’s a preview of what you’ll be able to read about in Driven by Darkness, my upcoming true-crime book that’s now with my editor. On March 12, 2022, teenager Naomi Irion and her 1992 Mercury Sable disappeared from the parking lot of a Walmart in Fernley, Nevada. After Naomi’s brother
When Troy Driver bid farewell to his girlfriend, saying he’d be home soon, he had murder on his mind. Driver told his girlfriend Zulema that he was going camping for the weekend. Instead, he embarked on a path that would lead him and his random teenage victim to a remote
When Dusty Casey, then 42, stumbled across the body of a man who had just been shot near the Yuba River in northern California, she knew right away he was dead. “The blood was already coagulating,” Dusty recalled when I interviewed her this month. “His heart was no longer pumping.”
The Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas hosted A-list celebrities and high-stakes gambling. But the elegant hotel was also linked to a brutal gambling murder, the mauling of magician Roy Horn by a white Bengal tiger, rage-induced vandalism by Michael Jackson, and the poolside robbery of actress Sarah Hyland’s
After meeting with hundreds of true crime fans at CrimeCon 2024 in Nashville, I came away with a list of six traits that most seem to share. 1. They like solving puzzles Solving a criminal case requires piecing together bits of information into a solution. True crime fans like this