From murdering children to drinking blood, Peter Kürten was "the king of the sexual perverts" and perhaps the worst serial killer ever.

The skeleton is believed to be the oldest fossil hominid skeleton ever found in South Africa.

Though the depiction of samurai warriors is traditionally male-oriented, female samurai known as Onna-bugeisha were just as fearsome.

Forget genius. A happy combination of dumb luck and coincidence was all it took for these accidental inventions to exist.

After three years of covering a string of murders in Macedonia, police realized that journalist Vlado Taneski was actually the killer.

A law professor from Michigan State University uncovered a constitutional loophole that could let a killer walk free.

The study focused not only on the two beloved pets but on carnivorous mammals as a whole.

William the Conqueror indulged heavily while he was king. His gluttony was eventually his downfall.

The FBI most wanted list is almost as infamous as the people on it.

Charles Darwin, the world’s most famous biologist and researcher of exciting species had a habit of indulging in the new species he discovered.

French charmer and serial killer Henri Landru got his nickname from the old French folktale of Bluebeard.