Ira Hayes, a Native American marine immortalized raising the American flag over Iwo Jima, sits in a Los Angeles jail cell (1953). Crippling PTSD and unwanted fame saw Hayes arrested 52 times for public intoxication after the war. He froze to death in the Arizona desert while drunk in 1955.

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In July 1981, Ken Rex McElroy, the “town bully” of Skidmore, Missouri, known for decades of intimidation, assaults, and witness tampering, was gunned down in his truck on the main street, surrounded by 40+ townspeople. Every witness claimed they saw nothing, and the case remains officially unsolved.

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Ira Hayes, a Native American marine immortalized raising the American flag over Iwo Jima, sits in a Los Angeles jail cell (1953). Crippling PTSD and unwanted fame saw Hayes arrested 52 times for public intoxication after the war. He froze to death in the Arizona desert while drunk in 1955.

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Dr Mengele’s South American ID. Mengele came extremely close to being caught throughout his time there, but slipped the net each time.

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Serial killer Edmund Kemper 10 years apart (1964) vs (1974)

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This man underwent 200 hours of mental hazing at the age of 16.

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Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini as boys. Roughly the same age

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My mom's mugshot, after being arrested at an equal rights protest in 1974.

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After 84 years, historians finally identified the Nazi soldier in this WWII photo known as “The Last Jew in Vinnitsa,” solving one of WWII’s biggest photographic mysteries. It was a former teacher named Jakobus Onnen.

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Sergei Korolev the day he was returned to Moscow prison after one year in GULAG. He would launch the first human into space April 12, 1961

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Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo smiling during his trial. He was kept in his cage to protect him from the enraged relatives of his victims.

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My father took this photo on December 7, 1955 on his 17th birthday. He’s 87 today.

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An Italian man named Vincenzo Peruggia stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911, hid it in his apartment for two years and then contacted the owner of an art gallery in Italy, expecting a reward for returning the painting to what he regarded as its "homeland". He only served 7 months in jail