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Most of us have seen a movie or some tv series on the trials and tribulations of college bullies and the popular football player and cute teenager cheerleader. Most of us have probably already formed some kind of perception on what type of people they are – rude; full of themselves; picking on others and generally a downright plague to those around them. But this was no movie or tv series and, Emma Walker was not any preconceived version of a...
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January 15th 1947,local police had arrived to the nightmarish scene, hardly believing it was possible as they stared down at the porcelain lifeless body of Elizabeth Short. Her limp arms raised above her head, her torso precisely sliced through and her lower half of her body and legs erotically laid out some 30 cm away. This young woman had suffered at the hands of some evil that police and investigators had never come across, some deranged individual...
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A 31-year-old woman of Asian descent, sits nervously in front of the microphones and journalists, ready to make her statement and ready to talk through how her life has turned out over the past twenty years. Kim Tien cuts a meek figure with her long dark hair pulled back into a ponytail. She sits twisting her fingers anxiously as her blue fleece jersey crumples against the desk. As the journalists shoot off their sensitive questions, she looks wide-eyed...
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Mary Hughes sat with her sister, Kathleen McCormack Durst in the small medical clinic office on a warm morning in June 1976. She pleaded with her sister to not go through with the procedure; that there was a way out of this mess; that she could leave her husband if she wanted to. But Kathleen, through her pained tears only wept softly into her hands, telling her sister 'she had to' – 'it was the only option'. A few minutes later the nurse came...
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John Norman Collins was responsible for the "Michigan Murders"...
Collins killed young women between 1967-69 in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area of Southeastern Michigan. He targeted victims between the ages of thirteen and twenty-one, kidnapping, sexually assaulting and later killing them. It took three years before authorities finally caught up to Collins, catching him one week after his latest murder. What possessed Collins to commit these awful atrocities...
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