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SPRING BREAK MURDER
A story of murder, kidnapping, human sacrifice and a charismatic cult leader…
Matamoros, Mexico—an easy drive or stroll across the Rio Grande River from Brownsville, Texas—has been a popular hangout for vacationing college students since the 1930s. It is a typical border town, with all that implies: prostitution and sex shows, abundant alcohol and drugs, rampant poverty and crime. Each spring, some 250,000 students descend on Brownsville and Matamoros en masse. Those who came to celebrate in March 1989 didn’t know that Matamoros had logged 60 unsolved disappearances since New Year’s Day.
One who disappeared was Mark Kilroy, a pre-med junior from the University of Texas. Friends lost track of him in Matamoros, in the predawn hours of March 14, 1989, and reported his disappearance to police the next day. American officials kept a close eye on the case, while Matamoros police interrogated 127 known criminals—a process frequently involving clubs and carbonated water laced with hot sauce, sprayed into a suspect’s nostrils. No one had seen Kilroy.
(Source: trutv.com)
Texas Rapper ‘Big Lurch’ Ate His Roommate
In April 2002, 27-year-old rapper Antron Singleton (AKA Big Lurch) murdered Tynisha Ysais in her apartment while under the influence of PCP. Her boyfriend Thomas Moore testified that he and Singleton spent the evening prior to the murder smoking PCP, also known as “angel dust.” Additional sources claim that Ysais was murdered during an alleged week-long PCP binge.
The victim was found in her apartment by her friend Alisa Allen. Her chest had been torn open and a three-inch blade was found broken off in her shoulder blade. Teeth marks were found on her face and lungs, which had been torn from her chest.
Eyewitnesses reported that when Singleton was picked up by police, he was naked in the middle of the street, covered in blood and staring at the sky. A medical examination performed shortly after his capture found human flesh in his stomach which was not his own.
On November 7, 2003, he was sentenced to life in prison. He had been convicted of murder and aggravated mayhem the previous June after pleading not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the murder. The court ruled that his intoxication and plea of insanity were not satisfactory reasons for committing the crime.
(Source: liveleak.com)
LUCID DECAPITATION
For thousands of years, the forceful removal of the human head has been used as a form of capital punishment. Since the very beginnings of the practice, there has been much speculation and debate regarding the length of time that the head can remain conscious after its removal. Many argue that a beheaded person will almost instantly lose consciousness due to a massive drop in blood pressure in the brain, and/or the heavy impact of the decapitation device. But there are countless eyewitness reports in history describing a few moments of apparent awareness in the victim.
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The story of Marie Hilley is a study in deceit, pathological obsession and serial murder.
Those who should have known her best knew her least. In the established tradition of black widows, Marie murdered her husband. It didnt stop there. Her murderous escapades undermined what should have been the most sacred of family relationships. When it appeared she would finally be brought to justice for her crimes, she disappeared and began life anew with an assumed identity. One persona after another, discarded when it no longer suited her needs.
(Source: trutv.com)
H.H. Holmes’ Hotel of Horrors
Behind it’s outward appearance of normality, secret passages riddled the hotel-room walls, with peepholes for spying on the occupants. Trapdoors led into hidden staircases leading to the street. There were doors opening on to blank walls, an elevator shaft with no elevator, and an elevator with no shaft.
One room had been made into an airtight steel chamber, equipped with gas hoses leading to an adjoining room. And in the basement, which was connected by a spiral chute with Holmes’ top-floor office, was a lime filled concrete pit, vats of acid and a series of furnaces.
Whichever way the women died, they all ended up in the basement for disposal. Besides the limepit, Holmes had his ovens, and barrels of acid. Their bones were the only thing that gave him bother. Sometimes he would clean them and sell the skeleton to medical laboratories. Mostly, however, he would stack them in the empty acid barrels, mixing them with animal bones, against the eventuality of being discovered.
Women were not the only victims in Holmes’ castle. There was, for example an unfortunate inventor by the name of Warner, who was incinerated alive inside his newly-designed furnace. And there was also Rogers, a wealthy investor from Wisonsin, whom Holmes alternately gassed and starved until Rogers produced a cheque for $70,000. The man was then poisoned and his body sold for dissection.
The Torture and Death of Sylvia Likens
In July 1965, Lester and Betty Likens, suggested that Gertrude Wright (a.k.a Gertrude Baniszewski) take their two daughters - Sylvia Marie Likens, 16, and Jenny Faye Likens, 15 - as boarders in return for $20 a week in compensation while they worked across the state.
