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In 2016, Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster from a North Korean hotel, but he suffered a brain injury that rendered him comatose immediately after his trial — and he died without ever telling his side of the story. Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old commerce and economics major at the University of Virginia, wanted to go on an adventure before his life became a never-ending stream of banking spreadsheets....

Today, there are only three Jack the Ripper letters that investigators believe may be credible. But only the “From Hell” letter was sent along with a human kidney. Wikimedia CommonsA photograph of the original ‘From Hell’ letter that was sent to George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee on October 16, 1888. The letter itself has since been lost. Between Aug. 31 and Nov. 9, 1888, London police found five prostitutes mutilated and murdered within one square mile of each other....

Arthur Shawcross’ horrifying criminal streak began with arson. But, before long, the 300-pound monster would be known as one of the scariest serial killers in history. No matter how you look at it, Arthur Shawcross was a troubled person. He frequently lied about what he did. He went into fits of rage that led to broken windows and beat-up wives. Shawcross also killed 13 people over the course of 17 years....

Judit Polgár’s father believed that geniuses weren’t just born; they could be made. Wikimedia CommonsJudit Polgár playing multiple games of chess at once. If you start teaching them early enough, can a child become a master in anything? László Polgár thought so. That’s why he began training his daughters, Zsuzsa, Zsófia, and Judit Polgár, to be great chess players from the time they could walk. The results of his labor are hard to argue with....

These unbeliveable photographs capture the horrifying locust invasion that is sweeping Kenya and other parts of East Africa. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 12A farmer’s son cries out as he is surrounded by desert locusts while trying to chase them away from his crops. Yahoo News 2 of 12Swarms of desert locusts in the sky the Kenyan village of Katitika....

Mallory’s parents are suing the school and considering suing the parents of the girls who bullied their daughter. Whose fault is it when a 12-year-old takes her own life? That’s the question confronting the parents, justice officials and school district connected with Mallory Grossman, who killed herself on June 14. Mallory’s parents blame their daughter’s New Jersey school district and announced plans to sue the Rockaway Township administrators on Tuesday for not appropriately responding to instances of bullying....

Jeremy Lee Pauley allegedly paid around $4,000 for a collection of body parts stolen from an Arkansas mortuary — including half a human head. East Pennsboro Township Police DepartmentJeremy Lee Pauley is charged with abuse of a corpse, receiving stolen property, and dealing in proceeds of unlawful activities. Jeremy Lee Pauley never hid his interests. On Facebook, the 40-year-old Enola, Pennsylvania, man maintained a page where he displayed human body parts for sale....

Watch him tell local news he knew nothing about the body in the nearby creek just hours before police charged him with putting it there. WNEP/BRADFORD COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITYMatthew Haverly during the local news interview (left) and after his arrest (right). On May 31, a U.P.S. driver and several passersby found the dead body of a woman in Wyalusing Creek in Wyalusing Township, Pa. The day after the grisly discovery, a reporter from local Newswatch 16 interviewed 38-year-old Matthew Haverly, who lives across the street from where the body was found....

Alfredo Balli Trevino was a well spoken, inquisitive, sleek, psychologically complicated surgeon convicted of a brutal murder. Remind you of anyone? YouTubeAlfredo Balli Trevino The name Alfredo Balli Trevino probably isn’t a familiar one. But if you’re a horror movie fan (or really, if you even just know about movies in general) the name Hannibal Lecter likely rings a bell. From The Silence of the Lambs and its proceeding follow up films, Hannibal Lecter is one of the creepiest and most nuanced cinematic villains of all-time....

Poachers murdered this scarce elephant in hopes of stealing his giant tusks. Tsavo TrustPoachers murdered Satao II with a poisoned arrow. Poachers killed a giant “tusker” elephant, which are the oldest and rarest elephants in the entire world, this past Monday in Kenya. Tsavo Trust, a conservation group dedicated to protecting tuskers, told the Associated Foreign Press (AFP) that poachers murdered a tusker called Satao II with a poisoned arrow....

