The criminal record of Kenneth Allen McDuff, spanning from the mid-1960s to his execution in 1998, represents a critical intersection of psychopathy, institutional corruption, and tectonic shifts in American jurisprudence. McDuff holds a singular and grim distinction in the history of the United States legal system as the only individual to be sentenced to death on three separate occasions for unrelated homicides, a fact that highlights the catastrophic failure of the Texas parole system d...

The Bonecrusher: Murder, Ash, and the Invisible Women of PeoriaBetween July 2003 and October 2004, Larry Dean Bright, known to forensic investigators and the press as "The Bonecrusher", murdered eight women in and around Peoria, Illinois, operating undetected for fourteen months in one of the most disturbing serial homicide cases in Midwestern American history. His victims were Black women from Peoria's South Side street economy, women whose disappearances were sys...