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The Missing Mona Lisa

May 4, 2018February 8, 2019

Once upon a time, in the year 1911, the sudden disappearance of a famous work of art thrust it into the international spotlight. Famous Mona

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The Near-Perfect Robbery

January 19, 2018March 21, 2019

This week in history, eleven Boston men commit one of the smoothest and most lucrative bank robberies in history. It took almost two years of

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Find: Famous American Unsolved Mysteries

October 12, 2017February 8, 2019

If you’re looking for some stories to make you shiver this Halloween, you don’t have to look farther than the newspaper, as real-life mysteries can

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The Bobbed-Hair Bandit

February 8, 2017February 8, 2019

Her crimes and her style made her an iconic figure in 1920s New York. Stop anyone in the street to ask them their thoughts and

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The Murder Castle

January 18, 2017February 8, 2019

Herman Mudgett is the worst man you have probably never heard of, unless you happen to be familiar with his alias, H. H. Holmes. Holmes

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The Mystery Mansion of Los Feliz

December 15, 2016February 8, 2019

On the night of December 7th, 1959, Dr. Harold Perelson murdered his wife. He moved to the next room to do the same to his

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The Mysterious Case of Bobby Dunbar

August 18, 2016March 15, 2019

In the late summer days of 1912, the Dunbar family’s 4-year-old son Bobby disappeared during a trip to Swayze Lake in Louisianna. After eight months

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Murder in Miniature

July 9, 2015March 23, 2020

Frances Glessner Lee was not your typical millionaire heiress. She lived the early part of her life doing what society thought a young woman from

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The Mysterious Demise of Ludwig II

June 13, 2015February 8, 2019

If there’s one thing people generally agree on, it’s that mysteries hold a strange sort of magnetic power over our minds. They make us pause,

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The Ghost of Zona Heaster Shue

April 28, 2015February 8, 2019

Once upon a time, a manly, talented blacksmith—Mr. Edward Shue—met a beautiful country girl—Ms. Zona Heaster. The two fell in love, and before long they

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