NY-- A former dentist charged with stealing body parts from more than 1000 corpses pleaded guilty in a New York court today, in a case that will likely see him sentenced to at least 18 years in jail. Michael Mastromarino stands charged with illegally harvesting organs, body parts and tissue from the bodies of people who never consented to be donors, including veteran BBC broadcaster Alistair Cooke. Mastromarino, 44, whose company sold the human tissue for medical implants, pleaded guilty under the terms of a plea deal that would see him facing 18 to 54 years in jail instead of a life term.

Harry Houdini escaped from handcuffs, straitjackets and water-filled oversized milk cans - but the one thing he could never get away from was publicity. Larry Sloman and William Kalush, authors of "The Secret Life of Houdini," theorize that the magician was fatally poisoned by a vengeful clairvoyant on Halloween of 1926, and not felled by a ruptured appendix as long believed.

Dungeons & Dragons fans will surely be saddened by the fact that Gay Gygax, the popular game's first edition's co-creator, died today. Dungeons & Dragons is one of the most popular role-playing game franchises of all times! Also known as D&D, the game was originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and first published more than thirty years ago, in 1974.