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On December 31, 1812, 29-year-old Theodosia Burr Alston boarded the schooner Patriot in Georgetown, South Carolina, to visit her father, former U.S. vice president Aaron Burr, in New York. Still grieving the recent death of her young son, she was heading toward a long-awaited reunion. The voyage should have taken less than a week but the ship never arrived.

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In April 2011, the Dupont de Ligonnès family disappeared from their home in Nantes, France. On April 21, police uncovered a horrifying secret beneath the terrace: the bodies of Agnès and her four children, Arthur, Thomas, Anne, and Benoît. All five had been shot, wrapped, and buried alongside the family’s two dogs.

One person was missing: husband and father Xavier Dupon...


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In the early 1870s, young boys in Boston survived brutal attacks by another child: Jesse Pomeroy. At just 12, he was sent to reform school for torturing children but after his early release, the violence escalated into murder.

In 1874, 10-year-old Katie Curran disappeared, and four-year-old Horace Millen was found murdered. Pomeroy, then 14, was arrested for Millen’s de...


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His name is on some of the most famous plays ever written, but could William Shakespeare have been a cover for someone else? Centuries after his death, gaps in his biography fuelled theories that the actor from Stratford-upon-Avon could not have created such extraordinary works.

Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, and Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, have all been propos...


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Throughout the 1980s, women and girls were found murdered near Ohio highways and truck stops. Several victims were sex workers, and investigators suspected a killer who travelled the interstate routes. One chilling lead gave the case its name: a truck driver reportedly used the CB radio handle “Dr. No.

Witness accounts and similarities between the deaths suggested a con...


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