Tyler Piccotti

A guard helped free Pender, setting off a manhunt for a criminal dubbed the “female Charles Manson.”

U.S. alpine ski racer Mikaela Shiffrin is a three-time Olympic gold medalist and the only competitor, male or female, with more than 100 career victories.

Scientist and educator George Washington Carver was born into slavery and became an internationally famous botanist known for his many inventions, including more than 300 uses for the peanut.

Kevin Von Erich, portrayed in the movie by Zac Efron, and his sons are still involved in professional wrestling today despite the tragedies that befell their family.

Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, and Langston Hughes were just a few musicians and writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance.

Lauren, played by Sydney Lemmon in FX’s Love Story, died along with her sibling and brother-in-law in a 1999 plane crash.

The movie, streaming on Netflix starting February 19, stars Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White as two brothers in the Von Erich wrestling family that is haunted by personal tragedy.

Frederick Douglass was a leader in the abolitionist movement, an early champion of women’s rights, and the author of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

Streaming on HBO Max starting February 12, The Pope’s Exorcist stars Academy Award–winner Russell Crowe and is based on Gabriele Amorth’s case files.

The Idaho teens murdered their classmate, Stoddart, in 2006 and were partially inspired by the Scream movie franchise. Here’s what we know about their lives today.

Garrett Morgan blazed a trail for Black inventors with his patents, including those for an improved traffic light and a breathing device that preceded the World War I gas mask.

Sidney Crosby is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Pittsburgh Penguins. In 2007, he became the youngest captain of a National Hockey League team.

Boxer and influencer Paul proposed to Leerdam, an Olympic speed skater from the Netherlands, in March 2025.

Evans offered analysis of Letby's infant victims, helping prosecutors build their case against her. His methods are still a source of controversy.

Biography.com asked the two-time U.S. champion about the biggest stars of this year's team, including Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu, and Ilia Malinin.

The Netflix documentary Queen of Chess follows Polgár’s unlikely rise to become the top-ranked women’s player in the world.

U.S. Olympian Vonn met the star U.S. skier when she was 9 years old, kickstarting her own luminous career on the slopes.

Netflix’s ‘The Investigation of Lucy Letby’ examines the British neonatal nurse convicted of killing seven infants in her care, and the disagreements over the evidence in the case.

Teenager Jordan Turpin boldly escaped her parents’ home in 2018, revealing the horrific abuse that had taken place inside.

The Irish actor, 29, portrays Ser Duncan the Tall in the new Game of Thrones prequel on HBO Max.

The Emmy-winning actor and comedian got her start on Canada’s SCTV and had a quick but infamous brush with Studio 8H.

Tara Lipinski is an American figure skater who became the youngest Olympian to win gold in the ladies’ singles event in 1998. She now serves as a TV color commentator.

Former pro basketball player Kobe Bryant won five NBA titles with the Los Angeles Lakers while establishing himself as one of the game’s all-time greats. He died tragically in a helicopter crash on January 26, 2020.

Kohberger has offered no details of his motives or methods, but a new court filing offers disturbing clues.

Known for the 2018 climbing documentary Free Solo, Honnold is attempting to scale one of the world’s tallest buildings with no safety net.

Kerr became one of the sport’s pioneering stars, but his success in the cage hid a darker struggle.

They reunited with their daughter more than two decades ago and played a crucial role in Elizabeth’s recovery.

Investigators found few clues to identify Elizabeth’s captor—then Mary Katherine remembered his voice.

While ex-husband Brian David Mitchell remains in prison for the 2002 abduction, Barzee is released and trying to rebuild her life.

Here’s the latest on the self-proclaimed prophet, who is serving a life sentence in federal prison for abducting Smart in 2002, ahead of Netflix’s Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart.

Claudette Colvin is an activist who was a pioneer in the civil rights movement in Alabama during the 1950s. She refused to give up her seat on a bus months before Rosa Parks’s more famous protest.

The author vanished from her Sunningdale home in 1926 and was found 11 days later. The cause for her flight is still debated today.