The Truth Behind ‘The Babysitter & The Man Upstairs’ Urban Legend
The murder of a teenage babysitter 67 years ago remains unsolved. “The call is coming from inside the house.” These eight words have been uttered by countless children, and mark one…
The 60s Folk Singer Who Dabbled In Armed Robbery
Sacred music, heroin and guns are a deadly combo. American popular music is full of people who pushed boundaries: country legend Merle Haggard spent three years in jail for robbing a…
Meet The Man Catching Serial Killers With Data
Ines Vuckovic/dose Forget guns or handcuffs. Thomas Hargrove is armed with an algorithm. Our Unsung Heroes series brings history’s unknown badasses out of the footnotes and into the spotlight. Thomas…
H. H. Holmes’ Body Is Being Exhumed
Left: Holmes. Right: Digging at Holmes’s grave near Philadelphia began last week. | public domain/NBC 10 Philadelphia Did the ‘Devil in the White City’ fake his own death? Before DNA forensics,…
How Police Use Glitter To Solve Crimes
The glitter trail that leads straight to an arrest. The comedian Demetri Martin often jokes that glitter is the herpes of craft supplies. The line always gets a big laugh, because…
The Housewife Who Hid Her Lover In The Attic For Over A Decade
Dolly Oesterreich in 1930. | Public Domain You can’t make this stuff up. What lengths would you go to keep your affair a secret? For one woman, the sex was so good,…
Rampant Murder Created The Pharmacy Business
R.S. Cheers, pharmacist at London’s St. George’s Hospital, 1921. | A. R. Coster/Stringer The people who fill your prescriptions used to sell poison. Henry Marchant came back from drinking with his…
The Feds Just Found $20 Million Hidden Under A Mattress
This isn’t a Mark Wahlberg movie — it’s real life. Picture federal agents bursting into a bedroom, finding a crap-load of money hiding under a mattress. No, it’s not a scene from Mark…
You Can Get $50 Back If You Bought Dairy Products In These States
Ines Vuckovic/Dose Thanks to an actual COW CONSPIRACY. You read that right. When I was a kid, I loved chocolate milk and grilled cheese (though not together). Like mine, a lot…
The Death-Obsessed Members Of This Secret Society Were OG Goths
It’s like Edgar Allen Poe meets ‘Dead Poets Society.’ It only takes a shallow dive into Chicago’s past to discover a history so indelibly stained with death that no amount…
