Unusual medieval crimes
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The case against Charles Darwin: How the investigation into a grisly murder shocked 19th-century France and framed the scientist as an accomplice
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Remembering May 4 (Kent State massacre) - An interview with Devo's Jerry Casale
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What happened when you visited a medieval inn?
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How Finland survived a 1,000,000+ Soviet invasion (1939-1940)
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A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed
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The race to catch the last Nazis
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Letter showing Pope Pius XII had detailed information from German Jesuit about Nazi crimes revealed
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The Roman custom: A discussion of war crimes and atrocities committed by Ancient Rome
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Searching for Maura
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Mediocre Samurai describes real life in historical Japan
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It's a Baltic problem – objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships
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The Kennedy Assassination: Inside the book depository
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These masks brought shame to gossips, drunks, and narcissists
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The fascinating history behind a set of miniature murder scenes
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13,000 pounds at 118 miles per hour: It was the deadliest wreck in years. And the man behind it was one of the FBI’s most notorious informants.
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Stealing Britain's history: When metal detectorists go rogue
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How ‘The Monster with 21 Faces’ terrorized Japan during the harrowing Glico Morinaga candy incident
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Search for Jimmy Hoffa leads the FBI to Jersey City landfill
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The enduring mystery of Jack the Ripper
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What we still don't know about Emmett Till's murder
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Katrina’s hidden race war
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The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
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The rape kit’s secret history - This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime
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Swedish prosecutors have named Stig Engström as the man who killed former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, ending years of mystery
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Sweden to present findings on Olof Palme assassination – sources say South Africa handed over dossier, but not everyone is hopeful mystery will be solved
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An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud
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The search for DB Cooper
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When monks went undercover to steal relics
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Who killed Swedish prime minister Olof Palme? After a night at the cinema in 1986, Palme was assassinated on Stockholm's busiest street
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A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel
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The dognapping of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog Flush in 1846, and how she negotiated for his safe return just before secretly eloping with Robert Browning
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The case of Leopold and Loeb
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The case of the shotgun booby trap
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Can animals commit crimes?
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Death In Ice Valley – New clues in Isdal Woman mystery
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‘Deep Sleep’: How an amateur porno set off a massive Federal witch hunt
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The fatal ensnaring of Dan DePew
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The Reykjavik Confessions
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The big squeeze: Sicily’s mafia sprang from the growing global market for lemons – a tale with sour parallels for consumers today
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How two thieves stole thousands of prints from university libraries
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After a year of rising tensions, protesters tear down Confederate statue on UNC campus
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Basil Banghart, an incredibly interesting American criminal, burglar and prison escape artist
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Chasing the Pearl of Lao Tzu — A tale of ancient philosophers, alien abductions, murder-for-hire and how the world’s largest pearl came to be the centerpiece of an 80-year-old hoax
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Ninety-eight years of mail fraud - How the postal letter became a tool for ingenious criminality
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