Major Crimes and True Crime

The Gruesome Crimes Of Martha Place, The First Woman To Die In The Electric Chair The Gruesome Crimes Of Martha Place, The First Woman To Die In The Electric Chair Martha Place brutally murdered her 17-year-old stepdaughter Ida with acid in 1898 and was executed by electric chair the following ye On February 7, 1898, Martha Place and her husband, William, got into a heated argument inside their Brooklyn home. William eventually stormed out and an enraged Martha went to speak to his teenage daughter, Ida, who had taken her father's side during the fight. When Ida slammed the door in Martha's face, she grabbed a bottle of acid from William's desk and threw it in the 17-year-old's face. Then Martha smothered Ida to death with her bedding, grabbed an ax, and waited for her husband to come home. “The last woman condemned to die in this State went to the gallows shrieking and fighting,” the San Francisco Call noted in the coverage of Martha’s execution, “but Mrs. Place hardly...

The death of Elisa Lam. Though the footage isn’t exactly  horrifying , but along with the entire story it’s quite chilling. I’ll just be writing a condensed version of the case. Elisa Lam was a 21-year-old Canadian woman who was on a trip to South California and was staying at the Hotel Cecil in downtown Los Angeles. She was a simple girl who loved travelling and blogging. (Elisa Lam) (Hotel Cecil) On January 31st, 2013, the day she was supposed to check out of her hotel, the hotel authorities realised Elisa was missing. The LAPD was involved in the search. The last time Elisa was seen, on the day of her disappearance, was recorded by the hotel’s elevator’s security camera. The LAPD released this video [1]  prior to the discovery of the body. (Link to the footage is given below.) In the footage, Elisa is seen exiting and re-entering the elevator, talking and gesturing in the hallway outside, and sometimes seeming to hide within the elevator, which itself appears to be malfunct...

On April 9, 1943, the Germans murdered a young Jewish couple and the woman who was hiding them, Anna Niepsuj, a mother of eight children. During the German occupation in Klikowa, now part of the city of Tarnów, a tragedy occurred that shocked the local community. The origins of this crime are connected to Operation Reinhardt, a German operation launched in 1942 aimed at exterminating the Jewish population in the General Government (GG). In Tarnów, the first displacement operations, combined with mass executions, took place in June of that year. However, beforehand, Jews, on German orders, had to register and have their work cards stamped. Survivor Blanka Goldman recalled after the war: "On June 9, 1942, street announcements suddenly appeared about the gradual, planned relocation of Jews to other towns for work. It was noted that stamps were required for this purpose, and that those Jews assigned to work in Tarnów would remain there, while the rest would be resettled." It is e...