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Darci Pierce was an accomplished liar. By the age of 19, she'd managed to convince her boyfriend to marry her and earned her family's respect by settling down and starting a family — but the pregnancy her new husband, Ray, and family were celebrating was a complete fabrication.
Desperate to keep her husband, Pierce committed herself to the lie. She gained sixty pounds, stuffed her clothing to make her stomach appear larger, and even trained her...
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When Girly Chew met Diazien Hossencofft while on vacation in the United States, she was instantly swept off her feet. It was the early 1990s, and the Malaysian-born Chew was exploring SeaWorld when she bumped into Hossencofft, a thoracic surgeon with multiple degrees from prestigious universities...By 1993, after a brief courtship conducted through correspondence by mail, the couple had gotten married and were living together in Albuquerque, New Mexico....
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Drugs, violence, and bloodshed are three words that one can use to describe one of the most notable female drug traffickers and killers in history. She was ruthless, she was merciless, she did not care who or what was in her way because for her, life was a path that she was destined to walk, no matter how bumpy the road is and no matter how many obstacles and hurdles she had to jump over to get to her final destination. She had killed more people...
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On August 24, 2011, Michelle Despain came home to find her husband, Marc, shot dead in the family's Arkansas home. As a real estate investor and appraiser, Marc provided his wife and kids with anything they could ever want — but while the family seemed to have more than enough money, there was trouble brewing under the surface of all that happiness...the family's idealized version of the American Dream all came to an end when Despain came home from...
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Some female killers simply don't want to get their hands dirty and to the deed themselves. Instead, they ask someone else to murder for them. It might seem impossible, but these things truly do happen more often than we think. These women would either hire a person who is not personally involved or a lover who can be easily manipulated to help. The motivation can be self-preservation, especially if a woman is in an abusive marriage and wants to run...
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On February 19th of 2005, Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone disappeared after leaving a restaurant in Philadelphia. Danielle has been separated from her husband while Richard was her "on-again, off-again" boyfriend. Danielle had a young son while Richard had a teenage daughter. Richard had exchanged threats with Danielle's ex-husband before while Danielle herself wanted "space" from both of them. The FBI entered the investigation in 2008 and the case...
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It is not often that stories appear where we find the perpetrators of violence being children and the victims being parents. Although, scattered throughout history it has been seen that children can be capable of shocking amounts of violence, and many, assuming their innocent nature, fall victim to them. In Coral Springs, Florida in 1997 one such story took place. And still the actions of the evening resonate throughout the community.
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Thirty-eight year old Anne Gates frantically phoned police when she "discovered" the badly beaten body of her sixty-five year old husband. The attack was staged to look like the work of a prowler but police soon found out that Anne had been recently named the beneficiary of her husband's now sizable life insurance policy...and that she had been the recipient of a similiar payout years earlier with the murder of her first husband.
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Jemma Lilley had always been obsessed with serial killers. When she was just sixteen years old, the tattooed Brit penned a crude and disturbing novel—which she published online—describing scenes of violence, torture, and murder. Although Lilley was dyslexic, she was a determined writer, and eventually completed her story. Playzone, as the novel was called, featured a character named SOS, and featured passages like, "I feel I can't rest until the...
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Robert Ben Rhoades became a truck driver in the 1980s. He was a disturbed individual who saw his new employment as a perfect hunting ground. After all, the victims would come to him, asking for a ride. He was known nationwide as The Truck Stop Killer. While the total number of his victims is still unconfirmed, Rhoades was one of the most dangerous serial killers because he was driven by his sexual fantasies and the need to dominate.
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On September 13, 2016, a call came through Ashland, Ohio's 911 system from a distressed woman, who claimed to be held captive in a home. "I've been abducted," she whispered to the dispatcher. "Please hurry." The police who arrived at the scene not only rescued the woman who had placed the call, but also discovered two dead bodies – left there by Shawn Michael Grate, a 40-year-old man who had a reputation for being a "cold-blooded charmer." Grate...
1732) The Suitcase Killer
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When women kill, we can usually pinpoint why the killing occurred. There are a number of ways that women kill, and why. Many women may find themselves on the opposite end of an abusive partner, and the killing is preemptive to keep themselves alive. Other times, women kill for the same reason that men kill: jealousy, anger, frustration. Some women killing in a way that's so horrific that it gathers everyone's attention. Melanie McGuire is one such...
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Greed is a nasty fact of life. Greed can often times drive people to do crazy, unthinkable things. How eerie and real can that become? Freddy Heineken would soon find out first hand, as he endured a three-week nightmare at the hands of five greed stricken men. In one of the most publicized crimes in the history of The Netherlands, this crime will show what lengths five men would go to in order to secure their prize.
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Joyce Cohen thought she hit the jackpot when she married construction mogul Stan Cohen. The young Joyce was finally able to live the life of entitlement she thought she deserved while partying it up in Cohen's mansion, ranches, and night clubs. But her party would come to an end five years later when she would claim that three burglars invaded her home and killed Stan. The authorities believed her at first until a felon disclosed to police that they...
1735) 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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When you think about school shootings, the first thing that will come to mind is troubled students going on a killing spree and murdering their peers without any good reason. Even though similar crimes happened numerous times in the past, the thorough coverage of Columbine turned school shootings into worldwide news. The experts started to recognize it as a real problem because the frequency increased after 1999 even though the security at schools...
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In the 1970s, Los Angeles saw a spike in its crime rates, with the Center for Disease Control reporting a homicide rate of 23.0 per every 100,000. As the 1970s drew to a close, two high profile serial killer(s) cases had been sensationalized in the media, and residents were still reeling from the aftermath. The Hillside Strangler, actually two men, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr., had strangled several women and dumped them in the Los Angeles...
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Kim Hricko was a happy-go-lucky housewife and mother who was a popular employee at the hospital where she worked. But her sunny facade blew up in smoke on a Valentine's Day weekend when her husband 's body was discovered on a hotel room floor, burned to a crisp... Kim would claim that her husband was "sloppy drunk" but the autopsy would reveal no trace of alcohol or smoke inhalation. What investigators did find out was that Kim Hricko had been talking...
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Catherine and her partner, David John Birnie were famously known throughout Australia as: The Killer Couple. They were from Perth, Australia and were found to have murdered four women ranging in age from 15 to 31 years old, over a span of about five weeks. Their fifth victim managed to escape through the bedroom window, while Catherine was distracted by a knock at the front door. The woman immediately ran and found help. The press referred to the...
1740) Sang pour Sang
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« Le rideau se lève ets'immortalise sur la cruauté etle mal ambiant planantpartout autour de ce lopin deterritoire. » Le Diable sembleen faire son terrain de jeusans que nul puisse poserson mot...Instabilité politique, coupsd'État et meurtres. Pots-de-vin, corruption et traquenards.Secrets et mensonges.Fille légitime d'un présuméassassin inculpé pourmeurtre, c'est en milieuhostile etsombre que doiterrer Valérie.
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