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there's your story, and their story. the truth often lies somewhere in the middle, unclaimed.

[morbidology]

The last photograph of Wladyslaw Bielinski before he was executed by Nazis. Bielinski was a polish primary school teacher from Wiag. The leaders of the Third Reich wanted to wipe out Poland’s intellectuals because they knew they would attempt to prevent them from seizing complete control of the country. Because of this, many scientists, teachers, lawyers, doctors and civil servants were rounded up and executed. It’s estimated that around 60,000 people were murdered in the first months of the war.

[sergeantmiller]

Jokela High School Shooting 2007

11:40 (09:40 UTC)

Auvinen entered the school's ground-floor main hallway at Jokela High School, having missed his first lesson. He encountered a student in the corridor and killed him at 11:42, then moved to the lavatories. Soon after, other students found the victim's body, but assumed he was rendered unconscious from a bump to his head. Other students heard the sound of gunshots, but did not recognise them. At the lavatories, Auvinen fatally shot two more students, prompting the school nurse to call emergency services. After shooting and killing a student outside the lavatory, Auvinen ran after the nurse, caught up to her, and fatally shot her and another student at 11:46.

11:47 AM

Head teacher Helena Kalmi was alerted to the shooting by the deputy head teacher. She immediately ordered all students and teachers via PA system to barricade themselves inside their classrooms. After this, Auvinen began shouting and firing randomly, discharging his gun a total of 53 times in the corridors. At one point, he encountered the mother of a student as she was entering the school, but spared her. He then attempted to enter a classroom, shooting three times through the barricaded door and hitting a student in the toe. Auvinen then traveled to the school's second floor and found two students sitting on a bench in the corridor. While one student escaped uninjured, the other was shot and killed.

Auvinen then began pouring two-stroke engine fuel (a gasoline and oil mixture) on corridor walls and floors, but he was not able to ignite the fuel. He then went to the school canteen on the first floor and tried to enter it, but the sliding glass doors were locked. After demanding to be let in, he fired through the glass, hitting some chairs inside. People hiding in the canteen were able to escape through the other end of the room and hid in the rooms behind the kitchen. No one in the canteen was injured.

11:54 AM

Kalmi left the school with the education welfare officer and stopped between the building and a nearby pond to talk on the telephone. The education welfare officer went on ahead to the car park to guide rescue vehicles into the area. Auvinen emerged from the school, cursing, and encountered Kalmi, who tried to convince him to surrender.

11:57 AM

Auvinen shot her seven times in view of a group of students in the schoolyard, fatally wounding her.

Auvinen then reentered the school, went back to the first floor, and began walking around, knocking on classroom doors. He then managed to enter an occupied comprehensive-school classroom. Inside, he shouted orders at some of the students, proclaimed a revolution, and urged the students to destroy school property. Despite firing two shots at a television set and a window, Auvinen left the classroom without shooting anyone.

A few minutes later, Auvinen spotted the first responding police officers and paramedics converging at the area of the inner court. He fired a shot at them through a window, but the bullet failed to penetrate the glass.

12:03 AM

he took another position near the main entrance and fired two more shots at police officers who tried to approach and negotiate with him. No officers were hit. Soon afterward, Auvinen walked into the lavatory next to the canteen and threw his jacket and bag on the floor. After that he shot himself in the head, ending the shooting at 12:04.

Aftermath

He was found and taken to the Töölö Hospital of the Helsinki University Central Hospital at 14:45, where he died at 22:15 from the gunshot wound. The victims all sustained multiple injuries to the upper body and head.

[stateofdecree]

I had a terrible day yesterday and forgot to do my annual “Cassie” post.

These are the transcripts from a 911 call in the library during the Columbine shooting.

Cassie (nor Rachel) were asked if they believe in God.

Val said yes.

For the past year I have been singing the song with Val’s name instead.

“Do you believe in God? Written on the bullet, and Val pulled the trigger.”

[truecrimewitch]

On Saturday 18th April 2020, 51 year old gunman Gabriel Wortman posed as an RCMP officer and opened fire on residents of Nova Scotia, Canada. Wortman’s rampage took him across many communities through the territory starting in Portaquie before ending with his death in Enfield around 11:42am local time. In all, Wortman claimed 23 victims although the death toll could still rise as victims sucumb to their injuries. Constable Heidi Stevenson who had served 23 years in the RCMP was amongst the victims, leaving behind a husband and two children. This has now become the deadliest mass shooting in Canada’s history, surpassing the 1989 Polytechnique massacre in Montreal where a gunman opened fire on 14 female students.

[racheljoyscott]

Rest in peace, Greg Barnes.

Greg Barnes was a junior at Columbine High School who committed suicide by hanging himself, two weeks after the first anniversary of the massacre on the fourth of May in 2000.  He was a basketball star who averaged 26.2 points a game and attracted the attention from Harvard and Notre Dame. On the day of the shooting, he witnessed the death of Dave Sanders and lost his good friend Matthew Kechter. There were no signs of his depression and the reason why he killed himself is still a mystery. Greg’s friends said when they talked him, he was perfectly fine and even talking about girls, hours before he killed himself. Greg’s suicide may have been due to the grief from Columbine and the recent breakup with his long time girlfriend. Investigators never said if there was a note or not. His father found him hanging in his garage with a song by Blink 182, “Adam’s Song,” being played on repeat, with lyrics such as “I’m too depressed to go on, you’ll be sorry when I’m gone,” and “I never thought I’d die alone.“ The song may have been the only clue as to why he killed himself.

