The most powerful lawman in America died on his bedroom floor while his gardener waited outside to help plant roses. Nobody saw it coming.
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Frank Sinatra and The Mob
Hoover had files on Sinatra's mob friends going back to 1947. The FBI chief wasn't shy about letting the Kennedys know who they were hanging around wi...
More »Canal St. New Orleans bordello, an FBI obsession
Jeanette Maier knew she was busted the moment she saw her daughter's face. The FBI had raided her Canal Street brothel, continuing a federal war on Ne...
More »The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann looked like any other German. He played violin, ate chocolate, and designed the machinery that killed ten million people in Nazi death ...
More »Dolly Mapp got illegal search & seizure laws revised
A bomb on Don King's porch led cops to Dolly Mapp's door in 1957. King fingered Shondor Birns over a numbers racket debt that went bad.
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Clifford Irving’s Hoax
Clifford Irving had a wild idea in 1970 - fake Howard Hughes' autobiography and sell it to publishers. He figured Hughes was too sick or crazy to stop...
More »Clarence Gideon, subject of landmark Supreme Court case
A greaser named Henry Cook watched someone rob a seedy pool hall at 5:30 AM. Cops arrested Clarence Gideon with $25 in coins bulging from his pockets.
More »Ronald Biggs & The Great Train Robbery, the notorious 1963 robbery of the Glasgow mail train
Nobody knows who first thought of robbing the Glasgow mail train, but Bruce Reynolds made it happen. The 1963 heist turned Ronald Biggs into a folk he...
More »Killer Cop: Charles Becker
A New York cop named Charles Becker went to the electric chair for murder. Whether he actually did it is still up for debate, but his ties to the unde...
More »Antoinette Frank, New Orleans Cop and Murderer
A New Orleans cop walked into a restaurant at 2 AM and shot three people dead, including another officer. Nobody expected the killer to be wearing a b...
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