What Scares You?
We’ve all heard of personal ads. “Man Seeking Companion”, or “Looking to Adopt a Cat”. They vary from relationships, to the purchase of home goods, to looking for pets. What you wouldn’t expect to find is an ad looking for someone to eat. But that’s just what Armin Meiwes did.
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Burglar, kidnapper, child molester, rapist, serial killer. These are all words used to describe Richard Ramirez, also known as the Night Stalker.
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It’s one thing to have your child kidnapped and murdered. It’s another to have their killer torment you with their death. That’s just what Tsutomu Miyazaki did when he murdered four little girls in Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture.
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Kids today may not fully understand what it’s like to have a day off from school and spend that time outdoors. In some cases, perhaps that’s for the best. I’m sure the families of Abigail Williams and Liberty German wish their girls had stayed home, playing video games – or the like. Instead, they went for a hike and ran into the Delphi Killer.
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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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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept through the coastal areas of the Gulf Coast states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, USA. One of the hardest locations hit was the city of New Orleans in Louisiana. Labeled a Category 5 storm, Winds In New Orleans gusted over 100mpg (160km/h). In total, the storm killed over 1,800 people and damaged or destroyed 275,000 homes. Addie Hall survived Katrina, but would only live to see one more birthday.
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