Tom Leonard

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Tom Leonard

In the early hours of August 31, 1961, an eight-year-old girl named Ann Burr disappeared during a deafening thunderstorm from her family home in Tacoma, Washington state, and was never seen again. Nobody was ever charged with her murder but police found a small shoe print outside a living room window that was consistent with that of a teenage boy. Poor Ann is now widely thought to have been the first victim of Ted Bundy, one of America’s most prolific serial killers.

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Tom Leonard

Drive 140 miles north from Las Vegas and you hit a barren, featureless stretch of Nevada desert that’s become one of the world’s most mysterious locations. Here, bordered by a vast salt flat, lies the highly-classified US Air Force base known simply as Area 51 – an installation so secretive the CIA only grudgingly admitted its existence in 2013, nearly 60 years after it opened.

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Tom Leonard

Next to the Reinland Mennonite Church on the outskirts of Seminole in Texas is a plain grass field surrounded by a chain- link fence that serves as the devout congregation’s graveyard. ‘Absolutely no decorations of any kind,’ reads a notice fixed to the fence, written in English and German. The Mennonites are, like the Amish, a radical Anabaptist Protestant sect that traces its origins to 17th-century northern Europe.

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Tom Leonard

If it were any other mother and son, the kiss that Sean 'Diddy' Combs planted on the lips of Janice Combs in a video three years ago would have been a little odd but largely unremarkable. But the disgraced music mogul and the woman who raised him single-handed and who is now allegedly running his empire as he fights racketeering, prostitution and sex trafficking charges - which he denies - are most certainly not any other mother and son.

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Tom Leonard

It's been described as the most expensive private party ever, with a budget as bottomless as the supply of starry guests was inexhaustible. In a vast circus-style marquee on a five-acre lot in Las Vegas one night in November 2012, Hollywood stars, Middle Eastern princes and Wall Street bank bosses gathered to celebrate the 31st birthday of a flamboyant young man dubbed the Asian Great Gatsby.