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Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski)

Ted Kaczynski, nicknamed the Unabomber, conducted a 17‑year series of attacks, using mail bombs to target academics, business executives and others. The Unabomber bombing campaign—which killed three people and injured 23—started in the late 1970s and continued until Kaczynski was caught in 1996.

Murder Castle

Who Was H. H. Holmes? H. H. Holmes was born Herman Webster Mudgett in New Hampshire in 1861. As an adult, he abandoned his young wife and child in 1885 to move to Illinois. Once there, he changed his name to Holmes, reportedly as an homage to the fictional English detective Sherlock Holmes, the literary […]

War on Drugs

The War on Drugs Begins Drug use for medicinal and recreational purposes has been happening in the United States since the country’s inception. In the 1890s, the popular Sears and Roebuck catalogue included an offer for a syringe and small amount of cocaine for $1.50. (At that time, cocaine use had not yet been outlawed.) […]

Kitty Genovese

KITTY GENOVESE MURDER Kitty Genovese was returning from work home at around 2:30 a.m. on March 13, 1964, when she was approached by a man with a knife. Genovese ran toward her apartment building front door, and the man grabbed her and stabbed her while she screamed. A neighbor, Robert Mozer, yelled out his window, […]

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MK‑Ultra

Learn more about how a secret government mind control program inadvertently fueled the use of psychoactive drugs in 1960s counterculture circles.

Who is D.B. Cooper?

A man boards a plane in 1971, exchanges its passengers for a ransom of cash, and disappears. Discover the mystery of one of America’s most fascinating missing persons in this collection of scenes from “D.B. Cooper: Case Closed?”

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How Did Cannabis Become the Most Controversial Plant?

Find out how, as marijuana became ingrained in youth culture, a political campaign pushed back to designate the drug a danger to public health in this clip from The Marijuana Revolution.

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