Tag: true crime

bundyspooks:

Urban legends are as popular as ever, but the majority of the scary stories you’ve heard at sleepovers are based on at least a small grain of truth. One such tale that might have kept you awake at night is The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs, which tells of a young child-minder’s gruesome encounter with a crazed stalker. There are many adaptions of this 1960â€Čs legend, with the general story line being that the babysitter receives several creepy phone calls from a man who keeps telling her to check on the children. Terrified, she calls the police who trace the call to the upstairs bathroom of the house. When the intruder is finally arrested, he has slaughtered all three children. While spine-tingling, you may be intrigued to know that this fictional story came from the very real murder of 15-year-old Janett Christman in 1950.

Janett was babysitting 3-year-old Gregory Romack at his home on West Boulevard and Stewart Road in Columbia, Missouri. At around 1:30 a.m, while Gregory was sleeping, and intruder entered through his bedroom window and proceeded to the downstairs living room where he raped, strangled and stabbed Janett. The crime scene was utterly horrific: the bottom picture is one of the less bloody photographs. Although a garden hose left outside was used to break the window, forensic investigators reported that the furniture and light fixtures near the window were totally undisturbed, making it impossible for him to have entered that way. This is likely to infer that the murderer attempted to make it look like the house had been broken into, when in reality, Christman probably opened the front door for someone she knew.

This case remains unsolved, with it’s prime suspect passing lie detector tests and successfully suing the police for his detainment.

myhappymurderblog:

With Halloween approaching, many of us have memories of our parents searching through our candy for things that have been tampered with, assuming that any maniac could poison candy for the sadistic pleasure of killing children.

In point of fact, the only documented case of candy tampering resulted in the death of Timothy O’Bryan, whose father Ronald Clark O’Bryan was found guilty and executed for the crime. Known as “the Candyman”, the elder O’Bryan had taken out an insurance policy on the lives of his children before lacing their Pixy Sticks with cyanide. There is NO recorded incident of Halloween candy tampering by a stranger.

Parents may wish to be careful, but they can be assured that candy tampering is not what urban legends would lead you to believe. These and other popular myths are addressed in the excellent documentary Killer Legends, currently on [American] Netflix.

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liberty5-300:

sixpenceee:

I told a serial killer to f**k off

Creepy experience by u/yepitskate

In
2006, I was a college student at ASU. I lived in an off campus
apartment (on the ground floor) and it was a block off a major street
here in Phoenix called Baseline. ​These details are important.

In
the summer of 2006, Phoenix Arizona was plagued by two serial killers.
One was the “Phoenix Shooter” who ended up being a team of two guys
randomly shooting people, and the other was the “Baseline Killer,” a
rapist and murderer. Having two serial killers put the entire city on
edge, and everyone was talking about it. I even saw articles in Time or
Newsweek about the situation.

Keep reading

juuuust fuckin read it

Don’t be afraid to be downright rude to someone who’s injecting themselves into your space. It could save your life if you’re not afraid to throw your weight around and tell someone off.  TRUST YOURSELF!

You can still be a kind and generous person and still tell someone to fuck off.

Source: sixpenceee

edmundekemper:

“I felt that I was going to be caught pretty soon for the killing of these
girls, or I was going to blow up and do something very open and get
myself caught, and so I did not want my mother—. A long time ago, I had
thought about what I was going to do in the event of being caught for
the other crimes, and the only choices I saw were just accept it and go
to jail, and let my mother carry the load and let the whole thing fall
in her hands, like happened the last time with my grandparents, or I
could take her life.” – Edmund Kemper

luciferlaughs:

Hybristophilia is the attraction to people who have committed particularly cruel and gruesome crimes such as murder and rape. This occurs mostly in women than in men.

Hybristophilia can be split into two categories:

1) Passive Hybristophlia

Every year, notorious criminals receive romantic and sexual “fan mail” from admirers. These letter-writing groupies (known as SKGs–serial killer groupies) have no desire in taking part of criminal activity, yet are attracted to men behind bars. Many of them sympathize with the criminals as they tend to be a product of abusive homes, and feel the urge to nurture the criminal in hopes of changing them. Some of these women, although not all, are convinced that their lover behind bars is completely innocent of the crimes they are accused of.

2) Aggressive Hybristophilia 

Aggressive hybristophiliacs are complete opposites. They are willing to help out their lovers with their criminal agenda by luring victims, hiding bodies, covering crimes, or even committing crimes. They are attracted to their lovers because of their violent actions and want to receive love, yet are unable to understand that their lovers are psychopaths who are manipulating them. 

