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“More Horrors Yet to Come”: How Newspapers Covered the Belle Gunness Murders

September 14, 2021September 13, 2021

Belle Gunness & children 03 Dec 1908, Thu The Salina Daily Union (Salina, Kansas) Newspapers.com It started with a tragedy. In the early morning of

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Unsolved: The Wallingford Shoebox Murder

September 30, 2020September 29, 2020

A mutilated corpse in a shoebox. Nationwide press coverage. A possible connection to a major historical event. Not to mention, a ghost . . .

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The Phantom Barber of Pascagoula

March 22, 2019March 22, 2019

One of U.S. history’s strangest crimes was a streak of sneaky haircuts that took place in 1942 Mississippi. The Pascagoula criminal was nicknamed “The Phantom

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The Dreams That Uncovered a Murder

February 8, 2019February 8, 2019

In May 1827, Maria Marten left home to elope to Ipswich with a man named William Corder. As you may have guessed from the title

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Unsolved Mysteries: George Hodel and the “Black Dahlia”

January 28, 2019January 13, 2020

In January of 1947, the mutilated body of a woman, drained of blood and severed at the waist, was found in an empty lot in

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Clever Cons: Princess Caraboo

January 25, 2019February 8, 2019

In early 1817, a mystery woman showed up in the town of Almondsbury in Gloucester, England. She seemed disoriented, and when she spoke her words

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Unsolved Mysteries: The Disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh

January 18, 2019February 8, 2019

Suzy Lamplugh Fri, Dec 5, 1986 – 6 · The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) · Newspapers.com Disappearance On July 28, 1986, real estate agent

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Top 10 Horror Movies Inspired by True Stories

October 16, 2018February 8, 2019

Horror movie fanatics have likely seen the phrase “Based on a true story” rolling in the opening credits of a horror film on more than

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Lord Lucan’s Disappearance

October 5, 2018November 4, 2019

This story could be considered a murder mystery, though not in the traditional “whodunit” sense. It features the wealthy John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan;

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Murder or Suicide? The Mysterious Death of Annie Dorman

June 26, 2018February 8, 2019

The girl was found dead on the bedroom floor, lying in the blood that pooled from two bullet holes marring her body. Her name was

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