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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Gypsy Rose Blanchard said she felt freer in prison than she did growing up with her mother. This is the story of her tragic childhood.
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Much like Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and other notorious serial killers, Ed Kemper gained a perverse quasi-celebrity status for doing the unthinkable.
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Charles Lindbergh was a household name when his son, Charles Lindbergh, Jr. was kidnapped. This is the tragic true story of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.
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In the early morning hours of March 9th, 1997, rap music star Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls, took four bullets in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles.
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When it comes to acts of unspeakable evil, common knowledge goes that serial killers are either Machiavellian geniuses or an intellectually-stunted oddballs. Think of Jigsaw or Leatherface. However, as is often the case with attempts to assign unflappable truths, this is an oversimplification.
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Norman Bates was based on the so-called Butcher of Plainfield, Ed Gein. However, the true nature of Gein's fixations was more complex.
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Despite the objections of privacy advocates, the Los Lunas Police Department is now running beta tests for a new form of built-in body camera facial recognition, paving the way for a more RoboCop-ish future.
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UFC president Dana White is a pretty powerful dude these days. However, everyone has to start somewhere ... and his start came while running away from the Winter Hill Gang, a gangster outfit led by none other than Whitey Bulger, the notorious gangster.
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Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is notorious for, among other things, amassing an illicit fortune larger than the gross domestic product of a small nation. And throughout his tenure as the most wanted man in the world, his older brother, Roberto Escobar, worked as his accountant.
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Albert Fish was a monster whose crimes were vile. The serial killer was executed in the electric chair. Here's the truth about Albert Fish's last words.
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It probably takes a lot to terrify firefighters. They spit in the face of death for a living. Yet when firefighter Matthew Busko arrived at the scene of a reported "animal bite" and found an infernal swarm of bees, he was filled with five-alarm fear.
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Even though they don't seem to get as much media attention the men, the world is full of bloodthirsty women.
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In Mexico, the town of Guerrero's grief-stricken and frustrated residents have decided to save their children from crime by turning them into law enforcement.
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Ted Bundy was an evil man. He was also super charismatic, so it should come as no surprise that after he was arrested, the man tricked someone into marrying him. But whatever happened to Bundy’s wife, Carole Ann Boone?
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We all know that Ted Bundy became one of the most notorious serial killers in history, but what was he like before he was an adult? Well, the details of Bundy's childhood are scarce ... and disturbing.
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One might ask the eminently Google-able "yes or no" question, "Is the Co-Ed Killer Ed Kemper still alive?" The answer was yes, and as of this writing it still is. The end. Well, it's not really the end until Kemper dies, though one might argue that a fundamental part of him died decades ago.
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Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson was a prime example of Old West survival skills. Until he died, that is.
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From your own car to that bridge you’re driving on, these are the world's biggest threats that few people know about.
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Al Capone had a lot of love for his child, Albert Francis Capone, better known as "Sonny." Here's what to know about Albert Francis Capone, Al Capone's son.
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Snoop Dogg is a household name. But in 1994, Snoop had yet to beat a murder rap after being accused of taking part in the drive-by shooting of a gang member.
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As we may have pointed out before, medical science hasn't always been an exact science. For a good long time, a deeply backwards thought process led folks to believe that drinking blood could treat epilepsy.
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The Federal Witness Protection Program has been a controversial entity, but it's also protected the lives of numerous individuals. So if you want to know more about this secret organization (without ticking off a mob boss), read on for the truth about the US Witness Protection Program.
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Whether in self-defense, by accident, or, very occasionally, cold-blooded murder, there are a handful of musicians in the world that have killed people.
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