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The Railroad Killerquote:Reséndiz killed as many as 15 people[6] with rocks, a pick axe, and other blunt objects, mainly in their homes. After each murder, he would linger in the homes for a while, mainly to eat; he took sentimental things and laid out the victims' driver's licenses to learn a bit about the lives he had taken. The Mighty Moltres has a new favorite as of 11:18 on May 6, 2016 |
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Can someone link me to the story of the grown woman who was convinced she was 15? I remember reading about it on this thread, but didn't bookmark and now can't find it. I remember her picture in the article had her in pigtails and overalls, her signature look. Googling brings up all other weird stories but not that one.
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Lullabee posted:Can someone link me to the story of the grown woman who was convinced she was 15? I remember reading about it on this thread, but didn't bookmark and now can't find it. I remember her picture in the article had her in pigtails and overalls, her signature look. Are you talking about this this story?
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whiteyfats posted:Hasn't there been several women caught trying to enroll in high school in their twenties? Yes, that's why I was having issues finding it lol. Madkal posted:Are you talking about this this story? Yes, thank you!
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Madkal posted:Are you talking about this this story? Dang. I'm really curious if there's been any followup on this, considering that was almost 15 years ago now.
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Same thing (with a grown woman going to high school) happened where I live a couple years ago.
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Madkal posted:Are you talking about this this story? Holy poo poo, her family are die-in-a-house-fire lovely. The sisters KNEW she was being molested and did literally nothing? The mother KNEW her daughter was damaged and was bitter because she "turned her back on the family"? They can't use being from a hick town as an excuse, I've got toothless cousins in the Ozarks that would take Uncle Billy to the woodshed over that poo poo. gently caress every last Throneberry except Treva. I hope she got help.
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Stairs posted:Holy poo poo, her family are die-in-a-house-fire lovely. Uh. Did you miss the part where the other daughters were also molested? That kind of also seriously fucks you up, and it's well known CSA survivors often are afraid to report it. [spoilers contain graphic descriptions of molestation btw.] quote:Each of the sisters asked Treva what was bothering her, but the truth was that they didn’t really need to be told. They knew why Treva didn’t want to return to that house. They knew what she had endured there—because they had endured it themselves. When they were children, they too had lain awake in their own beds at night, praying that he would not come to touch them.
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Wedemeyer posted:Uh. Did you miss the part where the other daughters were also molested? That kind of also seriously fucks you up, and it's well known CSA survivors often are afraid to report it. [spoilers contain graphic descriptions of molestation btw.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liCKrHyatVs
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Dewgy posted:Dang. I'm really curious if there's been any followup on this, considering that was almost 15 years ago now. Per her wikipedia page she's living in Tumwater, WA and per the comments section on this article going by a slightly different name and still duping people there as of November 2015, saying she was 28 (she'll be 47 in a few weeks).
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Madkal posted:Are you talking about this this story? This a very sad article but this quote from one of her high school classmates cracked me up. quote:But others weren’t so sure about her motives. They were fascinated, for example, that she still couldn’t make an A in algebra despite fifteen years of high school. “It just goes to show you how algebra can really suck,” one girl said. whiteyfats posted:Hasn't there been several women caught trying to enroll in high school in their twenties? Here's another one http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1115165/Mother-34-posed-15-year-old-daughter-try-high-school-cheerleading-squad.html Your Gay Uncle has a new favorite as of 11:30 on May 7, 2016 |
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So, I'm pretty sure most Goons in the US have heard of Three Mile Island, the reactor meltdown in the 70s that released lots of radioactive coolant into the environment. Three Mile Island ain't got poo poo on the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. Located seven miles from the Canoga Park neighborhood and thirty miles from downtown Los Angeles, there are now 150,000 people within 5 miles of the place, with 500,000 people within 10miles. Four of the ten worst radioactive accidents in American history have occurred there. Initially a rocket fuel testing site, it was later used for nuclear reactor testing, where the experimental nuclear reactors had no containment facilities. Some highlights from the linked article (all emphasis mine):
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Its really weird reading about places that are right next door to me. The lab is essentially right up a hill from my house. Everyone in the area knew about the lab and its still guard posted up today since its been a common thing for people to want to go check it out . If anyone is interested when finals are over with and Im back home I can swing by and try to get photos from the outside.
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We bought a house In Lexington Ky that was on the stretch of track where he killed the UK student and attempted to kill the girlfriend that was with him. Didn't really know that until they caught him and it was all over the news. That Halloween some kid came dressed in street clothes and we asked him if he was "that serial killer. " kid had no idea who we were talking about and got pretty spooked when we told him about it. Probably not the best story to tell an 11 year old who knocks on your door alone. At night.
