Joran van der Sloot was a key suspect in Natalee Holloway's disappearance from Aruba in 2005, but it took the murder of another woman, Stephany Flores, to put him behind bars.

Mexican American singer Jenni Rivera was just 43 years old — and on the cusp of superstardom — when her Learjet unexpectedly went down in Mexico in 2012.

The marriage of billionaire J. Howard Marshall and stripper-turned-model Anna Nicole Smith shook up the media in 1994 — and eventually led to a Supreme Court case.

The phallic carving was found at the base of a building and stretches more than one-and-a-half feet long.

One of WWE's most iconic wrestlers of the early 2000s, Chris Benoit died by suicide in 2007 after he strangled his wife to death and suffocated his young son at his home.

DNA analysis of the 17 bodies in Norwich, England, suggests that they were Ashkenazi Jews who were likely killed in a pogrom.

The man, dubbed Índio do Buraco, the "indigenous man of the hole," resisted contact with the outside world for the past 26 years.

For much of the Cenozoic Era, terror birds dominated South America and hunted with hatchet-like beaks — until they went extinct about 2 million years ago.

On June 4, 2008, Jodi Arias butchered her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander just after they had sex. His body was found days later with 27 stab wounds and a gunshot to the head.

Investigators found Satanic symbols and "significant" numbers in Nathan Gilmore's house, as well as Snapchat messages that implied he'd killed someone.

From 18th-century pirates like Blackbeard and Edward Low to the submarines and destroyers of World War II, the skull and crossbones pirate flag known as the Jolly Roger evolved countless times before becoming the version we know today.