[morbidology]

In March of 2016, a Russian special forces officer ordered an air strike on himself after becoming surrounded by ISIS militants in Syria.

Senior Lieutenant Alexander Prokhorenoko, 25, had been tasked with guiding Russian air strikes on Isis targets during the advance on Palmyra. The city – which was known for its ancient ruins – had been overrun by ISIS in May of 2015 and became the backdrop for a number of grim execution videos.

However, on the 17th of March, 2016, Prokhorenoko became surrounded by militants. He quickly became low on ammunition as he attempted to hold off the gunfire. He ordered an air strike on himself, stating: “Conduct the airstrike now, please hurry.” He was ordered to move to safety before the air strike but said that he couldn’t.

“I am surrounded. They are outside. I don’t want them to take me and parade me. Conduct the airstrike, they will make a mockery of me and this uniform. I want to die with dignity and take all these bastards with me. Please, my last wish, conduct the airstrike, they will kill me either way,” he said.

In his last communication, he said: “This is the end commander, thank you. Tell my family and my country I love them. Tell them I was brave and I fought until I could no longer. Please take care of my family, avenge my death, goodbye commander, tell my family I love them.”

Ten days later, ISIS was driven out of the city. Prokhorenoko’s body was returned home after the Kremlin co-ordinated with Kurdish forces to recover and repatriate his body. Vladimir Putin awarded him the title of Hero of the Russian Federation “for courage and heroism in the performance of his military duties.”

[the-penny-dreadfuls]

Nation Hahn confronts the man who murdered his wife, Jamie Hahn. On April 22nd, 2013 Jonathan Broyhill attacked the couple in their home with a knife. Jamie was stabbed in the stomach while her husband was upstairs in their bedroom, changing clothes. Upon hearing his wife’s screams, Nation sprinted downstairs and fended off the attacker long enough for Jamie to run outside for help. Jamie collapsed on a neighbor’s front lawn, bleeding profusely. Her husband, who had been injured during the fight, joined neighbors as they tried to save her life. During their testimony, one neighbor recounted the conversations between the husband and wife. “She was saying, ‘I love you,’ and Nation was saying to her, ‘We’re going to have a lot more anniversaries.’”

Bystanders and paramedics did everything they could to slow the bleeding. Tragically, the wounds were too severe, and Jamie passed away two days later in the hospital. She was twenty-nine years old. Nation would undergo surgery, as well as rehabilitation, for his severely injured hands.

The killer was no stranger. Jonathan Broyhill was a friend of the couple. He had served as Nation’s best man at their wedding, and worked alongside Jamie at her Skye Blue Strategies, her political fundraising firm. Jamie had long suspected Broyhill of stealing money from the firm. Every time she would confront him, Broyhill would claim that he was in the midst of a serious medical crisis. His latest false claim was that he was diagnosis with pancreatic cancer. On the evening of the attack, Broyhill had been invited over to the Hahn household to discuss financial issues with a current account. He brought a backpack with him, inside of which he carried the knife used in the stabbings. Investigators would later find the packaging of the knife still within the backpack that had been left behind in the living room. They also discovered that Broyhill’s Internet history contained multiple suspicious searches, including a one way flight to Las Vegas. That flight was supposed to take off on April 23rd. He cancelled it on the 22nd.

The trial went on for a month, but it took a jury only ninety minutes to come to a conclusion. In March of 2015, Jonathan Broyhill was found guilty of first degree murder for the death of Jamie Hahn. He was sentenced to life in prison.

[morbidology]

This disturbing footage shows Missy Bever’s murderer walking around Midlothian Church, waiting for her to arrive.

Missy lived in Midlothian with her three children and husband. She worked as a personal trainer and ran a fitness program in the local church. On the 18th of April, 2016, Missy Bevers was arriving at Midlothian Church to lead the 5:00AM Camp Gladiator session. Unbeknownst to her, however, was that her killer was already in the building, laying in wait.

Footage shows that the killer arrived at the church just after 3:00AM. They are seen sauntering around the building and looking in cabinets and wandering up and down the halls before finally going to the particular area that Missy conducts her early morning class. When Missy arrives, she is shot in the head and chest. Her students arrive at 5:00AM to find her lifeless body.

The killer was wearing tactical gear with a jacket named “Police.” They had a helmet covering their face and gloves. Several people, Missy’s husband included, have come to the conclusion that the perpetrator in the footage is a female and that she targeted Missy. “I don’t know if it’s business related or some kind of jealousy,” her husband said.

The perpetrator is estimated to be between 5 feet 2 inches and 5 feet 7 inches. Police announced that they believed Missy may have been in contact with her killer before and that the murder may have been recorded on their cellphone.

The killer has still not been identified and the case remains unsolved.

[morbidology]

16-year-old Esmie Tseng was an honour student from Overland Park, Kansas. She kept a blog which mostly mirrored any other average teenager. She was sarcastic and she loved music. However, in these postings, she gave a darker insight into her home life. She revealed that her Chinese immigrant parents, Shu Yi Zhang and Tao Tseng, held her to impossibly high standards.

