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Unsolved mystery of Cleveland Torso Murderer's 4-year rampage with 13 mutilated victims

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: The Cleveland Torso Murderer shocked the US when 13 bodies were found dumped and only two could be identified as their limbs had been amputated by a gruesome killer

Daily Mirror · Feb 18, 2023

Ted Bundy's grisly death before brain was cut out and vile last wish was granted

Evil killer Ted Bundy had his brain cut out and analysed in an effort to understand his levels of depravity

Daily Mirror · Jan 24, 2023

How some enslaved Black people stayed in Southern slaveholding states – and found freedom

For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression.

The Conversation · Jan 24, 2023

Hack Wilson: the hard-living Chicago Cubs star whose epic 1930 endures

The mercurial Cubs outfielder was one of the most rambunctious hitters in MLB history and still holds of one of the sport’s most impregnable records

The Guardian - US · Aug 5, 2022

The freaky Nostradamus predictions that came true and the ones still to come in 2022 and beyond

Whether you're a believer or sceptic, you have to agree there are some uncanny similarities between his words and true events

Irish Mirror · Jul 15, 2022

D.B. Cooper, the changing nature of hijackings and the foundation for today's airport security

Though many Americans may associate airport security with 9/11, it was a wave of hijackings in the late 1960s and early 1970s that laid the foundation for today’s airport security protocols.

The Conversation · Jul 11, 2022

Inside the legend of Bigfoot: How hunt for Sasquatch began - from footsteps to sightings

Legends of Bigfoot have plagued our bedtime stories, Hollywood movies and basic curiosity for years, but the true origins of this ape-like mystery has humble beginnings

Daily Mirror · May 20, 2022

Tucker Carlson pulls from an old playbook as he stokes anxiety about a masculinity crisis

Promotions for “The End of Men,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s forthcoming documentary, lament “The total collapse of testosterone levels in American men.”

The Conversation · May 12, 2022

Disney hasn't found itself in this much trouble since 1941

The family-friendly, controversy-averse Walt Disney Co. has walked into the buzz saw of the American culture wars, version 2022.

The Conversation · May 9, 2022

A New Orleans community center rises from its ugly history as a segregated school

They were known as “the McDonogh Three,” and unlike many stories of the tumultuous civil rights era, this one has a hopeful ending.

The Conversation · May 3, 2022