• History

    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.

    September 6, 2022  By Daniel Stashower
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    What Happened to Anne Boleyn's Heart?

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

    September 1, 2022  By Kathryn and Ross Petras
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    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.

    August 23, 2022  By Benjamin Cunningham
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    The History of the Florida Everglades Is a History of Crime and Mystery

    T.L. Finlay relays a few sinister stories from this natural marvel.

    August 22, 2022  By T.L. Finlay
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    The Lost History of America's Traveling "Ghost Shows"

    Ghost shows were a hybrid of movie, magic act and séance and they ruled late nights across America

    August 18, 2022  By Keith Roysdon
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    One Night in Tehran, August 1953: The Law of Unintended Consequences

    Tom Bradby on lingering imperialism, the coup, and the moments that reverberated through history.

    August 4, 2022  By Tom Bradby
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    The Greatest True Spy Stories

    A look at some of the wildest, most revelatory nonfiction books about espionage and the life of spies.

    August 2, 2022  By Ava Glass
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    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.

    August 2, 2022  By T.J. English
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    The Outsider Journalist: The Story Behind a 70 Year Old Cold Case Murder and the Push for Alaska's Statehood

    Decades after the murder of Cecil Wells, journalist James Bartlett goes to Alaska looking for new answers.

    July 27, 2022  By James T. Bartlett
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    Little Essays on Sherlock Holmes: "The Engineer's Thumb"

    Olivia Rutigliano close-reads one of the strangest Holmes stories

    July 20, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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