• Police department
    By Aimee Lamoureux

    The True Story Of The First Police Department

    While they seem ubiquitous now, police departments are a relatively modern invention. The police as we know them did not really come into being until after the passage of the Metropolitan Police Act in England in 1829.

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  • Etan Patz
    By Aimee Lamoureux

    The Real Reason They Stopped Putting Missing Kids On Milk Cartons

    Patz's widely publicized disappearance made media headlines and grabbed the nation's attention. Concerned parents began pushing for a nationwide system to track missing kids, eventually forming the Missing Children Milk Carton Program in 1984. The program was soon adopted nationwide.

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  • Swerve in the desert
    By Karen Corday

    The Unsolved Disappearance Of Jim Sullivan

    A day later, his car was found, but there was no sign of Sullivan. His guitar, clothes, wallet, and copies of his second album were found in his car and motel room, but there was no note indicating what might have happened. No further trace of Sullivan ever turned up.

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  • Meerkat
    By Felix Behr

    The World's Most Murderous Mammal Will Surprise You

    With all the true crime podcasts and documentaries filling our cultural space, you would be forgiven for thinking that humans were the most murderous species on Earth. However, according to a 2016 study conducted by José María Gómez from the University of Granada in Spain, we aren't.

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  • sheila
    By Tom Meisfjord

    The Stay-At-Home Mom Who Solved A Decades-Old Murder

    Sheila started making phone calls -- roughly 700 of them, by her estimates. She phoned the police again and again and was, by her recollection, largely blown off. She went so far as to become a licensed private investigator, all in the hopes of landing a little more clout with law enforcement.

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  • Susan B. Anthony
    By Felix Behr

    Here's Why Susan B. Anthony Was Arrested

    Some may wonder what Anthony's strategic purpose was in voting when women didn't have the right to do so. The point, however, wasn't to vote, but to be barred from voting. Once barred, the suffragettes would sue the state for infringing on their rights.

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  • trial pamphlet
    By Tom Meisfjord

    The Unsolved Murders Of Mary Ashford And Barbara Forrest

    the case came to a close. The 1817 case came to a close. Or it would have, if it weren't for the fact that the whole thing happened again 157 years later. In a series of eerie coincidences, Barbara Forrest met her astonishingly similar and tragic end in 1974.

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  • Shomrim Brooklyn
    By Emilia David

    The Truth About The Jewish Vigilante Group That Patrols New York

    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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  • sock
    By Tom Meisfjord

    The Sketchy Reason Gas Stations Sell Socks

    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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  • michael negrete
    By Tom Meisfjord

    The Mysterious Disappearance Of Michael Negrete

    Here's a series of terrifying thoughts. First, the human mind can only visualize numbers up to a certain point. After that, they're just abstract concepts. Thus, for all of one's perceived individuality, it is entirely true that sometimes people just ... disappear.

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  • Carrie Lawson
    By Tom Meisfjord

    Inside The Mysterious Abduction Of Carrie Lawson

    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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  • An empty classroom
    By Felix Behr

    The Inexplicable Disappearance Of Tara Grinstead

    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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  • The Sawyer family enjoying dinner in Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    By Richard Milner

    The Real-Life Event That The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Is Based On

    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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