Adolf Hitler once sent Margery Booth 200 red roses wrapped in a sash printed with a swastika. He'd just watched her sing at Bayreuth and told her she was perfectly charming. What he didn't know was that the same woman was smuggling British intelligence out of Nazi Germany hidden in her underwear, hiding a Jewish woman in her Berlin flat, and burying stolen documents in the grounds of a royal palace. She got away with it for years, moving through Hitler's inner circle as one o

Jackie Coogan made Hollywood's first child star fortune and never got to spend a dime of it himself. Between 1923 and 1936 alone he earned just over three million dollars, with a few million more in property and contracts on top of that, and he'd been told the whole pile would be his once he turned 21. By the time he actually asked for it, his mother told him flatly that none of it had ever been his to begin with. What happened in between, the mansion, the furs, the diamond s

On the morning of August 7, 1890, a 48 year old woman named Anna Månsdotter was led into the courtyard of Kristianstad district jail in southern Sweden and beheaded with an axe. It wasn't the crime itself that made her famous, plenty of people had killed before her. It was everything that came out during the trial. Swedish papers dubbed her Yngsjömörderskan, the Yngsjö Murderess, and the name stuck. Anna Månsdotter remains the last woman ever executed in Sweden, and the case