In late August 2016, Katrina Bookman walked into Resorts World Casino in Queens, New York, looking for a bit of luck. What she got instead was one of the most crushing emotional rollercoasters in modern gambling history. While playing a penny slot machine called Sphinx Wild, the screen suddenly lit up with a life-changing number:…
In October 2019, Wade Steven Wilson killed two women in Cape Coral, Florida, within hours of each other. Five years later a jury convicted him, and in August 2024 a judge sentenced him to death. Along the way Wilson attracted an unusual wave of female attention that drew national headlines. The Murders On the night…
In July 2026, 48-year-old Timothy Ronald Simpson, a member of the Comanchero outlaw motorcycle gang, attended a family festival in South Australia with his young daughter. He stepped up to a classic carnival sideshow and used an air rifle to shoot plastic ducks in hopes of winning her a prize. That simple act later landed…
On July 18, 2026, 43-year-old Nicole Grayson, a mother of six from the DeLand area in Florida, jumped into the St. Johns River without hesitation after her young son fell in. She kept the 4-year-old afloat long enough for a passing boater to pull him to safety. Exhausted by the effort, Grayson slipped beneath the…
On July 18, 1984, 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty walked into a McDonald’s restaurant in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego and opened fire. In the span of 77 minutes he killed 21 people and wounded 19 others before a police sniper ended the attack. At the time it stood as the deadliest mass shooting…
In late 2012, six-year-old Christian McPhilamy from Melbourne, Florida, saw a St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital commercial that featured young cancer patients without hair. The images stuck with him. That night he told his mother, Deeanna Thomas, he wanted to grow his own hair long enough to donate it so other children could have wigs….
In late November 2025, 33-year-old Russian model Angelika Tartanova suffered life-threatening injuries after her boyfriend, wealthy construction businessman Dmitry Kuzmin, attacked her in a Moscow apartment. The assault left her with severe brain damage and required doctors to remove a large portion of her skull. The Attack and Critical Injuries Tartanova and Kuzmin had been…
In April 2019, Hollywood screenwriter Heidi Van Tassel was finishing a quiet evening out when a random act of violence left her traumatized for years. After dinner at a Thai restaurant near the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she walked to her car parked just steps away. A stranger suddenly approached, pulled her from the vehicle,…
Rob Burnside, the longtime principal of Lakota East High School in Ohio, resigned in November 2024 after district officials investigated him for allowing a homeless former student to keep attending classes and eating in the cafeteria. What Happened The student, Landerius “DeDe” Hayes, had attended Lakota schools since seventh grade. In October 2024, during his…
In January 2023, 32-year-old nurse Lindsay Clancy asked her husband, Patrick, to leave their Duxbury, Massachusetts home to pick up medicine and takeout. He was gone for less than an hour. When he returned, he found Lindsay outside after she had jumped from a second-story window. She told him their three children were in the…