An avid and impressive piano player, they threatened to sell her piano if she didn’t win a competition. They grounded her for scoring only 96% in a test. They threatened to move state because she got a few B’s in a report card that was otherwise filled with A’s. They forced her to stand naked in the corner when she disappointed them. In fact, they often blamed Esmie for their own problems. On one occasion, Esmie’s mother was fired and blamed Esmie, saying it was her fault she couldn’t retire. Her mother even left notes on her computer in which she would say she was ashamed of Esmie and that she was lazy and a disappointment. If somebody ever complimented Esmie on the plethora of maths medals she has accumulated, Shi and Tao would correct them and say that it was nothing to be proud of and that she wasn’t intelligent.

On the 19th of August, 2005, Esmie finally snapped. In their home in a quiet Blue Valley neighbourhood, Esmie stabbed her mother to death. It was a brutal murder, with the incident spanning through several of the rooms in the home. She pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to eight years in prison. In 2012, Esmie was paroled and went on to work with the Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.

[morbidology]

The Athens Lunatic Asylum was a mental hospital located in Athens, Ohio, from 1874 to 1993. It’s commonly known for it’s prevalence of the lobotomy as well as the number of legends that say it is haunted.

In December of 1979, a patient called Margaret Schilling disappeared from the mental hospital. It wasn’t until 42 days later, when workers discovered her decomposed remains in one of the abandoned wards, that what became of her was uncovered. Sitting beside her was a pile of her neatly folded clothes.

To this very day, the stain caused by the purge fluid leaking from her body remains on the floor. No matter how hard workers tried, the stains could not be removed. While many believed this to be a rumour, a team of forensic experts concluded that the stain was in fact, caused by human purge fluid.

[playstation2chainz]

shocking

[hominishostilis]

*ahem*

from this post 

Woman kills man for refusing to give her beer 

Woman stabs man for refusing to have sex with her, threatens to cry rape 

Woman rips off man’s testicle because he rejected her, tried to swallow it

Woman kills man for refusing to marry her 

Woman cuts off man’s penis because of argument 

Woman shoots her husband after argument 

Woman cuts off cheating boyfriend’s penis, flushes it

Woman suspects husband of cheating, stabs him to death 

Woman shoots, kills boyfriend for cheating 

Woman stabs boyfriend for cheating in Monopoly board game 

Woman shoots, kills man for ending relationship 

Woman sets husband’s genitals on fire for hugging another woman, dies 

Woman kills, dismembers husband’s body over argument 

Mother kills 18-month old twins to get back at husband she thought was cheating 

Woman kills husband after he confronts her about affair 

Woman kills cheating husband with lethal dose of heroin 

Woman runs over, kills cheating husband 

Obese woman sits on boyfriend, kills him and avoids jail time 

Woman kills boyfriend with stiletto shoe

Woman murders cheating husband with coffee mug 

Woman kills boyfriend for not buying her a gift 

Woman kills boyfriend who accused her of cheating 

Woman stabs and kills boyfriend , Judge: “I hope you die in prison”

Woman shoots, kills ex-boyfriend, buries him in pile of debris 

Woman shoots boyfriend in the back of the neck, killing him 

Woman shoots boyfriend six times, kills him after argument 

Woman stabs, kills boyfriend over mother’s day gift 

Woman stabs boyfriend to death, also stabbed her husband to death 7 years prior

Woman pushes way into home, stabs boyfriend to death over argument 

Woman angry at boyfriend takes her anger out on his 4 year-old 

Woman stabs boyfriend to death, thought he was cheating on her 

Woman bludgeons husband to death with hammer to pay back loan 

Woman stabs, kills boyfriend during argument 

Woman murders boyfriend for tweeting out his female crush 

Woman shoots and kills boyfriend, kills self while out on bail 

Woman stabs to death boyfriend over argument about an ex 

Woman stabs and kills boyfriend for social media posts 

Woman shoots boyfriend in the face, fails to make it look like suicide 

Woman kills boyfriend’s puppies during phone argument

Woman shoots boyfriend in the face with rifle during argument 

Woman pushes boyfriend off fence after argument, killing him 

Woman attacks boyfriend with large knife, intent to kill 

Woman abused, threatens to kill boyfriend in sleep

Woman beats, murders boyfriend and puts him in freezer because he wanted to break up with her

Woman held gun to boyfriend’s head, murders on Christmas 

Woman with previous assault charge on another boyfriend stabs and kills different boyfriend 

Woman attempts to murder boyfriend with giant breasts 

Woman stabs boyfriend in neck, killing him after argument 

Woman chokes and stabs ex-boyfriends cat to death 

Woman starts argument with boyfriend, stabs and kills with umbrella 

Woman kills boyfriend with her car after argument 

Woman shoots, kills boyfriend in his bathroom 

Woman shoots, kills boyfriend with illegal handgun 

Woman sets her boyfriend on fire, killing him 

Woman shoots and kills ex-boyfriend multiple times, kills herself

Woman shoots boyfriend in the head, found out he was dating other women 

Woman stabs and kills boyfriend over finances 

Woman stabs and kills boyfriend’s lizard because she thought he was flirting with other women 

Woman shoots, kills boyfriend who wanted to end their relationship and urged her to get an abortion 

