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I Could Have Killed Him Twice
A Gilded Age tale of seduction, betrayal and revenge.
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Nancy Markey and Kay Adams
The Notorious Reign of the Black Bordello Queen
She spent 46 years a slave. Then Madam Priscilla Henry built a brothel business so successful she earned a life-changing fortune—and scores of enemies…
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Lyndsey Ellis
Jannie Duncan: “Beautiful Human” or Fugitive Killer?
She was imprisoned for murdering her husband, then escaped and assumed a new identity. Her adoring friends and employers had no idea.
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David Howard
The Killer Doctor, the Swirling Fire, and the World’s Most Haunted Building
This block in Brazil has been home to one of the deadliest skyscraper disasters in history, a doctor with a murderous secret, and—some say—a curse that…
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Ana Franco
The First Guy to Break the Internet
It was the halcyon days of social video, eons before TikTok, and one gung-ho idealist had a simple plan to change the world. His Kony 2012 campaign…
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Emma Madden
The Obsessive Life and Mysterious Death of the Fisherman Who Discovered The Loch Ness Monster
A humble Scotsman saw something strange in the water—and daringly set out to catch it—only to have lecherous out-of-towners steal his fame and upend his…
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Paul Brown
The Sisterhood of Sex and the Quest for Porno Power
Directors with gross demands. Feminists branding them as brainwashed. Five ’80s porn stars were over the not-so-sunny side of the Golden Age of Porn. So…
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Hallie Lieberman
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