Major Crimes and True Crime

Cannibal Armin Meiwes In 2001, Armin Meiwes from Germany posted an advert on the cannibalism fetish website ‘The Cannibal Cafe’ looking for “a well-built 18 to 30-year-old to be slaughtered and then consumed.” Many people replied to the advert but all of them got cold-feet apart from Bernd Jürgen Armando Brande. Throughout his childhood, Meiwes fantasized that if he were to eat someone, they would be with him forever so he would never be lonely again. The video tape Meiwes made of himself dismembering Brande is stomach-churning to say the least. Meiwes amputated the victim’s penis and they both attempted to eat but it was “too chewy”. Brande then took twenty sleeping pills to kill himself but this was not a success and he slowly bled out from the amputation. Meiwes murdered Brande by slicing his throat and consumed the remains over a period of 10 months. He was sentenced to life imprisonment after stating to a psychiatrist that his fantasies of devouring people had not subsided ...

Amber Pushed Her Husband Out Of A 25th Story Window Stories about women who murder their husbands tend to capture the public's attention, and the tale of Amber Hilberling defenestrating her husband Josh is no exception. In June 2011, Amber pushed Josh from a 25th story window in their Tulsa apartment. The two had been married for a year, and their relationship was tumultuous from the start. With a long history of both substance and physical abuse, the couple was in the process of splitting when the tragedy occurred. To pile onto the disaster and sadness of the catastrophe, Amber took her life in jail several years after Josh's death, leaving the couple's son, Levi, parentless. Was Josh's death a genuine mishap, or was it one of those killings that only looks like an accident? The facts about the murder of Amber Hilberling's husband made many question what truly happened in this Tulsa couple's troubling relationship. On June 7, 2011, Amber Hilberling pu...

Husband admits manslaughter of bride during honeymoon scuba dive. but he will serve ONE year in jail Honeymoon disaster: American man, David Watson, who swam off as his new wife died on the ocean floor during a honeymoon diving trip will spend an extra six months in jail after a court upheld an appeal. David Watson, 32, a bubble-wrap salesman, was sentenced in June to four-and-a-half years for manslaughter, but under a plea bargain all but 12 months of the term was suspended, a decision that sparked outrage. Christina Watson, 26, died in October 2003 after getting into trouble while scuba diving at a wreck off the coast of northern Queensland state where the couple were spending their honeymoon. The moments after the incident were inadvertently captured in a photograph by another person on the dive trip. She was pulled from the ocean floor by a dive instructor after her husband failed to inflate her buoyancy vest or remove weights to bring her to the surface, instead leaving h...

Serial Killer Rodney Alcala Was A Contestant On 'The Dating Game' - And Won In 2010, police arrested Rodney Alcala, a professional photographer, and brought him to trial for an incredibly expansive list of crimes. By the time prosecutors had tallied up all of his potential victims, they discovered that Alcala had raped and possibly murdered over 100 women and children between 1978 until his capture. During the investigation, police uncovered photographs of potential victims and continued to charge Alcala as the identities of victims were confirmed - even after he was sentenced to death in his 2010 trial. The weirdest bit of Alcala’s crime spree, though, was his 1978 appearance as a bachelor on The Dating Game, which he won. Make money online: Paying sites and apps for making cash

The Mary Morris Murders Were Likely The Work Of One Really Incompetent Hitman How did two women with the same name, who lived in the same city, and were similar looking, end up being murdered three days apart? In October 2000, two Texas women were murdered in a similar manner within days of one another. Neither woman had any known enemies. In fact, both families reported that the women were loving, kind, and professional - one a nurse, the other a loan officer - living completely unconnected lives. They had only one thing in common: both women were named Mary Morris. Police found Mary Henderson Morris, 48, in her burned out car. Three days later, they found Mary McGinnis Morris, 39, who'd been shot, dead in her car. An investigation into the matter turned up no evidence, and both cases remain unsolved. The prevailing theory is that Mike Morris - husband of Mary McGinnis Morris - hired a hitman to kill his wife. Unfortunately, the assailant made a mistake and targeted the wrong Mary...

Serial Killers Fred And Rosemary West Kept Company With Another Criminal Couple Throughout the 1980s and 1990s in Gloucester, England, Fred and Rosemary West used their local pub, Prince Albert, as a means to lure young women back to their house. While Rosemary ran a successful prostitution ring, Fred imprisoned women, some of which who appeared as the Wests' lodgers at 25 Cromwell Street. Fred was later charged for the murder of a dozen women but took his own life while awaiting trial. Rosemary was convicted for the death of her daughter Heather, among others. Even more shocking, the Wests' friends and owners of Prince Albert, David and Pauline Williams, were also arrested for running their own child sex ring. Investigators believe there's a connection between the criminal activities of the Wests and the Williams. Frederick Walter Stephen West (29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995) was an English serial killer, who committed at least twelve murders between 1967 and 1987 in G...

