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her first great-grandchild!

we took my 7ish month old son on a long drive in the spring of 2024 because we thought it’d be the last chance we had, and i’m glad we did.

my grandma made the choice to stop dialysis in january 2025. she died not long after with my eldest cousin present. it’s sad, but i’ve felt at peace because i know stopping dialysis was her choice.

i was pregnant with my second at her funeral and while i’m sad they never met, they’ve spiritually been in the same room. <3 she knew i was pregnant and would send me long, long texts about when my dad was young and how he played with his siblings and cousins.

The RMS Olympic, built in 1911 and scrapped in 1937, was an Olympic-class ocean liner. Alongside was the Britannic (sunk in 1916) and the Titanic (sank in 1912). This is the last picture of the Olympic before she was scrapped in '37.

Julia was an 18-year-old woman who had been involved in sex work for survival in Frankfurt. She was struggling with severe drug addiction and had serious health issues. Additionally, she was homeless. According to now-deleted sources, Julia was deeply unhappy with her life.

Julia worked in the Bahnhofsviertel district of Frankfurt. On July 13, 1998, she mysteriously disappeared. Her disappearance went unreported for a LONG time.

She is believed to be a potential victim of Manfred Seel. However, there is no direct evidence linking Seel to her case.

Manfred Seel was a German pensioner who lived a double life as a suspected serial killer. Outwardly, he was a quiet family man and jazz musician from Schwalbach, near Frankfurt. After his death in 2014, authorities discovered human remains and graphic journals in his rented garage, exposing a decades-long killing spree.

Seel died in 2014 at the age of 67. While clearing out a storage unit he rented, his daughter found human remains and alerted the police.

A forensic analysis of his personal computer revealed a vast collection of violent pornography and cannibalism, along with thousands of digital files related to his crimes.

Police link Seel to the deaths of at least five women—primarily street sex workers and drug users—between 1971 and 2004 in and around Frankfurt.

As for Julia, every time I look at her pictures, her short story breaks my heart. She was a beautiful girl who deserves justice and public recognition.

Both Gabor and Anja were described as kind-hearted and reserved young adults who led a healthy lifestyle.

Gabor, 21, had a strong passion for science and originally applied to study geology at a German university. When he did not immediately gain entry into the program, he refused to let his plans stall and enrolled in philosophy instead. He told his parents, Manfred and Anke, that his goal was to enjoy traveling the world first and then transfer back into earth sciences upon his return.

Anja, 20, was deeply passionate about nature and the environment, which heavily fueled her desire to see the world before settling down. Prior to leaving Germany, she successfully completed a professional drafting course. Like Gabor, she viewed their grand backpacking adventure as a brief intermission before resuming her higher education in Munich.

Australia was never actually a major part of their original itinerary. In late 1991, they were backpacking through Indonesia. However, severe monsoon weather took a turn for the worse, ruining their plans to explore the islands. On a spur-of-the-moment whim, they decided to escape the rain by purchasing tickets to Darwin, Australia, arriving just weeks before Christmas in December 1991.

On the morning of December 26, the couple checked out of the Backpackers Inn in Kings Cross, Sydney. They intended to hitchhike southwest toward Mildura and Adelaide as the first leg of their trip to Darwin. They traveled to the outskirts of southwestern Sydney to stand by the highway and hitchhike. It was here that Ivan Milat, driving a silver Nissan Patrol four-wheel-drive vehicle, pulled over and offered them a ride.

Instead of driving them along the main highway toward their destination, Milat diverted them into the remote Belanglo State Forest. Forensic evidence indicates that they were severely beaten, bound, and murdered within the forest very shortly after being picked up that same day.

THE YONES FAMILY:

The Yones family—abusive father Abdalla, mother Tanya, Heshu, and her younger brother—were Iraqi Kurds who fled Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime in 1991. Heshu was only 5 at the time.

After surviving persecution in Iraqi Kurdistan, they were granted political asylum and indefinite leave to remain in the United Kingdom.They settled into a third-floor flat in Acton, West London.

In London, Abdalla Yones, 48, established himself as a prominent figure within the Kurdish community, working as an active volunteer for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). While his family adapted quickly to British life, Abdalla remained insulated, holding fast to strict, traditional patriarchal customs.

By 2002, Heshu was a bubbly, trendy and popular 16-year-old student at the William Morris Academy in Fulham. According to all available sources, Heshu led a double life. She only applied make-up after leaving the house and asked her friends to lie about her whereabouts so she could spend time with her boyfriend, Samnizam Elkhouri, an 18-year-old fellow student at her college who was a Lebanese Christian.

