Major Crimes and True Crime

Teenage Islamist 'poster girl' who fled Austria to join ISIS was used as a sex slave for new fighters before she was beaten to death as she tried to escape, former prisoner reveals A teenage Austrian girl who fled home to join ISIS was used as a sex slave by the terrorist group before she was beaten to death, a former prisoner has revealed. Samra Kesinovic, 17, and her friend Sabina Selimovic, 15, became 'poster girls' for the death cult after they arrived in Syria in April 2014.  They appeared on ISIS websites carrying AK-47s and surrounded by groups of armed men.  But by October that year, there were reports Miss Kesinovic wanted to flee having been sickened by the terror group's murders.  She was killed by ISIS as she tried to flee their stronghold of Raqqa.  Prior to her death, she was forced to be a sex slave for the terror group, according to a Tunisian former extremist who lived with the two girls in the terror group's de facto capital. T...

Mom Admits She Aided in Teen Daughter's Rap£, Murder, Dismemberment; Calls Girl a 'Nonentity' This week, a 44-year-old Pennsylvania woman opened up for the first time about the brutal 2016 murder of her adopted daughter. On Wednesday in open court, she said she’d gazed into the 14-year-old’s eyes as she was being choked to death while simultaneously telling the girl “it was OK to go.” Sara Packer testified Wednesday as part of an ongoing sentencing hearing for 46-year-old ex-boyfriend Jacob Sullivan, who pleaded guilty last month to raping, abusing, and killing teenaged Grace Packer, whose dismembered body was found by hunters in October 2016. According to prosecutors, Sullivan put Grace in a chokehold and suffocated her during the summer of 2016. He then preserved Grace’s remains in cat litter for three months before chopping up her body and dumping it in a remote area of Pennsylvania. “I took her hand and told her it was OK to go,” the Philadelphia Inquire...

On January 23, 1897, Zona Heaster Shue of Greenbrier County, West Virginia was found dead inside her home by a neighborhood boy It was unclear what had caused the young woman's death, especially because her sobbing husband Erasmus "Trout" Shue refused to stop cradling her head and got upset whenever the coroner tried to examine her body. Shue's cause of death was first listed as an "everlasting faint," then switched to childbirth, even though she wasn't actually pregnant — and with that, the case was closed. But about one month after Shue's death, her mother Mary Jane allegedly started receiving a startling nocturnal visitor: the ghost of her daughter. According to Mary Jane, her daughter's spirit came to her bedside and told her that she had been murdered by her husband, all because she hadn't cooked him what he wanted for supper. Word of Shue's ghost quickly spread through the small town and Mary Jane soon convinced the coroner to condu...

Josef Mengele, often referred to as the "Angel of Death," was a German SS officer and physician in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. I have developed a comprehensive psychological profile of Dr. Josef Mengele based on my knowledge and expertise. Grandiose Narcissism : Mengele exhibited extreme narcissistic traits, believing himself to be superior to others and having a grandiose sense of self-importance. He felt entitled to make life-and-death decisions over the prisoners in the camp. Severe Psychopathy : Mengele displayed psychopathic tendencies, including a lack of empathy and remorse for his cruel and  inhumane   experiments  on prisoners, particularly twins and children. Severe Sadism : He derived pleasure from inflicting suffering on others. Mengele's  experiments , which often involved subjecting individuals to unbearable pain and torture without anesthesia, reflect his sadistic nature. Deception a...

The woman who gave birth for Hitler In 1936, Nazi supporter and school graduate Hildegard Trutz was recruited as one of Germany's racially 'pure' women, chosen to have sex with SS officers in the hope of producing an Aryan child. She was part of a state-supported programme called Lebensborn (meaning the 'fountain of life'), a Nazi initiative to counteract falling birth rates in Germany and produce a 'master race' in accordance with Nazi eugenics It is estimated that some 20,000 such babies were bred during the 12 years of the Third Reich (1933–45), principally in Germany and Norway. Here, Giles Milton explores Hildegard Trutz’s experience and reveals why the young German woman was so eager to give birth for Hitler… Hildegard Trutz had been a loyal supporter of the Nazis ever since Hitler came to power. She had joined the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM, the female equivalent of the Hitler Youth) in 1933 and loved attending its weekly meetings. ‘I wa...

In 1942 a couple in the the Swiss Alps set out for a hike and never came back. There has been no sign of what what happened to them for the past 75 years despite a lengthy search that lasted for months. Now the two have been found and it is has been a relief to their surviving children all these years later. Via/  The Weather Network On August 15th, 1942, Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin went out to tend to their cows which were roaming free near the canton of Bern. Despite good weather for most of the day, the pair never returned. The couple had 7 children which were sent to live in  6 separate homes  after their parents disappeared. Via/  The Weather Network The pair were discovered in July 2017 on the melting Tsanfleuron glacier when an employee working for the Glacier 3000 tour company observed something unusual on the ice. He at first thought it might have been a grouping of rocks. But, further inspection revealed 2 bodies. ...

