Charles Manson was abandoned by his mother and never knew his father. He was never the object of anyone’s even distant affection. His birth mother, Kathleen Maddox, was sixteen when he was born. She was either promiscuous or a prostitute or both, disappearing for days at a time and leaving Charles with a grandmother or […]
The case known in Italy and internationally as The Monster of Florence involved the ritualistic serial murder of eight young couples accompanied by the horrific mutilation of the sexual organs of the female victims. Cover ups and evidence tampering have muddied the case so badly that more than five decades later utter confusion reigns. Three
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Leonard Lake was born in California in 1945 to father Elgin and mother Gloria Lake. Elgin abandoned the family after the birth of Leonard’s younger brother. Gloria later tried to reunite with him, taking along the two younger children and leaving Leonard in the care of her parents. Leonard was never reunited with his mother
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On February 1, 2012, Israel Keyes, 34, decided that the Common Grounds, espresso coffee stand in Anchorage, Alaska would be his target. He had already purchased tickets to board a cruise ship from New Orleans to Mexico the very next morning. Keyes waited in his car fairly close to the coffee stand, listening to a
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Gary Ridgway was the most prolific serial in the history of the United States. His 19-year reign of terror left the area surrounding Seattle littered with corpses. All the girls were young. A lot of them grew up in abusive homes and they were running away, as a result of that, they were prostitutes. In
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Kenneth Bianchi was born in 1951 in Rochester, New York. The child of a prostitute who didn’t want him and gave him to a neighbor to take care of for a day, who then gave him to another neighbor to take care of for a day, to another neighbor… Basically for 4 months there was
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Shan’ann Cathryn Rzucek, Shanann, was born in 1984 in North Carolina. When she was about 18 she married for about six years, before it ended in divorce. It was during one of her challenging life experiences in August of 2010, having just been in a car accident and facing the painful recovery process, as well
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Dan Markel was a Canadian-born attorney and a FSU law professor. He dropped off his two sons at school and then had a quick workout before heading back to his home in Tallahassee, Florida. Markel was heading up the driveway when he got a call on his cellphone. He told the man on the phone
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On April 27, 2008, Vienna, Austria, the world learned the gruesome details of what Josef Fritzl did to his daughter. The story sent shock waves around the world. News report gave details of a quite unimaginable story. For 24 years Josef Fritzl had kept his own daughter captive in a cellar beneath his house. In
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On July 15, 2008, Orlando police received the call from Cindy Anthony, the grandmother of the Caylee Marie Anthony:Dispatch: “911, what’s your emergency?”Cindy Anthony: “I called a little bit ago the Deputy Sheriff! I found out my granddaughter has been taken. She has been missing for a month! We’re talking about a 3-year-old little girl!
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