Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Ed, Text Revision (DSM-5) criteria for a diagnosis of histrionic personality disorder (1), patients must have a persistent pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking. This pattern is shown by the presence of ≥ 5 of the following: Also, symptoms must have begun by early adulthood. Histrionic […]
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This is a case of attention seeking behaviors that escalated to murder. Luka Magnotta was not his birth name. He was born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman on July 24th 1982 in the Scarboro District of Toronto Ontario. Luka would describe his mother as excessively focused on cleanliness to the extent of locking her children outside
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Gary Heidnik was a bishop. He was 28 years old when he started a church in 1971, the United Church of the Ministers of God. Gary began to hold church services in his basement. Within a couple of years those regularly attending services had multiplied. Gary’s disciples donated more than five hundred thousand dollars that
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Christopher Schultz was arrested on Jul 12th, 2024 and charged with second-degree murder and child abuse, according to the Marana Police Department. Crime charges have been upgraded against an Arizona father, 37 year-old Christopher Schultz on August 12th, 2024. He faces felony first degree murder and felony child abuse in the death of his little
Christopher Schultz Left his 2-year-old Daughter in a Hot Car for Hours Before She Died Read Post »
Since 1998, about 969 children have died in hot cars and more than half of them were left behind unknowingly by their caregiver, according to NoHeatStroke.org. A leading expert in cognitive neuroscience who has studied the role of memory in such tragedies has found that the stresses parents face in everyday life can make these
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On the 2nd of December 2010, 24 year – old, Phoebe Handsjuk who was livening at the prestigious Valencia building in Melbourne with her partner of two years, 43 year – old Antony Hampel was found dead in the refuse compactor room on the ground floor of her apartment block, having fallen 11 floors through
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On the 29th of 1991, near the town of Saint Catherine in Ontario Canada some fishermen make a horrifying discovery at one end of Lake Gibson they noticed several what appear to be pieces of human flesh, protruding from the cracks. The victim was identified as fourteen-year-old Leslie Mahaffey. She had been missing for two
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Colonel Russell Williams (born March 7, 1963) is a convicted murderer, rapist, and former Colonel in the Canadian Forces. From July 2009 to his arrest in February 2010, he commanded Canadian Forces Base Trenton, a hub for air transport operations in Canada and abroad and the country’s largest and busiest airbase. On February 8, 2010,
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Sadism is derivation of pleasure through cruelty and inflicting pain, humiliation, and other forms of suffering on individuals (American Psychological Association). Sadism can be physical and/or sexual, but it can also be inflicted verbally and via emotional manipulation and humiliation. The satisfaction of the sadist may result not from inflicting actual physical pain but rather
In May 1998 convicted killer was released from a prison in Austria, having only served 15 years and four months behind bars, his name – Jack Unterweger. Unterweger was living the double life, of a celebrated writer and that of a serial killer. Once released from prison he went on to kill nine women and
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