Imagine your love letters going up for auction some day. That's what happened to Jackie Kennedy, revealing a surprisingly deep connection with a family friend.
On August 8, 1973, Elmer Wayne Henley contacted the Pasadena Police Department to report he committed a murder. That was the beginning of the Candy Man saga.
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee are often remembered as generals who each threw thousands of men at the other during the Civil War until a victor emerged.
Secretariat was probably the most-famous horse to ever race, taking racing's Triple Crown in 1973. Talented as he was, did the famous horse ever lose a race?
In western South Dakota lie the Black Hills, a mountain range covering an 8,400-square-mile area, where something was discovered that forever changed America.
The Battle of Verdun in World War I was among the most devastating engagements of that war, a protracted and bloody conflict that lasted almost all of 1916.
Being stuck, losing the freedom to remove yourself from a place, can be terrifying. Here are some of the scariest places people got stuck in real life.
Between 2007 and 2009, a murderer stalked the LGBT+ community of São Paulo, Brazil. Despite a suspect and arrest, the killer still remains at large and unknown.
Bobby Joe Long was a serial killer who preyed on young women in the Tampa Bay area of Florida in 1984. In just eight months, he killed this many women:
Bobby Joe Long was one of Florida's most notorious serial killers, responsible for murdering 10 women. This is the reason why his execution was so unusual.
Gary Ridgeway, known as the Green River Killer, literally got away with murder for nearly twenty years. Could a piece of evidence have stopped him earlier?
Here's what it was it like to serve on a jury for the trial of one of America's most notorious serial killers - Ted Bundy - and to convict him for his crimes.
One facet of the battle comes across as almost anachronistic in hindsight: steam power, which saw its first recorded military use in the Battle of New Orleans.
Special agent in charge Eliot Ness set his sights on notorious mobster Al Capone and his Chicago gang, but he and his hand-picked team missed their mark.
It's been 40 years since London's Brixton Riots, a major event in Britain's Black history, which changed a discriminatory Met Police practice for good.
In other parts of the world, you'll find significant differences when it comes to how family and friends are laid to rest than just burial or cremation.
Father's Day is the natural follow-up to Mother's Day. So it's kind of weird to think that Father's Day actually has a controversial history, but it does.