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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...

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...

In the early morning hours of Halloween, 1968, just off the winding roads of Los Angeles’ storied Laurel Canyon, a housekeeper entered a...

“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,...

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...

Marie Fikáčková, born Marie Schmidl, entered the world on 9 September 1936 in Sušice, a picturesque town nestled in what was then...

On a chilly afternoon, February 18, 2001, Robert Hanssen parked his car at Foxstone Park in Vienna, Virginia, a quiet suburb of...

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...

On 21 November 1974, Birmingham was rocked by two devastating explosions that tore through the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town,...

On the morning of 13 March 1996, Dunblane, a small town in central Scotland, became the site of the deadliest mass shooting in British...

Kitty Genovese was a woman with dreams, a hard-working bartender who had carved out a life for herself in New York City. Born on July 7,...

Frank Sheeran’s life reads like a crime thriller—except the violence, betrayals, and backroom dealings weren’t fiction. Known as The...

On a summer morning in 1973, the peaceful routine of a Prague tram stop was shattered in an instant. Elderly commuters stood chatting,...

On the evening of August 28th, 1922, Ethel Geller Yeldem was about to step onto a streetcar at the southwest entrance of the Ohio State...

They say fortune favours the bold, but sometimes it also favours those willing to crawl through sewage. Albert Spaggiari certainly...

On the night of August 7, 1930, the town of Marion, Indiana, witnessed a spectacle of racial violence that would become one of the most...

Robert Franklin Stroud, better known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," was a man whose life was defined by violence, isolation, and an...

In mid-19th century Manhattan, the Five Points neighborhood had gained international infamy as a crowded, disease-ridden, crime-infested...

On the morning of February 18, 1916, Hans Schmidt entered the death chamber at Sing Sing Prison. Moments before being seated in the...

Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen is one of the most infamous figures in American organised crime, a man whose journey from a Brooklyn newsboy...

On a warm May afternoon in 1977, Colleen Stan felt confident in her ability to hitchhike safely. At 20 years old, she had already turned...

In the dimly lit corridors of the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine, a peculiar relic sits preserved in a glass jar—a severed...

For more than four decades, the man who came to be known as the Golden State Killer terrorised communities across California, committing...

In 1924, Richard Connell’s short story The Most Dangerous Game  introduced the idea of human beings being hunted for sport. The tale...