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The Watts Murders This haunting photo was posted just days before Shan’ann and her daughters were murdered. The photo posted details how Shan’ann had found a doll wrapped up in a twister mat. Along with laughing-tear emojis Shan’ann had wrote “I don’t know what to think about this...” Aware that the girls had staged the scene she also added “At least they covered the body together. At least We know they have each other’s back.” Bonus #2: Baby Upon discovering Shan’ann’s body, officers reported that her baby was found outside of her body. The autopsy report found that Shanann was in her second trimester of pregnancy and that the “largely decomposed fetus and placental unit” was found “expelled from the gravid uterus.” The umbilical cord and a “ruptured placental disk” were also found with the body. Bonus #3: Paranormal Activity  During bodycam footage of 2 officers and a search dog searching the property several EVPs can be heard through the cam. These include “no”, “this is our hom...

The creepshow Marianna Dolińska (1891 – 1928 in Tworki) was a Romani woman from Antoniówka, Radom County, Poland. On the night of 11 December 1923, she murdered her four children and hung them on a tree. In the winter of 1923, the inhabitants of Radom County in Poland were suffering from poverty and hunger. In early December, Dolińska's husband was arrested for several burglaries and his wife was left alone with four hungry children. Marianna Dolińska, who was mentally disturbed, decided that the only way to protect their children from starvation was to kill them. On December 11, 1923 she killed Zofia (6 months), Antoni (3 years), Bronisława (5 years) and Stefan (7 years) and tied them to a tree. The next day she went to the police and confessed to the crime. Later Dolińska was delivered to a psychiatric hospital, where her "manic depression" and other medical disorders were identified. She died in 1928, and was buried in the cemetery of the hospital. Make money online:...

Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour, also known as "al-Tourbini", was a street gang leader and serial killer who raped and murdered at least 32 children in the course of seven years, throughout several locations in Egypt including Cairo, Alexandria, Qalyoubeya and Beni Sueif. All of his victims were 10 to 14 years old, most of them boys. Mansour was arrested in 2006 along with his six accomplices, and subsequently sentenced to death. Mansour left his home in Tanta, a town north of Cairo, and joined a street gang at an early age. Gang leaders taught him skills of survival, allegedly cutting him with razors when he made any mistakes. According to his confession, Mansour soon learned the method of getting back at those who crossed him by raping them, and murdered anyone who threatened to go to the police afterwards. One of the victims, 12-year-old boy Ahmed Nagui, had been a member of Mansour's gang. When Mansour tried to sexually assault him, Nagui reported him to the police, and M...

Michael Taylor, born 1944, became notable in 1974 as a result of Ossett murder case and his alleged demonic possession in England. Taylor lived in Havercroft, Ossett, working as a butcher. In 1974, Taylor's wife, Christine Taylor, stated to a Christian Fellowship Group to which Taylor belonged, that his relationship with the lay leader of the group, Marie Robinson, was "carnal" in nature. Michael Taylor admitted that he felt evil within him and eventually attacked Robinson verbally, who screamed back at him. During the next meeting, Michael Taylor received an absolution, but nevertheless, his behaviour continued to become more erratic. As a result, the local vicar called in other ministers experienced in deliverance in preparation to cast out the demons residing within the man. The exorcism, which occurred on 5–6 October 1974 at St. Thames Church in Barnsley, was headed by Father Peter Vincent, an Anglican priest of St. Thomas's in Gawber, and was aided by a Methodist...

In 1972, a dog brought something very strange to the back door of his owner’s home He had sniffed out an almost completely decomposed human forearm on a cliff top in Springfield, New Jersey and dragged it back to its master who realized with a great shock what it was. The man informed the police and, after a short search, they found the remains of the body to which the arm belonged. The remains were that of Jeannette DePalma, a teenager who had been missing for six weeks. Not only did they find her decomposed body, but there were strange objects on the ground where it lay. Rumors began to fly that the girl had been sacrificed by a local coven of witches. Others believed that Satanists murdered her for occult ritual purposes. The strangest thing about the murder, however, was the fact that no one wanted to speak about it when an article about the incident was in its planning stages. Even after 30 years, people who lived in the area refused to comment or give their opinions on ...

