Category: Crime Mysteries
One of the strangest unexplained crime mysteries of all time – The Hinterkaifeck Mystery This is the shocking story of the murders of six people at the Hinterkaifeck farmstead. Hinterkaifeck, a small farmstead situated between the Bavarian towns of…
THE CIRCLEVILLE LETTER WRITER MYSTERY Details: In 1976, several Circleville residents were receiving strange letters detailing personal information about their lives. Bus driver Mary Gillespie was accused of a supposedly non-existent affair with a school official. The writer then…
$17.3 million The Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery was the $17.3 million cash robbery of the Charlotte, North Carolina, regional office vault of Loomis Fargo & Company on the evening of October 4, 1997, by armored car driver and vault supervisor David Scott Ghantt. An FBI criminal investigation (which became international in scope) ultimately…
For nearly four decades, anyone driving down Route 16 near Fayetteville, West Virginia, could see a billboard bearing the grainy images of five children, all dark-haired and solemn-eyed, their names and ages—Maurice, 14; Martha 12; Louis, 9; Jennie, 8; Betty,…
“She thought the nightmare was over,” Amanda Knox’s lawyer, Carlo dalla Vedova, said soon after today’s Supreme Court verdict overturning her murder acquittal was read out. But instead the young American must continue the struggle to clear her name more…
Between 1964 and 1965 six women were found dead in and around the River Thames. All of them were prostitutes, all had been strangled and all were naked, leading to their description as the ‘Nude Murders.’ The first victim was…
Bonnie and Clyde, 1930-1934, $ stolen unknown Arguably the most famous (and infamous) bank robbers in history, there is no definitive tally of exactly how much Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow stole. What we do know is that, in the…
Everyone remembers the old time gangsters! but how much did they get away with ? Butch Cassidy’s run-ins with the law were not limited to bank robbery. Throughout his career Cassidy made headlines for looting trains and ranches along a…
The Real Pink Panther Gang Heists from Hollywood films Cool escapes Over $500 Million in stolen diamonds The Real Pink Panthers is the name given by Interpol to an international jewel thief network who are responsible for some…
The great Belgium diamond heist is a robbery straight out of Hollywood. The facts about the raid on a plane at Brussels airport are just astonishing! The well planned raid took just 3 minutes. Eight professional thieves dressed as…
London. September, 1971. Sherlock Holmes’s own street becomes witness to one of the largest bank robberies in UK history, when thieves tunnel into the vault of Lloyds Bank and make off with over £3 million. And here’s the rub: when…
On the night of St. Patrick’s Day, two police officers entered Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. They were responding to a call, they said, and so, the security guard let them in. Minutes later, both guards on duty that evening…
