In 1971, Donald Marshall Jr. was wrongfully convicted of killing his friend in Nova Scotia. And even after the conviction was overturned, he was still blamed for the judicial error.Sydney Police DepartmentPolice arrested Donald Marshall Jr. for a stabbing crime where he was the victim. On the night of May 28, 1971, Donald Marshall Jr. walked through Wentworth Park in Nova Scotia, Canada with his friend Sandy Seale. According to police, Marshall and Seale fought.

After John Callahan was paralyzed following a drunken car crash, he learned to draw cartoons with both hands, went to rehab, and had is politically incorrect cartoons published in dozens of magazines and newspapers.John Callahan was an alcoholic. Then a car crash rendered him a quadriplegic, and he became an established cartoonist. But if you think of his story as sad or heroic or inspirational, he’d probably hate you. See, Callahan’s particular style of cartoon that he established after his accident is notorious for its use of black humor, its macabre subject matter, and its general divisiveness.

Known as the "City of Darkness," Kowloon Walled City was a largely ungoverned Chinese enclave in British Hong Kong that contained up to 35,000 people by the 1980s. People looking at the exterior of Kowloon Walled City before its destruction in the 1990s.Greg Girard/City of Darkness A postman navigates the dark passageways of Kowloon Walled City, where tens of thousands of people lived for decades.Greg Girard/City of Darkness An aerial shot of Kowloon Walled City, a dense metropolis packed into 6.

A catastrophic collapse of coal waste, the Aberfan disaster engulfed a small Welsh town in 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.In a tiny Welsh mining village called Aberfan, a class of young schoolchildren had just started their math lessons on the morning of October 21, 1966. Then, the students heard a sinister rumble just outside Pantglas Junior School. Seconds later, tons of liquefied coal waste suddenly engulfed their classroom. And thus began the Aberfan disaster.

A heartbreaking image of a starving Sudanese child trying to reach a feeding center as a vulture watches, "The Vulture And The Little Girl" is one of the most controversial pictures in the history of photojournalism.Kevin Carter/Wikimedia Commons “The Vulture and the Little Girl,” a 1993 photograph by Kevin Carter, actually depicts a boy named Kong Nyong. In 1993, South African photojournalist Kevin Carter visited Sudan in the midst of a deadly famine.

Right after having sex with Travis Alexander, Jodi Arias fatally stabbed him, slit his throat, and shot him in the head in his Arizona home on June 4, 2008. Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions and/or images of violent, disturbing, or otherwise potentially distressing events. In the beginning, Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander’s love story seemed like a fairytale. After meeting by chance in 2006, they soon began an intense relationship.

After John List murdered his wife, mother, and three children in 1971, he assumed a different identity, remarried, and started a new life — until an episode of America's Most Wanted finally led police to him in 1989.John List appeared to be the perfect son, husband, and father. He worked hard as an accountant to provide for his family. The Westfield, New Jersey mansion where he lived with his mother, wife, and three children had 19 rooms, including a ballroom, marble fireplaces, and a Tiffany skylight.

On August 22, 1972, John Wojtowicz tried to rob a Brooklyn bank to pay for his lover's gender-reassignment surgery — before the heist went terribly wrong.Dan Cronin/NY Daily News Archive via Getty ImagesWhile in the middle of the Brooklyn bank robbery depicted in Dog Day Afternoon, John Wojtowicz points at cops and tells them to back off on Aug. 22, 1972. “How many times do I have to tell you guys to get out of here!

A Michigan judge did not put up with a drunk driver's family laughing in her courtroom. A Michigan judge threw a drunk driver’s mother in jail for 93 days after she refused to stop laughing at the family of the man her 25-year-old daughter killed in a head-on collision. According to NBC affiliate WDIV, Wayne County Circuit Court Qiana Lillard heard giggling while the family of Jerome Zirker was reading their statements to the court.

In this area of Australia, harsh weather and mineral wealth mean one thing: life is better lived in the underground city of Coober Pedy.It is the number-one source of gem-quality opals in the world. It is also home to around 3,500 people of 45 different nationalities, many of them Europeans who arrived in the 1960s in search of fortune. An underground hallway.Flickr Underground housing in Coober Pedy.Flickr A living room.