Between 1975 and 1983, brutal sex killer Pawel Tuchlin terrorised the region around Gdansk, Poland. Known as 'The Scorpion' for the swift deadliness of his attacks, he targeted women walking alone. Tuchlin struck without warning, felling his victims with hammer blows to the head before molesting their bodies. He killed 9 women and left 11 more gravely injured. But Tuchlin is also a thief: it was his greed and the theft of 4 piglets which eventually led police to his farm, and sent the Scorpion to the gallows
The officers could not get in through the closed door and called the fire brigade for help. One of the firefighters got down the rope, broke a window and entered the apartment. Because of the smell, he had to put on a gas mask beforehand in order not to lose consciousness.
Fragments of human bodies in an advanced state of decay were strewn throughout the apartment. The remains were on the floor, in a bathtub, in a wooden box and even in a linen kettle. The police couldn’t say how many victims they were. Only later, in-depth examinations in the forensic medical facility in Zabrze allowed the conclusion that there were corpses of four women in the tenement house in Dąbrowskiego.
The tenant of the apartment – Bogdan Arnold – remained elusive despite intensive searches. After a few days, he reported himself to the police. And he told of the crimes committed.
While on a foreign exchange trip in Perugia, Italy, Amanda Knox, an American college student, was accused of brutally murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher. Knox became a media sensation and served almost four years in an Italian prison before Italy’s highest court exonerated her in 2015. This illuminating documentary finally gives Knox a chance to speak on her own terms
American Nightmare
Dubbed the “real-life Gone Girl,” the three-part series from The Tinder Swindler filmmakers Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins takes viewers on a journey through one couple’s harrowing experience with a home invader. On March 23, 2015, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, were awakened in the middle of the night by a stranger. Quinn called the police and explained what happened, saying the intruder had tied them up, drugged them, and taken Huskins for ransom. But no one — not even investigators and police — believed them.
Athlete A
This 2020 documentary follows the survivors of USA Gymnastics (USAG) doctor Larry Nassar’s abuse, as well as the team of investigative journalists from The Indianapolis Star who initially broke the story. Many gymnasts in the USAG were experiencing horrific acts behind closed doors. Through interviews with survivors and the journalists who brought the story to the world’s stage, Athlete A details how the USAG covered up Nassar’s abuse for years
Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives.
Sarma Melngailis was once regarded as the vegan queen of NYC. As the restaurateur behind Manhattan’s Pure Food and Wine, Melngailis’ restaurant served as a hot spot for vegans and celebrities alike. After meeting a mysterious man on the internet who promises to help grow her empire, Melngailis finds her life — and restaurant — veering off the rails
Casting JonBenet
In 1996, 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was killed in a bizarre and widely covered case that spawned hundreds of conspiracy theories, thousands of tabloid covers, and no real answers. Casting JonBenet uses a mix of documentary and dramatic reenactments to not only retell the crime but also describe its impact on our collective psyche. In this real-life casting call, actors audition for the roles of the crime’s key players, while also sharing their own theories of what happened to the young pageant star.
Girl in the Picture
A young woman is found dying on the side of a road from a hit-and-run, but investigators soon learn that it wasn’t a simple accident. After her death, she left behind an infant son and a much older husband — who mysteriously appeared in a photo with the victim as a child that, years later, was passed along to investigative journalist Matt Birkbeck. As he dug in, it became clear that the woman wasn’t who she said she was — and neither was her “husband.” It took more than 20 years to disentangle the web of lies to reveal the true, grim story of her real identity.
Warren Jeffs saw himself as the spiritual leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), an extremist offshoot of mainstream Mormonism. In reality, he created a system of abuse and coercion, forcing members of his congregation — often underage — into marriage, blind obedience, and isolation. In this docuseries, former FLDS members and survivors come forward to share their stories. Using never-before-seen VCR footage from within the FLDS community, this series provides the well-known story with a deeply human and relatable face — told through current interviews with his wives and congregation.
