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Even after NFL star Aaron Hernandez was convicted of murdering Odin Lloyd in North Attleborough, Massachusetts on June 17, 2013, one question remained: Why did he kill him? Wikimedia CommonsOdin Lloyd’s bullet-riddled corpse was found in an industrial park. Aaron Hernandez immediately became the primary suspect, as Lloyd was last seen with him. Odin Lloyd was just 27 years old when he was shot dead in 2013, but unlike most other gun-related homicides in the U....

With World War II nearing its end in the early months of 1945, hundreds of Japanese soldiers perished during the Ramree Island crocodile attack, the deadliest in recorded history. Imagine you’re part of a military force outflanked by the enemy on a tropical island. You have to rendezvous with another group of soldiers on the other side of the island — but the only way to do so is to traverse a thick swamp filled with deadly crocodiles....

From actors who did extensive research to those who chose not to portray the Führer accurately at all, these Hitler movies reveal wildly different takes on modern history’s greatest villain. Many actors have had the desire to dissect the toxic psyche of the man behind one of the worst atrocities in history. The result is a mixed bag of Hitler movies that depict an unsettling, humorous, or controversial version of the Führer....

These old color photos courtesy of the autochrome process may date to the early 1900s, but they don’t look it one bit. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 44 Stunning Color Photos Of The World’s Cultures 100 Years Ago 31 Imperial Russia Photos That Reveal History In Stunning Color These 77 Images Are Some Of The World’s First Color Photos...

From the gunslinging postwoman of Montana to the deputy marshal who patrolled the Plains, discover the seldom-taught stories of these icons of the American frontier. Many stories about the Wild West depict it as a white place. Hollywood Westerns feature white lawmen, white outlaws, white cowboys, and white women. But the true Wild West was a place of rich diversity, and Black heroes made up an important part of its fabric....

Darlie Routier told a detailed story about a man that broke into her home and stabbed her sons to death. Then cops found disturbing clues that ultimately put her on death row. In the early morning hours of June 6, 1996, 911 dispatchers in Rowlett, Texas received a panicked call from 26-year-old Darlie Routier. She claimed that an intruder had broken into her home and stabbed her two sons, Devon and Damon, as well as herself....

David Packouz went from Miami stoner to international gun runner — all before his 30th birthday. David Packouz’s early life was as unremarkable as it gets. Born in St. Louis and raised in a middle-class Jewish family, he preferred smoking weed and hanging out to any more serious pursuits. He bounced from school to a Yeshiva in Israel, unsure of what he wanted apart from having a vague passion for music....

“They gave each other a big kiss and passed away confidently holding hands. According to their own wish." CEN / c/o The Elderhorst familyNic and Trees Elderhorst, who died following a double euthanasia procedure last week. Nic and Trees Elderhorst had been married for 65 years before they decided to die together. The couple, both 91 and living in the town of Didam in the Netherlands, had been struggling with declining health in recent years, and their family told the media they had always wanted to leave this life together....

It would be an understatement to say that American audiences love the idea of vigilante justice. From the obsidian-cloaked Bruce Wayne to Frank Underwood’s signature House of Cards sneer, contemporary pop culture and media landscapes are inundated with the image of an individual using his own hands to effect his vision of justice. And that’s just the problem: fiction or not, the protagonists of popular vigilante justice stories are usually men....

In November 1989, Kim Broderick’s mother Betty Broderick shot and killed her ex-husband Dan and his new wife Linda Kolkena in a jealous rage — then Kim delivered damning testimony against her. CourtTVSome of Betty Broderick’s children testified against her in court, including Kim Broderick, seen here crying on the stand. Raised by two well-known and well-off parents in San Diego, Kim Broderick seemed to want for nothing. She attended private schools and enjoyed luxurious vacations with her family, but then, her parents Dan and Betty Broderick divorced in a separation that became a nightmare....

In 2014, Morgan Freeman imported 26 beehives from Arkansas to his ranch in Mississippi after learning about the startling decline in honey bee populations. InstagramMorgan Freeman on his 124-acre Mississippi ranch. In 2014, Morgan Freeman announced a newfound passion. As he explained before a live audience on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Freeman was so alarmed by the global decline of honeybees that he turned his 124-acre Mississippi ranch into a bee sanctuary....

