As a teenage criminal, William O’Neal was recruited to infiltrate the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party. He died a conflicted man by suicide over two decades later.
The legacy of rainbow coalition politics has deep roots in Chicago, stretching from its origins in the city's Black Panther Party chapter to Barack Obama's historic presidential wins.
Akua Njeri, who went by Deborah Johnson in 1969 at the time of Fred Hampton's killing by law enforcement in his home, has fought for social justice her entire life.
In a pre-dawn raid in December 1969, a team of law enforcement officials descended on the Chicago apartment of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party's chairman and shot him dead.
"Clarice," a new series that continues in "The Silence of the Lambs" universe, doesn't include Hannibal Lecter — in fact, it refers to him as "He Who Shall Not Be Named.”
Meanwhile, Samantha Stark, the director of "Framing Britney," said it's unclear if the pop star ever got her messages to participate in the documentary.
While Elisa Lam is the most recent prominent death linked to the notorious hotel, "Black Dahlia" murder victim Elizabeth Short, as well as serial killer Richard Ramirez, have also been tied to the Los Angeles establishment.
While it's certainly easier to research people now than in the 1970s, when Elizabeth Carmichael boasted about a revolutionary new car that turned out to be a mirage, the Bernie Madoff and Elizabeth Holmes cases show many people still don't put in the effort to check things out.
