Marcel Petiot posed as a Resistance doctor offering escape from Nazi-occupied Paris. Instead he lured Jewish refugees to his murder house on Rue Le Sueur and killed them for their money.

In June 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot Marilyn Monroe across two separate sessions at the Hotel Bel-Air for Vogue. Six weeks later, she was dead. The story behind The Last Sitting.

During World War II, American troops collected skulls, teeth, and bones from Japanese war dead as trophies. Here's the disturbing history of how it happened, and why it was allowed.