Lover, Stalker, Killer
As the title suggests, Lover, Stalker, Killer is a story of a romance gone wrong. In 2012, Dave Kroupa created an online dating profile after just coming out of a long-term relationship. It’s there that he meets a single mom named Liz Golyar. Soon after, he encounters another single mother, Cari Farver, while repairing her car at his auto shop. It’s an instant connection for Kroupa and Farver, but what would unfold is a twisted love triangle that leads to harassment, digital deception, and murder.
Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal
A tight-knit South Carolina community is ripped apart by a series of deadly crimes that all seem to involve one family: the Murdaughs. The two seasons of Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal delve into how a prominent family used and abused their wealth and privilege to the extreme.
Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer
Yeah, you’ll want to lock your doors and windows for this one. Beneath the glitz and glamor of 1985 LA lurked a prolific serial killer. Richard Ramirez hunted, tortured, and murdered his victims in terrifying ways while evading capture for one long year. Night Stalker focuses on Ramirez’s victims and the investigators behind the manhunt.
The Keepers
Who killed Sister Cathy? In 1969, the 26-year-old nun from suburban Baltimore was murdered. Her sudden death stunned the town, especially her students at Archbishop Keough High School. As investigators dug into this mystery, they learned that her death may not have been the only injustice. Was Sister Catherine Cesnik murdered to cover up sexual abuse by a school priest?
The Staircase
In 2001, novelist Michael Peterson found his wife, Kathleen Peterson, dead at the bottom of a staircase in their home. Although it was reported as an accidental death, investigators believed Peterson bludgeoned his wife and staged the murder. The Staircase documents the case against Peterson and poses the question: Did he do it?
Diogo Alves' head sits perfectly preserved in a jar more than 180 years after he was hanged and beheaded after slaughtering more than 70 people in a crime spree across Portugal.
Alves earned nickname “The Aqueduct Murderer” - as he was known for standing on a 200-foot-tall aqueduct and waiting for farmers to pass through at night, before robbing them.
He then pushed the victims to their deaths, staging them to look like suicides - a ploy which initially succeeded.
With at least 70 victims - he is one of the worst serial killers ever to have roamed Europe.
And now the cold-blooded murderer's pickled, yellow head sits on a shelf - spookily staring out of a jar through his still open eyes.
Ion Rîmaru was a Romanian serial killer dubbed the Vampire of Bucharest (Vampirul din București) or the Blondes' Killer (criminalul blondelor).
Rîmaru terrorized Bucharest between 1970 and 1971, killing four women and attacking more than ten others. Authorities had made over 2,500 arrests before his capture.
The women were attacked with an axe, bitten on the breasts and thighs, and raped after they were already dead.
Boysie Singh was a notorious Trinidadian killer who was eventually hanged for murder in the mid-1950s.Born at 17 Louis Street, Woodbrook, on April 5, 1908, he grew up to be a gambler, thief, arsonist, pirate, and mass murderer.Singh’s father Bhagrang Singh was himself a fugitive from justice, who reportedly fled India to Trinidad.
Singh started doing petty crime, even spending time at Carrera Island Prison in the 1940s.Following prison, he ran gambling clubs and brothels, moved on to the protections racket, and was known to set fire to cars or buildings when "clients" would not pay up.Later, he smuggled goods from Cedros to Caracas, then resorted to piracy. From 1947 to 1956, Singh and his henchmen terrorised local fishermen and Venezuelan smugglers. They would kill a crew, steal their goods and engines, and sink the boat.Singh broadened his criminal reach to include human trafficking, smuggling illegal immigrants some of whom he would rob or kill.
Along the way, it is reported, he murdered hundreds of people. Legend has it that some victims were made to "walk the plank", in the tradition of old-time Caribbean pirates, and plunge to their death at sea.Twice, Singh was charged by the police. In one case, he got off due to lack of evidence. In the other, he was convicted but won on appeal and was released.Eventually, Singh's luck ran out when he was convicted for the murder of a dancer. All appeals failed, and he was sentenced to death.Boysie Singh was hanged at the Royal Gaol in Port-of-Spain on August 20, 1957.
Individual who was laying on an “egg crate” mattress when they passed. The image shows how lividity occurs on dependent areas.
