On February 10, 1306, a killing inside a church in the Scottish border town of Dumfries turned a long, faltering resistance into an open revolution. Before the high altar of Greyfriars Church, Robert the Bruce struck down his political rival John Comyn. In medieval…
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On January 15, 1947, the lifeless body of Elizabeth Short, a young aspiring actress, was discovered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. The details surrounding her death were horrifying—Short’s body was severed at the waist, and her mouth was slashed, earning her the…
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Daniel E. Sickles was no ordinary figure in 19th-century American politics. Born in New York City in 1819, Sickles was a man of contradictions—a flamboyant and controversial character whose life would be forever marked by two infamous events: his murder of Philip Barton Key and his…
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