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The Boogeyman Buildings

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The Unsettling History of Serial Killers in Colorado

The rugged, mountainous state has a dark legacy.

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Con artists, storm chasers, fugitives, and more.

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The Strange Real-Life Mystery Behind Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"

Fact meets fiction in Poe’s classic story of a murderer.

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The Launch of a 19th Century Sex-Cult in Upstate New York

John Humphrey Noyes was a reserved, shy young man – until he found religion and his own utopian, free-love, open marriage cult.

February 7, 2023  By Susan Wels
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“They just weren’t the kind of people for that”: The 1934 Smith Family Massacre in Demopolis, Alabama

On "an appalling family tragedy" that reappeared in a 1944 detective novel.

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