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The Man They Couldn’t Hang
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The Great Ponzi
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Billy the Kid – Young Gun
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The Murder of the “Beautiful Cigar Girl”
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Jack The Ripper -- We Still Do Not Know Who He Was
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The Assassination of President James Garfield
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INCEST, MURDER AND FLIGHT: THE EASTMILN TRAGEDY
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The Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
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INCEST, MURDER AND FLIGHT: THE EASTMILN TRAGEDY
Four months after his marriage to a beautiful 19-year-old, middle-aged Thomas Ogilvie was dead. His younger brother and the young widow were suspected of conspiring to poison him with arsenic.by Martin...
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