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🔥 Legend of Lucchino: The Man Who Took On the Mob, Part I
In booming Pennsylvania coal country, immigrant Italians were exploited by corporations and terrorized by mafiosi. One brave insider turned against…
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Vinnie Rotondaro
The Female Detective on a Daring Mission to Rescue India’s Trafficked Women
Nearly 200 girls are kidnaped in India every single day, many sold into sex work. The authorities too often look the other way. So Nirmala B. Walter…
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Aliya Bashir
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The Bank Robbers Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight (Or Do Anything Right, Really)
When the Duffy Brothers were deported from the U.S., they hatched a plan to bring Bonnie-and-Clyde-style armed robbery across the pond. Their plan had…
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Paul Brown
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The Book Thief of Monastery Mountain
When priceless texts began disappearing from a seventh-century hilltop abbey, the police were mystified. They were even more befuddled when they finally…
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Benoît Morenne
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America’s Most Flamboyant Private Eye and the 8,000-Mile Manhunt
Jay J. Armes is a legendary and controversial Texan investigator with hooks for hands and six decades chasing criminals. This was his most epic murder…
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Dylan Taylor-Lehman
Jannie Duncan: “Beautiful Human” or Fugitive Killer?
She was imprisoned for murdering her husband, then escaped and assumed a new identity. Her adoring friends and employers had no idea.
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David Howard
The Killer Doctor, the Swirling Fire, and the World’s Most Haunted Building
This block in Brazil has been home to one of the deadliest skyscraper disasters in history, a doctor with a murderous secret, and—some say—a curse that…
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Ana Franco
The Man Who Got America High
He chartered the Rolling Stones while smuggling Pablo Escobar’s drugs on the side. After disappearing for decades, Alfred Dellentash finally shares his…
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Jeff Maysh
The “Insane Pirate” Drifter and the Double Killing at the Fourplex
In the midst of Portland, Oregon’s “dumpster fire” chaos of 2020, two transient lovers met a quirky hustler offering a dream apartment deal. But it soon…
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Thacher Schmid
I Could Have Killed Him Twice
A Gilded Age tale of seduction, betrayal and revenge.
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Nancy Markey and Kay Adams
The Missing Persons Investigator Who Went Missing Herself
Andrea Knabel spent countless hours searching for missing people. Then one day she was the one who disappeared. Her family and friends—and half the…
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Mark Oprea
The True-Crime “Podcast Junkie” Turned Real-Life Murder Suspect
Is Steve Pankey a cold-blooded killer who got away with murder for decades, or just a true-crime obsessive craving attention?
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Dylan Taylor-Lehman
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