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# 20th century crime
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Murder Incorporated: 10 Fascinating and Disturbing Things You Didn’t Know About the Mafia’s Death Squad
Over a period of nearly a decade, beginning in the early 1930s, the Italian-American mafia ran an execution squad of contract killers, that murdered dozens or hundreds of people each year. Although…
American History
Gangster Al Capone’s Real Fear of this Ghost Will Change the Way You See this Criminal Forever
In 1919, the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, effectively making alcoholic beverages illegal across the country. But people…
Crime
Today in History: Serial Killer Begins His Reign of Terror in Maryland (1957)
Melvin Rees is but one of the many serial killers that made headlines in the 20th century. Rees terrorized Maryland…