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What if the Killer Was an Ideology, Not a Person?
My anxiety-ridden mind is prone to chronic overthinking and scaling minor doubts into full-blown freakouts. Case in point, when I first moved to Ottawa for university, I was terrified. I had endured the 6-hour flight alone. It was my first time in Canada, and I had no family and no friends here, so there was no one to pick me up from the airport. Everything felt foreign, and my mind kept turning over a singular thought: what if I disappeared?
By Laquesha Bailey5 years ago in Criminal
Love Prevails: Red Campitelli
Alicia "Red" Campitelli was a 35 year old well known piercing artist at DaVinci Tattoo and Body Piercing, and resident on Merritt Island in Brevard County, Florida. Everyone who met her, loved her. Friends, family, and clients stated she was a caring person and brought that same energy to her work space; making her clients feel comfortable when having their piercings done. She had worked at the piercing and tattoo parlor for 7 years; many people made appointments to be done specifically by her.
By Rachel Slater5 years ago in Criminal
The Story of Sarah Payne: Every Parent's Nightmare
It is every parent’s worst nightmare come to life. Your children are outside playing, they are with others, and it should be safe. There is no way that an inconceivable atrocity beyond thought could happen to them. Unfortunately, this is what happened to eight-year-old Sarah Payne on the 1st of July 2000. Young Sarah had been playing with her siblings Luke, Lee, and Charlotte in a cornfield close to her grandfather’s house.
By J.B. Miller5 years ago in Criminal
When Stalking Leads To Murder
Kerry Power was a 36-year-old primary school assistant in Plymouth who sadly lost her life at the hands of her ex-partner, David Wilder, 41, in the early hours of the morning on the 14th of December 2013. Her 10-year-old son was asleep, upstairs the whole time and found her body when waking up in the morning. This case was big in my area, not because of the suspect but because this brought up many issues with the police and helped make needed changes in the force.
By YesItsMocha5 years ago in Criminal
Murder on Valentine's Day: Paralympic Star Oscar Pistorius
South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to 6 years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, model and law student Reeva Steenkamp. The crime took place back in February 2013. Pistorius shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp several times through a bathroom door in his home in Pretoria.
By Sam Writes Security5 years ago in Criminal
Chris Benoit
A little while ago I was having a conversation with a good friend of mine. I had brought up my belief that there's something very wrong with our society. We have this strange obsession with these monsters that live and breathe amongst us. We constantly talk about them instead of the victims, we have their names and stories burned into our memories instead of the lives of their victims. Then we inadvertently reward this behavior, by giving them endless media attention and straight-up Netflix documentaries. From "Don't f*ck with cats" to "American Murder", etc. Worst of all in my opinion we talk about them while they're still breathing. It's one thing to talk about monsters in a historic sense especially with say the worst of the worst Hitler, Mussolini, Genghis Khan, etc etc. They're long gone. But I refuse to speak their names or put the names of monsters that are still alive, in my articles in any way shape or form. I am a firm believer if we as a society refuse to learn these monsters names instead of fawning over them, we take away their power and truly show that we shun their horrendous behavior. Think, when you were in grade school and a very effective but non confrontational way to stand up to a bully was to let them know you refuse to get bullied by them and you won't give them the satisfaction of a response. We need to apply that same principal so we don't keep unintentionally breeding these monsters.
By Dyllon Rodillon5 years ago in Criminal
What Really Happened to D.B. Cooper
On November 24, 1971, an unknown man hijacked a plane headed from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington. He demanded $200,000 and 4 parachutes, which he received in Seattle. He then instructed the pilots to take off again, this time towards Mexico. Shortly thereafter, he leapt out of the back of the plane and into pop culture lore.
By Ron Kretschmer5 years ago in Criminal
