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"I Don't Like Mondays"
America has a history of school shootings dating all the way back to 1764 in which the schoolmaster of a settlers' log schoolhouse and ten students were killed during Pontiac's Rebellion. The ones that most likely come to mind are those with the highest body counts, which include the ones committed at Virginia Tech (the highest one to date with thirty-three deaths), Columbine High School, and Sandy Hook Elementary School. As shocking as those were, many people might be unfamiliar with the first-ever school shooting committed by a female. She may not have had the highest body count, but she managed to carry it all out without having to step foot onto the property. Brenda Ann Spencer told those around her that she wanted to do something big to get on TV, and she got her wish.
By Cat the Autist5 years ago in Criminal
Brandon Teena
The one True Crime story that has always stuck out in my mind is the one of Brandon Teena. Brandon was born Teena Renae Brandon on December 12, 1972 in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was born to a young widowed mother and had a difficult childhood that involved extensive sexual abuse by an uncle.
By C.T. COLE5 years ago in Criminal
The Tragedy of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon
The story of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon has always fascinated me ever since I learned about it in 2016: the story of two girls who went on a hiking trip, only to never return, chilled me to the bone the first time I heard it, and I can't say that I've ever forgotten it due to how eerie and downright surreal the entire story is.
By Arvind Pennathur5 years ago in Criminal
How 23andMe will save the world
Welcome to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Nestled slightly to the north on supernaturally stunning Vancouver Island is Saanich, Victoria’s sleepy sister burb. We do things like walk in the forest, roll our kayaks to the water’s edge, and keep chickens. It’s big news when local teens are murdered.
By Kat5 years ago in Criminal
The Murder of Ötzi the Iceman
The most fascinating true crime case I have ever heard of is also perhaps one of the oldest. By a large margin, in fact. But it did not start out as an unsolved murder.
By Charles Beuck5 years ago in Criminal
True Crime
Charlotte Pollis was born 7/4/1965, Independence Day in North America. It certainly did not turn out to be a freedom filled life for Charlotte Pollis by any stretch of the imagination because she came up missing on March 12, 1994, from her home in the small town of Girard, Ohio merely four months before her 29th birthday. She just disappeared. It was almost as if she’d never existed. I guess for people who do things like, “make people disappear,” they would love for you to forget that Charlotte Pollis existed. That makes getting away with her disappearance, and unsolved murder that much easier for them to get away with. I know that I am calling this an unsolved murder. This is something that the Girard Police have never done to date because they continue to feel that it lacks the evidence to even call it more than a missing person’s case. I on the other hand, out of respect for Charlotte and her family, want to call this case exactly what it is. I want to be realistic, and honest about this case in particular because, it appears to involve some improprieties with that very police department, but it also involves a trend during an earlier time frame in this country when men got away with murdering their spouses and no one did anything about it. Women had at one time been considered to be property of their husbands and what went on in a home, stayed there in many cases. Being abused, and beaten by spouses has gone unreported, underreported, unchecked and unprosecuted for years and years in this country. There are cold cases that have started to be solved involving spouses in recent years that are just now being prosecuted today.
By DEEJAY 5 years ago in Criminal
The Mystery of the Missing Muncie Mom
Ashley Morris Mullis of Muncie (Royerton area), Indiana, was a 27-year-old mother of three who devoted her life and love to her children. Friends described her as "the most beautiful person in the world." Ashley was well loved and kind, caring, and compassionate to those she cared about. An honest, dedicated woman, Ashley was a human being worth having around as she left nothing but happiness wherever she went.
By Dani Banani5 years ago in Criminal
Ghosts or Reality?
Was a 14 year old girl really a murder suspect, or was she just terrified of unforseen forces? Even more puzzling, what exactly does Hello Kitty have to do with a crime scene?
By K L5 years ago in Criminal
Last Sunrise in Tokyo
Tokyo was a wonderland teeming with neon lights, shining adamantine towers, and the promise of unfamiliar excitement and opportunities. This held even more true for a young foreign woman being away from home for the first time in her twenty-one years. Lucie Blackman stepped foot in Tokyo in May of 2000 resolute on taking full advantage of the experience. She was memorized by the city and enthusiastic about obtaining a well-paying job, paying off her debts, and making her dreams come true. All of those aspirations drifted away into the humid light polluted skies when she one day ventured out in high spirits and was consumed by the vilest evil.
By M.R. Cameo5 years ago in Criminal
The Night That Silenced Wyoming
My name is Holly Marie Lang born on April 5, 1983, to Al and Debbie Lang in Alexandria, LA. They were a young couple trying to find their place in the world. Growing up for me was amazing. I do not recall anything but love from my parents. They did not ever fight or yell and me being the only child, I was never starved for affection or love. I was their life, and they were mine!! My dad worked for the oil field after he got out of the Air Force and eventually decided to join Immigration of Naturalization Service. The first attack, as I call it, came around 1993 when my dad sat me down to explain that a divorce was approaching. I remember being so confused because there were no signs insinuating anything of the sorts. The new puppy and promises of two of every holiday helped me catch my breath and lightened the blow.
By Holly M Cox5 years ago in Criminal
Southwest Struggle
I landed when I was eighteen in the midst of the summer heat. Boiling not basking. Sun beating on my back. Breaking any semblance of concentration that I had.
By Preston Yeung5 years ago in Criminal
The Unsolved Case of The Girl Scout Murders.
In the early morning of June 13, 1977, a camp counselor was on her way to the showers when she found a girl’s sleeping bag near the forest and trail. Inside the sleeping bag would be an innocent victim, party naked, and brutally murdered. Tragically, it was soon found the 10 year old girl was not alone in this crime. Two other young innocent victims would be discovered in this heartbreaking brutal murder and sexual assaults.
By Emiki Vee5 years ago in Criminal