Tag: crime

For our season finale, the story of a murder in small town Missouri that people couldn’t explain… or by some accounts they just wouldn’t.

In 1922, a strict more on fall headgear turned into a Roaring Twenties version of the Purge.

Win or go home? A group of inmates in Wyoming thought they faced something even worse when they went onto the field.

Edward “Boy” Jones has been called the first celebrity stalker. 

Back in 1994, Irish leaders were set to give a warm welcome to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, only his plane just circled above the airport for an hour, for complicated reasons.

Today in 1923, the birthday of Cordell Jackson, a guitarist who rocked out exactly the way she wanted to for over half a century.

In 18th Century Scotland, there was a woman who was sentenced and put to death, but lived through it all to win the nickname “Half-hangit Maggie.”

It was one of the most convoluted and over-thought plots in the history of crime: a guy tried to manipulate the stock market with bombs.

This year has not been a record one for US/Canadian ties, but at least it's not like 1921, when a Canadian military official worked up a secret plan to invade a bunch of northern US cities. (And, for that matter, the US had a northern invasion plan too.)

Commencement season is here, which means a lot of people hearing a composition known as “Pomp and Circumstance.” Though that piece of music was not written with graduation in mind.

Today in 1964, Elvis Presley donated a historic ship to help a Memphis hospital raise money. That ship had once been a favorite hangout for President Franklin Roosevelt.

When Daniel Sickles lost his leg at Gettysburg, he had it mounted and put on display at a medical museum.