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I don't like Mondays.
Brenda Spencer The suburbs have harbored their share of deadly women but until 1979 one of its institutions had been largely untouched by violence or death. On Monday January 29 that would change forever. This is one of the most unthinkable horrendous crimes that could ever occur in California, in the nation and in the world. The city is San Diego California, school teacher Darrell Barnes heads off for another day. He was a teacher for 38 years. He enjoyed the community and he enjoyed the kids that were there. It was a extremely pleasant experience until the incident happened across the road. from Darrell school Grover Cleveland elementary. 16 year old Brenda Spencer is home alone. Her single-parent father has left for work but Brenda isn't preparing for class. She's looking for a thrill. This Monday would spawn a hit song and become the most infamous school day in modern history.
By Lesedi Molutsi2 years ago in Criminal
From Rapper to Cannibal: The Disturbing Story of Big Lurch . Content Warning.
Antron Singleton widely known by his stage name Big Lurch, is an American rapper, poet, and convicted murderer. In April 2002, hе committеd a hеinous crimе, taking thе lifе of his 21-yеar-old roommatе, Tynisha Ysais, and еngaging in thе gruеsomе act of consuming parts of hеr body. As a result, he rеcеivеd a life sеntеncе for his actions. Before his conviction, Singleton was associated with the musical group Cosmic Slop Shop.
By Rare Stories2 years ago in Criminal
Valerie Parashumti and Jessica Stasinowsky
Love can change everything for better or for worse. In Australia in 2006 two young women shocked the country. They said that they felt like that brewing a movie, a surreal fantasy that became horrifying. In fact, a lot of us can understand murder under certain circumstances but murder for foreplay. A fatal attraction that would end in unspeakable brutality. It's the kind of thing that scares society. The city of Perth Western Australia it's a relaxed town, in a relaxed country. In December 2006, this quiet suburbia became a killing ground. Young Stacey Mitchell had been arguing with her parents and decided to leave home. Stacey being a normal fascias, 16 year old, did what many teenage girls do at some point. They have a family argument with their parents and they leave. They want to get out of the house for a few weeks. Then she went to stay with friends.
By Lesedi Molutsi2 years ago in Criminal
Mom shot her three children for a man.
Diane Downs May 19 1983, the night Springfield Oregon was turned upside down. It's 10:48 p.m. at Mackenzie William Hospital. A family car has become an ambulance. Children have been shot. It is every mother's nightmare. Three children gunned down by a complete stranger. Single mother Diane Downs is also shot in the arm. There were three children, Cheryl, Christie and Danny. Cheryl had already expired. Dr. Stephen and his medical team tried to save the two surviving children. Christie had a couple of bullet holes and she had no blood pressure, no pulse, she was pasty white and appeared to be dead. These children would gradually lose consciousness, they would be experiencing pain and their blood pressure would gradually drop. Doctors and nurses work frantically in a race against the clock. Medical attention would have to be received before critical levels of oxygen had stopped reaching the brain, at which point they would become brain-dead.
By Lesedi Molutsi2 years ago in Criminal
Vampire Lesbian Killer
Tracey Wiggington Between excitement and murder, the idea of a thrill kill shocks every society, wherever it happens. One morning the Australian city of Brisbane awoke to news of a most horrific murder. He was covered in blood, absolutely coding blood. In October 1989 detective Pat Clancy gets a case he'll never forget. I've seen some shockers believe me. This murder scene would write up here among the Tubman's. At the crime scene a naked father of five lay dead. He appeared to be stabbed in his throat, savagely slashed. When the body was rolled over. I truly thought that the head was going to detach from the body. It just almost went its own way and it was a most uncomfortable. Who could commit such a brutal crime. That first day no one could have guessed, I'd think we even considered the idea of it being a female.
By Lesedi Molutsi2 years ago in Criminal
Four Angels of death
Four Angels of death A killer’s troubling behavior can alert potential victims but for some unfortunate citizens of Vienna Austria there were no such clues. The motivation was obscure, the location unusual, the perpetrators unexpected. If this was a shocker of the world, what really happened here in Vienna, Max heads criminal investigations in Vienna's South District. In 1989 he and his team were called to the Lions General Hospital, this is the one of the darkest Hospital. They're specially dealing with very elder people. In the preceding three years an alarming number of elderly patients were dying in just one wing, pavilion five. Investigators soon found out why. It's so terrible because you never would expect in a hospital that this is a murder station. Angels of Death nurses, who kill patients usually act alone and never tell anyone, not so in this case. Angels of Death are often motivated by sympathy for their victims or a lust for attention, in pavilion 5 the motivation was very different.
