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Bank of America has reached a settlement “in principle” in a class action lawsuit brought on by Epstein accusers. The lawsuit alleged that “throughout its relationship with Epstein, Bank of America violated numerous banking laws and regulations in order to conceal and continue its lucrative venture facilitating the Epstein sexual abuse and sex-trafficking scheme." In a November 2025 filing, Bank o...

University High School in Morgantown, West Virginia, was described by former students as a typical American high school. It had the jocks, the popular kids, and the band geeks. It also had Skylar Neese and her two best friends, Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf. In photos, the girls seemed attached at the hip, but some posts on social media suggested some fractures beginning to form in the teenagers’ f...

In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, just as Boston was wrapping up St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, two men disguised as police officers showed up at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, claiming they were responding to a call about a disturbance. Even though this was a breach of protocol, one of the museum guards let them in. The fake officers quickly revealed the real reason behind the...

Two students and two teachers were killed and 9 others were wounded in the 2024 Apalachee High school shooting in Georgia. Then 14-year-old Colt Gray was charged with 55 felony counts related to the killings — however, he wasn’t the only one to face murder charges. Colt’s father, Colin Gray, was charged with over two dozen counts related to the school shooting, including second-degree murder and i...

The 2007 murder of military veteran Danny Harris in the Memphis area was considered settled for years. Andrew Hayes was found guilty of Harris’ murder in 2010 and has been in jail ever since. But, there have been serious concerns on how this case was handled, starting from when law enforcement initially arrived on the scene almost two decades ago. Stephanie Tinsley partnered with the Tennessee Inn...

The death penalty is officially off the table for Luigi Mangione. In a stunning blow to prosecutors,  a judge tossed out two of the four counts against Mangione in his federal case: a murder count, which was punishable by death, and another firearms offense. The 27-year-old is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in the middle of Manhattan on the morning of December 4, 2...

In the early morning hours of June 5, 2002, Ed and Lois Smart received news that is every parent’s worst nightmare. Their 9-year-old daughter, Mary Katherine, woke them up to tell them that her older sister, 14-year-old Elizabeth, was taken from their shared bedroom in their Utah home. Elizabeth vanished without a trace. For endless months, the Smart family, and the entire country, was left with o...

One October day in 2019, 25-year-old Wade Wilson went on a killing spree throughout Cape Coral, Florida. Within the span of hours, he brutally murdered two women – Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz. In between, he showed up at his then-girlfriend’s place of work and violently assaulted her. Despite being arrested for a string of violent crimes, Wilson accrued a loyal fanbase online and was dubbed the...

Former Olympian Ryan Wedding, who sat on the FBI’s most wanted list since March of 2025, was apprehended in Mexico, officials announced on Friday. Law enforcement officials alleged Wedding, who competed for Team Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics, was the ringleader of a transnational drug trafficking operation that shipped approximately 60 tons of cocaine a year from Colombia through Mexico, Cali...

On November 13th, 2022, just hours after a typical game day at the University Of Idaho, four college students – Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin – were found murdered in an off-campus house. In July of 2025, Bryan Kohberger, a former PhD student studying criminology at the neighboring Washington State University, pleaded guilty to all four of their murders. For the...

In an overnight operation that shocked the world, the U.S. military launched a coordinated attack in the capital of Venezuela that resulted in the capture of the country’s sitting leader and his wife. President Trump characterized the mission, dubbed Operation Absolute Resolve, as an “assault like people have not seen since World War II" that is meant to bring “outlaw dictator Nicolás Maduro to ju...

Jen Shah, a former star on “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” was released from federal prison earlier this week, after serving less than 3 years of her 6.5 year sentence. Shah pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud with telemarketing back in 2022. At the time, the DOJ claimed from at least 2012 until her arrest years later in March 2021, she was behind a nationwide t...

“To Catch a Predator” was a cultural phenomenon when it aired from 2004 to 2007. “Predators,” a new documentary, explores the complicated legacy of the crime show that captured the zeitgeist of the early 2000s. The film’s director, David Osit, joins “Forbes True Crime” to discuss. Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in...

Mary Carole McDonnell is the former CEO of Bellum Entertainment, a company that produced shows like "Corrupt Crimes," "Deep Undercover," and "I Married a Murderer." In 2017, Bellum reportedly began facing an onslaught of financial problems – Deadline reported that year the company was facing issues with their line of credit and the California Labor Commissioner was investigating wage claims lodged...

The Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law in November, gave the Department of Justice a deadline of December 19th to release all of their documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Since Friday, the DOJ has released batches of Epstein-related materials on what has been described as a rolling basis. In the document dumps were photos of Epstein with the rich and prominent...

The doctor who sold Matthew Perry ketamine before the actor’s 2023 overdose death was sentenced to 2.5 years in federal prison on Wednesday. The 54-year-old actor, who is most known for playing Chandler Bing on the sitcom “Friends,” died on October 28, 2023, after he was found unresponsive in his hot tub. During the sentencing hearing, the federal judge reportedly told Dr. Salvador Plasencia that...

Audiochuck, the parent company of true crime podcasts like 'Crime Junkie' and 'The Deck,' recently signed a multi-year deal with Tubi, that according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal, is valued at $150M. Audiochuck's founder Ashley Flowers described the deal as "first of it's kind" said that "by joining forces with Tubi, we're not just expanding our reach — we're redefining how true crime...

Over the summer, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche conducted a two-day interview with longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence after being found guilty of sex trafficking charges in connection to Epstein. During her meeting with Blanche, she claimed to have never witnessed any inappropriate behavior, and that she never saw President D...

Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) has been indicted on charges related to her alleged role in stealing and laundering millions of dollars in disaster funds through her family’s health care company, and then using the money to aid her run for Congress in 2021. In July of that year, the indictment alleges that Cherfilus-McCormick’s family health care company was accidentally overpaid t...

House Democrats on the Oversight Committee released a handful of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails that raised new questions about the relationship between the convicted sex offender and President Donald Trump. Republican committee members accused Democrats of cherry-picking emails that would “generate clickbait,” and then released an additional 20,000 documents. Seemingly in response to the email dump, Pr...

Aileen Wuornos is infamously known as one of America’s most notorious female serial killers – she confessed to killing seven men between 1989 and 1990. “Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers” is a new documentary that explores Wuornos’ story. Emily Turner, the director of the film, joins “Forbes True Crime” to discuss her new project. Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium j...

Another illegal betting scandal has hit the professional sports world – this time Major League Baseball. Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, two pitchers for the Cleveland Guardians, face federal charges including wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy after an indictment accused the two of betraying America's pastime. Prosecutors allege the players conspired with bettors and rigged cert...

Right before morning rush hour in midtown Manhattan on December 4th, 2024, UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed while on his way into an investors meeting. According to police, the suspected gunman was, “lying in wait for several minutes,” and then fled the scene following the attack. A nationwide manhunt ensued, and days later, Luigi Mangione was arrested at a Pennsylvania McDo...

Myles Connor was an up-and-coming rock and roller in Boston who also had a penchant for stealing art. After being caught red-handed with stolen paintings, he devised an unorthodox plan – he stole a Rembrandt painting from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to use as a bargaining chip to reduce his impending sentence. Anthony Amore, author of “The Rembrandt Heist,” joins “Forbes True Crime” to discu...

A sitting head coach of the NBA, current and past players, and members of the mafia were charged in relation to two separate gambling scandals that have rocked the basketball world. One of the indictments was characterized as the “insider trading saga for the NBA,” where current and past players were among those accused of selling non-public information about players and games that was then used t...