The city of Boston was put to the test when occupying British soldiers opened fire into a crowd of rioters on March 5th, 1770. Known forever as the Boston Massacre,

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On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old Penn State graduate student, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library. The case remains officially unsolved, but my guest

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In October of 1946, a chiropractor and rancher named Willis “W.D.” Broadhurst was beaten with a wrench and finished off with a shotgun on a lonely eastern Oregon road. Investigators

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In the autumn of 1920, two couples pulled into a campsite in Central Park, Montana, but only one left alive. Seth and Iva Danner would eventually turn on each other

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Journalist Wayne Hoffman had been long intrigued by a family story, vague on details, about the murder of his great-grandmother Sarah Feinstein at the hands of a sniper in Winnipeg,

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For those of us who’ve watched and enjoyed HBO’s Deadwood, the town and its characters are absolutely larger than life. But was the show historically accurate? What is fact and

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In January 1953, a New York City musician named Christopher “ Manny” Balestrero was wrongly arrested for armed robbery, misidentified by eye witnesses. What followed was a nightmarish ordeal that

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Roanoke Island is host every year to the famous “Lost Colony” outdoor drama. It was during the 1967 production that a young makeup artist named Brenda Joyce Holland went missing

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In late August of 1876, an eighty-two-year-old Methodist minister, William England, his wife Selena, and two of their children were slaughtered on their North Texas farm. Selena, on her deathbed,

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On November 5th, 1934, in the small coal mining town of Kelayres, Pennsylvania, Republican political boss Joe Bruno took an extreme and shocking step. Worried and agitated about a possible loss

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