Inside the global cult of Al Capone
It’s a name almost all Romanian children learn: Al Capone. The American gangster whose organized crime operation dominated 1920s Chicago appeals to Romanians in part because, as the child of...
View ArticleThe heist that made the Mona Lisa famous
On 21st August 1911, in Paris, an artist called Louis Béroud was setting up an easel in the Louvre with the intention of sketching the gallery where the ‘Mona Lisa’ resided. He noticed the painting...
View ArticleCoventry cat shaver mystery deepens
Another person whose pets have been targeted by someone shaving cats in the Holbrooks and Radford area has come forward. Coventry Live revealed this week that a Radford resident had been left...
View ArticleThe Sheikh, the Businessman and a Hacking Mystery
For decades, Farhad Azima navigated the shadowlands where business blends with intrigue and the limits of the law. He popped up in the Iran-contra affair, was named in a Clinton-era fund-raising...
View ArticleWhite House delays release of JFK assassination records
The White House said it would again delay the release of long-classified documents relating to President John F. Kennedy, citing the "significant impact" of the COVID-19 pandemic. President Joe Biden...
View ArticleWeather Underground radical David Gilbert wins parole after 40 years
Former Weather Underground radical David Gilbert has been granted parole after 40 years behind bars for his role in a deadly 1981 Brink’s robbery that was a violent echo of left-wing extremism born in...
View ArticleThe 1944 ‘Mad Gasser of Mattoon’
On the first night of September 1944, a young mother of two went to bed alongside her 3-year-old daughter. Aline Kearney’s husband was out on his taxi route, but her sister and nephew kept her and the...
View Article8 Family Members Killed In Ohio
WTH. I sure hope they get whoever did this. The only survivors found was a 4 day old, a 6 month old, and a 3 yr old. http://www.wsaz.com/...-376728131.html
View ArticleInternational man of mystery, Peter the Painter
On 16 December 1910, police interrupted a burglary at a jewellery store in London’s Houndsditch neighbourhood. The robbers shot three unarmed bobbies dead and left two wounded, unleashing a panic...
View ArticleThe ‘Witchcraft Murder’ of 1945
Of the 141 murders in England and Wales in 1945, the most notorious was the brutal slaying of Charles Walton. Poor Charles was a humble farmhand. Aged 74, he was arthritic and walked with a stick. By...
View Article“Bloody Benders” serial killers still a mystery
The chain of low hills known as the Bender Mounds extends in a diagonal seven miles northeast of here, islands of limestone and scrubby trees over level fields where this time of year soybeans have...
View ArticleYorkshire's strangest unsolved murder
In 1981, police in North Yorkshire were called by a well-spoken man who informed them where to find a woman's body. Four decades later and the woman's identity remains a mystery. One theory is that...
View ArticlePetSmart accused of throwing live hamsters into the trash
A pet superstore chain is investigating whether “live animals” were thrown away at a number of locations in the US, after “dumpster divers” found unwanted pets including hamsters and a parakeet. The...
View Article10 years on, Germany's neo-Nazi murder scandal remains a mystery
Germany is marking the 10th anniversary this week of a shocking scandal that exposed how authorities recklessly or knowingly failed to prevent a neo-Nazi killing spree that continued for years. The...
View ArticleKyle Rittenhouse Trial
For anyone who has been keeping up, the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse began this week. The jury was chosen, opening statements were made, and the most recent article suggests that video evidence was high...
View ArticleSuspected serial killer arrested in Missouri
A man thought to be involved in six murders and several shootings in St Louis and Kansas City has been arrested. Perez Reed is a suspect in two murders and a shooting in St Louis, Missouri, and two...
View ArticleKyle Rittenhouse deserves an award for his melodramatic performance on the...
Kyle Rittenhouse's crocodile tears broke the internet Wednesday. In a nauseatingly melodramatic performance he choked back snot as he appeared to sob about how he feared for his life the day he shot...
View ArticleAdoptive parents charged with murdering their 6-year-old who was reported...
The adoptive parents of a 6-year-old girl in Hawaii have been arrested and charged with her murder after they initially reported her missing, according to police. The couple reported the girl missing...
View ArticleDetectives closer to cracking ‘Boy in the Box' cold case mystery
The city’s most infamous cold case, the 1957 murder of an unidentified child in Northeast Philadelphia deemed “Boy in the Box,” has a major development. NBC10 reporter Claudia Vargas talked to...
View ArticleMan Accused of 1969 Bank Robbery Identified by U.S. Marshals Six Months After...
A recently deceased man was positively identified as the perpetrator of a decades-old Ohio bank robbery, bringing one of America's most infamous cold cases to a close after 52 years, the U.S. Marshals...
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