PN1501 On the night of June 11, 1970, a made man walked into a bar in Queens to celebrate his freedom after eight years in federal prison. By midnight, he had been beaten unconscious, stuffed into the trunk of a car, and buried in a shallow grave upstate. Most people know this story through Goodfellas. In … Read more
On April 13, 1991, in the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn, a man who had spent 15 years proving his loyalty to John Gotti was shot multiple times outside his own home. He never saw it coming. The betrayal did not come from enemies. It came from the people he served. Robert Boriello was born … Read more
Allen Dorfman was shot twice in the head in a parking lot in Lincolnwood, Illinois, on January 20, 1983. He was dead before he hit the pavement. Most people who have seen the movie Casino believe they know who he was. They do not. The film reduced Dorfman to a background figure, a man in … Read more
När vi letade efter ett hus att gifta oss i gick min mor bort. Svärmor krävde omedelbart att få ta över mammas hus som vårt äktenskapliga hem. Efter begravningen när jag såg pappret hon räckte fram gav jag omedelbart min festman en örfil. Min mor hade just somnat in. Jorden på hennes grav var ännu … Read more
Am ridicat mâna să iau o cheie de 9/16 și brațul mi s-a făcut greu ca plumbul, apoi pieptul mi-a făcut ceva ce nu simțisem niciodată. Am stat nemișcat lângă bancă, cu cheia în mână, până când a trecut. N-a durat mult, dar a fost suficient cât să-mi dau seama că ceva nu se potrivea. … Read more
In 1981, Israel launched a daring airstrike that destroyed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor near Baghdad. But the mission, codenamed Operation Opera, was not the first military attempt to halt Saddam Hussein’s nuclear ambitions. A year earlier, Iran’s air force had already bombed the same facility, with Israel’s secret backing. During the late 1970s and early … Read more
Lady Jane Grey is remembered as one of the most tragic figures in English royal history, a teenager who was placed on the throne against her will and held it for only nine days before her own government turned against her. Her downfall began with her cousin, King Edward VI, who named her his successor … Read more
On the evening of November 16, 2019, inside Buckingham Palace, a 59-year-old man sat under television lights to answer questions no member of the British royal family had ever faced on camera. Across from him sat Emily Maitlis of BBC Newsnight, one of the country’s most forensic interviewers. Within four days of the broadcast, his … Read more
On a January night in 1980, inside Windsor Castle, a young woman looked across a ballroom at the heir to the British throne and said something no one else in his life, before or after, would ever say to him. "I have never been so badly treated in my life. You've left me all alone … Read more
On August 20, 1947, in Lüneberg, Germany, the sentences were read out after more than eight months of trial. The defendants had either participated in a Nazi euthanasia program that killed mentally ill or physically disabled people deemed "unworthy of life," or had conducted painful and often deadly medical experiments on thousands of concentration camp … Read more