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The Real Life Assassin Behind ‘Killing Eve’ and Other Fascinating Historical Criminal Tidbits
The fictional criminal psychopath from TV’s Killing Eve is based on a real life criminal who killed more than twenty people in the 1980s. That is just one fascinating criminal tidbit from…
American History
The Dumbest Get-Rich-Quick Schemes in History
Dumb luck is sometimes better than skill and talent. As in way, way, better. Take Timothy Dexter, an eccentric eighteenth…
American History
The Most Deceitful Events that Played Out In History
In a fascinating bit of brazen deceit, an early twentieth-century homeless German drifter looted a town treasury simply by dressing…