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How Eliot Ness Wound Up Hunting a Serial Killer in Cleveland

How Eliot Ness Wound Up Hunting a Serial Killer in Cleveland

After Prohibition, law enforcement's boy wonder needed a second act. He found it in Cleveland with the Torso Killer.

By Daniel Stashower | September 6, 2022

What Happened to Anne Boleyn's Heart?

What Happened to Anne Boleyn's Heart?

Inside the strange medieval custom that separated the famed queen's most essential organ from her body.

By Kathryn and Ross Petras | September 1, 2022

The First Forays of a Czech Double Agent at the Dawn of the Cold War in Prague

The First Forays of a Czech Double Agent at the Dawn of the Cold War in Prague

As his country was entering a turbulent new period, a young Karel Koecher began his life of double-crosses and subterfuge.

By Benjamin Cunningham | August 23, 2022

This is Your Brain On Horror

This is Your Brain On Horror

What gives any good horror movie its true horror vibe? Two distinct elements: terror and horror.

By Nina Nesseth | August 4, 2022

Resurrectionists and the Advent of the Burial Vault

Resurrectionists and the Advent of the Burial Vault

On the sensational body snatching that catalyzed efforts to secure bodies from graverobbers.

By Todd Harra | August 3, 2022

How Louis Armstrong, Jazz, and the Mafia Got All Tangled Up in Storyville

How Louis Armstrong, Jazz, and the Mafia Got All Tangled Up in Storyville

In New Orleans, in the early days of jazz, the music and the mob were inextricable.

By T.J. English | August 2, 2022

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Nature's Deadliest Thunderstorms – And the People Who Chase Them

By Matthew Cappucci | August 2, 2022

The Outsider Journalist: The Story Behind a 70 Year Old Cold Case Murder and the Push for Alaska's Statehood

By James T. Bartlett | July 27, 2022

On Otherness And Terror

By Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason | July 20, 2022

Dressed to Kill: <br>A True Crime Collection of Criminal Clothing

Dressed to Kill:
A True Crime Collection of Criminal Clothing

On a collection that includes Charles Manson's sweatpants, Aileen Wuornos' red sweater, and other garments worn by killers.

By Paul Gambino | July 20, 2022

The Rise of Privateering in the American Revolution

The Rise of Privateering in the American Revolution

Congress was reluctant, at first, to embrace privateers. As the war effort grew more desperate, they soon changed their minds.

By Eric Jay Dolin | July 15, 2022

When Kurt Vonnegut Met Norman Mailer in Cape Cod's Legendary

When Kurt Vonnegut Met Norman Mailer in Cape Cod's Legendary "Helltown"

Provincetown was a place of enchantment, light, and art. But there was a dark side to the literary life there, too.

By Casey Sherman | July 12, 2022

Boris Nayfeld, the Jewish Gangster-Survivor, and the Birth of the Russian Mob in Brooklyn

Boris Nayfeld, the Jewish Gangster-Survivor, and the Birth of the Russian Mob in Brooklyn

Douglas Century visits with the last of the original Brighton Beach mob bosses.

By Douglas Century | July 6, 2022

Ruja Ignatova: The Crypto Mogul Scam Artist Who Vanished into Thin Air

Ruja Ignatova: The Crypto Mogul Scam Artist Who Vanished into Thin Air

In 2016, she appeared in front of a rapturous crowd at Wembley Stadium, promising riches. By 2019, she was on the run.

By Jamie Barlett | July 1, 2022

Mussolini's Son-in-Law Kept a Diary – And It Put Him Right in the Crosshairs of Hitler and the Nazi Spy Apparatus

Mussolini's Son-in-Law Kept a Diary – And It Put Him Right in the Crosshairs of Hitler and the Nazi Spy Apparatus

Galeazzo Ciano was Italy's foreign minister, a witness to key events in history. And he was writing it all down.

By Tilar J. Mazzeo | June 21, 2022

The Birth of the Hardy Boys

The Birth of the Hardy Boys

Leslie McFarlane, who wrote under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon, explains how the brothers started solving mysteries and why they were always eating meals.

By Leslie McFarlane | June 14, 2022

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