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The Bath School Disaster: America’s Deadliest School Massacre
“Criminals are made, not born.” That was the message painted on a charred wooden sign left behind on the fence of Andrew Kehoe’s farm in...
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The Hidden Wound: The Tragic Story of Vertus Hardiman and a Medical Betrayal
In a town where everyone knew your name, few ever knew the truth about Vertus Hardiman. He was always sharply dressed, polite, and...
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The Killing of Derrick Robie: Eric Smith and the Juvenile Crime That Shook America
On 2 August 1993, in the sleepy village of Savona, New York, an act of violence so shocking in its brutality would forever alter the...
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Velma Barfield: America’s First Woman Executed by Lethal Injection
In 1969, a North Carolina home went up in flames. Inside, Thomas Burke, husband to Velma Barfield, was found dead. At first, no one...
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The Crimes of Uday Hussein: Inside the Sadistic World of Saddam’s Son
Few names evoke as much dread in modern Iraqi history as that of Uday Hussein. Born into privilege as the eldest son of Saddam Hussein,...
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Jimmy Lee Gray: A Tale of Evil, Crime and the End of the Gas Chamber
In the early hours of 2 September 1983, a man named Jimmy Lee Gray sat strapped to a metal chair in Mississippi’s gas chamber. Within...
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The Strange Cases of John Babbacombe Lee and Joseph Samuel The Men Who Could Not Be Hanged
While the grim history of capital punishment is filled with clinical efficiency and tragic inevitability there are also rare and strange...
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Buried Alive for 83 Hours: The Kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle
There are few scenarios more terrifying than being buried alive, it’s the stuff of nightmares, horror films and gothic fiction. But in...
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The Port Arthur Massacre: A Day That Changed Australia Forever
On a warm autumn afternoon in April 1996, visitors wandered through the historic site of Port Arthur in Tasmania, soaking up the scenery...
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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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