Crime

Shocking and forgotten Crime stories from American history.

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• The Radium Girls: The Factory Workers Whose Jaws Fell Off — and Changed American Labor Law

  In the 1920s, young women painting watch dials with radium were told to lick their brushes. Their employer knew the paint was deadly. They found out when their bones started crumbling.

• The Johnstown Flood: When the Rich Killed 2,209 People and Paid Nothing

  In 1889, a private fishing club owned by Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick let a dam collapse — the flood destroyed a city. No member was ever held responsible.