In July 2025, Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna stood before reporters in Washington, D.C., holding a stack of freshly declassified documents. Her message was blunt: the CIA had lied for 62 years about the assassination of an American president. The documents revealed something unprecedented in American history. A CIA officer who had direct contact with Lee … Read more
Former President Harry S. Truman, the only living ex-president who had himself been thrust into office by sudden death, went to his grave in 1972 convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — and that the intelligence apparatus he created in 1947 may have played … Read more
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were Depression-era American outlaws who moved across the central United States with a small gang in the early 1930s. Between 1932 and 1934, they carried out a series of crimes that included bank robberies, abductions, and other serious offenses. Although their names became closely linked with bank holdups … Read more
On June 23, 1986, a farmer named Michael Kins was walking his soybean rows outside Enos, Indiana, when his foot sank into soft earth. He assumed he had found a dead deer. He kept digging. What he pulled from the dirt was far worse: two human bodies, stripped to their underwear, faces beaten beyond recognition, … Read more
On the morning of January 16, 2023, a thin man in a brown leather jacket and a baseball cap pulled low walked through the front entrance of the La Maddalena Clinic in Palermo, Sicily. He carried a small bag and had an appointment for a routine oncology visit under the name Andrea Bonafede. He smiled … Read more
On the night of May 19, 1962, Marilyn Monroe was missing. Thirty minutes before she was due on stage at Madison Square Garden, the host of the evening, Peter Lawford, was in a panic. Security searched the entire arena before finally finding her locked in a bathroom, crying, with a bottle of champagne in her … Read more
In the early hours of March 17, 1956, a doctor at Harlem Hospital stood over an examination table and stared at something he had never seen in 23 years of medical practice. The patient's right hand was swollen to nearly twice its normal size. Its color was not the pink of healthy flesh or even … Read more
In February 1957, Buckingham Palace did something it had sworn never to do. It answered a rumor. The words went out to newspapers around the world: it was quite untrue that there was any rift between the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. A palace that met every scandal with silence had broken that silence … Read more
On the night of October 24, 1928, Arnold Rothstein was slumped against the service staircase of Room 349 at the Park Central Hotel in Manhattan. A .38 caliber bullet was lodged in his abdomen, and his tuxedo was soaked through with blood. The most powerful gangster in America had just been shot over a card … Read more
Before dawn on November 12, 1941, Abe Reles was sleeping in room 623 of the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island, Brooklyn, under the protection of five New York City police officers. By 6:30 that morning, his body lay face up on the roof of the hotel kitchen, six stories below his window. Two bed … Read more