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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.

unexplained-events:

Andrei Chikatilo, a.k.a Butcher of Rostov and Red Ripper, was a Soviet serial killer who sexually assualted and mutalted a minimum of 52 women from the late 70s to 1990. As you have probably guessed, the majority of his murders were committed in the Rostov Oblas of the Russian SFSR.

Chikatilo was a very awkward kid especially around women. He was impotent and once ejaculated while wrestling with his crush. That’s when he says his hatred for women started as they all laughed at him. He went on to become a teacher and had multiple reported sexual assaults on young girls. This only got worse. Sexual assaults then turned into murders as his 1st victim was a 9 year old girl named Yelena. 

Chikatilo was finally arrested when Soviet cops found evidence linking him to murders, but according to their law could only hold him for 10 days before they had to either charge him or release him. He gave a full confession of every murder he ever committed. One of the things he confessed to was ripping the victim’s genitals, lips, nipples and tongues with his TEETH. 

He was convicted of 52 of the 53 murder charges. Sentenced to death for each of them. The bottom picture is of a severed head of one of his victims used in his trial. He was executed with a single gunshot behind the right ear on Feburary 14. 

Happy Valentine’s Day!!

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livefromapt213:

lovely-loathsome:

Often, when Ed Kemper picked up young female hitchhikers, the women would start talking to him about the serial killer in their area who was murdering co-eds.  Little did they know that they were riding in the same vehicle as the man whom they were discussing.  However, Kemper found himself unable to harm these women.  “The second they started talking about that, they didn’t know it, but they were getting a free ride.  I couldn’t touch that with a ten-foot pole, I swear,” he stated in an interview.

@dahm-sub @hausoftruecrime @lovely-loathsome What are your thoughts about the story of the victim who let him back into his car when he locked himself out? Any insight into the psychology of that, cause i cant come up with an answer. 

@livefromapt213 OMG it’s so wild but it makes sense when you take into account a few factors.  One, victim Aiko Koo was only 15 years old.  So, more than likely, she was far too naive and forgiving of others for her own good.  Two, by that point Kemper had managed to talk her into giving him her trust.  He said to detectives that they actually had a pretty deep, personal conversation–after he brandished a gun on her, lol.  Kemper was highly intelligent and an eloquent speaker, so it’s not too difficult to imagine him being able to coax a teenage girl into believing he’d do her no harm. Honestly, the fact that they had such a heart-to-heart discussion makes his murder of her far more fucked up in my opinion, because most serial killers don’t get personal with their victims; interaction makes the person seem more real, less like an object.  I believe he’s claimed her murder was the one for which he felt something close to remorse.