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Bobby Dunbar vanished in 1912. His reappearance would lead to a custody battle, a possibly wrongly convicted man, and an incredible DNA test 90 years later. Wikimedia CommonsThe boy raised as Bobby Dunbar (left) posing alongside his family. A young child goes missing, the whole country starts looking for him, and eventually, the family gets him back, only to realize that he wasn’t their kid after all. While it may sound like something out of The Twilight Zone, this was an actual mystery that unfolded in Louisiana starting in 1912: the eerie case of Bobby Dunbar....

A former news reporter has developed an algorithm to help solve murders — but will law enforcement use it? A decade or so ago, a Scripps journalist named Thomas Hargrove was after some data for a report on the rate at which U.S. police departments enforced prostitution as a crime. He obtained the data he needed without issue, but a supplementary report that he hadn’t requested showed up, too — perhaps somewhat serendipitously....

In November 2004, 21-year-old Christopher Porco chopped up his parents as they slept in their bed, leaving his father dead and his mother missing an eye and part of her skull. On November 15, 2004, Peter Porco was found dead in his home in Bethlehem, New York. Nearby, his wife had been bludgeoned and was clinging to life. The horrific crime scene seemed to leave more questions than answers about the events that had led to the brutal attack....

Necklacing was reserved not for the white men who supported the apartheid system, but those deemed as traitors to the black community. FlickrA man being necklaced in South Africa. 1991. In June 1986, a South-African woman was burned to death on television. Her name was Maki Skosana, and the world watched in horror as anti-apartheid activists wrapped her up in a car tire, doused her with gasoline, and set her on fire....

Scientists have long known that dolphins are very intelligent creatures, and now — for the first time ever — researchers have recorded the underwater mammals having a conversation. Thanks to the development of an underwater microphone, researchers at the Karadag Nature Reserve in Feodosia, Russia recorded two Black Sea Bottlenose dolphins talking to each other in a pool, The Telegraph reported. In the study, which was published in the journal Mathematics and Physics, researchers observed that each dolphin would listen to the other speak a “sentence” without interruption, and then reply....

As a child, Evelyn Einstein was told she was actually Albert Einstein’s biological daughter. But she died before she could prove it. Evelyn Einstein always claimed that renowned physicist Albert Einstein was her biological father. But she never had any proof. As the granddaughter of Albert Einstein, Evelyn Einstein’s life was markedly affected by the psychological baggage and social pressures stemming from her renowned surname. Evelyn came into the Einstein family not by blood but through adoption....

The purpose of the event was to “encourage people to go after their desires and not feel shame.” We expect people to learn about nearly every topic at one of our nation’s most prestigious universities, but many were shocked to learn that an Ivy League school hosted an anal sex workshop this week. The College Fix reported that this Tuesday, Harvard University hosted an anal sex workshop entitled “What What in the Butt: Anal 101” on their campus....

In the summer of 2013, 20-year-old Heather Elvis started seeing Sidney Moorer, a 37-year-old with a wife and three children — and by December, Elvis had vanished forever. Find Heather Elvis/FacebookHeather Elvis disappeared on December 18, 2013. By late 2013, 20-year-old Heather Elvis had been living on her own for more than a year and had a job at a restaurant called the Tilted Kilt in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She had a blossoming relationship and, by all accounts, appeared happy....

Centuries after the first wave of the Black Plague killed nearly half of Europe, we are still left wondering how the deadly plague subsided. Wikimedia CommonsPieter Bruegel’s The Triumph of Death reflects the social upheaval caused by the Black Plague. No pandemic in history was as deadly as the Black Plague. From the Middle Ages right up until the 1750s, the Bubonic Plague decimated Europe and the Middle East, wiping out an estimated 30 million people in the first decade alone....

Perhaps the most fearless mobster of all time, “Crazy Joe” Gallo took on his own bosses in the Colombo crime family and sparked an all-out civil war that finally ended with his murder in 1972. Getty ImagesAlso known as “Crazy Joe,” Joe Gallo kidnapped the bosses of his own family as part of an insurgency he lead in hopes of winning control of the organization. On April 7, 1972, infamous mobster Joe Gallo sat down to celebrate his birthday at Umberto’s Clam House in New York’s Little Italy with his family....

