Major Crimes and True Crime

Born in Tarheel on February 17, 1933, Blanche Kiser was the daughter of a Baptist minister, a heavy drinker who forced the young woman to prostitute herself to pay off his gambling debts. She married James Taylor at a young age to escape her father's abuse, and their first daughter, Vanessa, was born in 1953, the same year Blanche went to work as a head cashier at a Kroger supermarket in Burlington. In 1959, another child, Cindi, arrived, but life did not continue peacefully: James turned out to be a compulsive gambler and alcoholic who disappeared for entire weekends, spending all the family's money. Blanche meanwhile had numerous affairs with co-workers, sparking violent arguments at home. In 1962, the woman focused her attention on twenty-seven-year-old Raymond Reid, who arrived as the new assistant manager of Kroger, at the time married with two children. Three years after the first meeting between the two, they began a relationship, despite her sporadic fli...

Joseph Samuel was a scoundrel who was sentenced to capital punishment on September 26, 1803. Led to the gallows, the noose was tied tightly around his neck and after a quick prayer the trap door was opened. At the time the ropes used were made of hemp and could support a weight of 450 kg for 5 minutes. Yet Samuel's rope broke. The executioner prepared another rope, but it slipped from his neck shortly after he remained suspended in the air. The executioner prepared yet another rope, forced Samuel to climb on it, tied the noose around his neck and after checking that he had done a good job he opened the trap door... The rope broke again. At this point the governor intervened and after having inspected the ropes and found no anomalies, decided to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. Continue reading

On February 23, 2018, Doyle Lee Hamm, 61, became the third person since 1946 to walk away alive from an execution in America. Sentenced to death in the state of Alabama for an armed robbery that ended with the murder of a motel night watchman, Hamm spent 30 years on death row before his execution date by lethal injection was set. The date was not without its problems, as the prisoner developed lymphoma and basal cell carcinoma, making it difficult, according to the medical staff, to execute him according to the normal Alabama protocol. Despite these problems and despite his upper limbs being unusable for the purpose, the IV execution team tried, unsuccessfully, to use Hamm's lower limbs and ankles. From that moment on, about three hours passed during which the team tried in every way to reach the venous channels of the condemned, inserting about ten needles that also perforated his bladder and femoral artery. At the stroke of midnight, the execution warrant expired ...

Botched Execution…To the Worst …By Hanging…. Refrential Image Eva Dugan Case …. 21 Feb ,1936…p Eva was born in 1878 , Salisbury, Missouri,She later married and had two Children (a son & daughter) but her husband abandoned the family leaving them destitute ,She relocated herself with her Children couple times with doing some Job to support her family…. Arizona… Many years later ,she moved to Pima County and worked for an elderly chicken Rancher , Andrew J Mathis as a housekeeper, Andrew had previously served time in prison… Dugan Became a live-in housekeeper of Andrew J Mathis ,Soon Employer/employee relation ship turned into hate due to Mathis hated her Cooking ,Mathis Fired Eva Dugan from the Job and the next morning on 27 January ,1927 ,Mathis disappeared as did some of his possession his expensive car ,Cash box , Neighbours reported that Dugan has tried to sell some of his possession before she disappeared as well. Investigation…. ...

How a psychopath or a sociopath feel/react knowing he/she is going to be executed by hanging There's a likely example of that from Czechslovakia. In 1975, a 23 year.old woman called Olga Hepnarova was executed by hanging in Prague for the mass murder of 8 people. Hepnarova had driven a truck deliberately at a tram stop, hoping to kill as many people as possible. Hepnarova was a very troubled young woman who struggled to form personal relationships and was shunned and bullied by her peers. She was described as cold and remote. She developed a deep seated hatred for the society she lived in and wanted to kill as many people as possible. She was never diagnosed as a pyschopath or sociopath- but seemed to share a lot of the traits. She showed no remorse during her trial, where she was sentenced to death by short drop hanging (where the condemned suffers slow strangulation rather than the instant death from the breaking of the neck by long drop hanging). Nor did she sho...

The most humane dead executioner in history Albert Pierrepoint was known as Britain's most famous executioner, who legally killed up to 500 prisoners. Albert knew from a young age that he wanted to follow in his fathers footsteps, who was a second generation executioner. He even wrote a school essay about wanting to become Britons most successful executioner. When Albert’s father died in 1922, he started studying his father’s diaries and Journals, hoping to perfect the art of hanging someone. What made Albert so well-known and sought after was his quickness, his effectiveness and his calmness during each execution. The size of the noose and rope lent played an important part in the process of killing someone. When done correctly it would avoid decapitation or slowly strangling the person to death. A quick human death by snapping the neck was the goal of the hang-man. The Black Out Ripper George Cummings In 1932, at the age of 27, he was finally given...

After the Nuremberg Trials, the man who conducted the hangings was an American soldier named John C. Woods. Others believe that he could have been mentally disturbed due to how he executed the people. Woods was not much of a hangman. He had lied to receive the job on the basis of experience. There were also issues displayed in his military time. A few years earlier, he was thrown out of the Navy when the doctors diagnosed that he had a psychopathic condition. It is an indication that individuals had their suspicions about him a long time before Nuremberg. The hangings were badly done. The ropes that Woods used were short-lived. Due to this, the prisoners were not dying very fast with broken necks. They instead choked to death. It seemed mean and unfeeling to the onlookers. Others even believed that Woods did this intentionally. They claimed he did not feel anything and he even took pride in what he had done. In later days, he said to reporters that he was not nervous and was happy to d...

A women in Afghanistan was stoned to death by the Taliban . It really did shock me that such system could still possibly exist ! Are we still living in the middle ages ? Local official Mohammad Zaman Azimi, in a previous report, credited the killing to Taliban militants. The 19-year-old woman, Rokhshana, was stoned to death after she was accused of having pre-wedding relations with her fiance, a 23-year-old man named Mohammad Gul, who was reported to have been lashed. It was unclear why the young woman would be punished more severely, though Taliban and Islamic courts in the past have treated men more leniently. Azimi went on to say that the stoning took place in the village of Ghalmin on the outskirts of Firoz Koh, the provincial capital. The couple is said to have eloped from their families in a bid to find a place to get wedded. Single women in Afghanistan are often kept under house arrest and deprived of contact with men other than their immediate families. ...