WEST MEMPHIS THREE The West Memphis Three are three men who were tried and convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. was sentenced to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin was sentenced to life imprisonment. During the trial, the prosecution asserted that the children were killed as part of a Satanic ritual. A number of documentaries have been based on the case, and celebrities and musicians have held fund raisers in the belief that they are innocent. In July 2007, new forensic evidence was presented in the case and a status report jointly issued by the state and the defense team stated, "Although most of the genetic material recovered from the scene was attributable to the victims of the offenses, some of it cannot be attributed to either the victims or the defendants." On October 29, 2007, the defense filed a Second Amended Writ of Habeas ...

On May 23, Canadian police announced that they have solved the 1975 cold case rape and murder of 16-year-old Sharron Prior.⁠ On March 29, 1975, Prior left her family's Montreal home to meet friends nearby at Marina’s Pizzeria. She never made it there and three days later, her body was found.⁠ ⁠ She had been sexually assaulted and repeatedly beaten before she suffocated on her own blood.⁠ ⁠ Read the full article. Canadian police said Tuesday they have solved one of the highest-profile cold cases in Quebec history, linking the 1975 rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl to a West Virginia man who died more than 40 years ago. Police in Longueuil, Quebec, said that DNA evidence allows them to be 100% certain that Franklin Maywood Romine murdered teenager Sharron Prior in the Montreal suburb. The body of Romine, who was born in 1946 in West Virginia's second largest city of Huntington and died in 1982 at the age of 36 in Verdun, Montreal under mysterious circumstances, was exhumed fr...

Myra Hindley’s acts of violence describe the sexual assault and murders of five victims, ranging from the ages of 10 to 17. She connived with her evil husband, Ian Brady, and together, they kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and murdered their young victims. In one case, they visited a playground and asked a 10 year-old girl known as Lesley Ann Downey to help them carry some packages to their home. On getting there, they grabbed her, stripped the young girl nude, took photos of her before full-on sexually assaulting and murdering her. The couple’s spree was eventually put to a merciful halt. Their trial began in 1965, which was quite lucky for them sincerely capital punishment had been abolished in England just a few short weeks prior to their arrest. They were sentenced to life in prison. Myra Hindley died in 2002 of bronchial pneumonia, while Ian Brady is still alive, carrying out the remainder of his sentience. Now, the story in Details  The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Bra...

HE MURDERED MORE THAN 30 WOMEN Bundy was executed after confessing to committing more than 30 murders between 1974 and 1978. However, he boasted that he had killed over 100 women, according to the Express.  2. HE KILLED WOMEN WHO LOOKED LIKE HIS EX Various reports suggest some of his victims looked a lot like a girlfriend who dumped him while they were in college, which might explain how he selected his victims. However, there are suspicions that he committed his first murder was when he was only 14, according to the Express. 3. BUNDY WAS A NECROPHILE As reported by The Mirror, in 1980, he admitted to authors Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth “he would often revisit the … sites to have sex with their corpses until they were too decomposed or had been eaten by animals”. 4. HE PHOTOGRAPHED CORPSES Bundy photographed many of his victims’ corpses and even kept the heads of some of the 12 he decapitated. "When you work hard to do something right, you don't want to forget...

In August of 2016, 22-year-old Jasmine Richardson was set free from a Canadian prison, 10 years after her and her ex-boyfriend's convictions. In 2006, then-12-year-old Richardson and her boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke, murdered Richardson’s family - her parents and younger brother - in cold blood. The crimes took place in the Richardson family's home in Medicine Hat, Alberta. In the months leading up to the murders, the pre-teen reportedly had made a quick transition from a bright and happy girl to dark and morbid. Authorities claimed that this transition was a result of 23-year-old Steinke’s influence. Steinke, in fact, believed himself to be a 300-year-old werewolf. Three members of the Richardson family were murdered in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada in April 2006. The murders were planned and committed by the family's 12-year-old daughter Jasmine Richardson and her 23-year-old boyfriend Jeremy Steinke, now going by the name Jackson May. Richardson and Steinke were each convic...

