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Crime
The Brink’s-Mat Robbery: Britain’s Biggest Gold Heist
Edward England, the Humane Pirate Captain Deposed by His Men for Being Too Nice
Henry Jennings: The Privateer-Turned-Pirate Who Set the Stage for the Caribbean’s Golden Age of Piracy
Anne Bonny: Fierce Female Pirate of the Caribbean
Charles Vane: The Fierce and Unstable Pirate Who Scared Other Pirates
The Hammersmith Ghost Hysteria: A Public Panic that Led to a Landmark Murder Case
The Shrigley Abduction: When New Zealand’s Founder Kidnapped and Coerced a 15 y.o. Heiress Into Marriage
Ax Murderer John Lynch, Australia’s Outback Serial Killer
The Norrmalmstorg Robbery: The Bungled Bank Robbery that Birthed Stockholm Syndrome
Wild West Outlaws: Charlie Bowdre, the Regulator Turned Cattle Rustler
The Flying Gang and Republic of Pirates: When Pirates Took Over the Bahamas
Wealthy Heiress Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army: From Kidnapped Rich Girl to Radical Revolutionary
The Baron of Arizona: James Reavis, the Wild West’s Most Brazen Conman
The Cangaco and Cangaceiros: The Bandits of the Brazilian Outback
Stephanie St. Clair: The Harlem Gambling Queen Who Took On the Mafia and NYPD
Michael Fagan: The Disturbed Man Who Broke Into Queen Elizabeth II’s Bedroom
The Bitch Wars: The Soviet Gulag Gang War that Killed Tens of Thousands
Operation Flagship: The Sting that Captured 101 Fugitives With the Promise of Free Redskins Tickets
Rachel Wall: America’s First Female Pirate
Mary Wolverston, Lady Killigrew: Elizabethan Pirate Queen of Cornwall
Eugene-Francois Vidocq, the Ex-Convict Who Founded France’s Civil Police and the World’s First Detective Agency
The ‘Dynamite Fiend’: Conman, Confederate Spy, and Mass Murderer Alexander Keith Jr.
Johnny Ringo, the Tragic Old West Outlaw
Thomas Ley, the Justice Minister Who Murdered Critics and Rivals
Frances Glessner Lee, the ‘Mother of Forensic Science’ Who Revolutionized Criminal Investigations
Felt Hat Day and Straw Hat Riots: When American Cities Erupted Over Headdress
Colonel Blood: The Audacious Rogue Who Stole the Crown Jewels of England
The Forty Elephants: The All-Female Gang That Preyed on London’s Elites for Generations
Henry Morgan, the Real Life Captain Morgan, Was One of History’s Most Successful Pirates
Wilhelm Voigt: Drifter Who Robbed a Town By Dressing in an Officer’s Uniform and Ordering Officials to Hand Him the Treasury’s Contents
Urwa ibn al Ward: Ancient Arabian Robin Hood Bandit-Poet, and Prince of Vagabonds
Sulayk ibn Salaka: Ancient Arabia’s Ferocious Black Bandit-Poet
‘Thief-Taker General’: The Crime Buster Who Was a Criminal Kingpin, and Gave Us the Term ‘Double Cross’
The Eighteenth Century Wig-Snatching Crime Wave
Ta’abbata Sharran: The Fierce Ancient Arabian Bandit Whose Own Mother Wanted Dead
Beating the Bobbies as Sport: Victorian Londoners Used to Attack Police for Fun
French Buccaneer Montbars ‘The Exterminator’ Earned His Nickname, and Then Some
Wild West Outlaws: John Wesley Hardin, the Old West’s Deadliest Gunslinger
The Sa’alik: The Ancient Arabia Robin Hood Bandits Who Robbed the Rich to Help the Poor
Wild West Outlaw Frank Stilwell: The Bandit Who Took On Lawman Wyatt Earp and His Brothers
When Frank Sinatra Was Arrested for Seduction
Cases That Shocked America: The Skidmore Bully’s Shocking End
Cases That Shocked America: How the Tiny Town of Skidmore Dealt With its Resident Bully
The Crutchy Push – The One-Legged Australian Gangsters Who Terrorized Melbourne
Wild West Outlaw Sam Bass and His ‘Black Hills Bandits’ Pulled Off the Biggest Train Robbery in the Union Pacific Railroad’s History
Deaths You’ll Go to Hell for Laughing At – Kichizo Ishida Thought His Mistress’ Repeated Attempts to Murder Him Were Foreplay
Animal Trials: Animals That Acted Up in Middle Ages Europe Were Criminally Tried in Court
Mistakes – The Petty Criminal Who Tried to Carjack Audie Murphy, America’s Most Decorated WWII Combat Soldier
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