After being starved, abused, and exposed to lice, 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank met a horrific death at the hands of the Nazis.In February or March 1945, a German-born Jewish girl named Anne Frank died inside the Nazis’ Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The 15-year-old, who likely succumbed to typhus, was one of about 50,000 Holocaust victims who died in Bergen-Belsen. Because of this, few people, aside from her fellow prisoners, took note of Anne Frank’s death when it happened. Read More...
The Mafia had operated with near-immunity until Joe Valachi spilled his guts to the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the Justice Department, the FBI, and on a radio broadcast.One key principle governed the Mafia’s world of organized crime: the code of silence known as omertà. No one talked to external parties or authorities about the heinous crimes that its members committed. As a result, despite law enforcement’s best attempts to incriminate Mafia leaders, these “wise guys” literally got away with murder. Read More...
In the 1760s, a wolf-like monster known as the Beast of Gévaudan reportedly killed hundreds of people in gruesome fashion — and to this day, no one knows exactly what it was.Wikimedia CommonsA 1764 rendering of the Beast of Gévaudan called “Picture of the Monster that is desolating Gévaudan.”
Between 1764 and 1767, something evil stalked the quiet hills of Gévaudan, France. The so-called Bête du Gévaudan, or Beast of Gévaudan, attacked hundreds of people, often tearing out their throats. Read More...
