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  • Bricks, Bars and Bobbies: The Story of Manchester’s Newton Street Police Station

    The building, which lies close to Piccadilly Gardens in the city's Northern Quarter, is now home to the Capturing Crime: Mugshots and Manchester’s Underclass Some of the most remarkable remnants from Newton Some are defiant. Others have clearly accepted their fate. Some of the images you'll see of the people who had been arrested show them displaying their hands to During World War I, the station played a key role in managing civil order, with officers tasked with

  • Euzebe Vidrine: Confessions of Louisiana's Forgotten Serial Killer

    Wiggins wasn't some random target. He watched from the woods as officials carried Wiggins's body to the home of Dr. By some accounts the judge even apologized to him for the trouble of the arrest. Cut the rope.” Cut the rope.”

  • The Thorpe Affair: Murder Plot, a Dead Dog, and the Trial That Shook British Politics

    He came very close to becoming Home Secretary. Irish News he felt he was being portrayed as "this poor, mincing, little gay person," adding: "I also come Some scenes and dialogue are necessarily dramatised for television, but the essential shape of the story

  • Werner Herzog's Wild Youth, Before He Made a Single Film

    Almost everything we know about those years comes from one source, Herzog himself, in interviews and At some point during the stay he signed up for formal English classes, and hated them. "With them, I got to know some of the best and deepest things about America." Either way, the Mayan state idea died before it ever really began, and Herzog headed home to Germany

  • When Percy Shelley Got Kicked Out Of Oxford University

    He had been spending more and more time away from home, including regular visits to a bookshop owned

  • From Murdering Children To Drinking Blood, Peter Kürten Really Did Earn the Nickname "Vampire of Düsseldorf"

    Not long after, Kürten ran away from home, stealing all the money he could find and beginning an affair During this time, Kürten described experiencing bizarre sexual fantasies, some so intense they caused Shortly after leaving prison, he broke into a home and encountered a nine-year-old girl.

  • How the CIA Helped Kill a Dictator—And Failed to Kill Another

    A poster that was required to hang in every Dominican home during the Trujillato. It reads, "In this home Trujillo is a national symbol." "Rectitude. Liberty. Work. Armed with revolvers, pistols, a sawed-off shotgun, and at least two semiautomatic rifles—some of which Some of the conspirators met grotesque ends. September 1961, after intense pressure from the Organisation of American States and growing unrest at home

  • The Scottsboro Boys: The Case That Exposed American Injustice

    took eighty two years, four trips to the United States Supreme Court, six years of imprisonment for some Roy Wright, the youngest, had never left home before and was travelling with his older brother Andy. had already nicknamed them, were drowning, and the Communists were the only ones who'd thrown them a rope years: not a case about nine innocent boys, but a case about outside agitators and Communist money coming Samuel Leibowitz Comes to Alabama For the retrials, the ILD made a shrewd move, hiring Samuel Leibowitz

  • Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby: Charm, Corruption, Ronnie Kray and a Life of Scandal

    Boothby’s colourful private life would soon come under scrutiny, exposing his tangled web of corruption While he never rose to high political office, Boothby became a household name, not through his parliamentary However, the Krays’ reign of terror would eventually come to an end in 1969 when they were arrested and

  • Josef Menčík: The Last Knight of Strakonice

    He filled it with relics, antiques, and curiosities from the Middle Ages, even smuggling some from France Dressed in full medieval armour, mounted on horseback, and armed with a sword and halberd, Menčík rode Some even tapped their heads, assuming Menčík was mad.

  • Nubar Gulbenkian: The Orchid Wearing Playboy Millionaire Who Lived Life Entirely on His Own Terms

    The family settled into a cosmopolitan rotation of homes in London, Paris, and the Riviera, surrounded Homes Fit for a Character In London, Gulbenkian lived at Arlington House, near the Ritz, in a flat furnished His country home at Hoggeston, near Bletchley, was a former rectory spacious enough for 200 guests at

  • The Azaria Chamberlain Case: How a Grieving Mother Was Convicted by Rumour

    Cars slowed down and honked outside the family home. He later tested dust samples from random locations around his home city and found several gave the same Trials (UMKC): The Trial of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain: https://www.famous-trials.com/dingo/457-home

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