Steve McQueen spent most of his career being the coolest man on any screen. He was the guy doing his own stunts in Bullitt, jumping the fence in The Great Escape (or at least getting the credit for it), and turning up to a three-week LIFE magazine shoot looking like he'd been born in sunglasses. Less than two decades after that shoot, he was checking into a small Mexican hospital under a fake name, weighing a fraction of his usual weight, and hoping a dentist with a revoked l

Diego Maradona is remembered as one of the greatest footballers who ever lived, a man who could win a World Cup practically on his own and turn a stadium of 80,000 people into believers with one run at goal. But strip away the highlight reels and you're left with one of the messiest, most scandal-soaked private lives in sporting history. Cocaine addiction that nearly killed him more than once. A years-long entanglement with one of Naples' most violent mafia clans. Eight ackno

If you've ever sat through a forensics class, you've probably heard the story. Two prisoners, same name, same face, same measurements, at the same federal penitentiary in Kansas in 1903. Only their fingerprints told them apart, and that one mix-up supposedly killed off the Bertillon system and ushered in the age of fingerprinting. It's a great story. It's told in textbooks, FBI materials, and true crime blogs to this day. The trouble is, when you actually dig into the documen