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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There are many takes on what happened at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, on October 26, 1881. Some say the Earp brothers and dentist friend Doc Holliday tried to restore order to a lawless town, while others claim three unarmed men were brutally murdered.
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By the time Kuklinski was caught, he had made a name for himself as a prolific hitman. That name was "Iceman."
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It takes a pretty singular criminal act for a parole board to deny a person their freedom on the basis of fear for the perpetrator's safety, but that was one of the reasons given when, in the summer of 2018, Mark David Chapman was denied release for the tenth consecutive time.
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In all of the history of the United States, by 1861 no one had successfully assassinated a president, let alone a president-elect. That included Lincoln -- but that doesn't mean people hadn't tried.
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A 1993 study showed that just shy of half of the members of the yakuza had been ritualistically deprived of a portion of their finger, and that 15% of those had undergone the procedure more than once. The practice is called "yubitsume," or "finger shortening," and it goes back over a hundred years.
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Though she was a serial killer, Aileen Wuornos was also quite a tragic figure. Equally chilling, or perhaps just weird, were her final words.
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