On January 16, 2004, Jodie Lane left her apartment in New York City’s East Village for a routine evening walk with her two dogs. It was cold, and snow still covered parts of the streets. But Jodie regularly walked her…
One night in November 2009, a man named Mikhail was sitting at his computer in Cambrai, France, playing Counter-Strike. Like millions of other players, he enjoyed the game as a way to escape everyday life. After work, bills, family problems,…
On the night of October 14, 2010, 46-year-old Nathalie Villermet finished work at the Rose Garden, the bar and boarding house she owned on the outskirts of Paris, France. She had spent years looking after difficult tenants and regular customers,…
Dale Earnhardt Jr. was used to dangerous moments behind the wheel. But on July 18, 2004, a warm-up lap at Sonoma Raceway nearly cost him his life. Earnhardt Jr. was driving a Chevrolet Corvette C5-R during an American Le Mans…
On New Year’s Day 2023, actor Jeremy Renner was seriously injured in a snowplow accident near his home outside Reno, Nevada. What began as an attempt to help a family member stuck in the snow quickly turned into a life-threatening…
In the late 1940s, Frances Glessner Lee built a tiny barn that looked like the scene of a real murder. Inside was a miniature body hanging from a noose. Every detail had a purpose, from the position of the body…
The Morning That Changed Harland Sanders’ Life On the morning of May 7, 1931, 50-year-old Harland Sanders was working inside the Shell gas station he managed in Corbin, Kentucky. It was an important day for Sanders. Two Shell executives were…
Working alone inside an old theater at night is already an unusual job. For police officers Dave Murphy, Morgan Matthews and Josh Thomas, however, the Capitol Theater in Salt Lake City became much more than a security post. In 2006,…
Around 7:00 a.m. on August 22, 1913, 21-year-old businessman Abraham Wells Boyd Jr. was getting ready for work at his home in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His wife and their 2-year-old son were still in bed. Abraham looked at them and felt…
A Routine Mining Blast Turns Into a Disaster One afternoon in the summer of 1909, miner Andrew Dunn was preparing dynamite at a remote mining camp near Galganda, Canada. He and two fellow miners had traveled there from Cobalt in…