Allan Pinkerton built America's first detective agency from nothing. His agents chased down Jesse James and other outlaws when local cops couldn't han...
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Phoolan Devi, The Bandit Queen of India
At 18, Phoolan Devi wanted revenge for her murdered lover. She gathered 20 bandits and went hunting for the killers in northern India.
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Oscar Wilde fell hard for Lord Alfred Douglas, a reckless 22-year-old who didn't care who knew he was gay. Their romance would destroy Wilde's brillia...
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Three days after Katrina broke the levees, Sgt. Danny Scanlan was sleeping on a rooftop with his rifle, looking for snipers. He'd already pulled a hun...
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Sure, Eliot Ness took down Capone. But then he moved to Cleveland and did something even bigger - he turned the city's crooked police force into one o...
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Playing the System: The Martin Appel Case
Martin Appel thought he was a military genius. On June 6, 1986, he walked into a tiny Pennsylvania bank with a partner and started shooting.
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A New Orleans cop ordered the murder of Kim Groves, and the FBI caught it all on tape. Three men went on trial for running what prosecutors called a p...
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Jean Lafitte hated being called a pirate - he insisted he was a privateer helping America. He ran smuggling operations through New Orleans while never...
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In 2010, WikiLeaks released a chilling video from Iraq showing U.S. soldiers gunning down Reuters journalists from Apache helicopters. Twelve people d...
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Joshua Armstrong caught fugitives on Mother's Day and Christmas when they'd visit family. He'd show up in black masks at dawn with a simple message: g...
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