Crown Prince Rudolf was the heir to the Habsburg throne and the only son of Emperor Franz Joseph and his beautiful wife Elisabeth, or Sisi. He was in a notoriously bad marriage to Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, daughter of…
Mystery on the reef Americans Eileen and Tom Lonergan were keen divers, holidaying on Australia’s Gold Coast. On Sunday January 25, 1998 they set off on a dive trip to St. Crispin’s Reef, a popular site on the Great Barrier…
In 2011, Timmothy Pitzen, a 5-year-old boy from Aurora, Illinois, went on a three-day road trip with his mother, Amy Pitzen. He was never seen again. Timmothy, a typical happy-go-lucky kid, hopped out of his father’s jeep on May…
Three strange things coincided on July 29, 1965, in the city of Gothenburg in Sweden. All in all four young men and one Volvo car disappeared that day. It is Sweden’s only unsolved mass disappearance, and the rabbit hole is…
In 2011, in France the entire De Ligonnes family, except for the father, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes, was murdered in their sleep. Even the two family dogs were killed with what was believed to be a silenced .22 rifle. After…
Described as the Leonardo da Vinci of mental manipulation, “guru” Thierry Tilly duped a reclusive French family out of more than $6 million, including their chateau. In 1999, Ghislaine was looking for someone to help her update her Paris-based secretarial…
The true story of Peter Falconio and his girlfriend Joanne Lees remains one of the strangest crime events to have taken place in Australia. Falconio mysteriously disappeared in the Australian outback in July 2001, while the couple travelled around in…
In March 1983, 21-year old Robin Benedict was brutally murdered by former Tufts professor William Douglas. He confessed to striking her in the head with a 2-1/2 pound sledge hammer, dumping their blood-stained clothes in a trash barrel, discarding her…
In 2007, someone named “Anton” went on various music websites asking for help. He recorded a song from a German radio station in the 1980s and asked if anybody could identify the musician. Today, thousands of people on Reddit and…
The Santa Claus Bank Robbery Two days before Christmas, 1927, Santa Claus walked into the First National Bank of Cisco, Texas, followed by several delighted children who had seen him on the street. Then Santa pulled out a gun and…
The Legend of Hans Trap Hans Trapp, better known as one of Santa’s wicked sidekicks, is based on the real 15th-century German knight Hans von Trotha. After waging war against an abbey, he was excommunicated by the Pope. Legends of…
The Trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, also known as the Devil Made Me Do It Case, is the first known court case in the United States in which the defense sought to prove innocence based upon the defendant’s claim…
