Inside The Salacious 19th-Century Murder Of New York Courtesan Helen Jewett, America’s First Tabloid Bombshell
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When Helen Jewett was found dead from hatchet wounds to the head inside the brothel where she worked in 1836, the newspapers went wild with her story and helped create sensational journalism as we know it today. Alfred M. Hoffy/American AntiquarianIn 1836, local penny papers in New York City covered the murder of sex worker Helen Jewett with salacious gossip, rendering her the first tabloid homocide. When New York courtesan Helen Jewett was murdered in cold blood almost 200 years ago, a flurry of sensationalized news coverage descended upon her death. The scandal sparked an arms race a ..read more
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Dismembered Body Found In Idaho Cave Turns Out To Be Escaped Outlaw From 1916
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When the headless body was found, experts estimated he died within the last decade. They were off by about half a century. DNA Doe ProjectNo known photograph of Joseph Henry Loveless exists, but researchers created this composite using images of his closest relatives and written descriptions of him. When the headless corpse of an unknown man was found in the Civil Defense Caves in Dubois, Idaho in 1979, nobody could’ve guessed that it would take 40 years to identify it, much less that it would belong to a notorious criminal. According to Fox 8, however, investigators have finally put a ..read more
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How Hannah Beswick’s Fear Of Live Burial Turned Her Into The Manchester Mummy
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After her brother was nearly buried alive, 18th-century Englishwoman Hannah Beswick feared a similar fate — so her doctor mummified her and displayed her blackened face inside his grandfather clock. Wikimedia CommonsAntoine Wiertz’s ‘L’Inhumation précipitée’ (or ‘The Premature Burial’) from 1854 depicted real fears commonly shared in the 18th and 19th centuries. Eighteenth-century Englishwoman Hannah Beswick was terrified of being buried alive. This fear, called taphophobia, was common in her time, as doctors with little understanding of comas would declare people dead prematurely. But ..read more
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Inside The Text Of Kurt Cobain’s Heartwrenching Suicide Note
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Kurt Cobain’s suicide note has fueled conspiracy theories since his 1994 death. Read the full text of it here, and decide for yourself what happened to the Nirvana frontman. Kurt Cobain’s death was officially ruled a suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the brains with a six-pound Remington 20 gauge shotgun in April 1994. Depressed and drugged out on heroin, the singer barricaded himself in the greenhouse of his Seattle, Washington home — shot up, and shot himself, surrounded by a pair of sunglasses, the cigar box he used to hide his stash, his token American Spirit cigarettes, and ..read more
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Richard Klinkhamer Killed His Wife, Evaded Arrest, And Wrote A Book About How He ‘Would’ Have Killed Her
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A year after his wife’s disappearance, the Dutch crime author showed his publisher a grisly manuscript that consequently turned him into a cult celeb of sorts. Richard Klinkhamer enjoyed a bit of fame after he proposed a book detailing the seven grisly ways in which he could’ve murdered his wife. In 1991, Dutch crime author Richard Klinkhamer became the subject of public speculation after the suspicious disappearance of his wife made national news in the Netherlands — and he became a prime suspect. Though detained once, Klinkhamer was not charged, and he soon thereafter proposed a book ..read more
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Minnie Dean Was A Caretaker Known As A ‘Baby Farmer’ — Then They Found Actual Bodies In Her Garden
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After three bodies were discovered on her property in 1895, Minnie Dean became the first and only woman to be executed for her crimes in New Zealand’s history. Wikimedia CommonsThe death certificate of Minnie Dean after she became the first woman to be hanged for her crimes in New Zealand. In 1895, Minnie Dean earned herself an infamous place in New Zealand history and folklore as the first woman to be hanged in the country. To this day, she remains the only woman to have met this fate in New Zealand. At the time, she was probably the most hated person in the country. While the polic ..read more
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How Serial Killer Khalil Wheeler-Weaver Was Brought Down By The Same App He Used To Lure A Victim
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Had the family of Wheeler-Weaver’s third victim not cleverly used the social media app Tagged to lure him into a sting operation, his murder streak may have continued. Public DomainKhalil Wheeler-Weaver went on a three-month killing spree that ended only when his final victim’s family used an app to trap him. Between August 2016 and November 2016, 20-year-old serial killer Khalil Wheeler-Weaver murdered three African American women and attempted to murder another. Wheeler-Weaver garnered the dubious moniker “The Tagged Killer” when it became obvious that he had lured one of his victims ..read more
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The Tragedy Of Martha Moxley, The 15-Year-Old Who May Have Been Bludgeoned To Death By A Kennedy
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In 1975, Martha Moxley was found in her own backyard with a golf club sticking out of her neck. A pair of Kennedy nephews were the prime suspects — but their guilt remains hotly debated to this day. Erik Freeland/Corbis via Getty ImagesMartha Moxley is pictured here in 1974. She’s 14 at the time. The next year she was murdered in a case that remains maddeningly unsolved today. The murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley has been one of the most captivating crimes in modern American history, in part because it took 27 years to convict someone of the crime. But it’s also become a notorious n ..read more
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Americans Are So Poor They’re Selling Their Own Blood At Record Rates
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Forty percent of Americans can’t pay for basic needs like food, housing, or healthcare. And so one industry has stepped in to harvest the most valuable thing they’ve got: blood. CSL PlasmaA promotional image from CSL Plasma, one of the most successful corporations in the industry. The United States of America was once a titan of industry, where manufacturing and technological advancements rocketed the economy to unfathomable heights. Unfortunately, those days are long gone, as about 40 percent of Americans say they struggle to pay for food, housing, utilities, or healthcare. According ..read more
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Teenager Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. Aided One Of History’s Worst Serial Killers — Before Shooting Him To Death
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In 1973, Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. shot and killed Dean “Candy Man” Corll after he had raped and murdered at dozens of teenage boys — and after Henley had killed six of them himself. When Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. was introduced to Dean Corll, he had no idea that he had been targeted by one of America’s worst serial killers. As fate would have it, Corll saw something promising in Henley which he hadn’t seen in other boys, and he became a twisted mentor of sorts for the troubled 14-year-old. Little did Corll or Henley realize how consequential their meeting would be and the deadly consequences it ..read more
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