Hill, who died in LA in 2012, was taken into witness protection with his wife Karen and their two children, Gina and Gregg, in 1980, after helping the FBI to arrest several of his fellow gangsters.

Life And Death In The Warehouse, which will air on BBC Three later this year, is based on real stories from warehouse workers around the world who are ‘constantly surveilled’.

Scotland Yard has launched a manhunt for Alfredo Lindley, 40, thought to have led the highest value burglary in English criminal history with £26 million worth of stolen cash and jewellery.

In 1997, the Sound Surveillance System (established by the US Navy to detect activity within the Deep Sound Channel during the Cold War) detected the Bloop, a sound signature produced by something massive in the South Pacific Ocean. While its origins to date remain unknown, the official conclusion on the records is that the Bloop […]

A BBC documentary is set to suggest Kurtz – later played by Marlon Brando in the 1979 American war film Apocalypse Now – may have been based on captain Paul Voulet (pictured).

Dazzling Skies, U.F.O. Sightings and Real-Life Monsters: The Week in Narrated Articles  The New York Times

Con artists played by Michael Caine and Steve Martin (pictured) chose the glitzy French Riviera to find their victims in the classic film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.