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Mystery: Murder, Mischief & Mayhem: Articles from many sources

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Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
Beyond Gypsy Blancharde: When Mothers Harm Their Kids for Attention A look inside five cases of Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, a rare and terrifying disorder where parents fake their children's illness

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Gilded Age Plains City: The Great Sheedy Murder Trial and the Booster Ethos of Lincoln, Nebraska
On January 11, 1891 in Lincoln, Nebraska, John Sheedy, a real estate developer - and owner of an illegal casino - was struck in the head by an unknown man wielding a steal cane. Sheedy initially survived the attack but died later that night after his wife, Mary, gave him a cup of coffee that
some came to believe she had poisoned.
The Lost City of Z A quest to uncover the secrets of the Amazon.
From the New Yorker Magazine
Ex-NFL Star Kermit Alexander Sues to Have Family’s Killer Executed
New Map Reveals Ships Buried Below San Francisco
Bait cars: public safety or entrapment?
The 12 Unluckiest Dumb Criminals Ever The best-laid schemes of mice and men often end in handcuffs.
Can Identical Twins Get Away With Murder?
6 Infamous Impostors By Elizabeth Nix // August 19, 2014
Home / News / Hong Kong / Mercy or murder? The controversy surrounding animal euthanasia WE RECOMMEND News - Features Better English long read: The girl who chose to die Over To You - Op-Ed The right to die: why euthanasia has no place in Hong Kong News
Vigilantes
Beyond Bonnie and Clyde: 10 Infamous Crime Spree Couples From murderers to bank robbers to child abductors, lovers to avoid
The Anomalist
Famous Crimes that captured the Nations attention
Facebook Twitter Google Email Copy News A rare look inside death row at America’s most famous prison
Whose Right to Die? America should think again before pressing ahead with the legalization of physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia
How Murder, She Wrote Became an Unexpected Social-Media Style Inspiration
Life Imitates Art: Solving Crimes with Math
Who Killed Janet Smith? Ed Starkins
A crewless U.S. Navy blimp, L-8 floats aimlessly over Daly City, Calif. Mystery of the Ghost Blimp
15 Basic Words That Are Etymological Mysteries
Is it OK to torture or murder a robot? We form such strong emotional bonds with machines that people can’t be cruel to them even though they know they are not alive. So should robots have rights?
The Doctor Trying To Solve The Mystery Of Food Allergies
The Mystery That Binds Us All
Inside the mysterious world of the Freemasons who have secret handshakes, age-old rituals and a royal following
Heaven Is Waiting; Hell Is A Different Question, Nun Says
Love remains the mystery of life
Treasure hunter searches for long-lost Spanish galleon in Nassau Sound
What Doomed the Stromatolites? Scientists find key clue to an ancient enigma Source: Oceanus Magazine
“She Is a Liar! Liar!” Romance in the pews leads to blood in Jersey.
An ax murder, a hanging, and a “curse” in Lafayette
A Rogues' Gallery of Art Crime NYU professor Leila Amineddoleh's Art Crime and the Law course explores the looters, forgers, thieves, and vandals of the art world.
Agatha's Comedy Murder Mystery Dinner Theater
Thresholds of Violence: How school shootings catch on.
Do You Think Like Sherlock Holmes?

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The Frankilin Mystery: Life and Death in the Arctic
In 1845, two ships set out from England to explore the Canadian Arctic, locate a northern route to China, and gather geomagnetic data. Both ships
and all 129 men aboard disappeared....
The Atlas Pursuit
It sounds like the beginning of a Dashiell Hammett novel — my phone rang and on the other end was a Hollywood bombshell who needed my help solving a mystery involving her famous writer husband. Granted, she was a few decades past her prime.
Could Jane Austen have been poisoned by arsenic?
All the theories of Amelia Earhart's mystery disappearance
Inside the hidden history of confederate memorials
Charles Manson, the Girls, and the Banality of Desire
Forensic 'Body Farm' Opens In Florida - Becomes Seventh In US
I-Team: Man's identity revealed, 50-year-old mystery solved
Video Clip about News Story
Rabbit hole in farmer's field leads to 'mystery caves'
Should Parents Be Legally Responsible For Children's Serious Crimes?
Murder By Poison The rise and fall of arsenic.
Can photos on social media lead to mistaken identity in court cases?
Mistaken Identity? 10 Contested Death Penalty Cases
Crime Waves Will Follow the Heat Waves of Climate Change
Crime-Predicting Algorithm Outperforms Humans
Who Commits More Murders: Animals or Humans?
Can You Get Away With Any Crime if You Have Diplomatic Immunity?
Do video games lead to violence?
Organized crime bust: How does the 'old school' Mafia work today?
Anthropological Perspectives on Death Just another Emory WordPress Sites site
Mythbusters: Teaching Through Wonder—and Failure
A Michigan Murder
From the White House to the Jailhouse to the Pulpit: Chuck Colson on Being Wrong
Why Colleges Adjudicate Their Own Campus Crimes
A Guide to the New Militia Movement
7 Mysterious People Without a Past
Documents Reveal How the NSA Cracked the Kryptos Sculpture Years Before the CIA
Innocent Hitchhiking Robot Murdered by America
A Peacock Murder Mystery: (Pea)Fowl Play In California
Disease Detectives In Brazil Go Door-To-Door To Solve Zika Mystery
Mystery Meat' revealed: What are you really eating?
Mysterious mass deaths of Alaskan birds baffles scientists
The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness
Fate of the Lost Ark Revealed?
Pitt club members investigating the Zodiac murders
The Mysterious Disappearance Of Amelia Earhart's Skeleton
Who would want to kill Joe Elwell? With debauched lifestyle question of who wouldn't
Springwells Murders: The Tragic Curse that Haunted a Family "And much of madness, and more of sin, and horror the soul of the plot." -- Edgar Allan Poe, The Conqueror Worm
Murderabilia: From Charles Manson's art to the signed pants from the old lady killer, business is booming for relics of murder and murderers
The Gardner Museum Doubles Reward to Solve Biggest Art Heist in History
Famous Lest Meals

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