'Smart Aleck' would share profits with the police to avoid being arrested for his cons. Getty Images
Prostitutes on a city street, scouting out potential suitors.
The term smart aleck is usually used to describe someone who is sarcastic or humorous to a fault — someone too smart for their own good. For a long time, people thought that the term was generic and that there was no actual Alec. However, a professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology discovered that the term actually was derived from a real-life person named Alec who was a con man that thought he was smarter than everyone else. Read More...
Legendary primatologist Jane Goodall says that after hearing stories from across the globe, she is open to the idea of the world's most famous cryptid. CBS via Getty ImagesJane Goodall appears in the television special “Miss Goodall and the World of Chimpanzees” while in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. December 22, 1965.
Legendary primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall isn’t ruling out the existence of one of Earth’s most popular cryptids: the Sasquatch. Read More...
In 1984, Jeff Doucet kidnapped and sexually abused 11-year-old Jody Plauché — then Jody's father Gary Plauché made sure he never did it again.Public DomainJeff Doucet had been assaulting Jody Plauché for approximately a year before he abducted the boy and took him to California.
To anyone walking through Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport on March 16, 1984, Gary Plauché looked like a man making an innocent phone call. But he had actually come to the airport to kill Jeff Doucet, the predator who had been arrested for kidnapping and molesting his son, Jody Plauché. Read More...
