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After committing murder, she needs retail therapy.
Dana Sue Gray A disturbed mind can lash out when at least expected, as it did on a clear morning in Canyon Lake California. A 38 year old Dana sue gray is setting out on a shopping trip. There was something about money, having it and spending it that made Dana sue feel important. She looks like a typical suburban mom on her way to the mall but Dana is a woman with a startling secret. She used ligature strangulation, she used bludgeoning, she used knives. Dana sue gray is a psychopath, she just committed a brutal murder and now she needs some retail therapy. Detective Joe will never forget the gruesome crime scene, Dana sue gray left behind that day in 1994. It was a shock because it was only his second homicide case as a detective and it was overwhelming.
Lesedi MolutsiPublished 5 months ago in CriminalA sordid web of Sex, Lies and money.
1999 the opulent suburb of Toro Canyon in Austin Texas, millionaire TV executive Steven Beard jolts awake. He has no idea what is wrong, then he reaches down, there is a gaping wound in his stomach. He just looked down and saw his internal organs laying outside of his body. Paramedics fight to save the 75 year old man. By the commotion Steven’s 37 year old wife Celeste arrives from her separate bedroom. No one is sure what has happened until police find a vital clue. Stephen Beard has been shot. When there is a shotgun blast to the abdomen, multiple pellets are gonna be perforating the stomach, causing leakage of hydrochloric acid, the pancreas causing leakage of all of the digestive enzymes. Then most importantly multiple shots to the intestines is going to cause leakage of bacteria. It is a very slow and painful death.
Lesedi MolutsiPublished 5 months ago in CriminalDeadly gamble, Insurance Fraud
Eva Coo On an isolated farm in New York's Catskill Mountains, a confrontation, the owner thinks she has caught two trespassers. The truth is much more frightening. The intruders are killers. She is face to face with a deadly woman, who has a taste for money and murder. Eva Coo is like a natural predator. Money was Eva's primary motivation and she would do anything to get it, including murder. Eva Coo is a sharp businesswoman at the height of prohibition in the 1920s. She runs the busiest speakeasy in town. Little Eva's place, it was called lots of loud music lots of women lots of alcohol and everybody visited Eva Coo’s place, that wanted to have a good time. New York playwright Isaac Rathbone has turned Eva's sordid life story into a stage production. The story of Eva Coo is the story of survival.
Lesedi MolutsiPublished 5 months ago in CriminalOnce youngest person ever on Indiana's death row
Paula Cooper Peer pressure exploded into bloodshed in Gary Indiana in the mid-1980s. We call her Nana was the affection name, that the family had for her. She took a real special lover for each one of us, grandkids and we were all special to her and she treated us all very fair and equal. Bill Pelke, remembers the kind warmth of his grandmother Ruth, her real love, her real passion was telling Bible source to young kids. We cut out pictures of Bible characters and she put them up on this board, tell the stories, neighborhood children gather in Mrs. Pelke home for her lessons. It is what she loved to do and so at the age of 70, 80 years old. One more chance for her to share her faith with young people. Not all her students have such good intentions in reaching out to help.
Lesedi MolutsiPublished 5 months ago in CriminalThe John Geoghan Saga: Abuse, Cover-ups, and a Deadly Encounter
John Geoghan was born on June 4, 1935. He served as a priest in Boston for three decades, covering various locations in Massachusetts. Regrettably, he was a repetitive offender, engaging in the heinous act of sexually assaulting children.
Rare StoriesPublished 5 months ago in CriminalGetting to the Heart of the Matter
I try to stay abreast of the news (local, state, national, and international.) I do this mainly from the headlines I glance over. Anything beyond that, can lead me to depression, anger, and despair. I guess, I believed by just grazing, this would suffice my need for civic duty and keep me from becoming emotionally charged. But...
Shirley BelkPublished 5 months ago in CriminalI don't like Mondays.
Brenda Spencer The suburbs have harbored their share of deadly women but until 1979 one of its institutions had been largely untouched by violence or death. On Monday January 29 that would change forever. This is one of the most unthinkable horrendous crimes that could ever occur in California, in the nation and in the world. The city is San Diego California, school teacher Darrell Barnes heads off for another day. He was a teacher for 38 years. He enjoyed the community and he enjoyed the kids that were there. It was a extremely pleasant experience until the incident happened across the road. from Darrell school Grover Cleveland elementary. 16 year old Brenda Spencer is home alone. Her single-parent father has left for work but Brenda isn't preparing for class. She's looking for a thrill. This Monday would spawn a hit song and become the most infamous school day in modern history.
