Major Crimes and True Crime

'He ripped the child from his mother's arms': Father who 'slaughtered' his three sons, 3, 4 and 7, is indicted for murder as court hears he 'put a bullet in the head' of the youngest - as prosecutor vows to 'have him executed' Chad Doerman, 32, entered a plea of not guilty in court on Friday in the gruesome murder of his three young sons last week  On Thursday, he was indicted and faces 21 counts:  nine counts of aggravated murder; 8 counts of kidnapping and four counts of felonious assault Prosecutor Mark Tekulve said this 'is a death penalty case'  A father accused of gunning down his three young sons 'ripped' his three-year-old boy from his mother's arms, a court heard today as he was indicted for murder. Chad Doerman, 32, denied murdering his sons Clayton, 7, Hunter, 4, and Chase, 3, at the Clermont County courthouse in Ohio on Friday. Prosecutor Mark Tekulve told reporters outside the courtroom how Doerman 'slaughtered hi...

Two heartless Germans smiling on as a woman is hung in the background. German troops used mass rape as a means of terrorizing the local populace The way women were treated by the German armed forces during the second World War hinged on a variety of factors, ranging from the specific unit involved, to the location and time period. The behaviour which members of the German armed forces exhibited towards women was quite varied, ranging from kind and humane, to downright barbaric. On the Eastern Front, rape was (at least officially) discouraged. Army High Command feared outbreaks of venereal disease (due to poor sanitary conditions) as well as violating Nazi racial policy (it was illegal for an Aryan to have sex with a “lesser” Slav). This did not mean that rape didn’t happen. On the contrary, instances of brutal sexual assault were shockingly common. Jewish women and girls were subjected to sexual violence before being murdered during the invasion of Poland in 1939. In occupied part...

In 2003, pizza delivery man Brian Wells wore a collar bomb to rob a PNC bank in Pennsylvania. After his arrest, police left him sitting on the ground unattended while awaiting the bomb squad.  Just three minutes before their arrival, the bomb detonated live on television.  This footage shows the final moments before the collar exploded. The case of Brian Wells, often referred to as the "Pizza Bomber" or "Collar Bomb" case, is a bizarre and tragic incident that occurred in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 2003. On August 28 of that year, Brian Wells, a pizza delivery man, entered a PNC bank claiming he had a bomb strapped around his neck and demanding money. He was given a bag with $8,702, and the police were called. Shortly after Wells left the bank, he was apprehended by the police and handcuffed.     He claimed that he had been forced into the crime by unknown assailants who had placed the bomb around his neck. While waiting for the bomb squad to arrive and defuse...

Boy, 10, 'tortured to death by mum and her boyfriend after telling them he was gay' Little Anthony Avalos was slammed onto the floor, burnt with cigarettes, had hot sauce poured into his mouth and was whipped with a belt, it is claimed. A 10-year-old boy was starved and tortured to death by his mother and her boyfriend after he told them he was gay , according to prosecutors. Anthony Avalos is said to have been 'abused to death' by those who should have looked after him at his home in the Mojave Desert, California. Heather Maxine Barron, 28, and her boyfriend, Kareem Ernesto Leiva, 32, have both been charged with torture and murder. The young boy was slammed onto the floor, had hot sauce poured into his mouth and was whipped with a belt, it is claimed. It's  also alleged he was burned with cigarettes and banned from using the toilet. Anthony’s eight siblings witnessed and were forced to take part in some of the abuse, according to court documents. They were for...

13-year-old Tristy Bailey lived happily in St. Johns County, Florida, with her family until her life was cut short. 14-year-old Aiden Fucci always told his friends that he was going to ǩill someone; they thought it was part of his dark humor until he finally did. On May 8, 2021, Aiden lured Bailey to a wooded area in their locality and stabbed her 114 times before returning to his family's house. The investigation focused on Fucci because Tristyn was last seen with him, according to CCTV footage. When a search warrant was obtained, blood stained clothes and shoes were recovered from his room. There was no motive; he just wanted to know what it felt like to watch someone bleed out. He was tried as an adult and, on March 24, sentenced to life in prison. The murder of Tristyn Tyne Bailey took place on May 9, 2021, on Mother's Day, in St. Johns County, Florida, United States. Bailey, a 13-year-old middle schooler and cheerleader, was murdered by Aiden Fucci (born November 6, 2...

Jean-Claude Romand was a French man who lived a life full of lies for 18 years. He told everyone he was a medical doctor working with the World Health Organization in Geneva. His wife, kids, parents, and friends believed every bit of it. But in reality, Romand never even finished his second year in medical school. He spent most of his days pretending to go to work, hanging out in parking lots, and using the time to maintain his web of lies. He used fake investments and borrowed money to fund his lifestyle, but by January 1993, the lies were catching up with him. People were starting to ask questions, and Romand knew his secret life was about to come crashing down. Image: Jean Claude Romand (left) and wife Florence Crolet So on January 9, 1993, he murdered his wife by hitting her with a rolling pin. The next morning, he calmly watched cartoons with his two kids before shooting both of them. That same day, he visited his parents and shot them too, along with their dog. He later ...

