February 15th, 1936, approximately 1:00 in the morning. The Avenue Recreation Bowling Alley sits at 805 North Milwaukee Avenue, a two-story brick building on Chicago’s Near Northwest Side, where the lanes stay open past midnight and the crowd thins to regulars and insomniacs. On the second floor, a man in a gray…
November 17th, 1987, 3:42 in the afternoon, a hospital bed at Mi Hospital in Duneden, Florida. Santo Trafocanti Jr., 72 years old, closed his eyes for the last time. No bullets, no indictments pending, no handcuffs on the bed rail, just heart failure, a wife holding his hand, and a son-in-law who…
In 1999, the FBI was recording the real Tony Soprano’s crew in a social club in New Jersey. And on those tapes, right in the middle of conversations about murder and extortion and who owed what to whom, his men kept stopping, stopping to talk about a television show. One member of…
The construction foreman wasn’t supposed to go down there. The sub-basement wasn’t on any blueprint the development company had been given, wasn’t in any permit filing, wasn’t in any city record going back 30 years. But Ray Bustamante went down there anyway, flashlight in hand, boots crunching on 30-year-old concrete dust. And…
October 25th, 1957, 10:15 in the morning. The barber shop inside the Park Sheritan Hotel, 7th Avenue and 55th Street, Manhattan. Albert Anastasia sat in chair number four, a hot towel draped across his face, his eyes closed. He was getting a shave. He’d left his bodyguard parked in the garage. His…
January 18th, 1978, just after midnight, the Sunbright Bar on 46th Street and 10th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. A small time hood named Harold Whitehead, was leaning against the bar, drunk, running his mouth about Jimmy Kunan. He’d been warned twice. He didn’t listen. Eddie Kamusky, a 40-year-old former Singh inmate with…
42 Halfmoon Street, Piccadilly. The 11th of September, 1921. A 67-year-old man collapses in a rented flat. His wife is not in the room. She walked to the pharmacy on the corner to collect a prescription. When she returns, he is already dead. The man’s death certificate will record the cause as…
10 iconic jewelry moments of Princess Diana that shocked the royal world. There are jewels, and then there are Diana’s jewels, each whispering a story the palace never meant to tell. From emeralds once locked in royal vaults to diamonds worn like declarations of freedom, her choices stunned tradition itself. Some shimmerred with heartbreak, others…
The woman a king abdicated for a priceless jewel collection. The British Empire once ruled over 25% of the entire world. Its wealth was unimaginable. But there was one woman whose personal worth made the empire looks small. And today we’re looking at the jewelry she wore to prove it. This collection…
In the summer of 1999, William went back to Althorp, the house where his mother had grown up. He had been there before. For the funeral, for the burial. This time, something had changed. This time, in a room at the end of the east corridor, he found something his mother had…
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