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A Never Ending Cycle?
The true crime novel offers a glimpse into the human mind, into series of events that are hard to imagine do occur. This type of genre within literature offers a great insight to learn from about history that has been made.
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The Greatest Unsolved Art Thefts
While most of the thousands of art thefts around the world are solved rather quickly, a few cases have proved frustrating for authorities.
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Jack the Ripper:Case Still Open
Even though the Jack the Ripper case is over 100 years old, new books and evidence have led to a variety of different theories about the unsolved murders.
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Joe Ball
Joe Ball was an early serial killer, even before the phrase was coined. He was reputed to have butchered his victims and fed them to his pet alligators.
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A Certain Kind of Fire
How enslaved Africans helped awaken the conscience of America. BY GEORGE W. BUSH, Monday, July 14, 2003 12:01 a.m. (Editor's note: President Bush delivered this speech last Tuesday on Goree Island, Senegal, site of a Dutch-built slave station through which as many as two million enslaved Africans passed.)
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The 'Angel of Death' Comes to Auschwitz
Auschwitz was an infamous German detention camp. Incoming prisoners were chosen for immediate death, or for medical experimentation under doctors such as Josef Mengele.
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Voices of the Holocaust
Prisoners sent to Auschwitz knew their reassignment was a death sentence. Often the best chance of survival came from being used as a subject of medical experimentation.
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