• How The Vikings May Have Created Criminal Profiling

    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. 

    By Emilia David October 12th, 2020 Read More
  • Why Henry Padovani Left The Police

    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."

    By Karen Corday October 9th, 2020 Read More
  • What You Don't Know About Terrence Woods, Jr.'s Disappearance

    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.

    By Cody Copeland September 23rd, 2020 Read More
  • The Bizarre Life Of The Murderous French Fortuneteller La Voisin

    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.

    By Richard Milner September 11th, 2020 Read More
  • How The Golden State Killer Was Finally Caught

    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.

    By DB Kelly September 11th, 2020 Read More
  • This Serial Killer Now Has A Totally Normal Life

    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.

    By Aimee Lamoureux September 9th, 2020 Read More
  • The Real Reason They Stopped Putting Missing Kids On Milk Cartons

    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.

    By Aimee Lamoureux September 9th, 2020 Read More
  • The True Story Of The First Police Department

    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.

    By Aimee Lamoureux September 4th, 2020 Read More
  • The Unsolved Disappearance Of Jim Sullivan

    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.

    By Karen Corday September 3rd, 2020 Read More
  • The Stay-At-Home Mom Who Solved A Decades-Old Murder

    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.

    By Tom Meisfjord August 19th, 2020 Read More
  • Here's Why Susan B. Anthony Was Arrested

    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.

    By Felix Behr August 18th, 2020 Read More
  • The Truth About The Jewish Vigilante Group That Patrols New York

    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.

    By Emilia David August 10th, 2020 Read More
  • The Sketchy Reason Gas Stations Sell Socks

    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.

    By Tom Meisfjord August 10th, 2020 Read More
  • Inside The Mysterious Abduction Of Carrie Lawson

    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.

    By Tom Meisfjord August 5th, 2020 Read More
  • The Inexplicable Disappearance Of Tara Grinstead

    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."

    By Felix Behr August 5th, 2020 Read More
  • The Real-Life Event That The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Is Based On

    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.

    By Richard Milner August 3rd, 2020 Read More
  • The Pizza Bomber: The Crazy Real-Life Story

    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.

    By Asher Cantrell July 24th, 2020 Read More