Imagine being a student at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine. You’re walking past a shelf in the anatomy theater and there, in a jar on a shelf, is a head. Not an unusual sight for a medical student. Until you learn that it’s the actual head of one of Portugal’s most famous killers – Diogo Alves.
Luisa de Jesus (a/k/a The Foundling Wheel Killer) had a terrible habit of adopting babies. A lot of them. And she killed them all.
We’ve all heard the rumor that The Exorcist movie was cursed. Did it affect Paul Bateson too? He was a successful radiologist, but could he also have been a serial killer in his spare time? He was arrested and sentenced to twenty years in prison for the murder of Addison Verrill. He also confessed to killing and dismembering six other men…
Larry Sanders and his friend Jimmy Knighten were out “noodling” (fishing with bare hands). Sanders strangled Knighten. He claimed Knighten had summoned Bigfoot to kill him.
In February 1968, Diane Cusick went to the Green Acres Mall in Long Island, NY. But instead, she ended up duct-taped, beaten, raped, and strangled in her car. Her killer may have been found fifty years later His name is Richard Cottingham, a/k/a The Torso Killer.
The Order of the Solar Temple was a doomsday cult that ended in the murder/suicide of seventy-four of its members in Switzerland and Canada in the 1990s on three separate days.
“You’re pretty near dead now”… Tillie Klimeck reportedly whispered in her husband’s ear. Not exactly the words of a loving, worried wife.
Anatoly Moskvin had a strange collection. There were life-size dolls scattered around his apartment. It turned out that they were the mummified corpses of dead girls…
When Terri Lee Benson was four, she had a vision. She was sitting under a tree and three men in robes appeared out of nowhere. They said that she was the only one who could see them and that she could “do or be anything she wanted if she wanted it badly enough.” Terri believed them…