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The Worst Bear posted:I love nuclear mishaps and the like, so I'm completely shocked I've never heard of Santa Susana. I'm really hoping there's a good documentary on the place out there. The Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory was a cold war era facility that quote:was the site of Lockheed's lab for investigating the feasibility of nuclear aircraft. The site was used for irradiating military equipment, as well as the forest to determine the effect of nuclear war, and its effects on wildlife. The area was closed in 1971 and acquired by the city of Atlanta for a second airport, but its topography was determined to be ill-suited for an airport. Documents explaining what went on at the site remain highly classified, and the entrance to the underground portion of the facility has been buried. The only objects left above ground were the concrete foundations on which the buildings and reactors were placed. The heart of the GNAL was a 10MW unshielded reactor that was normally stored submerged in a cooling pond, but was hoisted up into the air to irradiate materials during experiments. Before construction, the intent had been to irradiate aircraft systems to see how well they held up to radiation with the end-goal of developing a nuclear-powered bomber that could remain in flight for weeks to months at a time. By the time the facility was finished, this had been all but dismissed as ridiculously impractical and the facility took on a new purpose: to study the effects of radiation levels that would be present in the aftermath of nuclear war. A typical test would consist of several steps: The material to be irradiated would be brought into the reactor building on rail cars. Next, everyone on site inside of the "lethal fence," the area in which humans could receive fatal doses of radiation (look for the circle in the woods on this map) would get into the underground safety bunkers (more on these later.) Once the site was clear, the reactor would be brought up to its operating power of 10 megawatts and hoisted out of the pit into the air for the duration of the test, then lowered back into the pit. Once the all-clear was sounded, the rail cars would be moved to an outdoor cool-down area (one of the fenced-off areas still off-limits to this day because of contamination) where they would sit for days or weeks until they were safe to bring into the hot cell (more on this later) and be manipulated, repaired, etc. by robotic tools because they were still too radioactive for people to get near them. Sometimes, early on, they tested aircraft parts. Other times, they tested various materials, including pine wood that was dubbed "Lockwood" (Lockheed was running the site) which became quite hard and durable, and was used in various applications including flooring at the IAEA headquarters. There were also "biological materials" tested, which is a nice way of saying they exposed live animals and the surrounding forest. Doses of radiation were measured in rads; Wikipedia sources say that a whole body dose of 400 rads will kill the average person, and off the top of my head I think 1000 will kill most animals. Several ten hour tests were conducted, with rodents and birds exposed to a mean whole-body dose of 6000-8000 rads and a peak measured dose of nearly 30,000. Nearby trees lost all of their foliage within a week of the first test. Then came the big one, a test to simulate the aftermath of a nuclear attack. The reactor was raised and left in the elevated position for a full three weeks. Trees 1000 feet from the reactor absorbed as much as 100,000 rads. Levels at the lethal fence perimeter 3000 feet away were between 500 and 1000 rads, enough to kill a person. The site was shut down in spring of 1971 and cleanup took just over a year. Most buildings were razed and only the concrete pads left behind, but there are a few still standing. The hot cell and several surrounding structures are still dangerously radioactive due to high levels of cobalt-60 and cesium-137 and won't be safe for demolition for another 30-50 years. The pump house building that supplied cooling water for the reactor is still standing, just a small concrete shack. Some explorers with a very poor sense of self-preservation have cut the double fence and entered the Hot Cell building with a Geiger counter confirming the official story that it's not safe to be there. Trees inside the hot cell area still show signs of radiation damage and mutations. The underground bunkers were gutted but left intact and the entrances buried. Every few years, the exploration bug bites someone and they dig it out. The lower levels are flooded, but there's apparently plenty to see.
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I like this Texas Monthly article. The twists and turns are amazing. It's also, I think, a good reason to legalize prostitution.
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Here's a brief memoir by his sole surviving victim. It's very cheerful.quote:Mostly, the attack feels firmly in the past, but there are some things that I can never forget, no matter how much I try – like the sound of that rock hitting Christopher's head.
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Bonster posted:I like this Texas Monthly article. The twists and turns are amazing. It's also, I think, a good reason to legalize prostitution. Edit: I just finished reading this, and it is definitely a pro click. I was really impressed at the dedication of these cops to finding out who was hurting prostitutes, and their insistence on taking the cases seriously. You don't always see that attitude from police when it comes to victims like these. pookel has a new favorite as of 16:06 on May 9, 2016 |
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Madkal posted:Are you talking about this this story? Carl and his wife, Patsy, were known as good country people. They lived in a small frame home decorated with a photo of John Wayne on one wall and a rug that depicted the Last Supper on another. Carl was a big, lumbering man, a truck driver in the oil fields. He had met Patsy in the early fifties at a soda fountain in Oklahoma, and after a few weeks of courting, they had driven to the A&P supermarket in Wichita Falls, where the butcher, who was also a preacher, had wiped his hands on his apron, pulled out a small pocket Bible, and performed their wedding ceremony out in the A&P parking lot while the couple sat holding hands in the back seat of Carl’s Chevy. this part is kinda great, devoid of the rest of the story
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GWBBQ posted:I think the Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory would be right up your alley. I posted in this thread 2 years ago, so I hope people don't mind the repost I actually remember this post! The information was just as good then and it's great to read it over again, thank you. It really is amazing to look at that map picture and think about how crazy things would get when it came to testing the effects of nuclear energy and radiation.
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Dewgy posted:Dang. I'm really curious if there's been any followup on this, considering that was almost 15 years ago now. According to Bonapartisan posted:per the comments section on this article going by a slightly different name and still duping people there as of November 2015, saying she was 28 (she'll be 47 in a few weeks). Her new fake name is "Brianna Kenzie." Putting that into Google, I found this picture:  which looks an awful lot like this pic from the article:  the first pic links to https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianna-kenzie-70690529 in Olympia, Washington To see more info you have to have a LinkedIn account. Sorry if this is too internet detective-y
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I just wanted to thank everyone who's posted Texas Monthly articles. Every single one I've read in this thread has been amazingly well-written and engaging, and I'm super-impressed with their reporting.
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