Camarena's assignment: Work undercover to expose and bring down the cartel responsible for smuggling drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. He lasted four years.
In the span of less than 20 minutes, a bright and talented young nursing student named Maura Murray somehow disappeared without a trace into the winter night.
In a January 19914 Rolling Stone interview, when asked about "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Kurt Cobain explained, "I was trying to write the ultimate pop song."
Lita, the four-time WWE Women's Champion, retired from wrestling in 2006, after several injuries, including a broken neck, forced her to follow other pursuits.
Founded in 1841 by lawyer-turned-seminary student John Humphrey Noyes, Oneida, the "free love" community, lasted until 1879, at most numbering 300 people.
It's fun to think about which band would give the best prom performance, but it's even more fun to consider which band would give the very worst performance.
Toole and Lucas came from similar backgrounds. Both reportedly had terrible childhoods that meet the usual "here's how you grow a serial killer" tropes.
He definitely has one heck of a pair of vocal chords on him, but Tony Bennett didn't make it to the pantheon of stardom without a little help from "friends."
If you see Pope Francis during one of his many public appearances, there's a good chance you'll see him riding in what's come to be known as the Popemobile.
Ranking up there with professional rat catchers, a night soil man did exactly what you might imagine: shovel waste out of cesspits in the middle of the night.
Alice Guy-Blaché produced more than 1,000 films, including the 1896 short La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy), that many consider the first narrative movie.
People paid to watch someone push (or ride) a horse off a platform as high as 60 feet to plunge into a pool of water only 10 feet deep. That was the show.
Along with Al Capone, John Dillinger has achieved a place in popular culture that at once demands he should be forgotten forever and ensures that he won't be.
For sheer audacity, profit, and old-school cool, nothing beats the Great Train Robbery of 1963.
Here's Britain's notorious Great Train Robbery explained.
Historians have debated the nature of Edith Wilson's role in the White House. However, it's clear that she was the most powerful First Lady in American history.
The Astors booked First Class passage to New York on the new vessel, the RMS Titanic, in the spring of 1912. Neither seemed concerned when the ship hit ice.
Blond bombshell Torrie Wilson went from the corn fields of Boise, Idaho, to the main event of the pro wrestling world. She entered wrestling almost by accident.
Eventually, the stream of corporate chaos ended in tragedy when Maurizio Gucci was shot dead in the foyer of his office in 20 Via Palestro, Milan, in 1995.
It's a little weird that you can just Google known criminal organizations and up pops a list of "top 5" crime syndicates on Fortune, like Oscars favorites.