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  • Terry Waite, John McCarthy and Brian Keenan: The Beirut Hostage Crisis

    how they were taken, what happened to them while they were gone, and how each of them eventually came home He took a teaching post at the American University of Beirut, partly to put some distance between himself and the Troubles back home. He later said he'd come too far to back out and chose to go through with it. Brian Keenan: The First to Go Home Keenan was released into Syrian custody on August 24, 1990, after

  • The Strange Cases of John Babbacombe Lee and Joseph Samuel The Men Who Could Not Be Hanged

    Lee was convicted of murdering his employer Miss Emma Keyse at her home in Babbacombe Bay near Torquay Lee’s sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Home Secretary Sir William Harcourt. After petitioning various Home Secretaries for years he was finally released in 1907. Eventually he joined a gang that robbed the home of a wealthy woman in Parramatta. The other criminal ultimately died by strangulation, but Samuel's rope snapped and he dropped to his

  • Adeline Watkins: The Woman Who Claimed to Be Ed Gein's Girlfriend, Then Took It Back

    “He didn’t come right out and say it,” she explained, “but I knew what he meant.” Watkins painted a picture of an awkward but caring man, someone who walked her home at night and never Some papers hinted that the relationship explained his hatred of women: that her rejection might have She denied ever entering his home or calling him “sweet.” Ed Gein’s Women In Gein’s twisted imagination, women occupied a strange dual role: both idolised and

  • Jacob Riis and the Photographs That Changed New York

    This role took him deep into the city’s poorest neighbourhoods, particularly the Lower East Side. “I have read your book,” he said, “and I have come to help.” Thanks to his work, some of those forgotten stories — of hardship, of resilience, and of determination An English Coal-Heaver’s Home. Old Mrs. In the home of an Italian Ragpicker, Jersey Street. “12 year old boy at work pulling threads.

  • The Boys Who Ran Away to New York: How Two Dublin Kids Fooled the World in 1985

    in the 1980s: A Place to Dream Big To understand the trip, it helps to picture where the boys were coming the ferry pulled out of Dún Laoghaire harbour, Keith and Noel were already a long way further from home spending money and sending them home with I Love New York t-shirts as souvenirs. Back home, the moment police told Keith's mother where her son actually was became a story in itself. Keith was sent to boarding school not long after coming home.

  • The Beaumont Children Disappearance and the Day Australia Changed

    Nancy gave them six shillings and sixpence, enough for fares and lunch, and told them to be home on the Jim returned home early from his sales trip around 3:00 pm and immediately drove to Glenelg. His claims shifted repeatedly, eventually identifying a warehouse near the Beaumont home as a burial Some details aligned with known facts, others did not. He remains a person of interest. They never came home.

  • The Making of The Godfather And The Uneasy Handshake Between Hollywood And The Mob

    The budget rose from 2.5 million dollars to 6 million. They offered the project to some of the biggest names in Hollywood, all of whom refused. “When I wrote, 'First you brown some garlic,' he scratched that out and wrote, 'First you fry some garlic WILL NOT FINANCE BRANDO IN TITLE ROLE, a telegram read. But Coppola was determined. home.

  • The First Great American Road Trip: Horatio Nelson Jackson, Sewall Crocker, and Bud the Bulldog

    days, he purchased a 20-horsepower, two-cylinder Winton touring car, nicknamed it the Vermont, and roped Crocker, to come along as driver, repairman, and general problem solver. In 1903, America had very few paved roads, and most people rarely travelled more than 12 miles from home Some thought it looked like a runaway train car. His car broke down 15 miles from home. His brothers came to help, and their cars broke down too.

  • The Wonderland Murders: John Holmes, Eddie Nash, and the Night That Shocked Los Angeles

    The Wonderland Gang The townhouse on Wonderland Avenue was home to a small but prolific crew of drug David Lind, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood who'd met Launius in prison, had come down from Sacramento By the third visit, Holmes was nervous enough about the door being re-locked that he bought some crack When they searched Nash's home days after the murders, they found over $1 million worth of cocaine and He never formally confessed and died without being prosecuted for his role.

  • The History of Anglesey's Plas Newydd

    Becoming the family home of the Marquis of Anglesey. Whistler always intended to return to Plas Newydd after the Second World War to complete some of the There is an exhibition on the Battle, and the Marquess's role, and you can see his artificial leg on today reflects life at Plas Newydd in the 1930s, a decade captured beautifully by the 6th Marquess's home In the 1950s some of the cadets lived in the east wing of the mansion, with the old stable block used

  • Jerry Brudos: The Shoe Fetish Slayer Who Terrorised Oregon

    fetish that started in childhood escalated into sexual homicide carried out largely inside a locked home Brudos found a pair of women's high heels in a junkyard and brought them home. Around sixteen he staged a fake home invasion so he could photograph a girl naked after already stealing That detail helps settle a point other retellings of the case tend to muddle, some of which place her Some retellings say Brudos approached her posing as a police officer or store security guard.

  • The Clutter Family Murders: An Examination of Truman Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’

    Herb Clutter, his wife Bonnie, and their two teenage children, Nancy and Kenyon, were the only ones at home The two older daughters, Beverly and Eveanna, had already left the family home, one living in Illinois The Cutter Family Home Hickock and Smith entered the home through an unlocked door and began their hunt First they gagged Kenyon, tied his hands behind his back, and tied the rope to an overhead steam pipe widely regarded as a true-crime classic, but as time has passed, several inaccuracies in the book have come

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