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Dolly Oesterreich and Otto Sanhuber: The Lover Who Lived in Her Attic for 10 Years
In 1913, a Milwaukee housewife named Dolly Oesterreich answered her front door in nothing but stockings and a silk robe, greeted the 17-year-old repairman her husband had sent to fix her sewing machine, and started an affair that would eventually see him move into her attic full time. He lived there, on and off, for roughly a decade, fed and supplied with library books by the woman he called his sole reason for living, while her husband complained for years about strange nois


Fanny Kaplan: The Woman Who Tried to Assassinate Lenin
On an August evening in 1918, a half blind woman with a Browning pistol stepped out of a Moscow crowd and fired three shots at the man who'd just seized control of Russia. Four days later she was dead, shot in the back of the head in a Kremlin car park with truck engines running to drown out the sound, her body burned in an iron barrel and never buried. No trial. No grave. To this day, historians still argue about whether she was even the one who pulled the trigger. This is t


The Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward
On the morning of 26 August 2015, WDBJ7 reporter Alison Parker was doing exactly what she did most mornings, standing outside a lakeside tourist spot in Virginia, interviewing a local chamber of commerce official for a routine early segment. Twenty four years old, engaged to be married, two years into the job she'd wanted since school. Viewers watching their local news that morning saw her shot dead on live television by a man who used to work alongside her. Quick Answers Who
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