A Look At Jesse James' Failed Bank Robbery Attempt
One bungled hold-up in Minnesota ended with two of his own men dead and two or three wounded (accounts vary), with Jesse James himself fleeing for his life.
Read MoreOne bungled hold-up in Minnesota ended with two of his own men dead and two or three wounded (accounts vary), with Jesse James himself fleeing for his life.
By Aaron Homer Read MoreWhat made the murder of Alexandra Fossmo so sensational had to do with the fact that she was killed on the orders of her husband, Helge, a pastor.
By Emilia David Read MoreThe homicide rate in Sweden is low -- just 1.1 cases per 100,000 people, with a total of 108 homicides in 2018, which makes the Knutby case more fascinating.
By Karen Corday Read MoreEd Gein was a quiet man who would become synonymous with an obsessive love for his mother and some of the most horrifying discoveries in the 20th century.
By Amy Beeman Read MoreFred and Rosemary West went on a killing spree that took place over decades, beginning in the 1960s, and were not caught until 1994.
By Allen McDuffee Read MoreThe wild nature of Ed Gein's crimes inspired a wave of horror movies that are cemented in pop culture today, such as The Silence of the Lambs and Psycho.
By Alexandra Simon Read MoreSeinfeld is a bit of a time capsule of 1990s New York City life, and modern audiences may be a bit baffled by some of its references.
By Jeff Somers Read MoreFor a span of four years in the early 1990s, serial killer Joel Rifkin left a string of terror across New York City.
By Tyler MacDonald Read MoreOn March 18, 1990, an art heist took place at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and only one living person may know who did it.
By Amy Beeman Read MoreLorena Bobbitt — now known as Lorena Gallo — is reframing her own story. Why didn't she ever get married again?
By Samantha Sanders Read MoreThe San Francisco Witch Killers murdered at least three people in the early 1980s, all while fueled by psychedelics and paranoid delusions.
By Amy Beeman Read MoreOn March 18, 1990, "the single largest property theft in the world," an art heist, took place at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
By Karen Corday Read MoreBetween 1999-2006, a Russian outcast named Alexander Pichushkin tied chess and homicide together, earning the nickname "the Chessboard Killer" in the process.
By Aaron Homer Read MoreThe creation of street gangs in the 1960s was for young Black men to protect their communities. The notorious Crips and Bloods were born out of this upheaval.
By Elizabeth Collins Read MoreThis killer goes after the same type of victims as many other killers: He traps and murders sex workers, the kind of person, many assume, who won't be missed.
By Nick Vrchoticky Read MoreAileen Wuornos will forever live in infamy for robbing several men of their lives along Florida back roads and highways. How many victims did she have?
By Lynnette Southwood Read MoreAfter the 1990 robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, alleged mobster Robert 'Bobby the Cook' Gentile became a person of interest.
By Emilia David Read MoreThe guards had just let two thieves into the building. The thieves promptly tied up the guards and looted the art collection over the next hour.
By Allen McDuffee Read MoreFortunately for the morbidly curious, Ed Gein's grave can easily be found in a publicly-accessible cemetery near the old family property in Wisconsin.
By Aaron Homer Read MoreWhile the 1987 murders committed by Daniel LaPlante were undeniably shocking, his earlier activities were, in many ways, strange on their own.
By Luke T. Harrington Read MoreThe conman and murderer Charles Sobhraj eluded authorities for years as his wave of crime and murder swept across Southeast Asia's infamous Hippie Trail.
By Tyler MacDonald Read MoreSince the arrest of French serial killer and conman Charles Sobhraj and his girlfriend and accomplice Marie-Andrée Leclerc, it's unclear how much she knew.
By Amy Beeman Read MoreJoseph Edward Duncan, a serial killer and child molester who was awaiting execution, has died in hospital of brain cancer
By S. Flannagan Read MoreA serial killer who killed gay men in 1970s San Francisco has never been caught. Here's the truth about unidentified serial killer "The Doodler" explained.
By Jeff Somers Read MoreWhile serial killers are known for suffering from varying sorts of mental and personality disorders, the vast majority of them can function in regular society.
By Alexandra Simon Read MoreWhile his slew of murders defined his life before he was executed in 1989, a lesser known fact is that Ted Bundy first practiced his sick craft on pet mice.
By Tyler MacDonald Read MoreOne of Sobhraj's most trusted associates was Ajay Chowdhury, who helped the Frenchman commit a series of passport thefts, robberies, and murders in the 1970s.
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