Crime and punishment

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Grigory Yefimovich Novykh, also known as Rasputin

Rasputin: the ‘mad monk’ who became a friend to the Romanovs

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Dag Hammarskjöld

The mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld: a Cold War killing? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

It was the need for witnesses in divorce courts – ones who wouldn’t mind their names being linked to scandals, no less – that partly gave rise to female detectives. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Women detectives: meet the Victorian female super sleuths

People gather around the Mona Lisa painting after its return in January 1914

Mona Lisa heist: how do you steal the world’s most famous painting?

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A 19th-century painting of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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What is history's greatest mystery?

What has been voted history’s greatest mystery?

A portrait of Thomas Cromwell.

The downfall of Thomas Cromwell

The Kray brothers

The A-Z of British gangs and gangsters

Four Murder, Inc hitmen are questioned by detectives

Murder, Inc: the rise and fall of New York City’s mafia hitmen

A photograph of Rudolph Hoess during his trial in Warsaw in 1947. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Rudolf Höss & the men behind the mass murder at Auschwitz

Bill Nighy and Olivia Cooke in 'The Limehouse Golem'.

The real history behind Victorian thriller ‘The Limehouse Golem’