We might not even know the name Mafia today had this fledgling criminal group not narrowly defeated the rival Camorra gang in a bloody war on the streets of New York between 1915 and 1917.Wikimedia CommonsAlessandro Vollero’s Navy Street Camorra family. At one time, this could have been the organized crime group that became the face of the underworld in the United States.
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In December 1900, the keepers of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse off the northwest coast of Scotland mysteriously disappeared — and to this day, no one knows what happened.Press and JournalThe three lighthouse keepers who went missing from left to right: Thomas Marshall, James Ducat, and Donald MacArthur. The man on the far right is the lighthouse board superintendent Robert Muirhead, who recruited the men who went missing.
“A dreadful accident has happened at the Flannans,” reported a ship captain in 1900. Read More...
Sherri Rasmussen was found shot to death inside her home on February 24, 1986 in an apparent burglary gone wrong — but the real culprit was actually Stephanie Lazarus of the LAPD.On Feb. 24, 1986, 29-year-old Sherri Rasmussen was found dead in her apartment in Van Nuys, California. In a fit of jealous rage, an LAPD officer named Stephanie Lazarus had murdered Rasmussen after her on-again-off-again boyfriend John Ruetten ended their relationship for good and married Rasmussen. Read More...