This individual was lying on an “egg crate” foam mattress when he died. The foam tips of the mattress touched the skin and cleared the livor, while the cups of the mattress allowed the livor form. Livor mortis or lividity is the gravitational pooling of blood in the dependent parts of the body, both externally in the skin capillaries and venules but also in the internal organs. Lividity may not be seen in bodies that are very anemic at death.
Gloria Fernández (15) was working with her cousin Irma Beatriz Girón (21) in her house, they had a flower arrangement little business. She had a fever so they called a doctor on April 14, he prescribed some antibiotics and left. Gloria took two pills according to what was found later.
On Sunday, April 16, a neighbor came across a terrible smell and called the police.
The corpses were found in the bathtub severely decomposed, the presence of cadaveric fauna made the investigators believe they were dead for about 20 days, but only 2 days before they were seen by the doctor and other neighbors.
This case remained a mistery for several years until it was reopened. Turns out that Irma's boyfriend worked at a serpentarium. His reasons are unknown, but he injected both cousins with black mamba's venom, a species present at his workplace. Due to accelerated necrosis, the bodies were left almost unrecognisable just after 48hs. Irma's boyfriend is still a fugitive.
The family of a teacher who was found brutally stabbed in her home in what was deemed a suicide by authorities have demanded that the city's mayor reopen her case amid claims the governor had a conflict of interest.Ellen Greenberg was 27 years old when her fiancé Sam Goldberg found her dead in the kitchen of her Philadelphia apartment on January 26, 2011; she had 20 stab wounds, including 10 to the back of the head and neck.
Her parents have been on a journey ever since to get what they say would be justice for their daughter, who they claim was being abused by Goldberg - whose family allegedly donated to then-attorney general Josh Shapiro, now the state's governor. Ellen's father Dr. Josh Greenberg told Fox News Digital his daughter had injuries on her body 'consisted with abuse.''That's what I think the whole issue of this story,' the grieving father added. 'Somebody didn't want Ellen's abuse to get out there … and that's why she's dead.'
Ellen Greenberg was 27 years old when her iancé Sam Goldberg found her dead in the kitchen of her Philadelphia apartment on January 26, 2011Ellen's parents, Joshua and Sandee believe their daughter was killed and have spent years dedicated to finding out the truth behind her deathBack in 2022, independent journalist Gavin Fish claimed in a YouTube video that then AG Shapiro had a 'clear conflict of interest' in the case and that Goldberg's family were campaign donors. Then-AG Shapiro recused himself from the case three days after the video was published, as reported by Fox News.At the time, the AG's office denied the conflict of interest was real.'While the Office of Attorney General does not have an actual conflict in this matter, circumstances beyond our control have created the appearance of a conflict and our involvement is no longer serving one of the primary purposes of the District Attorney’s original conflict referral,' Shapiro's office told The Philadelphia Inquirer.
In July 2023, Dr Greenberg claimed Ellen's autopsy report said she suffered a huge laceration in the back of her head and that she was covered in bruises in different stages of healing. 'That's what I think the whole issue of this story,' he told Fox News Digital. 'Somebody didn't want Ellen's abuse to get out there … and that's why she's dead.' Ellen's death was initially ruled a homicide but the medical examiner's office then changed it to suicide after a meeting with police and prosecutors, per her family.
A petition asking mayor Jim Kenney to to reopen and investigate Ellen’s case has collected more than 150,000 signatures.Officials have for years said they have found no evidence of foul play in Ellen's death.Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner also previously recused himself from reinvestigating the death after having previously worked with the Greenbergs.
At the time, police claimed that the door of Greenberg's apartment was locked from the inside and there were no signs of a struggle.Goldberg told investigators he came home in 2011, kicked the door, and found his fiancé dead with a knife clinging to her chest.
In a chilling 911 call, he told police Greenberg had stabbed herself. 'Help!... My fiancé's on the floor with blood everywhere.'He later added, 'I can't see anything... there's nothing broken... Ellie!... I think she hit her head.''Oh my god! She stabbed herself... she fell on a knife... there is a knife sticking out of her heart.'
