From the man who donned a Santa suit and went on a bloody rampage to the 15-year-old tortured for being a "witch," these grisly murders turned the cheeriest time of the year into a nightmare.

A surprising new study based on chimpanzee behavior suggests trees played an "essential" role in the evolution of bipedalism.

Found in nearly every frontier town, the saloon was a place where outlaws and lawmen alike enjoyed gambling, swapping wild tales, and stiff drinks.

Michael Valva's eight-year-old son, Thomas, died after being forced to sleep in a garage with no heat in January 2020.

On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz and the 7,000 starving victims trapped inside — then uncovered macabre warehouses filled with the personal belongings of countless dead prisoners.

Though some bog bodies discovered in northern Europe over the years belonged to people who fell into the bogs and accidentally drowned, researchers suspect that many were deliberately sacrificed.

Go inside the mystery of who was the Zodiac Killer — and the stories of nine men who are the most convincing suspects.

Darrell Lee Clark and Cain Joshua Storey were just 17 when they were handed life sentences for the death of their friend.

The sarcophagi found under Notre Dame come from different eras, and the older of the two contains the remains of a man with an oddly deformed skull.

In 1993, Loyd Jowers confessed that he had paid someone to kill Martin Luther King Jr. as part of a high-level conspiracy involving government agencies and that James Earl Ray had been framed.

The 1965 film told the story of the musical von Trapp family that fled the Nazis in Austria, but there were a few key points that Hollywood either changed or left out entirely.