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The Orlando Shootings left behind them a trail of mental and emotional devastation for a nation already so divided. On the 16th of June of 2016, Omar Mateen, a young American man walked into a gay nightclub named Pulse in Orlando, where he opened fire on the crowd. Forty-nine people lost their lives and fifty-three more were injured. In the aftermath, Mateen was shot by law enforcement as he refused to give himself in or hand over his weapon over...
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The nearest police car arrived at White House Farm at about 3:45am on 7 August 1985 with the call sign, Charlie Alpha 7. On the way, they had overtaken a Citroen saloon driving at 25 mph. When the officers arrived, there was no one waiting for them despite their expectations. Three or four minutes later, the Citroen pulled up and out of it came Jeremy Bamber.
Earlier that evening, Bamber has called the police explaining that his father had called...
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It is hard to believe that a young female could be capable of murder, let alone multiple murders. It is even more shocking that a female nurse could carry out such terrible crimes. That is exactly what Beverly Allitt did though. This nurse is Britain's most infamous female serial killer and also goes by the name of the Angel of Death due to her responsibility to care for others but instead used her nursing position to kill people. Over a short period...
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Bumpy Johnson was many things in his life, to many people. He was a stick up man, a burglar, a pimp, a drug dealer, a numbers runner, a bookmaker, a hood and a thug. He was also a husband and a father and a doting grandfather. He was the conduit between Harlem and the Genovese Crime Family. He was a respected friend of Lucky Luciano. He was a man of Harlem, giving to the needy, the hungry, and children. He was a staunch advocate for education, urging...
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Annie was hungry for knowledge and she was determined to change the medical community with scientific breakthroughs. Although her passion was primarily medical, she was an academic writer as well. In the February of 2009 she published an article in Yale Medical School's Magazine. The ironic title of this article was "Crime and Safety in New Haven". This article was based on campus safety and it looked at the amount of robberies in New Haven, compared...
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One day while Dorothy Stratten was on shift working at a Diary Queen, an older man walked into the store. Dorothy noted his outfit — a long fur coat, lizard skin boots, and gold and diamond jewelry — and she was captivated. She had never seen anyone like him before, and the two talked for a little bit before he drove off in a black sports car. Dorothy was sure she would never see the sophisticated stranger again. To her surprise, the man called...
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Madeleine McCann, a young child of three years old, was visiting the popular Portuguese resort town of Praia da Luiz along with her parents and younger siblings, as well as a group of her parents' close friends, when she went missing on the night of May 3rd. Madeleine's disappearance became an international sensation and various police departments in both Portugal and the United Kingdom, as well as Madeleine's parents, would conduct independent investigations...
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On the 15th of July 1997 the world of fashion was changed forever. Gianni Versace had decided to have a change of routine. Instead of sending out an assistant, as he usually would, to collect the morning papers, Versace travelled down to his local coffee shop to get them himself. As he returned home to his Miami Beach mansion, Andrew Cunanan pounced. Firing his gun and shooting Versace twice, a fashion icon fell to his knees and left the world shocked....
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Adriana Vasco was a 35-year old mother of two when she had an affair with a 57-year old doctor named Kenneth Stahl. Both Adriana and Kenneth would indulge in a lengthy affair and would later come up with a plan to kill his wife, Carolyn. The doctor wanted out of his marriage but feared the financial consequences of divorce. So when a security guard discovered a car parked along the shoulder of the Ortega Highway on November 20, 1999, with the engine...
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WHEN YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD 'SEX PARTY' TURNS DEADLY Joan and David Shannon were swingers who met other married couples for "sex parties" through the Internet. David would introduce his wife to Jeffrey WIlson and the two quickly fell in love. David grew jealous and warned his wife to stop seeing Wilson.
Joan, however, wanted to keep seeing her swinger friend. In a bizarre series of events, she enlisted the aid of her fifteen-year-old daughter...
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A 31-year-old woman of Asian descent, sits nervously in front of the microphones and journalists, ready to make her statement and ready to talk through how her life has turned out over the past twenty years. Kim Tien cuts a meek figure with her long dark hair pulled back into a ponytail. She sits twisting her fingers anxiously as her blue fleece jersey crumples against the desk. As the journalists shoot off their sensitive questions, she looks wide-eyed...
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"She was the coldest, most calculating woman I've ever met." (Judge presiding over Abraham Shakespeare's murder trial)
Abraham Shakespeare was working as a delivery man for eight dollars an hour when he bought the winning lottery ticket. He would receive over $17 million in winnings and become the toast of his small town. All would not be rosy, as he would be pestered by friends and family for money over the next few months until he finally got fed...
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Has The Claremont Killer Been Brought To Justice? Sometime in 2020, when the warm Australian winter is turning to searing summer, Bradley Robert Edwards will discover whether or not he has been found guilty of the homicide of two, perhaps even three, of the Claremont murder victims. These were the young women who, in a spate of assaults in the mid 1990s, lost their lives in sexually motivated attacks. The quietly spoken, outwardly calm middle aged...
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On October 11, 2012, Shayna Hubers and Ryan Poston and his family had dinner at the young lawyer's home. After dinner, Hubers went home- she returned a few hours later, however, and the couple got into a heated argument. Poston informed his girlfriend that he wanted to end their 18-month long relationship, and it set Hubers off into a fit of anger. Her anger worsened when she was later told that Poston already had a date lined up with the 2012 Miss...
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It was a beautiful sunny Wednesday morning on May 31st, 2000 and the talented and young Jill Behrman decided to take advantage of the weather and go for a satisfying morning ride. At nineteen years old, Jill was an avid cyclist and enjoyed keeping fit. She had a few hours to spare as her work was only to start later on in the day, around 12pm, so she hauled out her bike, put on her gear and hit the road... When she did not return, her family notified...
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A collection of True Crime stories on the most unlikely of serial killers... even police officers are included here with the likes of Antoinette Frank... Who do you trust? A doctor. A teacher. A police officer? There is something bizarrely discomforting about crime committed by those in authority. It should not really be so surprising, though, that even those in positions of power still err; after all, behind the suit, or the white coat or the badge...
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Monique Daniels was the eldest sister in a broken family... Her mother divorced her biological father who would later be jailed for sex offenses... On June 2, 1992, a neighbor stated that the then fifteen-year-old Monique was packing her bags into a blue truck driven by an unidentified Caucasian male. On this particular day, Monique's mother was on a choir trip with one pair of her siblings while her step-father took the other family members on a...
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Ray and Faye Copeland are often known as the oldest couple ever to be sentenced to death in the United States. At the ages of 76 and 69, the couple was sentenced to death in separate trials for the murders of five vagrant men that they had taken in, hired, forced to commit fraud, and then finally killed to keep quiet...While Ray's guilt in the crime was indisputable, Faye's role in the crimes is muddled as she was the victim of severe physical abuse...
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