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Madeleine McCann, a young child of three years old, was visiting the popular Portuguese resort town of Praia da Luiz along with her parents and younger siblings, as well as a group of her parents' close friends, when she went missing on the night of May 3rd. Madeleine's disappearance became an international sensation and various police departments in both Portugal and the United Kingdom, as well as Madeleine's parents, would conduct independent investigations...
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One day while Dorothy Stratten was on shift working at a Diary Queen, an older man walked into the store. Dorothy noted his outfit — a long fur coat, lizard skin boots, and gold and diamond jewelry — and she was captivated. She had never seen anyone like him before, and the two talked for a little bit before he drove off in a black sports car. Dorothy was sure she would never see the sophisticated stranger again. To her surprise, the man called...
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It was a crime unlike anything seen in British Columbia. The horror of the "Wells Gray Murders" almost forty years ago transcends decades.
On August 2, 1982, three generations of a family set out on a camping trip, Bob and Jackie Johnson, their two daughters, Janet, 13 and Karen, 11, and Jackie's parents, George and Edith Bentley. A month later, the Johnson family car was, found off a mountainside logging road near Wells Gray Park completely burned...
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On the 15th of July 1997 the world of fashion was changed forever. Gianni Versace had decided to have a change of routine. Instead of sending out an assistant, as he usually would, to collect the morning papers, Versace travelled down to his local coffee shop to get them himself. As he returned home to his Miami Beach mansion, Andrew Cunanan pounced. Firing his gun and shooting Versace twice, a fashion icon fell to his knees and left the world shocked....
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I only want to hurt you, to tear you apart
I only want to drain the blood from your heart.
To see each drip and hear each drop.
First to sip and then to sop. Bather in blood, lesbian, murderer, tiger, torturer, vampire, werewolf and witch. All titles of the infamous Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary. This is no lighthearted book as it deals with a psychopathic murderess. The rhyme above is about how the story runs. I truly wish that you will...
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WHEN YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD 'SEX PARTY' TURNS DEADLY Joan and David Shannon were swingers who met other married couples for "sex parties" through the Internet. David would introduce his wife to Jeffrey WIlson and the two quickly fell in love. David grew jealous and warned his wife to stop seeing Wilson.
Joan, however, wanted to keep seeing her swinger friend. In a bizarre series of events, she enlisted the aid of her fifteen-year-old daughter...
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"While the Midwest may be known for salt-of-the-earth folks, it's also home to murder and mayhem. In Murderous Acts: 100 Years of Crime in the Midwest, Keven McQueen explores a century of true crimes committed in 10 Midwestern states, from the 1840s to the 1940s. With a touch of gallows humor, McQueen relies on original research to recount infamous transgressions-including Michigan's Robert Irving Latimer case, the serial murders of Nebraskan Jake...
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Probably the most iconic symbol of the Twenties was the flapper girl. They were young women who liked to dress well, dance, and party till the early morning hours. But when a flapper girl from New York murdered her husband in order to collect the insurance money, everyone watched the story unfold. So many intriguing details were uncovered immediately after the crime that the majority of readership simply couldn't get enough of the juicy details
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A 31-year-old woman of Asian descent, sits nervously in front of the microphones and journalists, ready to make her statement and ready to talk through how her life has turned out over the past twenty years. Kim Tien cuts a meek figure with her long dark hair pulled back into a ponytail. She sits twisting her fingers anxiously as her blue fleece jersey crumples against the desk. As the journalists shoot off their sensitive questions, she looks wide-eyed...
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While he was still in his school uniform, Peter Dupas walked over to his neighbor's house and knocked. The 27-year-old mother was breastfeeding her five-week-old baby when she heard the knock. She answered the door, and was surprised to see the young boy at her door. She welcomed him into the house and asked why he had come over. He asked to borrow a sharp knife. He was supposed to be peeling potatoes, and they did not have a knife that was sharp...
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Nicole Vonlee Titlow is a middle aged woman who is currently serving out a 20-40 year prison sentence in the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility for the second degree murder of her uncle, Don Rogers. At first glance, this case seems to be one of commonplace gold digging and an attempt to make some quick cash, but upon further reading, it quickly devolves into betrayal, back-handedness, ineffective counsel, and further tragedy. This otherwise average...
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Claiming to be a victim of rape and other abuses, a distraught Tracey Grissom would travel to her ex-husband Hunter's workplace and shoot him six times in the back, receiving a 25-year life sentence for his murder. Her defense attorney would argue that Tracey was motivated by post-traumatic stress disorder caused by her Hunter's constant abuse and sexual assaults. One jury member had even asked the judge to be lenient in her sentencing as they were...
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Imagine the most boring of jobs. It is hard to come up with one more mundane than working as a Government stock clerk. It seems almost a cliché that a killer who haunts the darkest nightmares should work in such a position. But, William Lester Suff did.
Let's take that cliché a step further and imbue the murderer of prostitutes with another trait. An unusual hobby. Suff was fascinated by cookery, which is probably not such a strange past time in...
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"I'm an angel who was attending a school of Satan. Some will call me schizophrenic or even Hitler or other terrible things. That's okay with me." - Anatoly OnoprienkoFrom 1989-1995, Anatoly Onoprienko was one of the most prolific serial killers in Euroepan history. Taking advantage of the fall of the Soviet Union, Onoprienko roamed from village to village, randomly murdering people for sport and pleasure. The Soviet Union refused to admit that there...
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In December 1985, a narcotics detective was shot and killed in the driveway of his farm in Pueblo, Colorado, where he lived with his five children and his wife, Donna Yaklich. Initially, authorities suspected Dennis' death was linked to his work in law enforcement, but a tip led them to two teenage shooters – and eventually, back to Dennis' wife, Donna. However, attorneys for Donna Yaklich argued that Dennis had been beating his wife. The murder,...
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An anthology of True Crime focused on women who killed children, even their own. ALEXANDRA TOBIAS - On January 19th, 2010, 22 year old Alexandra Tobias was playing Farmville on Facebook at home in Jacksonville, Florida when she was interrupted by the cries of her three month old baby, Dylan. She tried to silence him by shaking him roughly — hitting his head in the process. The child fell unconscious and she placed a frantic call to 911. The child...
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Two of the most savage female killers are profiled here: JOANNA DENNEHY - When you take a closer look at the list of the bloodiest and most violent murders throughout the history, the chances are you will mostly encounter male names. Female serial killers are incredibly rare in our society. Women are unlikely to go out on a random killing spree and injure more than one person in a cruel way. When women do kill, they prefer using poison and their motives...
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Mikhail Popkov may be the most prolific serial killers in world history. He led a double-life as a family man with a wife and a young daughter. But after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Popkov was able to take advantage of the lack of police authority to get away with his most barbaric fantasies. Using his police uniform as a cover, he would lure unsuspecting women into his squad car where he would drive them to an isolated forest to kill them....
19) The Lust Killer
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A father, husband, son, an electrical engineer, and a murderer. Those words do not begin to describe serial killer Jerry Brudos (a.k.a. The Lust Killer).
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There are many situations where people will end up dead and too often it is because they decided to try to do a good deed. Perhaps they stopped to offer assistance to someone on the side of the road. Perhaps they picked up a stranded person. Perhaps they approached the wrong individual to ask them why they looked so sad. So many acts of kindness are often rewarded with violence that it is shocking that anyone is willing to offer aid at all. But there...
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