Crimes and Criminals Story Briefs

Prisoners who were sent to Siberian penal colonies, during Tsarist times, could be punished with facial branding (among other things).

Slave owners would pay rewards to anyone who helped recover fugitive slaves.

Compilation of images, from 1764, illustrating what Africans endured after being kidnapped by slavers.

Eva, the fictional heroine in "Someone Named Eva," is a victim of Nazi-Germany's "Lebenborn" program. What is that program? How did it impact the live...

Steve Murphy, the real-life DEA agent who helped to hunt-down Pablo Escobar, spent 37 years in law enforcement before he retired as an active officer.

Josef Terboven, a German, and Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian, take control in Norway after the German invasion in April of 1940.

Imagining what it would be like to have alter-ego boys, both aged 9, living on opposite sides of the Auschwitz fence, John Boyne creates a sobering st...

At nearly midnight, on the 4th of November 1605, Guy Fawkes was hours away from blowing up the Houses of Parliament.

Alcatraz Island, off the shore of San Francisco, was once home to a federal prison but is now a tourist attraction.

Edgar Allan Poe's tale of The Tell-Tale Heart remains popular. This is an abridged version.

At first, it seemed that Tollund Man had been laid to rest without a violent death. The, his discoverers saw a rope around his neck.

When the Puritans arrived in America, they continued the use of the pillory. Intended to punish people by humiliation, among other things, the pillory...