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German serial killer accidentally kills himself by attaching electric wires to his nipples and penis during weird solo sex act gone wrong in his cell Serial killer electrocutes himself to death during prison sex act gone wrong. A GERMAN serial killer who murdered five female hitchhikers accidentally killed himself performing a strange solo sex act in his prison cell over the weekend, reports claim. Egidius Schiffer, dubbed the "Aachen Strangler", gave himself a fatal electric shock after tying a cable from a lamp around his penis and nipples, police said. He was still tied up when guards at Bochum prison, in the North Rhine-Westphalia state, opened his room up on Monday morning, the Times reported. Prison spokeswoman Candida Tunkel said: "He removed a cable from his bedside table lamp. "Then he wound it around his nipples and his penis and stuck the end in a power socket." A post-mortem established Schiffer, 62, died of heart failure as a result of an electric ...

Acid bath murderer John George Haig Hehehe Acid Bath right? Well John George Haigh was a British serial killer *steers unsuspiciously* active in the late 40's. He used to dispose of his victims' bodies by burning them in sulphuric acid, according to Forensic magazine. Haigh was convinced he was getting away with murder, literally, because he mistakenly thought that without a body there was no crime. His arrogance is what ultimately got him caught when he led police to the remains of his sixth and final victim, 69-year-old Olive Durand-Deacon. 1947 he met a couple named Henderson during a property deal. In February 1948 he took them, one at a time, from the Metropole Hotel, Brighton, where they lived, to his new workshop in Crawley. Here he shot them and popped them in the now familiar drum full of acid. He paid their hotel bill and removed all their valuables. By February 1949 Haigh had been living in the Onslow Court Hotel, South Kensington, for four years. One of the other re...

Tamara Samsonova, the "Granny Ripper" Samsonova is a 68-year-old Russian woman who murdered and ate at least 11 people and kept a diary where she detailed her crimes. She killed her friend, Valentina Ulanova, by drugging her salad with sleeping pills and using a handsaw to dismember her while she was still alive. Tamara Mitrofanovna Samsonova (Russian: Тама́ра Митрофа́новна Самсо́нова; born April 25, 1947), known as Granny Ripper and Baba Yaga, is a Russian alleged serial killer who was arrested in July 2015 on suspicion of committing two murders with extreme cruelty. She supposedly has schizophrenia and was previously hospitalized three times in psychiatric hospitals After her husband's disappearance, Samsonova began renting out a room in her apartment. According to investigators,on September 6, 2003, during a quarrel, she killed her tenant. He was a 44-year-old resident from Norilsk. She then dismembered his corpse and disposed of it on the streets of St. Desyhis Way. I...

THE GRUESOME, TERRIFYING TALE OF LAFAYETTE SERIAL AXE MURDERER CLEMENTINE BARNABET There is a little-known slice out of Lafayette and Acadiana's history that is so horrifying and gruesome, it makes the Charles Manson murders seem like The Mickey Mouse Club...seriously. Lafayette serial killer Clementine Barnabet is believed to have violently murdered "at least" 35 people in the Acadiana area and Texas, but that's only a small part of her gruesome, terrifying local legacy. was born in St. Martinville in 1884 to Nina Porter and Raymond Barnabet. The Barnabet family of seven moved to Lafayette in 1909 according to Wikipedia  There is a little-known slice out of Lafayette and Acadiana's history that is so horrifying and gruesome, it makes the Charles Manson murders seem like The Mickey Mouse Club...seriously. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)   Lafayette serial killer Clementine Barnabet is believed to have violently murdered "at least" 35 pe...

Last photo taken of Patrice Lumumba. On 17 Jan 1961 Patrice Lumumba was executed by a firing squad Last photo taken of Patrice Lumumba. On 17 Jan 1961 Patrice Lumumba was executed by a firing squad Last photo taken of Patrice Lumumba. On 17 Jan 1961 Patrice Lumumba was executed by a firing squad. His body was dissolved in acid. His bones were ground up and scattered to the winds to make sure nothing was left of him. A single tooth is all that remains of the young scholar and nationalist politician whose life and career were cut short in a dark struggle for leadership and control of resources in the central African country. After resting in his native village, the coffin of the former Belgian Congo's first post-independence prime minister pursued its memorial pilgrimage further. It was here in this town that Lumumba was executed in January 1961, four months after the end of his brief term in office. "Shilatembo is a place of drama, as his Excellency the Prime Ministe...

