Carousel Sniper Victim

The rise of kidnappings in America during the early 20th century, spurred Congress to pass the Federal Kidnapping Act, commonly called the "Lindbergh Law", which made transporting a kidnapping victim across state lines a federal crime. The passing of the Federal Kidnap Act didn’t slow down the lucrative business of kidnapping though.

44 years after the infamous Lindbergh Baby kidnapping case… On a sunny afternoon-  July 15, 1976, 26 children boarded a school bus, which would shortly after be boarded by three masked gunmen… 11 hours later, the children, and their bus driver, would all be buried alive.

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In 1961, a picture was snapped of a young girl who was discovered adrift, alone, on a small lifeboat in the waters of the Bahamas. The story of how she ended up there is one of murder, greed and heartbreak.

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Cicada 3301 is a nickname given to an organization that on three occasions has posted a set of puzzles to recruit codebreakers/linguists from the public. The first internet puzzle started on January 4, 2012 on 4chan.com and ran for approximately one month. A second round began one year later on January 4, 2013, and a third round following the confirmation of a fresh clue posted on Twitter on January 4, 2014.

The stated intent was to recruit "intelligent individuals" by presenting a series of puzzles which were to be solved. The puzzles focused heavily on data security, cryptography, steganography, internet anonymity, and surveillance, and to this date, the puzzles ultimate aim remains unsolved.

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The first handshake was firm, his manner charming, as he chatted about clues for the crossword he was doing. Neither of us could take our eyes off his hands - small, freckled, but immensely powerful. Later, he even demonstrated how he would hit the elderly women: "With 16-stone coming crashing down on them, they didn't stand a chance."

John Wayne Glover (26 November 1932 – 9 September 2005) was an English-Australian serial killer convicted of the murders of six elderly women, over a 14-month period in 1989-1990, for which he was dubbed in the press as the "Granny Killer" and "The Monster of Mosman".

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Project Azorian was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974, using the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer.

The 1968 sinking of K-129 occurred approximately 1,600 miles (2,600 km) northwest of Hawaii. Project Azorian was one of the most complex, expensive, and secretive intelligence operations of the Cold War at a cost of about $800 million, or $4 billion today.

After stories had been published about the CIA's attempts to stop publication of information about Project Azorian, Harriet Ann Phillippi, a journalist, filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the CIA for any records about the CIA's attempts. The CIA refused to either confirm or deny the existence of such documents. This type of non-responsive reply has since come to be known as the "Glomar response" or "Glomarization."

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In the French city of Le Mans, in 1933, the Papin sisters were convicted of a murder so significant that it would shake the bedrock of French society and influence French intellectuals such as- Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jacques Lacan.

These leading intellectuals, and others, sought to analyze the events that took place surrounding the sisters and draw connections between them and that of a deep seeded class struggle taking place between different aspects of French society at the time.

This is the gruesome story of Christine and Lea Papin.

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Hugh Brown risks his life to document the men, women and children who mine precious minerals by hand in brutal conditions. He's encountered crocodiles, braved the "mountain that eats men" and documented over 30 countries — and he isn't done yet.
Hugh Brown has recently returned from one of the world's largest silver mines — Bolivia's Cerro Rico. It roughly translates to "rich mountain" but also has a much darker moniker — the "mountain that eats men". It's an ancient death trap that has claimed the lives of as many as eight million miners in the past 471 years.

Now, he joins Carousel Sniper Victim for an interview...

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A decade before the Hollywood sensation of Crocodile Dundee exported the Australian Outback to the rest of the world, Rod Ansell grabbed headlines in his home country by surviving a 56-day ordeal in the harsh, outback Australian bush.

What followed were interviews with the press, book deals, television coverage, a very popular movie… and eventually, a crazed decent into paranoia, ending… in a deadly shootout with Australian Territorial Police.

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On June 22, 2002, eighteen coal miners at the Quecreek Mine in Lincoln Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, owned by Black Wolf Coal Company accidentally dug into the abandoned, poorly documented Saxman Coal Mine, flooding the room and pillar mine with an estimated 75 million gallons of water.

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Between 1908 and 1919, more than 800 Aboriginal men, women and children were removed from their homelands across Western Australia and taken to 'lock hospitals' on Bernier and Dorre Islands for treatment for suspected venereal diseases. Many never returned home.

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