Major Crimes and True Crime

In 1944, at Auschwitz, Ilse was just twenty years old when she was separated from her younger sister the moment the doors of the cattle car opened. In the chaos, she didn’t scream goodbye — instead, she gave a clear instruction: “Remember the numbers.” Her sister thought Ilse was talking about the number tattooed on her arm, just one more prisoner number among so many. But Ilse had hidden something special in those digits — coordinates, secretly placed inside the number. It was a kind of map, marked on her skin, meant to live on even if she didn’t. After the war ended, her sister followed the numbers and found her way to an old house near Kraków. Under a loose floorboard, she discovered a small tin box. Inside were their mother’s earrings, some letters, and one photo — the two sisters smiling under a cherry tree, holding each other close. “My sister gave me everything,” she said. “Even when she had nothing.” Continue reading

Faye Schulman, a brave resistance fighter during World War II, was born on November 28, 1919, in a small town called Lenin, Poland. She grew up in a big family and learned how to take photos from her brother Moishe. She often helped him with his photography business. On August 14, 1942, the Nazis killed 1,850 Jewish people in the Lenin ghetto. Among them were Faye’s parents, sisters, and younger brother. Only 26 people were left alive that day, and Faye was one of them—saved because she knew how to take and develop photos. The Nazis forced her to develop their photos of the massacre, but she secretly made copies for herself. During a raid by resistance fighters, Faye escaped into the forest and joined a group called the Molotava Brigade. This group was made up mostly of former Soviet soldiers who had escaped. Faye was allowed to join because her brother-in-law had been a doctor, and they badly needed anyone with even a little knowledge of medicine. Though she had no training, Faye work...

Dreadful, horrible question to ask, yet cold, cold, cruel logic provides the answer. Nazis were gathering hair of the victims not as a piece of an individual person but as something useful, as a commodity. In simple terms, they did not even want to squander anything, including the physical remains of people they were killing. Germany was engaged in a great war, the great war and the government was willing to exhaust all the possible resources. To the Nazis, the hair removed off the heads of the victims was nothing more than raw material such as wool or perhaps animal fur. They used the death camps like their factories and the hair was a commodity. They would wash the hair, disinfect the hair and stuff it into enormous bundles very tight. These were large and hefty packages they referred to as bales. These bales would be taken out of the camps and exported to German firms. What was the hair used for? It was primarily used to manufacture industrial felt. This is a heavyweight, very tough...

He was only four years old when he was taken from his home and thrown into the nightmare of Buchenwald. His name was Joseph Schlipstein, and among thousands of faces filled with fear, his was one of the youngest. In that place, there was no mercy for children. But his father refused to give up. In a desperate move, he hid Joseph inside a suitcase, keeping him out of sight from the SS guards. For a while, that small case of canvas and leather became his shelter — a thin shield against a world trying to erase him. The hiding place, however, could not stay secret forever. One day, the guards found him. And something unexpected happened: instead of punishing him, some of them — maybe out of a sudden sense of pity, maybe just on impulse — began calling him the “mascot” of the camp. It was a strange and almost unbelievable act in a place created to destroy every sign of kindness. And so, Joseph stayed alive. In 1948, when he was seven, he sat in front of an American journalist. He was still ...

Barbara Aal was born on October 20, 1938, in Amsterdam, the only child of Fritz and Julia Aal-Broches. She grew up at Nicolaas Maesstraat 136, surrounded by her loving parents and the simple joys of neighborhood friends. Photographs from those early years show her playing happily with children next door, a little girl who should have known only games, stories, and safety. Barbara’s world was small and bright, shaped by the ordinary rhythm of childhood. But behind those moments, the shadow of occupation was growing closer. She was Jewish, and by the time she turned five, the Netherlands had become a place where even the youngest were not safe from hate. In 1943, Barbara and her parents were arrested by the Nazis and sent to the Westerbork transit camp, a place where families lived in uncertainty, waiting for the trains that would decide their fate. For a while, they stayed together, her parents trying to comfort her in a world stripped of certainty and kindness. Westerbork was not yet A...

There have been many examples of crazy last words from death row inmates (how about that clever John Wayne Gacy and his immortal “Kiss my ass” right before his execution). I decided though to focus on the last words of the Lincoln assassins and conspirators. John Wilkes Booth  was a native of Maryland and somewhat of an aristocrat. He was born into a family of actors and he himself was one of the more famous actors of his day. Despite his Confederate sympathies, Booth continued to live and work in the North throughout the Civil War. As the war was coming to a close and it was clear the Confederacy was doomed Booth and a few associates hatched a desperate plot. Just maybe, they decided, the South still had a chance if they could kidnap President Lincoln and take him to Richmond where he would be ransomed in exchange for independence. Unfortunately for them, Lincoln failed to appear where the gang expected him. Days later the Confederate army of Robert E. Lee surrendered, effectively...

CAUGHT ON VIDEO: 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL BRUTALLY ATTACKED BY ADULT WOMAN INSIDE MCDONALD'S IN CALIFORNIA LOMITA, Calif. -- Family members and community leaders are calling for justice after a 13-year-old was attacked and beaten inside a Southern California McDonald's, an incident that was captured in a now-viral video. Kassidy Jones told her mom that she was walking out of the restroom inside the Lomita restaurant last week when the woman seen in the video locked eyes with her. She said the woman seemed upset and said that she fights kids. That's when the teenager says she was attacked for no reason. In the video, the adult woman is seen pulling Kassidy's hair, forcing her to the ground and hitting her multiple times. "My daughter is hurting emotionally. She can't sleep at night. She's bruised... She doesn't want to go to school because she's tired of the kids and everybody asking her what happened and making fun of her," said Angelina Gray, her moth...

