Angelo Ruggiero rose to the top of the New York underworld with John Gotti — until he and his big mouth helped bring the mob to its knees.

How John Colter ventured into the uncharted West with Lewis and Clark, explored Yellowstone before any non-Native, and survived being hunted for sport by Blackfeet warriors.

Starving Time was a particularly gruesome era in early colonial America when ravenous Jamestown colonists exhumed corpses for sustenance.

What really happened to the Andrea Gail during 'The Perfect Storm' of 1991?

The German guards on the outskirts of the city of Zwolle killed Léo Major's friend. Then he killed them — and liberated the entire city on his own.

Mobster Frank Rosenthal helped build a casino empire — then watched it all slip away in a storm of violence and betrayal.

On a December night in 2001, Michael Peterson's wife was found dead at the bottom of the staircase in their North Carolina home, setting the stage for one of the strangest legal cases in American history.

His IQ was ridiculously high, but even he couldn't outsmart the law.

Though many spies have been named as the inspiration for James Bond, Dusko Popov actually knew Sir Ian Flemming and gambled with him in between his international espionage escapades.

His life inspired books and Hollywood films, but who was Joaquin Murrieta?

On April 16, 1996, James Patterson Smith told police that his teenage girlfriend, Kelly Anne Bates, had accidentally drowned. But the sickening injuries they found on her body indicated torture and murder far worse than they could ever imagine.