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  Hollywood Before the Hays Code: The Party Before the Chaperone

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  July 6, 2025

  Michael Malloy: The Man Who Wouldn’t Die (No, Seriously, He Just Wouldn’t)

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  June 27, 2025

  The 1990 Flint Wedding Sting: Michigan’s Most Bizarre Drug Bust

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  June 26, 2025

  The McDonald’s Monopoly Scam: The Great McFraud When Monopoly Came With Crime and a Side of Fries

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  June 17, 2025

  Final Answer… or Final Scam? The Wildest Game Show Cheating Scandals in History

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  June 8, 2025

  Is 09 F9 11 02 an Illegal Number? The Strange Case of the Code that Sparked a Censorship War

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  June 6, 2025

  Thomas Jefferson’s Nephews, a Grisly Murder, and the Earthquake That Wouldn’t Let Them Get Away With It

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  June 4, 2025

  How Isaac Newton Brought Down 17th-Century London’s Master Counterfeiter

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  June 3, 2025

  A Dingo Took My Baby! The Lindy Chamberlain Trial

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  June 2, 2025

  Optograms, Spirit Photos, and Fritz Angerstein, the Killer Who Couldn’t Escape a Snapshot

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  May 25, 2025

  The Wall Street Panic of 1907: How Two Men Nearly Crashed the U.S. Economy and One Guy Saved It

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  May 18, 2025

  How Melissa Goings Avoided the Gallows When Abraham Lincoln Suggested She Get Water From Tennessee

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  May 13, 2025

  Snow White: The Fairytale That Might Just Be a True Crime Story

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  May 9, 2025

  Rodney Alcala: The Serial Killer Who Won The Dating Game

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  May 7, 2025

  The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872: The Con That Bedazzled the Gilded Age

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