Shocking moment young woman punches a man in the face sending him reeling to the floor in bizarre street brawl outside a pub A young woman floored a guy with a huge right hook in a bizarre street fight outside a pub in broad daylight. The two men were seen on a video having a fight in the road. One wearing navy and white shorts and a tracksuit top pushed the other in a black jumper and grey trousers. The second man then threw his rucksack at him which then fell on the floor spilling milk amid what appears to he the sound of glass smashing. A man in a blue chequered shirt was seen watching on before the blonde-haired woman appears and picks up the bag. The pair of young men grabbled on the floor as she dragged the one in grey trousers off and he stumbled away. But when the other man punched the woman she barely flinched. She then landed a powerful blow on him sending him sprawling two metres backwards onto the ground. Two other young women watched on as the man got up and tried to throw...

Teenage girl allegedly lured to fake party and 'tortured by three other girls' posts harrowing TikTok video - as her terrified family is forced into hiding The 13-year-old girl who was allegedly tortured for five hours by three girls after being invited to a fake party has posted an emotional TikTok video. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, filmed herself lying in bed as she zooms in on her swollen face and badly bloodshot right eye. She mouths the words 'change your name or change your mind and leave this f***ed up place behind' as the Roar song Christmas Kids plays over the video. Three girls aged 12, 13 and 14 have been charged with luring the alleged victim her to a fake party and torturing her - with horrific footage of the alleged incident posted online. Footage allegedly shows the girl being tied up, burnt and stomped on, with knives thrown at her and bottles broken over her face at a home in Tewantin, west of Noosa in the Sunshine Coast's n...

8 Year Old Boy Disappears Every Night, Then Dad Secretly Follows Him And Realizes Why When he began to notice that his son was taking longer than usual to come home after school, Barry knew something was up. Then, when his son suddenly didn’t have pocket money for toys or treats, alarm bells went off in his mind. But when he secretly followed him one day, what he uncovered left him appalled. Hello wonderful people! I’m Scott Lefler for Wonderbot, and here is the story of an eight-year-old boy who disappears every night. Then, his dad secretly follows him and learns the tear-jerking secret. Ken Amante, who was only eight years old at the time, lived in the rural town of Davio City in the Philippines with his parents. Even at such a young age, Ken was remarkably responsible. Every day he’d walk to school and back. But when he started to arrive home later and later, his dad knew something strange was going on. Barry Amante was a hard-working man; he ran a small business as a car mechanic....

Spa Center Owner Brutally Beats Female Partner From Northeast, Tears Her Clothes; Watch Video A shocking incident has come to light from Gujarat`s Ahmedabad where an owner of a local spa assaulted his business partner outside the shop. The assault was captured on the CCTV camera. A heart-wrenching video of brutality against women has surfaced from Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The video showed that a man was assaulting a lady on the Sindhu Bhawan Road market complex. As soon as the CCTV footage of the assault incident went viral, the police swung into action. The accused has been identified as Mohsin and he is the owner of a Spa. The lady is said to be his business partner.  The video is of September 25. It shows that Mohsin first brutally dragged her and then beat her. A young man even tried to save the victim but Mohsin still continued beating the victim. While the lady had not lodged any FIR, the police traced the girl after watching the video and then counselled her to file an FIR. The a...

Girl slapped over 20 times in suspected bully video Members of a suspected juvenile gang slapped a girl over 20 times on a rooftop in a suspected bullying incident, videos of which have been widely circulated on social media. A girl forced to kneel on the ground was slapped in the face by multiple assailants, both male and female. One alleged gang member questioned the victim in Mandarin, while several other onlookers and attackers berated the girl in Cantonese, saying that “half of Hong Kong hates you”. The incident seems to have taken place in Hong Kong, based on a comment made by one gang member regarding the victim’s “return to Hong Kong”. Watch the video below The video sparked heated discussion among netizens. “They’re leaving evidence of their own crimes online,” one user said. “Why is she being attacked?” asked another.  Continue reading

POLICE BODY CAM FOOTAGE NEW VIDEO OF WRONGFULLY CONVICTED MAN SHOT DEAD BY COPS A man who spent 16 years in prison for a wrongful conviction was shot to death by Georgia police during a traffic stop ... and it was all caught on video. Leonard Cure was pulled over in his pickup truck by a sheriff's deputy Monday morning after he was clocked going over 100 miles per hour in a 70 MPH zone on Interstate 95 in Camden County, GA. Police dashboard and body cam footage released Wednesday caught every bit of the violence that led to Cure's death. Check it out ... the deputy orders Cure out of his truck and tells him to place his hands on the rear of the vehicle. Cure insists he's done nothing wrong and yanks his arm away as the deputy tries to grab it. The deputy then pulls his TASER and again demands Cure put his hands on the truck. This time Cure complies, but the deputy then asks him to move his hands behind his back. Cure becomes agitated and starts questioning why he was pulled...

A Mother Killed Her Baby To Escape A Horrible Predicament In February 1775, a Danish woman killed her four month old baby. When Authorities found her, she told them she would happily die for her crime. But why? Because at the time, a murder was more forgivable than suicide A woman slit the throat of her own baby. The crimes were part of a wave of suicide-murders in the 17th and 18th centuries - a wave that swept through much of Europe but was especially common in Denmark. Insane though it may sound, people used to commit murder just so they could get executed. They even researched what crimes incurred the death penalty to guarantee they would die. During that time in history, suicide was not only a crime - it also meant your soul would be condemned to Hell for eternity. Unlike people who committed public suicide, suicide-murderers were terrified of killing themselves - and so they committed capital crimes punishable by death. Unlike the suspicious suicides in history, these murderers w...