Brunhilda had the worst death due to the way she was killed Brunhilda of Austrasia Bruhilda was a Gothic Princess in the Early middle ages who married the King of Austrasia while her sister Galswintha married Chilperic I of Nesutria Brunhilda (c. 534 – 613)[1] was a Visigoth princess. Her father was King Athanagild of Spain. She married King Sigebert I of Austrasia. She ruled the eastern kingdoms of Austrasia and Burgundy in the names of her sons and grandsons. At first she was known as a fair and just ruler. She later became known for her cruelty and vengeful behavior. Before her arrival to the Frankish kingdoms, Brunhilda was an Arian Christian, but later converted to Roman Catholicism. Brunhilda traveled to Austrasia to marry King Sigebert I. King Sigebert I's half brother, King Chilperic I married Brunhilda's sister, Galswintha. However, Galswintha was not happy, and wanted to go home and take back her dowry. King Chilperic refused, and murdered her. King Chilperic remmarri...

The sordid deaths of Edmund Ironside, Edward II, Edward sat on the latrine, just going about his business, when an assassin stabbed him through the anus with a sword Edward II was reportedly murdered at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire in 1327, where he was held captive after relinquishing his crown. There, he was killed by having a red hot poker inserted into his anus. ‘His screams could be heard for miles around,’ wrote one chronicler. It makes for a great gruesome story, but several historians have since debunked it as mere myth, and a likely smearing of Edward II because of his homosexuality. King Edmund II (nicknamed Edmund Ironside) was king of England for just seven months in 1016. He raised an army to fend off invasions by the Danish invader Canute (aka Cnut the Great). However, after a siege in London, Edmund was finally defeated. At the Treaty of Alney, Canute allowed Edmund to retain lands in Wessex in return for a peace agreement. Not long after that, Edmund passed away. ...

After A 30-Year Investigation, Police Just Identified The ‘I-65 Killer’ As Harry Edward Greenwell Between 1987 and 1990, four female night clerks were attacked in motels located off of Interstate 65 in Kentucky and Indiana. Three of them were sexually assaulted before being shot to death, while the fourth escaped after being raped at knifepoint. Police suspected the cases were connected, but they never had a suspect — until recently⁠ ⁠ Using DNA technology, investigators have identified the "I-65 Killer" as Harry Edward Greenwell, an Iowa man with an extensive criminal history. Greenwell died in 2013 at the age of 68, but his victims' families are thankful that they finally have closure. Go inside this serial killer's macabre  crimes by clicking the link in our profile.⁠ Harry Edward Greenwell targeted female night clerks at motels off Interstate 65 in Kentucky and Indiana in the 1980s and 1990s. For three decades, police in Kentucky and Indiana were stump...

Sawney Bean Reportedly And Killed Travelers And Ate Their Bodies So He Couldn't Be Identified The famine and the fairy tale  During the famine of 1315, there were reports of " men and women in many places secretly ate their own children." What's more shocking is that those events are the foundation for one of the best known fairy tales ever  Sawney Bean Reportedly And Killed Travelers And Ate Their Bodies So He Couldn't Be Identified Legendarily, Sawney Bean was the leader of a band of cannibals in Scotland who was active as early as the 1400s. The earliest sources that include information about Bean date to the 1770s, however, making it difficult to identify exactly when Bean lived - if at all.  A tanner from East Lothian by trade, Bean married and moved to a remote cave. Once there, Bean and his wife sustained themselves living off the land. When travelers happened by, Bean robbed and murdered them. He soon realized he could get rid of the evidence and ...

