Known as Ginger McKenna in Martin Scorsese’s Casino, the real-life Geri McGee married casino boss Frank Rosenthal and had an affair with mob hitman Tony Spilotro in the 1970s — then her story ended in tragedy. TumblrGeri McGee and her husband, Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal had a tempestuous relationship that led to constant fighting and the […]
Daily Archives: December 29, 2022
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The night before he was to be executed in July 1980, Troy Leon Gregg broke out of Georgia State Prison — only to die in a bar fight just a few hours later. Bettmann/Getty ImagesTroy Leon Gregg, the first man to have his death penalty upheld by the Supreme Court after the decision of Furman […]
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It’s estimated that one-in-three women and one-in-five men in the U.S. will experience an episode of major depression by the age of 65. In some countries, the estimates are even higher, for example, in the Netherlands and Australia it’s 40% of women and 30% of men. As people tend to transition in and out of […]
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From mushrooms that talk to each other using a vocabulary of 50 words to a mummified “goatelope” pulled from a melting glacier, these are the most bizarre news stories of 2022. Every year, the typical news cycle is disrupted by some event that is so wildly out of left field that it lands in another […]
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After slashing the throats of her two-year-old and six-month-old twins in 2015, Christina Booth chillingly told investigators she’d done so in an attempt to “quiet” them for her husband. FacebookChristina Booth, pictured with her husband Thomas, pleaded guilty to attacking her three children and was sentenced to 14.5 years in prison. On a winter’s night […]