Between 2013 and 2017, Russian con artist Anna Delvey stole an estimated $275,000 by making fake bank statements, cashing bad checks, and borrowing money from acquaintances without paying them back to maintain a lavish lifestyle under a false identity.

The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist took place over several months between 2011 and 2012, when thieves siphoned 3,330 tons of maple syrup from a facility in Quebec.

Denise Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn were accused of perpetrating a "Gone Girl"-esque hoax after Huskins was kidnapped and raped by Matthew Muller in 2015.

Michael Swango was found guilty of murdering four patients in 2000, but investigators suspect that he may have actually had dozens more victims.

In January 1999, Katarzyna Zowada's skin from her torso was found caught in the propeller of a pusher boat on Poland's Vistula River — and it's still unclear who killed her.

In 2018, Ezra McCandless fatally stabbed her ex-boyfriend Alex Woodworth 16 times — likely in an attempt to get back with a different ex.

Carlee Russell came up with an elaborate kidnapping hoax in July 2023, triggering a nationwide search before reappearing and admitting that it was all a ruse she'd devised after a fight with her then-boyfriend.

In 1903, two men named Will and William West were both imprisoned at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. Their appearances and measurements were so similar that prison officials had to rely on their fingerprints to tell them apart.

Bill Wyman and Mandy Smith were married between 1989 and 1991, and they first met when Smith was just 13 years old and Wyman was 47.

Music legend Johnny Cash died at age 71 on September 12, 2003, ending an award-winning career that spanned 50 years and produced hits like "Ring of Fire" and "I Walk the Line."