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In June 1988, a Los Angeles police report was filed naming Lionel Richie’s own wife, Brenda Harvey, as a suspect. It was roughly 2:30 in the morning when Harvey arrived at the Beverly Hills apartment of Diane Alexander, the woman with whom Richie had been involved for years. Neighbors heard the confrontation and called the … Read more

In late February 1943, Japanese naval officers planned Operation 81 with careful calculations. Eight destroyers would escort eight transports carrying nearly 7,000 troops across the Bismarck Sea from Rabaul to Lae. The distance was roughly 250 miles. The voyage would take three days, moving at night when possible and hugging the northern coast of New … Read more

In the autumn of 1889, the town of Salow Bend, tucked into a fold of the Ozark Hills, had a problem that had nothing to do with the early cold or the smell of turned earth that hung in the air. It had to do with the burying ground on Mullen Knob, and the week … Read more

Mijn zus gebruikte de privéberichten van mijn man om hem te beschuldigen van mishandeling. Daarna verwoestte mijn broer zijn reputatie op zijn werk en gaf mijn moeder me een ultimatum. Ik ben een vrouw van dertig, mijn man is drieëndertig. We trouwden vijf jaar geleden, na acht jaar samen te zijn geweest. We hadden altijd … Read more

Wojna w Wietnamie miała być dla Ameryki ideologiczną krucjatą przeciwko komunizmowi, ale już w 1965 roku stało się jasne, że to konflikt, jakiego Pentagon nie potrafił zrozumieć. W tym roku oficjalnie zginęło ponad tysiąc dziewięciuset amerykańskich żołnierzy, a jednak to inna lista rosła znacznie szybciej: lista zaginionych. Patrol wchodził w dżunglę i ślad po nim … Read more

In the autumn of 1934, a British surveyor named Allaric Vain was working in the high Himalaya. He was 41 years old, a man of the English border country, known for steady hands and a deep belief in the power of maps. His job was to chart a range that had never been properly surveyed, … Read more

The crew of U-264 believed they had solved the problem. The metal tube jutting above the waves was barely visible, leaving only the faintest wake. Captain Hartwig Looks had brought his Type VIIC boat to snorkel depth at 0400 on the morning of March 27th, 1945, roughly 40 nautical miles west of the Isles of … Read more

On April 12, 1968, Bumpy Johnson walked into a basement restaurant in Greenwich Village. He was alone, though 12 of his men waited outside in three cars on Bleecker Street. Inside, the air smelled of cigar smoke, red wine, and old wood. Carmine Tessio sat at the back table, a third-generation mob boss who controlled … Read more

Den fjerde juli, Amerikas uafhængighedsdag, lå der en tyk røg fra grillene over hele den store baghave. Musikken hamrede i luften, og latteren og samtalerne fra naboerne lød rundt omkring mig. Min søn Sterling stod foran mig. Lidt sovs havde sat sig på hans dyre designerjakkesæt. Hans ansigt var rødligt af alkohol og en umættelig … Read more

In February 1978, Chicago Police Department detectives pried open the trunk of an abandoned sedan buried deep within a frozen snowbank on the city’s outskirts. Inside, they discovered the body of Vincent Moretti. The scene was grim. Moretti bore the brutal, unmistakably violent marks of severe physical trauma and deep lacerations across his torso. Yet, … Read more