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The Birmingham, Alabama Church Bombing That Killed Four Black Schoolgirls
On the morning of Sunday 15 September 1963, an anonymous phone call to the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, delivered a...
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Leonard Lake: The Bunker, the Murders, and the Mind of a Sadistic Survivalist
“What I want is an off-the-shelf sex partner. Slave. There’s no way around it.” — Leonard Lake It started, as so many grim tales do, with...
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The Tulsa Race Massacre: When Black Wall Street Burned in 1921
In the early summer of 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a place of contradictions. It was a city on the rise, oil-rich, bustling with new...
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How the CIA Helped Kill a Dictator—And Failed to Kill Another
In the early years of the Cold War, the CIA dreamed of a Caribbean sweep, one bullet for Trujillo, another for Castro. Only one found its...
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When Innocence Ends: The Case of Mary Bell and the Scotswood Murders
In the summer of 1968, as children ran barefoot through the derelict streets of Scotswood, a working-class neighbourhood in Newcastle...
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