Major Crimes and True Crime

Jewish woman being executed by female SS guard. You noticed how strained the SS Officer's face is. By comparison the Jewish woman's face is calm. She has clearly accepted her fate. Probably her life has been progressively been worse and worse to the point where she is standing naked, waiting to be shot. She looks at peace with what is about to happen in this picture. The guard on the other hand is clearly strained. She is actively mustering her hatred and anger to follow through on something she knows that she doesn't want to do. The SS were a cult based on rage and that guard is trying to summon all the rage necessary to pull the trigger on her calm, placid, and defenseless victim. In this picture I see a guard being traumatized and a women about to be saved from a hellish situation.  Continue reading

Survivors in Dachau berate an SS guard captured by U.S. troops, while in the background American soldiers summarily execute other camp guards. This picture was taken on April 29, 1945, the day of liberation at Dachau Concentration Camp. The man on the ground is an SS guard moments away from being executed by the inmates standing near him. During his time as a guard, he brutalized and murdered untold numbers of innocent men, women and children. Only at the point of death does he show remorse. He was executed with the shovel in the hand of the inmate on the left. An Allied soldier turns his back, refusing to intervene. On April 29, 1945 members of the 1st Company, 3rd Battalion, 157th Infantry, under the command of Lt. Col. Felix L. Sparks, entered Dachau. There they discovered a train of 36 boxcars bearing the corpses of prisoners who had been transferred to Dachau from other camps in the last weeks of the war. As the soldiers advanced, they found stacks of bodies in other parts of the ...

November 1, 1955 Jack Gilbert Graham placed a bomb in his mother's suitcase and killed 44 people that day. Daisy Walker was on her way on a much needed vacation and decided to book a flight to Alaska to visit her daughter. Before her so drove her to the airport, Jack decided to place a bomb in her suitcase.  He thought he planned the perfect murder, as he set the timer on the bomb to go off once she was in the air far away from their city. Once he was at the airport, he bought life insurance on his mother's life, kissed her goodbye and watched her load onto the plane with many other innocent souls. Buying life insurance by passengers was pretty common during the early days of commercial flights. They were readily available in vending machines. The plane departed from New York, landed in Chicago, continued on to Denver picking up more people on the way. The next stop was going to be Seattle but it never arrived as it exploded soon after leaving Denver.... Read sto...

A few hours in his cell awaiting his execution He was asked about his last wish, so he asked for a pen and paper and wrote for several minutes and asked to deliver the will or the letter to his mother  Mom, I think if there was more justice in this world, you and I would be executed... You are as guilty as me in my miserable life! Do you remember, Mom, when I took that bike home that I stole from another kid like me? You helped me hide it so that he wouldn't find out about me.. Do you remember, Mom, when I stole money from the neighbor's wallet? You went with me to the mall and we spent it together, and you didn't tell me that this was an unacceptable behavior.... Read story Mom, I think if there was more justice in this world, you and I would be executed... You are as guilty as me in my miserable life! Do you remember, Mom, when I took that bike home that I stole from another kid like me? You helped me hide it so that he wouldn't find out about me. Do you reme...

Chilling last words of killer before he is given lethal injection in brutal execution Jeffrey David Matthews, indicted in 1994 for the murder of his 77-year-old great uncle Otis Earl Short, delivered his final sentence before receiving a lethal injection at Oklahoma State penitentiary A man on death row finally answered for the shooting of his elderly great uncle when he was executed to the loud bangs of his fellow inmates, but his last words left a disturbing chill in the execution chamber. Jeffrey David Matthews, indicted in 1994 for the murder of his 77-year-old great uncle Otis Earl Short, delivered his final words before receiving a lethal injection at Oklahoma State penitentiary. Moments before his death, Jeffrey grinned at his family members and said: "I think that governor's phone is broke. He hadn't called yet." Former Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry had previously granted two stays of execution for Jeffrey upon pending investigations regarding his clai...

