Peter Sutcliffe killed 13 women as the Yorkshire Ripper while police chased a hoax tape. How he slipped through nine interviews and how he was finally caught.

Everyone's heard of Gypsy Rose Lee. Plenty know Lili St. Cyr, Tempest Storm and Blaze Starr. But for every headliner who made the papers, there were dozens of women working the same circuit, selling out the same clubs and posing for the same magazines, who've almost completely disappeared. Some left behind a handful of photos and a stage name. Some left a single great story. A few left so little that we don't even know what they were really called. Here are six of them, and w

Dr John Britton knew someone might try to kill him. He wore a bulletproof vest he'd made himself, kept a .357 Magnum close by and was driven to work by a pair of retired volunteers. None of it mattered on the morning of 29 July 1994, when a former minister called Paul Hill walked up to a pickup truck outside a clinic in Pensacola and opened fire with a shotgun. Britton and his escort James Barrett were killed. Barrett's wife June was wounded. It was the second time in 17 mont

Frank Habicht roamed 1960s London with a Rolleiflex and no studio, catching the Stones, Jane Birkin and King's Road kids. Here's the story behind his photos.

From the botched train ambush at Glenrowan to the gallows at Old Melbourne Gaol, here's how Ned Kelly was caught, tried and hanged.

Eric A. Wildman sold canes to schools and preached the joys of the birch. Then a headmaster invited him to lecture and the boys gave him six of his best.

At 14, Josh Phillips killed his 8-year-old neighbour Maddie Clifton and hid her under his bed for a week. The crime, the trial and his life in prison since.

In the 1980s John Cooper Clarke shared a Brixton flat with Nico while both were hooked on heroin. Here's how the Bard of Salford lost a decade and lived.

In the last weeks of 1973 a billboard went up over Times Square, on the corner of Broadway and 47th Street. It was 41 feet by 43 and it showed a naked man, painted white, lying on his front with his legs crumbling away like a broken Roman statue. There was one word on it: Jobriath. The same picture was on the side of 250 New York buses and in full-page adverts in Vogue, Penthouse, Rolling Stone and the New York Times. Hardly anyone looking up at it had heard a note of his mus

War hero, Girl Guide pioneer and founder of Britain's first fascist party. The strange life, rumours and lonely death of Rotha Lintorn-Orman.

Max Palmer went from Mississippi cotton fields to Hollywood monster roles, wrestled as Paul Bunyan, hit the bottle, then preached as Goliath for Christ.

Adorée Villany danced naked across Europe, beat a Munich indecency charge, lost in Paris and then vanished. Here's the story of her career and scandals.

In 1958 Marilyn Monroe became Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Jean Harlow, Lillian Russell and Marlene Dietrich for Richard Avedon. Here's the story behind the shoot.

In 1911 a Wyoming warden built a baseball team from murderers and thieves. They never lost a game, but their star still went to the gallows.

Eugène-François Vidocq was a thief, forger and serial prison escaper who became the world's first detective. Here's his frankly ridiculous life story.

Maud Allan was the Salome dancer who wowed Edwardian London, hid a hanged murderer brother and saw her sexuality put on trial at the Old Bailey in 1918.

On 13 November 1956, readers of the Danish weekly Billed Bladet opened their copies and found a teenage girl staring back at them from the cover. Red hair, freckles, a quilted jacket, and a Soviet submachine gun slung over her shoulder. She wasn't smiling. She looked serious and steady, like she knew exactly what she was doing there. Across Europe, people looked at that photo and saw the whole Hungarian Revolution in one face. What nobody realised was that by the time the mag

Dylan Thomas didn't die of 18 whiskies. Here's the story of his last weeks in New York, his lover Liz Reitell and the people who failed to save him.

In 88 seconds in 1979, Klansmen and Nazis shot dead five protesters in Greensboro while police stayed away. Here's what happened and who knew it was coming.

Myrna Darby was a Ziegfeld Girl at 18 and dead at 21. The scandal, the jilting millionaire, the gangster who paid her bills and the sunburn blamed for it all.

Edith Thompson and Freddy Bywaters were hanged at the same moment in 1923 for killing her husband. But was Edith executed for murder or for her love letters?

Jean-Claude Romand faked a WHO career for 18 years and lived off his family's savings. When the lie was about to collapse, he killed his wife, kids and parents.

Greg Scarpa killed for the Colombo family while secretly working for the FBI. The true story behind By Any Means, from Mississippi to a rogue agent.