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The Radicalisation of Timothy McVeigh: From Ruby Ridge To Oklahoma Via Waco
On the morning of 19 April 1995, a yellow Ryder rental truck pulled up outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City....
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The Brothers Who Robbed, Charmed, and Were Hanged: The Brief Outlaw Lives of John and Charles Ruggles
In the rugged hills of Northern California in the late 19th century, two brothers thought they had found an easy way to make a living....
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Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme: The Friendship That Led to Murder
The world of crime has seen its fair share of chilling partnerships, but few are as infamous as the one shared by Pauline Parker and...
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Letizia Battaglia: Documenting the Sicilian Mafia Through the Lens of Daily Life
In the mid-1970s, a woman in her early forties began taking photographs for L’Ora , a small but politically active newspaper based in...
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Evelyn Nesbit: The Girl on the Velvet Swing and the Gilded Age Scandal That Shook America
Evelyn Nesbit was one of the most recognisable faces of early 20th-century America – a model, actress, and chorus girl whose beauty...
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Dick Turpin: The Butcher’s Boy Who Became England’s Most Notorious Highwayman
If you’ve ever heard the name Dick Turpin, chances are you’ve pictured a daring highwayman galloping across the English countryside on a...
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Jimmy Keene and Larry Hall: A Prison Deal with the Devil
Imagine agreeing to live undercover inside a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane, knowing that failure could mean death or...
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The Ant Hill Kids: Inside the Twisted World of Roch Thériault and His Apocalyptic Canadian Cult
It’s hard to believe that a man could convince dozens of adults to leave their families, quit their jobs, and follow him into the forest...
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How Ted Kaczynski Was Caught: The Essay That Unmasked the Unabomber
In the long history of criminal investigations, few cases have gripped the American public like that of the Unabomber. For nearly 18...
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping: Inside the "Crime of the Century"
On a chilly Tuesday night in March 1932, one of the most sensational crimes in American history unfolded in a quiet rural estate in New...
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A Timeline of Dr. Martin Luther King's Assassination
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered worldwide as one of America’s most influential civil rights activists. Known for his steadfast...
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Carlos Lehder and Norman’s Cay: The Cocaine Empire in Paradise
Imagine an idyllic Caribbean island transformed into a fortress of wealth and power, hidden behind crystal-clear waters and white sandy...
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The Man Who Blew Up a Plane for Insurance: The Chilling Case of Jack Gilbert Graham
In an age when airport security was little more than a handshake and a nod, one man managed to commit a mass murder that would send...
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Euzebe Vidrine: Confessions of Louisiana's Forgotten Serial Killer
Decades before the FBI Behavioural Science Unit started profiling serial killers, before Ted Bundy’s chilling charm or Jeffrey Dahmer’s...
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Murder, Scandal and Royals: The Curious Life of Marguerite Alibert, Princess Fahmy
It’s not often that a woman with a past as a Parisian courtesan finds herself rubbing shoulders with royalty, marrying into Egyptian...
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"I Learned A New Sound That Day": The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
On a mild Saturday afternoon, March 25, 1911, as New Yorkers were finishing their workweek, tragedy ignited in the heart of Manhattan. In...
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The Millennium Dome Diamond Heist: Britain’s Most Bizarrely Brilliant Botched Robbery
It sounds like the start of a bad joke: What do you get when you cross a JCB digger, a fake bomb made out of a Fray Bentos pie tin, and...
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Gary Heidnik: The Basement Horror That Inspired 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Before there was Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs , there was Gary Heidnik—a name that became synonymous with one of the most...
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The Tragic Death of Ramón Novarro: Silent Film Star, Hidden Life, and a Hollywood Murder
In the early morning hours of Halloween, 1968, just off the winding roads of Los Angeles’ storied Laurel Canyon, a housekeeper entered a...
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Tokyo Joe: The Incredible Life, Betrayal, and Survival of Ken Eto, the Chicago Outfit’s Highest-Ranking Asian-American Mobster
“They took their shot. They muffed it.” It’s not every day that someone gets shot three times in the head—and walks away. But then again,...
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The Haunting Disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley: A Cruise, A Mystery, and Decades of Unanswered Questions
In March 1998, 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley vanished without a trace from the Rhapsody of the Seas cruise ship. She had been celebrating...
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Marie Fikáčková: The Troubling Tale of a Nurse Who Turned Killer
Marie Fikáčková, born Marie Schmidl, entered the world on 9 September 1936 in Sušice, a picturesque town nestled in what was then...
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Robert Hanssen: The FBI Agent Who Became America's Most Damaging Spy
On a chilly afternoon, February 18, 2001, Robert Hanssen parked his car at Foxstone Park in Vienna, Virginia, a quiet suburb of...
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The Madness of Ronnie Kray: Inside the Mind of London's Most Infamous Gangster
As the doors of Broadmoor slammed shut in 1979, Ronnie Kray—the once feared kingpin of London’s East End—began a new chapter: one of...
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