Source: lovearthistory.hubpages.com

coralstuffandthings:

Andrew Kehoe lived in the small community of Bath, Michigan, with his wife on his farm. He was elected to the school board in 1924 and later won another community post to serve as the town clerk.

But two years later, his fortunes seemed to be in decline. He lost the nomination for the clerkship and was having trouble with school board. His wife was also ill. And, to top it all off, Kehoe was grappling with financial problems. These were caused in part by a special tax to build a new school; a tax he had fought against. Kehoe was facing the possibility of losing his 80-acre farm.

On May 18, 1927, Kehoe orchestrated a sinister plot against the people of Bath, especially the town’s children. He killed his wife and set fire to their home and other farm buildings. This was a diversion, leading neighbors and others to the farm to fight the blaze.

Meanwhile, Kehoe drove to the Bath Consolidated School – the new school he opposed building – where he had planted hundreds of pounds of dynamite. An experienced electrician, he had served as the district’s volunteer handyman and had unfettered access to the building. After months of careful planning, Kehoe took his revenge on the town and the school by setting off a bomb at round 8:45 a.m. that morning. Even though not all of the dynamite he had hidden went off, the resulting explosion was catastrophic. Thirty-seven children, most only 6 to 8 years old, and one teacher were killed and scores of others were injured by the blast.

Still, Kehoe’s rampage was not complete. His truck was loaded with explosives as well, which he set off during an altercation with the school’s superintendent. This final destructive act killed Kehoe, the school official, and several others.

Kehoe’s act was one of the largest school-related mass murders in US history.

gaydemon666:

“I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of soilex for each one, put in the upper portion of the body and boiled that for about two hours and then the lower portion for another two hours. The soilex removes all the flesh, turns it into a jelly-like substance and it just rinses off. Then I laid the clean bones in a light bleach solution,left them there for a day and spread them out on either newspaper or cloth and let them dry out for about a week in the bedroom.”

“I took the knife and the scalp part off and peeled the flesh off the bone and kept the skull and the scalp
 If I could have kept him longer, all of him, I would have.”

— Jeffrey Dahmer on the murder of Ernest Miller.

coralstuffandthings:

When the body of Elizabeth Short was discovered, Los Angeles seemd to freeze.

Short was called the Black Dahlia, a mysterious woman with an unhappy past. Her murder was a celebrity cause that ripped open the dark side of Hollywood in many ways.

A woman and her three year old daughter saw what they first thought were the pieces of a mannequin in the ditch. After a moment, the horrified woman realized that what she saw had been a real human body. She pulled her daughter away and ran to telephone the police.

Of course by then it was too late for Short. She had been sawed in half at the waist, but the ground was completely clear of blood. This told the detectives that someone had killed her at some other location, drained her blood, and moved her. Whole pieces of her body had been cut away. Her intestines were meticulously stacked under her buttocks. Her legs were spread, and her hands were posed behind her head. More than one authority of the day uneasily noted how provocative the pose was meant to be.

The autopsy revealed that she had been tied before she died, though no ropes were ever found. She had been badly beaten before she died.

The case received an enormous amount of attention. Just a few weeks later, the killer called the editor of one of the newspapers. The mysterious caller offered to send in pieces of Short, verifying what he had done. Indeed, the next day, the paper received Short’s address book, photographs, and birth certificate, things that had been missing from her home and her person.

Over the years, more than fifty people have confessed to the killing of Elizabeth Short. Some others have volunteered famous celebrities of the day and even close relatives. James Ellroy, a famous crime writer, believes that his own mother was killed by the same man who killed Elizabeth Short.

Today, the crime goes unsolved, and if Elizabeth Short ever knew her killer, she has taken that knowledge with her to the grave.

congenitaldisease:

On 15 January, 1947, Betty Bersinger was pushing a stroller containing her three-year-old daughter down Norton Avenue, Los Angeles. Much of the area was vacant due to WWII stopping housing development, but the driveways of these future homes were already completed. She was making her way to a shoe repair shop when she saw what she believed to be a mannequin, just dumped on the grass. She reported that the mannequin was bleach white and that the bottom half of the torso had somehow been disconnected. When she got closer, she soon realised that it was not a mannequin, but the body of a young woman who had been completely severed in half and drained of blood.

The police arrived and noted that her face had been slashed ear to ear and the lower part of her body had numerous knife wounds and was missing her pubic hair. One of her feet were found just beside the footpath and in clear view for anybody driving past. The infamous murder became known as ‘The Black Dahlia and the victim was called Elizabeth Short. The case still remains unsolved to this day.