The Dead Man Fund
How the world’s worst investor fleeced clients who couldn’t complain.
The Shaming of the Cherry Sisters
How “vaudeville’s worst act” fought for fame and respect on the stage.
The Bomb in the Bag
How America’s first suicide attack changed one man’s fortune forever.
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
Encounters behind bars between Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering and an American doctor 65 years ago raise questions about responsibility, allegiance and the nature of evil. “After Goering matter-of-factly recounted the murder of a close associate that he had once set into motion, Kelley asked how he could bring himself to demand his old friend be killed. ‘Goering stopped talking and stared at me, puzzled, as if I were not quite bright,’ Kelley recalled. ‘Then he shrugged his great shoulders, turned up his palms and said slowly, in simple, one-syllable words: “But he was in my way….” ‘”