CRIME

In 1983, a prized racehorse named Shergar was abducted at gunpoint from his stable in Ireland and held for ransom. Decades later, no one is quite sure why.

Gas pump card readers are less secure, and now criminals are using a new phishing scheme to hack the devices and commit fraud.

Sorry, JFK conspiracy theorists—the National Archives has made it clear that this doesn’t mean his case is reopened.

In 1908, Mary Farmer came up with a plan to steal her landlord's home. The crime was brutal enough to make her the second woman executed by electric chair in New York's history.

At a time when women were rarely, if ever, were considered for roles in law enforcement, Kate Warne became a top investigator—and helped saved Abraham Lincoln's life.

Among the missing treasures from Dresden Castle's Green Vault is a 648-carat sapphire given to Saxony by Russian tsar Peter the Great.

The thief—or thieves—stole the one-ton boulder from the side of the road in Prescott National Forest roughly two weeks ago.

A new bill introduced in the Ohio Senate would make animal cruelty a third-degree felony, punishable by up to 60 months in prison and a $10,000 fine.

On July 15, 1976, a school bus in Chowchilla, California, disappeared with dozens of students inside. Police considered everything from terrorism to the Zodiac Killer. No one could have suspected the passengers had been kidnapped and were running out of a

The auction also includes a bulletproof vest found in Bonnie and Clyde’s car, a book of poems by Bonnie, and more.

In 1957, an Ohio cookware salesman named Lawrence Bader disappeared. A few days later, he materialized in Omaha, with no memory of who he was or what he had left behind.

At 9:40 a.m. on the morning of August 11, 1934, Alcatraz's first group of prisoners—137 in all—arrived at the soon-to-be-infamous prison.