Here's How Much Gage County Owes The Beatrice Six
When DNA evidence cleared the Beatrice Six in 2008, it rocked the small Nebraska region of Gage County, and now they are owed millions.
Read MoreWhen DNA evidence cleared the Beatrice Six in 2008, it rocked the small Nebraska region of Gage County, and now they are owed millions.
Read MoreIn 2009, the Beatrice Six were released after DNA evidence cleared them, following the years-long efforts of Joseph White, who maintained his innocence.
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Read MoreThe kidnappings committed by Ariel Castro were part of a uniquely unsettling crime. The school bus driver used his home as a prison for his three abductees.
Read More911 operators in Cleveland answered a shocking phone call. The young woman on the line told the dispatcher, "I've been kidnapped and been missing for 10 years."
Read MoreFred and Rosemary West liked young women. They liked to entertain them, and they liked to rape, torture, and murder them for perverse sexual gratification.
Read MoreSobhraj drugged and murdered his unlucky victims until he was finally captured in 1976, thanks in no small part to Herman Knippenberg, a Dutch junior diplomat.
Read MoreDanny Rolling, known as the Gainesville Ripper, was put to death in 2006 for the murders of five college students over the course of four gruesome nights.
Read MoreWhile death from an overdose wasn't unheard of in the hard-partying music scene of the 1970s, the aftermath of Parsons' death was certainly unconventional.
Read MoreThis desire to live on Easy Street like the other fat cats, or to at least get a piece of the action, often leads the gullible right into the hands of frauds.
Read MoreOn March 1, 2021, Roger Reece Kibbe, 81, the "I-5 Strangler," was found unresponsive in his prison cell. He was pronounced dead about 45 minutes later.
Read MoreAileen Wuornos confessed to shooting seven men to death in five Florida counties. Her reason, she said, was that her victims either raped or tried to rape her.
Read MorePlenty of creepy places have vied for the title of "Most Haunted House in America," but one New Jersey house, at Sandy Hook Bay, has lots of people convinced.
Read MoreCanada's Yellowhead Highway (also called Highway 16) earned itself the moniker 'Highway of Tears,' after a series of vanishings and murders along the route.
Read MoreFolbigg said her children died of natural causes -- by sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), epilepsy, and cardiac arrest. The courts did not believe her.
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Read MoreWhen he raped her after a particularly raucous night of drinking, Doss put rat poison in his corn whiskey jar, killing him the next time he took a drink.
Read MoreHe was known as "The Butcher of Rostov" and "The Rostov Ripper." That's because the police had no leads. But Andrei Chikatilo was operating in plain sight.
Read MoreThe Black Dahlia murder has fascinated people for decades and remains unsolved, but one detective thinks the Zodiac Killer is involved.
Read MoreOne Blackpool, England resident has made a name for himself as the town's foul-housed Christmas curmudgeon.
Read MoreThe possibility of a child lost to an abductor is enough to stoke fear in the hearts of parents. It's a feeling Asha Degree's parents have known all too well.
Read MoreEd Gein was only convicted of one murder, but he likely had more victims than that.
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Read MoreTed Bundy's arrest in Utah, however, was only the beginning. He wasn't just a terrifying murderer and master of manipulation. He was also a master of escape.
Read MoreTom Horn: cowboy, Army scout, Apache translator, miner, hunter of cattle rustlers, sharpshooter, detective, and assassin-turned-wrongfully-accused murderer.
Read MoreDespite a "200-strong ripper squad," the capture of Peter Sutcliffe, the man known as the Yorkshire Ripper, could effectively be chalked up to dumb luck.
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