Inside The World's Toughest Prisons: The Truth About Greenland's Nuuk Prison
Greenland runs an "open prison" system, allowing inmates to work, study, and even hunt during the day before returning to the penitentiary at night.
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A Look At Why The U.S. Capitol Police Were Created
The U.S. Capitol Police can be traced back to 1800, when a single officer was assigned to protect the Capitol once Congress moved from Philadelphia to D.C.
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The Messed Up Truth About The Night Stalker
Richard Ramirez was a self-styled devil worshipper who killed at random. This is the horrifying true story of the Night Stalker.
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How Bees Helped Uncover New York's Biggest Marijuana Farm
A swarm of bees unexpectedly led the New York police department to the city's largest-ever marijuana farm in 2015.
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Olympians Who Committed Awful Crimes
But what comes after the Olympics? For some Olympians, post-Olympics life has included a slide into the sad, dark, and criminal​.
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True Crime Conspiracy Theories That Keep Us Up At Night
Here are some true crime conspiracies to add more eerie mystery to your life.
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Ways We All Break The Law Without Ever Knowing It
We all break the law without knowing it, because these laws are so stupid no one would bother enforcing them.
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Facts About The Recent Clown Sightings That Just Don't Add Up
There's a strange national trend of creepy clown sightings across the country, and the facts about this weird wave are almost too bizarre to believe.
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Crimes That Were Committed At The Olympics
These crimes were actually committed at the Olympics. It isn't always the big smorgasbord of international harmony it's cracked up to be.
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The Creepiest Things Caught On Doorbell Cams
Doorbell cams record when they detect motion. And sometimes what they capture is pretty freaky. These are the creepiest things caught on doorbell cams.
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What Really Happened To Pharma Bro, Martin Shkreli?
Guess who's back to top off an insane year of seismic news stories with a final nugget of madness? It's convicted felon and "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli.
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How To Beat A Lie Detector Test
At the end of the day, a polygraph is just like a final exam. With a little prior preparation, anyone can pass.
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The Gifting Tables From Murder On Middle Beach Explained
Gifting Table was a supposed female empowerment group designed to help women make it through the difficult economic times of the Great Recession.
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The Mysterious Disappearance Of Alfred Loewenstein
The disappearance of Captain Alfred Loewenstein from his Fokker Tri-motor private airplane while crossing the English Channel is still puzzling.
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The Truth About Ed Gein's Mother
Norman Bates was based on the so-called Butcher of Plainfield, Ed Gein. However, the true nature of Gein's fixations was more complex.
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The Time Cherie Currie Was Kidnapped By A Serial Killer
Currie had come from a difficult background, and her upbringing appeared to set the stage for the kinds of situations she would either find or put herself in.
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The Truth Behind This NASA Astronaut's Alleged Space Crime
Most people grow up wanting to be athletes, doctors or astronauts. You know what job you don't hear as often? Space criminal. But all that might change thanks to Anne McClain, a NASA astronaut who has been accused of the world's first space crime, according to AOL.
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How Gangster Whitey Bulger Chased Dana White Out Of Boston
UFC president Dana White is a pretty powerful dude these days. However, everyone has to start somewhere ... and his start came while running away from the Winter Hill Gang, a gangster outfit led by none other than Whitey Bulger, the notorious gangster.
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The Unsolved Murders Of Mary Ashford And Barbara Forrest
the case came to a close. The 1817 case came to a close. Or it would have, if it weren't for the fact that the whole thing happened again 157 years later. In a series of eerie coincidences, Barbara Forrest met her astonishingly similar and tragic end in 1974.
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How A Fake CIA Agent Convinced People To Rob Banks
What if a real-life case came along that combined a conman impersonating a CIA officer, multiple bank heists, and documentation and terminology convincing enough to fake out the police? Throw in a fall guy in the form of an $11/hour Target employee who got suckered into this nonsense.
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What Really Happened After A Man Stole An M60 Patton Tank
The M60 is not the sort of vehicle the military wants citizens driving around the streets, and chances are you aren't going to find one with the keys in it unless you're desperate enough to grab one from a military base. Which, oddly enough, is exactly what happened in 1995 in San Diego.
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Cold Cases Solved With Genetic Genealogy
A sample of saliva is all it takes for companies to paint a detailed picture of family trees. It started as a fun way to find new genetic connections. But that's not where it ended. Here's the coming-of-age of genealogical data, cold cases it helped solve, and where the technology might go next.
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How Billionaire Sean Quinn Lost His Money
It's pretty sad when a family's avarice turns its own members against each other. They say blood is thicker than water, but apparently for the Quinn family of Ireland, greed goes deeper.
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The Time Justin Bieber Was Part Of A Murder Plot
Lots of these reasons people dislike Justin Bieber don't have anything to do with Bieber's music, and more to do with his obtuse or arrogant behavior (such as writing in the Anne Frank House guest book, "Hopefully she would have been a belieber," as the BBC reported in 2013).
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How Billionaire Allen Stanford Lost His Fortune
There's a class of billionaire who will surely never get a drop of our sympathy, and that's the kind who makes his fortune from years of stealing other people's life savings, and then loses his bundle. Such is the case with Allen Stanford, the native Texan with an ego as big as his home state.
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These Hackers Were Never Brought To Justice
What the majority of people are referring to when they say "hacker" is a black hat hacker, the cyber villains who wreck stuff and steal things via digital means. White hat hackers are the tech people who typically work in cyber security. Grey hat hackers are content to mess around in their basement.
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What It's Really Like To Celebrate Christmas In Prison
What is Christmas like for those who can't participate -- for those people, perhaps, locked inside correctional institutions for the mistakes they made in their lives? This is what it's really like to celebrate Christmas in prison.
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