The case of a couple from El Paso, Texas, ranks among the greatest mysteries of the 20th century. The husband and wife disappeared without a trace, leaving behind all their belongings, including valuables.

On August 15, 1957, a friend of the Patterson's, Cecil Ward, called the police and reported the couple, whom he had last seen on March 5, missing. Law enforcers searched their home and concluded that William and Margaret had left in a hurry: there were still unwashed dishes in the kitchen sink, clothes were spread out on the bed and chairs. In addition, the couple had left all communications turned on, the mail was still being delivered on schedule, and Margaret had not even picked up her expensive fur coat from the dry cleaners.

The robbery attack (in the language of RSDLP members, "expropriation" or "exp"), committed on June 13, 1907, on Tbilisi's Erivan Square, has gone down in history as one of the most daring and major crimes of the early twentieth century. The attackers, having killed, according to official data, three people accompanying a collection vehicle and wounded 50 others, escaped with 250 thousand rubles, a sum equivalent to 5 million dollars today.

In the early morning hours of May 29, 1945, sirens wailed on Amsterdam's respectable Kaisergracht street.

Two black police cars pulled up in front of the house of the artist van Meegeren. The sleepy owner didn't realize what had happened, and handcuffs were snapped on his wrists.

While the unnoticed events, the whole world was witnessing the story of the hijacking of a passenger airliner.

The 186-meter transatlantic liner "Santa Maria" built in the early 50's in Belgium belonged to the Lisbon-based company "Colonial de Navegasan" and worked on passenger lines connecting Portugal with the United States and Latin America. On January 9, 1961, the Santa Maria departed Lisbon for another voyage to Miami. On board were 612 passengers, many of them U.S. citizens, and 300 crew members.