by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Presently stories abound about haunted houses, castles, cars, collector items etc., but the real question lies in how did this come about. Take the story about the murder at the Keddie Cabins.
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By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Was it naivete, stupidity or a clash of cultures that led to the death of a young student?
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
It was a week before Halloween, 1966, when a family was found tied up, gagged and slain in their home in the suburbs of Tallahassee. More than five decades have passed and the case remains unsolved.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
In January 1980, Helene Pruszynski, 21, a young news intern was found dead in a field in ranch lands off Daniels Park Road in Englewood, Colorado. Her murder would go unsolved for close to four decades.
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It was a desolate, unlit forest about 50 yards off Arcadia Road. The street was unpaved, and this was a seldom used, industrial area. The patch of land was covered by cypress and pines, no doubt chosen as an ideal place to hide proof of a heinous crime, and that proof was eight bodies which had lain in their secret grave for years.
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On a warm, spring night in 1961, a 20-year-old student shot a taxi driver on the outskirts of Tallahassee. She said she believed he was about to attack her, but it turned out that wasn't exactly accurate. Murder at the Speedway by M.P. Pellicer
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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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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 January, 1959 Larry Lord Motherwell, 42, former felon and construction worker went on a 10-day spending spree in Las Vegas. Perhaps a premonition tickled his spine that the proverbial ton of bricks was about to descend on him.
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It was high summer in 1984, and snowbirds had fled back up north from spending the winter in Reddick, Florida, just north of Ocala. Insects buzzed in the field, and all was quiet; too quiet inside the Wayside Antique shop, a two-story, white-washed structure just off I-75.
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Three women were found dead near the mouth of a cave in Starved Rock State Park, about 100 miles southwest of Chicago. Their bodies were on the floor of the cave in a towering sandstone canyon. They were all housewives without any enemies.
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The battered nude body of a young woman was found by two teenage boys in Illinois Beach State Park, 45 miles north of Chicago. She lay in a ditch along the Chicago and North Western railroad tracks about 40 feet from the park's south entrance.
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From July to August 1975, over 25 patients at the Veterans Administration hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan were inexplicably stricken with respiratory crisis events. Some were saved, but 11 died before the doctors realized there was something unnatural about their deaths.
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Between 1971 and 1973 three young girls were taken, raped and killed. It was theorized the murderer specifically chose them based on their names so that their first name and surname started with the same letter, and the girls' bodies were dumped in parks that started with the same letter as their name.
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Joseph Klimek’s guardian angels were working overtime on his behalf. They may have dropped the ball when he married his wife Tillie, but they used his brother to assist. Suspicions and a visit to the doctor proved what he feared, his brother was being poisoned.
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Near the corner of St. Aubin Street and Mack in Detroit is a tract of land where a house once stood. In 1929, a horrific murder was committed under its roof, where a family including four children were killed. Not surprisingly there have been reports of a headless man seen wandering where this abode once stood. Could it be the fact that this murder was never solved that causes a tortured soul to be bound to the place it experienced its last horrific moments as a human being?
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In July of 2018, Brad Jackson, 65, was found brutally murdered inside the business he managed. Pankaj Bhasin, 34, was accused of killing Jackson. He claimed that he had stabbed the man because he thought that Jackson was a werewolf. by M.P Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Summer in Miami is hot, humid and for two teenagers, deadly. Albert Brust was a 44- year-old building inspector employed by Dade County. He fantasized torturing other human beings, and one day he decided he wanted to make his dreams a reality.
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In a duplex across from a pre-school and middle school, police made a disturbing discovery in 1990. Three strange people lived there. They were self-proclaimed satanists and killers for hire.
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Within the span of only a few weeks, three women were killed in Melbourne, Australia. World War II raged in Europe, and police were at a loss as to who was committing the crimes.
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The year is 1940, the place is Rockland, Maine and one day Alzada Pauline Young, who is only 16 years old, inexplicably disappears on Halloween Day, and despite an intensive search for her she is not found, until one day.
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Sister Marie Lurz, 83, woke up early on the morning of March 25, 2001. Her first stop was Sister Michelle's room. The door was locked, and she became alarmed because the 39-year-old woman suffered from asthma. Despite repeated knocking, no sound came from inside the room. The grisly truth found on the other side of the door was far beyond what her imagination could conjure as to why the younger nun did not answer her calls.
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For fourteen years, this mask of terror was what children saw as they were stolen from their homes by a depraved predator known as "The Beast of Jersey".
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They were lovers, sadists and serial killers. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were predators that from 1963 to 1965, killed five young victims.
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In July 1927, police finally had their man. His name was Ludwig Halverson Lee, janitor of the Prospect Place House, where the hacked bodies of two women were found in the cellar of a brownstone in Brooklyn. |
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