Major Crimes and True Crime

The murder of Pamela Mastropietro. Pamela Mastropietro was an 18-year-old Italian woman who was last seen on 29 January 2018. She was murdered soon after in Macerata, Marche. A nigerian migrant drug dealer named Innocent Oseghale, was convicted for murdering her. He raped her, tortured her, killed her, chopped up her body, cannibalized her, locked her in a suitcase and threw her on the street. Alessandra Verni, her mother wore a t-shirt showing a picture of her daughter's decapitated head during the court hearing. On January 23, 2024, the Court of Cassation of Rome sentenced Oseghale to life imprisonment for murder aggravated by sexual violence, destruction and concealment of a corpse. After 6 years, Pamela and her family got justice with a life sentence for the illegal immigrant. A shrine to Pamela Mastropietro 18. Continue reading

Missouri to carry out the execution of Marcellus Williams. Prosecutors alleged that Williams broke a windowpane to get into Gayle’s home on Aug. 11, 1998, and that he heard the shower running and found a large butcher knife. When Gayle came downstairs, she was stabbed 43 times. Her purse and her husband’s laptop were stolen.   Authorities said Williams stole a jacket to conceal blood on his shirt. Williams’ girlfriend asked him why he would wear a jacket on such a hot day. The girlfriend said she later saw the laptop in the car and that Williams sold it a day or two later.   Prosecutors previously said there was plenty of evidence to support a conviction. They cited testimony from Henry Cole, who shared a St. Louis cell with Williams in 1999 while Williams was jailed on unrelated charges. Cole told prosecutors that Williams confessed to the killing and offered details about it.    Williams’ attorneys responded that the girlfriend and Cole were ...

South Carolina death row inmate dies by state’s first lethal injection in 13 years This man only brutally murdered two people  1. The mother of three he shot in the face so he could steal $40  2. And the guy he beat to death his first night in jail in front of 10 other people Owens, 46, was sentenced to death in 1999 for killing a convenience store clerk Irene Graves during a robbery in Greenville, South Carolina, when he was 19 years old. Owens was pronounced dead at 6:55 p.m. ET, state officials said at a news conference Friday evening. He made no final statement. South Carolina’s Supreme Court declined on Thursday to halt his execution and Gov. Henry McMaster chose not to grant Owens the requested clemency. Fair enough. Does he deserve to be killed? A pre-fetus may present a situation in which that mass of cells may develop into an individual that is nothing but a strain on society. At what point do you question where your hard earned t...

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 o...

Nazi Human Experiments: "A Jewish prisoner in a special chamber responds to changing air pressure during high-altitude experiments Nazi Human Experiments: "A Jewish prisoner in a special chamber responds to changing air pressure during high-altitude experiments. For the benefit of the Luftwaffe, conditions simulating those found at 15,000 meters [49,000 ft] in altitude were created in an effort to determine if German pilots might survive at that height." The prisoner falls unconscious (and later dies) from overexposure in a high-altitude chanber in Dachau From March 1942 to August 1942, experiments were conducted at the Dachau concentration camp, for the benefit of the German Air Force, to investigate the limits of human endurance and existence at extremely high altitudes. The experiments were carried out in a low-pressure chamber in which atmospheric conditions at high altitude (up to 68,000 feet) could be duplicated. The experimental subjects were placed in the...

Estimated 190000 German Women Raped by US Soldiers After WWII US rape of german women 1945 - A US Professor estimates the number of rapes committed by U.S. servicemen in Germany to be 11,000. As in the case of the American occupation of France after the D-Day invasion, many of the American rapes in Germany in 1945 were gang rapes committed by armed soldiers at gunpoint. A recent number given by a German historian gives the number of victims as high as 190,000 women. Robert Lilly estimates the number of rapes committed by U.S. servicemen in Germany to be 11,040. However, extensive research by German historian Miriam Gebhardt suggests a number as high as 190,000 (or roughly 5% of the estimated post-war births in Germany) due to rape by American soldiers. As Allied troops entered and occupied German territory during the later stages of World War II, mass rapes of women took place both in connection with combat operations and during the subsequent occupation of Germany. Schola...

MISS WYOMING WINNER WAS ARRESTED FOR KIDNAP IN 1977 Former beauty Queen, Miss Wyoming winner 1973 Joyce McKinney being arrested by police after kidnapping Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson from his church, forcing him to be her sex slave for 3 days. 1977 After the case, McKinney absconded from the United Kingdom and was allowed to reside in the United States with a falsified passport. In 2008 it was learned that she made five clones of her pet pit bull in South Korea, and was subsequently charged with plotting to have a teenager break into a house to raise funds for a prosthetic leg for her horse. In 2016, she sued Errol Morris for making a documentary about her. She also drove over and killed a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor with her truck and fleeing the scene in 2019. Police later found her truck parked near the Hollywood Burbank Airport. They pondered how they would get the woman out – then she stepped out on her own. Apparently unaware of the detecti...

