Killer Crimes - Death by Mail

Few 18th century pirates had more success than Sam Bellamy. In one remarkable year, he seized or looted no fewer than 53 ships in the Atlantic Ocean. But then in 1717 Bellamy and his crew died in a ni...

18 Mar 41min

In 1120, a drunken midnight party aboard a brand-new luxury ship killed nearly 300 of England's young nobility, including the only legitimate male heir to the throne. What followed was two decades of ...

15 Feb 35min

It was one of the worst maritime disasters in US military history, and naval historians would spend decades studying what went wrong. But the sinking of the USS Indianapolis also led to acts of extrao...

24 Jan 42min

In 1911, a handyman hid in a Louvre closet overnight, then simply walked out the next morning with the Mona Lisa under his apron—pulling off the most famous art theft in history. Before this audacious...

23 Nov 202540min

As horrifying as the crash of Air India flight 171 was, investigators soon shocked the world again. They said the plane was likely intentionally crashed by a suicidal pilot, killing 260 people. How co...

23 Okt 202538min

In the late 1860s, George Leslie walked among New York's elite as a respected architect, all while planning the most audacious bank robberies in American history. Using revolutionary techniques and me...

28 Sep 202546min

An avid surfer and fisherman, San Diego native Garret Rodriguez dreamed of building a home for himself on a small piece of land which his father had bought for him along the coast of Mexico. But first...

6 Aug 202536min

In 1969, twenty-year-old Ted Conrad walked out of a bank in Ohio with the equivalent of two million dollars and vanished completely—cutting off all contact with family and friends. It wasn't until fif...

21 Jun 202548min