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Reason First: Monster Matriarch- The Death Row Granny
Roach, ant poison, and iced tea don’t make for the best cocktail. Yet Velma Margi Barfield thought this would be the perfect drink for her fiancé to imbibe. For her actions, she would become the first woman to die by lethal injection. But not before advocates argued her sentence be commuted because Barfield had recently become a born-again.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Story of Diogo Alves
Diogo Alves- Diogo Alves was a Spanish-born Portuguese serial killer. Between 1836 to 1840 Alves killed seventy people. His committed crimes were all around Águas Livres Aqueduct. On February 19, 1841 Alves was sentenced to death and hanged. Alves’ head was separated from his body. His head was placed in a flask so it could be preserved for scientific purposes. His head is at University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine where his head is now a tourist attraction.
By Drake Waggoner5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Decisions and Chemicals- The Shoe Fetish Slayer
Childhood trauma and mistreatment seem to cut like blades through the psyches of numerous killers, and Jerry Brudos was no exception. His mother dressed him up as a girl, because she was dissatisfied that he wasn’t born a girl. So by the age of five, Brudos had developed a fetish for women’s shoes.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
How Long Should We Punish Shamelessly Privileged, Fraudulent White Folk?
Appearing on an episode of Jada Pinkett Smith’s “Red Table Talk”, Oliva Jade Giannulli, the daughter of Full House actress Lori Loughlin, spoke openly this week about the college bribery scandal that rocked the nation two years ago.
By Gillian Sisley5 years ago in Criminal
Spotting a Lie
In a police interrogation room, somewhere in North America, a detective is interviewing a suspect in several house invasions. As the detective asks a series of questions designed to dismantle the suspect's defence, he also observes his [the suspect] eyes, which are moving straight to the left as he provides the answers. This case of "shifty eyes" immediately alerts the interviewer to a lie, and he proceeds to conclude that the suspect is guilty – and of course, in this case, the detective is more than likely wrong.
By Peyton J. Dracco5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Slayer Orderly- Donald Harvey
Donald Harvey was no Jack Kevorkian, no “Angel of Mercy” helping people choose the time of their death. He murdered people instead of alleviating their pain with measured actions. As an orderly in the hospitals of Cincinnati, Ohio, and London, Kentucky, his methods included suffocating, pulling tubes from oxygen tanks, poisoning his victims with cyanide and arsenic, and overdosing people on insulin and morphine.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
