Major Crimes and True Crime

Blood and Hatred, 1994 Seen here is a Hutu man showing the scars that he sustained during a machete attack. He was a prisoner in a concentration camp during the Rwandan mass killings, which saw Hutu militias kill what is thought to be 500,000 - 1,000,000 people in 3 months. The Rwandan Civil War was a brutal conflict that occurred in Rwanda between 1990 - 1994. It occurred between two ethnic groups, called the Hutus (majority) and the Tutsis (minority). It began when the Tutsi Rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, led an uprising against the Hutu government after the Hutus seized power in the 1950s. The fighting lasted for 4 years and was marked by extremely brutal killings and rape. In 1994, when the Hutu president was assassinated, Hutu extremists began to mass kill Tutsis and Hutus who did not support the mass killings. In 100 days, about 800,000 people were killed. Outside of Rwanda, intervention by other countries was slow and afterwards wa...

The execution of lon Antonescu, Conducător of Romania (1940-1944), 1 June 1946 For those who don't know who he is, a summary lon Victor Antonescu was born into a middle-class family. He attended military schools in Craiova and laşi, Romania, and graduated the Cavalry School as top of class in 1904. In 1907, he took part in the peasants' revolt in the city of Galați. In 1911, he graduated from the military academy and was commissioned as an officer. In 1913, he was decorated during the Second Balkan War. Then, in WW1, he was Marshal Constantin Prezan's chief of staff and was vital in Romania's successful defence against German troops. After WW1, he was a military attaché in Paris and London. Returning to Romania in 1926, he very quickly gained more and more authority, being appointed by King Carol Il to be the Defence Minister in 1937, then Prime Minister in Sep 1940. In an act out of his ambition, only two days after he became Prime Minister, he forced K...

A young member of the Milice française, a paramilitary force created by France's Vichy Regime (with German aid) is secured and readied to be executed for collaboration by a Resistance firing squad. Grenoble, France. 2 September 1944. The Milice française (French Militia), generally called la Milice (literally 'the militia'; French pronunciation: [milis]), was a political paramilitary organization created on 30 January 1943 by the Vichy regime (with German aid) to help fight against the French Resistance during World War II. The Milice's formal head was Prime Minister Pierre Laval, although its chief of operations and de facto leader was Secretary General Joseph Darnand. It participated in summary executions and assassinations, helping to round up Jews and résistants in France for deportation. It was the successor to Darnand's Service d'ordre légionnaire (SOL) militia. The Milice was the Vichy regime's most extreme manifestation of fascism. Ultimately, Darnan...

On June 23, 1993, John Wayne Bobbitt was rushed to Prince William Hospital after a very particular phone call for help: the man declared that his wife had castrated him during the night and had run away, taking his member with her. The woman was Lorena Bobbitt, who in the meantime had taken refuge with a friend, and it was through her statement that the police found the man's penis. In fact, his wife had thrown it out of the window of her car in a field in front of a 7-Eleven. Thanks to a nine-hour operation conducted by Dr. James Sehn, a urologist, and David Berman, a plastic surgeon, they managed to save his life and literally sew his member back together. The story, however, suddenly took on a less dark tone, turning into a real show: the life of the two spouses became public through a trial broadcast entirely on TV. We learn every little detail of the two protagonists' experiences: she, of Ecuadorian origin, married a man and with him the American dream, but...

Shoko Asahara/aum shinrikyo Shoko asahara lived a somewhat normal life in japan,although he was quite the school bully,often extorting other students for money and or beating them. But things began to get serious when he was charged for practicing pharmacy without a liscense,and selling unreregulated drugs.he also began to take big interest in religion around this time,which would play a big role later on 3 years after being arrested,his interest in religion grew to a point where he formed a religion called aum shinsen no kai,and even changed his name to shoko asahara (his birth name was Chizuo Matsumoto).he later changed the religions name to aum shinrikyo in 1987. The religion believed that shoko asahara was related to god,and he could share power with his followers.he also blamed the british royal family,the dutch,rival japanese religions,freemasons,and jews for starting various conspiracy theories. Asahara preached that the end was nigh,and that ww3 would happen as nuclear flames e...

