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Crime & Punishment

History's most notorious crimes

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H.H. Holmes: The Murder Castle Hidden Inside a World's Fair Hotel
Victorian★ 8.5

H.H. Holmes: The Murder Castle Hidden Inside a World's Fair Hotel

H.H. Holmes built a hotel for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair that contained gas jets, acid tanks, and a crematorium — and he was a licensed physician.

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Elizabeth Báthory: The Blood Countess and 300 Witnesses
Renaissance★ 8.4

Elizabeth Báthory: The Blood Countess and 300 Witnesses

Over 300 witnesses testified against the Blood Countess in 1610-1611; she was never tried, only walled into her own castle until she died — the trial records survive.

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The Resurrection Men: Britain's Body-Snatching Industry That Supplied Medical Schools
Victorian★ 8.1

The Resurrection Men: Britain's Body-Snatching Industry That Supplied Medical Schools

Britain's medical schools were supplied for decades by professional grave robbers who dug up the freshly buried at night — the corpse had no legal standing as stolen property.

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