Woman attempts to murder husband with poison in her vagina

Woman stabs boyfriend to death after he slaps daughter

Woman conspires to have secret lover murder her husband

Woman stabs, kills boyfriend over argument on Labor Day

Woman stabs boyfriend in the chest over argument 

Woman stabs boyfriend to death after finding photos of other women on cell phone 

Woman tortured ex-boyfriend’s dog until it died after argument 

Woman stabs boyfriend in his chest and through his lung, nearly killing him 

Woman fatally stabs boyfriend during heated argument 

Woman kills her boyfriend with blunt force trauma to the head using frying pan

Woman stabs boyfriend to death for drinking her beer 

Woman strangles boyfriend to death during argument 

Woman stabs boyfriend with serrated knife over argument 

Woman shoots, murders boyfriend while she was on house arrest for another murder 11 years prior 

Woman stabs, kills boyfriend then texts friend about eating the body 

Woman stabs, kills boyfriend over dispute 

Woman shoots boyfriend in the head, suspecting he was cheating 

Woman shoots man in the groin after argument 

Woman fires handgun into the home of man who denied her a kiss 

Woman stabs husband to death over cheating fears 

Woman shoots, kills ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend 

Women kills husband, commits suicide 

Woman shoots and kills man over argument 

Woman kills husband with baseball bat for talking back to her 

Woman kills husband, confesses to family then shoots herself 

Woman stabs boyfriend 31 times after he said ex’s name in his sleep 

Woman shoots husband in the head, shoots herself 

Woman kills boyfriend over argument at house party 

Woman shoots boyfriend with shotgun for texting another woman 

Woman kills boyfriend because she “smelled sex on him” 

Woman runs over boyfriend, kills him

Woman stabs boyfriend in the eye for turning down threesome 

Woman stabs ex-boyfriend for refusing to stop playing the Eagles 

Woman stabs boyfriend, throws out his prosthetic legs so he can’t chase her 

Woman ties up, stabs husband 193 times, jury finds her guilty for suspicion of trying to claim life insurance 

Woman stabs fiance for refusing to take her to the liquor store 

Woman assaults and threatens boyfriend with knife for not cuddling 

Woman stabs man with ceramic squirrel for not bring home beer 

Woman stabs taxi driver after he refuses to have sex with her 

Woman stabs ex-boyfriend in his penis after discovering he had a new girlfriend

Woman stabs boyfriend twice over time he spent in bathroom 

Woman stabs boyfriend over Facebook post 

Woman stabs her boyfriend several times because his dog ate her marijuana stash 

Woman stabs boyfriend for not calling her every two hours 

Woman shoots man five times for rejecting her, kills herself 

Woman murders ex-boyfriend with liquor laced with poison, was jealous he was engaged to new woman 

Comedian Phil Hartman was murdered by his wife on May 27th 1998

NFL player Steve McNair was murdered by his girlfriend on July 4th, 2009

John Wayne Bobbitt had his penis cut completely off on June 23rd, 1993

Travis Alexander was murdered by Jodi Arias on June 4th, 2008

Andrew Bagby was murdered by Shirley Jane Turner on November 6th, 2001 (She later murdered their 1 year-old son on August 18th, 2003)

Brenda Spencer killed two and injured nine at Cleveland Elementary School on January 29th, 1979

Laurie Dann killed one boy and injured five others at Hubbard Woods Elementary School on May 20th, 1988

Jennifer San Marco killed eight people at Goleta postal facility on January 30th, 2006

Sylvia Seegrist killed three and injured seven during a shooting spree at a Springfield mall on October 30th, 1985

Mary Ann Holder killed five children including her own son in Pleasent Gardens, NC on November 20th, 2011

Jullian Robbins killed one and injured two at Penn State on September 17th, 1997

Heather Smith killed two then committed suicide at Spanaway Junior High School on November 26th, 1985

Latina Williams killed two others then self at Louisiana Technical College on February 8th, 2008

Amy Bishop Anderson killed three and wounded three others at the University of Alabama on February 12th, 2010

What’s most interesting though is that mainstream media doesn’t even mention female shooters when they claim to show the history of the crime — but I guess they’re going by high scores. While its true that most shooting sprees are committed by males, it is also truethat most child abuse, neglect, and murders are committed by females.

Women who killed or attempted to kill children in the news, past 30 days (US):

Florida woman shoots, kills her 2 teenage sons 

Mother throws 1 year-old daughter under truck, kills her 

California mom stabs her 3 daughters to death. all under 2 years old

Mother attempts to kill her 3 teenage children 

Mother kills her infant son by stabbing him to death 

Woman kills 2 year-old girl, attempts to kill 10 year-old boy 

Utah mom murders 6 newborns, keeps them in garage 

Mother charged with trying to suffocate daughter 

Woman charged for killing 8-month old baby 

Women who killed or attempted to kill children in the news between January and April 2014 (US):

Mother drowns both of her sons aged 3 and 6 

Mother attempts to drown her 3 children in ocean 

Utah mother shoots and kills two teen daughters, then herself 

Mother suffocates 14 month old son, fails at attempted suicide 

Woman babysitter murders 19 month old boy 

Mom kills 7 month old daughter, blames Jesus 

Woman operating illegal daycare responsible for 3 month old girl’s death, police find 14 children in her basement 

Mom strangles 3 day old baby boy, discarded body in trashcan 

Woman suffocates 2 year old girl of fiance, fakes sexual assault by unknown assailant to cover tracks 

Mother charged with killing 2 year-old daughter 

Mother of several children with history of violence murdered and buried 2 year-old daughter in shallow grave 

Mother stabs and kills her 2 children in exorcism 

Mother kills her teen son and daughter, self 

Mother confesses to killing 10 year-old son 

Mother tortures and kills 3 year-old son, burned genitals with lighter 

This is only mid-year and I didn’t even include the reports of mothers killing their children from previous years or other countries.”

