Movies & TV

While it's certainly easier to research people now than in the 1970s, when Elizabeth Carmichael boasted about a revolutionary new car that turned out to be a mirage, the Bernie Madoff and Elizabeth Holmes cases show many people still don't put in the effort to check things out.

The new documentary "Framing Britney" explored the singer's life and how she became a pop culture object. 

InSys Therapeutics, led by John Kapoor, paid doctors to prescribe the narcotic Subsys, a form of fentanyl, selling out their patients' health in the process, according to the latest episode of CNBC's "American Greed."

Tonda Lynn Ansley and Vadim Mieseges, who both murdered their landlords, avoided prison by claiming they were living in a non-reality.

The story of Pamela Hupp became the subject of a hugely successful "Dateline" report and podcast, and now the real-life drama is coming to the screen.

FBI agent Clarice Starling is the focus of CBS' new series based on "Silence of the Lambs," but it won't feature a certain infamous cannibal.

In "Promising Young Woman," director Emerald Fennell takes the "promising young man" trope and turns it on its heading, giving power back to sexual assault survivors like myself. 

Keith Raniere was found huddled in a closet of an exclusive Mexico resort after leaving one of his most devoted female followers to face armed law enforcement officers on her own.

Michael Avenatti became a household name going toe-to-toe with President Donald Trump over his alleged affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels, but soon Avenatti would find himself on the wrong side of the law.

Some of the most notorious killers have been called psychopaths — but others may be hiding in plain sight.