In 1983 David Steffen was convicted for the rape and murder of 19 year old Cincinnati Girl Karen Range. David Steffen a door to door sales man admitted the murder but insisted he didn’t rape her and couldn’t explain how they found semen in her body. He was given the death penalty due to the sexual motive for the crime. In 2008 to appeal his sentence his attorney got the D.N.A sample tested and it turned out it wasn’t a match for David. Instead it belong to Kenneth Douglas a coroner's technician who worked at the Hamilton County’s morgue were Karen's body was being kept. Kenneth Douglas In the strange twist of weirdness during the course of his 16 years working at the morgue Kenneth Douglas had been assaulting hundreds of female corpses. Due to these new outcomes David Steffen won his appeal and the Judge commuted his sentence to life in prison with no possibility for parole. Kenneth Douglas was given three years for gross indecency with a corpse....

magine this: you're at home alone, sleeping. 6 AM in the morning, you hear someone call a name, softly. You open your eyes, turn your head, and see two masked men standing beside your bed, armed with machetes glistening, staring down at you. You're frozen in fear, heart pounding. One of them takes a closer look at you... leans in... examines your face... takes your hand... and... .... shakes it. Says, "sorry, mate." They leave; turns out they didn't come to kill you. Whew. This happened to a man in New South Wales, Australia. Two men were hired by a male client with weird sexual fantasies to roleplay some sort of rape fantasy - by breaking into his house, tying him up and tickling him with a broom. However, the Client had moved away, without sufficiently updating his two playmates. In moves a new guy, a new Resident. He wakes up to a scene like the one we just imagined. When the men called out the name of the Client, the Resident turned on the light. He saw them s...

Born in Tarheel on February 17, 1933, Blanche Kiser was the daughter of a Baptist minister, a heavy drinker who forced the young woman to prostitute herself to pay off his gambling debts. She married James Taylor at a young age to escape her father's abuse, and their first daughter, Vanessa, was born in 1953, the same year Blanche went to work as a head cashier at a Kroger supermarket in Burlington. In 1959, another child, Cindi, arrived, but life did not continue peacefully: James turned out to be a compulsive gambler and alcoholic who disappeared for entire weekends, spending all the family's money. Blanche meanwhile had numerous affairs with co-workers, sparking violent arguments at home. In 1962, the woman focused her attention on twenty-seven-year-old Raymond Reid, who arrived as the new assistant manager of Kroger, at the time married with two children. Three years after the first meeting between the two, they began a relationship, despite her sporadic fli...

Joseph Samuel was a scoundrel who was sentenced to capital punishment on September 26, 1803. Led to the gallows, the noose was tied tightly around his neck and after a quick prayer the trap door was opened. At the time the ropes used were made of hemp and could support a weight of 450 kg for 5 minutes. Yet Samuel's rope broke. The executioner prepared another rope, but it slipped from his neck shortly after he remained suspended in the air. The executioner prepared yet another rope, forced Samuel to climb on it, tied the noose around his neck and after checking that he had done a good job he opened the trap door... The rope broke again. At this point the governor intervened and after having inspected the ropes and found no anomalies, decided to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. Continue reading

On February 23, 2018, Doyle Lee Hamm, 61, became the third person since 1946 to walk away alive from an execution in America. Sentenced to death in the state of Alabama for an armed robbery that ended with the murder of a motel night watchman, Hamm spent 30 years on death row before his execution date by lethal injection was set. The date was not without its problems, as the prisoner developed lymphoma and basal cell carcinoma, making it difficult, according to the medical staff, to execute him according to the normal Alabama protocol. Despite these problems and despite his upper limbs being unusable for the purpose, the IV execution team tried, unsuccessfully, to use Hamm's lower limbs and ankles. From that moment on, about three hours passed during which the team tried in every way to reach the venous channels of the condemned, inserting about ten needles that also perforated his bladder and femoral artery. At the stroke of midnight, the execution warrant expired ...

Botched Execution…To the Worst …By Hanging…. Refrential Image Eva Dugan Case …. 21 Feb ,1936…p Eva was born in 1878 , Salisbury, Missouri,She later married and had two Children (a son & daughter) but her husband abandoned the family leaving them destitute ,She relocated herself with her Children couple times with doing some Job to support her family…. Arizona… Many years later ,she moved to Pima County and worked for an elderly chicken Rancher , Andrew J Mathis as a housekeeper, Andrew had previously served time in prison… Dugan Became a live-in housekeeper of Andrew J Mathis ,Soon Employer/employee relation ship turned into hate due to Mathis hated her Cooking ,Mathis Fired Eva Dugan from the Job and the next morning on 27 January ,1927 ,Mathis disappeared as did some of his possession his expensive car ,Cash box , Neighbours reported that Dugan has tried to sell some of his possession before she disappeared as well. Investigation…. ...