Denham Fouts was a business-minded teenager with a clear goal: he wanted to become the best-kept harlot in the world. His father had a degree from Yale, but it did little to help him live a comfortable life. The Fouts lost almost all their fortune…
On the day Pablo Escobar was killed, his mother Hermilda was at the hospital for a medical check-up. When she heard what had happened, she fainted. When she recovered, she went straight to the Medellín district of Los Olivos, where journalists and television cameramen were…
The architect Stanford White has fallen to his knees. His hand trembled as he touched the hem of the kimono he had specially ordered for her from Japan. At the age of 47, he kissed the garment for which he had spent 2000 dollars then,…
In 1876, Leopoldo Franchetti, a young Member of Parliament from Tuscany, travelled through Sicily to report on this strange island, which was soon to become the most unruly part of the new country of united Italy. He was impressed by the beauty of Palermo, its…
On stormy days, the waves crash mercilessly against the breakwater at the northern end of Havana. They flood the pavement and spill onto the promenade of Malecón Avenue. On such days, it seems as if the city is about to be swept away by a…
On November 22nd 1889, a note appeared on the second page of the Paris daily L'Intransigeant, stating that investigators had succeeded in identifying the body. Two illustrations were published alongside it. One showed the decaying, unrecognisable head of a four-month-old corpse, the other the face…
In the complex web of crime that crisscrosses the globe, from developing countries to industrialized countries, the Neapolitan Camorra is a major player. Investigative journalists have found its networks not only in Italy, but also in North and South America and some European countries. They…
