Issei Sagawa, the Japanese cannibal
In short Who: Issei Sagawa (Kobe, 26 April 1949 – Tokyo, 24 November 2022). Victim: Renée Hartevelt, a 25-year-old Dutch
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Oxana Malaya, the wolf girl
In short Who: Oksana Oleksandrivna Malaya, born 4 November 1983 in Nova Blahovishchenka, Kherson region, Ukraine. When she was found:
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Scaphism–the torture method
After the article about the mellified man, I could not help but talk about scaphism: an ancient Persian method of
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Marco Mariolini, the murderer who hunted anorexics
In short Marco Mariolini, an antiques dealer from Brescia, called himself an “anorexophile”: he was attracted only to extremely thin
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The methods of execution by crucifixion
In short Crucifixion was used by the Persians, Phoenicians and Carthaginians and became the symbolic punishment of Rome, reserved for
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Death by burning at the stake
In short Death by burning is a very ancient penalty, already found in the Code of Hammurabi and the Bible.
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The ghosts of Poveglia Island
In short Poveglia is an island in the southern Venetian Lagoon, inhabited since the early Middle Ages and devastated during
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The Poena cullei, penalty of the sack
In short The poena cullei, the “penalty of the sack”, was the Roman punishment for parricides: the condemned, flogged and
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Full list of ancient tortures
In short A guide to ancient tortures divided by category: with water (ordeals, boiling, Chinese water torture), with fire (burning
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Sharon Carr, a sadistic killer at 12
In short In June 1992 in Camberley, England, 12-year-old Sharon Carr randomly stabbed 18-year-old Katie Rackliff to death with 32
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Noah Crooks, at 13 he kills his mother with 22 rifle shots
In short On 24 March 2012, in a farmhouse near Osage, Iowa, 13-year-old Noah Crooks killed his mother Gretchen, a
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Satan goes to trial, the story of David Glatzel and Arne Cheyenne Johnson
In short In 1980 in Brookfield, Connecticut, the family of 12-year-old David Glatzel turned to the demonologists Ed and Lorraine
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