What's your favorite "History is Stranger than Fiction" moment from world history?

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This is about the criminalist, who first used the term Serial Killer.

Hardly anyone will know the name Ernst Gennat. But apart from being called the Buddha of Berlin, because he was incredibly fat, he was probably the leading homicide expert in the world of the first three decades of the 20th century. He also made it to the silver screen. If you've seen the Fritz Lang film "M", the Fritz Lohmann character is an hommage to him. He also was kind of a society darling, always mentioned in the tabloids along with the stars when some party or event took place.

Apart from being the first one to set a up a specialised homicide unit, he also was first in insisting that nothing is touched at a scene of crime before the experts arrived. He put great stock into forensics and even planned and realized a car to collect evidence at the scene. 94 percent of homicides during his time have been solved. The term serial killer first came up when he wrote an article on the infamous murderer Peter Kürten, whom he rightfully considered to be one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_K%C3%BCrten

That's him at work. You can easily see why he was called Buddha.