Major Crimes and True Crime

The Sad Story of Murderous Mary, a Circus Elephant Hanged  She went by Big Mary. For years, Mary worked for the Sparks World Famous Shows traveling circus, where she entertained people from coast to coast. That all came to a crashing halt in 1916, when the town of Erwin, Tennessee arrested Mary for murder and hanged her from a crane in front of a crowd of spectators. Mary (c. 1894–September 13, 1916), also known as "Murderous Mary", was a five-ton Asian elephant who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows circus. After killing circus employee Walter “Red” Eldridge on his second day as her handler in September 1916, in Kingsport, Tennessee, she was hanged in nearby Erwin. On September 11, 1916, a homeless man named Red Eldridge, who landed a job as a transient hotel clerk, was hired as an elephant keeper by the Sparks World Famous Shows circus. He was killed by Mary in Sullivan County, Tennessee, on the following evening. Although unqualified, Eldridge led the elephan...

On August 6, 1890, at Auburn Prison, New York, William Kemmler became the first person to be sent to the chair. He was convicted of murdering his lover, Matilda Ziegler, with an axe. After he was strapped in, a charge of approximately 700 volts was delivered for only 17 seconds before the current failed.  Although witnesses reported smelling burnt clothing and charred flesh, Kemmler was far from dead, and a second shock was prepared. The second charge was 1,030 volts and applied for about two minutes, whereupon smoke was observed coming from the head of Kemmler, who was clearly deceased. An autopsy showed that the electrode attached to his back had burned through to the spine. Electrocution as a humane means of execution was first suggested in 1881 by Dr. Albert Southwick, a dentist. Southwick had witnessed an elderly drunkard “painlessly” killed after touching the terminals of an electrical generator in Buffalo, New York. In the prevalent form of execution at the time—death b...

Photographs show infamous Nazis being brought to justice Brought to justice: Photographs show 'Bitch of Belsen' and Auschwitz killer Franz Hossler at trial where they were sentenced to hang Photographs of notorious Nazi war criminals taken during their detainment at the end of the Second World War have surfaced in the belongings of a British Spitfire pilot. One of the people in the black-and-white photos is a smirking Franz Hossler - a commander at Auschwitz concentration camp before being made deputy commandant of Bergen-Belsen. The mass murderers were caught on camera along with dozens of other defendants at Celle Prison in Germany by Flight Lieutenant Keith Parfitt. The evil SS-Obersturmfuhrer murdered thousands of Jews by forcing them into gas chambers or shooting them in cold blood. Another prominent SS guard in the pictures is Irma Grese, the so-called ‘Bitch of Belsen’. She was the head of the women’s camp and murdered and tortured numerous female prisoners. The pair...

Farrah Abrahams was arrested on January 16, and it was all caught on camera . She allegedly slapped a security guard at Grandmaster Records in Hollywood when being asked to leave for being in an altercation with someone who allegedly assaulted her. After the slap, she was placed under citizen’s arrest and an ambulance was called. Because she started being hostile, the police were called and she was taken into custody and later released. Later she went to social media and shared images of the incident and accused the staff of attacking her deliberately so that they could leak the footage to the media: She also told TMZ: I’m tired of being maliciously battered, attacked, conspired against while having dinner at Grand Master Records, this was a private person's arrest my lawyer is handling from here. It is terrifying and traumatizing that people attack me and I can not even enjoy dinner as I’m the only person out of 3 attacked and harassed. I look forward to court as always, wa...

Man caught on CCTV drowning three-year-old stepdaughter in pool jailed for 100 years Jose David N. is shown repeatedly throwing the tot into the water knowing she could not swim A man who was caught on camera throwing his three-year-old stepdaughter into a swimming pool before leaving her to drown has been jailed for 100 years. Harrowing CCTV footage shows the killer, identified only as Jose David N., repeatedly tossing the child into the water. The little girl - who could not swim - is seen struggling to stay afloat as her stepfather stands by and watches. Other bathers as shown hastily exiting the pool , leaving the man to condemn the tot to a horrific death. The shocking surveillance footage was filmed in the city of Morelia, in the south-western Mexican state of Michoacan on August 12, 2015. It sparked outrage across South America when the video was made public. The incident took place while the child's mother was sleeping in a hotel room. Jose David N. pleaded surprise...