By Lesedi Molutsi2 years ago in Criminal
Inside the Story of Clara Suarez: The Woman Who Took The Life of Her Cheating Husband
An American orthodontist, David Lynn Harris, co-owned a successful chain of offices with his wife, Clara Suarez Harris. The couple lived a lavish life in their opulent home in Friendswood, Texas.
By Rare Stories2 years ago in Criminal
Black Widows of Liverpool
Catherine Flannagan & Margaret Higgins A remarkable cooperative was run by a group of women in Liverpool, England, in the 1880s. Everyone has probably heard of women banding together in difficult times, but you usually assume that this will be done in a friendly manner. Former police prosecutor Angela Preben fought crime in English courts for her entire career, but her favourite case was one that occurred before she was even born. A group of women who live together are creating a network, a murder syndicate. It's an investment in death. It was an easy plan: take out an ensurance policy on everyone in their immediate circle, then kill them, one by one. In reality, there were four women who were killing. Then there were five or six more people whose only worry is about their insurance. Their little fortune was made possible by the woman's shrewdness, which also completely upended the British insurance sector.
By Lesedi Molutsi2 years ago in Criminal
Catherine Knight
Sergeant Bob Wells, a police detective, tries to forget the day he learned of one of the most horrifying crimes in Australian history. For a little while, you just kind of lost most of your senses until we actually collected them and understood that it was reality. Swimming every day is an attempt to erase the image that's still there in his subconscious. Clothes, cutlery, a glass or even trying to lead two groups in an emotional and mental capacity today. Bob Wells would be just one of the people whose lives the events of Kathryn night would forever alter. Something like horns growing out of her head or being restrained like Hannibal Lecter is what I would expect from someone who has done what Catherine has done. However, she had a fairly normal appearance. Journalist and author Peter would also be impacted. He was assigned to a story that his newspaper was unable to publish because editors decide which stories are appropriate for readers to read with breakfast in the morning. This particular story was deemed unsuitable because it was too horrific, but like many other stories about Catherine, he was drawn to it because he wanted to know if someone who could do what Catherine did was insane or not sentient. However, the court determined that Catherine was sane and could have been the person next door.
By Lesedi Molutsi2 years ago in Criminal
Ruth Ellis
London 1955 and a pretty Club hostess Ruth Ellis had no idea she was about to divide a nation and make British legal history. Goodtime girl at 19 she's running a club in the West End of London getting people to buy drinks at extortioner prizes and she would con people into spending and parting with a lot of money here in the club. Ex-policeman John Ross oversees Scotland Yard's crime Museum where Ruth Ellis is remembered. We collect items from famous cases and display them in the museum. The stories that go with all these cases, you learn from history nothing ever changes. Many men fell under Ruth's spell but only one would dominate her attention. The dashing David Blakey, self-centred racing car driver, never actually going to make it but spent all his life, rich boy, just running around enjoying himself.
By Lesedi Molutsi2 years ago in Criminal
Blanche Taylor Moore
When journalist Martha discovered the story of her career in North Carolina in 1990, people were fascinated by the brutal and cruel reality of what she had done, but they also thought she was such a nice person and couldn't have done this. Blanche Taylor Moore presented herself to the world as a compassionate Christian woman guided by her spiritual commitment, despite having two distinct personalities. Thus, no one was shocked by pledges' unwavering care when her boyfriend Raymond Reid was admitted to the hospital. The nurses attested that they thought she was a wonderful person and very caring, and that Raymond was very lucky to have someone like that, coming to see him. She was, I believe, somewhat beloved on the floor where he stayed. The syndrome known as guillain-barré was identified in Raymond. Another name for guillain-barre syndrome is French polio.
By Lesedi Molutsi2 years ago in Criminal
Janie Gibbs
Here was one more twist 23 years later. Ellen Penney has maintained her secrecy for thirty years. I've lived this entire life in reruns, so I've always remembered every little detail about everything related to it. Though in 1967 her dreams were different, she would not trade her loving family for anything. We might have followed through on our plans to get married, but he was denied that opportunity—not because God rejected him, but rather because his mother did. At the age of 15, Ellen was experiencing her first love at the age of 16, Melvin Gibbs. Under Melvin's mother Janie's watchful eye, the affair flourished. She was well-known in the church and in all of the events, but murder would end their love. Melvin appeared to be the next in line for the mysterious illness that had already claimed the father of Janie's three sons.
By Lesedi Molutsi2 years ago in Criminal
