Though her father died when she was just four, Shannon Lee has made it her mission to preserve his philosophies — and even produced a long-lost script of his.

In the 1960s, the Dixie Mafia emerged as a loose confederation of crooks and con artists based in Biloxi, Mississippi. But years later, it became a terrifying criminal organization.

On November 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges integrated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans — and became a civil rights icon.

In 2014, a photo of Devonte Hart hugging a police officer during a Black Lives Matter protest went instantly viral. Just four years later, he made headlines again — for a tragic reason.

For the last 47 years, investigators have been struggling to identify the Lady of the Dunes, a handless corpse that was found nearly decapitated on a Massachusetts beach.

On a fateful night in 1990, an arsonist lit a massive fire at the Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx — damning the 93 young people inside.

Ever since the end of World War II, allegations of Adolf Hitler's Jewish ancestry via his paternal grandfather have been the subject of intense debate. Here's what the actual evidence says.

From ancient Roman ruins overrun with cats to the "cat islands" of Japan, these cat havens are a must-see for cat people.

In 2006, the beloved "Crocodile Hunter" was filming a relatively tame video with a stingray — until the animal suddenly stabbed him in the chest.

In March 1981, Marianne Bachmeier opened fire in a crowded courtroom and killed Klaus Grabowski — the man on trial for murdering her 7-year-old daughter.

From poisoning to a government ploy, many of the theories about how Brittany Murphy died are as bizarre as they are sinister.