The only thing “shocking” here is how far you’ve managed to cram your head up your own ass.

[notcayleb]

This post is disturbingly long.

[tired-bi-lady-deactivated201606]

REBLOG THE SHIT OF THIS. I AM SO FUCKING SICK OF PEOPLE TREATIG WOMEN LIKE INNOCENT GODDESS WHO NEVER DO ANYTHING WRONG WHILE THEY TREAT ALL MEN LIKE ANIMALS.

[vulture-jack]

I debated on whether or not to reblog this but damn those sources are a fucking feat and pretending that they dont exist erases the victims.

[hunter-sundown-deactivated20200]

once in a blue moon someone on tumblr will acknowledge anyone other than a man has done something wrong

[spongebobafettywap]

if your feminism involves overlooking crimes by women then it isn’t feminism

[bundywashere]

if your feminism involves overlooking crimes by women then it isn’t feminism

[a-lizard-in-disguise]

breaking news

all human beings have the capacity for evil regardless of gender

[swaggness]

People commit crimes….regardless of gender….

[armchaircriminologist]

The murder of Tova Moberg

Tova Moberg (b. 1998 d. 2017) was brutally murdered by her boyfriend of 3 years, Billy Fagerström. Before her death she had endured years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of Billy.

She had lived under constant threats from him. A secret diary was found under her bed following her death as well as a USB stick filled with photographs of the abuse she endured. Among other things, he had threatened to drown her in a lake, dunked her head into a wall, beaten her with fists and various objects, forbidden her to see her friends, go to school and go to work. Her friends had long feared for her life, and Tova was terrified of Billy.

On May 14th, 2017 Billy made real of his threats. He strangled Tova and hit her in the head with a hammer about 20 times. Following this he strapped her dead body to a wheelbarrow on his parents farm where he lived and dumped her in a nearby lake.

After being found a horrifying tale of abuse soon began to form.

Text messages sent from Billy to Tova, translated from Swedish -

T - My lesson starts in 20 minutes. I don’t want to come today... I haven’t done anything to deserve to die and I’ve told you everything you’ve wanted to know. You have to calm down.

B - YOU DON’T WANT TO COME TODAY? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

B - YOU’RE GOING TO FUCKING COME HERE AS SOON AS YOU QUIT IM TELLING YOU

T - Calm down please

B - DECIDE IF YOU’RE COMING OR NOT

B - OR I’M HIDING IN YOUR GARAGE

B - YOU CUNT

B - ON YOUR BIRTHDAY I’M GONNA SPIT IN YOUR FACE

B - AND WHEN YOU GRADUATE THERE’LL BE A LOT OF MINGLE SO YOU’RE GONNA BE BEATEN TO BITS THE SAME NIGHT

B - AND I DECIDE WHEN YOU MINGLE

B - BECAUSE YOU HAVE A TWISTED FEMINIST IDEA

B - and NEVER think I’m not serious about your graduation

From Tova’s diary -

“So I told Billy and then all hell broke loose, he became totally fucking crazy and said that my dad is a pedophile and that he (Billy) is gonna kill us all etc... And I HAVE to go there because he wants “to talk” about how I’m going to solve this? How I’m going to clear his name. I don’t even understand anything anymore. It’s just getting worse and worse and he’s getting crazier and crazier.

I hope I survive tomorrow... Goodbye and Goodnight.

Btw I’ve taken one of the big knives out and am keeping it by my bed... If anything should happen...”

Police at Billy’s house and the lake where he dumped Tova’s body

Tova’s family at her rememberance ceremony.

[crimesandcuriosities]

Pictured above is the lifeless body of Eliza Wood, found in a hotel room the morning of 20th August, 1950. The word ‘whore’ can be seen scrawled across her forehead in ball-point pen. Eliza had been strangled to death by her 37 year old lover, James Henry Corbitt, after he became severely jealous of her affections for another man.

She was left in a huge puddle of her own urine, which she passed as she struggled for her life, and there was also significant bruising to her upper arms and lip which clearly indicated a great struggle.

James Corbitt was swiftly found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the murder, which was carried out on November 28th, 1950 by renowned executioner Albert Pierrepoint.

Coincidentally, it turned out that Corbitt and Pierrepoint were already well acquainted, as they often attended the same pub and played duets together on the piano there. They’d even nicknamed each other ‘Tish’ and ‘Tosh’, which they continued to use as terms of endearment right up to the point when Pierrepoint led Corbitt to the gallows.

[truecrimecrystals]

Katie Fusco (pictured on the left) was adopted as an infant and raised by her adoptive parents in Dutchess County, New York. By time she was 18 years old, she had established herself as a talented artist with a bright future ahead of her. She graduated from high school in June 2016 and had plans to enroll in the local community college, and then eventually transfer to SUNY Purchase to study digital advertising. However, a short time later, Katie’s plans changed. Like many adoptees, Katie had grown curious about her biological family. She had recently tracked down her birth parents, Alyssa Pladl (37), and Steven Pladl (42, pictured above on the right) through social media and began to correspond with them. In August 2016, Katie decided not to enroll in college. Instead, she opted to move to Henrico, Virginia to live with Steven, Alyssa, and their two other daughters.