Video shows a 'murdered' woman's final moments in Brazil  These are the harrowing final moments of a woman who was allegedly murdered by her abusive husband in Brazil.  Terrifying footage shows Tatiane Spitzner sprinting away from Luis Manvailer as he chases her through an underground garage. She runs into a lift where he pummels her with punches and kicks before strangling her to death and throwing her body from their fourth-floor balcony, police allege. She runs into a lift where he pummels her with punches and kicks before strangling her to death and throwing her body from their fourth-floor balcony, police allege. The haunting footage later shows the 32-year-old university biology lecturer bringing his wife's lifeless body up in the elevator and cleaning traces of blood off the walls, prosecutors say. Manvailer, who is in custody awaiting trial, claims his wife jumped to end her life after an argument - but forensic experts on Thursday concluded she died fro...

Terrifying video shows snowboarder clinging onto a rock face for TWO HOURS after he got stuck on a snowy cliff in Canada Watch the video  A snowboarder clung onto a cliff for dear life for two hours after he got stuck on a mountain at the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort in Canada in a harrowing moment all caught on video. Video shows how the snowboarder got wedged on a steep cliff in the Spanky's Ladder area of the famous ski resort where he desperately clutched onto a rock face to keep himself from falling.  Ski instructor Olivier Roy, a coach at Core Snowboard Camps at the Whistler resort, shared video of the incident that took place 'a couple weeks ago' on Instagram. 'I was coming out of the Spanky's Ladder zone on Blackcomb with the group I'm coaching, when we saw a bit of commotion and, eventually, this poor guy perched halfway up a nasty cliff with no way up or down,' he said. 'I had with me the camp video camera, so I was able to get a few good...

Palestinian influencer arrested at Berlin Airport for launching a firework at a childs bedroom. A video that went viral shows Attalah Younes, a Palestinian influencer lighting a firework and fired it at an apartment building in the Berlin suburb of Neukoelln. The firework crashed through the closed window on the third floor and exploded inside, with the room seemingly catching fire. Younes, who only speak Arabic, claims he was the victim of racist attacks after the video went viral. He was later arrested at Berlin Airport by the police as he was trying to leave Germany to Jordan. Source: Moment Palestinian influencer shoots firework into child's bedroom

Four-year-old girl drowns in swimming pool as oblivious adults stand nearby Watch the video  The four-year-old girl was in a tiny swimming ring when it tipped upside down, trapping her underwater. Shocking footage captured the moment a little girl drowned in a swimming pool while two adults stood nearby. The tragic accident happened at a children’s swimming pool in Jieyang City, China, when the four-year-old girl in a tiny swimming ring tipped upside down. Her little legs are seen kicking feverishly as she tries to right herself. One woman can be seen eating food, while a second is changing another child. Both of them fail to notice what is going on. With her head submerged in water no one can hear her screams. Incredibly, the woman in the black dress changing the child then takes her over to the swimming pool and again fails to notice what is going on. She places the child in the water and then leaves. The woman eating also turns round but again notices nothing, and then walk...

This photo captures the last moments of Ayano Tokumasu, the girl wearing the red sweater in the background. She slipped and fell into Niagara Falls shortly after this photo was taken. In 2011, authorities recovered the body of a woman from the Niagara River. She was later identified as Ayano Tokumasu, a 20-year-old international student from Japan. While visiting Niagara Falls with a friend, Tokumasu climbed over a railing to pose for a picture. She was straddling the railing to look at the falls, and when she stood up, she lost her footing and fell into the river 24 meters upstream from the brink of the falls. Moments before the tragic accident occurred, an Ontario-based couple was also taking pictures of themselves, and they captured what is thought to be the final moments of Tokumasu. In the photo, she can be seen in the background. She is wearing a red sweater and appears to be standing on top of the rock barrier. The picture does not show whether she was standing on the rail...

Mental patients stripped of dignity, live naked KOLKATA/MURSHIDABAD: More than 50 inmates of a mental asylum in Behrampore, West Bengal, are forced to remain naked, without a shed of fibre to protect their dignity, because of alleged callousness by the authorities. Twenty of them are women. They say their clothes are so badly infested with bugs that they prefer to go nude.  Members of Kolkata-based mental health rights organization, Anjali, raised the alarm after Behrampore Mental Hospital authorities took no action despite repeated pleas. "We go to the hospital five days a week to train male and female patients. Each visit is traumatising because we see the inmates languishing in wretched conditions. In winter, colonies of lice nest in the staircase. The stench makes the air heavy and nauseating. Their plight has got worse in the past couple of months. We repeatedly asked the hospital authorities to make the conditions more habitable but there has been no improvement," ...

