All news by author: Yelena Mandenberg

As the Gilgo Beach murder has been linked to 11 bodies over the course of the decade, the multiple teams working on this case managed to get Rex Heuermann's DNA from a discarded pizza crust and link it back to some evidence found off the bodies, according to the bail paperwork

Two individuals who say they worked with the Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect say they 'knew something was off' just by the way he 'would talk to people,' describing him as a boaster who frequently didn't come through on promises

A 22-year-old man from Chicago was caught microwaving, dismembering, and torturing kittens before killing them and buying new look-alikes on Craigslist to keep his mother from becoming suspicious

A rabid beaver attacked a little girl swimming in Lake Lanier, America's 'most haunted' body of water, near Gainesville, Georgia, as her father saved her by beating the beaver to death

The first recorded bear attack of 2023 ended in a horror movie scene for one herder who was severely mauled by a black bear while two of his sheep were eaten before authorities managed to euthanize the animal

Police are on the hunt for two men in Abington Township, PA, after one of them attempted to kidnap a 14-year-old girl by grabbing her arm and trying to drag her away until she managed to escape and scream for help

A former adviser for OceanGate who was tasked with examining the submersibles says his warnings were ignored by the entire staff who he described as 'drinking the kool-aid' when it came to operations

A businessman who had recently taken a trip on Titan prior to its implosion in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean recalled that employees of Oceangate had a few nightmarish analogies to describe possible death or implosion underwater, saying it would be like a 'coke can smashed with a sledgehammer' in one instance

After a user video on Twitter showed some aggressive sea otters 'stealing' a surfboard, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had to post up notices warning beachgoers about the rambunctious water mammals

Karina Courtmanche, a 79-year-old woman in hospice care with a few months left to live, had one dying wish for administrators - to reunite with her beloved pet horse in a heartwarming moment that brought the entire place to tears

British billionaire Hamish Harding was known for taking risks and travelling as exotically as possible, and his last four photos posted on social media reveal excitement and some doubts about boarding the Titan submersible

Hibberts Gore, Maine, is one of the few one-person towns left, and the only resident in that area says she loves the solitude and hates the attention she gets for living alone - so she's trying to change that

An expert on international relations has warned that the crossing of 8,000 Wagner troops into Belarus could start a proxy war in Poland, as border countries rush to secure themselves

The day after Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Championship is also a day when most average individuals wonder what happens to the bodies of those who can inhale 62 or 39.5 hot dogs (congrats winners!), and doctors have one piece of advice for individuals looking to eat that much - don't

Rudy Farias was a teenager when he vanished, prompting a search that never turned up any results - until last week, when Farias, now 25, was found lying down behind a church, entirely non-verbal - but now in a surprise twist, neighbours say they've been seeing him for years, and he's been living with his mother the entire time

American celebrity Carrot Top was apparently a witness to the now infamous, viral TikTok of a woman who was caught on camera screaming to be let off the plane after 'seeing' an 'imaginary person' in the back of the plane

In Henderson, Nevada, a community has been brought together by outrage after an angry driver intentionally ran over a local flock of geese, killing several

At Nathan's Famous Internation Hot Dog Eating Competition in Coney Island, New York, where reigning champ Joey Chestnut won with 62 hot dogs and Miki Sudo put down 39.5, a rain delay caused some chaos in the ultimate celebration of American-ness

Three months before the Titan submersible was lost at sea with five people aboard, it turned out CEO Stockton Rush actually flew to the UK to reassure Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son that the trip was safe, despite numerous warnings and accusations

Harry Reid International Airport confirmed that a tourist passing through the airport actually won a $1.3 million jackpot on a Wheel of Fortune slot machine in Las Vegas

Lawyers for Civil Rights filed the suit Monday on behalf of Black and Latino community groups in New England, alleging that Harvard’s admissions system violates the Civil Rights Act

If you're waiting for a US passport and hoping it'll come on time for your summer travels and holidays - think again, as the office is overloaded with applications and major staffing shortages

Police arrested the suspect in an Amber Alert case, but the two-year-old girl from Lansing, Michigan, is still missing, with authorities asking the public for help in finding her

A new study done by a veterinary group has found a correlation between slow walking and dementia in dogs - which they think could happen in humans as a possible sign of the disease

Footage of the shocking moment a small child's harness broke while ziplining in Mexico, causing the boy to plummet almost 40 feet, has gone viral