The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre stunned the world on February 14, 1929, when Chicago’s North Side erupted in gang violence. Gang warfare ruled the city during the late 1920s, as chief gangster Al Capone sought to gain control over the illegal sales of alcohol and other vices by eliminating his rivals.

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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, William J. Helmer Jr. and Arthur J. Bilek
https://vault.fbi.gov/St.%20Valentines%20Day%20Massacre
https://webharvest.gov/peth04/20041019072541/http://foia.fbi.gov/stvalen/stvalen2.pdf

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In part 2 of the ghastly tale of Vincenzo Verzeni, he is finally arrested and tried for his heinous crimes. His appeals exhausted, Verzeni finally admits to the depravity of his horrendous deeds.

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In the late 19th century, a predator stalked the women and girls of Bergamo, Italy. The late 1800s saw a rise in serial sexual killings, some of the worst of which were committed by a killer known as the Vampire of Bergamo.

Promos by fellow Darkcast Network members Cause of Death and Book of the Dead

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Hello there gentle listeners. I'm still on the mend, getting slightly better each day. Until I get my voice back, please enjoy this entertaining conversation (if I sound loopy, I didn't realize I was sick yet) with fellow Darkcast Network member Creepy Confidential. We cover everything from UFO conspiracies, our favorite cryptids, and the possibility of millennial ghosts. Buckle up, things got weird!

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In 1977, escrow agent Charles Morgan went missing for several days only to return home unable to speak, missing a shoe, and with plastic handcuffs on his wrists and ankles. After being taken, he was determined it wouldn't happen again. Not only did it happen again, but Charles Morgan never returned home. While his death was ruled by police as a suicide, the details surrounding the case add up to something much more sinister.

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https://unsolved.com/gallery/chuck-morgan/
https://helloambler.com/however-there-were-major-problems-with-the-suicide-ruling/
https://archive.org/details/Danny-Casolaro
https://www.grunge.com/675172/the-odd-mystery-behind-charles-c-morgans-death/
https://tucson.com/news/local/crime/cold-case-strange-evidence-found-in-on-near-man-s/article_e84a1034-c078-5a43-81a1-e602f52eda02.html
https://www.12news.com/article/features/mysterious-death-botched-execution-and-disappearing-honeymooners-arizonas-horror-stories/75-486962872

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On April 17, 1935, a fisherman hooked a small shark off Coogee Beach in Australia. Then a 13-foot, or four-meter, tiger shark swallowed the smaller shark, allowing itself to be caught by the hook as well. The fisherman just so happened to own an aquarium and decided the tiger shark would be his new attraction. But the small shark wasn’t the only thing the large tiger shark had gobbled up, though. Something the predator ate didn’t agree with it and would soon come back up.

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The Shark Arm Case - By Vince Kelly

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qv3eyw/australias-weirdest-unsolved-murder-case-began-with-a-shark-coughing-up-a-human-arm

https://sharkattackfile.net/spreadsheets/pdf_directory/1935.04.25-SharkArmCase.pdf


https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/how-severed-arm-regurgitated-by-tiger-shark-led-to-murder-mystery/news-story/183aa1246bdaa589cbc4b28965c04c1a

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How a newlywed bride from Toronto drowned in just nine inches of stream water while her honeymoon cottage went up in flames is a mystery that gripped the city in 1947 and continues to puzzle investigators and the public.

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In the 1990s, a group of self-proclaimed hippies spent two years sealed inside a dome called Biosphere 2. Their glass-protected utopia turned out to be anything but, as they ended up nearly starving and gasping for air.

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https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/spaceship-earth-review-biosphere-2-documentary.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/spaceship-earth-tells-the-wild-story-of-biosphere-2-steve-bannons-eco-cult-disaster
https://biosphere2.org/about/about-biosphere-2
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/01/08/biosphere-2-bogus-new-world/f2de366a-ed63-42a0-ae39-0393db18ea46/?utm_term=.5f1efce4d751
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Biosphere-2
https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/biosphere-2-what-really-happenedhttps://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/2021/8067539

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While many believed they knew the identity of the Fall River axe murderer, Lizzie Borden's trial attorneys put forth a defense made easier by the lack of evidence against her. Was she guilty? Did she have an accomplice? Or, was she innocent?

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The Lizzie Borden murder case is one of the most famous in American criminal history. The New England crime and its seeming senselessness captivated the national press. And the horrible identity of the alleged murderer was immortalized by the children’s rhyme passed down through generations. This episode examines the murders of Lizzie's father Andrew and his wife, Abby.

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https://famous-trials.com/lizzieborden/1439-autopsies
https://www.westfield.ma.edu/historical-journal/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/lizzie-borden.pdfhttp://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/LizzieBorden/bordenchrono.html
https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-lizzie-bordenhttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Lizzie-Borden-American-murder-suspect
Joseph Conforti, What It Means to Be American

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