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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The Truth About Ozzy Osbourne's Small-Time Criminal Past
The metal singer saw fame through two different camera lenses: The one that got him paid, and the one that took his mugshots. You might not know it, but Ozzy Osbourne has a bit of a criminal past.
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The Reason Billionaire Vijay Mallya Lost His Money
When he decided to branch out into the global luxury aviation business in 2007, he boasted in an interview after multiple tall glasses of scotch on the rocks, "I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that." He had just bought 50 Airbus planes in Paris, a $7 billion order.
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The Mysterious Murder Of A JFK Mistress
Not all of Kennedy's mistresses received the same treatment. Mary Pinchot Meyer, a talented painter and the daughter of a wealthy progressive lawyer and a journalist, was a long-time Kennedy mistress whose death, although less well known than Marilyn Monroe, was no less shrouded in mystery.
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The Crazy Real-Life Story Of Sand Mafias
Each year humans consume around 50 billion tonnes of sand (that's metric tons, which come out to a little more than a tenth larger than U.S. tons) to carry out the oh-so-important work of being humans. Sooner or later, even a resource is as plentiful as sand is going to run out.
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The Truth About I Am A Killer's Dale Wayne Sigler
Dale Wayne Sigler, one of the subjects of Netflix's popular docuseries I Am A Killer and, more recently, I Am A Killer: Released, openly admits that 30 years ago, he took a man's life. Sigler spent three decades in prison following a robbery attempt that went bad in 1990.
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Was This Man History's First Recorded Serial Killer?
Serial killings had to have started somewhere — they weren't birthed by some mystical demon. This is a very human problem that started somewhere in our history, and the earliest known serial killer may have been the child butcher Gilles de Rais. Was this man history's first recorded serial killer?
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Unsolved Celebrity Deaths That Will Keep You Up At Night
People have always had a thing for unsolved mysteries. We can't stop thinking about the possibilities and it doesn't help when the creep factor is through the roof. High-profile unsolved cases are even worse for the coverage they get. Here are unsolved celebrity deaths that'll keep you up at night.
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The Mysterious Disappearance Of Michael Negrete
Here's a series of terrifying thoughts. First, the human mind can only visualize numbers up to a certain point. After that, they're just abstract concepts. Thus, for all of one's perceived individuality, it is entirely true that sometimes people just ... disappear.
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The Craziest Cases Of Mistaken Arrest
These are some of the craziest cases of mistaken arrest.
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Here's How AC/DC Was Once Linked To A Serial Killer
One of the strangest incidents to occur during the band's long career occurred in the early 1980s, when an unexpected connection between the band and a notorious L. A. County serial killer put the band on the front pages for all the wrong reasons, and led to them being tarred as devil worshipers.
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