He used to tell people, 'If anybody ever touches my kid, I'll **** him.' I knew he wasn't kidding." In February 1984, 11-year-old Jody Plauché was kidnapped and sexually-assaulted by his karate teacher, Jeff Doucet. Stolen away from his Baton Rouge home and held prisoner in a California hotel room, he endured several days of horrific abuse before police tracked him and his kidnapper down and returned him safely to his dad, Gary Plauché. But Jody's ordeal wasn't over — and his father wanted revenge. On March 16, 1984, Doucet was being walked through the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport to be handed over to Louisiana authorities. Gary Plauché, hiding behind sunglasses and a baseball cap, stood in wait, then suddenly stepped forward and shot Doucet in the head at point-blank range — all while local news cameras were rolling. Plauché, a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was separated from his wife, June, at the time of the shooting. He served as a sergeant in t...

This is Mohamedamin Abdirisek Ibrahim and his girlfriend Saga Forsgren Elneborg. They live in Sweden. Saga is now dead because Mohamedamin murdered her when she became pregnant with his child. The murder took place in an honor context because the man wanted to preserve or restore his and his family's honor by killing the “white” woman who was carrying his child. He killed her by suffocating and strangling her with various objects. Somali Man Strangles Pregnant Swedish Lover To Keep Affair Secret: Report A Somalian man has been charged with murder for allegedly killing his seven-month-pregnant Swedish girlfriend. Mohamedamin Abdirisek Ibrahim, 22, allegedly committed the crime to avoid introducing her to his strict Muslim family. The victim, 20-year-old Saga Forsgren Elneborg, was found dead inside her home in Orebro in April 2023. Ibrahim is now facing charges of "honour killing", reported LBC. Prosecutor Elizabeth Anderson stated that Ibrahim killed his...

The teen death row inmate who was executed twice On execution day, executioners strapped Willie into “Gruesome Gertie,” the electric chair that had been used to execute twenty-three people; he convulsed and screamed, but did not die. The portable electric chair, known as “Gruesome Gertie,” was found to have been improperly set up by an intoxicated prison guard and inmate from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. When the sheriff ordered the electricity shut off, Willie was taken back to his cell, spared and hopeful. Reflecting on the experience afterward, Willie wrote: I didn’t think about my whole life like at the picture show. Just, ‘Willie, you’re going outta this world in this bad chair.’ Sometimes I thought it so loud it hurt my head and when they put the #black bag over my head I was all locked up inside the bag with the loud thinking . . . I felt a burning in my head and my left leg and I jumped against the straps. When the straps kept cutting me I hoped I was alive and ...

The last known photograph of Michael C. Rockefeller always does it for me. He’s just calmly tinkering with his camera. The grin of the man next to him is haunting… Rockefeller is in Papua New Guinea, in a particularly remote part. And the tribe he stays with are notorious cannibals. The smile of that man, is the smile of man who has tasted the flesh of human beings before. Michael Rockefeller disappeared shortly after the photo was taken. He was only 27, and he was never seen again. Some say his small boat sank on a nearby island. An excellent swimmer, he likely didn’t drown and would have made it to dry land. After this? No trace of Rockefeller was ever found. No footprints, no pieces of clothing, no body, no hair. Nothing. I’m pretty sure he was killed and eaten shortly after this picture was taken. I wonder if the grinning man is already thinking of what Rockefeller would taste like. He’s eaten enemy soldiers before. But never before did the tribe have a Rockefeller heir on the menu...

Remembering the Bangladesh Liberation War: The Struggle for Independence and the Atrocities of 1971. The Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 was a pivotal moment in the history of South Asia. The conflict was sparked by the refusal of the government of Pakistan to recognize the results of the 1970 elections in East Pakistan, where the Awami League, a Bengali nationalist party, had won a majority of seats. The Pakistan Army launched a military operation in East Pakistan, known as Operation Searchlight, in an attempt to suppress the Bengali nationalist movement and maintain control over the region. The military operation led to widespread atrocities, including mass killings, rape, and forced displacement. The Pakistan Army targeted civilians, particularly members of the Hindu minority, in a campaign of ethnic cleansing. The Bengali nationalist movement, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his Awami League party, organized resistance against the Pakistani military and formed a provision...

