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This December 1961 file photo shows former US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis relaxing in a chair, a few weeks after former President John F. Kennedy won the US presidential election. Kennedy's wife Jacqueline pleaded with him to allow her and their children stay with him in event of a nuclear Armageddon, around the time of the Cuban missile crisis, a report on new audio tapes said September 12, 2011.  AFP PHOTO Picture: Afp
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‘She had shot her husband dead’

She has told the stories of a murderous royal mistress, Christian Dior’s Nazi-fighting sister and the real Miss Moneypenny. Now Christine Wells has Jackie Kennedy in her lens.

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LINCOLN RHYME: HUNT FOR THE BONE COLLECTOR -- "" Episode 103  -- Pictured: (l-r) Arielle Kebbel as Officer Amelia Sachs; Michael Imperioli as Detective Mike Sellitto  -- (Photo by: Peter Kramer/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

Why we obsess over dark stories

We love twisted tales about bad people doing bad things and now a world-famous crime author has shared his theory on why, while name-checking Aussie writers he says are at the top of the game.

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Sydney July 13, 2001. Minature portrait Matthew Flinders, 1801, part of an national touring exhibition starting in September. Flinders proved Australia was one land mass by circumnavigating it. (AAP Image/NSW State Library)

How hero was left ‘a broken man’

He’s one of the most celebrated figures in Australia’s story. But on this day in history – as a depressed, anxious jailbird – celebration was the last thing on Matthew Flinders’ mind.

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"Trim" pet cat of Captain Matthew Flinders.  historical

How shipwrecked cat was saved

One legendary cat, several farm animals and 80 seafarers faced death after being abandoned in the open ocean – until an extraordinary man hatched an audacious rescue plan.

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