THE ABUSE:

The stress of living a double life started to affect Heshu's schoolwork. Her grades dropped, and her attendance became worse. Fearing an arranged marriage, Heshu decided to confide in her college tutors. She explained that her life would be in danger if her family found out about her secret lifestyle. The school administration completely misunderstood the cultural risk. They followed the standard procedures for dealing with truancy, which involved calling and sending letters directly to the Yones family home to report her absences.

Shortly after, Abdalla received an anonymous letter written in Kurdish. It was from someone within the local West London Kurdish community. The letter made it clear that Heshu had a relationship with a Christian boy and used derogatory language to describe her behavior, calling her a "slut". In Abdalla's eyes, this letter ruined his family's reputation in the community.

Following the letter, Heshu was subjected to months of severe physical abuse. Abdalla routinely beat, kicked, and locked her in her room. Sensing she might not survive, Heshu began planning to run away with her boyfriend and wrote a hidden farewell note that police later discovered in her wardrobe:

"Bye Dad, sorry I was so much trouble. Me and you will probably never understand each other, but I'm sorry I wasn't what you wanted... Hey, for an older man you have a good strong punch and kick. I hope you enjoyed testing your strength on me, it was fun being on the receiving end. Well done."

– Heshu.

In July 2002, Abdalla forced Heshu to travel with the family to Iraqi Kurdistan, claiming it was a holiday. However, the trip was a plan to "correct" her behavior by force.

While there, she was forced to undergo a humiliating virginity test, which she allegedly failed. Later, local relatives testified that Abdalla drove Heshu to a remote area, pointed a gun at her head, and was preparing to kill her. He was only stopped when her mother and brother physically threw themselves in front of the weapon.

In September 2002, the family returned to London, where Heshu found herself under constant surveillance, living as a prisoner.

THE MURDER:

On October 12, 2002, after years of arguing and physical abuse towards his daughter, Abdalla broke into the bathroom where Heshu had barricaded herself. Her mother and brother were at a relative's house at the time.

Pathologists later found deep, severe cuts all over Heshu's fingers, palms, and forearms, proving she had repeatedly grabbed the bare blade trying to defend herself.

Abdalla overpowered her, stabbing her 11 times across her chest, back, and abdomen, puncturing both of her lungs.

He pulled her head back and slit her throat from ear to ear, leaving her to bleed to death in the family bathtub.

The Al-Qaeda Hoax and Community Cover-Up:

Immediately after the murder, Abdalla tried to commit suicide. He used the knife to inflict shallow cuts on his own throat and then threw himself over the railing of their third-floor balcony, falling 25 feet onto the concrete courtyard below.

Abdalla survived the fall but suffered severe internal injuries, a fractured pelvis, and a ruptured windpipe. He was rushed to the hospital under emergency care, where he spent four months under tight police guard.

From his hospital bed, Abdalla claimed that because of his past political activism against Islamic extremists in Kurdistan, an Al-Qaeda hit squad had breached the building. He told detectives that terrorists had slaughtered Heshu for wearing Western clothes, slit his throat, and pushed him off the balcony while shouting Islamist slogans.

For nearly a year, this cover-up delayed the investigation. Due to a deep distrust of Western authorities and a desire to resolve community matters internally, several local family members actively supported Abdalla's Al-Qaeda story to Metropolitan Police.

In September 2003, Abdalla Yones was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 14 years.

Victor Willis, the iconic voice and co-founder of the Village People, passed away on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, just one day shy of his 75th birthday. His wife, Karen Huff-Willis, and the band confirmed that he died following a brief but aggressive illness.

As the group's "policeman" and naval officer character, Victor gave the band its soulful R&B backbone. Beyond his flamboyant stage presence, he was a massive songwriting talent who co-wrote the group’s definitive global hits, including "Y.M.C.A.", "Macho Man", "In the Navy", and "Go West".

Before dominating the 1970s disco charts, Willis was a trained stage actor who appeared in the original Broadway production of *The Wiz*. Though he left the group in 1980, he reclaimed his legacy, won back his copyright royalties in a landmark legal battle, and returned to front the band permanently in 2017. Up until his final months, he was still actively touring internationally with the group.

He leaves behind an unmatched pop-culture legacy that still gets entire rooms of people dancing together nearly 50 years later. Rest in peace to a true legend.

He served as a Chef during the Korean War from 1951 to 1952. He had to carry a lot of huge Bags Of Meat, which led to his Spondylitis.

Thomas "Tom" Knight. 1967 - 2015. He was a really charming and overall nice man to be around. Loving son, husband, and father.

She previously suffered a series of Strokes in 1961, which limited her appearances and was awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom in 1964, which she never attended. Yesterday would've been her 146th Birthday!

They were Assassinated 112 years ago today!