Even crime, it seems, has a glass ceiling — but 'Mafiosa,' a new crowdfunded comic book set in the underworld of the 1920s, looks set to break through with a feminist take on the historical crime ...

In the late 1700s, the shops of west London were terrorised by an all-female crime gang known as the 40 Elephants. No, this is not a post-Me Too play on gender roles, nor a BBC crime series starring ...

Ed Hickman, 19, sent ransom letters for the return of Marion Parker to her father, Perry Parker, each signed “Fate,” “Death” and “The Fox.” Parker agreed to pay $1,500, and went to hand the money to a ...

Reading 100-year-old editions of Arkansas newspapers, Old News stumbles across extraordinary ordinary lives. One such case is L.E.A. Yeager, former lawman. Yeager spent five years in prison for a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last year I wrote about a paper that looked at the relationship between childhood ...

The unsolved murder of the beautiful Dot King captivated New York. But the hype around the case proved insufficient motivation to catch the killer. So what happened? In "Broadway Butterfly," a jazzy ...

The new series from AfterShock Comics takes a revisionist look at classic cosmic horror tropes and combines them with noir crime and real-world politics. By Graeme McMillan The first “Red Scare” of ...

The passage of Prohibition in 1919 unwittingly sparked one of the more violent decades in Illinois history. The liquor still flowed freely in much of Illinois, with bootlegging operations of various ...

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The unsolved murder of the beautiful Dot King captivated New York. But the hype around the case proved insufficient motivation to catch the killer. So what happened? In “Broadway Butterfly,” a jazzy ...