by saulroth | Jul 11, 2023 | Crime
Image Credit: KOMUnews, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Saul Roth On the night of June 5, 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was taken at knifepoint by Brian David Mitchell, a self-proclaimed prophet who...
by saulroth | Jul 4, 2023 | Crime
Image Credit: Staff Sergeant Preston Chasteen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Saul Roth The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995. It was the...
by saulroth | Jun 27, 2023 | Crime
Image Credit: U.S. Department of Justice, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Saul Roth The Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme was a massive financial fraud that was perpetrated by Bernard L. Madoff, a former Nasdaq stockbroker. Madoff convinced investors that he was...
by saulroth | Jun 20, 2023 | Crime
Image Credit: Paul Rand, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Saul Roth The Enron scandal that broke in 2001 revealed one of the largest accounting frauds in history and stands as a cautionary tale of corporate greed and lack of ethics. The company was an energy...
by saulroth | Jun 13, 2023 | Crime
Image Credit: See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Saul Roth The Lizzie Borden murders were a sensational murder case that took place in Fall River, Massachusetts, on August 4, 1892. Andrew Borden, a wealthy businessman, and his wife, Abby,...
by saulroth | Jun 6, 2023 | Crime
Image Credit: ThePessimus, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Saul Roth The Black Bear Bed and Breakfast murders were a series of four murders that took place in Newry, Maine, over Labor Day weekend in 2006. The victims were James Whitehurst, a handyman who was...
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