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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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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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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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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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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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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Christmas Day is just another day on the calendar, and bad things can happen to you any time. The world doesn't stop just because it's December 25th.
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Watts had strangled his wife and children, then he took their bodies out to an oil well, where he buried his wife and hid the girls' bodies in oil tanks.
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One Blackpool, England resident has made a name for himself as the town's foul-housed Christmas curmudgeon.
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Oscar Pistorius was a Paralympic athlete and an Olympic athlete who captured the world's attention - with both is talent and his crimes. Here's the story.
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The most frightening crimes to ever take place on Thanksgiving often occur between family members and loved ones amid the holiday celebration.
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One of the strangest incidents to occur during the band's long career occurred in the early 1980s, when an unexpected connection between the band and a notorious L. A. County serial killer put the band on the front pages for all the wrong reasons, and led to them being tarred as devil worshipers.
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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.
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There was a time when kids were allowed to go out and explore their neighborhoods, but several high-profile disappearances in the 1980s caused some big changes.
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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."
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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.
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Here are some crazy true stories of politicians convicted of crimes.
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Doorbell cams record when they detect motion. And sometimes what they capture is pretty freaky. These are the creepiest things caught on doorbell cams.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was carrying 239 people when it disappeared in 2014. Here are the chilling details known about its mysterious disappearance.
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Of the many bizarre things that only exist in North Korea, one of the strangest has to be the presence of actual fashion police.
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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.
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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.
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DJ Jam Master Jay was integral to early hip-hop as part of Run-DMC, but he was shot to death in 2002 in a case that went unsolved until 2024.
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Fake kidnappings cause media sensation but distract authorities from more serious matters. Here are some of the craziest fake kidnappings.
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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.
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There are some stories that define the 1990s, but there are also some huge events that many of us have forgotten about today. Here's a refresher course.
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As the band prepped to fly to the U.S. for a tour in February 1995, Edwards was spotted leaving his hotel early in the morning, as explained by a BBC report. When he didn't return, the cops got involved and Edwards was declared to be missing.
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