The 100 people executed at Strangeways prison and some of their stories The last execution was in 1964 and before that the numbers of people killed for their crimes had reduced dramatically. But way before then offenders were executed frequently - not just for serious crimes like murder and rape, but even minor crimes like pick-pocketing. If you go back to the 18th Century you'll find gruesome cases of children being killed, and women not only hanged, but burned at the stake. The website Capital Punishment UK has a staggering amount of detail about the records of many of the executions that have taken place in the UK. Records show public executions of criminals from Greater Manchester as far back at 1735 were carried out on Lancashire Moor, and later Lancaster Castle. There are also records of public executions in Salford. But then the grim spectacles moved behind closed doors and from 1869 they took place at Strangeways prison in a special chamber. For almost a centu...

Horrific cell phone footage shows teen girls 'beating their 16-year-old friend before holding her down to be raped' A 16-year-old girl was allegedly beaten by other girls before being held down to be raped in a horrifying attack that was filmed on a cellphone, it was revealed today.  Patricia Montes, 15, and 16-year-old Erica Avery are accused of punching, kicking and pepper-spraying the girl before holding her down to be raped by Jayvon Woolfork, 19, police said. The barbaric attack was filmed on a cell phone by Lanel Singleton, 18, and shows the girl writhing half naked and weeping in the yard of a home in Hollywood, Florida while her attackers leer over her. Along with 17-year-old Dwight Henry, the alleged rape gang have all been charged in the attack on November 1 last year. The sickening clips, shown by CBS Miami for the first time today, shows the girls viciously beating the girl while the men watch. One male voice can be heard saying: 'They don't like thi...

Britain's forgotten serial killer: 'Beast' who bit off young girls' nipples then filed his teeth to evade capture Trevor Hardy is an almost forgotten serial killer who terrorised a British city in the 1970s with a string of horrific sexually motivated murders of young girls Four decades ago Trevor Hardy had a thirst for violence and an appetite for murder that was never quenched. His hideous crimes terrorised the city of Manchester and left three families completely bereft. The extraordinary lengths he went to to evade capture are the stuff of nightmare. Yet today the 'Beast of Manchester' is one of Britain's lesser known serial killers. The misery he inflicted has been eclipsed by other monsters casting longer and deeper shadows. There are some, however, who cannot forget. They live with the loss of three young girls who Hardy butchered without hesitation or remorse before their lives had really begun. In 1972 and aged 31, Hardy was jailed ...

The execution of the Russian ex-Tsarist Romanov family, July 17, 1918. Today 105 years ago, in the early hours of July 17, 1918, Russian ex-Tsar Nicholas, his wife and five children were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries in the Ipatiev House basement in Yekaterinburg. On March 15, 1917, upon the outbreak of the Russian February Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the Russian throne, ending 304 years of the House of Romanov's reign over Russia. On March 20, 1917, the new Russian Provisional Government decided to hold the Romanov family under house arrest at the Alexander Palace near St. Petersburg. The Romanov family, consisting of Tsar Nicholas, his wife the Empress Alexandra, their four daughters Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and their son Alexei, was eventually moved to Tobolsk in Western Siberia in August 1917. In April 1918 they were moved again to the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, where they were essentially imprisoned and kept under strict condition...

Sawney Bean and Black Agnes Sawney Bean and his witch wife Agnes Douglas secluded themselves in a cave and began having children, which then had children of their own untill the clan was strong with 50 inbred members. Together, they may have killed and cannibalized over 1000 innocent people. Alexander "Sawney" Bean was said to be the head of a 45-member clan in Scotland in the 16th century that murdered and cannibalized over 1,000 people in the span of 25 years. According to legend, Bean and his clan members would eventually be caught by a search party sent by King James VI, and were executed for their heinous crimes.  The story appeared in The Newgate Calendar, a crime catalogue of Newgate Prison in London. The legend lacks sufficient evidence to be deemed as true by historians, and there is debate as to why the legend would have been fictionalized; nevertheless, the myth of "Sawney" Bean has passed into local folklore and has become a part of the Edinburgh tourism...

The state has never executed a woman Washington residents are reluctant to have a woman executed. So far, no convicted female felons have been sentenced to die in the state. That could change if Barbara Opel is found guilty of aggravated murder in her contract murder trial, which began last month in Everett. Prosecutors have pushed for the death penalty, and it will be up to Opel's jury to decide whether execution is in line for the 39-year-old mother accused of soliciting six teens, including her own daughter, to bludgeon a man to death.  Opel has two points in her favor: 1. She lives in the Northwest, with one of the country's lower capital punishment rates. 2. She's a woman. Juries have traditionally been less likely to sentence women to death. "It's because of juries' and judges' assumptions of what women are like," says Victor Streib, a law professor in Ohio who researches the topic. "In some of the older cases, judges from the bench...