On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson reportedly begged his personal physician Conrad Murray for drugs to help him sleep — including propofol — leading to the King of Pop's sudden demise.

Mike Williams was shot dead on December 16, 2000 by his best friend, Brian Winchester — who had plotted the murder with Mike's wife, Denise.

Because Brooke Skylar Richardson didn't tell anyone she was pregnant or had given birth, authorities were unable to determine if her baby had been stillborn as she claimed and she was subsequently found not guilty of murder.

In 2004, 14-year-old Gina DeJesus was kidnapped by her family friend Ariel Castro — who held her captive in his Cleveland home for nine years.

Richard Wershe Jr. became the FBI's youngest informant, uncovered the biggest Detroit police scandal in the city's history, and was arrested for drug trafficking — all before the age of 18.

Over the course of 48 hours in May 1946, a group of Alcatraz inmates overpowered the guards and stole their guns — then unsuccessfully tried to shoot their way out of the prison.

The Michael Bay movie Pain & Gain opens with the line: "Unfortunately, this is a true story." But the film took some notable creative liberties.

Frank Morris was a career criminal who became one of only three people to ever successfully break out of Alcatraz on June 11, 1962 — but he may have drowned in the frigid waters of San Francisco Bay before he made it to freedom.

Accused of stealing a backpack when he was 16, Kalief Browder was imprisoned at Rikers Island prison for three years without a trial.

Inspired by the movie Scream, 16-year-olds Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik became obsessed with killing someone — then fatally attacked their classmate Cassie Jo Stoddart on September 22, 2006.

After crashing into an iceberg in the North Atlantic, the Titanic slipped beneath the frigid waters on April 15, 1912, taking 1,500 souls with it.