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Papin Sisters: Shocking Housemaids’ Crime That Shook France
In the northwest of France, there is a city by name of Le Mans, which is known for little more than a famous car race that takes place once a year: the…
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Murder of Roland T. Owen in a Kansas City Hotel
In the winter of 1935, a scarred stranger with no luggage and multiple identities checked into a Kansas City hotel room that would become the epicenter…
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Hell’s Belle: The Violent Life and Strange End of Belle Gunness
You might notice a trend if you are into true crime; people seem to talk mainly about male serial killers. But it was in Belle Gunness's farmyard that…
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Colonial Parkway Murders Solved? Not Quite...
Between 1986 and 1989, the Colonial Parkway thoroughfare in Virginia served as a serial killer’s hunting grounds.
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Disappearance of the Beaumont Children
It was a gorgeous summer morning in 1966 when three young children in South Australia decided to spend the day at the beach. After failing to return…
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Unsolved Villisca Axe Murders of 1912
When eight innocent people lost their lives in a single night, the usually quiet, uneventful town of Villisca, Iowa, changed forever in June 1912.
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Who Killed Lindsay Buziak? The Unsolved Murder of a Young Realtor in British Columbia
In February, 2008, a young realtor named Lindsay Buziak met an unknown couple to who were supposedly interested in purchasing a house in Victoria…
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The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski: Created by Mind Control Experiments?
For almost 20 years starting in 1978, the United States was under attack from an unknown terrorist.
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John Wayne Gacy: America's Most Maniacal Murderer
John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown: The Texarkana Moonlight Murders
There is something about an unsolved serial killer case that is both fascinating and frightening.
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The Perfect Murder? The Tragic Saga of Leopold and Loeb
They thought they were Supermen who could murder a child and get away with it. They were wrong.
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Lizzie Borden Was Not Guilty! Or Was She?
More than 130 years later, people are still debating whether Lizzie took an axe and gave her parents 40 whacks ...
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