In Grand Junction, Colorado, Brian Cohee Jr. mur**red 69-year-old Warren Barnes in February 2021, sta*b*g and dismembering him after targeting him while he slept. A few days later, Cohee’s mother made a chilling 911 call after finding Barnes’s severed head and hands in her son’s closet and reporting it to police, which led to his arrest. Cohee later confessed to the k**ling, was convicted of first-degree mu*der and evidence tampering, and is now serving life in prison without parole at Buena Vista Correctional Facility.

Ricky Megee is an Australian best known for surviving 71 days alone in the Outback in 2006 after being stranded with no food, water or shelter. He was found extremely emaciated near a remote cattle station in the Northern Territory, having survived by drinking rainwater and eating insects, frogs, lizards and plants, and losing more than 60 kg of bodyweight. Rescue workers described him as a “walking skeleton” when he was taken to hospital.

On this Day in History - 25 Jan, 2013: A deadly riot broke out at Uribana Prison in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, when armed inmates clashed with Venezuelan National Guard troops during an attempt to search for weapons. Over the following two days, intense gun battles and chaos in the overcrowded, gang-controlled facility left around 60 inmates dead and about 120 wounded, with many victims suffering gunshot injuries. The violence exposed severe systemic problems in Venezuela’s prison system, including overcrowding, weapons smuggling and poor conditions.

Amanda Gill, a 41-year-old from West Yorkshire, died while on holiday in Mexico in 2018 after complications from diabetes. When her body was returned to the UK, her family discovered her eyes, heart and brain were missing. Authorities said the case was referred to Mexican mortuary services, but the family have never found out what happened.

A powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan on 18 September 2022, triggering intense shaking, power cuts, and widespread structural damage across the island. This footage captures a gym collapsing mid-quake. Remarkably, no one was injured. It was the strongest earthquake to hit Taiwan in years and was felt hundreds of miles away in Japan and China.

Adolf Hitler stands at the Trocadéro in Paris on 28 June 1940, with the Eiffel Tower behind him, during his only visit to the French capital. The trip came days after France’s defeat and was carefully choreographed as a symbolic victory tour. Hitler spent only a few hours in the city, touring key landmarks before leaving at dawn, reportedly satisfied to see Paris conquered rather than destroyed.

Born in Sicily in 1889, Frank Lentini became one of history’s most famous sideshow performers. Born with a parasitic twin, he had a third leg, four feet, and other rare physical traits that doctors could not safely remove. Rather than hide, he embraced it. He joined circuses at age eight, later performing with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey as “The Three-Legged Man,” even kicking a football with his extra leg. He married, had four children, and was widely loved for his charm and humour.

Kiara McCulley was arrested in Santa Fe after Grace Jennings, 21, was found dead inside a freezer behind a home. Investigators said McCulley and her boyfriend, Isaac Apodaca, planned the killing together, with McCulley carrying it out and Apodaca encouraging her. Jennings knew both suspects. McCulley later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and faces up to 30 years in prison. Apodaca remains charged with murder and conspiracy.

Richard Swanson left Seattle on May 1, 2013, attempting to dribble a soccer ball about 10,000 miles to São Paulo for the 2014 World Cup as part of a charity-focused project called Breakaway Brazil. About two weeks later, on May 14, he was hit and killed by a pickup truck while walking along U.S. Route 101 near Lincoln City, Oregon, roughly 270 miles into the trip.

As a teenager at MGM, Judy Garland was placed on a studio-controlled drug regimen. Executives gave her amphetamines to suppress her appetite and barbiturates to force sleep, monitored her weight daily, restricted her food, and punished her for eating. She was still a child. The addiction that followed was cultivated by the studio system and lasted until her death.

Ted Bundy pictured with a college friend who remembered him as polite and attractive. He was already one of America's most notorious serial kil*ers at this point.

The death of actress Anne Heche shocked the public after disturbing footage emerged from her final moments. Following a violent car crash in Los Angeles, she was trapped in a burning vehicle for nearly an hour. As firefighters pulled her from the wreckage, video showed Heche suddenly sitting upright on the stretcher, before collapsing again. She later slipped into a coma and died days later.

Rare video footage show Jeffrey Dahmer playing with a cat.

The last known photograph of Kurt Cobain was taken on March 26, 1994. Ten days later, on April 5, he died by suicide at his home in Seattle. His body was not discovered until April 8, three days after his death. Cobain was 27 years old, joining the group of influential musicians whose lives ended at that age, later known as the “27 Club.”

On 30 October 2015, a fire ripped through Bucharest’s Colectiv nightclub after stage pyrotechnics ignited flammable foam on the ceiling. 27 people died that night. Many others survived the flames, only to die days later from infections in overcrowded, unsafe hospitals.

Prosecutors have charged vascular surgeon Michael McKee, 39, with the Dec. 30 killings of his ex-wife, Monique Tepe, and her husband, Ohio dentist Spencer Tepe, inside their Columbus home. Authorities say he drove from Illinois, entered while the couple’s children slept, fatally shot both, then fled.

Richard Speck, who mur**red eight student nurses in Chicago in 1966, later developed breasts while serving a life sentence in prison. During his incarceration, Speck secretly recorded homemade videos in which he appeared with breasts, took drugs, and engaged in sex**l acts, footage that surfaced publicly after his death.

In 2019, Russian murder suspect Leonid Greyser was on trial for the kil**ng of his sister when he attempted to escape from the glass defendant enclosure in the courtroom. He climbed into the ceiling space above the cage, became stuck, and was removed by security officers.

The youngest American killed in action during the Vietnam War was Dan Bullock. Born in December 1953, he falsified his birth certificate and enlisted in the US Marine Corps in September 1968 at just 14 years old. Deployed to Vietnam with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, Bullock was killed in June 1969 when the bunker he was defending was hit directly by a rocket-propelled grenade. He was only 15 years old.

CCTV captures a man fainting on a crowded train platform in Buenos Aires, accidentally pushing a woman onto the tracks as a train approached.