Some time after moving to Virginia, Steven and Katie began engaging in a sexual relationship–despite the fact that they were biologically father and daughter. About a month after their relationship began, Alyssa Pladl moved out of the home. Steven instructed his two younger daughters to stop calling Katie their sister, and to instead refer to her as their stepmom. In July 2017, the couple got married. Their marriage was official; they were able to “legally” wed because they did not disclose their father-daughter relationship. Their wedding ceremony was complete with guests, including Steven’s parents and Katie’s adoptive parents.

In September 2017, Katie gave birth to her biological father’s baby. By that time, the couple had moved to North Carolina and Katie had taken Pladl as her surname. Four months later, in January 2018, both Steven and Katie were arrested and charged with incest and adultery. The two were released on bond, and Katie moved back to New York to live with her adoptive parents. Steven’s mother gained custody of their son.

In early April 2018, while their charges were still pending, Katie decided to end her romantic relationship with her birth father. Despite being barred from contacting each other, Katie reportedly called Steven from New York to end their relationship. The events that followed brought this already disturbing tale to a heartbreaking end.

Fuming from their breakup, Steven apparently traveled to his mother’s house and killed his and Katie’s infant son. Afterwards, he drove over 500 miles to Wingdale, New York where he waited outside of Katie’s adoptive parents home. He watched as Katie and her adoptive father left together in a vehicle. He followed the two as they drove from Wingdale to New Milford. While stopped at a stop sign between routes 7 and 55, Steven shot Katie and her adoptive father, killing them both, before turning the gun on himself. A chief police officer who was working their case described the overall grim incident, stating “We may never understand the mindset or motives of Steven Pladl, but we do know his actions have shattered the lives of countless people.”

[prisonhannibal]

every true crime video about serial killers is like… “obviously he was an attractive man” (shows a picture of the ugliest person I’ve ever seen in my life)

[alwaysracheljoyscott]

Rachel’s mother’s first reaction to seeing what Rachel’s Red Accura became in Columbine’s parking lot, 4 days after the shooting.

[rydiin-deactivated20240528]

’Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies that Created the Prkland Sh**ter and Endanger America’s Students’ By Andrew Pollack & Max Eden

(This info is in addition to a previous post that emphasizes a specific chapter from the book).

Information about NC:

One female student was so afraid of him that she often wanted to stay home. 

- One day a rumour spread like wildfire: Cr*z had killed his cat. This student worked up the nerve to ask him, “What happened to your cat?”. He replied, “I took it in the backyard. I have a lake. I put it in its cage and I drowned it.” "What do you mean?” “I killed my cat." 

- NC showed them a series of pictures on his phone. His cat. His cat in the cage. The cage going into the water. The cage coming out of the water. The cat, wet and dead. This student was horrified. NC was transfixed, both by the pictures and by her horror.

As seen in his educational record, he was diagnosed at age 3 with developmental delays and later with a speech impairment, a language-processing deficiency, and attention deficit disorder.

After February of 2013, he was suspended for nearly half of the next calendar year.

”I never had him as a student. But everyone knew who he was because he wreaked havoc.“ -Teacher at Westglades

In September 2013 he banged on a classroom door so violently that the glass shattered, striking students inside. This was characterized as vandalism but never formally recorded on his disciplinary record.

On October 21st, his teacher (Carrie Yon) emailed assistant principle Atonio Lindsay, ”I wanted to let you know about Nick’s behavior today. He seems to be getting worse with each day. Following is what took place in the first 10 minutes of class“. She explained that when he wouldn’t stop screaming, she told him she’d have to ask him to leave if he kept up the disruption. When he stuck up his middle finger, she went over to the phone. Cr*z ran over, took the phone from her, tried to dial 911, banged the phone on the receiver when that didn’t work, and then ran out of the classroom.

Several teachers, in exhasperation and perhaps fear, tried to refuse to let him into their classroom. But they were informed by the school administrators that this was not permitted.

In November he was referred to the PROMISE program for vandalizing a bathroom faucet, but did not attend for reasons the school district refuses to explain. If a student skips PROMISE, district policy requires that he be referred to the juvenile justice system, but he was not for reasons the school district refuses to explain.

On November 20th, 2013, he ran into the middle of a busy road during a fire drill. Students were terrified as he could have died if an oncoming car had not stopped in time. Teachers assured students, ”Don’t worry, he’s going to go somwhere he can get the help he needs now“. But this was merely optimism. Another teacher wrote a disciplinary referral categorizing his suicide attempt as ”Gross Insubordination“ and ”Aggresive and Dangerous Behavior.“ But school administrators rejected that categorization and categorized it instead as a minor act of disruptuption.”

“If Cr*z had been involuntarily committed for psychiatric observation under Florida’s Baker Act in response to his suicide attempt, it could have accelerated the process of sending him to Cross Creek. But he was not. It took until February 2014, five months after Westglades began the evaluation process and one year after his misbehavior became so severe that he was suspended essentially every other day, to send Cr*z to Cross Creek.”

When teachers of Cr*z were asked what he was interested in or enjoyed, almost every single one of his teachers mentioned guns, the military, or war.

