Poison Dreams by M.P. Pellicer
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It was a bitterly cold winter day when the body of Marion Lambert, 18, a high school girl was found frozen in the snow near a clump of bushes at the edge of the Sacred Heart Academy grounds in Highland Park, Illinois.
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Murder at the Speedway by M.P. Pellicer
by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
On a warm, summer morning, before the sun was up two men came across the fully-clothed body of a woman thrown along the Harlem River Speedway.
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Construction of St. John the Divine Cathedral in Harlem, New York commenced with a cornerstone-laying ceremony on December 27, 1892, St. John's Day. Over a thousand people were in attendance. None attending on that winter day would believe that 130 years later it would still be incomplete.
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Gertrude Hanna was a 25-year-old choir girl. She was found dead in the cellar of the United Presbyterian Church, very close to her home. She was pregnant, and it was clear she had not died on the narrow, cement ledge her body had been left on. Was it suicide or something more sinister?
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The Son of Sam case blazed across national headlines over 45 years ago. At first glance it appears to be the story of a crazed man who murdered strangers for one year in different parts of New York. However there was something much darker and perverse at the heart of who committed the murders, and what motivated them.
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For several months a strange creature, or the image of a bizarre ghost haunted Hammersmith and Turnham Green, a village on the outskirts of London.
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It all started in January 1861, in Putnam County, Indiana in the small town of Groveland. Tilghman Hanna, 20, and his wife Lydia, 18, were murdered in their beds. None could understand who would want to kill the young couple.
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World War II ended, but violence and destruction visited London in another manner. Women were being slain in horrific ways, and in some instances Scotland Yard was at a loss to identify the perpetrator.
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On January 23, 1877 four young boys came before the Mayor of Indianapolis for stealing a quantity of whiskey. One of them was named Macy Warner. The mayor took it under advisement, but perhaps he didn't realize this wouldn't be the last time he would hear of Macy.
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On March 17, 1906 a woman named Johanna Augusta Knudson died and was buried, but something was not right, even though the physicians who attended her said her death was due to natural causes.
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Along a coast of Staten Island is the Seaman's Retreat Cemetery. It received the dead from the Seamen's Retreat which took in sick and disabled seamen starting in October 1831, and for 50 years afterward. Over 3,000 souls were buried on the land. It was obliterated in the 1960s, and for all intents and purposes no longer exists, except for some of the stories of the men laid to rest there.
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In 1895, the residents of Clifton Park, Staten Island were reported as living in "deadly fear" of a wild animal roaming on the "Leavitt property, 200 feet from the Vanderbilt gold fish pond."
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Little snippets of stories from the 19th century of gruesome and sinister finds.
by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Carl Newton Mahan, 6, quarreled with his friend Roy Cecil Van Hoose, 7, over a piece of scrap metal they planned to sell for a little money. Cecil took it and hit the younger boy in the face. Carl went to his home, took his father's 12-gauge shotgun and returned to where the other boy was. He then aimed it at Cecil's chest and pulled the trigger.
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In South Africa, modest estimates are that more than 50 people are murdered every day, children are not special and are not spared, especially since they are high in demand to be used in dark rituals or muti murders. |
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