However, when Lester Likens’s first $20 payment failed to arrive on time, Baniszewski beat the girls. Jenny was frail and had polio. Most of Mrs. Wright’s abuse fell on Sylvia. She often accused Sylvia of being promiscuous and would beat her and kick her repeatedly in her vagina.
On one awful day, Mrs. Wright was indignant because she was told that, much earlier in the girl’s stay, Sylvia had had a bit of extra cash: she knew that the girl had to have been either stealing or prostituting. Sylvia could not just be turning in empty soda pop bottles as she claimed. So, while several kids were at the Baniszewski house, Gertrude forced a weeping Sylvia to perform an awkward striptease in front of the bunch (which included Wright’s teenage daughters Stephanie and Paula Baniszewski and her 12-year-old son, John). When Sylvia was fully nude, Mrs. Wright made the weeping girl shove a soft drink bottle up her vagina.
One night in October, Sylvia wet her bed. This could have been the result of psychological anxiety or it could have been because the many cruel blows to her stomach and crotch had weakened control in that area. However, her tormentors decided that she must now live down in the basement with the dog because she was too dirty to live with human beings. Paula punished Sylvia’s bed-wetting by preventing her from using the toilet, thus forcing her to befoul herself.
At the same time, her torturers began a regimen of forced bathing in which they tied up the “dirty girl” and forced her into the Baniszewski’s old-fashioned, claw-footed bathtub tub after filling it with scalding hot water.
Paula Baniszewski rubbed salt into Sylvia’s burns.
Sylvia was often kept nude or nearly so for days at a time. She became a game for the neighborhood kids to enjoy, burning, punching, and now pushing her down the stairs to the cellar, then forcing her back up just to throw her back down again. Some of the children participating were as young as 10-years-old. Wright also made Jenny participate or else face the same punishment as her older sister.
On one occasion, the starving teenager was allowed up from the cellar and told to try to eat soup with her fingers. Famished, she made an attempt at it only to have the soup grabbed away from her by John. Later, Mrs. Wright. and John forced the girl to eat shit and drink urine.
The last weekend of Sylvia’s life began when Mrs. Wright decided to let her sleep upstairs in a bed again. However, she attached a strange condition to this: Gertrude instructed John, Stephanie’s boyfriend, Coy, and Stephanie to tie Sylvia to the bed so she could not get up during the night to go to the bathroom. “You can’t go to the bathroom,” Gertrude said, “until you’ve learned not to wet the bed.”
Sylvia wet the bed that night.
The next morning began with a second forced striptease, again climaxed by Gertrude forcing Sylvia to insert a soda bottle up her vagina. Then Mrs. Wright decided to take another revenge on Sylvia for having slandered Paula and Stephanie at Tech High. “You have branded my daughters so I will brand you!” she told the confused teenager.
Sylvia was forcibly stripped, then tied down, and gagged. Gertrude heated a sewing needle and carved an “I,” apostrophe and part of the “M” before handing the needle to a 14-year-old neighbor boy and telling him to finish the job.
The words carved on her stomach: “I am a prostitute and proud of it.”
The next day was Sunday, October 24. Gertrude and John both beat the girl. Then Coy stopped by and hit Sylvia in the head with a broomstick, knocking her unconscious.
The next day, Sylvia was taken upstairs for a final — non-torturous — bath. She was placed in the tub clothed. When taken out of it, Stephanie and her brother Ricky realized that Sylvia was not breathing. Stephanie attempted to give Sylvia mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. It did no good.
Sylvia was dead.
Cause of death was determined to be brain swelling, internal hemorrhaging of the brain and shock induced by Sylvia’s extensive skin damage. Sylvia also suffered from extreme malnutrition.
(Source: trutv.com)
One of the corpses of two murdered men found in Acapulco, Mexico, on 5 February 2011. More than 30,000 people have been killed in violence related to the drug trade in Mexico since December 2006.
Dennis Nilsen
Dennis Nilsen lived in London and picked up his victims in pubs. As Brian Masters, author of the definitive biography of Nilsen put it, he was “killing for company.” Before he ever killed, he’d experienced an erotic attraction to death, so he would spend hours lying in front of a mirror, pretending to be dead. There was something about the vulnerability that stirred in him an intense hunger. He also invited a few lovers to role-play his fantasy, but then things got more serious.