The Chester County District Attorney's Office began an outside investigation into Ellen's death last year, but now governor Shapira had been sitting on the case for years while he was attorney general.'He stole four years from us, holding the case in his office, and we have no evidence of him doing anything,' said Ellen's mother Sandee Greenberg.
Then-AG Shapiro's office, however, previously said it had undertaken 'an exhaustive review and conducted new forensic analysis' but their additional efforts did not bring 'more closure to the questions around [Ellen's] death.'Chester County officials have said their investigation into the case is ongoing.The Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General alleged that several death and suicide- related searches has been performed on Greenberg's laptop in the weeks leading up to her death.But a lawyer hired by the Goldbergs said the hard-drive was subsequently examined by the FBI lab in 2011 and no such searches were found.
In the weeks prior to her death, Greenbergs parents, Josh and Sandee, said something had been troubling their daughter.However, they did not believe she was suicidal.A couple of weeks before her death Greenberg told her parents that she wanted to quit her job and 'come home.' They said she could come home if she needed to, but they wanted her to seek help for her anxiety.She told them it was the stress of organizing a wedding – she was due to marry that August and had sent out 'Save the Date' cards just four days before her death - and that work was particularly busy.Her father said, 'Something was amiss. Her personality was changed. She played it off that work was too much but when the teacher who took on Ellen's class saw her books and marking she said everything was perfect.'
Greenberg saw a therapist who prescribed her Ambien and Klonopin for anxiety. Police pointed to this as further support for a finding of suicide. But psychiatrist Dr Ellen Berman, who saw Greenberg three times before her death, was clear that her new patient was not suicidal.
Samuel Goldberg is now 40 and a married father of two living in New York. He remained in contact with the family for a year or so following Greenberg's death.
15-year-old Lawrence Fobes King lived a troubled life after being adopted and then mistreated at a young age.
By the time he hit middle school, he was finally living happily in a foster group home where he felt free enough to let the world know he was gay. Though many adults and teens close to him warned of the dangers of being so open about his sexuality, this, in no way, deterred young Larry from showing the world, unapologetically, who he was. At the same time, you have a 14-year-old boy named Brandon Mclnerney who's also lived a very difficult life with an extremely abusive father as his mother struggled with drug addiction and was unable to remove her son from the volatile situation. In a very unfortunate and sad way, these two troubled teens' lives crossed paths in what would lead to a deadly conclusion.
Larry and Brandon both attended E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, California in 2008. Larry was very much ignored up until he came out as gay and began to cross dress at school. It's safe to say that most teachers there did not approve. Based on statements made, Larry was still allowed to dress in the manner in which he chose. Then, in February of 2008, Larry began telling his friends about how attractive he found Brandon. This angered Brandon, who plotted to have Brandon jumped, but those efforts never proved fruitful. One day, as Brandon stood on the basketball court surrounded by friends, little Larry approached with a full face of makeup and high heels to ask Brandon to be his valentine. It's unclear if Larry truly wanted Brandon as his valentine or had set out to embarrass his fellow student for the rejection Brandon had strongly expressed. No matter what the reason, this sent Brandon into a rage as he had expressed his frustration with school staff previously and felt Larry was being allowed to sexually harass him. On other occasions, Larry would holler out to Brandon as they passed each other in the halls, things like "I love you baby," all while other students made fun of Bandon for the teasing. While the thought of this is troubling, it in no way excuses the decisions Brandon made from then on.
On February 12th, 2018, Brandon left home for school armed with a 22 calibre revolver with the thought of shooting Larry. Once he sat down in the computer lab with Larry and the rest of the class, Brandon admits to having second thoughts. That was until Larry loudly expressed that he would now be referred to as Letocia. It was then that Brandon stood up and fired two shots into the back of Larry's head. Brandon then fled the scene and was apprehended a couple blocks from the school.
Larry was still alive and was transported to St. John's
Regional Medical Center where he was taken into surgery. He was declared brain dead on February 13 but kept on life support for two days before passing away.