Leona Rae “Candy” Stevens kept Charles Manson out of jail in 1959 and helped lock him up a year later. She visited him once behind bars — and never saw him again. The Manson Family BlogOne of the only known photos of Leona Rae “Candy” Stevens (or Musser). She’s seen here during her junior year of high school, three years before she married Charles Manson. Colorado, 1956. Before Charles Manson became the world-renowned cult leader who sicced his murderous “family” on Sharon Tate and Rosemary LaBianca, he was just another petty thief....

Trying to lose 30 pounds that just won’t go away? For one man, the answer wasn’t diet and exercise. nj.com A surgeon holds up Kevin Daly’s 30 pound tumor It was weird that Kevin Daly managed to lose over 30 pounds, but still couldn’t get rid of his massive beer belly. It was even weirder that Daly wasn’t a big beer drinker. The good news? His protruding stomach wasn’t actually a beer belly....

See the video that will now likely put this nurse behind bars. As 89-year-old World War II veteran James Dempsey lay dying in a Georgia nursing home, his nurses both ignored his cries and laughed as they failed to take critical measures that could have prevented his death. We know this because the entire incident was caught on a hidden camera placed in the man’s room by his family. Now, that footage has led to indictments for the nurses involved....

Much of the way we think and speak about Iran is broken, and that comes at least partially because much of Iran’s reality is obscured from view. What, then, are we to make of the bits and pieces of Iranian “reality” that surface in the form of the “Rich Kids of Tehran?” Share Flipboard Email Traipsing about in bikinis or posing next to cars whose size and price tag make them seem more similar to a small yacht than an automobile, their uploaded photos offer decadent visions simultaneously familiar and foreign to Western viewers....

Rosie the Shark was caught in a family’s tuna-fishing net in 1997 before being preserved in a formaldehyde tank and eventually abandoned. But now, she’s finally being restored to her former glory. Crystal World and Prehistoric Journeys Exhibition CenterRosie the shark’s tank is being slowly refilled with glycerol as a safer preservative solution to formaldehyde. The men who found her had no intentions of catching an apex predator, but Rosie the shark would die after breaching their tuna nets, nonetheless....

Would the American Mafia as we know it even exist without Salvatore Maranzano? Wikimedia CommonsSalvatore Maranzano Salvatore Maranzano didn’t dream of becoming a Mafioso — let alone the head of the most powerful crime organization in America and the man who formed the American Mafia as we know it — back when he was a small boy in Sicily. No, he apparently dreamt of joining a much older order of brothers: the Catholic priesthood....

Up to 350,000 Jews were gassed to death at the Sobibór concentration camp in Poland. But a prisoner uprising forced the Nazis to burn it to the ground. Imagno/Getty ImagesCountless Polish Jews gathered before being executed on the death camp site believed to be Sobibór. Unlike Dachau and Auschwitz, Sobibór was never a political prison or a concentration camp for forced labor on a mass scale. It existed, from its moment of creation, solely to kill human beings....

In one member’s own words, the Rainbow Family is “the largest best coordinated nonpolitical nondenominational nonorganization of like-minded individuals on the planet.” Wikimedia CommonsA Rainbow Family gathering in the summer 2007. Their full name is the Rainbow Family of Living Light, but you can just call them the Rainbow Family. Around since the early 1970s, this counter-culture group was heavily inspired by the famous 1969 Woodstock Festival as well as the anti-war, pro-love movements....

Murdered Stone Age man’s face reconstructed, mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke believed to be solved, historic Viking settlement unearthed. Scientists Reconstruct Face Of Stone Age Man Whose Skull Was Found Mounted On A Spike Oscar NilssonUsing a CT scan and other state-of-the-art technology, experts were able to reconstruct this man’s face based on the remains of his 8,000-year-old skull. About 8,000 years ago, a man was killed alongside 10 other adults and one infant in a mysterious ritual in modern-day Sweden....

Ancient human ancestor’s tooth found in Laos, Greek treasures unearthed in Ukraine, pregnant ichthyosaur uncovered in Chile. This Ancient Molar Found In A Laotian Cave Just Revealed A Hidden Ancestor In Humanity’s Family Tree Fabrice DemeterThis lower left molar is believed to belong to a young girl between the ages of three and nine, and could be anywhere from 164,000 to 131,000 years old. Near the end of her dig season, a paleoanthropologist working in Laos named Laura Shackelford was ready to pack it in and go home when some local children told her about a nearby cave that was supposedly filled with human bones — and cobras....