LONGFORM

Shortly before 11 p.m. on Monday, December 8, 1980, John Lennon was gunned down in front of his New York City apartment building by an obsessed fan. This is the story of the days leading up to that tragedy.

While the club initially formed as a social group for writers of detective fiction, it did have an official purpose: to uphold a rigid set of standards for crime fiction, and weed out any potential members who wouldn’t agree to meet them.

Discover how Sandra Day O’Connor overcame the odds to become the first female U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Forget about the funny pages. If Kay Powell wrote for your paper, you dove straight into the death notices.

The folk magic tradition of concealing shoes to trap witches probably started in the Middle Ages.

In 1961, an ordinary New Hampshire couple claimed to have been abducted by aliens. Betty and Barney Hill's tale still reverberates through pop culture today.

Curtis Chillingworth was the most esteemed judge in Palm Beach County. But someone wanted him dead.

The history of pizza is a large pie—half Margherita and half lies. Let’s take a bite out of pizza’s past, covering styles from Neapolitan and New York to Sicilian and St. Louis and beyond.

‘The Vampyre’ is largely forgotten today, but it upended centuries of vampiric lore 80 years before Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’—and from its spooky beginnings to its scandalous misattribution, its history was as dramatic as fiction.

The North American parrots vanished mysteriously in the early 20th century. Now scientists are closer to solving their disappearance.

The late singer's beach bum reputation helped him build a billion-dollar empire.

In 1993, just 34 days after the Waco siege ended, NBC premiered 'In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco'—a TV movie greenlit, scripted, and largely shot while the tragedy was still unfolding.