He was surrounded by a culture that excuses and enables pedophiles — Former reality-TV star and right-wing political activist Josh Duggar’s arrest on April 29, 2021, has set everyone from the national media to niche YouTubers talking. The fact that he and his family present themselves as examples of “good old fashioned, Biblical family values” only adds to the shock (or schadenfreude)…

2021 was… a year. It was all over the place: billionaires went to space, Q-nuts went to Dallas, and the world’s cargo ships went … nowhere. — 2021 was… a year. It was all over the place: billionaires went to space, Q-nuts went to Dallas, and the world’s cargo ships went … nowhere. Texas froze in February, the Left Coast broiled in June, and the Southeast was flattened in December. But it was also a year of…

In 1987, he took the lives of 14 of his family members (and two of his former co-workers), making it the worst family massacre in US history — The holidays are supposed to be a time of peace and family togetherness. But over the Christmas holiday in 1987, Ronald Gene Simmons took the lives of 14 of his family members (and two of his former co-workers), making it the worst family massacre in US history.

It was called “the most horrible crime of the decade,” and people were so terrified, it was reported that “Californians forgot Christmas.” — Dec. 15, 1927, Mt. Vernon Junior High School, Los Angeles, California: A well-dressed young man arrived at the registrar’s office to pick up Perry Parker’s daughter. Her father, he said, had been seriously injured in an accident and wanted to see his daughter.

He wore a long black trenchcoat and sunglasses and took his pet iguana for walks on a leash. But he was no harmless oddball. — Monday morning, May 24, 2010: Peter Gee, the caretaker for Holmfield Court apartments, was going through the CCTV footage from the weekend, as he did every Monday. The apartments were located in an old converted mill building in the red-light district of Bradford in the UK — not the safest…

To say that Omaima Aree and Bill Nelson had a “whirlwind romance” is an understatement. — To say that Omaima Aree and Bill Nelson had a “whirlwind romance” is an understatement. Only weeks after meeting over a game of pool in a Huntington Beach, California, bar, the lovely Egyptian immigrant and the brash Texan drove to Phoenix and got married. It was easy to see why…

The former butcher always had a supply of meat, even when it was rationed. — In the years right after WWI, Berlin was a rough place to be. Many men had been wounded in the war, and for the able-bodied, jobs were scarce. To add to the misery, there were food shortages. Meat, along with other foods, had been rationed during the war. But Karl…

Before attacking his family, he murdered a neighbor, cut her heart out, and cooked it with potatoes. — Feb. 9, 2020, Chickasha, Oklahoma: a call comes in to the 911 dispatcher. But before saying anything, the caller hangs up. Deciding to err on the side of caution, the dispatcher sends police to the location where the call came from. When the officers arrive at the modest frame home…

The “evil grandmother” made her victims into snacks for the neighborhood children — Sofya Zhokova was never well liked by her neighbors. Among the residents of the grey apartment buildings in the small town of Berezovka, she stood out as particularly mean-spirited. The stout elderly woman often carried around an axe and was known to kill neighborhood cats. Neighbors said she was rude…