A Nazi fleeing child sexual abuse charges led a cult in Chile from 1961 to 2006 Thursday 27th June 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 Thursday 27th June 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 Friday 17th May 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 Tuesday 7th May 2019In some bars, people are employed especially to defuse conflicts between patrons.
The largest single mass lynching in US history was celebrated in newspapers Tuesday 2nd April 201911 Italian Americans in New Orleans were lynched after the murder of a police chief despite being acquitted.
For years, police in England believed a serial cat murderer killed more than 400 cats Saturday 30th March 2019After spending more than £130,000 investigating, they concluded there was no such killer.
The first person to executed by electric chair Friday 22nd March 2019After being found guilty of murdering his wife in 1889, William Kemmler was sentenced to death by electrocution.
A meteorite landed in Peru and gave people nearby a mysterious illness Saturday 16th March 2019The loud noise and explosive impact originally led Peruvians to think that Chile had launched an attack.
In 1958, a US Air Force plane accidentally dropped a nuclear weapon Saturday 2nd March 2019The bomb landed onto a children's playhouse in Mars Bluff, South Carolina.
The Tool Box Killers Sunday 17th February 2019Over five months in California in 1979, two men lured teenage girls into their van before torturing them with items from their "tool box".
