LAPORTE, Ind. — Asle Helgelien didn’t believe Belle Gunness’ claims that his brother, missing for months after answering the widow’s lonely-hearts ad, had left her northern Indiana farm for Chicago or ...

Feb. 25 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1791, the First Bank of the U.S. at Philadelphia became the first national bank chartered by Congress. In 1836, Samuel Colt patented a "revolving gun," the ...

I fished this jacket I hadn’t worn since last winter out of storage the other day and found a pin in the inside pocket that said, in small black capitals, “MAGIC COTTON BALLS.” Many playgoers around ...

Katherine Wombacher of Spokane, one of the many wives of Walter Andrew “Bluebeard” Watson (aka Huirt), demanded that he be given the death penalty. Watson was cooperating with authorities under a plea ...

“Bluebeard” Huirt, aka Watson, aka Holden, was sentenced to life in San Quentin State Prison by a Los Angeles judge – yet he was already angling for early release via the “insanity route.” This ...

A door that locks without anyone touching it, rendering escape impossible. A large man who overpowers, beast-like. A man wears a mask of virtue that he removes behind closed doors. These striking and ...