The Watts Murders This haunting photo was posted just days before Shan’ann and her daughters were murdered. The photo posted details how Shan’ann had found a doll wrapped up in a twister mat. Along with laughing-tear emojis Shan’ann had wrote “I don’t know what to think about this...” Aware that the girls had staged the scene she also added “At least they covered the body together. At least We know they have each other’s back.” Bonus #2: Baby Upon discovering Shan’ann’s body, officers reported that her baby was found outside of her body. The autopsy report found that Shanann was in her second trimester of pregnancy and that the “largely decomposed fetus and placental unit” was found “expelled from the gravid uterus.” The umbilical cord and a “ruptured placental disk” were also found with the body. Bonus #3: Paranormal Activity  During bodycam footage of 2 officers and a search dog searching the property several EVPs can be heard through the cam. These include “no”, “this is our hom...

The creepshow Marianna Dolińska (1891 – 1928 in Tworki) was a Romani woman from Antoniówka, Radom County, Poland. On the night of 11 December 1923, she murdered her four children and hung them on a tree. In the winter of 1923, the inhabitants of Radom County in Poland were suffering from poverty and hunger. In early December, Dolińska's husband was arrested for several burglaries and his wife was left alone with four hungry children. Marianna Dolińska, who was mentally disturbed, decided that the only way to protect their children from starvation was to kill them. On December 11, 1923 she killed Zofia (6 months), Antoni (3 years), Bronisława (5 years) and Stefan (7 years) and tied them to a tree. The next day she went to the police and confessed to the crime. Later Dolińska was delivered to a psychiatric hospital, where her "manic depression" and other medical disorders were identified. She died in 1928, and was buried in the cemetery of the hospital. Make money online:...

Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour, also known as "al-Tourbini", was a street gang leader and serial killer who raped and murdered at least 32 children in the course of seven years, throughout several locations in Egypt including Cairo, Alexandria, Qalyoubeya and Beni Sueif. All of his victims were 10 to 14 years old, most of them boys. Mansour was arrested in 2006 along with his six accomplices, and subsequently sentenced to death. Mansour left his home in Tanta, a town north of Cairo, and joined a street gang at an early age. Gang leaders taught him skills of survival, allegedly cutting him with razors when he made any mistakes. According to his confession, Mansour soon learned the method of getting back at those who crossed him by raping them, and murdered anyone who threatened to go to the police afterwards. One of the victims, 12-year-old boy Ahmed Nagui, had been a member of Mansour's gang. When Mansour tried to sexually assault him, Nagui reported him to the police, and M...

Michael Taylor, born 1944, became notable in 1974 as a result of Ossett murder case and his alleged demonic possession in England. Taylor lived in Havercroft, Ossett, working as a butcher. In 1974, Taylor's wife, Christine Taylor, stated to a Christian Fellowship Group to which Taylor belonged, that his relationship with the lay leader of the group, Marie Robinson, was "carnal" in nature. Michael Taylor admitted that he felt evil within him and eventually attacked Robinson verbally, who screamed back at him. During the next meeting, Michael Taylor received an absolution, but nevertheless, his behaviour continued to become more erratic. As a result, the local vicar called in other ministers experienced in deliverance in preparation to cast out the demons residing within the man. The exorcism, which occurred on 5–6 October 1974 at St. Thames Church in Barnsley, was headed by Father Peter Vincent, an Anglican priest of St. Thomas's in Gawber, and was aided by a Methodist...

In 1972, a dog brought something very strange to the back door of his owner’s home He had sniffed out an almost completely decomposed human forearm on a cliff top in Springfield, New Jersey and dragged it back to its master who realized with a great shock what it was. The man informed the police and, after a short search, they found the remains of the body to which the arm belonged. The remains were that of Jeannette DePalma, a teenager who had been missing for six weeks. Not only did they find her decomposed body, but there were strange objects on the ground where it lay. Rumors began to fly that the girl had been sacrificed by a local coven of witches. Others believed that Satanists murdered her for occult ritual purposes. The strangest thing about the murder, however, was the fact that no one wanted to speak about it when an article about the incident was in its planning stages. Even after 30 years, people who lived in the area refused to comment or give their opinions on ...

WEST MEMPHIS THREE The West Memphis Three are three men who were tried and convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. was sentenced to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin was sentenced to life imprisonment. During the trial, the prosecution asserted that the children were killed as part of a Satanic ritual. A number of documentaries have been based on the case, and celebrities and musicians have held fund raisers in the belief that they are innocent. In July 2007, new forensic evidence was presented in the case and a status report jointly issued by the state and the defense team stated, "Although most of the genetic material recovered from the scene was attributable to the victims of the offenses, some of it cannot be attributed to either the victims or the defendants." On October 29, 2007, the defense filed a Second Amended Writ of Habeas ...