Sixty-seven years ago, former State Department official and suspected Soviet spy Alger Hiss was released from prison after serving almost four years for perjury.

Bruno Richard Hauptmann gained notoriety for his involvement in the "Crime of the Century," where he climbed a ladder and kidnapped the Lindbergh baby from his nursery.

The Greek Junta came to an end when George Papadopoulos was ousted in a military coup by Dimitrios Ioannidis, his partner from their coup to take over Greece years earlier.

Jack Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, on live television.

Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen targeted young men and brought them back to his flat where he would strangle and drown them, often keeping their bodies as company.

Despite his numerous awards over decades of service, retired CIA analyst and translator Larry Wu-Tai Chin was caught secretly selling information to the Chinese government.

Robert Stroud, better known as “the Birdman of Alcatraz” spent most of his prison life in solitary confinement, researching and writing about ornithology.

Senator Alan Cranston was reprimanded by the Ethics Committee for his improper behavior surrounding the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association scandal.

Despite a plea from President Woodrow Wilson to review the case more closely, musician and labor organizer Joe Hill was executed by firing squad in Utah after being convicted of murder.

During the Lebanon hostage crisis, Anglican envoy Terry Waite was held captive for nearly five years before the U.N. secured his release.

Sir Walter Raleigh went on trial for treason for his role in an assassination plot against the King of England.

The body of a woman referred to as Jane Doe 59 was found in the brush off Mulholland Drive. Her identity would remain a mystery for over 46 years until somebody finally came forward.

After serving a 9-year sentence for murder in the United States, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream was executed in England for murdering four London women and attempting to kill one more.

Former prisoners Perry Smith and Richard Hickock drove for miles across Kansas to get to the Clutter family home. Their plan was to steal the family's hidden safe and then kill them. But things didn't go as planned.

Kristen Gilbert worked as a nurse at a veterans hospital and earned the nickname "Angel of Death" after so many patients mysteriously died during her shifts.

Anchorage police didn’t realize it at the time, but after a shootout that killed James Dale Ritchie, they discovered that Ritchie was actually a serial killer.

18-year-old Miranda Barbour and her husband Elytte killed a man named Troy LeFerarra after finding an ad he posted on Craigslist. Was this their first murder? Or the last of a years-long murder spree?

When homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt gave stranded motorist Katelyn McClure his last $20 for gas money, she was so moved by his gesture that she started a GoFundMe for him.

After Nazi stormtroopers were sent into Jewish neighborhoods and ordered to start violent riots, approximately 100 Jews were murdered and 7,500 businesses were vandalized, destroyed, or burned — in addition to countless homes, synagogues, and holy sites.

The body of missing hospital aide Jennifer Watkins was discovered by two elevator workers. It would take two decades for DNA technology to help solve the crime.

A group of thieves plowed into London's Millennium Dome with a bulldozer and set off toxic gas in the halls so they could pull off the ultimate jewel heist. One thing they didn't plan for was that police would already be waiting for them.

Eighty-two years ago, David Parker Ray — a prolific serial torturer and suspected serial killer — was born into an abusive household in Belen, New Mexico.

Labor union strikers and law enforcement exchanged gunfire in Everett, Washington, leaving seven people dead and dozens more injured.

Dominique Dunn died after her family made the heart-wrenching decision to take her off life support. Dunn was in a coma for five days from injuries she sustained in a violent attack from ex-boyfriend John Sweeney.

Jason Neo Bourne stormed into the apartment of his downstairs neighbor and shot three people before kidnapping a child at gunpoint.