Chilling Revelation After 65 Years: The Story of the Boy in the Box, Whose Parents Never Learned His Fate

The patch of woods along the edge of Susquehanna Road in Philadelphia looks bleak at the end of February. But in 1957, a cardboard box…

A Secret Frozen for Decades: A Family Tragedy from Palovec, Croatia

When, on Saturday, February 16, 2019, Katarina Srnec’s future son-in-law called police to the Srnec family home in Palovec (north of Čakovec), he expected nothing…

Heaven’s Gate: The Tragic End of a Sect That Believed It Would Ascend to a Spaceship

From a utopian vision to the largest mass suicide in U.S. history When California police crossed the threshold of a luxury estate in Rancho Santa…

Horror on California Trails: How David Carpenter Terrified the Public

Predator of the forest trails: how David Joseph Carpenter terrorized California A light mist hung in the valley near Mount Tamalpais in the early morning…

From Teenage Athlete to Nightmare: The Bloody Path of Raymond Eugene Brown

In the suburbs of Ashland, Alabama, fourteen-year-old Raymond Eugene Brown seemed like a typical boy from a devout family: he enjoyed playing football, excelled at…

Giuseppe Calò: Only Blood and Banknotes. The Rise and Fall of Cosa Nostra’s “Treasurer”

When the nickname Cassiere di Cosa Nostra first appeared in the Italian press, no one doubted it belonged to Giuseppe “Pippo” Calò. A man as…