From adventurer to author to activist, John Griffith London led a dramatic life in keeping with his celebrated novels like “White Fang” and “The Call of the Wild.” Jack London was the kind of man who fully embodied the spirit of the time in which he lived — for better and for worse. London lived the life of a rugged individualist starting at the age of just 14, embarking upon various adventures that would soon inspire his prolific writing career....

From 1977 to 1980, Joseph Paul Franklin traveled all over America to target victims who were Black or Jewish with a sniper rifle. St. Louis Post via APJoseph Paul Franklin killed at least 22 people, bombed two synagogues, and completed 16 robberies during his reign of terror. All serial killers have ugly rap sheets — but Joseph Paul Franklin’s is one of the most horrifying by far. Between 1977 and 1980, the self-proclaimed racist and member of the American Nazi Party went on a killing spree targeting Black and Jewish people across 11 different states....

While no one knows for sure why the Kindlifresserbrunnen was built, there are several theories as to why a child eating statue could be there. Wikimedia CommonsKindlifresserbrunnen, the child-eater of Bern statue. In the middle of the Swiss city of Bern, there stands a giant statue of a grotesque beast devouring small children, a statue whose symbolic purpose has been lost to time. Built around 1546, the Kindlifresserbrunnen of Bern is a fountain with an imposing sculpture of an ogre with a half of a child spilling out of his mouth....

The steps to the Lindy Hop didn’t actually include any hopping, but they did jumpstart a fantastical dance craze throughout the Jazz era. Gjon Mili/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesLeon James and Willa Mae Ricker demonstrating the steps of The Lindy Hop. Partner dances are a fairly recent development in the history of mankind. Although there were some exceptions, for the most part, physical contact between partners was limited to hands only....

Diagnosed with autism, Stephen Wiltshire was nonverbal until age seven. Now, he draws entire cities from memory. FacebookStephen Wiltshire laughs while completing a panorama. After just one helicopter ride over Singapore, he spent the next five days drawing the cityscape in exquisite detail — entirely from memory. Yet, when he was just three, doctors wrote off young Stephen Wiltshire due to an autism diagnosis. But now, at age 45, the brilliant Wiltshire is taking the art world by storm....

Hear the incredible, improbable, and sadly forgotten story of P.B.S. Pinchback, governor of Louisiana just after the Civil War. P.B.S. Pinchback. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons It only lasted 15 days. But from December 29, 1872 to January 13, 1873, P.B.S. Pinchback made history. Somehow, amid the especially brutal racism of the Reconstruction era, and in one of the South’s most staunchly Confederate states (Louisiana), America had its first African-American governor....

Rare and intimate color photos of Adolf Hitler, breathtaking nocturnal drone photography, celebrity yearbook photos you HAVEN’T seen, what Hiroshima looks like today, and stunning Ellis Island immigrant portraits. Rare Color Photos Of Adolf Hitler Captured By His Personal Photographer As Adolf Hitler shocked the world, Hugo Jaeger documented it all on film. Before and throughout World War II, Jaeger served as Hitler’s personal photographer, taking approximately 2,000 photographs of the fuhrer in color, a rarity of the time....

Researchers have documented brown and white pandas in the past, but never an all-white one. Wolong National Nature ReserveThe albino panda was seen in a nature reserve of Sichuan, China. Spotting a wild panda in the remote areas of the forest where they dwell is hard enough, so stumbling across an albino panda in the wild is, perhaps, just unfathomable. Or at least, that’s what experts would have believed. According to a statement from Chinese authorities, the albino panda was photographed last month on one of the infrared cameras set up inside the Wolong National Nature Reserve territory in the southwestern province of Sichuan....

Sokushinbutsu may be self-discipline at its most extreme. Barry Silver/Flickr Between 1081 and 1903, around 20 living Shingon monks successfully mummified themselves in an attempt at sokushinbutsu, or becoming “a Buddha in this body.” Through a strict diet foraged from the nearby Mountains of Dewa, Japan, the monks worked to dehydrate the body from the inside out, ridding the self of fat, muscle, and moisture before being buried in a pine box to meditate through their last days on Earth....