Curated playlist
Fugitives
- Martin BormannOn the 16th of August 1999, the ashes of Martin Bormann were scattered over the Baltic Sea. German authorities chose open water partly so that neo-Nazis would have no tomb to turn into a monument. More than half a century after the war,…
- Paul BernardoPaul Kenneth Bernardo, who also used the name Paul Jason Teale, was born in Scarborough, Ontario, on the 27th of August 1964. Canadian newspapers would come to call him the Scarborough Rapist and the Schoolgirl Killer. On the 20th of…
- John DillingerJohn Dillinger stepped out of the Biograph Theater in Chicago on the evening of the 22nd of July 1934. He had just watched Manhattan Melodrama, a crime drama starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and William Powell. Within minutes he was dead.…
- Ted KaczynskiTed Kaczynski wrote a letter to The New York Times in 1995 and attached a promise to it. If the Times or The Washington Post printed his essay in full, he would "desist from terrorism." The essay ran to roughly 35,000 words and carried the…
- Bonnie and ClydeBonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, together known as Bonnie and Clyde, died on the 23rd of May 1934 on Louisiana Highway 154 in Bienville Parish. Six lawmen crouched in the roadside bushes as a car came toward them at high speed. They fired…
- Gary RidgwayOn the 30th of November 2001, police arrived at the Kenworth truck factory in Renton, Washington, to arrest a spray painter as he was leaving work. The man was Gary Leon Ridgway, born on the 18th of February 1949. For years the press had…
- Richard RamirezRichard Ramirez was an American burglar, sex offender and serial killer who terrorized Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. A California judge, upholding nineteen death sentences against him, said his deeds showed "cruelty,…
- Robert DurstOn the 30th of November 2001, Robert Durst was caught inside a Wegmans supermarket in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was trying to steal Band-Aids, a newspaper and a chicken salad sandwich. In his pocket he had $500 in cash. Durst, an…
- Andrei ChikatiloOn the 20th of November 1990, four plainclothes police officers stepped up to a man leaving a cafe in Novocherkassk. He was carrying a large jar of beer and offered no resistance as they handcuffed him. The man was Andrei Chikatilo, a…
- John List (murderer)John Emil List left behind a mansion in Westfield, New Jersey, that blazed with light in the autumn of 1971. Every room was lit, day and night, and yet nobody seemed to be living there. Neighbors waited and watched. Then the light bulbs…
- Aafia SiddiquiOn the evening of the 17th of July 2008, police in the Afghan city of Ghazni noticed a woman crouching on the ground outside the provincial governor's compound. She held two small bags at her side, and a young boy stood with her. The…