Since the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month, public interest in his alleged killer Luigi Mangione has surged to an extraordinary degree. Driven by dismay at the high cost of health insurance in America, and the outrage felt by those who’ve been unsuccessful in having their own claims honored, many people now […]
Sean Combs: What Diddy do?
The scale of alleged crimes committed by Sean Combs, aka “P Diddy”, as alluded to in recent disclosures from the prosecutor in multiple sexual assault cases, is mind-boggling. Out of 3000 sex trafficking or sexual assault complaints against Combs, prosecutors have advanced 120 charges in which the plaintiffs are credible and the evidence is solid. […]
Bernie Madoff, Crown Prince of Ponzi
The name of Bernie Madoff is now inextricably linked to the largest financial fraud in history. At its peak the massive Ponzi scheme, wherein Madoff claimed through fictitious reports that the $18 billion contributed by investors had enjoyed handsome annual returns though shrewd investments, had a paper worth of a staggering $64 billion. When the […]
King of Crypto dethroned
Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was arrested in the Bahamas on December 12th. He has since been extradited to the USA to face trial in the Southern District of New York, likely for wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, and money laundering. SBF, as Bankman-Fried is frequently […]
Bernardo and Homolka: Barbie & Ken of sexual homic
In the mid-Nineties, a crime story out of Toronto horrified the rest of Canada. Paul Bernardo, a clean-cut boyish-looking accountant was arrested and charged with the sexual assault and murder of two teenage girls. The key Crown witness against Bernardo was his attractive young spouse Karla Homolka who’d participated in the two rape/murders but negotiated […]
David Berkowitz: Son of Sam
For an entire year, from late July 1976 to late July 1977, the New York boroughs of the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn were in a high state of anxiety. Young women with long dark hair cut it short, dyed it blonde, or bought wigs to disguise their looks. A serial killer was on the loose, […]
Randy Andy and the Dungeon of Crumpet
Although he later became a helicopter pilot, Prince Andrew in his youth was never able to fly below the radar of the British tabloids because he was such an obvious target. Before getting married, he was relentlessly tracked by the paparazzi for the sheer number and diversity of his dates — college girls, actresses, models, […]
Ghislaine Maxwell, procurer for the privileged?
Ghislaine Maxwell, now under arrest and suicide watch, has fallen from the privileged perch she once held as alleged procurer of girls for the pleasure of powerful men. Maxwell is the long-time intimate of Jeffrey Epstein, who supposedly killed himself in jail last August awaiting sentencing for sexual abuse of multiple underage women. Maxwell and […]
Jeffrey Dahmer: the Milwaukee Cannibal
Jeffrey Dahmer is a prime example of a conundrum in modern life â how something so disgusting can also be so fascinating⦠at least for students of crime, and astrology. Dahmer was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed 17 men and boys over a period of 13 years, many of his murders […]
Ted Bundy, criminal chameleon
The weird thing about Ted Bundy, people later reflected, was that he never looked the same from one photograph to another. Even in person, he had the ability to metamorphose, with a glance or a turn of his head, from someone of charming intelligence to one of cunning violence. Criminal investigators later attributed his chameleon-like […]