On March 16, 2005, Iranian serial killer Mohammed Bijeh was lashed 100 times and hanged in front of a crowd of 5,000 bloodthirsty residents in Pakdasht, Iran. Between March and September of 2004, Bijeh raped and murdered 16 boys between the ages of 8 and 15. The 23-year-old was sentenced to one death penalty for […] The post The Story Behind Mohammed Bijeh’s Public Execution appeared first on True Crime Magazine ..read more

Meet Robert Ben Rhoades, a truck driver who spent 15 years traveling along the interstates of Texas, Illinois, and Arizona, kidnapping and torturing young women and their male partners. In February 1990, Rhoades abducted 14-year-old runaway Regina Kay Walters, who had been traveling with her boyfriend, Ricky Lee Jones. Rhoades immediately killed Jones, intending to […] The post The Story Behind Internet’s Most Spine-Chilling Photograph appeared first on True Crime Magazine ..read more

Meet Anatoly Slivko – a Soviet youth club leader who exploited his position to satisfy his deep-seated childhood trauma and perverse inclinations by preying on vulnerable young children. Between 1964 and 1985, Anatoly Slivko convinced 43 boys to participate in his “hanging experiments“—a ritual that allowed him to physically reenact the erotic fantasies triggered by […] The post 16 Unseen Photos Of Anatoly Slivko’s Reign Of Terror appeared first on True Crime Magazine ..read more

On October 13, 1984, a 20-year-old Texas college student Angela Samota was found dead in her apartment. The autopsy revealed she had been raped and fatally stabbed in the heart. Her case went cold until Samota’s friend and roommate, Sheila Wysocki, took matters into her own hands. A decade after her friend’s death, while watching […] The post How Sheila Wysocki Solved Her Best Friend’s Murder appeared first on True Crime Magazine ..read more

The Golden State Killer became notorious for his disturbing habit of taunting authorities and his victims both before and after his attacks, often through phone calls. Although there are over 10 phone calls attributed to the killer, only 3 of them have been recorded. 1977 “Never Gonna Catch Me” Call On December 2, 1977, a man claiming to be the East Area Rapist called the Sacramento Police, saying: “You’re never gonna catch me, East Area Rapist, you dumb fuckers. I’m gonna fuck again tonight. Careful!” The call was recorded and later released to the public. The killer attacked his next victim ..read more

Meet Joachim Kroll - a German serial killer who led investigators back to his crime scenes and re-enacted the murders with volunteer police officers. Between 1955 and 1976, Kroll kidnapped, raped, strangled, and mutilated at least eight women. On July 4, 1976, Kroll was arrested for kidnapping and killing four-year-old Marion Ketter after a man notified the police that his neighbor, Joachim Kroll, had clogged the pipes in their apartment building by flushing rabbit innards down the toilet. After examining the sewage pipe, police realized that the innards were not those of a rabbit but of a s ..read more

Meet Joachim Kroll - a German serial killer who led investigators back to his crime scenes and re-enacted the murders with volunteer police officers. Between 1955 and 1976, Kroll kidnapped, raped, strangled, and mutilated at least eight women. On July 4, 1976, Kroll was arrested for kidnapping and killing four-year-old Marion Ketter after a man notified the police that his neighbor, Joachim Kroll, had clogged the pipes in their apartment building by flushing rabbit innards down the toilet. After examining the sewage pipe, police realized that the innards were not those of a rabbit but of a s ..read more

The Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Jerry Gay met Ted Bundy several years after the mystery of missing and brutally murdered women had gripped the nation. In 1977, Gay, who then worked for The Seattle Times, was granted access to Bundy in Colorado, where the infamous killer was held in custody on a murder charge. Earlier that year, Bundy had escaped by jumping from a courthouse window in Aspen. He was captured six days later. Gay, who had once served as president of the National Press Photographers Association, said he was driving to a conference when a Seattle Times reporter asked him t ..read more

In mid-1987, actor Sean Penn was incarcerated in L.A. County jail for reckless driving and assaulting a photographer on the set of his movie, Colors. During his 60-day sentence, of which he served 33 days, the actor was at one point stationed catty-corner to Richard Ramirez, and apparently, the infamous killer was a fan of Penn’s. Sean penn in Colors. During one of his interviews, Penn recalled the eerie encounter: “I was down here on Bauchet Street, L.A County jail in the cell working kind of across from him. And after about a month of, you know, seeing each other around and all of that he w ..read more

On the early morning of January 15, 1947, a mother taking her child for a walk in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, stumbled upon a deeply disturbing sight: the body of a young, naked woman, cut cleanly in half at the waist. The badly mutilated body was lying just a few feet from the sidewalk and was posed in such a way that passersby reportedly thought it was a mannequin. Despite the extensive mutilation and injuries on the body, there wasn’t a drop of blood at the scene, indicating that the woman had been killed elsewhere. The reporters from the LA Examiner who were present at the scene offered th ..read more