Crime and Scandal
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3.8KThe Sensational Murder of Sir Harry Oakes, Bar Harbor Baronet
On July 16, 1943, two Miami police officers cruised into Bar Harbor, Maine, and down the long, tree-lined drive to The Willows,...
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6.8KPuritan Child Killers: Hannah Duston and Her Sister
Hannah Duston and Elizabeth Emerson both confessed to the Rev. Cotton Mather about the children they’d killed. Hannah had tomahawked six native...
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7.1KThe Boston Irish Gang Wars Terrify a City
When a group of hoodlums decided to rent a cottage on Salisbury Beach for a Labor Day party in 1961, they set...
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3.6KThe Mashpee Nine and the Fight Over Cape Cod Land
On the moonless night of July 29, 1976, a group of young Mashpee Wampanoag men sat around a campfire, talking quietly. Some...
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3.8KJohn Revelstoke Rathom, the Phony Who Propagandized the U.S. Into War
It was November 1915, and the Great War in Europe was in its second year. But the German ambassador to the United...
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