On December 25, 2015, a farmer named Jose Antonio Nievas discovered something unusual near a stream on his farm, located about 15 km from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Initially, he thought it was just a rock However, when he removed the mud covering it and dug around it, he realized that it was no ordinary rock at all. His discovery turned out to be much more extraordinary than he had imagined, and so he decided to involve experts from the scientific community. After careful analysis, scientists concluded that this mysterious, apparently rock-like object was neither a meteorite nor a dinosaur egg, but something very rare: the shell of a glyptodon. The glyptodon was a huge armored mammal that lived during the Pleistocene epoch and was an ancestor of the modern armadillo. These massive animals could weigh up to two tons and appear to have shared the territory with humans for around 4,000 years before disappearing from the face of the Earth.

Video: Horrifying moment woman escapes naked rapist after fighting him off when he jumped out of a car and grabbed her as she walked alone in Brazil  This clip shows the shocking moment a woman walking down a deserted road in Brazil is confronted by a naked motorist who proceeds to chase her. The incident reportedly occurred in the beach resort of Buzios, in the...  Share this video: Video: Shocking moment naked motorist in Brazil runs after woman This clip shows the shocking moment a woman walking down a deserted road in Brazil is confronted by a naked motorist who proceeds to chase her. The incident reportedly occurred in the beach resort of Buzios, in the...

It appears this lion is curious to see what the man at the campsite is watching on his tablet. However, that is just our interpretation. The reality behind all this is that the human in the picture is professional animal trainer Charlie Sammut, and the lion is his perfectly trained buddy. So yes, it’s safe to say that no one was harmed in staging this photo. Baby goats are such sweet, innocent animals — right? For those who don’t know, goats are known for manifesting aggressive behavior, which is their way of asserting dominance. This is probably why they shouldn’t be kept inside the house as pets, but rather on the farm to help with agriculture. This girl would have avoided being rammed if, instead of backing away, she’d slapped the goat on the side of his neck. This jaguar escaped Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary in West Bengal, where it was part of a jaguar show, then proceeded to viciously attack a human. Even though the man survived, the jaguar, who had previously terrorized the ...

'Chilling photo captures woman’s final moments before fatal lion attack Watch the video  Her face was torn apart': eyewitness recalls horrific lion park attack “The lioness had half of the passenger’s shoulder in her mouth. It was too late for anyone to save her,” engineer Ben Govender told Rapport newspaper as well as British publications, the Daily Mail and Mirror. Film editor Katherine Chappell, aged 29, was named as the victim of the attack that took place on Monday at the Lion Park outside Johannesburg. “Her face was torn apart, the right side of her chest was gone,” The Mirror quoted Govender as saying. The 38-year-old was travelling behind the vehicle driven by tour guide Pierre Potgieter in which Chappell was a passenger. Govender told Rapport that it was Potgieter who opened his window first, and then Chappell. He said initially it did not look as if this had bothered the lions. But then the lioness went up to the car and stood up on her hind legs. Govender snappe...

Tourist Killed By Tigers In Front Of Wife And Child- Watch Video - A tourist killed by three tigers in front of his horrified wife and child jumped into the enclosure to avoid paying the zoo's £15 entrance fee, it has been reported. Named locally as Mr Zhang, the man is said to have scaled three fences after his wife and child went in because he could not afford another entrance fee of 130 yuan (£15).  A pal of the doomed man joined him for part of his fence-scaling, but gave up half way through and turned back, leaving Zhang to clamber over the two three metre-high walls and a barbed wire fence himself He then landed in the tiger enclosure yesterday afternoon where a trio of roaring beasts jumped on him and began ripping him apart - as his horrified family watched on. A relative of Zhang, who was mauled to death, has blamed the zoo for not implementing "effective measures" to avoid the tragedy... One of the tigers can then be seen dragging the man away by his foot. ...

Groom was given a condition either to pay 200 thousand naira ( $122 ) or carry her bride on his head and walk through 10 villages. A groom who was said to be unable to pay her wife diaries of #200,000 was given a condition to carry her through 10 villages instead.  According to the customs and traditions of the people of the Osioma community in Nigeria, delta state, if a man is unable to pay her wife diaries, he urged to carry her and walk through the 10 villages that surrounded the town. This is to prove his strong desire as an alternative to money.  In the picture above, the man, 33, Osiata Tegory, carried his bride and walked through out the streets while the crowd followed him and cheered him up.  Watch The Video Some barbaric Africa Traditions  Teaching boys not to cry (or express any emotions). They’re humans too. Associating college with free-for-all sex and drinking. All the pink princess stuff for little girls. It’s out of control! Haha. Dating and marr...