In 1979, apprentice embalmer Karen Greenlee stole a hearse, the body inside it, and confessed to years of necrophilia in a letter meant to be her suicide note.

On 4 July 1857, the Dead Rabbits raided a Bowery Boys clubhouse and kicked off two days of gang warfare in Lower Manhattan. Around 1,000 fighters. Eight confirmed dead. The police ran away.

The Bowery Boys were a nativist New York street gang who spent the 1840s and 1850s fighting Irish immigrants in the streets of Lower Manhattan. Their most infamous member was Bill the Butcher. Their politics shaped American history.