There’s a word in the streets that carries more weight than murder, more weight than robbery, more weight than any charge a prosecutor can put on paper. Snitch. You can kill a man and still have respect in certain circles. You can rob, you can steal, you can destroy entire neighborhoods, but the moment you…
Two hunters walking through a cornfield on the outskirts of Rochester, New York on the morning of Thanksgiving Day, 1961, find something that stops them cold. The smell reaches them before the sight does. Then the sight, a man is lying in the underbrush, or what remains of a man. He has been strangled. His…
December 4th, 1989. Howard Beach, Queens. Inside a house already famous with federal agents, a dying mob captain is running out of time. He is 49. He is free on $1 million bail. He has four major criminal cases still hanging over him. The FBI has spent years listening to his voice bounce off kitchen…
30,000 members, 28 states, 75 cities, one of the most powerful street organizations ever built on American soil. And the man who started it all, nobody wrote down how he died. Think about that for a second. You can look up the founding date of the Vice Lords, the size of their territory, the names…
People just found a secret chamber in the Buckingham Palace, and they say it is full of Diana’s belongings. A mysterious trunk was discovered inside a luxurious villa in Scotland. And inside it were pieces of jewelry that once belonged to Princess Diana, missing for decades. Immediately, the name Annabelle Elliot, Camila’s sister, was thrust…
On a summer evening in 1900, a king made a fatal choice. He removed his protective vest because the heat was unbearable. Minutes later, three bullets ended his life and set in motion a mystery that would span 125 years. Hidden in a bank vault in Rome sits a black leather case sealed with 11…
On the morning of April 29th, 2011, in the private apartments of Buckingham Palace, a white gloved hand lifted a velvet tray from an antique case. The morning light, pale English, precisely focused, found each facet of the stones arranged before it, and held there a moment, as though the room itself understood the gravity…
10 strange facts about Jacqueline Kennedy jewelry collection. When Queen Elizabeth II learned of President Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963, she broke protocol. She personally attended a memorial service at St. Paul’s Cathedral, something British monarchs almost never do for foreign leaders. The church bells rang across London and the Queen stood in silence for…
Behind the glamorous Camelot image lay secrets that would shock the American public for decades. From a first lady who negotiated a 170 clause marriage contract and corresponded secretly with an Irish priest for 14 years to a president who secretly recorded 265 hours of private conversations and concealed life-threatening illnesses with carefully worded denials….
They were the most photographed couple in America and one of the least understood. >> >> Behind the smiles and the state dinners and the children playing on the Oval Office floor, something else was happening entirely. Jackie once told her father-in-law that she would stay in the marriage, but if Jack came…
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