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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This probably won't come as much of a surprise, but the life of a correctional officer is distinctly short on beer and skittles.
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"The stupidity and futility of it all, the complete and utter waste of life, destruction of a family not to mention the death, and other traumas are far beyond anything else I have ever come across." Such was the case of the tragic story of Michael Taylor.
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Imagine you're rich and famous. Oh no, you've been kidnapped! What do you do?
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Americans love talking about free speech. Or, more accurately, they love the idea of free speech ... even if they miss the fine print of the actual Constitution.
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If you've flown in the last 20 years, you'll no doubt recollect, you will have been reminded in monotonous tones and relentless cadence that laptops must be removed from bags.
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For decades, the story of Kitty Genovese has served as a point of fascination to first-year sociology students, an example of the "bystander effect" to anyone cornered by said students at a party, and a finger-wagging expository homily to viewers of The Boondock Saints.
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No question, Elvis Presley loved his family, and they loved him back. His dad Vernon was willing to do just about anything -- including criminal activity, in order to provide for his family.
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Remember when the Beatles broke up? Well, it was a huge thing at the time, the end of an era, as well as a creative partnership that had entertained and inspired not only audiences but other musicians throughout most of the sixties. Fate took its own sweet time with the Police, too.
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Grisly murders of Italian lovers; mutilated body parts and mysterious letters -- this is the story of the Monster of Florence.
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Grab a spoon, and dare to sample two of the darkest, strangest, most dangerously binge-inducing true crime documentaries lurking on Netflix.
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Tear gas and pepper spray are both "riot control agents." But what's the real difference between them?
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After two years of letters and in-person visits with "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz, it became abundantly clear to author and criminologist Dr. Scott Bonn that Berkowitz "relished his evil celebrity status and that he enjoyed terrorizing the city of New York ...
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Pepper Balls fall under what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classifies as "Riot Control Agents." Sometimes they get lumped together and called the same thing, kind of the way facial tissue always gets called Kleenex, no matter what brand it is.
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Referred to as "kinetic impact projectiles," rubber bullets are composed of a metal core encased by a rubber shell (later changed to plastic to minimize injuries). But they still injure plenty of people.
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In May 2020, Anonymous reared its faceless head amid peaceful protests and riots over the countless instances in which officers in the U.S. have killed unarmed black people, usually with impunity or simply risking a slap on the wrist. How did this anonymous organization really start?
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Prison is prison. Loss of freedom is a psychic blow to a human being (just ask any teenager who's been grounded), but it's also true that some prisons are less restrictive than others, in part because the inmates aren't considered high risks. Such is the case for white collar prison.
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Counterfeiting cash is a crime that has been around as long as legitimate currency. Here's how people are attempting to do it today.
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