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While most of the thousands of art thefts around the world are solved rather quickly, a few cases have proved frustrating for authorities.

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.

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.

Auschwitz was an infamous German detention camp. Incoming prisoners were chosen for immediate death, or for medical experimentation under doctors such as Josef Mengele.

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.