Science
Forensic genetic genealogy, usually shortened to FGG or FIGG, is a way to generate investigative leads from crime-scene DNA when standard forensic DNA methods have not identified anyone. The cleanest official description comes from the U.S. Department of Justice and the National Institute of Justice: investigators first try
Crime
On the night of 19 June 2020, in the small Tamil Nadu town of Sathankulam, a father and son were taken into police custody over an allegation that their shop had remained open beyond COVID-19 lockdown hours. Within days, both were dead. Their names were P. Jeyaraj, 59, and
Books
Gregory Douglas’s Conversations with the Crow is the kind of book that almost dares you to read it in one sitting. Published in 2013, it presents itself as a set of transcribed conversations between Douglas and Robert T. Crowley, a former senior CIA officer whose career stretched from the
History
The image looks almost too on-the-nose to be real. A circle of young American soldiers in Vietnam, laughing and leaning in, passing smoke through the barrel of a shotgun nicknamed “Ralph.” It has the visual force of a dark joke: a weapon turned into a pipe, war gear
Mystery
For readers outside the crime-fiction world, the Edgar Awards can sound like just another literary prize. Inside the genre, they mean something more precise. The Edgars are the annual awards presented by Mystery Writers of America for mystery, suspense, crime, and related work, and the official Edgar site describes
Tv series
There is a peculiar kind of suspense that only Doctor Who can generate: the kind created not by a cliffhanger itself, but by the months of official caution that follow it. That is where the programme sits now. The BBC has confirmed that Doctor Who will return with a Christmas
Crime
There are some lives that seem, from the outside, almost impossible to understand. Ted Kaczynski’s was one of them. He began as a child prodigy, the kind of boy adults spoke about in lowered voices, with a mix of admiration and curiosity. He was brilliant, shy, and far ahead
Myths
The first thing to know is that “skinwalker” is not just a spooky internet monster label. In English, it is commonly used for a harmful witch figure in Diné (Navajo) belief, often tied to the term yee naaldlooshii. Public Navajo language sources gloss naaldlooshii as relating to four-legged beings
Weird World
A strange light in a shaky clip can do something powerful to the brain. It compresses uncertainty into certainty. Before you know the location, the lens, the zoom level, the witness angle, the wind, the aircraft traffic, or the upload history, your mind has already supplied a story. That is
World
Most people open an official UAP report expecting revelation and run into bureaucracy instead. The pages are dense, the language is cautious, and the most important sentence is often not the dramatic one. That is why these documents are so often misread. They are usually not written to prove or
Music
India woke today to the kind of news that feels impossible even when it arrives in plain language. Asha Bhosle, whose voice had long ago slipped past celebrity and into the emotional fabric of ordinary life, died in Mumbai on Sunday, April 12, 2026, at the age of 92. Reuters
Books
1) The deliciously irrational joy of a preorder A mystery or thriller preorder is a small act of faith. You have not held the book yet. You have not trusted it with a plane ride, a stormy Saturday, or the kind of midnight reading binge that leaves you glassy-eyed