‘Killing the Devil’: 52 years after murdering young men, Candy Man among Texas’ worst serial killers Jeffrey Konen was 18 years old when he disappeared from the Houston Heights area on Sept. 25, 1970. He had been hitchhiking from the University of Texas to his parent’s home in Houston. Three years later, his naked body was found buried at High Island Beach under a large boulder. His hands and feet were bound, and he was wrapped in plastic and covered in a layer of lime. He died of asphyxiation after a cloth was placed in his mouth, and he was manually strangled. Konen was the first known victim of the infamous Candy Man serial killer. This Candy Man didn’t have a hook for a hand and a swarm of bees at his disposal like in Bernard Rose’s 1992 horror classic with the same name. Instead, the real-life killer, named Dean Arnold Corll, was much more terrifying. Corll was given the nickname for being known as the “pleasant, smiling candy man of the Heights,” who would give candy t...

Rudolf Hoess, the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, is hanged next to the crematorium at the camp, 1947 Rudolf Hoess (Rudolf Höss) was the architect and commandant of the largest killing center ever created, the death camp Auschwitz, whose name has come to symbolize humanity’s ultimate descent into evil. Rudolf Hoess (Rudolf Höss) was the architect and commandant of the largest killing center ever created, the death camp Auschwitz, whose name has come to symbolize humanity’s ultimate descent into evil. On 1 May 1940, Hoess was appointed commandant of a prison camp in western Poland. The camp was built around an old Austro-Hungarian (and later Polish) army barracks near the town of Oswiecim; its German name was Auschwitz. Hoess commanded the camp for three and a half years, during which he expanded the original facility into a sprawling complex known as Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. After visiting Treblinka’s extermination camp to study its methods of human exterm...

Berdella is believed to have started killing in July 1984 He drugged one of his friends, prostitute Jerry Howell, and started keeping him in his basement, torturing and repeatedly raping him over a night before fatally asphyxiating him. In April 1985, another friend of Berdella, Robert Sheldon, came to stay with him for a few days and was drugged and held captive in the basement like Howell before him. At first, Berdella changed his mind about "keeping" him and took him to a doctor to have his injuries treated. Not long afterwards, he changed his mind and returned Sheldon to his basement. On April 15, a workman came to do some work on Berdella's home, leading Berdella to fatally suffocate Sheldon so he would not be heard. The following June, Berdella found Mark Wallace, who had helped him with yard work, hiding in his tool shed to seek shelter from a storm. Berdella invited him inside his house, drugged him and started holding him captive. After hours of ...

Inside The Vicious Crimes Of Child Murderer Mary Bell Serial killer Mary Bell was 11 years old when she was sentenced to life in prison for killing two toddlers in 1968 — but she now lives in anonymity after being freed just 12 years later.... Between May and July 1968, Mary Bell attempted to strangle at least five children and killed another two in her neighborhood in Newcastle, England. Just 10 years old when she committed her first murder by choking a four-year-old toddler to death, Bell could hardly contain her joy. The day after the crime, she and a friend broke into and vandalized a local nursery, leaving behind four notes that admitted to the crime and suggested she wanted to kill again, including one that read, "I murder SO That I may come back." But even though the police concluded that Bell and her 13-year-old friend Norma had left the messages, they thought it was a prank and merely gave the girls a warning, leaving Bell free to kill again — and her second mu...

A river pirate who killed at least 6 people, including stabbed the victim in the eye, is facing his execution in China in 1900 A river pirate is a pirate who operates along a river. The term has been used to describe many different kinds of pirate groups who carry out riverine attacks in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and South America. They are usually prosecuted under national, not international law A river pirate who killed at least 6 people, including stabbed the victim in the eye, is facing his execution in China in 1900. It stands on stones or wooden beams. Every day 1 will take off with his head on top. He will eventually have nothing to stand on and suffocate to death. On a sunny winter day some three centuries ago, British warships fired their cannons in celebration as Lieutenant Robert Maynard sailed up the James River upon his return to Virginia. Any questions as to the success of his covert mission to subdue one of history’s most notorious pirates were answe...

Donald Harvey, a serial killer nurse who murdered 37 patients Donald Harvey, a serial killer nurse who murdered 37 patients, was caught thanks to a medical examiner with the genetic ability to smell cyanide The examiner recognized it while performing an autopsy on one of Harvey's victims, prompting an investigation Donald Harvey (April 15, 1952 – March 30, 2017) was an American serial killer who claimed to have murdered 87 people, though official estimates are between 37 and 57 victims. He was able to do this during his time as a hospital orderly. His spree took place between 1970 and 1987. Harvey claimed to have begun killing to "ease the pain" of patients—mostly cardiac patients—by smothering them with their pillows. However, he gradually grew to enjoy killing and became a self-described "angel of death." At the time of his death, Harvey was serving 28 life sentences at the Toledo Correctional Institution in Toledo, Ohio, having pled guilty to murder charges t...

