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German police DNA testing 870 men over a 23-year-old murder cold case

Claudia Ruf was 11 when she was murdered in Germany in 1996. No-one has been charged with her death.

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There's a part of Yellowstone National Park where you could get away with murder

It’s in Idaho, but under the jurisdiction of Wyoming, meaning it is impossible to form a jury for a trial.
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At least 16 women have disappeared or been murdered along one highway in Canada

To date, only one murder has been solved along British Columbia Highway 16.
A Nazi fleeing child sexual abuse charges led a cult in Chile from 1961 to 2006 image

A Nazi fleeing child sexual abuse charges led a cult in Chile from 1961 to 2006

Paul Schäfer continued his abuse of children at the commune where he kept up to 350 members isolated from the outside world.
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The photographs of a man who knew he was about to be killed by a volcano

Robert Landsburg used his own body to preserve the photographs he had taken of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
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Singing "My Way" is banned at some karaoke bars in the Philippines after multiple murders

In some bars, people are employed especially to defuse conflicts between patrons.
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