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With over 71,000 missing persons, Canada is one of the leading countries on this terrifying list. Even though the law enforcement is doing their best to locate these people, many of them slip through the cracks due to poorly led investigations. One of those cases is the disappearance of Marilyn Bergeron who was last seen in Quebec on February 17th, 2008. The city of Quebec is known as a safe place to live, and many of the residents love the fact that...
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McCamey, Texas. A town of less than two thousand people, out in the scorching Texas desert, where downtown is a stretch of black road with marginally more buildings on either side. McCamey is the type of town that lies, more or less, entirely forgotten by the rest of the United States, down in the deep heat of Texas. It was in McCamey, in 1940, that Gary Mark Gilmore was born. Gilmore would have, perhaps, gone one to live and die a completely unnoticed...
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Robert Dorotik had died from blunt force trauma and strangulation. He had several injuries to the face and the back of the head (an expert testified the wounds were consistent with a hammer). There were defensive wounds on his hands. He was still wearing his jogging clothes although according to the detectives his shoes were tied in an odd manner. The rope used to strangle him was still around his neck and had made a laceration on his throat.
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Garza built and controlled an intricate drug trafficking enterprise, having a hand in at least three murders. However, it is believed he played some part in another five killings — including that of his son-in-law — for which he was never tried.
In his forty-four years on earth, Garza married a woman — Elizabeth — who would stand by him no matter what he did. Together, they had four children — Juan Jr, Elizabeth (after her mother), Maribel,...
1786) She Came From Hell
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Tiffany Cole spied on an elderly couple plotting a way to kill them and take their money. Teresa Lewis used a combination of sex and money to manipulate two men into killing both her husband and stepson in order to gain $250,000 in a life insurance scheme. Brenda Spencer predated the killings at Columbine and Parkland as she went on a shooting spree at the school directly in front of her home. Kimberly Saenz hated her job as a nurse and proceeded...
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Some problems become more troublesome the longer they are left. The aching molar which remains untended; the lawn which is left uncut. The same might be said of the case of Ray Gricar. Although, of course, the disappearance and possible death of a man, one with a high local profile, is much more serious than sore teeth or an unkempt yard.
Gricar was last seen on Friday April 15th 2005. It was a glorious day—one of the first of the year in which...
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They called him the Gainesville Ripper and he was allegedly the inspiration behind the horror film "Scream." In 1990, Danny Rolling murdered four University of Florida students and a Santa Fe Community College student in their apartments with a United States Marine Corps military-style KBAR knife by stabbing, slicing, mutilating, raping, and even decapitating some of his victims. He had also been linked to and found guilty of killing a family of three...
1789) Soutine
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Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943), peintre d'origine biélorusse, inconventionnel et controversé, combine influences de la peinture classique européenne avec postimpressionnisme et expressionnisme. En tant que membre des artistes de Belarus, un groupe de l'école de paris, il a créé une œuvre principalement composée de paysages, de natures mortes et de portraits. Son style individuel caractérisé par l'humour, le désespoir et par l'utilisation de...
1790) Killers Online
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A look at three killers who used the Internet to lure their victims in for the kill.
SHAREE MILLER – Sharee Miller was a gorgeous, single mother-of-three when she met her husband Bruce Miller. At the time, she was in her early twenties, broke, and weeks away from being homeless. The couple initially met when Sharee began working at Bruce's automobile scrap yard as a bookkeeper. After only three months, Sharee moved herself and her three kids into...
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Many people have different experiences with the Catholic church, that much is for sure. Despite the scandals, there can be no way to definitively say whether it's the church itself, or the bad apples that are drawn to it for the positions of power they can take up. For those who met with Hans B. Schmidt, a German Roman Catholic priest, their experience with the Catholic church would be their last.
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Art keeps good alive in the worst of times. In the face of ugliness, pain, and death, it's art that has the power to open us all to a healing imagining of new possibility, it's art that whispers to the collective that even in the ashes of loss, life always grows again. That's why right now, in this tumultuous time of war and pandemic, we need poets more than we need politicians.
In response to the multitude of global crises we're currently experiencing,...
1793) Deadly Faith
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Cultist groups have permeated society ever since people could chat and share ideas en masse, although modern cult experts today often clash about what, exactly, makes a group of people a cult. What's a loony or eccentric organization to one expert is often seen by others as a religion or sect, which are terms loaded with less cultural stigma. Whatever the best working definition might be, here we present four of popular culture's craziest cults of...
1794) Salvador Dalí
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Pintor, diseñador, creador de objetos extraños, autor y cineasta, Dalí se convirtió en el más famoso de los surrealistas. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso y Breton tuvieron una gran influencia en su vida artística. La película de Dalí, Un perro andaluz, que produjo Buñuel, marcó su entrada oficial en el cerrado grupo de los surrealistas parisinos, donde conoció a Gala, la mujer que se convertiría en su compañera de toda la vida y en su fuente...
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Hogan's Heroes was Crane's first real taste of fame, but it was also his last. Though he toured the U.S. afterwards as part of a theater group, and starred in another sitcom, his career took a sharp downward turn after the cancellation of the show he was famous for.
But in a turn of events that turned his minor stardom to notoriety, Crane was murdered in 1978, in his own home. He was brutally beaten, maybe even strangled, in what seemed like a senseless...
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The Epsom Derby, established back in 1780 for three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies, is today considered to be the most prestigious of the five Classics of the racing calendar, but there was nothing noble about the notorious Derby held in 1844. Marred by horse switching allegations, false age declarations, devious ownership transferrals and nobbling, it was set to become the most scandalous event in the history of the Turf. Drawing on a wide...
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Andrea Yates was, and still is, a devoutly religious woman. She did, and still does also suffer from severe depression and could justifiably be called 'insane'. In fact, that's what she's been called by the courts- for having murdered her young family, one by one, in one of the most shocking criminal cases in recent American history.Her crime was drowning each of her five children over the course of just one hour, before laying them down in bed as...
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Australia's Most Dangerous Woman
Robyn Lindholm was destined for fame. By the age of 14, this talented, beautiful young woman was already an up-and-comer in the world of Australian figure skating—competing in national ice-skating championships and even performing alongside Olympic legends Torvill and Dean, handpicked by the duo to participate in their sold-out Face The Music world tour.
However, it wasn't her talent on the ice that ensured Lindholm's...
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When a person vanishes into thin air without any evidence or leads, the police are usually left helpless to search for answers. After some time these cases will become cold, and the families of the missing persons would lead their lives, hoping that one day their loved one will return or they might get some answers about what really happened to them. The family of Lynne Schulze went through the same thing because their daughter and sister vanished...
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New York in the 1970's was certainly one of the most crime driven cities in the world. The Lucchese family was one of "The Five" families that dominated the organized crime scene in this era. In fact, this family still holds great power today. Becoming involved with this family was never a matter of "if" you would run into problems, but rather "when". Through countless, calculated murders, crimes, and street wars, this family soon came to be feared...
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