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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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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. ![]()
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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. ![]()
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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. ![]()
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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. ![]()
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After six decades the murder of Irene Garza, a south Texas beauty queen was solved. It turned out her killer was a priest. ![]()
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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. ![]()
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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. |
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