While there was lots of controversy over whether or not Brandon should be charged as an adult, the prosecution made the decision that he would be tried as such. While most saw Larry as the victim in this, many others, including teachers and Larry's adoptive father, expressed sympathy for Brandon as they felt he was being sexually harassed. School staff were informed on numerous occasions that Larry was following boys into the bathroom but were told to take no action. Hundreds of students at the school even signed a petition pleading for Brandon to be tried in juvenile court. Nevertheless, by early July of 2011, the trial was well underway and Brandon was facing a life sentence being tried as an adult.
Ultimately, the trial ended in a deadlocked jury with seven jurors voting guilty of voluntary manslaughter and five others deciding on first or second degree murder. Before long, six jurors were rallying in Brandon's defence after saying they in no way supported this 14-year-old being tried as an adult. They even went on to raise money for his defence as the DA's office announced they would be retrying the case. That trial would never come because on November 21, 2011, Mclnerney was offered a plea deal in which he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, and use of a firearm. He was sentenced to serve 21 years.
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum has collected thousands of drawings made by survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. The drawings document survivors' memories surrounding that horrible day.
Hideo Kimura shows burned and screaming classmates. Some were trapped under heavy gates and houses. Others were in the river, holding onto a stone embankment.
This drawing by survivor Akira Onogi shows a woman pinned under a pillar from her collapsed house as deadly flames approach. Next to the woman, a sobbing girl pleads for help from neighbors. The neighbors couldn't move the pillar.
Chisako Sasaki drew this image of a girl at a window on the second floor of a burning house. Sasaki remembers the girl crying for help. "I can never forget," Sasaki said.
Mitsuko Taguchi is haunted by this scene, depicted in her drawing, of a dead mother and child who had fallen while trying to outrun flames. "Her hair was standing on end," Taguchi said. "She still protected her child under her breast, like a living person. Her eyes were open wide. I cannot forget that shocking sight."
Torazuchi Matsunaga remembered soldiers carrying children's corpses on stretchers to a temporary crematorium. "These children had been injured by the bomb and taken to the army hospital for treatment but had soon died," she said. "The hands and legs sticking out of the stretcher swung with the motion. My chest suddenly seized with emotion."
Survivor Asako Fujise drew this image of a bomb shelter that was being used as a makeshift hospital. It was "filled with moans and the smell of zinc oxide and Mercurochome mixed with sweat."
Sueko Sumimoto remembered a mother standing on a bridge. She was screaming her child's name while the bodies of dead students floated on the river below.
Like cattle, injured survivors were loaded into rail cars to escape the ruined city. "Most people were injured, and those with burns were slathered with white medicine," Kazuo Koya said. "There were so many bandaged people. With only the clothes on their backs, they waited under the blazing sun for departure."
On Christmas Eve, 2021, 18-year-old Ariana Ptarcinski was in her room with her 20-year-old boyfriend when she sustained a fatal knife wound to her neck. Now over a year later, the case remains under investigation and the young woman’s family and friends are calling for the resolution of the case. “Someone should be in jail,” Ariana’s father Ed Ptarcinski said.
According to a Hernando County Sheriff’s Office report (HCSO) obtained on March 27 by the Hernando Sun from a friend of the Ptarcinski family, just after midnight on Dec. 25, 2021, deputies responded to a call from Thomas and Melissa LoBianco reporting that they heard screaming coming from the neighboring home of Ed and Judy Ptarcinski at 4054 Beaumont Loop in Spring Hill.
According to the report, the LoBiancos stated that they saw Ed Ptarcinski standing at the front walkway of his residence shouting, “You killed my daughter,” at a man later identified as then 20-year-old Ramon Durst.
Thomas LoBianco told responding deputies at the scene that he began to walk toward Ptarcinski and noticed that Durst, who was covered in blood, charging aggressively at Ptarcinski. LoBianco then used his flat fist to punch Durst on the side of his head. According to the report, LoBianco told deputies that Durst bent forward but did not fall. LoBianco then punched Durst a second time knocking him to the ground, according to his statements contained in the report.
“(He) the boyfriend kept saying ‘ I really (screwed) up, shoot me because I’m going to jail for a long time,’“ Ptarcinski told Hernando Sun.
