A.W. Naves
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Writer. Author. Alabamian.
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The Vampire of Dusseldorf
“Tell me, after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.” — reported final words of Peter Kürten before his execution
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal
Rescue Me
I grew up in a small town. I mean, really small. Our population usually hovered somewhere around five hundred, but it didn't count the many of us that lived outside the city limits. We lived in what most people there called "the middle of nowhere." Our house was separated from the main highway by a large field and a long gravel drive. That drive is where my story begins.
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Petlife
Murderer and “Necro Lord” Sentenced to Two Life Sentences
David Fuller murdered and raped two women in 1987, but it is his later crimes most people have found even more horrifying. Fuller became known as the “morgue monster” after he was charged with raping the deceased bodies held in the morgue in the hospital where he worked.
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal
The Value of Social Media Through the Eyes of a Dead Pig
The small southern town I grew up in was made up mostly of farmers. the majority of our neighbors were at least a half-mile away and not visible from our home. A few neighbors, however, weren’t a part of the farming community. There were a growing number of residents who worked in a nearby city that housed a number of high-tech companies, including a NASA facility — but I’ll get back to this later.
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Families
The Disappearance of Annie McCarrick
Annie Bridget McCarrick is an American woman who went missing in Ireland shortly after her 27th birthday. Annie was born in Long Island, New York on March 26, 1966. She began traveling back and forth for school in Dublin, Ireland in 1987 and finally relocated there in January 1993.
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal
Two Ohio Men Convicted on Assorted Child Rape, Bestiality, and Pornography Charges
In August 2019, two Lockland, Ohio men were arrested on a mix of charges related to child rape and pornography. Police were forced to scour hundreds of pornographic images posted online hoping to identify the children being victimized in them. The images, which included child bestiality and satanic rituals, were discovered during rape investigations in the Ohio counties of Clermont and Hamilton.
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal
Years of Harassment End in Murder Conviction for Diabolical Killer
36-year-old Dave Kroupa had gotten used to the endless text messages and emails being sent to him by a woman he dated. After all, he’d been getting them for more than three years. At first, they were full of jealousy and hate directed at him and his on and off again girlfriend, but as time passed, they grew increasingly more threatening in nature.
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal
Camp Fire Girl Rape and Strangulation Cold Case Solved After 62 Years
In March 1959, nine-year-old Candy Rogers went out to sell mints for the Camp Fire Girls in her Spokane, Washington neighborhood. She never returned. Weeks later, her body was found in nearby woods. For 62 years, her killer’s identity has been a mystery. Now, we finally have answers.
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal
The Ice Cream Man Cometh for His Revenge
On January 23, 2010, Michael Keetley was making his usual rounds through a southeast Hillsborough County neighborhood in his purple ice cream truck when he was robbed and shot. The attack left him partially disabled, with restricted hand movements. In the months that followed, he had multiple surgeries to repair the damage. He underwent one surgery to repair fractured fingers on his left hand and a humerus fracture to his right arm. A little over a month later, he had a bone graft surgery on his left hand and a bullet removed from his back. The following June, he had surgery on his left hand to repair a scar that had formed from bone graft surgery.
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal
The Cruel Torment and Murder of 6-Year-Old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes died on June 16, 2020, at his home in Cranmore Road, Solihull, UK. His death occurred after several months of constant physical abuse at the hands of his stepmother and father culminated in an attack that left the 6-year-old boy with an “unsurvivable” brain injury.
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal
Without a Trace—The Disappearance of 4-Year-Old Nyleen Kay Marshall
Nyleen Kay Marshall was only a few months shy of her fifth birthday when she disappeared while at a ham radio gathering with her family and others at a campground in the Elkhorn Mountains in Helena, Montana.
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal
Kevin Bradshaw — Missing from Rome, GA since September 10, 2021
On September 10, 2021, at around 9:30 p.m., James Kevin Bradshaw’s sister dropped him off behind a friend’s house on South McLin Street in South Rome, Georgia. No one has heard from him since. Security cameras in the area had already been taped over by the time they could be retrieved from store owners for examination, and no one has seen or talked to him.
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal
