Major Crimes and True Crime

Mother faces 102 years behind bars after daughter told the judge ‘what she did during sleepovers’! During her sentencing hearing, the mother put on the waterworks and cried because she was so ashamed and sorry for what she did to the little boys. The mother also confessed that she failed at her motherly duties because she did not protect the children. During the times of the attacks, the defendant’s daughter was an 11-year-old girl and was ignorant of what her mother was doing. The jury found the mother guilty after just three hours of deliberation. “We’re immensely pleased,” Deputy Attorney Kleine said. “It’s been three years, a harrowing experience for the families, for the victims. It’s been a roller coaster of emotions. Just immensely proud of the victims, in this case, to be able to stay on course and still testify.” According to the court documents, after being found guilty of molesting teen boys in her home throughout 2 years, the 38-year-old mom, Christina, finally learned her ...

Public Exec*tion of Majid Kavousifar Majid Kavousifar and Hossein Kavousifar, his nephew, were hanged in front of Tehran’s Ershad judiciary complex, where they shot dead judge Hassan Moghaddas in his car in 2005. Iran has one of the highest rates of execution in the world, but public executions are relatively rare. Hoods over the heads of the judge’s killers were removed before the hanging, which took place in front of a giant portrait of Moghaddas. Hossein Kavousifar was in tears. His uncle smiled and waved goodbye. Majid and Hossein were both hanged in public on 2 August 2007, in front of the Ershad Judiciary Complex in central Tehran. At the time, the Kavousifars' hangings were the first public executions carried out in Tehran in five years. Majid and Hossein were hanged from ropes attached to five meter long cranes; however, both men were placed atop stools, which were pulled from under their feet at the moment of their execution. Majid appeared to die instantly, while Hossein ...

Reasons why hanging was considered the most ignominious and defaming form of capital punishment in Medieval and Early Modern Europe The method of dropping someone a precise height to break their neck and kill them instantly (while not decapitating them) is relatively new. Throughout most of history, hanging was a slow, painful death. A beheading by a good executioner, on the other hand, was often a very quick and painless way to go. The head would come off with one, clean swing of the sword/axe. That said, a beheading by a good executioner is harder to come by than you might think.   Especially in later periods when the executioners tended to be both older and less experienced, there are plenty of stories of beheadings that required over a dozen blows to sever the neck. Beheading mishaps were so common, they make an entire section in *The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold*. For example, when Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded, the executioner first...

Reasons why the electric chair was  considered more humane than hanging or shooting someone Both hanging and shooting can easily go wrong and instead of a swift death you could get a long prolonged death with lots of agony. And while the electric chair might look likes it hurts we know from people who have survived electrocution that it does not hurt as it overloads the nervous system and knocks them out before any pain. Note that the electric chair was not adapted everywhere. In France they did not matter the blood spatter from beheading and continued to use the guillotine. In England they had much stricter control of the hanging process and maintained a group of highly skilled professional executioners to make sure the executions were done properly. The forces applied to the neck have to be just right. If the force is too high it can cause decapitation, if it is too low you risk not snapping the neck and it can result in a long drawn out strangulation. Each person have a differen...

3 years ago, Lindsay Lohan & her fiance in a nasty beach fight caught on camera Last week, Lindsay Lohan claimed that her Russian fiancé Egor Tarabasov tried to strangle her and went on social media to lay cheating claims on him. Then she said everyone should mind their business and stay away from her personal life. Today a new video shows them fighting at a beach. In a video obtained by Radar Online, Lindsay Lohan who was in the passenger seat of a black jeep, grabbed Egor's phone and threw it out the window. They both rush out of the jeep to grab the phone, but Lindsay got to the phone before Egor did. He tried to take the phone from Lindsay but she refused to give it up. He then pulled her arms behind her and tried to squeeze the phone from her. He kept saying 'Give me my phone' and she said 'No'. He retrieved the phone from her and she got into the back of the jeep, he told her to get out of his jeep but she refused and you could see him punching numbers on ...

