On February 14, 2000, Asha Jaquilla Degree, a nine—year—old girl from Shelby, North Carolina, United States, disappeared after leaving her family's home during the early morning hours.

On February 14, 2000, Asha Jaquilla Degree, a nine—year—old girl from Shelby, North Carolina, United States, disappeared after leaving her family's home during the early morning hours.

For reasons that remain unknown, she packed a bookbag and walked along North Carolina Highway 18 in heavy rain and wind.

u/metalnxrd — 7 days ago

Blanche Monnier was a woman from Poitiers, France, who was secretly kept locked in a small room by her aristocratic mother and brother for 25 years.

She was eventually found by police, then middle—aged and in emaciated and filthy condition; according to officials, Blanche had not seen any sunlight for her entire captivity.

u/metalnxrd — 15 days ago

Tina Lim Xin Yin was a 14—year—old student who was last seen in Choa Chu Kang, Singapore on June 22nd, 2002.

u/metalnxrd — 19 days ago

Terrence Davis was an American electrical engineer, computer programmer, and outsider artist best known for creating and designing TempleOS, a public—domain operating system, written in a programming language developed by Davis called HolyC.

He believed God had commanded him to create TempleOS as the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible. In 1996, Terrence began experiencing regular manic episodes, some of which led to hospitalization. Initially diagnosed with bipolar disorder, he was later declared to have schizophrenia. Eight months before his death, he struggled with periods of homelessness.

u/metalnxrd — 1 month ago

Walking home from school just before her 10th birthday, Tura Satana was reportedly gang raped by five teenagers.

u/metalnxrd — 1 month ago

Spontaneous human combustion is the pseudoscientific concept of the spontaneous combustion of a living (or recently deceased) human body without an external source of ignition on the body.

In addition to reported cases, descriptions of the alleged phenomenon appear in literature, and both types have been observed to share common characteristics in terms of circumstances and the remains of the victim.

u/metalnxrd — 1 month ago

Marcus Wesson is an American mass murderer and child rapist, convicted of nine counts of first—degree murder and 14 sex crimes, including the rape and molestation of his daughters.

His victims were his children, fathered through incestuous sexual abuse of his daughters and nieces, as well as his wife's children.

u/metalnxrd — 1 month ago

Hae Min Lee was a high school student who went missing on January 13th, 1999, in Baltimore County, Maryland, before turning up dead on February 9, 1999, when her corpse was discovered in Leakin Park, Baltimore.

Her autopsy revealed that she had been killed by way of manual strangulation.

u/metalnxrd — 1 month ago

The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846—1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada.

Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, mainly eating the bodies of those who had succumbed to starvation, sickness, or extreme cold, but in one case murdering and eating two Miwok guides.

u/metalnxrd — 1 month ago

Michele Mongelli is a man from Turin, Italy, who was arrested on 27 March 2009 for allegedly sexually abusing his daughter over 25 years. His son Giuseppe was also arrested on the allegation of abusing his sister and his own four daughters.

u/metalnxrd — 2 months ago

The murder of Farkhunda Malikzada was committed by a mob in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 19th, 2015.

Malikzada, an Afghan woman, had been involved in an argument with a street vendor over his practice of selling amulets when he publicly accused her of burning the Quran, attracting a large group of people from the Shah—Do Shamshira Mosque. Shortly thereafter, she was publicly lynched, with several members of the mob bludgeoning her and then running her over with a car, which dragged her for nearly 100 metres (330 ft). Subsequently bringing her near the Kabul River, the mob, while yelling the takbir and anti—American slogans, took turns further bludgeoning her corpse before setting it on fire, with some of the assailants ripping off parts of their clothes to use for kindling, as Malikzada’s clothes were soaked in blood and her corpse would not stay burning.

u/metalnxrd — 2 months ago
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Junko Furuta was a Japanese girl who was abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered. Her abuse was mainly perpetrated by four male teenagers; Hiroshi Miyano, Jō Ogura, Shinji Minato, and Yasushi Watanabe and took place over a 40—day period starting on November 25th, 1988.

u/Sudden_Quality_9001 — 2 months ago

The Hello Kitty murder case took place in Hong Kong in the spring of 1999, when a nightclub hostess was abducted in Lai Yiu Estate, and subsequently raped and tortured to death in an apartment in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon.

u/metalnxrd — 2 months ago

RC Hörsch was an American erotic photographer and filmmaker. His 50—year body of work ranged from the poetic to the explicit. His artistic work "often focused on scantily clad women in sadomasochistic settings."

He had numerous criminal convictions, including for drug manufacturing and forgery. Criticism of his work condemns the exploitation of his subjects. In June of 2016, his ex—wife Amy McHale, to whom he was married between 2004 and 2008, disappeared.

u/metalnxrd — 2 months ago