Peter Niers And Peter Stumpp Ate The Hearts Of Fetuses Cut From Pregnant Women Considered one of the deadliest serial killers of the 16th century, Peter Niers was a German bandit who was said to have eaten fetuses as part of his demonic behavior. Niers confessed to 75 murders under torture in 1577. He escaped, but was recaptured and executed in 1581. It's believed that Niers killed as many as 544 people total, including 24 pregnant women. One of Niers's associates, Martin Stier, reportedly ate the heart of a male fetus as well.  A contemporary of Niers was Peeter Stubbe (Peter Stumpp), also called the “Werewolf of Bedburg." Also an admitted murderer, he took the lives of others while donning a wolf's fur he reportedly received from the devil when he was a child.  Once in werewolf form, so to speak, Stubbe was an “insatiable bloodsucker” who took the lives of two pregnant women and 14 children. He, too, ate the hearts of the fetuses: Panting hot and raw, ...

Chilling Photos Taken By Ian Brady In Lead Up To Murders Released This photograph of children playing in a schoolyard was taken by Lan Brady in 1963. Brady was a serial killer who murdered at least 5 kids with his accomplice, Myra Hindley. Brady took this photo as " reconnaissance" while preparing to claim his first victim, who ended up being a young girl named Pauline Reade  Pphotos taken by Ian Brady show how the serial killer prowled the streets and spied on schoolchildren - as he rehearsed his sickening crimes. Never-before-seen images unearthed after the Moors Murderer's death show children playing at Myra Hindley's former school. They were taken by Brady as the two scoured the streets in a van near their home in Greater Manchester. Brady and Hindley planned the abductions and killings of their child victims in detail before they committed the gruesome crimes. Brady developed the images using darkroom equipment he had in the upstairs bathroom of his h...

Uncommon Photos of James Huberty. On July 18, 1984. James O. Huberty poses for a photo with His dog. On July 18th 1934. Huberty calmly informed his wife that he was " going haunting for humans". He then went to a McDonald's restaurant in San Diego, California, pulled a gun and murdered 21 people, wounding another 19. He was shot dead by a police sniper. On July 15, 1954, Huberty mentioned to his wife, Etna, that he might be mentally ill. Two days later, on July 17, Huberty called a mental health clinic requesting an appointment.The following morning, the morning before the massacre, Huberty took his wife and his daughters to the San Diego Zoo. Huberty told his wife that he felt as if his life was over because the mental health clinic never returned his phone call. He stated that “society had their chance.” When they returned home from the zoo, Huberty kissed his wife goodbye and told her that he was “going hunting humans.” At about 4:00 in the afternoon, Huberty ...

The murder of Ann Harrison  On March 22, 1989, Ann was waiting at her bus stop when she was approached by 22-year-old Micheal Taylor and 24-year-old Roderick Nunley. Both were high on cocaine and stole a car at the time. Taylor, wanting to steal her purse, grabbed Ann, and forced her into the car. They drove her to Nunley's mothers house, where in the basement, Ann was sexually assaulted by both men. They then tied her up and took her back into the car where both men stabbed her to death to prevent her from identifying both of them. She pleaded with both and offered money, but her pleas fell on deaf ears. She was put into the trunk and the Killers drove to a nearby neighborhood and left the car there. The medical examinor later stated Harrison was still alive 10 minutes after the attack before succumbing to her injuries. A tip led to both men being arrested 6 months later and both charged and convicted of 1st degree murder. Both got the death sentence. Taylor was executed on Febuar...

Boyfriend 'snapped and slit 17-year-old girlfriend's throat in jealous rampage after seeing her kiss someone else at a concert Boyfriend 'snapped and slit 17-year-old girlfriend's throat in jealous rampage after seeing her kiss someone else at a concert' - before posting a photo of her body on Instagram The boyfriend of a 17-year-old social media star may have murdered her in a jealous rampage after she kissed another man while attending a concert in Queens on Saturday night, officials said.  Oneida County District Attorney Scott McNamara on Tuesday revealed the possible motive for why Brandon Clark, 21, allegedly slit Bianca Devins' throat and posted photos of her body on Instagram. On July 13, 2019, Devins, Clark, and a mutual friend named Alex attended a performance by Canadian singer Nicole Dollanganger in New York City. Following the show, Clark and Devins returned to Utica. The two engaged in an argument, likely regarding a kiss between Devins and Alex. Ev...