In the United States, we still execute prisoners for a variety of crimes. We are one of the last civilized societies to do so. Why is capital punishment so popular, here?

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FBI profilers are the mystical heroes of law enforcement, with the ability to look at a crime and imagine the suspect. But is it science or just wishful thinking?

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Charles Manson never killed anybody. He tricked his friends into doing it for him. But how? And could any one of us be tricked into doing evil deeds?

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We've all heard the saying, "Lie detectors can't be used in a court of law." But is that really true? And can a machine ever really know the mind of a man?

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We want so desperately to go back in time and stop a crime from happening. But we can't change the past. Or can we?

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You're not a murderer, right? You wouldn't even hurt a fly, would you? Don't be so sure.

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A brief history of crime reporting and how we screwed it up in America.

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One of the most important tools to detectives is a heuristic known as Occam's Razor. But you must wield it carefully or you end up hurting the wrong people.

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Nature or nurture? What makes a man evil? Is it genetics or is it their environment? And is there even such a thing as free will?

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Where does our fascination with true crime come from? When did this obsession begin? Renner traces it all back to the "true crime singularity."

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