Utterly interesting

She was called “The Beautiful Spectre” — young, striking, and merciless. Jenny Barkmann volunteered as an SS guard at Stutthof in 1944, brutalised prisoners, and was executed in 1946. Her story exposes the disturbing role of women in the Nazi camp system.

In 1957, Adeline Watkins told the world she had nearly married the infamous Ed Gein. Days later, she retracted everything — and disappeared from public view. Explore the truth behind her brief and bizarre connection to America’s most notorious murderer.

The Chicago Tylenol murders left seven people dead and millions terrified. Forty years on, the case remains unsolved — but it changed medicine forever.