Curated playlist
People with narcissistic personality disorder
- Diane DownsDiane Downs drove a blood-spattered car to McKenzie-Willamette Hospital in Springfield, Oregon, on the 19th of May 1983. Her three children were inside it. She told the staff that a stranger on a rural road had done this to them. Her…
- Ted BundyIn June 1974, Ted Bundy walked into the middle of an active Seattle police investigation to collect evidence he had left behind. Bundy would murder dozens of young women and girls in 1974-1975 and 1978. On the night of the 11th of June…
- 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…
- Alex JonesJuries ordered Alex Jones to pay more than a billion dollars in damages for lies about grieving parents.
- RajneeshRajneesh, born Chandra Mohan Jain, has an epitaph that says he was never born and never died. It adds that he only visited this planet Earth, between 1931 and 1990. The man behind those words was an Indian philosopher, mystic and teacher,…
- Diego MaradonaDiego Maradona punched in one World Cup goal, then dribbled past five English players for another.
- Rodney AlcalaRodney Alcala walked onto the set of the television game show The Dating Game in 1978, and host Jim Lange introduced him as a successful photographer. Lange promised that between takes he might be found skydiving or motorcycling. The…
- Nick CannonNick Cannon is an American comedian, actor and rapper who once hosted a stunt in which a human cannonball was fired into slime. It happened at Nickelodeon's 2005 Kids' Choice Awards, and the ceremony called it the slime stunt. The moment…
- Edmund KemperEdmund Kemper stood in a phone booth in Pueblo, Colorado, in the spring of 1973 and confessed to murder. The police officer who answered did not believe him. Kemper was told to call back later. He had just driven more than 1,000 miles,…
- John Hinckley Jr.John Hinckley Jr. stood among several hundred onlookers outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., at 2:27 in the afternoon on the 30th of March 1981, carrying a revolver. Ronald Reagan had been president for only two months. When…
- Betty BroderickBetty Broderick entered a house at 1041 Cypress Avenue in San Diego at 5:30 on the morning of the 5th of November 1989. It was two days before her 42nd birthday. Inside, her former husband, Daniel T. Broderick III, and his new wife, Linda,…
- Dennis RaderDennis Rader, the man who called himself BTK, made a strange request while police questioned him in February 2005. He asked an officer to write "BTK" on the lid of his cup before it went into the refrigerator, instead of his own name. The…