Human Experimentation at Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. Ravensbruck, Germany. Scars on a leg of a woman after medical experimentation. experiments" was to treat war injuries. The experimentation consisted of breaking bones and transplants of the bone, muscle and nerves. During the medical experimentation prisoners legs were broken, whole bones and tissue were removed and sent for transplants for SS patients. These photographs were used as evidence in the Medical Trials that were held in Nuremberg from October 25, 1946 to August 20, 1947. A report on the fourth post-war Ravensbrück Concentration Camp trial, written by Deputy Judge Advocate Halse in 1948, stated that medical experiments were performed at the camp ‘in the most brutal manner by doctors who were apparently stationed there for the purpose of experimenting on human guinea pigs.’ These human experiments occurred at Ravensbrück from August 1942 onwards. In total, 74 women were subject to sulphonamide drug ...

Targeting the Most Vulnerable: Klaus Barbie and the Izieu Children's Home How heartbreaking! In 1944 the Nazis decided to exterminate the children of the orphanage La Maison d'Izieu. 44 little children were deported to Auschwitz and murdered immediately upon arrival. Eleven-year-old Liliane Gerenstein was sent to her death a few days after she wrote a letter to God: "God? How good You are, how kind and if one had to count the number of goodnesses and kindnesses You have done, one would never finish. God? It is You who command. It is You who are justice, it is You who reward the good and punish the evil. God? It is thanks to You that I had a beautiful life before, that I was spoiled, that I had lovely things that others do not have. God? After that, I ask You one thing only: Make my parents come back, my poor parents protect them (even more than You protect me) so that I can see them again as soon as possible. Make them come back again. Ah! I had such a good...

Getting hammered: Nazi soldiers having the time of their lives in occupied Norway... as they launched their reign of terror Chilling photos of German soldiers having a roaring time in Nazi-occupied Norway months before they murdered hundreds of local Jews have been discovered. The pictures show members of Hitler’s Wehrmacht enjoying picnics in a sunny meadow and sipping tea and eating biscuits at a tranquil garden party. Other black and white images depict four uniformed troops indulging in drinking games in a bar, with one wielding a wooden mallet as if to strike his comrade with it as a joke More pictures from the album, that has come to light from a British collector, show soldiers posing with bemused Laplanders in northern Norway. While the pictures appear to depict the Germans as an agreeable occupying force and a ‘nice bunch of chaps’, they were taken four months before the Holocaust in Norway.&nbsp From November 1942 the Nazis began rounding up ...

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 prisone...

Holocaust survivor reveals how he was beaten and starved at Nazi camps Beaten, starved until his bones were sticking out of his flesh and his teeth rotten, sodomized by Nazi soldiers – Dachau survivor tells how he found hope in Hitler's death camps As a young child in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1939, Szmulek Rozental was terrified when he heard the rumbling sound of trucks bringing in twenty soldiers in yellow uniforms sitting with rifles between their knees. They stopped, spread blankets on the ground, and with the help of local policemen, demanded all valuables be surrendered and placed on the blankets. The soldiers set the beards and collars of the Hassidic men on fire engulfing their faces in flames, threw one woman in a chair out of a window and used a lock cutter to cut of a man's nose. All of the Polish Jews would be sent to labor camps. Szmulek spent the next six years struggling to survive inhumane conditions in ten concentration death camps including the ...

Nazis slaughtered my brother and sister with a guillotine: German woman, 93, tells how her siblings defied Hitler and were put to death for treason in 1943 It was a cold winter's day in 1943 when three students threw a pamphlet into the stairwell at Munich's Ludwig Maximillian university, the last of six they had distributed decrying Nazism. The young activists wanted to call attention to the crimes being committed in Russia in their name - the mass shootings of Jews, the burning of villages, the barbarity of the war Hitler proclaimed to be 'without rules' in his bid to crush the Slavic 'subhumans.' And their writings recounted the heavily suppressed story of how the Wehrmacht had been stunningly defeated at Stalingrad a month earlier - a battle which proved the turning point of the war. But, unbeknownst to them, a janitor at the university spotted their surreptitious leaflet drop and reported them to the Gestapo, the Hitler regime's feared ...

One of the regular readers of my blog asked a question, in a comment on  my previous Oradour-sur-Glane post , about how a German soldier managed to put a fire bomb inside the Oradour-sur-Glane church without burning himself up, or allowing the women inside the church to extinguish the fire. The question is Were the strings (wicks) short, and the soldiers were blown up with their victims? or were [the stings or wicks] long enough to give them time to escape the church for safety — and allow people inside to extinguish them? The only person, who could answer this question, would be Madame Rouffanche, the lone survivor of the Church, who is now dead. However, she did testify in the trial of the SS soldiers after the war. The answer, according to the testimony of Madame Rouffanche, is long and complicated, so bear with me, while I explain the story with words and pictures. Madame Rouffanche was over 50 years old, and overweight The photo below shows the ...