The last time a woman was executed for a federal crime, a kidnapping riveted the nation The last time a woman was executed for a federal crime, a kidnapping riveted the nation Bonnie Brown Heady, left, and Carl Austin Hall, center, are taken from their jail cells at Kansas City, Mo., on Nov. 18, 1953, during their trial for the kidnapping and slaying of 6-year-old Bobby Greenlease. (William Streater/AP) The judge called it the most “coldblooded, brutal murder” he had ever tried. News articles described it as the most horrible kidnapping in decades, or as the St. Louis Dispatch wrote, a “tale of evil, stupidity and corruption.” Get the full experience.Choose your plan On September 28, 1953, Bonnie Brown Heady walked into Notre Dame de Sion, a Catholic school in Kansas City, Mo., and posed as the aunt of Bobby Greenlease, the 6-year-old son of one of the city’s richest men.  She and her boyfriend, Carl Austin Hall, kidnapped the boy and demanded ransom from his parents. They picked u...

Facing their last moments with a smile: The Chinese women about to be executed for drug smuggling A young woman sits cross-legged on the ground laughing playfully as she is fed a lychee. Another plays cards in pair of baggy pink pyjamas. The moving images could show any group of young women as they go about their daily lives in prison. But just hours - and in some cases minutes - after the pictures were taken, each of the four women were led into a concrete yard and executed. The previously unseen photographs have emerged for the first time in nearly a decade - and give an incredibly rare glimpse into final moments of Chinese prisoners on death row. Communist officials are notoriously guarded about the death penalty, in a country that carries out more executions than any other. But in an unprecedented move, an unnamed civilian photographer was allowed inside No 1 Detention Centre for women in the industrial city of Wuhan, in central China. The man took a series of pictures on June 24, ...

Her head shaved by angry neighbours, a tearful Corsican woman is stripped naked and taunted for consorting with German soldiers during their occupation, September, 1943. While consorting with the enemy is indeed bad, some of these women, at least in Western Europe, were themselves victims. Some were hookers before the war who just needed to make ends meet and slept with soldiers along with other people. Some were women whose only way to survive was using a Nazi sugar daddy. Some were rape victims or girls roped into it. When looking at these sorts of events it's important not to see everything in black and white. The Nazis were terrible, people who aided them were terrible, but not all women who slept with Nazis only to be humiliated later deserved what they got. Growing up in a country that was occupied by Germany during WWII, talking to people from that era, I found that just about every single instance of this type of vigilantism was an odious act. It was basically just decrepit...

Reason why the Nazis make people strip naked before being shot or gassed   Why did the Nazis make people strip naked before being shot or gassed? Pictured:   A naked prisoner is led to an execution site, where others either have been shot already or forced to lie face down prior to being shot. The Nazis employed the dehumanizing practice of making people strip naked before being executed or subjected to gas chambers for several interconnected reasons. Firstly, it served to strip victims of their individuality and dignity. By forcing people to remove their clothing, the Nazis aimed to reduce them to mere numbers, degrading their humanity and making it easier for the perpetrators to view them as disposable entities rather than fellow human beings. Secondly, it facilitated the process of disposal and decontamination. Removing clothing reduced the risk of contamination from any potential chemicals or diseases, making it easier for the Nazis to manage the disposal of bodies and min...

Naked Jewish women from the Mizocz ghetto wait in a line before their execution by the German Order Police with the assistance of Ukrainian auxiliaries Locals played a very important role in the mass shootings committed by the Germans in the Baltics and the USSR. In some cases, locals would instigate their own pogroms against Jews once the Germans arrived. Otherwise, local citizens would help the Einsatzgruppen and other units locate Jews in the immediate vicinity and then either assist with or participate in the mass killings. One of the facts that I learned about the Holocaust from my grandfather that has stuck with me even up through today is that we’ll never know truly how many died or who they were. There were people that were murdered, and not only were they murdered, but EVERY SINGLE PERSON that knew them, EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO HAD EVER known them, were also murdered.  center> Try to imagine that. Every last human being you’ve ever come in to contact with, murde...