This excerpt speaks to the insanity of mainstreaming a student like Cr*z back into a traditional school like MSD. These things did not happen before Runcie became superintendant and brought more social justice ideology into the mix:

“According to Ms. Campbell, before Robert Runcie became superintendent, she had never seen a student mainstreamed from a school like Cross Creek in less than three years. The process typically took several semesters, with the student’s IEP team *gradually* adding class periods at the traditional school and carefully monitoring any changes in the student’s behavior. Cr*z spent his first semester at MSD taking two classes, largely unsupervised, and then began attending MSD full time the following semester. Ms. Campbell said that she had never heard of anything like it. This all bears reiterating to emphasize the insanity of it: Cross Creek staff were well aware of Cr*z’s profoundly disturbing behavior at Westglades. They knew about his obsession with guns and dreams about killing people. They were so frightened that they took the extremely rare step of contacting his private psychiatrist. Yet not only did they return him to a traditional high school at an unprecedented speed, they also enrolled him in JROTC, a course in which he would learn to shoot using an air gun that resembled an AR-15.”

On December 14th, 2015, Cr*z’s IEP team decided to allow him to attend MSD full time. He had made progress in the intensive therapuetic setting of Cross Creek, where well trained professionals could watch him like a hawk.  But when he transitioned to MSD, his old “beheavior management” plan was discontinued and no new plan was created. Teachers were left uninformed about who the student was, what to watch for, and how to support him. 

Looking back on the transition, a staff member lamented, “They just threw him to the wolves.”

Cr*z bragged about getting a gun to sh**t up the school in Feburary 2016. The officer who recieved this alert told the concerned woman that Cr*z’s instagram post was “Protected by the first amendment right of free speech”. The woman asked if there was *any way* to prevent Cr*z from getting a gun when he turned 18, and the officer said that Cr*z’s right to purchase a firearm was protected by the 2nd amendment and *nothing* could be done.This officer was WRONG. Threatening to shoot up a school is a felony that could have prohibited him from buying a gun. (And even IF he wasn’t convicted, an arrest could have gone a  long way toward LE taking future reports about NC seriously.) This officer didn’t even write a police report about the call.

NC often came to school dressed in full camoflauge gear, mask included, and jumped from behind poles to scare other students.

He would bring dead animals in his lunch box and give it to another student, telling her there was a treat inside.

Dana Craig submitted statements about Cr*z’s threats to her and her friends but administrators did nothing. One day she was sitting in class when NC came in and walked straight toward her, and stood over her, staring and breathing loudly, as a hush fell across the classroom. After what seemed to be like a long time, security monitor Anna Ramos entered and said, “Someone here isn’t where he’s supposed to be” and took him out of the classroom. Records don’t show him being taken to the office for this.

When MSD math teacher Suzanne Giorgione found out she was teaching Cr*z, she went to school administrators and told them she refused to set foot in the same classroom as a student who had previously threatened to kill her. As a result, Admin rearranged his schedule. 

Several students reported having friends whose parents had complained about having Cruz in their child’s classroom, and the school responded by changing *their*  schedules.

At the beginning of the school year (a month before his fight with Enea), he approached Enea to shake his hand and call a “truce”, telling him that “he could have her”.

However, on September 20, 2016 Cr*z threw a water bottle at Enea and then jumped on top of him, punching him. Enea stood up to try to throw Cruz to the ground but NC held on tenaciously, *attempting to bite Enea’s face*, only to catch Enea’s hair in his teeth and hold on that way. The infamous fight video only catches the end of it when students jump in to break it up.

After the fight, administrators searched his backpack and found bullet casings. He explained he used his backpack to go hunting. According to MSD documentation, when asked why he liked to hunt, he replied that he liked to get food, then asked, “Isn’t that what normal people would say?”

Before he attacked Enea, he told students at his table what he was about to do and they recorded it from the beginning. Students who took these videos were called down to the office and told to delete them. These videos would have provided clear evidence of a hate crime (NC repeatedly threatened him, called him a n*gger and other racial slurs, and had now attacked him). But MSD wanted to be seen as a school without crime and chaos, so they demanded evidence of fights be deleted.

Enea received an out-of-school suspension, while NC only received a two day ISS. 

At this point, NC’s safety plan included banning him from having a backpack at school: “The obvious rationale: if he has a backpack, he could bring a deadly weapon to school and kill people. They decided that Nikolas Cruz was too dangerous to be allowed on campus with a backpack but he should *not* be arrested. This may seem astonishing, but it is actually entirely faithful to philosophy of the Broward school district, as expressed by Superintendent Runcie: “We are not going to continue to arrest our kids” and give them a criminal record.

He brought binocluars to school and stared at people through them.

One student had nightmares about NC, ”shooting me or stabbing me…every single night. I couldn’t go to school because I was afraid.“ These concerns along with many others were brought before administrators but nothing was done.

When he decided to revoke his ESE protections, he appeared incapable of providing written notice ”perhaps due to his language-processing impairment".

When being confronted about destroying other students model bridges, NC stated, “I am not mentally stable! I am fucking crazy, yo! I love to see people in pain and I have two shotguns at my house.” (As previously reported)

He’d often walk around the courtyard at lunch making “bang” motions with his fingers as though he were shooting at birds.

He called Cross Creek after his mother Lynda died and told them, “Before my mom died, I promised her I would graduate high school. I get that Cross Creek is the only place where I can do that. How do I get back in?”. They didn’t help him get back in.

Lynda’s responses to Westglades social worker:

What is the child’s problem behavior? He can’t control his temper, especially when faced with frustration. He has frequent anger outburts.

How would you describe these behaviors? He starts screaming, kicking, throwing things, and punching holes in the walls.