99-Year-Old Former Nazi Secretary’s Final Appeal Denied for Holocaust Complicity In a courtroom in Germany, an elderly woman named Irmgard Furchner faced a final chapter of her long and dark past. At 99 years old, Furchner, who once worked as a secretary at the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp during World War II, lost her last chance to appeal a conviction. This marked a significant moment in the pursuit of justice for the Holocaust. Back in December 2022, Furchner had been found guilty of helping with the murder of over 10,000 people at the camp. Despite her defense’s efforts to overturn the verdict, the Federal Court of Justice upheld her two-year suspended sentence, making it a final decision. Furchner's role at the camp involved taking dictation and handling letters for the camp's commander. She was aware of the severe conditions that prisoners endured, including the horrific sight and smell of their suffering and deaths. Her duties were crucial in running the cam...

The Nazis kill pregnant women during WWII The Nazis did abort pregnant women in World War II--and with intent. It was not a gratuitous violence. It was to clear entire populations, predominantly Jews and Roma. A pregnant woman to the Nazis was a bearer not just any individual, but the future of a collectivity they were out to destroy. They took away the life of her before it even lived, by killing her. Once in the camps such as Auschwitz, pregnant women would most likely be dispatched directly to the gas chambers. They were not of any use in work and thus the Nazis simply did away with them. Expecting in the camps and the ghettos was basically a death sentence. A lot of women were induced to abort. Alive children went and were killed. The severe circumstances were severe conditions, starvation, sickness, lack of medicine, which also resulted in the majority of the mothers not living long. This was not coincidence or war by-product. It was an inhuman agenda to divide families, abolish b...

The Grimes sisters. Chicago’s most infamous unsolved murders. Barbara and Patricia Grimes, aged 15 and 13 respectively, had lived in the Brighton Park neighborhood and had walked to the now-closed Brighton Theater to see Love Me Tender on 28 December 1956 and never returned home. Their nude bodies were found a month later, on 27 January 1957 in Willow Springs. There had been rai,n and the snow had thawed, and construction workers saw the bodies at German Church Road and County Line Road. The theater was on Archer Avenue, a diagonal artery which eventually ends near Willow Springs Road. There has always been speculation that they were offered a ride home after going for something to eat. And there were numerous suspects, ranging from a dishwasher with a low IQ to a kid who looked like Elvis and was later in life sent to jail for murder, and a guy who had a dream about where the bodies were (and, in fact, the bodies were found only a few miles from the location in his dream). Th...

It's the summer of 1921, and actor Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is on top of the world Successful, wealthy, and adored by silent film audiences, Chaplin is the king of laughter. Despite his imposing physical appearance, he is agile and comical, and his performances are a family favorite. Paramount Pictures has paid him $3 million over three years to star in 18 films, and he has just signed another million-dollar contract with the studio. To celebrate his new six-figure deal, his best friend Fred Fischbach has organized a huge party. It will be held in three adjoining apartments rented at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, and will last for three days. It's 1921, and a scandal of unprecedented proportions is about to engulf the Hollywood community. The party is attended by about fifty people, who, following the flow of alcohol, are becoming increasingly uninhibited. In the midst of the party, Fatty, wandering around in pajamas and a bathrobe, retreats to a private room...

Maniac who stabbed nine children to death in China is executed by firing squad Villagers crowded along a Chinese road to watch police cars escort killer Zhao Zewei to an execution ground A CHINESE man who stabbed nine school children to death has been executed by firing squad. Zhao Zewei received the death sentence after being convicted of intentional homicide for the lethal knife attack which also saw him injure 11 other pupils. The execution was carried out in the Mizhi county of Shaanxi yesterday, according to a statement from the Yulin City Intermediate Court. Zhao, 28, had not appealed against the death sentence after it was approved by China's Supreme Court. He reportedly took knives into his former middle school in April to carry out revenge for bullying. Zhao launched the vicious attack in Mizhi count, north-western China, to vent his anger over being tormented while a pupil there, a court statement said. But his motives for depriving others of life were "despicable...

Just moments after this image was captured, SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau was snatched into the jaws of the orca pictured here and brutally killed. Her body was then thrashed about over the course of 45 minutes while the horrified crowd helplessly looked on. The autopsy report said that Brancheau died from drowning and blunt force trauma. Her spinal cord was severed, and she had sustained fractures to her jawbone, ribs, and a cervical vertebra. Her scalp was completely torn off from her head, and her left elbow and left knee had been dislocated. Dawn worked with orcas at SeaWorld Orlando for fifteen years. She was killed by an orca called Tilikum. Tilikum was also involved in the deaths of two other people: Keltie Byrne and Daniel P. Dukes. The orca that killed her, Tillikum, was captured in Iceland in 1983; about a year later, he was transferred to Sealand of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia.  He was subsequently transferred in 1992 to SeaWorld in Orlando, Flo...