What Scares You?
Love, true love, often strikes from out of nowhere. Life is grand, you’re living your life, and then boom! It smacks you. You can’t control who you fall for, and that often leads to the vow, “‘Til death do us part.” But is death truly the end of your love story? It wasn’t for Carl Tanzler.
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Joshua Komisarjevsky, known for his part in the Cheshire Murders, was born on August 10, 1980 to a mother who was just 16 years old, and his father, a boy just barely out of his teens. When he was only 2 weeks old, he was adopted by Benedict and Jude Komisarjevsky, a powerful and prestigious family. Ben and Jude had a background in child care, once working as houseparents at a residential center for developmentally disabled children.
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Grocery shopping is such a mundane activity that all families take part in at some point, so it wasn’t a big deal when 11 year old Michaela and her mom went grocery shopping, picking up dinner for their Sunday night dinner. Little did they know, they had caught the eye of a convicted felon, out on parole. That night, Michaela, her sister Hayley, and their mom Jennifer were all murdered in one of the most horrendous cases Connecticut had ever seen, known as the Cheshire Murders.
During medieval times, torture was an acceptable method for extracting valuable information, or simply punishing those who were defiant. The Scavenger’s Daughter was one such instrument, designed during the reign of England’s Henry VIII by Sir Leonard Skevington, Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
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When you’re the parent of a sad and lonely child, you don’t necessarily question things when suddenly an imaginary friend comes into the picture. The sight of your child happy is enough for you to even find yourself talking to this “friend.” But what happens if that imaginary friend is more than imaginary, and begins to lead your child down a dark road.
When his phone calls to his elderly aunt went unanswered, Marvin Martin contacted the police for a welfare check. Nothing could have prepared them for what they would find.
Continue reading “Charles Rogers and the Icebox Murders”
On the morning of January 15, 1947, the body of Elizabeth Short, known primarily as the black dahlia, was found in a vacant lot on the west side of South Norton Avenue, midway between Coliseum Street and West 39th Street in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. She was naked, her body severed into two pieces and drained of blood. To this day, her murder remains unsolved.
Nature vs nurture has long been the question when it comes to our children and how they turn out. “Was I too strict?” or, “Did I love them enough?” are questions commonly asked by parents of troubled kids. Are bad kids born, or made? In the case of Mary Bell, it’s up to you to decide.
You’ve moved to Alaska, and despite your education and skills, the only job available is exotic dancer. Not ready to give up, you take the job and enjoy the freedom and money it provides you. When a photographer who loves your look, offers you a job, you don’t hesitate. Little did you know, you wouldn’t be getting your picture taken. In fact, the only “shots” Robert Hansen took were with a rifle.
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Being a child, orphan or runaway, in the streets of Pakistan is hard enough. When you add to that the threat of a serial killer, your odds of survival drop dramatically. Javed Iqbal grew up relatively wealthy, but ended up finding his place in the slums, living among his intended victims.
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