Crime
25 Photographs of the Murderous Manson Family That Shocked the Nation
Charles Manson, born Charles Milles Maddox, is a former cult leader which became known as the Manson Family in the…
5 Notorious Gangs that Terrorized City Streets Around the World
The old saying suggests that there is ‘strength in numbers’. Certainly, when you combine a group of criminals into a…
Abraham Lincoln’s Son Witnessed This Horrifying Event on Three Separate Occasions
Robert Todd Lincoln was the only child of Abraham Lincoln to survive into adulthood. His life is filled with coincidences…
22 Photographs of the New York City Guardian Angels
The Guardian Angels are volunteer, unarmed, vigilante crime fighters. They were founded on February 13, 1979, in New York City,…
20 Photographs of the 1985 Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, was a bombing perpetrated by the Action Division of the French…
21 Images of the Horrific Attica Prison Uprising
The Attica Prison riot of 1971 took place at Attica Correctional Facility in New York. During morning roll-call on September…
Mississippi Burning: How the Civil Rights Freedom Summer Became the Summer of Death
The film Mississippi Burning is loosely based on the murders of Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney in Neshoba County,…
The History of the FBI, Part 3: Hoover, Prohibition, and Organized Crime
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and J. Edgar Hoover, a young justice department lawyer, responded to the anarchist attacks and…
The Sad Life of Pat Garrett: The Luckless Lawman Who Killed Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett is best known as the man who killed Billy the Kid in 1881. As well as being a…
25 Photographs of the History of the FBI, Part 2: World War I, Espionage, and the Red Scare
The Bureau of Investigation started with mostly white-collar and civil rights cases such as land fraud, banking fraud, copyright violations,…