In 1957, Gordon Parks spent six weeks photographing crime across America for Life magazine. The editors published 12 of his 300 photographs. The rest told a very different story.

Marcel Petiot posed as a Resistance doctor offering escape from Nazi-occupied Paris. Instead he lured Jewish refugees to his murder house on Rue Le Sueur and killed them for their money.

Known as Casque d'Or, Amélie Élie was a Parisian gigolette whose love life sparked a bloody feud between two of the city's most feared Apache gangs, made her a media sensation, and eventually inspired a celebrated 1952 film.