The recovery mission involved a police drone, a trailer, a pontoon boat, and a 40-person rescue team. Dana Vess/FacebookThe cows were safely recovered and returned home, though they will likely not reprise their roles in the Nativity scene. “It’s always something,” Dana Vess, the wife of Seaside Chapel pastor Jerry Vess, told The News & Observer,. “We joked, ‘I wish our prodigal cows would return.'” The “prodigal cows” in this instance were in fact a pair of troublesome calves brought in as part of a live Nativity scene put on by Seaside Chapel in North Carolina every year.

For 22 years, Liu Yongbiao got away with murder while writing novels inspired by those murders. Then the police tricked him into giving himself up.Huzhou Intermediate CourtLiu Yongbiao and accomplice Wang Mouming in court. Chinese crime novelist Liu Yongbiao — who used the memory of four murders he committed 23 years ago as inspiration for his books — has now been sentenced to death for his crimes. The Huzhou Intermediate People’s Court in the Zhejiang Province of China found Liu and his accomplice, Wang Mouming, guilty of both robbery and homicide after the two men admitted to their crimes.

In July 1951, Mary Reeser mysteriously burned into a pile of ashes in her Florida home, but the apartment around her suffered almost no damage, leading to theories that she had spontaneously combusted.The death of Mary Reeser more than 70 years ago continues to baffle people to this day — and for good reason. On the night of July 1, 1951, Reeser was reduced to a pile of ash in her St.

The photographer insists that the picture is real but that no sexual activity occurred while atop one of the world's greatest wonders.Anreas Hvid/Daily MailThe image of the couple seemingly having sex at the Great Pyramid. Authorities in Egypt have reportedly launched an investigation after a photographer from Denmark posted a photo of himself and a woman apparently having sex at the top of the Great Pyramid in Giza. The photographer identified as Andreas Hvid also posted a video to YouTube of the couple apparently climbing the pyramid at night, with the woman taking off her shirt at the tail-end of the production.

Elsa Einstein was Albert Einstein's second wife as well as his first cousin — and she remained married to him despite his frequent affairs. Wikimedia CommonsElsa Einstein with her husband, Albert Einstein. You don’t have to be a genius to make a marriage healthy. In fact, you probably shouldn’t be — just ask Albert and Elsa Einstein. Elsa is often thought of as her husband’s trusted companion, a woman who knew how to handle the brilliant physicist.