Black Liberation activist Assata Shakur was found guilty of killing a police officer in 1977, only to escape prison two years later and become a political refugee in Cuba.Getty ImagesJoanne Chesimard, or Assata Shakur, is New Jersey’s most wanted fugitive for killing a state trooper and then fleeing to Cuba in 1979. When JoAnne Deborah Byron was born in Queens, New York in 1947, the world around her was strictly divided along racial and gender lines, and Jim Crow laws ensured that segregation was woven into the culture of New York.

Derrick Todd Lee first killed in 1992, but it would take over a decade for police to track him down as he terrorized Louisiana, often pretending to be a person in need to gain his victims' trust.The AdvertiserPolice escort serial killer Derrick Todd Lee to court on July 2, 2003. After the violent deaths of three women in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Baton Rouge Police Department knew they had a serial killer on their hands.

An unstable schizophrenic, Eduard would spend three decades in an asylum and was to his father Albert an "insoluble problem."David Silverman/Getty ImagesAlbert Einstein’s two sons, Eduard and Hans Albert, in July 1917. Albert Einstein is one of the most famous scientists in history and his name has become a household term synonymous with genius. But although almost everyone has heard of the physicist and his remarkable work, few know about the tragic fate of his son, Eduard Einstein.

The shoes belonged to a child named Amos Steinberg, who was deported to the camp with his mother in 1944. Neither survived.Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-BirkenauThis pair of shoes contained a child’s first and last name, mode of transport, and registration number. Experts at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum continue to uncover relics of the Holocaust to this day. Just this week, they found a pair of children’s shoes with a handwritten inscription detailing the child’s name, their mode of transport to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and their registration number.

The Sabbath In Other Religions YouTube/Howcast Islam draws its authority from many of the same books that Judaism does, but Muslims of every sect have a much less legalistic approach to the holy day. Six days out of the week, Muslims may pray wherever they happen to be, but on Friday the men are expected to attend services at the mosque. Women may or may not attend, but if they do they’re almost always separated from the men, usually in a gallery or a side room.

Image Source: Enhanced Vision Think back to when you were very young and someone first explained blindness to you. If you were me, it was a menopausal primary school teacher telling you to stand up and close your eyes. “That is what it is to be blind,” she said, fanning herself. “Your eyes don’t work, so you can’t see anything. I want you to think about how much harder your life would be if you were blind.

Corey Haim struggled with drug addiction throughout most of his life, but an autopsy revealed that pneumonia was the true cause of his death.MediaPunch Inc/Alamy Stock PhotoAs a teenager, Corey Haim was one of the biggest actors in the world, but he later struggled with addiction. Two of the biggest teenage actors of the 1980s, Corey Feldman and Corey Haim shared the same first name, were lifelong friends, and co-starred together in a number of hit films, including The Lost Boys.

Charles Manson's first wife, Rosalie Jean Willis, seemed doomed from the get-go. All three of her children died before she did — while Charles Manson lived to see old age.Charles Manson may be considered an inhuman monster to many, but America’s most infamous cult leader was once a seemingly normal, married man. Before The Beatles inspired his “Helter Skelter” race-war mantra and before the horrific Sharon Tate murders came to fruition, Charles Manson was just someone’s husband.

From a humble barber to a British royal, these are the suspects in the notorious murders of Jack the Ripper.Following the death of Jack the Ripper’s fifth canonical victim Mary Jane Kelly, police surgeon Thomas Bond mused about who the killer could be. He said: “The ­murderer must have been a man of physical strength and of great coolness and daring… he is quite likely to be a quiet, inoffensive looking man probably middle-aged and neatly and respectably dressed.

In February 2008, a mysterious couple lured Lindsay Buziak to a $1 million home for a viewing, where she was brutally murdered. To this day, no one knows who killed her.Family HandoutLindsay Buziak was a Canadian real estate agent who was murdered during a home showing in 2008. On Feb. 1, 2008, 24-year-old real estate agent Lindsay Buziak got a mysterious cold call from a woman requesting to view a $1 million home.