Showing posts with the label Crime

The Perfect Crime: The Murchison Murders

Aug 16, 2023

Arthur Upfield is one Australia's most underrated writers. His literary contributions often remain overshadowed by the brilliance of his...

5 Historical Figures Who Were Assassinated in The Lavatory

Apr 24, 2023

When a person is on the toilet, moving bowels, they are in a particularly vulnerable position. They are exposing parts of their body that ar...

Eugène Vidocq: A Criminal Who Became The World’s First Modern Detective

Apr 18, 2023

It is paradoxical that a former delinquent with a colorful life ends up being the creator and director of the French police; even more so if...

Marie Lafarge: The Arsenic Poisoner

Nov 26, 2022

In the early 19th century, arsenic was most widely used to kill rats and insufferable husbands alike. The chemical element was odorless and ...

The Angel Makers of Nagyrév

Aug 1, 2022

About sixty miles southeast of Budapest, on the River Tisza, lies a quiet little village with a horrible past. It was here in Nagyrev, a cen...

The Whipping Tom of 1681

Mar 22, 2022

The streets of London have witnessed some of the strangest men come and go over the years. From commoners like Theodore Hook, who halted the...

The Last Public Execution by Guillotine

Dec 1, 2021

On the morning of 17 June 1939, a crowd gathered outside the doors of the Saint-Pierre prison, in the center of Versailles. They had come to...

The Case of The Missing Sri Lankan Handball Team

Nov 23, 2021

The Sri Lankan sports authority has a problem. Their athletes keep disappearing. They go to foreign countries to take part in sporting event...

Henry Howard Holmes’s Murder Castle

Nov 13, 2021

At the corner of South Lowe Avenue and West 63rd Street in Englewood, Chicago, where now stands a drab, two story building of the United Sta...

Sarah Jacob: The Girl Who Starved to Death to Prove Herself

Apr 21, 2021

There have been quite a few cases where people claimed to have survived without food. These people call themselves “breatharians” for they p...

Michael Malloy: The Man Who Wouldn’t Die

Aug 21, 2020

Killing someone takes a lot of wickedness backed by an equal amount of temerity, none of which was lacking in Tony Marino, Joseph "Red&...

Joseph Bell, The Real Sherlock Holmes

Mar 28, 2020

An illustration of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson that appeared in a stamp printed in Alderney, circa 2009. Photo: Olga Popova/Shutterstoc...

The Murders Written in Stone

Feb 3, 2020

The Ardwell House East Lodge sits right on the edge of A716 that runs along the east coast of the Rhins of Galloway, in southern Scotland. L...

Yasukuni Shrine, Where War Criminals Are Revered

Feb 15, 2019

The Imperial Shrine of Yasukuni, in Chiyoda, Tokyo, is a beautiful spiritual place for remembering those who died in service for Japan. As m...

How to Get Away With Murder in Yellowstone National Park

Apr 20, 2018

In 2005, a Michigan State law professor published a paper in a law journal where he described a way to commit the perfect crime and get away...

The Legacy of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

Jan 16, 2018

A two-hour bumpy ride from Uyuni across Bolivia’s high plains will take you to the small town of San Vicente. At the entrance to this remote...

Who Put Bella In The Wych Elm?

Jul 4, 2017

This question, which appears in the form of a graffiti on a towering brick obelisk in Hagley in Worcestershire, England, has been haunting t...

The Historic Dutch Ship Batavia, And Its Blood-Curdling History

Sep 22, 2016

Moored at Bataviawerf, in Lelystad, in the Netherlands, is an authentic replica of a 17th-century ship named Batavia that once belonged to t...

Memorial to The Murdered Jews of Europe

May 26, 2016

One of the most impressive and controversial memorial to the Holocaust is located near Brandenburg Gate, in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood ...

The Highway of Death

May 4, 2016

Twenty five years ago, one of the most brutal massacres in war history occurred in Iraq, along Highway 80, about 32 km west of Kuwait city. ...