Lesedi MolutsiPublished 5 months ago in CriminalFrom Rapper to Cannibal: The Disturbing Story of Big Lurch
Antron Singleton widely known by his stage name Big Lurch, is an American rapper, poet, and convicted murderer. In April 2002, hе committеd a hеinous crimе, taking thе lifе of his 21-yеar-old roommatе, Tynisha Ysais, and еngaging in thе gruеsomе act of consuming parts of hеr body. As a result, he rеcеivеd a life sеntеncе for his actions. Before his conviction, Singleton was associated with the musical group Cosmic Slop Shop.
Rare StoriesPublished 5 months ago in CriminalValerie Parashumti and Jessica Stasinowsky
Love can change everything for better or for worse. In Australia in 2006 two young women shocked the country. They said that they felt like that brewing a movie, a surreal fantasy that became horrifying. In fact, a lot of us can understand murder under certain circumstances but murder for foreplay. A fatal attraction that would end in unspeakable brutality. It's the kind of thing that scares society. The city of Perth Western Australia it's a relaxed town, in a relaxed country. In December 2006, this quiet suburbia became a killing ground. Young Stacey Mitchell had been arguing with her parents and decided to leave home. Stacey being a normal fascias, 16 year old, did what many teenage girls do at some point. They have a family argument with their parents and they leave. They want to get out of the house for a few weeks. Then she went to stay with friends.
Lesedi MolutsiPublished 5 months ago in CriminalMom shot her three children for a man.
Diane Downs May 19 1983, the night Springfield Oregon was turned upside down. It's 10:48 p.m. at Mackenzie William Hospital. A family car has become an ambulance. Children have been shot. It is every mother's nightmare. Three children gunned down by a complete stranger. Single mother Diane Downs is also shot in the arm. There were three children, Cheryl, Christie and Danny. Cheryl had already expired. Dr. Stephen and his medical team tried to save the two surviving children. Christie had a couple of bullet holes and she had no blood pressure, no pulse, she was pasty white and appeared to be dead. These children would gradually lose consciousness, they would be experiencing pain and their blood pressure would gradually drop. Doctors and nurses work frantically in a race against the clock. Medical attention would have to be received before critical levels of oxygen had stopped reaching the brain, at which point they would become brain-dead.
Lesedi MolutsiPublished 5 months ago in CriminalVampire Lesbian Killer
Tracey Wiggington Between excitement and murder, the idea of a thrill kill shocks every society, wherever it happens. One morning the Australian city of Brisbane awoke to news of a most horrific murder. He was covered in blood, absolutely coding blood. In October 1989 detective Pat Clancy gets a case he'll never forget. I've seen some shockers believe me. This murder scene would write up here among the Tubman's. At the crime scene a naked father of five lay dead. He appeared to be stabbed in his throat, savagely slashed. When the body was rolled over. I truly thought that the head was going to detach from the body. It just almost went its own way and it was a most uncomfortable. Who could commit such a brutal crime. That first day no one could have guessed, I'd think we even considered the idea of it being a female.
Lesedi MolutsiPublished 5 months ago in CriminalFour Angels of death
Four Angels of death A killer’s troubling behavior can alert potential victims but for some unfortunate citizens of Vienna Austria there were no such clues. The motivation was obscure, the location unusual, the perpetrators unexpected. If this was a shocker of the world, what really happened here in Vienna, Max heads criminal investigations in Vienna's South District. In 1989 he and his team were called to the Lions General Hospital, this is the one of the darkest Hospital. They're specially dealing with very elder people. In the preceding three years an alarming number of elderly patients were dying in just one wing, pavilion five. Investigators soon found out why. It's so terrible because you never would expect in a hospital that this is a murder station. Angels of Death nurses, who kill patients usually act alone and never tell anyone, not so in this case. Angels of Death are often motivated by sympathy for their victims or a lust for attention, in pavilion 5 the motivation was very different.
Lesedi MolutsiPublished 5 months ago in Criminal