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Shot more than a dozen times and always walking away, Jack “Legs” Diamond became the most notoriously unkillable gangster of Prohibition. Until one night in Albany in 1931, when his luck finally ran out.

Thelma Todd was one of early Hollywood’s brightest comic stars. In 1935, she was found dead in her car at just 29. Officially ruled accidental, her death remains surrounded by contradictions, powerful figures, and unanswered questions.

Irma Grese was young, beautiful, and terrifying. This in depth historical article explores how a rural German teenager became one of the most feared female guards of Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen, and why her story still unsettles historians today.