Major Crimes and True Crime

Parkmann was one of the richest men in Boston, a powerful and mean-spirited landlord. He disappeared one day trying to collect a debt from an second-rate chemistry professor at Harvard named Webster, cousin of Daniel Webster, the famous lawyer. The newly-formed Boston Police Department (formed in 1835, first in the nation) was brought in and the first Detective in America (Derastus Clapp) was on the case. The case was broken when Webster’s assistant/janitor, a man named Littlefield, discovered burned bones on the outhouse. He reported to Clapp who had all the bones collected. Parkmann had been an unusually large man and the bones were of an unusually large man. But that wasn’t proof. So the BPD went to Harvard to ask for a definitive test and they invented Forensic Dentistry, taking molds of the teeth and the police when to his dentist who positively identified them as those of Parkmann. Webster was arrested but loudly proclaimed his innocence. Even his cousin wouldn’t ...

The man who killed his pregnant wife and two beautiful daughters for his mistress. Chris Watts had a beautiful wife named Shanann and two young daughters  Bella Marie  and  Celeste Cathryn.  Shanann would often post loving posts like"Happy Husband Appreciation Day! I couldn't imagine a better man for us," .She was pregnant with their third child, a boy they were going to name  Nico , when Chris Watts killed all of them. Chris was living a dual life and was having an affair with a young colleague named Nicol kessinger, who was very much aware about his wife and children. He admitted killing his wife to marry Nicol. Shanann's body was found buried in a shallow grave and the girls had been dumped in oil tanks on the property of Watts' former employer - the Anadarko oil and gas site. It was Shanann's best friend who contacted police and got him arrested. There are so many videos where his daughter is saying that he is the best father. H...

The murder of Jeffrey Curley. Jeffrey Curley was a 10-year old Cambridge, MA boy who was abducted by Charles Jaynes and Salvatore Sicari after the two men offered to help him with his bicycle on October 1st, 1997. Sicari drove the trio to a gas station where Jaynes sexually assaulted Curley and then fatally smothered him when the boy naturally resisted. The two men then proceeded to drive up to the NH-ME border where they sexually assaulted Jeffrey’s corpse in a Manchester apartment before dumping his body in the Piscataqua River, the area in which I was living at the time. I was only a couple of years younger than Jeffrey. Fortunately, Jaynes and Sicari were caught the next day, and both received life in prison. Jaynes was actually up for parole in 2020, but it was understandably denied. This case is disturbing for the obvious reasons- who couldn’t be disturbed by child assault and murder? However, the fact that his body was found so close to where I, a boy of the...

The murder of Tia Sharp Tia was born on June 30th 2000 in Croydon (London) to her teenage mother Natalie Sharp and her father Steven Carter. She was absolutely adored by her mother and her grandmother, a teenage mom herself. When Tia was born, her mother was 18 and her grandmother was 33. Her parents split up shortly after (not sure when), he wasn’t really in the picture. Natalie later got togheter with David Niles and had 2 more kids. Tia was a fun, loving 12 year old, 4`5″ girl. She loved films, music and singing and would often pretend her BlackBerry was a microphone. On Saturday nights, she would be glued to the television for The X Factor; one day, she said, she wanted to be an actress herself. She already had one star billing: above her bed her name was spelled out in giant letters on the wall in her favourite pink. We now know, however, that Tia had a less‑than-perfect home life with her mother and stepfather. In fact, Davit and Natalie, who have two young sons — Tia’s...

On January 28, 1958, Charles Starkweather, a 19-year-old high-school dropout from Lincoln, Nebraska, and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, kill a Lincoln businessman, his wife and their maid, as part of a murderous crime spree that began a week earlier and would ultimately leave 11 people dead. The killer couple’s deadly road trip, which generated enormous media attention and a massive manhunt, came to an end the following day, when Starkweather and Fugate were arrested near Douglas, Wyoming. The crimes later inspired a slew of books, movies and music, including Terence Malick’s 1973 film “Badlands,” starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, and Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 song “Nebraska.” Growing up, Charles Starkweather was bullied and did poorly in school. He later idolized James Dean and identified with the actor’s rebellious, outsider image. Starkweather committed his first murder on December 1, 1957, when he robbed a gas station and killed the...

Miranda Barbou and Elytte Barbour were lovers who later got married. One of the things they wanted to do together was kill someone. Three weeks after their wedding, Miranda placed an ad on Craigslist offering to have s-ex with a man in exchange for $100. Troy LaFerrara was the unfortunate man who responded to the ad. Image: LaFerrara’s wife (bottom left), and LaFerrara. On November 11, 2013, Miranda and LaFerrara met at a parking lot in Hummel's Wharf, Pennsylvania. After the payment was finalized, they drove in Miranda's car to a place where they were supposed to carry out the act, but Miranda's husband, who was hiding in the backseat of the car under a blanket, jumped out and strangled LaFerrara before Miranda stabbed him to d-eath. LaFerrara's body was discovered the next day, and his last phone call led the investigators to Miranda and her husband. On September 18, 2014, they were sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole. In this cas...

