Albert Anastasia was one of the most ferocious Cosa Nostra mobsters in the history of the American Mafia. He created both the American Mafia and Murder, Inc while becoming the overlord of the Gambino crime family. "Anastasia loved to look his victim's in the eyes while killing them slowly just to show his ruthlessness. Anastasia would kill anybody, he would kill police, judges, prosecutors...
Robert Pickton was a former pig farmer and serial killer convicted of the second-degree murders of six women. He was also charged in the deaths of an additional twenty women, many of them prostitutes and drug users. The pig farmer mainly preyed upon drug addicts and prostitutes, picking them up on the streets before driving them to his farm, where he had sex with them before torturing then...
It would be fair to say that prostitutes, and those they work for, are not overly fond of the police. So when, in 1964, prostitutes were assigned their own police officer to protect them, it certainly caused a few raised eyebrows among the women, and probably more than a few clenched fists among the pimps and ponces who farmed them out. So what had prompted this unusual move? After all, while...
Cryptozoology - the study of creatures, such as the Loch Ness monster, whose existence has not been scientifically proved. Collins English Dictionary. There’s something about myths and legends which fascinate us. The Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and The Abominable Snowman - all of these mythical creatures have held our attention for years, and many campfire stories have been the setting of eerie...
David Graham and Diane Zamora were teenagers in love when they were arrested for a brutal crime: the beating and shooting death of 16-year-old Adrianne Jones, a popular girl in Mansfield, Texas, who fell between Graham and Zamora with deadly consequences.Graham and Zamora were convicted of Jones' murder and will not be eligible for parole until 2036. This is the story of what led to the tragic...
In 1887, a woman named Amelia Phinney was recovering from surgery for a uterine ulcer at Cambridge Hospital, Boston. Suffering pain from the procedure, she asked her nurse for something to ease the discomfort. The nurse, Jane Toppan, obliged, and although the medicine she gave to Amelia tasted foul, Jane encouraged her to finish it. As she drifted in and out of consciousness, she felt someone...
-The clock on the wall of the Caffey house showed 3.55am – the time that the flames had engulfed the Texan cabin which had been home to Terry Caffey, 41, his 37-year-old wife, Penny, and their three children – 16-year-old Erin, Matthew, 13, and Tyler, who was 8. But it wasn't the fire which had claimed the lives of Terry's family... It was Erin Caffey herself...
When Robin Lee arrived in Boise, Idaho in the late 1980s she was a struggling single mother with two small children – her son, Joshua, and daughter, Tabitha. Money was tight for Robin. With only a couple of dollars to her name, a new life in Boise was going to be difficult, but Robin was determined to make it work. Luckily for Robin, the local YWCA took her under their wing and offered her a...
Christine Papin and Léa Papin were two French maids who murdered their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans, France, on 2 February 1933. The murders were a shock to the country and but some saw the maids as symbols of the underclass lashing out against the rich.The case has formed the basis of a number of films and plays. This is the story of how the two unassuming sisters became murderers.
Ashleigh Robinson, 19, and her 16-year-old sister Holly committed the "Judas-like" murder of their dad Antoni Robinson – getting their boyfriends to do the killing.It is a story straight out of a twisted crime thriller, involving money, real estate and jewelry. The two sisters came up with teh pot to kill their sixty-one year old father, a successful antiques dealer with their boyfriends Gordon...