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History’s Biggest Art Heist Remains Unsolved, 25 Years Later
The buzzer rang at 1:24 a.m. While the last of Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day revelers downed their final drinks before turning in to await their inevitable hangovers, night watchman Richard Abath looked...
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The Real-Life Story Behind “The Monuments Men”
Decades before territorial ambitions and Aryan supremacy absorbed Adolf Hitler, a much different passion consumed the future German dictator—art. But after Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts rejected a...
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Mutiny on the Bounty, 225 Years Ago
As its commander slept, HMS Bounty sliced through the South Pacific laden with cargo vital to the economic interests of the British Empire—not gold or silver, but hundreds of potted breadfruit...
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Gunfire Erupts Inside U.S. Capitol, 60 Years Ago
The United States took control of Puerto Rico, a Caribbean island located about 1,000 miles from Miami, in 1898 at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War. After two years of military rule, Puerto...
View Article$1.35 Billion in Nazi-Looted Art Found in Munich
The drab, nondescript exterior of Gurlitt’s Munich apartment block gave no hint of the treasures hidden inside. Amid piles of garbage and expired food in the vacant apartment, German authorities...
View ArticleThe Birth of “Stockholm Syndrome,” 40 Years Ago
On the morning of August 23, 1973, an escaped convict crossed the streets of Sweden’s capital city and entered a bustling bank, the Sveriges Kreditbanken, on Stockholm’s upscale Norrmalmstorg square....
View Article50 Years On, Looking Back at the Great Train Robbery
Around 3 a.m. on that fateful morning 50 years ago, Jack Mills, the driver of the Royal Mail train from Glasgow to London, stopped at a red signal located near a remote bridge at Ledburn in...
View ArticleCSI Boston: DNA Provides New Clues in Strangler Case, 50 Years Later
The infamous killing spree began in June 1962 with the death of 55-year-old Anna Slesers in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. Within 20 months, 11 Boston-area women, ranging in age from 19 to 85, were...
View Article5 Giant Diamond Heists
February 2003: Antwerp Diamond Center Last week, as Monday’s robbers prepared to storm the jewel-laden plane, exactly 10 years had passed since Belgium fell victim to another giant diamond theft. On...
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Murder in Parliament, 200 Years Ago
John Bellingham quietly entered the House of Commons lobby around 5 p.m. on May 11, 1812. As members of Parliament conversed in small clusters, the tall, thin man calmly sat down on the bench next to...
View Article10 Famous Art Heists
Mona Lisa Leaves the Louvre (1911) On August 21, 1911, an amateur painter set up his easel near the spot where Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”—one of the most famous works of art in the world—hung in...
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Is Photo of Jesse James with Killer Real?
Jesse James had lived through shootouts and two gun blasts to the chest, but ultimately he couldn’t survive a little housekeeping. As the infamous Wild West outlaw straightened and dusted a picture...
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The Heist that Made the Mona Lisa Famous
Credit: Stuart Dee/Getty Images The theft of the Mona Lisa has been called the “art heist of the century,” but the caper itself was fairly rudimentary. On the evening of Sunday, August 20, 1911, a...
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The Con Man Who Invented His Own Country
Beginning in 1821, the city of London was overrun with reports of a previously unknown nation nestled on the Caribbean coastline of what is now Honduras. Called Poyais, it was supposedly a lush and...
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The Massacre at Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Love Cottage”
The 47-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright knelt next to an open grave. The woman inside the plain white pine box carpeted with flowers was Martha “Mamah” Borthwick Cheney, the wife of one of Wright’s clients,...
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Why Americans Are So Fascinated by Serial Killers
NOTE: The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of A+E Networks. At the 1992 Academy Awards, The Silence of the Lambs achieved something...
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The Wimbledon Finalist Who Committed Murder
His killer backhand brought him fame on the tennis court, but it was a gruesome murder that earned Vere St. Leger Goold real notoriety—this time in the court of law. A Wimbledon finalist in 1879, the...
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Victim of “The Killer Clown” Finally Identified After 40 Years
After 40 years, investigators used DNA to identify one of seven unnamed victims of 1970s serial killer John Wayne Gacy. James Byron Haakenson, previously known only as “Victim #24,” was 16 years old...
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Lizzie Borden: Murderess or Media Sensation?
Many people might have wanted to see Andrew Borden dead. The gruesome murders shocked the community, but many in Fall River were perhaps not entirely surprised that Andrew Borden had met an untimely...
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Babysitters Accused of Satanic Crimes Exonerated After 25 Years
On June 20th, a couple who served 21 years in prison for the Satanic ritual abuse of children was formally exonerated by the district attorney in Austin, Texas, who said there is “no credible evidence”...
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