Real-Life Horror Tales Mentioned in the Media ( Part - 4)

Utah Murder-Suicide

When a Utah teenager went home in September 2014, he discovered his parents and three siblings had died. "A "to-do list" had been written on the pages of a notebook. The list included items like "feed the pets" and "find someone to babysit the house" as if the parents were getting ready to go on vacation "According to The Salt Lake Tribune. Although there was no suicide note, no warning that they would do this, or any other explanation, it appeared to be a murder-suicide. Why two parents would kill themselves and three of their four children was a mystery to the police.

Nobody knew for a full year what had occurred to the family or what had prompted the parents to take such extreme measures. Further spooky information about the case was made public by authorities in January. Family members' testimony and a police investigation indicate that the parents' motivations were their conviction that the end of the world was near and their fixation with a convicted murderer. As reported by the Washington Post:

Police were informed by friends and family that the parents were concerned about "evil in the world" and desired to flee a "pending catastrophe." Yet, the majority said they only desired to relocate "off the grid." Detectives also discovered letters from Kristi Strack to Dan Lafferty, one of the most notorious murders to have been found guilty in the state in 1984 for fatally murdering his sister-in-law and her infant daughter. According to the prosecution testimony, he executed the victims on Ron Lafferty's instruction, who professed to have received a revelation from God. The tale was turned into the novel "Under the Flag of Heaven."

According to the police, Dan Lafferty and Kristi Strack became friends, and she and her husband even paid him a visit in jail.

The Phone Stalker

ABC News reported on a series of ominously precise death threats made to families via cell phones in 2007. The unknown callers were fully aware of the activities and attire of the families.

The families claim that the calls, which threaten to kill their children, pets, and grandparents, come in at all hours of the night. They receive voice mails with recordings of their private talks, including one with a local police detective, on them.

The caller is aware of their activities and what they are wearing, according to the families. Furthermore, despite months of investigation, police are helpless to stop them.

The Kuykenall family reported a caller with a scratchy voice threatening to slice their throats, and this continued for months.

Even though the Kuykendalls' phones were off, the calls could be traced back to them when Fircrest, Washington, police searched for the offender.

It became worse. According to the Kuykendalls and two other Fircrest families who spoke with ABC News, they think the callers are snooping on them using their cell phones. According to them, the hackers are aware of everything they do, even where they are and what they are wearing. The callers recorded intimate talks, including a meeting with a local investigator, the families and police claimed.

The Watcher

A New Jersey family received unsettling death threats after relocating into their $1.3 million dream house from someone posing as "The Watcher." This year, CBS News reported the following:

The owners claimed they have received numerous letters from the unidentified person since moving there. The home "has been the subject of my family for decades," according to "The Watcher," and "I have been put in charge of observing and waiting for its second coming," Castro reported.

Some messages questioned, "Have they found out what's in the walls yet," noting that the new owners have a large family. I'm happy to know your identities now, as well as the name of the young blood you brought me.

Following their forced eviction from their house, the family sued the previous owners.

Issei the Cannibal

Issei Sagawa, a 24-year-old student at Wako University, is accused of following a German woman to her apartment in Tokyo, Japan, breaking in while she slept there, and attempting to chop a chunk of flesh off her body to eat. She apparently battled him when she woke up, and the police later apprehended him. Issei was wrongly accused with attempted rape, and his affluent father offered the victim a compensation outside of court to get the accusations dismissed, according to a 2012 Vice documentary that explored Issei's strange case.

He is accused of shooting and eating Renée Hartevelt, a fellow university student, in France seven years later, in 1981. Issei horrifyingly filmed everything on camera, and when he tried to throw the rest of her body into the lake near the Bois de Boulogne, he was once more apprehended by police. He was sent to a mental hospital before being deported back to Japan. For whatever reason, his Japanese psychologists concluded that he was sane. Furthermore, his murder accusations were fully withdrawn due to a legal quirk concerning the French government's refusal to turn over the case's documentation. He apparently left the psychiatric hospital on his own own and has been freely roaming the streets ever since. Even Issei has evolved.

"I'll glance at her thigh and remark, "That really looks nice." But, I don't have the want to consume it. I've already committed cannibalism, so there's no point in continuing to harbour that desire. Although I said in my book that eating human flesh was tasty, I actually prefer Matsuzaka (Kobe) beef. Yet I'd managed to convince myself that it would necessarily be tasty because I'd wanted to eat human flesh for so long."

The lyrics to the Rolling Stones song "Too Much Blood," which made reference to Issei Sagawa, read: "And when he ate her he took her bones/To the Bois de Boulogne." He is still residing in Kawaski City, Japan, at the age of 73. Nobody is aware of the reason why France refused to let Japan try him.