The Execution of Irma Grese  Irma Grese, often referred to as the "Hyena of Auschwitz," remains one of the most infamous female figures associated with Nazi war crimes. Her name is synonymous with the brutality that characterized the Holocaust, and her execution marked the end of a young life steeped in unimaginable cruelty. Early Life and Rise to Power Born on October 7, 1923, in Wrechen, Germany, Irma Grese grew up in a tumultuous household. Her mother committed suicide when Grese was only 13 years old, an event that had a profound impact on her. At 15, she left school and initially worked as a nurse, but soon became captivated by Nazi ideology. By the age of 19, she had joined the SS and was assigned to work at the Ravensbrück concentration camp as a guard. Her rise within the ranks of the SS was swift and alarming. Grese was later transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the most notorious concentration camps, where she quickly gained a reputation for her extrem...

Meet the people that ever successfully escaped from prison, reappeared and remained at large forever 1.) Assata Shakur (Tupac Shakur Auntie) On November 2, 1979, the  escape  began when three BLA members, posing as prison visitors, drew .45 pistols and took two correction officers hostage. They seized a prison van and used it to flee the correctional facility with  Shakur . It is believed by law enforcement that she is in Cuba. 2.) Glen Stark Chambers Chambers was at the Polk Correctional Institute serving out his sentence for first-degree murder. Concealing himself in a truck leaving the prison, Chambers made his way outside of prison walls. He was then able to break free from the truck without the driver noticing he was even there. Chambers has since been reported as possibly living in several states including Alabama and Minnesota. Unlike Glen Stewart Godwin mentioned by  Mac Tatum , it is believed he is still in the U.S there has also been suggestions that he was...

A serial killer who became known as EARONS (East-Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker) terrorized a massive spree of terrible crimes From 1974 until 1986 a serial killer who became known as  EARONS  (East-Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker) terrorized a massive spree of terrible crimes. He committed at least twelve murders, fifty rapes and one hundred and twenty burglaries as well. In April 2018, the man was arrested… his name? Joseph James DeAngelo. A 72-year old retired cop. When they arrested DeAngelo, he appeared to be a kindly old grandfather. He lived in a house he shared with one of his adult daughters and his oldest granddaughter. When officers tried to arrest him, DeAngelo said he “had to go inside for a bit because he had a pot roast in the oven”. The cops then took him down, suspecting he was plotting to reach for a gun and either kill himself or engage them in a shootout… There was no pot roast. What there was, however, was a house full of evidence. A...

When California serial killer Richard Ramirez died of cancer in 2013, many of his surviving victims spoke out about his demise. Though they were all happy to hear that the infamous "Night Stalker" was gone forever, most wished he'd been executed per his original sentencing in 1989. Bill Carns, who was left partially paralyzed after Ramirez shot him three times and raped his girlfriend, said, "It's about time. He should have been put to death an awful long time ago." Sakina Abowath, who was assaulted by Ramirez and watched him kill her husband, said, "I've been waiting for this news for the longest time. I wish that they would have hanged him or they would have given him the electric chair so he could feel pain like he inflicted on us... I never forget." Meanwhile, Ramirez's family members also had mixed reactions, with the serial killer's niece saying that she felt "numb" but hoped "a lot of people are at rest now."⁠...

Death Row Inmate Set Free After Surviving 3 Lethal Injection, Refuses To Die On this day, November, 06, 2019, A Prisoner on death-Row, Igor Hamilton was set free after he survived three lethal injections. The inmates attorney, Edward Morningwood,stated his client had done his time including the lethal injection required by the state.&nbspThe lethal injection was supposed to be a quick death, but Igor survived. It’s just not his time to go argues his attorney. Igor Hamilton hoped the lethal injection would succeed and end his suffering within the prison, but he survived and is excited about his second chance at life. Hamilton, who was sentenced to death in 1997 for killing his neighbor’s cats, said the needle wasn’t even painful.While incarcerated he claims to have found God and spoked to him in prayers, God assured him he would survive “Because cats have no soul.” he never really committed a crime. He is set to be released by the end of the month and awarded $250,000....