Elmer McCurdy – The “hanging man” in a funhouse that was a real corpse January 30, 2023His mummified body was displayed around the USA from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Edith Thompson, the woman executed for her lover’s crime January 25, 2023Despite there being no evidence that Edith knew about the murder, she was executed in 1923.
Katia and Maurice Krafft, the volcanologists killed by Mount Unzen January 24, 2023Maurice was quoted stating that he wanted to die "at the edge of a volcano".
A Soviet doctor blew up a passenger bus because of his hatred of tall people December 20, 2022When asked what drove him to the bombing, Volynsky said "I hate people."
There’s a part of Yellowstone National Park where you could get away with murder July 10, 2019It’s in Idaho, but under the jurisdiction of Wyoming, meaning it is impossible to form a jury for a trial.
A Nazi fleeing child sexual abuse charges led a cult in Chile from 1961 to 2006 June 27, 2019Paul Schäfer continued his abuse of children at the commune where he kept up to 350 members isolated from the outside world.
At least 16 women have disappeared or been murdered along one highway in Canada June 27, 2019To date, only one murder has been solved along British Columbia Highway 16.
The photographs of a man who knew he was about to be killed by a volcano May 17, 2019Robert Landsburg used his own body to preserve the photographs he had taken of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
Singing “My Way” is banned at some karaoke bars in the Philippines after multiple murders May 7, 2019In some bars, people are employed especially to defuse conflicts between patrons.
The largest single mass lynching in US history was celebrated in newspapers April 2, 201911 Italian Americans in New Orleans were lynched after the murder of a police chief despite being acquitted.
