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On April 16, 1960, Irene Garza was found dead in an irrigation canal in McAllen, Texas. She was 25 years old. Five days earlier, she had gone to confession at Sacred Heart Church and never came home. Beside the canal, investigators found a small green slide viewer with a black cord. It did not belong … Read more

On March 14, 1885, a reservoir keeper in Richmond, Virginia, spotted a lady’s red glove and a broken shoestring near the water’s edge. Peering out across the Marshall Reservoir, he saw something floating that looked like a woman’s dress. When he and a group of workmen pulled it from the water, they discovered the body … Read more

In January 1864, inside the White House, President Abraham Lincoln sat alone at his desk, counting money bill by bill. The money belonged to his servant, a free Black man dying of smallpox in a hospital bed across the city. Lincoln reportedly once described him as the most useful man in his household, yet White … Read more

The transcript contains factual material about the disappearance and murder of Amanda “Millie” Dowler, a 13-year-old English schoolgirl, in 2002. Key facts include her disappearance on March 21, 2002, the discovery of her remains on September 18, 2002, the investigation, the eventual conviction of Levi Bellfield in 2011, and his later confession to her murder … Read more

Bourbon Street in New Orleans was alive with music on the evening of January 9, 1965. Five men walking past an open doorway stopped to listen. Among them was the largest player in professional football that year—a 6’9″, 315-pound defensive lineman whose reputation for physical force was already well established. The group decided to check … Read more

Recordings made by authorities in the 1980s and 1990s captured several senior Mafia figures in New York expressing harsh and often dismissive views about the younger generation of mobsters rising through their ranks. The opinions of these veteran gangsters, which surfaced through government wiretaps, reveal deep frustration with the conduct, training, and judgment of those … Read more

Barbara Hutton died of a heart attack on May 11, 1979, in a suite at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. She was 66 years old and had spent her final months in bed, surrounded by half-empty glasses of Coca-Cola and stacks of books. Only ten people attended her funeral. At age 21, she … Read more

Inside a modest Santa Monica apartment in November 1981 lay the body of William Holden, one of Hollywood’s golden age most beloved movie stars. The Midwestern boy who became an Academy Award winner had a dazzling smile that concealed tumultuous passions and dark secrets. His all-American image began in an appropriately all-American setting, but that … Read more

He sold his first suits out of a single room. By the end of his life, he had built a commercial empire that defined an era, served as a powerful figure in the U. S. government, and watched a strange amount of his life’s work go up in flames. His name was John Wanamaker, a … Read more