Mysteries

While “Release the Kraken” May Have Become a Familiar Meme for the Modern World, to the Ancients, It Was Something Far More Frightening…

Who Was Responsible for the Execution of 10 Men in a Case Some Call the French St. Valentine’s Day Massacre?

Just What Is the Mysterious Flickering Ball of Light That Haunts Missouri’s Devil’s Promenade?

June 23, 1965, was a regular day in Houston for police officer C.M. Bullock. The Cold war continued and the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink just three years before, and Texas knew better than anybody the tragedy…

Los Angeles is the city of broken dreams. For every vision of silver screen fame, there are a thousand stories of those same dreams being shattered, talent cast aside, or never even getting the one-shot that they crave. Hollywood is…

As New Evidence Implicates the NYPD, Were Two Men Wrongly Convicted of Killing the Iconic Activist?

One of the Many Crimes That Shocked LA in the 1940s, How Did Mimi Boomhower Just Vanish Into Thin Air?

As Bodies Piled Up on Long Island Beaches, Police Believed It Was a Serial Killer’s Work…

Were the Murderous Duo of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood Responsible for the Slaughter of a Second Family

In the world of detective fiction, there are many standards and tropes that have become synonymous with the genre. Perhaps most famous of these is the classic locked-room mystery, sometimes referred to as an "impossible crime." The…