The Story of Gina DeJesus and Her Kidnapping Gina DeJesus (left) was 14 years old in 2004, and so was her best friend Arlene Castro (right). The two girls were close friends. On April 2, 2004, Gina lent Arlene 50 cents so she could call her mom. They planned to have a sleepover at Gina's house. But when Arlene called her mom, she was told to come home right away. So, Arlene said goodbye to Gina, and the two friends went their separate ways. With only 50 cents left, Gina didn’t have enough money for the bus ride home, so she decided to walk instead. On her way home, Gina was stopped by Arlene’s father. He was a bus driver at her school, and she knew him well. He offered to give her a ride. But Gina never made it home. The man who took her was 44-year-old Ariel Castro. He kidnapped Gina, took her to a hidden part of his house, and chained her up. She was kept with two other women, Michelle Knight and Amanda Berry, who were also held captive by Castro. The three women...

In 1971, 46-year-old John List lost his job at a bank and couldn't bear to tell his family the truth. After a failed job search, he would later say that he had only one option: murdering his family and disappearing. He believed that without money, his family would turn away from God and therefore miss heaven. To ensure they went to heaven, he decided to murder them while their hearts were still right with God. After methodically shooting his wife, mother, and two children, List made himself a sandwich, closed all his bank accounts, and cheered for his only surviving son, John, at his high school soccer game. He gave him a ride back to their Westfield, New Jersey, home, then shot him in the chest. He slept in the mansion where his family lay dead, then walked out the door the next morning. He changed his name, relocated to Colorado, and even got married. He was arrested 18 years later and died in prison.  Continue reading

Executing The Beautiful Spectre. Seen here are several former SS camp guards and overseers executed after the first Stutthof trial, in 1946. The Stutthof trials were a series of war crime tribunals held in Poland for the prosecution of former Stutthof concentration camp staff and officials. The Stutthof concentration camp was the first German concentration camp outside German borders in WWII, located near the village of Stutthof, Free City of Danzig(now Gdánsk, Poland). Stutthof was originally a civilian internment camp, but eventually expanded and became a vast network of forced-labor camps. It turned into a regular concentration camp in early 1942. A crematorium and gas chamber were added in 1943-44, to be used as a part of the final solution. Over 60 000 prisoners of Stutthof and its subcamps died as a result of executions, disease, starvation, brutal treatment, forced labour ,and death marches after forced evacuations. Soviet forces liberated Stutthof on May...

IT was murder on the dancefloor, quite literally, in the case of James Smith. The 21-year-old didn't go to the dancehall to meet his sweetheart or show off his moves. A visit to a dance gave Smith the opportunity to fight. On November 17, 1951, the Evening Times reported on Smith's arrest, which happened hours after he killed a father-of-two. Martin Malone was among the 500 people who had poured into the Ancient Order of Hibernians at Royston Road to boogie the night away on November. The 35-year-old was at the dance with his wife, above. He had been working on board a ship at Ardrossan and arrived at his home in Acrehill Street, Blackhill, hours before the dance. His wife gave him a ticket for the dance and went ahead as she was ready. Malone joined her later and his encounter with Smith forced the couple apart forever. Smith is escorted from his court hearing The day after the dance Smith was arrested at around 5am at a house in Blackhill in connection with the murd...

Horrific details of sexual torture inflicted by Hamas on October 7 victims are revealed in new Sheryl Sandberg documentary... as sisters of missing hostage beg for her release Caroline Flack was 'being harassed by an ex-partner' which added to her stress during the court ordeal that led to her suicide, inquest documents have revealed. The former Love Island host, 40, had a stalker in the days running up to the court case following an assault on her boyfriend Lewis Burton.  Flack was found dead at her flat in Stoke Newington, London, next to a note that read 'please let this court case be dropped', the day after she heard her trial would be going ahead The harassment was adding to her stress and anxiety, according to a psychiatrist who assessed the star. The Crown Prosecution Service heard about Flack's worsening mental health in a medical report two months before she died on February 15. Coroner Mary Hassell recorded a verdict of suicide and banned r...

it’s an umbrella term for murder, rape, stalking hacking, phone bugs mail tampering, genetic harassment aND MURDERS. break ins, poisonings, forced suicides, electronic militaRY attacks, oppression, defamation, conspiracy, community harassment. it is not policing, it is illegal activity. it is not a person under surveillance. there are no legal, properly executed documents for the police to encourage anyone to target people. It is an activity who only the lacking in self worth, and street junk people would take part in. Most are paid with drugs and cigarettes. here’s one wouldn’t you love to have that living near you? here’s another i had the pleasure of speaking to this character. he was shocked and scared that i approached him. all he could say was “no”, “no”, “no” clearly, he realized, i am not the monster, “HE is the monster, because he did that become someone he trusts, lied to him and my favorite and heres payday and here’s another favorite. this idiot stood in fro...

The Case of Peter Bergmann In June 2009, a man with graying hair and a leather jacket arrived in Sligo, Ireland, on a bus. His intention, it seems, was to disappear without a trace. His whereabouts and real name remain a mystery; the only thing that is certain is that he traveled extensively to erase all evidence of his existence before dying on a beach at Rosses Point. When his body was found, he had no documents with him, nor anything that could give any clue to his identity. Even the labels on his clothes had been removed. The man arrived at the Sligo bus station on June 12, 2009 at 6:28 p.m. He was carrying a shoulder bag and a larger duffel bag. He took a taxi to the Sligo City Hotel, paid for his room in cash, and gave the name Peter Bergmann and an address in Austria. The man had a strong German accent, but investigations after his death revealed that there is no Peter Bergmann in Europe, America or South America who fits the description of the mystery man and that th...