Victoria Velkova
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With a passion for words and a love of storytelling.
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24 Years In Her Father's Captivity
Elisabeth Fritzl, at 18 years old, disappeared on August 28, 1984. In a panic over her daughter's location, Rosemarie's mother immediately filed a missing-persons report. Elisabeth's parents were left to worry about the worst after weeks of no communication. A letter from Elisabeth then appeared out of nowhere, explaining that she had fled her family because she had grown weary of it.
By Victoria Velkova3 years ago in Criminal
Death in a suitcase - Sarah Boone recorded her boyfriend's murder
In February 2020, Winter Park, Florida resident Sarah Boone zipped her 42-year-old lover Jorge Torres Jr. into a suitcase. She informed authorities that she had believed he might escape the suitcase since they had been playing a game of hide-and-seek when she discovered him dead the next morning. Detectives' discovery of videos on her cellphone revealed a very different narrative.
By Victoria Velkova3 years ago in Criminal
The Real Story Of The Movie "Orphan"
The early years of Barbora Skrlová are hardly known. Since her case gained widespread attention, no official documents have been made public. Barbora, on the other hand, had a severe form of hypopituitarism, which prevents her pituitary gland from producing adequate hormones, which slowed her growth. She appeared like a 13-year-old when she was ultimately taken into custody.
By Victoria Velkova3 years ago in Criminal
Parents of Anatoly Moskvin believed he collected antique dolls, but they were actually young mummified girls
History was one of Anatoly Moskvin's passions. He was a journalist in Nizhny Novgorod, the fifth-largest city in Russia, spoke thirteen languages and traveled a lot. Moskvin also referred to himself as a "necropolyst" and claimed to be an expert on cemeteries.
By Victoria Velkova3 years ago in Criminal
The Free-Walking Cannibal With Plans to Eat People Once More
Issei Sagawa had been planning to kill, mutilate, and devour Renée Hartevelt for 32 years when he finally did it in 1981. Sagawa was a student of comparative literature in Paris at the time of his crime. He was promptly taken into custody and given a psychiatric institution term. He was able to check himself out of a separate psychiatric institution after his extradition to Japan, however, because to a legal loophole, and he is still free today.
By Victoria Velkova3 years ago in Criminal
The Story Of The "Toy Box Killer". Top Story - July 2022.
Cynthia Vigil, then 22 years old, was hooking in an Albuquerque, New Mexico, parking lot on March 19, 1999, when a man posing as an undercover police officer told her she was being arrested for soliciting sex work and put her in the back of his car.
By Victoria Velkova4 years ago in Criminal
Jeffrey Dahmer, frequently saving his victims' skulls or genitals
Jeffrey Dahmer: Who Was He? Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer was an American serial murderer who murdered 17 men. Dahmer stalked men, usually African Americans, at gay clubs, malls, and bus stops for more than 13 years, luring them home with promises of money or sex and then strangling them to death with booze mixed with narcotics. He would then perform sex activities on the bodies before dismembering and disposing of them, frequently saving their skulls or genitals as keepsakes. He regularly photographed his victims at various phases of the murder procedure so that he could recall and relive the event later.
By Victoria Velkova5 years ago in Criminal
A house decorated with the body parts of women?
On November 16th, 1957 officers in Plainfield Wisconsin walked into one of the most gruesome crime scenes in history. On a remote farm they found a house decorated with the body parts of women. There were waste paper baskets made from heads. Chairs upholstered with human skin. Masks made from tripled faces. It was a house of horrors unlike anything the state had seen before and it was all the work of one man - Ed Gein.
By Victoria Velkova5 years ago in Criminal
15 Eerie Things About Japan's Suicide Forest
Northwest of the majestic Mount Fuji is the sprawling 13.5 square miles of Aokigahara, a forest so thick with foliage that it's known as the Sea of Trees. But it's the Japanese landmark's horrific history that made the woods a fitting location for the spooky horror film The Forest. Untold visitors have chosen this place, notoriously called The Suicide Forest, as the setting for their final moments, walking in with no intention of ever walking back out. Here are a few of the terrible truths and scary stories that forged Aokigahara's morbid reputation.
By Victoria Velkova5 years ago in Horror
