Most of us know the story of Lizzie Borden (if you don’t, you can check it out here). What most people don’t know, is that there were other people who had motive to kill Andrew and Abby Borden.
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How many times do you see a troop of girl scouts standing outside of the grocery store, selling those delicious cookies to raise money for camp? Have you ever wondered what happens at camp? Well, here’s a story that has only happened once, and hopefully never again.
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The year is 1600, and your parents have sent you to stay with a beautiful countess in her castle. The countess was going to teach you all of the things that would make you a perfect lady, but that’s what she told your family. Once you were in her custody, the nightmare began. She cut her girls and drank their blood. Sometimes she would kill them, and fill a bath with their blood to bathe in. Your turn was coming up. She is Elizabeth Bathory.
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Imagine this. You just bought a new home for your family. The price was unbelievable, but real, and you quickly move in. But things are not all rainbows and unicorns. You start seeing and hearing things. The air suddenly smells strange, and when a priest comes over, a voice shouts, “Get out!” Less than four weeks later, you have no choice but to abandon your new home, and all your possessions, never to return again. The story of the Amityville House is one many of us have heard. We’ve seen the movies, read the books, discussed the likelihood of whether it’s real or not. One thing we can say for certain, is that the house the Lutz family moved into, did not come without its own history.
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No feud in history is as infamous as the Hatfield’s vs. McCoy’s. What is believed to have started as a fight over a stolen hog, became a bloody war between two families. It’s no surprise then, that the Hatfield cemetery is haunted.
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As parents, you want to empower your children. You want to teach them independence, and a good way to start is letting them walk to school, without a parent or chaperone. But what happens when it all backfires, and your child never makes it to school? On October 5, 2012, 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway never made it to school.
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Having a stalker can be a scary thing. They seem to know your every move, yet you have no idea who they are, and in most cases, what they want. That was the case for 32 year old Dorothy Jane Scott.
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Bobby Joe Long smiled, “Well, I guess you got me good … Yes, I killed them … All the ones in the paper. I did them all.”
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Bad choices and money problems; we’ve all been there, so we can empathize with Cynthia Vigil Jaramillo when she ran into the same predicament. She felt she had no choice but to turn to prostitution, which she did in Albuquerque, New Mexico. One night, working the streets, David Parker Ray rolled up next to her. Thinking he was just another client, she wasn’t concerned when he got out of the car. That is until he told her he was an undercover police officer.
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For a working woman, every day is a risk, but you take it anyway. You go to the home of your latest client. Nothing seems out of sorts; you have sex, and while you wait for him to bring you money, you start to get dressed. What you don’t know, is this man wants more than just sex. This was a reality for Josefina Rivera (25), on November 25, 1986, the day she met Gary Heidnik.
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