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• [Crime fact 1] There is a “small ghost town” in New York City. ‘The Hole’ is an area in Queens built too close to the water table. It is mostly abandoned, usually flooded, and was once a body-dumping ground for the mafia.

  Crime, Placessource

• [Crime fact 2] The Shankill Butchers were a Protestant gang from Belfast who murdered at least 23 people for being Catholic. They earned their name for mutilating the bodies of their victims.

  People, Politics, Crime, Deathsource

• [Crime fact 3] H.H. Holmes, a 19th century serial killer in the US, opened a hotel which he had designed and built for himself specifically with murder in mind. It included soundproofed bedrooms, trap doors, walls lined with blowtorches and two incinerators.

  Crime, Peoplesource

• [Crime fact 4] A Canadian man named Albert Johnson Walker convinced a co-worker to swap identities before murdering him with an anchor and tossing him from a boat. Police identified the victim by his Rolex, which also recorded the time of death. As of 2019, he is serving a prison term for embezzlement and murder.

  Crime, Peoplesource

• [Crime fact 5] The U.S. Supreme Court has only tried one criminal case in its history, a 1906 contempt of court case against a Tennessee sheriff who ignored court rulings for the rights of a black man and allowed a mob to lynch him.

  Crime, Lawsuitsource

• [Crime fact 6] In 2014, Charles Manson was granted a marriage license, but the wedding was canceled after it was discovered that 26-year-old Afton Elaine "Star" Burton only wanted to marry Manson so she and a friend Craig "Gray Wolf" Hammond could use his corpse as a tourist attraction after he dies.

  Crime, Relationshipsource

• [Crime fact 7] Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen once killed a man with a headphone cord, before listening to music on those same headphones. Later in his life, he found a guy outside, clearly disoriented. He called an ambulance and the guy was brought to the hospital. The guy came back the next day and thanked Nilsen, after which Nilsen killed him.

  Crime, Peoplesource

• [Crime fact 8] In 2011, Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus made it illegal to applaud in public. Consequently, the 2011 Ig Nobel Peace prize was given to the Belarus State Police for arresting a one-armed man for clapping.

  Crime, Honorsource

• [Crime fact 9] Calvin Coolidge once awoke to a burglar in his hotel room. He talked the burglar out of robbing him, loaned him $32, and told him how to leave without being arrested.

  Crime, Presidentsource

• [Crime fact 10] In 1980, 4 FBI agents went to the Census Bureau’s Colorado Springs office with warrants but were forced to leave. Courts upheld that no agency, including the FBI, has access to Census data.

  Crime, Placessource

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