A curious woman had to be rescued by a crew of firemen after she became stuck between two giant rocks - because she wanted to try and sneak through the tiny gap. The woman became wedged between the boulders after her bottom and breasts could not make it through the opening in the popular tourist city of Mudanjiang in Heilongjiang Province, northeast China. The frightening scenario had echoes of the film 127 hours, which is based on the ordeal of real-life canyoneer Aron Ralston, whose arm became trapped in a crevice in Blue John Canyon, Utah, in April 2003. + 8 View gallery She tried to squeeze through a small gap + 8 View gallery Firefighters had to use ropes to save her + 8 View gallery The woman became trapped between two boulders after her curiosity got the better of her and she tried to sneak through a thin gap The woman had to be rescued Woman had to be rescued The adventurer, who was played by James Franco in Danny Boyle's film adaptation, was deserted in the isolated slot f...

Around 10:00 p.m. on November 26, 2000, 14 Falun Gong practitioners were detained in Qian'an City Detention Center. They came from all over the country and were detained here because they went to Beijing to appeal. The Qian'an City Public Security Bureau forced these Falun Gong practitioners to reveal their names and home addresses. Because the Falun Gong practitioners did not cooperate with their demands, they subjected them to inhuman torture and cruelty in order to force the 14 Falun Gong practitioners to reveal their names and addresses. The police forced the 14 Falun Gong practitioners to kneel on the ground, tied their hands tightly and hung them around their necks, pulled their hair, and used ropes, belts, and shoe soles to whip the Falun Gong practitioners' heads and faces. Blood continued to flow down... A young female Falun Gong practitioner was numbered L25 because she refused to give her name. According to prisoner A who shared the same cell with L25, when L2...

Arizona woman kill her husband with poisoned coffee sentenced to death      An Arizona woman accused of attempting to kill her husband by poisoning his coffee has been sentenced death. Melody Felicano Johnson was initially charged with attempted first-degree murder and pleaded guilty to two counts of the lesser felony charge of adding poison or a harmful substance to food or drink in April.    Johnson could have faced a maximum of 2 years in prison for each count. Her attorney requested the sentence be time served, saying Johnson had already been in custody for nearly a year due to her inability to post a $250,000 bond. Her sentence also included mental health treatment. Judge Javier Chon-Lopez noted even the victim, her estranged husband Roby Johnson, had told the court he did not want Johnson to end up in prison. The defendant’s husband told investigators he “believes she was trying to kill him to collect death benefits,” according to a criminal report obtaine...

Mom, 27, 'tortured and caged her five-year-old daughter before her body was found buried near a landfill site Brianna Williams, 27, has been slapped with new charges in relation to the death of her five-year-old daughter, Taylor Rose  The remains of the little girl were found buried in a wooded area in Demopolis, Alabama in November last year   Brianna Williams was subsequently arrested for child neglect and giving false information to police No one has been charged for the five-year-old's murder   However, Brianna Williams have now been charged with child abuse, alleged to have 'tortured, punished or caged' her daughter She has also been charged with tampering with evidence, with police alleging she 'transported remains'  The mother of a five-year-old girl found dead and buried near a landfill site late last year has been charged with the aggravated abuse of her young daughter. Brianna Williams, 27, was slapped with the new charge in Duval County, Florida ...

Teen Army recruit slain in murder-suicide The Army said 17-year-old Michelle Miller was shot and killed by a military recruiter in what police are calling a murder-suicide. Staff Sgt. Adam Arndt, 31, was found dead of a gunshot wound on April 8, 2013 in his Maryland apartment. Police also found Michelle's body in his apartment and believe that Arndt fatally shot the high school senior before killing himself. Michelle signed up to enter the Army Reserves after graduating from Rockville High School in spring 2013. Above Hundreds of people met on Rockville High School's football field to release balloons in memory of 17-year-old Michelle Miller, who was found dead Monday morning in the apartment of Staff Sgt. Adam Arndt. Police believe 31-year-old Arndt fatally shot Michelle, who was signed up to enter the Army Reserves after graduating this spring, before killing himself. They said a handgun was found at the home. Michelle had ambitions to become a therapist, helping military per...