Dorothea Puente operated a boarding house in Sacramento, California where she offered quality lodgings for elderly people on fixed incomes. She also offered poison and a bed of flowers to bury their corpses in. As she offed her boarders she kept cashing their social security checks. In 1988, after too many of her boarders disappeared, cops showed up with shovels and unearthed seven corpses from her garden. Curiously, Dorothea’s boarding house was six blocks away from the home of Morris Solomon where previously six bodies had been found. Another body discovered in the Sacramento River in 1986 was added to her hit list. It’s believed that she might have killed up to twenty-five others. She was arrested in Los Angeles on November 17, 1988 after she inquired about an acquaintance’s disability check and offered to fix him a nice Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings.
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Albert Fish regularly scoured the classifieds in his endless search for victims. In 1928, Fish came across a Situation Wanted ad placed by a young man named Edward Budd, who was looking for a summer job in the country. Masquerading as the owner of a big Long Island farm, the monstrous old man visited the Budd household, intending to lure the youth to an abandoned house and torture him to death. Fish altered his plans when he laid his eyes on Edward’s little sister, 10-year-old Grace. It was the little girl who ended up dead, dismembered, and cannibalised - all because her brother’s innocent ad brought a monster to their door.
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Being a nerdaholic today watching “Walking With Dinosaurs” on my shitty little VHS player. Most likely going to follow this up with “Walking With Beasts”. Oh happy days! :)
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May 27th • 16 notesThe Medical Killer:
Although this type of killer is very rare, there have been some people who have become involved in the medical industry as a way to carry out their nefarious deeds. This type of killer feels they have the perfect cover because it is very common for people in a hospital or…
May 25th • 241 notesMaleficent is such a fantastic villain. Dark and devious. Exactly as she should be.
SHE’S GORGEOUS!!! <3
This is a picture of the infamous “From hell” letter, which was apparently written by Jack the Ripper. The letter also contained a kidney.
“I send you half the Kidne I took from one women prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise. I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer
Signed
Catch me when you Can Mishter Lusk.”
Because of the inadequate police force, the letter and accompanying kidney were lost. They’ve never since been found and the true identity of the Ripper still remains a mystery.
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When Sean Penn, the actor, was arrested, he was put in a protected area of San Quentin which was where Richard was held. His cell was right next to Richard’s. He said that Richard masturbated frequently. He had pictures of his victims that his lawyers had given him and glued them to the wall with tooth paste and soap. “There’s blood behind the Night Stalker,” he’d say as the guards passed, pointing to the gruesome photos.
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neophyte-no1: Some days, I’m not certain how to relate to art. Sometimes, it seems that art is the world’s saving grace - an element of wonder amidst all this horror that makes the whole thing magnificent. Other times, it seems like putting makeup on a corpse. Or getting a lion to smile. It will - before it eats you.
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Edmund Kemper shot and killed coed Cynthia Schall, a 19-year-old Santa Cruz girl, and put her in the trunk of his car. He carried her body into his mother’s apartment near Santa Cruz, kept it in his bedroom closet for the night and dissected it in the bathtub the next day while his mother was at work. He buried the girl’s head in the back yard “with her face turned toward my bedroom window and, sometimes at night, I talked to her, saying love things, the way you do to a girlfriend or wife.”
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On June 11th 1963, Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, sat down in the middle of a busy intersection in Saigon, covered himself in gasoline and He then ignited a match, and set himself on fire. Đức burned to death in a matter of minutes, and he was immortalized in a famous photograph taken by a reporter who was in Vietnam in order to photograph the war. All those who saw this spectacle were taken by the fact that Duc did not make a sound while burning to death. Đức was protesting President Ngô Đình Diệm’s administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion.
May 22nd • 55,990 notesThis is incredible spirituality.
Shortly after 10 am on 15 January 1947, Betty Bersinger was pushing her three-year-old daughter along Norton Avenue in the Leimert Park of Los Angeles not far from Holywood. There were many vacant blocks there because World War II had put a stop to a lot of housing development although the driveways leading from the roadway had been completed. As the pretty young housewife made her way to a shoe repair shop, she saw what appeared to be a mannequin dumped on the grass. The store dummy was bleached white, but the bottom haf of the torso appeared disconnected from the rest of her body. Both parts were facing upwards and there were flies buzzing around. On a closer inspection it wasn’t a mannequin at all-it was the body of a young woman, cut in half and completely drained of blood.
When police arrived, they found the body of a pretty young woman-her hair wet from the morning dew-lying face up. Her arms were lying above her head and her face was slashed. The lower part of her body had a number of knife marks and was missing some pubic hair. One of the woman’s feet was just a few centimetres from the footpath in clear view of the roadway. The murder was referred to as ‘The Black Dahlia’ the victim was named Elizabeth Short and the murderer was never found.
May 22nd • 788 notesThis case always fascinated me
