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In Italy ’s criminal history, few cases have rattled the public as much as that of Marco Mariolini—a man whose strange and deeply...

John Paul Getty, left. John Paul Getty III with his right ear missing. And in 2003 leaving his fathers memorial Kidnapping at Piazza...

On a dark November evening in 1974, the quiet affluence of London’s Belgravia neighbourhood was shattered by a scene of horror that would...

James Davis, born in Glasgow in 1807 to blacksmith Walter Davis and his wife, Mary McGrigor, led a life so unusual that it became a tale...

Nannie Doss, born Nancy Hazle, presents one of the most notorious cases of hidden violence under a mask of domestic normalcy. Known by...

In October 1970, a malnourished and frail young girl, later known as Genie, shuffled into a welfare office in Los Angeles County. Her...

Arnold Rothstein—widely known as Mr. Big, The Brain, or The Man Uptown—was New York’s most notorious gambler and is credited as one of...

Dennis Nilsen’s story is not just that of a serial killer but of a complex, isolated figure shaped by childhood traumas, repressed...

In the early hours of December 10, 1958, residents around Box Canyon, a quiet corner of California, were jolted awake by a terrifying...

A brilliant linguist. A secret apartment of mummified dolls. The strange, haunting story of Anatoly Moskvin — the Russian historian whose obsession with death blurred the line between scholarship and madness.

The life of Robert Maxwell reads like a Hollywood script—rags-to-riches triumph, towering ambition, scandal, and a mysterious death...

Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson is one of those names that loom large in Harlem’s history. Not just a gangster but also a poet, a...

In the early 20th century, a young Benito Mussolini was far from the iron-fisted dictator he would later become as the head of Fascist...

The murder of Sylvia Likens in 1965 remains one of America’s most disturbing cases. Abused, starved, and tortured by her caretaker, her death changed how the world looked at child protection.

Sada Abe, one of the most infamous figures in Japanese criminal history, remains a symbol of obsession and tragedy. Born in 1905 into a...

Albert Anastasia, sometimes known by his nickname "Lord High Executioner," was one of the most feared and powerful figures in organised...

A photograph of a group of elderly men sitting on a mat, taken in Peshawar, now in Pakistan, circa 1865. Two of the men are looking at...

Discover the bizarre and unsettling story of Carl Tanzler and Elena de Hoyos — a tale of obsession, death, and delusion in 1930s Key West. Explore how a radiologist’s fixation led him to preserve his patient’s corpse for years in one of history’s most disturbing love stories.

In the shadows of 1930s and 1940s New York, where crime and chaos thrived after dark, one man was always first on the scene—capturing...

The story of Adolfo Constanzo is one that blurs the lines between crime, mysticism, and terror, culminating in one of the most grotesque...

In 1991, the California Highway Patrol stopped a white Jaguar in Indio for driving on the wrong side of the road. The driver's...

In 1982, the brutal killing of Chinese American draftsman Vincent Chin by two white autoworkers in Detroit exposed deep racial tensions and became a rallying cry for Asian American civil rights. The case’s lenient sentencing sparked national outrage and mobilised a new generation of activists demanding justice.

Between 1978 and 1981, photographer Jill Freedman immersed herself in the daily operations of the New York Police Department (NYPD),...

I take great delight in stumbling across obscure stories of lives that have been lived long ago, but that have possibly been all but...