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Los Angeles Magazine investigates the most interesting crimes, unsolved murders, Old Hollywood mysteries, and more.

Cecil Hotel

Spending A Night at the Cecil Hotel, Where Serial Killers and Eerie Deaths Abound

Steve Erickson checks in to the downtown hotel that has witnessed more than its share of death.

In the Footsteps of a Killer

Fifty rapes. Ten murders. Two identities. One man. From 1976 to 1986, one of the most violent serial criminals in American history terrorized communities throughout California. He was little known, never caught, and might still be out there. Now a determined investigator, a retired detective, and a group of online obsessives are on the hunt to track him down

What Happened To Mitrice Richardson?

In the wake of former Sheriff Lee Baca's guilty plea, the California Attorney General’s Office finally agrees to look into the suspicious death of a Cal State Fullerton grad