The Truth About The Unabomber
For nearly two decades, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, unleashed a reign of explosive terror on the United States. This is truth about the Unabomber.
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Here's What Really Happens During A Prison Cell Search
There are a lot of people with little freedom, subject to routine, unannounced searches. Here's what happens during those prison cell searches.
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Here's How People Actually Counterfeit Money
Counterfeiting cash is a crime that has been around as long as legitimate currency. Here's how people are attempting to do it today.
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What Life Is Really Like Under House Arrest
It feels like we're all on house arrest now, given our quasi-quarantine experience. But truthfully, our experience is not at all what it really feels to be placed under house arrest.
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The Truth About The Aldi Owner's Kidnapping
The Aldi supermarket chain boomed in Germany after WWII. Unfortunately, the store's origin story isn't as happy as its success might make it seem. As business boomed, danger loomed, and in 1971 that danger abducted Theo Albrecht. Here's the truth about the Aldi owner's kidnapping.
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The Real Difference Between The FBI And CIA
America's national-level security forces are compartmentalized, and some of them are quite secret indeed.
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What The Final 24 Hours Of A Prisoner On Death Row Are Like
The U.S. is one of the few Western countries that still allows capital punishment; most frequently the sentence is handed down for the crime of murder... here's what those final 24 hours are like for the condemned.
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A Simpsons Episode May Have Predicted Murder Hornets And Coronavirus
People have long viewed The Simpsons as a kind of animated Nostradamus. Now, we can add murder hornets and coronavirus to the list of things it's predicted.
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The Truth About John Wayne Gacy's Final Moments
Vile and defiant until the bitter end, the infamous "Killer Clown" had spent years fighting to have the last laugh. He would spend his last 14 years clogging up the courts with appeals, like a stubborn turd in the toilet of justice.
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The Truth About Serial Killer Andrew Cunanan
Andrew Cunanan's childhood reads like a California dream come true. But even though he had the life equivalent of a royal flush, Cunanan wasn't satisfied with the hand he was dealt.
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The Story Of Branch Davidian Cult Members Steve And Judy Schneider
It was a twisted path that led Steve and Judy Schneider, described by a relative as the "all-American dream couple," to their deaths near Waco, Texas.
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Here's How Steven Seagal Got His Start In Law Enforcement
How did this Steven Seagal, this staple of '90s action shlock and 2000s video on demand become a sworn-in peace officer capable of calling in a suburban tank assault? All we can do is present the pieces of the puzzle. It's nobody's fault that they don't match the picture on the box.
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The Real-Life Story Of The FBI's Gary Noesner
Paramount's miniseries Waco premiered recently on Netflix, an attempt to dramatize the events of early 1993 at the Branch Davidian compound where ultimately 75 people died, including children. One of the characters in the series is FBI negotiator Gary Noesner. Here's his story.
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David Koresh's Wife Rachel Was A Branch Davidian Before He Was
David Koresh put the Branch Davidians on the map with a prolonged siege involving the FBI and other law enforcement. But who was his wife, Rachel?
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Everything You Need To Know About Murder Hornets
You might have noticed the recent "buzz" about a certain, particularly worrying insect that goes by the charming nickname "murder hornet." These unsavory creatures have just been spotted in the U.S. for the first time ever...
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Here's How Johnny Carson Once Caused A Toilet Paper Shortage
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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Here's What You Need To Know About Pandemic Phone Scams
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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The Real Reason Fans Think James Brown Was Murdered
When James Brown passed away in 2006, it just didn't make sense. Some people think he may have been murdered.
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The True Story Of White Boy Rick
"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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How Much Money Did The Dillinger Gang Actually Steal?
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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Why Did Andrew Cunanan Kill Gianni Versace?
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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The Truth About Musician Glenn Miller's Mysterious Disappearance
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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What Happened To Ed Gein's Murder House?
The life of Wisconsin's Ed Gein has been the inspiration for numerous horror films and novels. But what happened to the house where Gein committed his acts?
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The Truth About NBA Star Bison Dele's Mysterious Disappearance
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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Is The Yakuza Still Active?
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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The Truth About How Many People Bonnie & Clyde Really Killed
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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