Tristan Brübach
On March 26th, 1998, thirteen-year-old Tristan Brübach went to school (in the Höchst district of Frankfurt). He had tried to skip class, telling both his father and his teachers that he needed to see ...
9 Dec 201848min
New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot (Part Three: The Devil's Butcher Shop)
On February 3rd, 1980, the riot at the New Mexico State Pen carried on into its second full day. Negotiations continued, but with a handful of prison guards still captive, the inmates were holding mos...
2 Dec 201854min
New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot (Part Two: The Hate Factory)
In the early morning hours of February 2nd, 1980, a dozen inmates at New Mexico's State Penitentiary took four prison guards hostage. Within an hour, more than ten guards would be taken captive, and h...
28 Nov 201846min
New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot (Part One: Powder Keg)
Throughout the 20th century, the New Mexico State Penitentiary earned a reputation of being, ironically, a lawless place - where violent and non-violent prisoners were forced to co-exist in cramped an...
25 Nov 201847min
Sunset Limited Derailment
In the early morning hours of October 9th, 1995, Amtrak's Sunset Limited - which regularly traveled between coasts - slipped off of the tracks in rural Arizona.As investigators began looking into the ...
11 Nov 20181h
The Wolfs
Between 2004 and 2006, a married couple took the Florida real estate market by storm.Victor and Natalia Wolf, who had immigrated to the U.S. a few years earlier from Russia and Germany, had a plan to ...
4 Nov 201856min
San Francisco John Doe #60
On June 15th, 1985, the body of a young man was found in San Francisco's SoMa district.Despite being unable to learn the man's identity, police quickly discovered that the young man had been tortured ...
28 Okt 201823min
LeRoy Carter Jr.
LeRoy Carter Jr. was a Vietnam veteran, who returned to the states and struggled to get his life back on-track. He became a transient, who spent several years trying to stay out of jail for a litany o...
27 Okt 201835min
