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  The Hinterkaifeck Murders: Six Dead, One Missing Killer, and Some Very Well-Fed Cows

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  October 19, 2026

  Helen Duncan and the 1944 Witchcraft Trial: Because Fighting Hitler Wasn’t Keeping Britain Busy Enough

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  September 30, 2026

  The Sting Behind The Sting: Fun Facts and Strange Stories from the Classic Movie

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  August 26, 2026

  Coffin Torpedoes: When 19th-Century Americans Booby-Trapped the Dead to Stop Grave Robbers

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  August 17, 2026

  Trial by Combat Was Still Legal in England in 1818

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  August 7, 2026

  Rattlesnakes for Felons: Benjamin Franklin’s Plan to Repay Britain

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  July 30, 2026

  Michael Godwin: The Murderer Who Escaped the Electric Chair—Then Electrocuted Himself on a Toilet

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  July 1, 2026

  The Bloody Benders: Kansas’ Murderous Innkeepers Who Vanished Into Old West Legend

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  June 25, 2026

  The Oxford English Dictionary’s Darkest Footnote: Dr. Minor of Broadmoor

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  May 28, 2026

  Amos Atkinson and the Hostage Siege That Ended When Police Called His Mother

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  May 12, 2026

  The Madeleine Smith Poisoning Trial: Love Letters, Arsenic, and a “Not Proven” Verdict

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  April 28, 2026

  The Murder of William Desmond Taylor: Hollywood’s First Great Unsolved Scandal

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  March 31, 2026

  The Road Hill House Murder: When Victorian England Discovered That Evil Could Wear Good Manners

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  March 20, 2026

  The Dead Rabbits Riots of 1857: When New York Decided to Settle Politics the Old-Fashioned Way (With Bricks)

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  March 13, 2026

  Just How Violent Was the Wild West?

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