Crime Stories

More than 200 golden Mozart statues have vanished from Salzburg in the space of a month — one in a pattern of mass-thefts of collectible multiples from public spaces,, forcing organizers to shut down the outdoor portion of a public art tribute marking the composer’s 270th birthday. German conceptual artist Ottmar Hörl installed 320 polymer figures, each about 50 centimeters tall and painted gold, across...

Customs officials in Tokyo’s Haneda Airport have discovered something astonishing in the passenger’s bag on August 8, 2026 approximately two hundred lizards found stuffed in twenty-two pairs of socks and one T-shirt. The man, twenty-three-year-old Mexican named Daniel Isaac Velasco Baltazar, arrived on a flight from South Korea. One of the lizards was already dead, according to the source. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department received...