Orally Universal Images Group via Getty Images Oft referred to as a “swallower” or “internal carrier,” one of the most popular and craziest ways to transport drugs is in the mouth. A carrier might numb their throat and swallow drug-filled condoms or gloves and then remove them naturally, or sometimes with the help of laxatives. “Body packers can carry up to two hundred packs on each trip, with each pack containing between two and fifty grams of a substance,” Dr....

A fascinating history and photographic tour of the seven tallest summits in the world. The Seven Summits, or the mountain ranges with the highest peaks on each of the seven continents, is a challenge to all those who consider themselves mountaineers. The Tallest Summits In The World: Mount Everest, Asia, 29,029 feet Also called Mount Chomolungma, Mount Everest is located in Nepal and is the highest elevation in the world. From standard climbing routes that pass through the “death zone” – altitudes higher than 26,246 feet – corpses can be seen in their unaltered positions....

Roman snack bar from 79 A.D. unearthed in Pompeii, last American Civil War widow dead at 101, dance floor where John the Baptist was condemned found in Jordan. 2,000-Year-Old Street Food Stand Found Frozen In Time Under Pompeii’s Volcanic Ash Pompeii Archaeological Park/Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism/Luigi Spina/HandoutVibrant frescoes adorn the food stand found in the Regio V area of the Pompeii archaeological site. Archaeologists at the Roman city of Pompeii recently uncovered the preserved remains of a 2,000-year-old snack bar, frozen in time under the ash from the volcano that wiped out the city all at once in 79 A....

Human feces from New York and New Jersey have been stranded in a tiny town in Alabama. CNN Parrish, Ala. measures two square miles. And in this Alabaman town, dozens of train cars carrying 10 million pounds of human feces have been stranded for nearly two months. In a town that small, everything is within smelling distance. Basically, everything reeks. “You can’t sit out on your porch,” said Parrish’s mayor Heather Hall....

Survivors of Japan’s harrowing 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 15,000 people claim to keep seeing the restless spirits of the victims known as “tsunami ghosts.” On March 11, 2011, a devastating magnitude 9.1 earthquake rocked eastern Asia’s seafloor, sending a wave of ocean water the height of a 12-story building into Japan’s coast. More than 15,000 people lost their lives, millions lost access to running water or electricity, and more than 120,000 buildings were destroyed within a matter of minutes....

Everyone seems to agree: the regime in Turkmenistan is rotten. According to Human Rights Watch, the Central Asian nation’s 5 million citizens live in one of “the world’s most repressive countries.” Reporters Without Borders ranks the country as the third most repressive place for journalism, only behind Eritrea and North Korea. The U.S. Department of State recently designated Turkmenistan as a “country of particular concern” for its abysmal record on religious freedom....

Tyson Bottenus, 35, has suffered from splitting migraines, facial paralysis, and even a stroke because of the mold. Tyson BottenusTyson Bottenus in 2017, before his symptoms began. Tyson Bottenus didn’t think much of the bicycle crash in Costa Rica. He and his fiancée Liza cleaned out his wound and continued on their trip. But when Bottenus returned to the United States at the beginning of 2018, he started suffering debilitating symptoms — symptoms caused, doctors say, by black mold growing in his brain....

Discover the seldom-heard stories of the four men who assassinated presidents. The United States has endured four assassinations presidents: Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy. Each of these attacks devastated the nation and changed the very course of American history. Yet, as historic as the killings were, how much do any of us truly know about the men who perpetrated them? Discover everything that seldom makes the history books about the four men that carried out some of the most well-known murders in human history…...

Researchers think the organization of the villages also resembles the face of a clock or the rays of the sun. According to Live Science, from a bird’s eye view, the lines of each village formed elongated mounds that circled a central plaza. These villages, dubbed “mound villages,” were engineered by builders who manipulated the soil as early as the 14th century. In fact, researchers believe that the whole southern rim of the rainforest was once host to a variety of soil-engineering cultures that sculpted the landscape into villages before the Europeans arrived....

Missed last night’s supermoon? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Don’t feel too badly if you missed last night’s supermoon, or the so-beautiful-it-seems-fake moment when the full moon coincides with the moon’s closest approach to Earth during its orbit around us. In spite of all that divides us, millions of people from Madrid to Rio to Beijing took a minute or so yesterday to engage in a collective ogle at the luminous sphere whose daily spotting is one of the few experiences we all share....