When they interviewed him at the scene, Ed Ptarcinski told deputies that after spending the evening with his family and with Durst who was in a relationship with Ariana for about 8 or 9 months, Ed and his wife Judy retired to the master bedroom. Shortly thereafter he got up to use the restroom and saw the entry door of their bedroom open and Durst holding Ariana by the hair saying, “I did this.”
At that time, Ed noticed that Ariana was bleeding from her neck which appeared to have been slit. He then began to scream for help, the report said.
According to Ed, personnel from the Hernando County Fire and Emergency Services (HCFES) subsequently arrived at the scene and transported her to the Trauma Center at Bayonet Point Hospital in Hudson where she later died.
“I never saw her again until I went to the hospital to pull the plug,” Ptarcinski said.
At the scene, deputies also “attempted” to speak with Judy who “was very hysterical,” and would not answer other questions, but said “Look what he did to my daughter.”
When they interviewed Ariana’s 12-year-old sister, she told deputies that she was in her room when she was awakened by arguing, but could not make out the exact words used in the argument. When she left her bedroom to see what was going on, she saw Durst carrying Ariana by her hair to her parent’s bedroom.
“Her jugular vein had been severed and she was bleeding out,” he said. “I could see her eyes saying ‘Dad help me,’” Ed Ptarcinski later told the Hernando Sun.
According to the HCSO report, deputies detained Durst and attempted to get his personal information. In response, Durst “would only provide his name, date of birth and address,” the report said.
That address is in Stuart, Florida, according to a copy of Durst’s driver’s license, which was also provided to the Hernando Sun by a friend of the Ptarcinski family.
The Ptarcinski family and Durst were all taken to the HCSO for interviews. All were released without charge.“The boyfriend probably lawyered up,” Ed Ptarcinski said.
According to the report, deputies entered the front door of the residence to make sure no one was left inside. There an investigator noticed drops of “a red substance that appeared to by blood trailing from the northwest bedroom to the southeast master bedroom.”HCSO investigators later collected evidence at the scene.
According to Ptarcinski, much was overlooked. “They didn’t take a sheet with the boyfriend’s bloody handprints on it -There were two knives in the room – and his wallet,” Ptarcinski said. “I think they botched the investigation – I think they screwed it royally.”
In response, HCSO Media Relations Manager Denise Moloney disagreed.“We feel certain that the scene was processed very thoroughly,” she said. “We very thoroughly collected evidence and passed it onto SAO for a filing decision.”
According to Moloney, crime scenes are processed by having forensics specialists collect evidence who subsequently package it and pass it on to the States Attorney’s Office (SAO). It’s the SAO’s job to decide which if any charges should be made in connection with the case and against whom.
“The SAO wants to make a case that will stand up to scrutiny by a jury in court,” Moloney said. “They want to make sure that the evidence warrants the charges so that a jury won’t throw the case out of court.”
The process takes time. “Both the HCSO and the SAO take our time to get justice for the victims and the survivors if justice is needed,” she said. “Everyone tries to do their best – it takes time.”
Currently, the investigation into the circumstances surrounding Ariana Ptarcinski‘s death remains open.“The case is still open, pending a filing decision by the SAO,” Moloney said. The SAO also confirmed that “the case is still under investigation.”
While the probe continues, Ed Ptarcinski and those familiar with the incident remain frustrated by the length of time it is taking to come to a resolution in the case. “I did everything they asked me to do – everything in my power in making statements, allowing searchers into my home,” Ptarcinski said. “Nothing is happening.”
William Suff (1984-1993) aka "the Riverside Prostitute Killer" or "The Lake Elsinore Killer" was a 41-year old government stock clerk from Riverside County, California who liked to impersonate police officers, write books, drive fancy cars, and do community service work.
His neighbors described him as "a friendly nerd who was always doing things to help people".
He had, however, spent some time in prison during the 1970s in Texas for, along with his wife, beating their 2-month-old daughter to death.
In the orange groves of Riverside County, he dumped the bodies of 13 victims, all prostitutes, and authorities suspected he may have been responsible for as many as 22 deaths in the local area. He would cruise around red light districts in a van and then knife his victims to death. A traffic stop and forensic evidence obtained from inside his van resulted in conviction for 2 of the murders, and in 1995, he was sentenced to death.
