Chicago

John Wayne Gacy murdered at least 33 young men and boys in suburban Chicago between 1972 and 1978, burying most victims beneath his own home.

Chicago's darkest history comes to life on a 90-minute bus tour covering landmarks from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre to H.H. Holmes' Murder Castle. The Crime and Mob Bus Tour takes passengers through the streets that shaped America's most notorious gangster era. Tickets start at around $35.

From H.H. Holmes' murder castle to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Chicago's mob bus tour puts America's darkest history on full display.

Chicago Crime Tours runs a bus tour through the Windy City covering H.H. Holmes, Al Capone, John Dillinger and the city's darkest chapters.

In 1892, H.H. Holmes constructed a three-story building in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood that would become synonymous with some of America's first confirmed serial murders. What locals called the 'Murder Castle' was actually a hotel marketed to World's Fair visitors—a place where at least six confirmed victims vanished.

Aileen Carol Wuornos, convicted of murdering six men and suspected in a seventh case, was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002, in the United States. The former sex worker claimed self-defense in all her murders, stating she killed in response to rape and attempted rape.

Netflix released a new documentary on August 22, 2025, examining the Jussie Smollett case that captivated America in 2019. Directed by Gagan Rehill and produced by Raw TV, the film revisits the Chicago actor's reported hate crime, his conviction, and the Illinois Supreme Court's controversial decision to overturn that conviction in November 2024.

Netflix releases a new true-crime documentary on May 26, 2025, investigating the unsolved Tylenol cyanide poisonings that killed at least three people in Chicago during the 1980s. The series tracks a key suspect and explores theories behind America's first mass murder through consumer products—a crime that fundamentally changed how all medicines are packaged globally.

Netflix's new documentary series examines one of America's most shocking unsolved crimes: the 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders, where cyanide-laced capsules killed seven people. Four decades later, the case still haunts pharmaceutical safety protocols worldwide.