They were treated very differently, primarily due to the nature of their crimes — Jared Fogle, the Subway diet guy, was in jail for crimes related to children. Whereas Bill Cosby was a serial assaulter of grown women. Cosby was treated well by both inmates and guards, being a popular figure. He was a legendary entertainer, many inmates grew up on his work. His crimes weren’t seen by other prisoners as being on the same level of depravity as Fogle’s, thus he was given extra food by his prison buddies. He reportedly joked around with them and charmed even the guards charged to overlook them. Fogle, by contrast, was despised by inmates. He got beaten by them on more than one occasion. Beyond his gimmick — the “Subway diet” where he claimed to have lost a ton of weight by only eating sandwiches from the sandwich chain Subway — he just wasn’t a very charming person. Besides, Cosby actually was quite open about his use of roofies. He joked, openly, about drugging women and getting th...

Ananias Mathe ONLY attacked, raped and killed WHITE people. If you know history of Frelimo, you will know that this man was a revolutionary Mathe, a Mozambican national, who had then been convicted of 64 charges, including rape, attempted rape, attempted murder, robbery and theft, became the only person to have ever escaped from the maximum high-security C-Max Penitentiary, a daring escape which gave him the name – “Houdini of C-Max”. In 2006, whilst being detained in the A6 ward of C-Max Penitentiary, Mathe sawed through the bars of his cell and escaped through a tiny window in the jail after he allegedly rubbed petroleum jelly all over his body, IOL then reported. His escape came as a shock to prison officials and the whole of South Africa, but, after two weeks, he was re-arrested when he hijacked a car in the Johannesburg suburb of Craighall. Mathe did not know that the vehicle was fitted with a satellite tracking device, which eventually got him back into jail after a hot chase by ...

The Serial Killer Who Made Soaps and Cakes Out of the People She Killed Italian serial killer Leonard Cianculli turned the bodies of her victims into cupcakes and offered them to guests. Better known as the Soap-Maker of Correggio (Italian: la Saponificatrice di Correggio), she murdered three women in the town of Correggio, Reggio Emilia, in 1939 and 1940, and turned their bodies into soap (using caustic soda) and teacakes. “She ended up in the pot, like the other two … her flesh was fat and white, when it had melted I added a bottle of cologne, and after a long time on the boil, I was able to make some most acceptable creamy soap. I gave bars to neighbors and acquaintances. The cakes, too, were better: That woman was really sweet.” However, Leonarda did not act on the fortunetellers advice right away. It wasn't until 1939 when her son told her that he was going to join the military that Leonarda decided she had no other choice but to follow the advice of the fortunetelle...

When Jim Carrey once attempted to stay in Room 217 of Colorado's ... When Jim Carrey once attempted to stay in Room 217 of Colorado's Stanley Hotel, he only lasted three hours before fleeing. The room's legacy of horror began in 1974, when novelist Stephen King was inspired to write "The Shining" after a nightmarish stay there. To this day, visitors say that the Stanley and especially Room 217 are just as haunted as "The Shining" would have you believe. Step inside the haunting halls of the Shining hotel and discover the real-life horror — In October 1974, ascendant horror writer Stephen King and his wife spent a night at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, at the foot of the Rockies. With the winter barrage of snow and cold looming, the hotel was about to close for the season, leaving King and his wife as its sole guests. After King ate in a grand yet empty dining room — with the chairs up on every table except his own — and walked thr...

SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio man has been arrested in connection with a murder case that has remained unsolved for more than four decades. Larry Allen West has been arrested and charged with the murder of Carol Joyce Deleon, according to an arrest warrant. “We’ve been suffering for over 40 years not knowing what happened to my sister,” said Carol's sister, Sandra Deleon. “The potential of what she could have been, what she could have been will never be known. We were robbed of that, she was robbed of that.” Deleon was last seen on June 3, 1981, at a night club in San Antonio. Investigators said she had just graduated from Thomas Edison High School a few days before she died. The next day, a body was found on the grassy shoulder of Interstate 35 North near a rest area south of New Braunfels in Comal County. At the time, Texas DPS said that investigators tried to identify the body from fingerprints and missing person reports in the area but weren’t able to identify her.  She was...