Type of site | Online database, Law enforcement |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | truTV |
| Created by | Marilyn J. Bardsley |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | 1998; 27 years ago (1998) |
| Current status | Defunct |
Crime Library is a website documenting majorcrimes,criminals,trials,forensics, andcriminal profiling from books. It was founded in 1998 and was most recently owned bytruTV, a cable TV network that is part ofTime Warner'sTurner Broadcasting System. By August 2014, Crime Library was no longer being updated.
Crime Library contains an extensive collection of crime related articles, which were separated into categories:Serial Killers, NotoriousMurders, Criminal Mind,Terrorists & Spies and Gangsters & Outlaws. Each category was then broken down into further subcategories. For example, within Serial Killers were the subcategories Most Notorious, Sexual Predators, Truly Weird & Shocking, Unsolved Cases, Partners in Crime and Killers from History. Crime Library also featured photo galleries. These may have had anywhere from 10 to upwards of 100 slides. Some photo galleries were focused on a specific case, while others were lists of crimes linked by a theme (e.g., "Baby for Sale," cases where a person was arrested for allegedly attempting to sell his or her child), or collections of unusualbooking photos.
High-profile crimes in theUnited States were prominent on Crime Library, but the site also contained information about historically notorious characters from various countries, includingUnited Kingdom,Australia andFrance.
All articles on Crime Library were written exclusively for Crime Library by dozens of commissioned writers, many of them true-crime authors, including Chuck Hustmyre,[1]Katherine Ramsland,[2] Gary C. King[3] and Anthony Bruno.[4]
Crime Library maintained social media features where readers could interact and discuss criminal cases, including aFacebook page, aTwitter account and message boards.
Crime Library was founded by Marilyn J. Bardsley[5] in January 1998. Court TV, latertruTV, purchased Crime Library in 2001, the same yearThe Smoking Gun was acquired by Court TV.[6] Originally "The Crime Library," the name of the site was shortened to Crime Library in 2003 to accompany a redesign that changed the site's color scheme and layout.
Crime Library was managed byeditor-in-chief Andy Brooks andmanaging editors Nastacia Leshchinskaya and Cora Van Olson.
As of August 2014, Crime Library was no longer providing updates on their website. As of 2015, the site is no longer accessible, but its content can be read at theWayback archive[7] of the site.
As of 2022, the website is accessible again under a new URL.[8]
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