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The year is 1998. The place is Novosibirsk in the newly formed state of Russia. A dead woman's body is discovered in an area known as the "drunken road"- a red light district. A trail of other bodies is soon to follow, all mutilated in the same fashion. Sounds like a script from a horror movie, doesn't it? This would be the first in a series of murders from late 1990s to mid-2000s, nineteen total. All prostitutes. The first woman's body was found...
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Missing persons cases are frighteningly frequent in the United States of America. Approximately, 100,000 people are on that list every single day. Surely, those individuals do not vanish in groups. So when five boys from Newark, New Jersey disappeared on one August night in 1978, the authorities were in disbelief. These cases are so baffling, and the investigators explored numerous possibilities throughout the decades including wild theories and psychic...
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Lisa and Rob Whedbee seemed to have it all. He ran a successful insurance business; she was the former high school cheerleader whose pretty looks, blonde hair and bouncy personality made her the centre of social gatherings.
Indeed, their romance was like something out of one of those middle-class Disney movies the company poured out in the seventies. Rob was the football team captain; the jock with brains as well as brawn; the guy who got the girl...
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David Berkowitz, aka the Son of Sam, plead guilty to eight separate attacks that terrorized New York City in the hot summer of 1976. His weapon of choice was a.44 caliber revolver which he used to kill the six and wound seven others. The attacks put the entire city on alert and Berkowitz managed to elude New York's finest for over a month as he taunted them with letters. After his arrest, he confessed to the crimes but maintained he was under orders...
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Garza built and controlled an intricate drug trafficking enterprise, having a hand in at least three murders. However, it is believed he played some part in another five killings — including that of his son-in-law — for which he was never tried.
In his forty-four years on earth, Garza married a woman — Elizabeth — who would stand by him no matter what he did. Together, they had four children — Juan Jr, Elizabeth (after her mother), Maribel,...
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McCamey, Texas. A town of less than two thousand people, out in the scorching Texas desert, where downtown is a stretch of black road with marginally more buildings on either side. McCamey is the type of town that lies, more or less, entirely forgotten by the rest of the United States, down in the deep heat of Texas. It was in McCamey, in 1940, that Gary Mark Gilmore was born. Gilmore would have, perhaps, gone one to live and die a completely unnoticed...
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On February 14, 2007, Stephen Grant walked into Macomb County Sheriff's Office a little before 11 a.m. He told the desk sergeant that he wanted to report his wife Tara missing. Turning to the deputy manning the desk with him, the sergeant asked him to call detective Bill Hughes, a 20-year veteran in the police force, to the lobby. Hughes invited Stephen into his office, and sat silently as Stephen immediately began rambling on about Tara Lynn Grant's...
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A True Crime collection of registered nurses who chose murder over caregiving...Not too far from the coast of the east Auckland suburb of Orakei lies Paritai Drive, one of the most coveted streets in New Zealand. A long, winding street lined with more than one hundred houses worth millions of dollars, it is where you will find some high-profile residents, from business moguls to reality TV stars. With such a prestigious reputation, it's difficult...
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Andrea Yates was, and still is, a devoutly religious woman. She did, and still does also suffer from severe depression and could justifiably be called 'insane'. In fact, that's what she's been called by the courts- for having murdered her young family, one by one, in one of the most shocking criminal cases in recent American history.Her crime was drowning each of her five children over the course of just one hour, before laying them down in bed as...
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There is nothing more appealing than a murder that has all the right elements. There needs to be a pretty girl with sex appeal, a lot of money, and, of course, someone else to blame. There are a lot of reasons to kill someone. Some people do it out of hatred. Some people do it for personal advancement. Some people do it simply because they are evil people. No one will ever be certain if or why this particular murder occurred, but the speculation around...
752) Serial Killer Nurse
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"Hi, my name is Niels. I'll be your nurse today" - Niels Hoegel introducing himself to his future victims. Niels Högel may be the most prolific serial killer in modern European history. Using a facade of a 'nice guy', he endeared himself to patients and staff at a German hospital before confessing to killing over thirty people. Later investigations would reveal, however, that the actual death rate was a lot higher.
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Two fourteen year old girls were visiting a friend at Leigh Park, Havant, in Hampshire. They knocked on the door of the friend's flat and found that she wasn't home. They decided to wait for her at a neighbor's flat. Having been there before, one girl was sure they would be fine at the home of the neighbor, who had a six-year-old son living with him. The man, Peter Tobin, gladly let them in, and assured them that they could wait for as long as they...
754) Four Evil Sisters
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These four women that have since been described as "demons from hell", the Gonzalez sisters ran numerous brothels in Mexico during the 1930s-1960s. They ran these houses of ill-repute with a sadistic glee, enticing young women from throughout the region with promises of big money. These young girls would then find themselves subject to torture and other degradations before being murdered as their usefulness elapsed. Abortions would be performed on...
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Gary Hilton will not walk free again. One way or another, he is going to die in prison. If the gurney does not get him, then old age will. Currently, he sits in his cell paying penance for the deaths of four people including that of Cheryl Dunlap, whom he murdered in the Apalachicola National Forest, which lies in the north of Florida. He received the death penalty for that homicide.
'He will most likely die in prison and most certainly never see...
756) Stranglers
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They targeted their vicims...stalked them...then strangled them to death. Two of the most vicious serial killers in history are profiled in this psychological study of their lives and crimes. Timothy Spencer Wilson had an intense hatred of women and used his cat burglar skills to gain entry into his victim's homes during a reign of terror that lasted several years. Steven Wright looked to be an everyday bartender...he had a double life, however, as...
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Ashleigh Robinson, 19, and her 16-year-old sister Holly committed the "Judas-like" murder of their dad Antoni Robinson—getting their boyfriends to do the killing.
It is a story straight out of a twisted crime thriller, involving money, real estate and jewelry. The two sisters came up with teh pot to kill their sixty-one year old father, a successful antiques dealer with their boyfriends Gordon and Sacha. Hours before the gruesome murder, Ashleigh...
758) The Bikini Killer
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There are few serial killers quite as successful as Charles Sobhraj. Fluent in several languages, extremely intelligent, and known for his irresistible charms with women, Sobhraj lived a life of nonstop thievery, murder, drugs, and scandal. His unstoppable resourcefulness allowed him to escape authorities half a dozen times through luck, timing, and even what seems to be a strange sense of fate. His favorite means of getting what he wanted involved...
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Steven Gerald James Wright was considered to be an ordinary, everyday English barman. Friends and family thought that his gambling addiction and his relationship issues were the brunt of his problems, but little did they know that was only scratching the surface of his nasty habits. He followed into the footsteps of the British serial killers that had come before him, like the legendary "Jack the Ripper", by primarily preying on the prostitutes of...
760) Boston Strangler
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Albert DeSalvo, the infamous "Boston Strangler" is considered to be "America's first 'serial killer' of the modern era". He is responsible for as many as 13 women's murders in the Boston area between 14 June 1962 and 4 January 1964. Victims were as young as 19 and as old as 85. Whereas police did not believe that all of the murders were committed by the same person, the public was convinced that one person, dubbed "The Boston Strangler", was the sole...
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