Toilet. It's one of those words that's guaranteed to at least get a smile in the setup for a joke. Johnny Carson was the undisputed king of late-night TV in those days, used a TP reference in his opening monologue the night of December 19. Things quickly went down the pipe.
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Times of crisis bring out the best in people... and the worst in others. Here's what you need to know to avoid pandemic-related phone scams.
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"White Boy Rick," real name Richard Wershe Jr., is not the fly white guy's child. He was, however, a child when he became an FBI informant.
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Author Ronald Kessler lauds FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's decision to declare John Dillinger "Public Enemy Number One" as "a stroke of public relations genius." Back when Hoover made that famous pronouncement in 1934, though, much of the public might have begged to differ ...
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We live in a world that seems to equate fame and wealth with the worth of a person. Perhaps that's why, despite the fact that Andrew Cunanan murdered five people in a still-mysterious killing spree, he's primarily remembered for his final victim: world-renowned fashion designer Gianni Versace.
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Glenn Miller boarded a plane for the flight in bad weather across the English Channel to France on December 15, 1944. It simply disappeared.
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Even outside of his career in the NBA, Dele lived a life for the books. He earned a pilot's license, biked across the United States, went skydiving, crashed go karts with his buddies, and dated Madonna back when that was still something people did for fun. But he disappeared, never to be seen again.
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For a long time Yakuza members buttered their bread with extortion, blackmail, and racketeering. But their numbers are flattening like a heated panini. What happened?
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Bonnie and Clyde are consistently credited with killing 13 people, nine of them law enforcement personnel. But there's more to the story.
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There are many takes on what happened at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, on October 26, 1881. Some say the Earp brothers and dentist friend Doc Holliday tried to restore order to a lawless town, while others claim three unarmed men were brutally murdered.
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It takes a pretty singular criminal act for a parole board to deny a person their freedom on the basis of fear for the perpetrator's safety, but that was one of the reasons given when, in the summer of 2018, Mark David Chapman was denied release for the tenth consecutive time.
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In all of the history of the United States, by 1861 no one had successfully assassinated a president, let alone a president-elect. That included Lincoln -- but that doesn't mean people hadn't tried.
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A 1993 study showed that just shy of half of the members of the yakuza had been ritualistically deprived of a portion of their finger, and that 15% of those had undergone the procedure more than once. The practice is called "yubitsume," or "finger shortening," and it goes back over a hundred years.
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard said she felt freer in prison than she did growing up with her mother. This is the story of her tragic childhood.
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Much like Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and other notorious serial killers, Ed Kemper gained a perverse quasi-celebrity status for doing the unthinkable.
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As we may have pointed out before, medical science hasn't always been an exact science. For a good long time, a deeply backwards thought process led folks to believe that drinking blood could treat epilepsy.
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When it comes to acts of unspeakable evil, common knowledge goes that serial killers are either Machiavellian geniuses or an intellectually-stunted oddballs. Think of Jigsaw or Leatherface. However, as is often the case with attempts to assign unflappable truths, this is an oversimplification.
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America has always had a thing about serial killers. We're fascinated by them. And late at night when we hear an unexpected creak somewhere in the house, we kind of worry for a moment that one of those serial killers might be coming for us. So how many active serial killers are in the US?
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Parents might tell their kids monsters don't exist, but serial killers sure do. These real-life monsters prey on us all, and plenty of serial killers have been caught through the years. Here's how several notorious serial killers were finally caught.
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Despite the objections of privacy advocates, the Los Lunas Police Department is now running beta tests for a new form of built-in body camera facial recognition, paving the way for a more RoboCop-ish future.
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Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is notorious for, among other things, amassing an illicit fortune larger than the gross domestic product of a small nation. And throughout his tenure as the most wanted man in the world, his older brother, Roberto Escobar, worked as his accountant.
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It probably takes a lot to terrify firefighters. They spit in the face of death for a living. Yet when firefighter Matthew Busko arrived at the scene of a reported "animal bite" and found an infernal swarm of bees, he was filled with five-alarm fear.
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In Mexico, the town of Guerrero's grief-stricken and frustrated residents have decided to save their children from crime by turning them into law enforcement.
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Ted Bundy was an evil man. He was also super charismatic, so it should come as no surprise that after he was arrested, the man tricked someone into marrying him. But whatever happened to Bundy’s wife, Carole Ann Boone?
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We all know that Ted Bundy became one of the most notorious serial killers in history, but what was he like before he was an adult? Well, the details of Bundy's childhood are scarce ... and disturbing.
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One might ask the eminently Google-able "yes or no" question, "Is the Co-Ed Killer Ed Kemper still alive?" The answer was yes, and as of this writing it still is. The end. Well, it's not really the end until Kemper dies, though one might argue that a fundamental part of him died decades ago.
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The Federal Witness Protection Program has been a controversial entity, but it's also protected the lives of numerous individuals. So if you want to know more about this secret organization (without ticking off a mob boss), read on for the truth about the US Witness Protection Program.
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