What Really Happened To Pharma Bro, Martin Shkreli?
Guess who's back to top off an insane year of seismic news stories with a final nugget of madness? It's convicted felon and "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli.
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The Gifting Tables From Murder On Middle Beach Explained
Gifting Table was a supposed female empowerment group designed to help women make it through the difficult economic times of the Great Recession.
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The Mysterious Disappearance Of Alfred Loewenstein
The disappearance of Captain Alfred Loewenstein from his Fokker Tri-motor private airplane while crossing the English Channel is still puzzling.
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The Time Cherie Currie Was Kidnapped By A Serial Killer
Currie had come from a difficult background, and her upbringing appeared to set the stage for the kinds of situations she would either find or put herself in.
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The Messed Up Truth About The Night Stalker
Richard Ramirez was a self-styled devil worshipper who killed at random. This is the horrifying true story of the Night Stalker.
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These Drug Lords Were Never Brought To Justice
They say that crime doesn't pay and that justice is always served ... except for the cases of these drug lords who were never brought to justice.
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How A Fake CIA Agent Convinced People To Rob Banks
What if a real-life case came along that combined a conman impersonating a CIA officer, multiple bank heists, and documentation and terminology convincing enough to fake out the police? Throw in a fall guy in the form of an $11/hour Target employee who got suckered into this nonsense.
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What Really Happened After A Man Stole An M60 Patton Tank
The M60 is not the sort of vehicle the military wants citizens driving around the streets, and chances are you aren't going to find one with the keys in it unless you're desperate enough to grab one from a military base. Which, oddly enough, is exactly what happened in 1995 in San Diego.
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Is Cannibalism Illegal In The U.S.? The Answer May Surprise You
Cannibalism has existed in humanity for pretty much all of our known history. But in the modern day, it's mostly stopped. Is cannibalism illegal in the U.S.?
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The Real Reason The FBI Struggles To Hire Hackers
The FBI has a rule that's made it harder for them to hire hackers:
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The Grisly Crimes Of Joe Metheny
Thankfully, not everyone is capable of killing, but there are some who've made murder a hobby. Among them is Joe Metheny, whose crimes will turn your stomach.
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How Billionaire Sean Quinn Lost His Money
It's pretty sad when a family's avarice turns its own members against each other. They say blood is thicker than water, but apparently for the Quinn family of Ireland, greed goes deeper.
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What Really Happened With John And Lorena Bobbitt?
The sensational John and Lorena Bobbitt story of 1993 was one part a shocking story of violence between a married couple and about five parts media sensation.
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These Mobsters Were Never Brought To Justice
While some of the most famous mobsters were never brought to legal justice, the Mafia has its own brand of justice.
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The Time Justin Bieber Was Part Of A Murder Plot
Lots of these reasons people dislike Justin Bieber don't have anything to do with Bieber's music, and more to do with his obtuse or arrogant behavior (such as writing in the Anne Frank House guest book, "Hopefully she would have been a belieber," as the BBC reported in 2013).
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How Billionaire Allen Stanford Lost His Fortune
There's a class of billionaire who will surely never get a drop of our sympathy, and that's the kind who makes his fortune from years of stealing other people's life savings, and then loses his bundle. Such is the case with Allen Stanford, the native Texan with an ego as big as his home state.
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These Hackers Were Never Brought To Justice
What the majority of people are referring to when they say "hacker" is a black hat hacker, the cyber villains who wreck stuff and steal things via digital means. White hat hackers are the tech people who typically work in cyber security. Grey hat hackers are content to mess around in their basement.
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What It's Really Like To Celebrate Christmas In Prison
What is Christmas like for those who can't participate -- for those people, perhaps, locked inside correctional institutions for the mistakes they made in their lives? This is what it's really like to celebrate Christmas in prison.
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These Nazi War Criminals Were Never Brought To Justice
When the Allies declared victory after World War II, some Nazi war criminals fled Germany. Others folded up their uniforms and went back to their pre-war life.
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The Truth About Ozzy Osbourne's Small-Time Criminal Past
The metal singer saw fame through two different camera lenses: The one that got him paid, and the one that took his mugshots. You might not know it, but Ozzy Osbourne has a bit of a criminal past.
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The Reason Billionaire Vijay Mallya Lost His Money
When he decided to branch out into the global luxury aviation business in 2007, he boasted in an interview after multiple tall glasses of scotch on the rocks, "I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that." He had just bought 50 Airbus planes in Paris, a $7 billion order.
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The Mysterious Murder Of A JFK Mistress
Not all of Kennedy's mistresses received the same treatment. Mary Pinchot Meyer, a talented painter and the daughter of a wealthy progressive lawyer and a journalist, was a long-time Kennedy mistress whose death, although less well known than Marilyn Monroe, was no less shrouded in mystery.
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People Who Mysteriously Vanished In The Grand Canyon
t's estimated that somewhere around 5.9 million people visit the Grand Canyon each year, and, sometimes, bad things happen. Occasionally, people just disappear.
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The Messed Up Truth About The West Memphis Three Murders
In 1993, three 8-year-old boys disappeared from the streets of West Memphis, Ark. The following day, three more bodies were found.
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The Crazy Real-Life Story Of Sand Mafias
Each year humans consume around 50 billion tonnes of sand (that's metric tons, which come out to a little more than a tenth larger than U.S. tons) to carry out the oh-so-important work of being humans. Sooner or later, even a resource is as plentiful as sand is going to run out.
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The Truth About I Am A Killer's Dale Wayne Sigler
Dale Wayne Sigler, one of the subjects of Netflix's popular docuseries I Am A Killer and, more recently, I Am A Killer: Released, openly admits that 30 years ago, he took a man's life. Sigler spent three decades in prison following a robbery attempt that went bad in 1990.
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Was This Man History's First Recorded Serial Killer?
Serial killings had to have started somewhere — they weren't birthed by some mystical demon. This is a very human problem that started somewhere in our history, and the earliest known serial killer may have been the child butcher Gilles de Rais. Was this man history's first recorded serial killer?
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