In the early 1900s, it was an unwritten rule to not wear a straw hat after September 15th. Even though it was a couple of days early, a group of young men started some millinery mischief and attacked pedestrians because their hats were out of season.

A recently fired security officer and a group of his friends pulled off one of the most lucrative heists in American history as they stole tens of millions of dollars in just minutes.

In Illinois, a judge sentenced serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, known as the Truck Stop Killer, to life without parole for killing 14-year-old Regina Walters. Rhoades may have been responsible for up to 50 murders.

Even though DNA is 99.9% similar across the entire human population, a 34-year-old geneticist discovered how to take an impression of the .1% unique identifiers of a person’s DNA. It would change criminal investigations forever.

A 36-year-old bank teller in New Mexico suddenly vanished after discovering her estranged husband was a con man.

After a months-long trial, four-time British Fashion Designer of the Year John Galliano was fined in Paris for breaking a French law forbidding public antisemitic insults.

Off the coast of Malta, an Armed Forces boat went out to sea to dispose of illegal fireworks. But something ignited the volatile cargo and it exploded, instantly killing 7 of the 8 crewmembers.

During the 1972 Summer Olympics, a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September kidnapped Israeli athletes and held them for ransom.

Legendary Lakota war chief Crazy Horse was ambushed when he arrived for a peaceful meeting in Fort Robinson, Nebraska. The man who spent a lifetime protecting his people against the Western expansion by the U.S. military was killed.

After closing, the legendary Tiffany’s store on Fifth Avenue in New York City was robbed. Thieves easily made off with almost two million dollars worth of jewelry. In fact, too easily.

Patty Wetterling, whose son Jacob had disappeared 27 years earlier, confirmed that authorities had found her son's remains.

For the first time in history, an international court convicted someone of genocide when Jean-Paul Akayesu was found guilty on 9 of 15 counts of genocide and crimes against humanity.

After police were dispatched to investigate a man brandishing a gun on Interstate 10, they were shocked to find that it was hitman Charles Harrelson.

Every parent's worst nightmare occurred when 8-year-old Ann Marie Burr was taken out of her bed in the middle of the night and never seen again.

A modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, Cynthia Coffman and James Marlow were sentenced to death after being convicted of kidnapping and murdering two young women in California.

Using DNA evidence, Chinese police tracked down serial killer Gao Chengyong, solving a decades-old cold case involving the murders of 11 women.

After building a hidden bunker, Joseph Fritzl trapped his 18-year-old daughter Elisabeth inside and held her captive for more than two decades.

At one of the largest banks in Brazil, 12 men masquerading as construction workers stole nearly $60 million worth of jewels and valuables.

In Nevada, a sophisticated bomb exploded in Harvey’s Casino after the FBI tried unsuccessfully to defuse the device. The bomb’s creator was arrested a year later.

Pavlo Lazarenko, who had fled Ukraine in 1999, was sentenced to nine years in a U.S. federal prison for financial crimes.

Major League Baseball's all-time hits leader was banned from the sport for life for gambling on his games. His crimes were detailed in a document known as the Dowd Report.

Rodney Alcala was born in San Antonio, Texas. By 1978, the serial rapist found his way onto a popular show called The Dating Game, where he followed up his rejection with multiple murders.

Outside the Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas, police arrested Gregory Lee Johnson for burning the American flag. Johnson maintained that while the act was illegal in Texas, it was still protected under the first amendment.

Cristhian Rivera led police to the body of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts. His status as an undocumented immigrant became a focal point of this national case.

On a quiet morning in Edmond, Oklahoma, USPS letter carrier Patrick Sherrill carried out a deadly massacre, killing 14 employees and then himself.