About HerPrey

HerPrey is an investigative database documenting cases of female sexual offenders. The cases are sourced from court records, police reports, contemporaneous newspaper coverage, and public registries. The Dossier is our editorial column for theory and conjecture, clearly separated from the factual record.

What HerPrey is for

We exist because the public record on this subject is uneven — fragmented across jurisdictions, easily overlooked, and rarely organized in a way that lets readers, journalists, or researchers trace patterns over time. We aim to be:

• A reference. A reliable, sourced, citable record of cases and outcomes.
• A research tool. Filterable by occupation, geography, era, victim profile, and outcome — so researchers can ask structured questions of a structured dataset.
• An editorial project. The Dossier section publishes investigative theory and pattern analysis that contextualizes the database for general readers.

What HerPrey is not

• Not a tabloid. We don't publish unsourced claims, sensationalize victims, or fabricate motives.
• Not a vigilante registry. Our case files document the public record. They are not a tool for surveillance, harassment, or extra-judicial action.
• Not anonymous. An editorial standards document governs everything we publish. When we get something wrong, we correct it in public.

How the site is structured

• /cases — every published case file, filterable.
• /offenders — the people directory (only people with at least one published case appear here).
• /dossier — The Dossier: theory and conjecture, separated from the factual record.
• /documentaries — original long-form video work.
• /stats and /map — aggregate views of the database.

How recommendations work

Signed-in readers get a personalized "For you" surface on the homepage. It's a transparent content-based system: each case is described by a set of traits (crime type, location, occupation of the offender, era, etc.), your engagement signals build a taste profile from those traits, and the recommender shows you cases whose traits overlap with your profile. No collaborative inference, no third-party data, no advertising audiences.

Independence and funding

HerPrey is independent. We do not run advertising on the public site. Subscriptions and (soon) a paid Researcher API fund the editorial work. Free accounts are real — they don't expire or get throttled.

Get in touch

Tips, corrections, and partnership enquiries: see our contact page. To submit a case lead for investigation, use our tip submission page.