Just after the Fourth of July in 1962, the US government detonated a hydrogen bomb above the earth's atmosphere, calling it "Starfish Prime." The Honolulu Advertiser's front page read: "N-Blast Tonight May Be Dazzling: Good View Likely." Nukes are fun!

The grisly killing of Yale student Annie Le, whose body was discovered stuffed inside the wall of a campus lab yesterday, is just the latest in a string of high-profile crimes long enough to support a Law & Order spinoff.