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St. Valentine's Day Massacre
February 13, 2013

Who was responsible for the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre?

Perhaps the most famous unsolved crime in U.S. history took place on February 14, 1929, when police officers called to a garage on the North Side of ...
Was Jack the Ripper a woman?
August 15, 2012

Was Jack the Ripper a woman?

One of history’s oldest unsolved mysteries is the identity of Jack the Ripper, the infamous serial killer who stalked and murdered at least five ...
Did anyone ever escape from Alcatraz?
August 8, 2012

Did anyone ever escape from Alcatraz?

During its nearly 30 years of operation (from 1934 to 1963), the federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay housed some of America’s most ...