Over 18 years, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo built one of the world’s most extensive drug operations, earning the title El Jefe de Jefes (“The Boss of Bosses”), or El Padrino. You may know him well from Diego Luna’s depiction of him in the Netflix show Narcos: Mexico. Félix Gallardo’s Guadalajara Cartel unified the …
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On January 4, 1989, Hiroshi Miyano and some friends tortured and beat Junko Furuta to death after losing a Mahjong game. Their horrific crime was the culmination of 44 days of hell that they had inflicted on the poor girl in one of Japan’s most shocking kidnapping and murder cases. …
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It seemed like the perfect crime. In 1984, fourteen-year-old Tina Faelz died from forty-four stab wounds, murdered, and stashed in a blind spot in Pleasanton, California. The body was left in a drainage ditch a short walk away from her house. There were no witnesses to Tina Faelz’s murder. There …
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On July 26, 2009, at 1:30 pm, Diane Schuler drove her minivan the wrong way down New York’s Taconic State Parkway. Around 1.7 miles in, she slammed into an oncoming SUV killing everyone in it, along with her daughter, three nieces, and herself. Before the accident, when her husband saw …
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November 13, 1990, was a typical autumn day in Japan. Fusako Sano was watching a baseball game at school. She was a nine-year-old girl who was born in Sanjo and was in the fourth grade. Sometime and somewhere between the game and when she should have arrived home, Fusako Sano …
Jennifer Pan attempted a kill-for-hire attack in 2010 on her mother and father, leaving her mother dead. Her crime was only discovered by her father waking from an induced coma. Her father, Hann Huei Pan, and her mother, Bich Ha Pan, were Viet Hoa immigrants from Vietnam who settled in …
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I used to sit and watch children’s cartoons with my son. Most of the time, I would feign enjoyment, except when it came to one particular show. I’m talking about SpongeBob SquarePants, of course. I confess, even now, I think I could quite happily sit and enjoy an episode or …
Edmund Kemper is a Californian serial killer who brutally murdered ten people in Santa Cruz between 1964 and 1973. His monicker as the “co-ed killer” came from the fact that his victims were mostly college-age women hitchhikers – though he also killed his grandparents almost a decade earlier. Kemper mostly …
In August 1969, the 60s came to a horrific close. California was gripped in fear over the murder of Sharon Tate and the La Bianca family. The optimism and hope that defined the decade were lost. At the center of these events was Charles Manson, a jailbird and conman from …
Nikola Tesla is considered the true father of electricity and one of the greatest scientific minds in history, but that doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface. He was an enigma whose life was full of many secrets and mysteries we couldn’t even comprehend. Despite that, Tesla lived a …
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