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The murder of Pippa Bacca, the travelling bride

In short Pippa Bacca, pseudonym of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, was an artist from Milan and the niece of Piero

In short Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), a Hungarian noblewoman, was accused with four servants of torturing and killing hundreds of girls

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In short In the hot water ordeal the accused had to fish a ring or a coin out of the

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In short Benjamín Solari Parravicini (1898-1974) was a successful Argentine painter, best known for the more than a thousand “prophetic”

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There is plenty of strange medical cases in human history: some of them have very well documented evidence, while some

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In short In 1906 Clara Germana Cele, a 16-year-old South African orphan studying at St. Michael’s Mission in Natal, was

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In short In 1968 in Scotswood, near Newcastle, Mary Bell, aged 10 and 11, strangled two little boys, 4-year-old Martin

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In short Rope was called the “queen of torments” because it was cheap and easy to use. With strappado, suffered

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In short Water torture is ancient: in France “the question” forced the condemned to drink litres of water, in Germany

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In short On the night of 11 June 1962 Frank Morris and the brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped from

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In short In 1892 in Exeter, Rhode Island, the Brown family was being decimated by tuberculosis. Convinced that one of

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In short In 2015 Sharkur Lucas, a mortuary attendant at a hospital in Ghana, said live on Adom TV that

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