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My father was thrust onto the world stage 45 years ago, and I briefly became famous by association. It was a seriously weird experience.

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A 12-year-old girl was executed in 1786 for murder. Was it justice or racism?

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It was hailed as \"the ditch that built America,\" but the Erie Canal's murky depths in have borne silent witness to murder, disease outbreaks, unexplained vanishings, and grisly accidents. This history has yielded ghost s...

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Nine experienced skiers set out on a cross-country camping expedition in the Ural Mountains. On the fifth night, all nine bolted from their tent half-dressed into a raging blizzard. What happened at Dyatlov Pass?

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Congratulations to Diane Teck of Stillwater, Pennsylvania! You're the winner of the Miniature Spy Camera! Please reach out here or through Facebook to confirm your mailing address.

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I'm giving away a Cold War-era relic from my personal cabinet of curiosities. Enter by December 31, 2024 for your chance to win!

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She was horrifically assaulted and left to die on the side of the road. Was her murder a dry run for an even more savage crime?

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I'm thrilled to announce I'm one of 28 writers featured in this recently published nonfiction anthology. My story is a preview of the book I'm writing about a little-known tragedy that took place long ago on the Erie Can...

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My writing retreat at the weird and wonderful Oneida Community Mansion House.

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In March of 1922, five members of a family ranging in age from two to 72, along with their maid, were murdered at their farm in Bavaria, Germany. What happened next made Hinterkaifeck a crime like no other.

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Intruders murdered five family members and their maid, then lived among the corpses for the next 3 days. Were the killers hiding in the house all along?

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More than 40 years ago, five young men from California’s Central Valley left home on a winter night and vanished into legend.

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The complicated, truth behind one of America's most beloved folk songs.

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I came of age in the shadow of a shocking crime. Nearly 40 years later, a dedicated cold case team finally brought the unspeakable to light.

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What‘s the deal with low bridges? Why mules instead of horses? And what's up with those red-light districts? Here's the stuff they didn't teach you in grade school.

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She was found dumped in a driveway, horrifically wounded, and died five hours later, unable to say what had happened to her. Who killed Carol Ryan?

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Forty-one years ago, John Hinckley shot and wounded four men outside the Washington Hilton Hotel while trying to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. My father, Jerry Parr, was the Secret Service agent standing behind th...

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