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In 1920, a woman was fished out of a lake claiming to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. Did the princess really escape death, or was it the ramblings of a madwoman?

Antoinette Renee Frank is a former officer of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) who, on March 4, 1995, committed a violent armed robbery at a restaurant which resulted in the killing of two members of the family who ran the establishment, and fellow NOPD officer Ronald A. Williams II. She was aided by her probable lover, drug dealer Rogers Lacaze. Frank currently resides at the Louisiana Co...

Lawrencia Ann "Bambi" Bembenek, known as Laurie Bembenek, was an American police officer convicted of murdering her husband's ex-wife. Her story garnered national attention after she escaped from Taycheedah Correctional Institution and was recaptured in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, an episode that inspired books, movies, and the slogan "Run, Bambi, Run". Upon winning a new...

The Bath School Bombing, also known as the Bath School massacre and The Bath School disaster, was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan, United States. The attacks killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults, and injured at least 58 other people. Prior to his timed explosives detonating at the Bath Consolidated School building, Keh...

The killer behind the UK’s worst mass shooting who murdered 16 primary school children in Dunblane in Scotland in 1996 planned the massacre from his mother’s bath. Thomas Hamilton gunned down 16 children and teacher Gwen Mayor before killing himself in the gymnasium at Dunblane Primary School on March 13, 1996.

Execution by electrocution, performed using an electric chair, is a method of execution originating in the United States in which the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes fastened on the head and leg. This execution method, conceived in 1881 by a Buffalo, New York, dentist named Alfred P. Southwick, was developed throughout the 1880s as...

Etan Kalil Patz was an American boy who was six years old on May 25, 1979, when he disappeared on his way to his school bus stop in the SoHo neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. His disappearance helped launch the missing children movement, which included new legislation and new methods for tracking down missing children. Several years after he disappeared, Patz was one of the first children to be pro...

A French court sentenced Thierry Tilly, dubbed "The Guru," to eight years in prison Tuesday for cheating an aristocratic family out of their wealth and château after convincing them their lives were under threat from a secret plot by the Freemasons.

Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement, often described as a cult. It was founded in 1974 and led by Bonnie Nettles and Marshall Applewhite, known within the movement as Ti and Do, respectively. Nettles and Applewhite first met in 1972, and went on a journey of spiritual discovery, identifying themselves as the two witnesses of Revelation, attracting a following of several hundre...

Ken Rex McElroy was a resident of Skidmore, Missouri. Known as "the town bully", his unsolved killing became the focus of international attention.

Sandra Renee Cantu was an American girl who attracted national attention at the age of eight after she disappeared from Tracy, California, on March 27, 2009. Her body was discovered ten days later inside a suitcase in a local irrigation pond. On April 10, police arrested a local woman, 28-year-old Melissa Huckaby, and charged her with the kidnapping and murder of Cantu. Huckaby pleaded guilty to t...

Martin John Bryant is a convicted Australian mass shooter who murdered 35 people and injured 23 others in the Port Arthur massacre, one of the world's deadliest shooting sprees, in Port Arthur, Tasmania, between 28 and 29 April 1996. He is concurrently serving 35 life sentences, plus 1,652 years, all without the possibility of parole, at Risdon Prison in Hobart.

The Shark Arm case refers to a series of incidents that began in Sydney, Australia, on 25 April 1935 when a human arm was regurgitated by a captive 3.5-meter tiger shark, subsequently leading to a murder investigation and trial.

A compilation of strange deaths caused by everyday objects.

A collection of unusual deaths of the 20th century.

Robert Black was a Scottish serial killer who was convicted of the kidnap and murder of four girls aged between 5 and 11 in a series of killings committed between 1981 and 1986 in the United Kingdom. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 35 years. Black died from a heart attack at HMP Maghaberry on 12 January 2016, aged 68.

Joseph Arridy was an American man who was falsely convicted and wrongfully executed for the 1936 murder of Dorothy Drain, a 15-year-old girl in Pueblo, Colorado. He was manipulated by the police to make a false confession due to his mental incapacities. Arridy was moderately mentally disabled and was 23 years old when he was executed on January 6, 1939.

Larry William Eyler was an American serial killer who is believed to have murdered a minimum of twenty-one teenage boys and young men in a series of killings committed in the Midwest between 1982 and 1984. Convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection for the 1984 kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Daniel Bridges, he later voluntarily confessed to the 1982 murder of 23-year-old Steven Aga...

Yoo Young-chul is a South Korean serial killer and self-confessed cannibal. After he admitted to the murders of multiple people, mostly prostitutes and wealthy old women, the Seoul Central District Court convicted him of 20 murders, although one case was dismissed.

Genore Guillory was one of the most generous souls in her Louisiana community. And she would pay for it. Her shocking mutilation and murder revealed a festering, small-town evil that betrayed the promise of a good life spent in God's country.

Henry Louis Wallace is an American serial killer who killed eleven women in South Carolina and North Carolina from March 1990 to March 1994. He is currently awaiting execution at Central Prison in Raleigh.

In this chilling documentary, we examine the disturbing case of Edmund Kemper, a serial killer known as the "Co-ed Killer." Between 1964 and 1973, Kemper murdered six young women and then, after a hiatus, murdered his own mother and two more women. We delve into Kemper's twisted psychology and the efforts of investigators to bring him to justice.

Shawn Michael Grate is an American convicted serial killer and former drifter who murdered five young women from 2006 to September 2016 in and around northern Ohio. Grate was convicted on two counts of aggravated murder on May 7th, 2018, in Ashland County, pleaded guilty to two additional murders on March 1st, 2019, in Richland County, and pleaded guilty to another murder on September 11, 2019, in...

Robert Anderson was a Serial Killer in South Dakota. He bragged about how he liked torturing and murdering women. He was a Sexual Sadist and Predator. He was accused of murdering two women, Piper Streyle, who was 28 years old, and Larisa Dumansky, who was 29 years old. Also accused of the attempted kidnapping of Amy Anderson. Robert Anderson was married twice and had four children. A fellow cellma...

The killing of Tim McLean occurred on the evening of 30 July 2008. McLean, a 22-year-old Canadian man, was stabbed, beheaded, and cannibalized while riding a Greyhound Canada bus along the Trans-Canada Highway, about 30 km west of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. On 5 March 2009, his killer, 40-year-old Vince Li was found not criminally responsible for the murder and remanded to a high-security menta...