His first murder occurred in 1978. He strangled a man he barely knew with a necktie, completely caught up in the eroticism of having this kind of power over another, and then placed him beneath the floorboards of his apartment. Once having tasted the climatic pleasure of this activity, he found ways to repeat it. He continued to invite men to his home, strangling them, bathing the corpses, sometimes taking them to bed, usually attempting sexual contact, and finally butchering them or storing them in various places in his apartments. He especially loved the first night with them when he could have them in his bed before decomposition made them smelly and messy. He was enraptured with the fact that they couldn’t get up and leave. That meant that he was in total control. Sometimes after he bathed them, he’d then soak in the same water and then he would decide their fate: store them, sit them in a chair, or cut them up and distribute the parts. With experience as a butcher, he had no trouble dissecting them and boiling the flesh from their skulls. To him, the entire procedure was a loving act, the last that these men would know. That idea gave Nilsen a great deal of satisfaction. Often he flushed parts down the toilet, which eventually proved to be his undoing. When the septic system clogged in the building, an investigation led to Nilsen and without hesitation, he pointed out a closet where police found the dismembered parts of two different men. Another torso was found in his tea chest, along with a number of old bones, and he was arrested. He then confessed to killing 15 men over a period of five years, partly because the idea of them leaving his apartment made him feel alone and partly because he simply enjoyed it. In prison, he made drawings of their corpses and body parts.
(Source: trutv.com)
Attack in Tokyo
Aum Shinrikyo, which is also known as Aum and Aleph, is a Japanese cult that combines tenets from Buddhism, Hinduism, and is obsessed with the apocalypse. The group made headlines around the world in 1995 when members carried out a chemical attack on the Tokyo subway system. A nerve agent, sarin, was released onto train cars, killing twelve and causing an estimated six thousand people to seek medical attention.
At the center of the group’s belief is reverence for Shoko Asahara, Aum’s founder, who says that he is the first “enlightened one” since Buddha. Asahara preached that the end of the world was near and that Aum followers would be the only people to survive the apocalypse, which he predicted would occur in 1996 or between 1999 and 2003. Asahara has claimed that the United States would hasten the Armageddon by starting World War III with Japan. At the time of the 1995 subway attack, the group claimed to have an estimated forty thousand members worldwide, with offices in the United States, Russia, and Japan.
During the morning rush hour on one of the world’s busiest commuter systems, Aum members put a liquid form of sarin, tightly contained in packages made to look like lunch boxes or bottled drinks, onto five cars on three separate subway lines that converged at the Kasumigaseki station, where several government ministries are located. The perpetrators punctured the packages with umbrellas and left them in subway cars and stations, where they began to leak a thick liquid. Witnesses said that subway entrances resembled battlefields as injured commuters lay gasping on the ground with blood gushing from their noses or mouths. Twelve members of Aum, including Aum founder Shoko Asahara, were sentenced to death for the subway attack.
The 1995 attack was the most serious terrorist attack in Japan ‘s modern history, causing massive disruption and widespread fear in a society that is virtually free of crime.
Sarin, which comes in both liquid and gas forms, is a highly toxic and volatile nerve agent the Nazi scientists developed in the 1930s. Chemical weapons experts say that sarin gas is five hundred times more toxic than cyanide gas. Although sarin is very complex and dangerous to make, experts say that the gas can be produced by a trained chemist with publicly available chemicals.
Additional Attacks
As early as five years before the March 1995 subway attack, the group attempted to carry out at least nine biological assaults—all failed—according to a 1998 New York Times investigation. Originally, Aum planned to massacre citizens by spraying botulin, the most lethal natural poison to humans, from buildings and modified delivery vans. Aum’s team of young scientists cultured and experimented with biological toxins, including botulin, anthrax, cholera, and Q fever. According to the CDC, Aum sent a fact-finding team to Zaire to study and collect Ebola virus samples in 1993. The transition to chemical weapons came after biological attacks failed.
After the subway attack, the State Department says that Japanese authorities reinvestigated and found Aum responsible for a mysterious attack—that later proved to be sarin—on a residential neighborhood in 1994 that killed seven and injured over one hundred people.
(Source: cfr.org)
Murder and Suicide
Dr. Stuart E. Noland gave his wife (Kay Pengra Noland) a hypodermic cut on her wrist, combed her hair, put a Jade Plaque on her. Then he got in the bath tub and committed suicide. 8963 Burton Way Hollywood Calif. 11/15/41
