Have a nice weekend? Have any weekend at all? Ever take a paid sick day, or receive a severance package? Ever get hurt on the job and, thanks to your benefits package, not have to pay for...
Reader, you know us. There’s nothing we love more on Crime Capsule than the story of a good solid crime. Not because we condone them, but because we’re fascinated by them: public officials turned frightfully corrupt. Heists...
Meet Dale H. Maple: native of California, top of his class, Harvard graduate. A precocious student with an IQ over 150. Fluent in twenty languages before the age of 25. And to top it all off, one...
There's nothing better than putting down your work, turning on a true crime podcast and doing.....anything, really. In alphabetical order (no favoritism here!) we're gathering our favorite true crime podcast episodes for you, our lovely readers. Check...
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Here
on Crime Capsule—and our sister...
Can
the dead commit a crime?
Until
the late 19th century, residents of New England thought so, given the trail of corpses
that littered local communities from Massachusetts to Vermont. Gaunt, wasted,
afflicted by bloody, painful symptoms,...
It
was almost the perfect crime. Stabbed forty-four times, sixteen-year-old Tina
Faelz had been murdered in a tucked-away blind spot of Pleasanton, California, her
body found in a drainage ditch just a stone’s throw away from her home. No
witnesses to...
Striking images of the murderers, robbers, and swindlers who orchestrated a complex prison break from the infamous Leavenworth Prison in 1931
More mug shots, you say? Another serving of...
We here at CrimeCapsule.com love a good urban legend, especially when it’s tied to something nice and nefarious. Time and distance have a way of twisting and distorting facts that to our minds is just irresistible: both...
Oh, those nice, industrious Midwesterners. So friendly and hard-working. Always building cities, raising barns, and—wait—smuggling booze?
You betcha! Don’t tell us you’re surprised. It’s no secret that the upper Midwest was one of...