He subsequently raped, stabbed, strangled, and sometimes mutilated 12 or more prostitutes in Riverside County, beginning in 1986. On January 9, 1992, Suff was arrested after a routine traffic stop.
Described as a mild-mannered loner, Suff worked as a county stock clerk who allegedly delivered supplies to the task force investigating his killing spree. He liked to impersonate police officers and cooked chili at office picnics.
In fact, it was alleged that he used the breast of one of his victims in his chili, which won the "Riverside County Employee Chili Cookoff." He was also working on a book about wild, lethal dogs. He enjoyed vanity plates and was an avid volunteer in the county's car-pooling program.
After the trial, the prosecutor told the foreman and four other members of the jury that they suspected Suff used the breast of one of his victims in his prize winning chili, although this was a rumor that was never verified. What is true is that this stable Jekyl-and-Hyde type offender stumped some of the nation's best crime analysts at RCSO. At one point, his job required delivering furniture to the serial killer task force investigating his crimes.
In 1997, his friend and solicitor Brian Lane released, "Cat and Mouse: Mind Games with a Serial Killer," a book containing Bill's writings, poetry, and some of his award-wining recipes. Bill also appeared on the Geraldo Rivera show from Death Row in San Quentin as part of the book's promotion.
True crime fanatic arrested in South Korea for killing, dismembering woman ‘out of curiosity’
Woman’s phone reportedly reveals three months’ worth of search history on how to hide corpse
Police in the South Korean city of Busan have arrested a 23-year-old true crime fanatic woman in connection with the killing and dismembering of another.
Law enforecment authorities said they believe the killing was done out of the suspect’s “curiosity” to experience what murder felt like, according to South Korean outlet The Chosun Ilbo.
Jung Yoo-jung, 23, reportedly confessed to the killing and was indicted for murder on Friday. (2/6/23)
The suspect was driven by her desire to kill someone for real after becoming “obsessed with murder from TV programmes and books,” a police spokesperson reportedly said.
Police said Ms Jung’s phone search history revealed three months’ worth of information gathering how to hide a corpse.
She had allegedly watched numerous true crime TV shows and borrowed crime books from a library, the local newspaper, one of the country’s oldest outlets, reported.
While she initially claimed to have killed the unnamed victim after an argument, Ms Jung later admitted that was a lie.Police said they are conducting tests to see if Ms Jung is a psychopath, according to Insider.
The true crime fanatic found her victim through an app that connects parents with private tutors, and presented herself to the now deceased, posing as the mother of a ninth-grader.
She reportedly went to meet the victim disguised as a student wearing a school uniform and fatally stabbed her, the report says. Then, after dismembering the victim and placing some of her body parts in a suitcase, she took a taxi and dumped rest of it in the Nakdong river to “make it look like the victim had disappeared”, according to the police.
“Jung was a loner and a recluse who has been unemployed since graduating from high school five years ago,” authorities said
Footbinding was a traditional Chinese practice involving the breaking and tight binding of young girls' feet to alter their shape and size. The resulting modified feet were referred to as "lotus feet," while the shoes designed for these feet were called "lotus shoes."
In ancient China, having bound feet was regarded as a symbol of social status and feminine beauty. However, footbinding inflicted great pain, restricted women's mobility, and led to lifelong disabilities. It was not until the early 20th century that the practice began to decline due to anti-footbinding campaigns.
Wealthier urban women abandoned footbinding earlier than their less privileged counterparts in rural areas. As of 2007, only a few elderly Chinese women who had experienced footbinding were still alive.
At 1:15 p.m. on July 16, 2011, Tyler Hadley, a 17-year-old living in Port St. Lucie, Florida, posted a status on Facebook: “party at my crib tonight…maybe.”
There was only one problem. Hadley’s parents were home. And since they’d recently grounded Hadley for drinking and drug use, they weren’t about to let their teenage son throw a party. Some friends knew this and were incredulous. When one asked if it was really happening, Hadley wrote back, “dk man im workin on it.”
