The Torture and Murder of Kelly Anne Bates

First love is always the sweetest, or is it? Kelly Anne Bates thought so. She gave everything to her first love – even her life.

Kelly Anne Bates

Kelly Anne Bates was born on May 18, 1978 in Hatterslay, England, United Kingdom. Her family was always very close, and described Kelly as confident, independent, mature for her age. So it wasn’t a big surprise when, at age 14, she told her parents she had a boyfriend named, Dave. And that’s where the trouble began.

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James Bulger, A 2 Year Old Tortured

February 12, 1993, James Bulger, age 2, was with his mother in Bootle, Merseyside England at the New Strand Shopping Centre. While inside the A. R. Tym’s butcher’s shop on the lower floor of the shopping center, his mother became distracted. She took her eyes off him for just a moment, and he was gone. His dead body was found two days later on a railway line, 2.5 miles away in Walton, Liverpool.

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The Boy in the Box

Late February, 1957, a young man, checking his muskrat traps in the woods off Susquehanna Road in Fox Chase, Philadelphia, found an old cardboard box. Upon further investigation, he found the body of a dead boy. He left the box and the body there and returned home, afraid the police would confiscate his traps.  A few days later, college student Frederic Benosis, was in the woods, spying on girls at the Good Shepherd School when he, too, came upon the box. Afraid to tell the police why he was in the woods, he chose to not report it, until the next day, February 26, 1957.

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Tamara Samsonova is the Granny Ripper

July 26, 2015, dogs sniffed out the remains of 79 year old Valentina Ulanova at an apartment building in the suburbs of St. Petersburg, Russia. Her body had been decapitated and spread out across seven different garbage bags. CCTV and blood trails on the floor of the apartment building led police to the door of 68 year old Tamara Samsonova, who had been working as a caregiver for Mrs. Ulanova.

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Charles Lawson: Christmas Family Murder

Christmas, 1929, Charles Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children.

Charles Davis Lawson married Fannie Manring in 1911. The couple proceeded to have eight children. Their third child, William, was born in 1914, and died in 1920.

Charles moved his family to Germanton, North Carolina in 1918, when his younger two brothers moved there. They worked as tenant tobacco farmers and saved their money to purchase their own farm in 1927.

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Olive Thomas: The Star of Haunted Broadway

The New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City sits between 7th and 8th Avenue, just off Times Square, and is the star of haunted Broadway. This 11-story building was designed by architects Henry Hertz and Hugh Tallant, and was instantly dubbed “House Beautiful.” The building opened in 1903, and originally contained two theaters, offices, several lounges and a lobby. It also features a spectacular ghost. Olive Thomas, a model and actress in the 1910’s enjoys a bit of mischief and fun, and is known to be, by far, the most active ghost on Broadway.

Olive Thomas
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