In March of 1962 five Florida teens went on a 7ft Air Force raft to skindive and explore the semi-submerged shipwreck the USS Massachusetts, which sits on a sandbar about 2 miles from shore in the Gulf of Mexico. Only one boy returned. The survivor, Brian McCleary, was 16 at the time and his account […]
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The first murders committed by the infamous Zodiac killer were the murders of Betty Lou Jensen and David Arthur Faraday on December 20, 1968. The couple were shot as they were parked a few blocks from Betty’s home after their first date. The Zodiac went on to kill at least five total people in northern […]
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Franklin Delano Floyd is a murderer who is currently on death row following his conviction for the 1989 murder of Cheryl Ann Commesso, a mother of three from Florida. He is also a person of interest in the 1990 death of his wife, Sharon Marshall, who was killed in a hit and run. That’s a […]
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In the late 70s someone started terrorizing the small town of Circleville, Ohio by spreading gossip and revealing the townspeople’s sexual secrets through the mail. It was a very analog Gossip Girl, but with divorce, murder and false imprisonment. The identity of the Circleville writer is one of the most bizarre mysteries in true crime […]
Continue readingAnnabelle was a famous haunted doll even before she made an appearance in The Conjuring that turned into her very own horror movie, Annabelle, and subsequent sequel/origin story/biopic? Annabelle: Creation. A pair of fame hungry paranormal investigators named Ed and Lorraine Warren told a story about a Raggedy Ann doll given to a young nurse […]
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Brooke Shields started working as a model when she was 11 months old. Her mother was a socialite, actress and model and her father was a business man and the family lived in New York City. Her father’s family originally paid her mother to have an abortion, but her mom kept the money and had […]
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The “staircase murder” is widely considered one of the most bizarre and puzzling murder mysteries of all time. Background Michael Peterson was a former captain in the U.S. Marine Corps who lied about having received various military honors while running for mayor of Durham, NC in 1999. Peterson wrote three novels about the Vietnam war […]
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Ed and Lorraine Warren are a fascinating couple if you’re into the macabre. The self-professed Catholics created the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR) in 1952 and spent their lives investigating paranormal phenomena. Ed Warren styled himself as a “demonologist” despite never having gone to seminary (he went to art school). Lorraine Warren claimed […]
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People on r/askreddit discussed the personal cases where someone they knew went missing or was murdered and what it was really like to be on the inside of the case. “Nothing” “One of my college professors from about 7 years ago when I first started school at the community college level disappeared. Nobody knew he […]
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The Amanda Knox trial for the murder of Meredith Kercher is one of the most bizarre true crime cases in history. It’s not that the murder was especially difficult to solve, they actually caught the guy who did it and he’s in jail. The strange thing about this case is the Italian police’s (and subsequently, […]
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