What are the most problematic for you? “Destruction” when he throws a tantrum, things get broken, nothing is safe. I have polka dotted walls from all the Spackle I have to use to fill the holes in the walls.

How often do these behaviors occur? Every day, especially while playing Xbox.

Are there situations in which the behaviors never or rarely occur? No, if he is losing at Xbox there are no two ways about it.

What do you think needs to be done to help this child? He needs to be properly diagnosed before he can be treated. I know ADD is not the cause of all his problems. We need to know what is wrong with him.

Victims:

Anthony Borges survived after being shot 5 times by taking his shirt off, ripping it into two pieces, and using the pieces as tourniquets for his legs. Anthony had been a boy scout in Venezuela and had taken his survival training very seriously.

Aaron Feis was found deceased with burns on his hands, indicating that he managed to get a grip on the shooter’s AR-15 before being fatally shot.

Cara Loughran had been shot prior to Meadow shielding her. This is why she did not flee with the other students. “Meadow had been right next to Joaquin in front of the woman’s bathroom. She tried to cross the hallway, but was shot four times. She crawled to a classroom, but the door was locked (as it was supposed to be). Next to her was freshman Cara Loughran, who had also been shot. Meadow draped her body over Cara’s to protect her. Five more shots went through both of their bodies.”

During the shooting one of the MSD staff members stated over the radio, “It sounds like fireworks.”. Aaron Feis replied, “That’s not fucking fireworks”.

Aaron Feis’s brother Ray recalled that Feis “wasn’t scared of anyone, but he would talk about that ‘crazy motherfucker who threatens everyone’ and shouldn’t be at this school”.

A survivor recalled, “But then you also heard, like, moaning from the shots. I don’t know if it was, like, the shooter making that noise or if it was someone who got shot. And, but, then, that’s also, you also heard…heard, like, laughing. And we all look at each other in the classroom we’re just like, "Oh my God, is someone seriously laughing?” (Previously seen in witness statements)

Notable Quotes:

Royer Borges (Anthony’s father) on activists blaming the NRA: “This makes no sense. You’re telling me that all these groups will pour money in to a national political battle against a powerful organization over things that had no connection to what happened? And then what? Maybe the gun control people will win some changes, but what about what actually happened? What about the people responsible in Broward? What about justice?”

In the middle of his 5th grade year, Cruz’s teachers had to make a choice that would define the future of his education… 

“In an earlier era, a student like Cruz could continue to receive specialized attention in a self-contained classroom for students with similar disabilities for at least part of each day in Middle School. However, between the pressure on schools to assess students using standardized tests under the federal No Child Left Behind Act and the pressure on schools to put students in the “least restrictive environment” possible under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, spending part of the day in a specialized classroom was no longer an option for a student like Cruz in a Broward middle school. It was either full “inclusion” at Westglades Middle School or full “exclusion” at a specialized school for students with emotional and behavioral disabilities: Cross Creek.“

”…social justice activist groups frame this issue as a black and white question of “civil rights”. Putting students like Cruz in schools like Cross Creek is alleged to be “ableist” (discrimination against the disabled) and keeping them in schools like Westglades is the self-evidently virtuous practice of “inclusion”.

When Westglades staff heard that Cruz had committed the massacre at MSD, some couldn’t believe it. The fact that he became a mass murderer wasn’t what surprised them. They were surprised that he attacked MSD. “How is that possible?” one Westglades educator recalled thinking….

“We did our jobs. It took forever, but we got him where he needed to go. We couldn’t believe they ever let him into MSD.”

“Cross Creek is one of 3 specialized schools in Broward for students with extreme behavioral disabilities. It serves about 150 students in grades k-12, most of whom have been diagnosed with mental illnesses and take psychotropic medications. It has a two-to-one student-to-adult ratio, including eleven counselors, fifteen behavior technicians, and three therapists. There was NO question this was where Nikolas Cruz needed to be. The question must be answered. How was he sent back to a normal school?”

“Officers from other departments told us that, if they received this many calls about the same juvenile, they would watch him like a hawk and not be shy about making an arrest. But if Sheriff Israel judged his success by how well he kept juveniles out of jail, then up until February 14th, 2018, Nikolas Cruz was perhaps the most striking success.”

“Martinez respected the March For Our Lives gun control students, but he had mixed feelings about the course of public debate after the shooting. Reflecting on how Sheriff Israel and Superintendent Runcie blamed the NRA, Martinez lamented, “What the students don’t know is that the people who are telling them to go out and protest are the ones that are endangering them.… They’re the ones who failed. These failed policies failed students miserably. Then they deflect the whole event and try to build their political careers on top of it. The students are being misled.”

“I’ve been over every inch of what happened. The NRA had nothing to do with it…

This happened in a Democrat county with a Democrat sheriff, a Democrat superintendent, and a Democrat school board, implementing Democrat ideas on criminal justice, Democrat ideas on special education, and Democrat ideas on school discipline. And after Democrat voters gave all these Democrats a resounding vote of confidence in the school board election, the Democrat teachers union president, Anna Fusco, wrote in a Facebook group about our campaign for accountability: “Now you can all shut up!”….Meanwhile, at the national level, Democrat organizers swooped in and weaponized my daughter’s murder for their Democrat agenda and to fund-raise to elect more Democrats.”

"It is astonishing that 18-1958 only took seventeen lives that day. The death toll could easily have been 170. He had ten minutes alone with eight hundred children. The only one who stopped him was himself.”