Unusual medieval crimes
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Rio de Janeiro’s ‘narco-pentecostal’ gangs accused of ordering Catholic churches to close
11 votes -
The case against Charles Darwin: How the investigation into a grisly murder shocked 19th-century France and framed the scientist as an accomplice
8 votes -
Meta in Myanmar, Part II: The Crisis
8 votes -
Remembering May 4 (Kent State massacre) - An interview with Devo's Jerry Casale
16 votes -
What happened when you visited a medieval inn?
11 votes -
My clients, the liars
31 votes -
How Finland survived a 1,000,000+ Soviet invasion (1939-1940)
13 votes -
Mennonites are pious Christians who eschew much of the modern world. But in Mexico even they have not escaped the pull of the drug cartels.
24 votes -
Ohio pastor charged for housing the homeless
45 votes -
What is systemic racism?
15 votes -
Danish parliament has voted to ban the burning of religious scriptures after a series of Qur’an desecrations in the country and neighbouring Sweden
26 votes -
Recordings show how the Mormon church protects itself from child sex abuse claims
25 votes -
The bizarre story behind Shinzo Abe’s assassination
84 votes -
A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed
40 votes -
The race to catch the last Nazis
15 votes -
Letter showing Pope Pius XII had detailed information from German Jesuit about Nazi crimes revealed
33 votes -
The earthquakes in Turkey killed a prolific war crimes investigator, deputy chief of Syria investigations for the Commission for International Justice and Accountability
9 votes -
The Roman custom: A discussion of war crimes and atrocities committed by Ancient Rome
11 votes -
Hit in DNA database exonerates man forty-seven years after wrongful rape conviction
30 votes -
Innocent Muslims being murdered in India due to Hindu radicalism
28 votes -
Searching for Maura
9 votes -
Planned Danish law will make improper treatment of the Quran or Bible a criminal offence punishable by a fine and jail sentence of up to two years
39 votes -
Mediocre Samurai describes real life in historical Japan
21 votes -
It's a Baltic problem – objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships
10 votes -
The Kennedy Assassination: Inside the book depository
11 votes -
The rich have their own ethics: Effective altruism and the crypto crash
11 votes -
These masks brought shame to gossips, drunks, and narcissists
10 votes -
The fascinating history behind a set of miniature murder scenes
4 votes -
Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after eleven dead bodies discovered during raid
9 votes -
Cluster munitions: The banned weapons Russia and the US won't give up
3 votes -
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.
18 votes -
Stealing Britain's history: When metal detectorists go rogue
9 votes -
How ‘The Monster with 21 Faces’ terrorized Japan during the harrowing Glico Morinaga candy incident
10 votes -
Search for Jimmy Hoffa leads the FBI to Jersey City landfill
8 votes -
At least 216,000 children were victims of sexual assault by the French Catholic Church
13 votes -
The enduring mystery of Jack the Ripper
5 votes -
What we still don't know about Emmett Till's murder
2 votes -
Katrina’s hidden race war
6 votes -
The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
5 votes -
Priest recorded having group sex on altar of Pearl River church, police say; three arrested
9 votes -
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
8 votes -
Swedish prosecutors have named Stig Engström as the man who killed former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, ending years of mystery
5 votes -
Sweden to present findings on Olof Palme assassination – sources say South Africa handed over dossier, but not everyone is hopeful mystery will be solved
5 votes -
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
11 votes -
The search for DB Cooper
10 votes -
When monks went undercover to steal relics
6 votes -
Who killed Swedish prime minister Olof Palme? After a night at the cinema in 1986, Palme was assassinated on Stockholm's busiest street
5 votes -
A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel
7 votes -
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
8 votes