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Prohibition in the United States — Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a clandestine underground brewery during the prohibition era - NARA - 541928.jpg

Prohibition in the United States: History and Key Facts

The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.

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Great Train Robbery (1963): History and Key Facts

The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.61 million (worth about £49.67 million in 2026) from a Royal Mail train travelling from Glasgow to London, on the West Coast Main Line, in the early

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Lufthansa heist: History and Key Facts

The Lufthansa heist was a robbery which took place at John F.

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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father: History and Key Facts

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father is a 2008 American documentary film written, produced, directed, edited, shot and scored by Kurt Kuenne.

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Order of the Solar Temple: History and Key Facts

The Order of the Solar Temple (French: Ordre du Temple solaire, OTS), or simply the Solar Temple, was a new religious movement and secret society, often described as a cult, notorious for the mas

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Aum Shinrikyo: History and Key Facts

Aleph (Japanese: アレフ, Hepburn: Arefu), better known by their former name Aum Shinrikyo (オウム真理教, Ōmu Shinrikyō; lit.

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'Ndrangheta: History and Key Facts

The 'Ndrangheta (, Italian: [(a)nˈdraŋɡeta], Calabrian: [(ɳ)ˈɖɽaɲɟɪta]) is a mafia-type criminal syndicate originating from the Calabria region of Italy.

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Camorra: History and Key Facts

The Camorra (Italian: [kaˈmɔrra]; Neapolitan: [kaˈmorrə]) is an Italian Mafia-type criminal organization and criminal society originating in the region of Campania.

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Branch Davidians: History and Key Facts

The Branch Davidians (or the General Association of Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists, or the Branch Seventh-day Adventists) are a religious sect founded in 1955 by Benjamin Roden.

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Rajneesh movement: History and Key Facts

The Rajneesh movement is a new religious movement inspired by the Indian godman known as Rajneesh or Osho (1931–1990).

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Five Families: History and Key Facts

The Five Families are the five Italian American Mafia crime families who operate in New York City.

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The Commission (American Mafia): History and Key Facts

The Commission is the governing body of the American Mafia, formed in 1931 by Charles "Lucky" Luciano following the Castellammarese War.

Charles Manson, April 1968 mugshot

Manson Family: History and Key Facts

The Manson Family (known among its members as the Family) was a commune, gang and cult led by criminal Charles Manson that was active in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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NXIVM: History and Key Facts

NXIVM ( NEK-see-əm) was a cult led by Keith Raniere, who is now a convicted racketeer and sex offender.

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Maxi Trial: History and Key Facts

The Maxi Trial (Italian: Maxiprocesso) was a criminal trial against the Sicilian Mafia that took place in Palermo, Sicily.

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Pizza Connection Trial: History and Key Facts

The Pizza Connection Trial (in full, United States v.

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Apalachin meeting: History and Key Facts

The Apalachin meeting ( AP-ə-LAY-kin) was a historic summit of the American Mafia held at the home of mobster Joseph "Joe the Barber" Barbara, at 625 McFall Road in Apalachin, New York, on Novemb

Meyer Lansky

Meyer Lansky: History and Key Facts

Meyer Lansky (born Maier Suchowljansky; July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983) was an American organized crime figure associated with gambling operations and illicit finance in the United States, Cuba,

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The Jinx (TV series): History and Key Facts

The Jinx is an American true crime documentary television series about New York real estate heir Robert Durst, a convicted murderer.

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Disappearance of Maura Murray: History and Key Facts

On February 9, 2004, Maura Murray, a 21‑year‑old nursing student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, disappeared after a single‑vehicle crash on Route 112 near Woodsville, a village in th

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Disappearance of Brian Shaffer: History and Key Facts

In the early hours of April 1, 2006, Brian Randall Shaffer, a 27‑year‑old medical student at the Ohio State University College of Medicine, disappeared in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

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Operation Family Secrets: History and Key Facts

Operation Family Secrets was an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into mob-related crimes in Chicago.

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Peter Sutcliffe: Biography and Background

Peter William Sutcliffe (2 June 1946 – 13 November 2020), also known as Peter Coonan, was an English serial killer and HGV driver who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and girls, and atte

A poster seeking information on the whereabouts of Charles Lindbergh Jr.

Lindbergh kidnapping: History and Key Facts

On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.

An empty frame remains where The Storm on the Sea of Galilee was once displayed. Picture provided by the FBI showing the empty frames for missing paintings after the theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft: History and Key Facts

In the early hours of March 18, 1990, 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

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Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary: History and Key Facts

In April 2015, an underground safe deposit facility in Hatton Garden, London, owned by Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd., was burgled.

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Wild Wild Country: History and Key Facts

Wild Wild Country is a Netflix documentary series about the controversial Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho), his one-time personal assistant Ma Anand Sheela, and their community of follow

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Disappearance of the Beaumont children: History and Key Facts

Jane Nartare Beaumont (born 10 September 1956), Arnna Kathleen Beaumont (born 11 November 1958) and Grant Ellis Beaumont (born 12 July 1961), collectively referred to as the Beaumont children, we

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Disappearance of Asha Degree: History and Key Facts

On February 14, 2000, Asha Jaquilla Degree, a nine‑year‑old girl from Shelby, North Carolina, United States, disappeared after leaving her family's home during the early morning hours.

One of a series of images from the Illustrated London News for October 13, 1888 carrying the overall caption, "With the Vigilance Committee in the East End". This specific image is entitled "A Suspicious Character".

Jack the Ripper: History and Key Facts

Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of the East End of London, in 1888.

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Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills: History and Key Facts

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills is a 1996 American documentary film directed, produced, and edited by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the trials of the West Memphis Th

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New Jersey Minutemen: History and Key Facts

The New Jersey Minutemen were a militant anti-fascist group that operated in Newark, New Jersey, from 1933 to 1941.

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Ray Gricar: History and Key Facts

Ray Frank Gricar (; born October 9, 1945, missing since April 15, 2005) was an American lawyer who served as the district attorney of Centre County, Pennsylvania, from 1985 until 2005.

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Disappearance of Ben McDaniel: History and Key Facts

On August 20, 2010, 30-year-old Ben McDaniel, of Memphis, Tennessee, United States, was reported missing after employees in the dive shop at Vortex Spring, north of Ponce de Leon, Florida, notice

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Charles Sobhraj: Biography and Background

Charles Sobhraj (born Hotchand Bhawnani Gurmukh Sobhraj; 6 April 1944) is a French serial killer, fraudster, and thief whose victims were mainly Western tourists travelling on the hippie trail of

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Murder of Kitty Genovese: History and Key Facts

Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender, was raped and stabbed to death on March 13, 1964, outside the apartment building where she lived in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of the Queens borough of

Extracted from a police bulletin distributed by the Los Angeles Police Department, accessed on the official website for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation ([1]). Dated from 15 January 1947, the day Ms. Short's body was discovered in Los Angeles County.

Black Dahlia: History and Key Facts

Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – c.

Portrait of Lizzie Borden in 1890

Lizzie Borden: History and Key Facts

Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts.

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Baker Street robbery: History and Key Facts

The Baker Street robbery was the burglary of safety deposit boxes at the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank in London, on the night of 11 September 1971.

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Millennium Dome raid: History and Key Facts

The Millennium Dome raid was an attempted burglary of the Millennium Dome's diamond exhibition in Greenwich, South East London occurring on 7 November 2000.