What Scares You?
Relationships are hard. When they don’t work out like we expect, or hope, them to, it’s usually best to cut ties and move on. That’s what the girlfriend of Alexander Spesivtsev tried to do, but he wasn’t so amenable. After the breakup, he decided to kidnap her, lock her in his flat and torture her for three weeks.
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Sergey Golovkin was a Russian Serial Killer, active between 1959 and 1996. Known as the Fisher, he kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered at least 11 boys between the ages of 10 and 16.
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Imagine this, you take a trip to California for a cheerleading competition. The next day, you, your mother, and a friend book a room in a hotel near the entrance to a national park. That night, someone comes knocking on your door, and the unimaginable happens. Cary Stayner is there with his toolbox, and inside is a rope that he will use to strangle your mother before killing your friend and kidnapping you.
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In August 1990, fear gripped the people of Gainesville, Florida. Students were being killed, mutilated, in their college dorms. Classes were canceled, everyone took to carrying baseball bats with them wherever they went. People slept in shifts and no one went out alone. The Gainesville Ripper was out there. A killer who inspired American screenwriter, Kevin Williamson – the creator of the Scream movie franchise.
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From October 1977 to February 1978, the Hillside Strangler terrorized Los Angeles California. Raking up a body count of 10 women and girls, police knew there was more to this serial killer than what they were seeing. In fact, they would later come to discover that there was not 1, but 2 killers, working together.
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Parents have a lot to think about when naming their new baby. What does a name mean? Do you want to honor a relative by using theirs? What are potential nicknames? Some parents like to get cutesy and creative, and use alliteration in their childs’ names. This can be seen in some celebrities, like Amy Adams, Steven Spielberg, and Marilyn Monroe. For three little girls in Rochester New York, that name alliteration was a death sentence. They will forever be remembered as victims of the Alphabet Murders.
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It’s time to go home after a long night at work. You get on your bike and start the ride home. You’re happy, life is good. The night is peaceful, you even ride by a beautiful church. You notice that there’s a single car in the parking lot. It strikes you as odd, but you keep on riding. When you chance a glance back, that’s it, that’s the end – or is it? You are Lisa McVey, and this is her story of how she escaped the Classified Rapist.
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It’s so cliché to talk about the serial killer’s van, the stereotypical “white van” used to pick up unsuspecting victims. In this story, the killers used a van, only theirs was silver-gray. Was that one tiny detail enough to give women the tiniest sense of relief when it pulled up beside them? Color of the van aside, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris still claimed their fair share of victims. Together they became known as the Toolbox Killers and are regarded to this day as having committed the most atrocious crimes.
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In the 1980’s, cell phones weren’t a thing. People used land lines, and wrote letters. Truckers had CB Radios, but those were basically fancy walkie-talkies. So when 60 year old trucker Herbert Donoho disappeared on August 30, 1983, there really wasn’t a good way to track down his whereabouts. After all, he was supposed to be heading to Wheat Ridge Colorado for lunch with friends, not in Stratton at the McCormick farm.
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A mother would do anything for her son. It doesn’t matter how old he gets, he will always be her baby boy. She has been there from the beginning, first to feed and care for. Next she watches over him, kissing his boo-boo’s. She watches as he grows up, meeting a girl, getting married, starting a family of his own. Through all of this, he is still her little boy. So, what would a mother do when her son is about to head off to war? Whatever it takes to keep him safe.
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