Generally, Vikings could be very terrible.One of those terrible elements of Viking culture is the possible invention of criminal profiling. You know, the kind that predicts if people will be criminals based on how they look. The thing that some authorities still use even though it's unfair.
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According to Copeland, Padovani "could play guitar better than I could, and I could play guitar better than Joe Strummer ... well, in those days. So I reckoned he'd be okay, but I didn't figure Sting would see it that way."
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According to eyewitness accounts reported by Vice, after a night's filming, Terrence just dropped his radio and ran into the forest, where he quickly disappeared into the trees. Several search and rescue efforts found no signs of him, and as of this writing, Woods is still missing.
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Here are some crazy true stories of politicians convicted of crimes.
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Of the many bizarre things that only exist in North Korea, one of the strangest has to be the presence of actual fashion police.
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Parisian, fortune teller, serial killer, secret abortionist, poisoner, clairvoyant, black mass priestess, businesswoman, possible sociopath: quite a resume for one person. But this list of crimes and occult practices did indeed belong to a single individual: Catherine Monvoisin.
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All serial killers are evil, but the Golden State Killer was particularly terrible. In early 2020, the four-decade-old case came to a close and it gave a lot of people a lot of hope — hope that there's always still a chance for justice. Here's how the Golden State Killer was finally caught.
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Karla Homolka was born on May 4, 1970, in Canada. She appeared to have a regular childhood, living at home with her parents and her younger sisters in Ontario. But her life would take a dark turn.
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Patz's widely publicized disappearance made media headlines and grabbed the nation's attention. Concerned parents began pushing for a nationwide system to track missing kids, eventually forming the Missing Children Milk Carton Program in 1984. The program was soon adopted nationwide.
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As the band prepped to fly to the U.S. for a tour in February 1995, Edwards was spotted leaving his hotel early in the morning, as explained by a BBC report. When he didn't return, the cops got involved and Edwards was declared to be missing.
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Countess Elizabeth Báthory was accused of murdering over 600 young women, which earned her the title of the most prolific female serial killer of all time.
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While they seem ubiquitous now, police departments are a relatively modern invention. The police as we know them did not really come into being until after the passage of the Metropolitan Police Act in England in 1829.
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On the morning of December 17, Holt went to Cheviot Beach in Portsea with his neighbors and two of their friends. While the weather was perfect for a swim, the sea looked rough. Holt, however, insisted they swim.
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A day later, his car was found, but there was no sign of Sullivan. His guitar, clothes, wallet, and copies of his second album were found in his car and motel room, but there was no note indicating what might have happened. No further trace of Sullivan ever turned up.
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By most accounts, Texas-born Paris Bennett had a happy childhood. That is, until he hit 13 years old. It was in 2007 when the young teen committed a crime that would tear apart his family for years to come.
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Sheila started making phone calls -- roughly 700 of them, by her estimates. She phoned the police again and again and was, by her recollection, largely blown off. She went so far as to become a licensed private investigator, all in the hopes of landing a little more clout with law enforcement.
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Some may wonder what Anthony's strategic purpose was in voting when women didn't have the right to do so. The point, however, wasn't to vote, but to be barred from voting. Once barred, the suffragettes would sue the state for infringing on their rights.
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At first listen, you might think the song is an emotional ode to someone you love, but if you go deeper, you'll discover that the song's are actually more about stalking and possessiveness rather than a shiny love story.
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In New York, there's a group that prowls the streets, striving to keep people safe. And no, they are not the Avengers. They are the Shomrim — Hebrew for "guards" — an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood watch group, and their rivals, the Shmira, both of which have complicated relationships with the city.
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Convenience store shelves can seem like an assortment of unrelated miscellany to a bright-eyed young adult, with neither the experience nor the personal problems to necessitate a debilitating drug problem.
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It was the 11th of September, 1991. Early in the morning, Carolyn Elizabeth Lawson, then 25 years old, answered her phone, and was informed that she had a family member in the hospital, severely injured. With great haste, Carolyn got dressed ... and found a masked man with a gun.
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On October 24, 2005, the students of Irwin County High waited, but Tara Grinstead, their history teacher failed to show up. Three years later, that morning was easy for Dana Wilder to recollect for CBS: "I knew something was up then. I knew Tara would just not come to school."
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Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the most memorable — and disturbing — horror movie villains in the modern pantheon. The piggy noise-making, mask-of-human-skin-wearing recluse is so iconic that it's hard to imagine chainsaws were ever not associated with maniacal lunatics.
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Here's a quick primer on the Ligoness family murders, and the bones of one of the stranger theories for why it all went down: that this is all part of an elaborate, decade-long cover-up.
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The unsolved mystery of Zebb Quinn's disappearance technically is, indeed, unsolved — even though a culprit has been charged. Here's the explanation.
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The Cali Cartel was an offshoot of the Medellin Cartel, and while its founders were known as the Gentlemen of Cali due to their elevated social status, they were just as dangerous.
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One of the strangest and most unique crimes in history was a bank robbery that became known as the Pizza Bomber. In happened in 2003, but it just got weirder and weirder as the years went on, and there are still some unanswered questions, too. This is the crazy real-life story of the Pizza Bomber.
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