Henri Charrière escaped from one of history's most infamous prisons and then won his freedom from the government that he claimed had wrongly imprisoned him in the first place.

For a decade-long period of explosive violence, Irish-American mobster Danny Greene terrorized the city of Cleveland with a series of fatal bombings.

His success as a pilot was just one of his many skills. Eddie Rickenbacker survived against all odds multiple times, founded one of America's biggest airlines, and was even asked to run for president.

Richard "Dick" Bong was one of the most successful fighter pilots his commanding officers had ever seen before dying in a test flight in August 1945.

Over the course of four days, serial killer Danny Rolling terrorized the college students of Gainesville, Florida in a murderous rampage.

Jimi Hendrix's death has remained a mystery since he was found in a London hotel on September 18, 1970. But how did Jimi Hendrix die?

Marine John Basilone, a hero of Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima, once said that he was a "plain soldier" — he was wrong.

"The worst thing I did was fall in love with a married man," Judith Campbell Exner confessed years after the affair: "I kept my secret out of fear."

The mysterious Flying Dutchman has been spotted at sea since the late 1700s. However, there's more science than ghosts at work.

Giles Corey and his wife Martha were already outsiders in the farming village of Salem, Massachusetts when they were accused of witchcraft. They subsequently faced a torturous fate.

Pablo Escobar made many enemies during his time. Some of them decided to fight back and formed Los Pepes to take down the Medellín Cartel.