Fentanyl is an extremely strong, synthetic opioid which has been estimated to have 50 times the potency as pure, pharmacy-grade heroin and about 100 times the potency of morphine. Once prescription opioids such as OxyContin started becoming too difficult or too expensive to find on the streets, people who were addicted to these types of drug started turning to the likes of heroin and Fentanyl in o
Everyday in the United Kingdom hundreds of people go missing, the police have even admitted that vulnerable youths are being left at risk as they simply can no longer keep up with the overwhelming number of people that seem to go missing.In this Panorama special we see reporter Darragh MacIntyre meet up with those families who have experienced such tragedies first hand and who are now left searc
In The Valley of The Pharaoh is a short documentary directed by Irish filmmaker Tommy Flavin (www.tommyflavin.ie), the film itself takes us to the edge of a small Irish town known as Arklow. Whilst here we happen to stumble upon an ancient graveyard which is home to a mysterious pyramid, quite the rare sight for rural Ireland.Through the use of some beautifully scenic footage and at times haun
In 1888, in Provence, France, an event occurred that was so bizarre it would enter modern legend. In the red light district on the edge of town a foreigner arrived at the door of a brothel, he was baring a package which he handed to one of the girls, the package contained a bloody piece of his own flesh. The man's name was Vincent van Gogh and at the time of the incident in question he was an unkn
The story of the Iceman is an ancient murder mystery, it involves Europe's oldest natural mummy, known to us today as Otzi. He was a man who was stalked, attacked and left to die alone more than 5,000 years ago. Thanks to the formation of some glacial ice Otzi was preserved and later discovered in remarkable condition.Due to the quality of his remains scientists, historians, and archeo
Over the past few years terrorist organisations have developed not only as performers of attacks but also as story tellers. They seem to employ professional media departments in order to produce a constant flow of propaganda in which the romance of the Islamic brotherhood is ascetically mixed with what can only be described as ultra violence.These heinous acts committed are often filmed from t
On May 23, 2014, in Isla Vista, California, a young man named Elliot Rodger took it upon himself to kill 6 people and injure 14 more near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara, before turning a gun on himself and taking his own life. In this "20/20" special we take a closer look at how Elliot came to commit such crimes and for the first time we hear his
As we are all now aware, Bernie Sanders lost the primaries to Hillary Clinton as the US presidential candidate for the Democratic Party. But it was a loss which ironically marked the beginning rather than the end, the start of a political movement.In the run up to the election Bernie's campaign made history by receiving a record number of donations from individual citizens and not rich corpora
In the last days of November 1950, twelve thousand men of the 1st Marine Division along with a few thousand army soldiers found themselves trapped high in the mountains of North Korea near a reservoir called Chosin.Their leaders had been caught off guard by the sudden entrance of the People's Republic of China into the five month old Korean War. The Americans were surrounded, outnumbered and at