7 Real-Life Horror Stories Behind American Horror Story
From unsolved murders to alien abductions, the hit series regularly rips its storylines from real life.
From unsolved murders to alien abductions, the hit series regularly rips its storylines from real life.
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A six-year cold case was cracked by a former nuclear physicist.
If you plan on going on a Toys 'R Us crime spree, you might want to stop using your Rewards card.
Some clever new technology is making it even less likely to obtain a driver's license under false pretenses.
The note was written to Raymond Hamilton, a former member of their gang.
Serial killer Ed Gein was the basis for the villains in three of the horror genre's scariest movies: Psycho (1960), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Researchers say eyewitnesses shown unfair lineups are more likely to choose the person police want them to choose—even when that person is innocent.
The only unsolved skyjacking case in history might have been pulled off by a woman.
The Big Easy's most notorious killer said he'd spare victims on one condition: that they play jazz music.
Thank to a legal loophole, the park's "Zone of Death" could, in theory, allow a murderer to go free.
Graham Hetrick's "whole existence is to be an advocate for the dead."
A Baltimore judge granted Syed a new trial in the 2000 murder of his ex-girlfriend, which garnered widespread interest when it became the subject of the podcast 'Serial.'
Since January alone, there have been at least 40 large-scale thefts from avocado orchards.
On June 14, 1949, a crazed fan lured the Philadelphia Phillies' Eddie Waitkus to her hotel room—then shot him in the chest.
What they found shocked even the government.
Usually it was Sherlock Holmes solving cases—this time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle played a real-life detective.
Be sure you're in the right before you decide to play superhero.
She was hired in 1922, but after J. Edgar Hoover got his way, the Bureau wouldn’t see any more female special agents until the 1970s.
The true story behind the popular American murder ballad.
Seven of his soup-centric prints went missing from the Springfield Art Museum last month.
Creator/executive producer Paul Dowling shares some behind-the-scenes secrets of the iconic series, which premiered 20 years ago.
There's a plethora of great pulp fiction in the Sunshine State.
On April 21, 1986, nearly 30 million viewers tuned in to 'The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults,' a live primetime excavation hosted by Geraldo Rivera that promised to dig deep into the catacombs of the criminal’s hotel hideout on Chicago’s South Side.