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She was executed for her crimes on February 3, 1903. Age: 156 Photo: California State Prison Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Carol M. Bundy Carol M. Bundy killed her lover by stabbing and beheading him, which was discovered shortly after she went to the police to claim that her ...
he failed to get close enough to the man suspected of being Eichmann to take good photos of him. But eventually, with the use of two volunteers posing as homebuilders interested to buy land in the neighborhood, he managed to get closer to Eichmann and his son and a ...
Bettman /Contributor/Getty Images Plainfield, Wisconsin was home to an unassuming farmer turned handyman named Ed Gein, but the rural farmhouse Gein called home masked the scene of a series of unspeakable crimes. After his parents passed away in the 1940s, Gein began to isolate himself. He b...
Meiselas used material from police reports to focus on documenting the crimes, both visually and in text. The collages created in this way were posted in public spaces to raise people’s awareness of the many different forms of violence towards women as a structural phenomenon. About Kurdistan ...
Their story was even briefly depicted in a fictionalized scene in James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster film "Titanic." The moment takes place during a montage in the film set to the Christian hymn "Nearer, My God, to Thee," in which an older couple holds each other in bed while their ...
When police arrived, it was suspected that the crime scene was heavily compromised due to multiple people arriving at the scene. The police had also claimed that they had not searched the house after Patsy’s initial call because there was no reason to believe that JonBenét was in the house...
Ruth Snyder in the witness stand as her confession is read to the court. In one of the most sensational crimes of the period, Snyder and the man she was having an affair with were convicted and sentenced to death for killing her husband. ...
Snipes'temporary homewas the minimum-security wing of FCI McKean in Lewis Run, Pa., home to a few hundred khaki-wearing inmates convicted of white-collar crimes who had been relegated to kitchen duty, yard work or other daily jobs. The married father of fi...
In the early twentieth century, Shanghai was filled with foreigners arriving in China from around the world to seek adventure and their fortunes. Some of these foreigners, unfortunately, didn’t have the best intentions and became rather notorious for gambling and other crimes around the city. Th...