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Legendary Short Stories
The Lonely Biker (Part 2) The Lonely Biker took a couple of drags from his smoke then took a look around at God's creation. He wasn't much for religion but believed that surely there must be a God out there that made the beauty of the world all around him. He thought about the past few years.
By Legend Gilchrist6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Monster Behind Sylvia Likens’ Murder
The notions of sex and death pervade the culuture. The corruption of and the force associated with both seem to be conceptually entwined in some crime stories. With the case of Gertrude Baniszewski, the inversion of sex and the presence of death at her hands led her to torture and eventually murder of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1965.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Legendary Short Stories
The Lone Biker He was a loner and always was. He never fit into society in any role except one: This dude was an outlaw biker. He didn't fit into any of the usual biker gangs though. They just didn't get him. Sure, he enjoy an ice cold beer with a few of his choice, select friends but they were loners just like him. Like this dude, they rode alone.
By Legend Gilchrist6 years ago in Criminal
Was Jean Harlow's former home cursed?
Harlean Harlow Carpenter was born on March 3, 1911. At 16, she married a man named Charles McGrew. However, the wedding didn’t last. Carpenter moved to Los Angeles and became Jean Harlow. In 1929, she appeared in Double Whoopee and The Saturday Night Kid. Harlow became Hollywood’s original “Blonde Bombshell.”
By Marc Hoover6 years ago in Criminal
Knives out: near events, distant eyes
Whodunnit! The term is mainly used for detective stories or crime thrillers. The word is not very old, the term was used to describe the type of detective fiction in the post-World War I era. Reading the word, it seems that the meaning of the word is same. A fiction or movie written about who actually committed a crime or murder is called by this name.
By The_unique_writer6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Freedom Summer Murders
What ought to be addressed about the racial issue is not just social but mystical. In the murders of civil rights workers Earl Chaney, 21, Michael Henry Schwerner, 24, and Andrew Goodman 20, all sought to aid the construction of a Freedom School on Mount Zion Union Methodist Church that had previously been firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Toyin Salau a Black Lives Matter activist who said she was Sexually Assaulted found Dead
The City of Tallahassee Police Department issued a missing person report on June 9th, 2020 asking the general public to help them with any information about the whereabouts of Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau. Toyin as her friends call her was young-19 years old, very talented, and articulate, an active and vocal member of the Black Lives Matter movement. BLM attracts large membership from young people and middle-aged Americans disgusted with systemic injustices and racism in America particularly in the law enforcement arena of Police Departments across the United States. Minorities are often profiled and may be pulled over for unspecified reasons for no just cause. Some minorities have become victims of police brutality and many have paid with their lives.
By Paul Oranika6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: A Dream and a Nightmare in the Same Day- The Career Girl Murders
Years before the “Central Park Five” black and brown young men saw their exoneration, a black man named George Whitmore Jr. would eventually see freedom. The case dubbed “The Career Girl Murders” left New York reeling on August 28, 1963. The day remained fraught with both terror and promise as this also marked the day of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C. But just over two hundred miles away in Manhattan, New York City, the horrific slayings of Janice Wylie, 21, and Emily Hoffert, 23, occurred.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Hear My Cry From The Other Side
The moment the world stops. You can hear yourself trying to catch your breath and your heart is pounding out of your chest. A moment a father screams out, "Oh, God No, Not My Baby" when the police came knocking at the door. It is a moment that you cannot explain or fully paint a picture of a parent's heart being ripped out of their chest. The breath was taken from you to try and grasp what was just said. Trying to remain in your body when you feel like an empty shell. Our hearts stopped beating the moment she drew her last breath, but we did not know it until the news broke and her babies were without a mom.
By Scarlett Price6 years ago in Criminal
A Lion Prowls Tonight
A Lion Prowls Tonight One enters the lion’s den with great trepidation. Even confined behind bars, in manacles, this remorseless killing machine was a sight to behold. Restless, he padded back and forth as I entered his territory, his space, and worst of all, his rules.
By Frank Talaber6 years ago in Criminal
Another One for the Road
Huge crowds, crowds larger than we have ever seen, louder than we have ever heard continue to form and march through the streets of cities large and small. And more than ever before the force driving these crowds is being reported on every day, all day on social and news media. We see it. We hear it. We feel it. So we ask: do the many voices shouting and bodies protesting in the streets mean significant change?
By Barry Blake6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The ‘In Cold Blood’ Murders
A drawing of Jesus hung in display in the chapel for more than two decades. The portrait had looked so refined and accurate that the chaplain decided that the artist warranted some kind of slice of redemption for a minor crime compared to the reason for his future execution. The artist was Perry Smith, one half of the murderous duo with Richard Hickok who brutally dispatched the Clutter family.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
