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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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By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
They were lovers, sadists and serial killers. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were predators that from 1963 to 1965, killed five young victims.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
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.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Jeffrey Dahmer was captured more than three decades ago, however mention of his name still causes a shudder. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories On May 16, 1980, Theresa Fillingim, 16, was reported missing to the Tampa Police Department. On April 3, 1981, several human remains were recovered from the property of Billy Mansfield. On July 20, 2022 with the help of DNA evidence one of the skeletons was confirmed as belonging to Theresa.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
The Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis once received powerful politicians and even President Lincoln in 1861, when it was the Bates House. However in the years that followed it could not escape the stigma of murder that stained its luxurious and upscale reputation.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Starting in 1968, men started to show up dead floating in the Detroit River, especially in the month of June. Even after so many years they all remain unnamed.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Over 45 years ago, South Florida authorities were realizing they might have a serial killer dumping the bodies of young women along desolate roads and canals at the edge of the Everglades.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
The house was built in 1918, a hundred years after the establishment of Uniontown, Alabama. It's derelict and crumbling now, built in the Neo-Classical Revival style with its fluted Ionic columns, it's not difficult to imagine how splendid it once looked. Even now it's seems the perfect setting for a southern gothic mystery.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
After six decades the murder of Irene Garza, a south Texas beauty queen was solved. It turned out her killer was a priest.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
In 1970 Carol Anne Fitzmaurice, a 23-year-old nurse, without any known enemies was savagely stabbed to death in her home. Both her family and the investigators in the case, not only question the identity of the killer but the motive as well. Despite the passage of more than 50 years both of these questions have never been answered.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Texarkana is a small town that straddles the state line between Texas and Arkansas, and in the spring of 1946 an unidentified assailant attacked eight people in the span of ten weeks. Five of them were killed. The news media named him the "Phantom Killer" or the "Phantom Slayer" because witnesses later described him as wearing a white mask or sack with holes cut for eyes. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In 1960, Sharon Lee Gallegos, 4, was kidnapped by two persons, a man and a woman, driving an old-model green car. Despite a good description of one of the kidnappers and the vehicle, as well as reporting it right away to the police, the child's fate remained unknown for 62 years. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories It was Halloween, 1969, and St. Petersburg police was called to the scene of a gruesome murder. The body of a woman dressed only in a filmy, green nightgown was discovered neatly wrapped in plastic bags, and concealed in a black, steamer trunk near the parking lot of the Oyster Bar Restaurant at 4200 34th Street South. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories A young legend tripper and ghost hunter was found dead in an abandoned church in Italy's Asota Valley. The condition of her body points to a sinister motive for her untimely death. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Perhaps older, but just as lethal, an 83-year-old convicted serial killer was indicted in 2022, for the murder of a woman whose dismembered body was found in a shopping cart at a Brooklyn street corner. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In the fall of 1923, a woman's savagely beaten body was found under the portico of the deserted Hussey Mansion at Center Avenue and Cypress Street, adjacent to the Homeopathic Hospital in Pittsburgh. Underneath her body was found an envelope with the "hand of death", consisting of the playing cards an ace, a deuce, a tray of diamonds and the five of spades. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Two officers of the bicycle police brigade of Fresnes-sur-Marne were patrolling the road to Claye, when they came in the night upon a smoldering hayrick in a field belonging to Farmer Ernet. Under the rick about 100 feet off the main road and up a cart track, they smelled the odor of burning flesh. It was the body of a slender girl, and it was obvious by the charring of her body someone had set her on fire. by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Mary Hoge's slashed body was found stuffed in a steamer trunk, and the suspect was none other than her stepson. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories On October 24, 1905 Mary Jane Caley was staying in Suite 72 at The Aberdeen Hotel; the same one she had rented several times in the past. That day she had already bought her ticket to return by train to her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Then for some unfathomable reason she shot herself in the temple. Why would a wealthy, 21-year-old woman do this? By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories A skeleton was discovered on October 17, 1909 in a lonely spot in the woods two miles north of Islip, Long Island by rabbit hunters. There was no flesh on the bones, which gave evidence it had lain there for a long time. They were also charred from a forest fire that occurred in the area months before. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Beware the insane, because they might have lost their mind, but not the capacity to deceive. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Arlis Perry, 19, was murdered inside Stanford Memorial Church two weeks before Halloween, 1974. Her body was posed and mutilated in what appeared to be some type of ritual murder. Decades would pass before the identity of her killer would become known, however questions still lingered.
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The end of 1909 was fast approaching when charges were levied against the the County Hospital for the Insane at Overbrook. What started as a miscommunication spawned an investigation that revealed graft, mismanagement and a possible murder. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In 1966, Louise Pietrewicz disappeared without a trace. The mystery of her whereabouts appeared to be solved, with the discovery of a woman’s remains found in a burlap sack on Long Island. |
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