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Murder

A great white shark on the western cape of South Africa.

Found: Three Dead Great White Sharks, Missing Their Livers

One was also missing its heart.

Sarah Laskow May 11, 2017

The Zalud house

Porterville, California

Zalud House

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

Memorial plaque at the place of the assassination.

Stockholm, Sweden

Olof Palme Memorial Plaque

A golden plaque marks the site of the mysterious unsolved assassination of the former Swedish prime minister.

Oswald's nondescript grave.

Fort Worth, Texas

Lee Harvey Oswald's Grave

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

Looking down onto the living room.

Baltimore, Maryland

The Scarpetta House

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Mary Meinert's memorial at St. James

Marietta, Georgia

St. James Episcopal Cemetery

An elegant Georgian cemetery best known for the grave of the little girl whose murder on Christmas Day remains unsolved.

A Visual History of the Rise—and Demise—of Rasputin

The Mad Monk was assassinated 100 years ago in Russia.

Darmon Richter & Diana Naneva December 30, 2016

The Ten Bells Pub.

London, England

The Ten Bells Pub

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert.

How the 1963 'Career Girl Murders' Bolstered the Myth that Cities Aren’t Safe For Women

Response to the murders—and the subsequent wrongful conviction—was a perfect storm of panic about liberated women, black men, and city life.

Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite December 8, 2016

The Last Resort Bar.

Port Orange, Florida

The Last Resort Bar

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

One of the many gruesome dioramas.

London, England

The London Dungeon

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Watch a Serial Killer Play the Dating Game

Bachelor number one was hiding a horrific hobby.

Molly McBride Jacobson October 26, 2016

Gene Fleming and Andy, the famous Footless Goose with Shoes.

The Goose Who Wore Nikes, and the Mystery of Who Murdered Him

The Nebraska celebrity bird delighted all—until he was brutally killed.

Cara Giaimo October 19, 2016

How Colombia's Biggest Murder Investigation Was Swayed by a Dream

The crime of the century was, supposedly, revealed in a dream.

Mariana Zapata October 7, 2016

Number 12 Augustinerstraße

Vienna, Austria

Ungarisches Haus (Hungarian House)

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

In the 1900s, Being a 'Cigarette Fiend' Was a Legitimate Defense for Murder

Jennifer Redmond October 5, 2016

The Chapel and its bones.

Ossuary Chapel of the Cathedral of Otranto

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

The Mysterious Decapitation of Two Bison at a Spanish Reserve

Sauron, the dominant male bull of the herd, was found without his head.

Sarah Laskow September 23, 2016