But by 8:15 p.m., the party was on. Tyler posted again on his wall to confirm: “party at my house hmu.” When one of his friends asked, “what if your parents come home?” Hadley responded, “they won’t. trust me.”
That’s because Hadley had just murdered both his parents. When he posted on Facebook, their bodies were barely cold. And the high schooler wanted to throw a party at the crime scene.
Before inviting 60 people to his house for a party, Tyler Hadley calmly killed both his parents.
Blake and Mary-Jo Hadley had worried about their son for years. They’d taken Tyler to a psychiatrist and turned to a substance abuse program for help. Nothing worked. So when Tyler drove home drunk one night, Mary-Jo took away his car and phone as punishment.
Tyler fumed. He told his best friend Michael Mandell that he wanted to kill his mom. Mandell brushed off the statement as something an angry teenager would say. He never thought Tyler would go through with it.
But on July 16, Tyler made a plan. First, he took his parents’ phones. That way, they couldn’t call for help. Then he took some ecstasy around 5 p.m. Tyler worried he couldn’t go through with his plan sober.
Hadley found a hammer in the garage. While Mary-Jo sat at the computer, Tyler stared at the back of her head for five minutes. Then, he swung the hammer.
Mary-Jo turned and screamed, “Why?”
Blake, hearing the screams, ran into the room. Blake echoed his wife’s question. Tyler shouted back, “Why the fuck not?” Then Tyler beat his father to death.
After killing his parents, Tyler Hadley dragged their bodies into their bedroom. He cleaned up the crime scene, tossing bloody towels and Clorox wipes onto the bed. Finally, he invited his friends over for a party.
Tyler Hadley put out the call to come party shortly after he’d cleaned up the crime scene — right around sunset. By midnight, more than 60 people had shown up to Tyler Hadley’s house. None of them knew that the dead bodies of Hadley’s parents were in the other room.
High schoolers played beer pong in the kitchen, rubbed cigarettes into the walls, and urinated on the neighbor’s lawn.
At first, Hadley tried to stop the teens from smoking inside, but eventually, he relented. As he explained, his parents were in Orlando. Then Hadley changed his story about his parents. “They don’t live here,” he told a partygoer. “This is my house.”
Later in the night, Hadley pulled aside his best friend, Michael Mandell. “Mike, I killed my parents,” Hadley said. In disbelief, Mandell responded, “No you didn’t, Tyler. Shut up. What are you talking about?”
Hadley insisted they were dead. “Look at the driveway,” he told Mandell, “all the cars are there. My parents aren’t in Orlando. I killed my parents.”
Mandell thought it must be a prank. Then Hadley led his friend to the bedroom where he’d stashed the bodies.
“The party’s going on over here, and I turn the doorknob,” Mandell remembers. “I looked down, and I [saw] his father’s leg against the door.” Mandell suddenly realized his friend was telling the truth.
Mandell didn’t leave the party right away. In shock, he took a selfie with Hadley, figuring it would be the last time he would see his friend.
Then, Mandell left the party and called Crime Stoppers to report the murders.Michael Mandell left an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers at 4:24 a.m. on July 17, 2011. He said that Tyler Hadley had murdered both his parents using a hammer.
Police rushed to the Hadley house. When they arrived, the party was still going on, and Hadley claimed his parents were out of town and refused to let police in the house. But they made an emergency entrance despite Hadley’s protests.
“Tyler appeared nervous, frantic, and very talkative while speaking to the officers,” according to the arrest affidavit.
The police found beer bottles all over the house. Unrolled cigars littered the floor, and the furniture had been tossed around. They also found dried blood on the walls.
When police forced open the bedroom door, they found dining chairs and a coffee table tossed on the bed. Under the furniture, they discovered the body of Blake Hadley. Nearby, they found Mary-Jo’s body.
Police arrested Tyler Hadley for murder. Three years later, a court sentenced Hadley to life in prison.
If the police hadn’t shown up, Hadley had considered taking his life. He had a stash of Percocet pills hidden in his room.
But for the time being, whether it was the ecstasy, the party, or the murder, he was feeling good. He even posted one last time on his wall at 4:40 a.m., right as police were on their way to his house: “party at my house again hmu.”
