aardwolf posted:

...I confused the talk about creepy engineers taking illicit dumps with the talk about crickets and this statement got pretty weird.

aardwolf posted:

...I confused the talk about creepy engineers taking illicit dumps with the talk about crickets and this statement got pretty weird.

aardwolf posted:

...I confused the talk about creepy engineers taking illicit dumps with the talk about crickets and this statement got pretty weird.

Synthbuttrange posted:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-12/denmark-submarine-killer-to-be-tested-against-cold-cases/9041076

Oh god they're now investigating him possibly being a serial killer

Synthbuttrange posted:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-12/denmark-submarine-killer-to-be-tested-against-cold-cases/9041076

Oh god they're now investigating him possibly being a serial killer

Synthbuttrange posted:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-12/denmark-submarine-killer-to-be-tested-against-cold-cases/9041076

Oh god they're now investigating him possibly being a serial killer

Goon Danton posted:

So was the hatch on his submarine, it turns out.

Goon Danton posted:

So was the hatch on his submarine, it turns out.

Goon Danton posted:

So was the hatch on his submarine, it turns out.

Goon Danton posted:

So was the hatch on his submarine, it turns out.

Synthbuttrange posted:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-12/denmark-submarine-killer-to-be-tested-against-cold-cases/9041076

Oh god they're now investigating him possibly being a serial killer

A Spider Covets posted:

quote:

Susie despised Delores and made no attempt to hide it. She and Tom were living in Beaufort, S.C. — Tom had joined the Navy Reserve — when their son, John, was born in 1974.

Delores traveled from Kentucky to see her first grandchild. Susie told her to get a hotel room then call for an appointment to see the baby.

Jim was born in March 1976. Delores didn’t see him for a year.

teen witch posted:

Summerfield Slaughter

Familicide, Vitamin C, and North Carolina.


This story is an explosion of and I cannot believe it all happened.

Mr. Flunchy posted:

So that 'sonic weapon' attack on the US Embassy in Cuba? Apparently the most likely culprit is mass hysteria:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/12/cuba-mass-hysteria-sonic-attacks-neurologists

Not to sound too big-headed, but I totally called this as the explanation when the story first broke

Beanbox posted:

She is swedish, and they also found her legs.

EmmyOk posted:

it had that title for over two years so it's okay to change it I think

teen witch posted:

Summerfield Slaughter

Familicide, Vitamin C, and North Carolina.


This story is an explosion of and I cannot believe it all happened.

A Pinball Wizard posted:

Interesting story, but Christ was it a chore to read. Someone explain how paragraphs work to that journo.

Bamabalacha posted:

I know, that was one of the most terribly written things I've ever seen.

Jedit posted:

That explains how her legs fell off, but what about her head?

Avenging_Mikon posted:

For the rest of us that spot is taken by your posts

cash crab posted:

I know we have a good title, but....

EmmyOk posted:

it had that title for over two years so it's okay to change it I think

Bamabalacha posted:

Awwww, thank you.

The Washington Evening Star posted:

"After the powder on the benches caught, the fire spread down rapidly, blinding the girls and setting fire to their clothes. Many of them ran to the windows wrapped in flames, and on their way communicated the fire to the dresses of others."

Bloody Crimes posted:

Desperate arsenal workers searched the debris for survivors..."The bodies were in such a condition that it was found necessary to place boards under each one in order to remove them from the ruins...they were carried out and placed upon the ground." Unsupported, the burned corpses would have crumbled and broken into pieces. The "charred remains of those who had perished," the Evening Star reported, "were laid upon the ground and covered over with canvass."

..

"When our reporter left the scene of the disaster nine-teen bodies had been taken from the ruins, but they were so completely burnt to a crisp that recognition was impossible." The survivors were "frightfully" wounded.

The Cornoner posted:

"The canvas covering the remains was then removed, and the most terrible sight presented itself to the view of those standing around. The charred remains of seventeen dead bodies lay scattered about, some in boxes, some on pieces of boards, and some in large tin pans, they having been removed from the ruins in these receptacles. In nearly every case only the trunk of the body remained, the arms and legs being missing or detached. A singular feature of the sad spectacle was that presented by a number of bodies nearly burned to a cinder being caged, as it were, in the wire of their hooped skirts . . . Many of the bodies seem to have been crisped quote bloodless."

quote:

Children playing near a hillside gravel mine found the first graves. One ran home to tell his mother, who was skeptical at first—until the boy produced a skull.

Because this was Griswold, Connecticut, in 1990, police initially thought the burials might be the work of a local serial killer named Michael Ross, and they taped off the area as a crime scene. But the brown, decaying bones turned out to be more than a century old. The Connecticut state archaeologist, Nick Bellantoni, soon determined that the hillside contained a colonial-era farm cemetery. New England is full of such unmarked family plots, and the 29 burials were typical of the 1700s and early 1800s: The dead, many of them children, were laid to rest in thrifty Yankee style, in simple wood coffins, without jewelry or even much clothing, their arms resting by their sides or crossed over their chests.

Except, that is, for Burial Number 4.

Bellantoni was interested in the grave even before the excavation began. It was one of only two stone crypts in the cemetery, and it was partially visible from the mine face.

Scraping away soil with flat-edged shovels, and then brushes and bamboo picks, the archaeologist and his team worked through several feet of earth before reaching the top of the crypt. When Bellantoni lifted the first of the large, flat rocks that formed the roof, he uncovered the remains of a red-painted coffin and a pair of skeletal feet. They lay, he remembers, “in perfect anatomical position.” But when he raised the next stone, Bellantoni saw that the rest of the individual “had been com­pletely...rearranged.” The skeleton had been beheaded; skull and thighbones rested atop the ribs and vertebrae. “It looked like a skull-and-crossbones motif, a Jolly Roger. I’d never seen anything like it,” Bellantoni recalls.

Skelicopter posted:

And boy, does the story escalate.

Besesoth posted:

A seasonal entry: The Great New England Vampire Panic.

Skelicopter posted:

Dirty John.

A long read, but worth it. It's well-written and the story is absolutely engrossing, revealing the kind of damage a single, pathological man can do to an entire family.

I've read about a lot of sociopaths, but John isn't a serial killer - though he definitely fits the profile. The fact his crimes were slightly less outlandish actually made the story more unsettling, in some ways, as they seemed less like something from a horror movie and more like something I can imagine happening in my own or my friends' lives.

And boy, does the story escalate.

One thing that struck me was the description of how, when John got angry and let his facade slip, people looked into his eyes and saw an "utter void" looking back - it's identical to the way contemporaries have described Henry Lee Lucas, or Bundy, or any number of other psychopaths. They're charming, until suddenly something switches and they're utterly not.

MightyJoe36 posted:

Great read. Talk about a twist ending though.

quote:

She began wearing a wig, living and working out of hotels, checking in under the names of her assistants. In a request for a restraining order, her lawyer laid out John Meehan’s long, ugly history. How the Indiana nursing board had yanked his license and called him “a clear and immediate danger to the public.”

How he’d jumped out of a moving ambulance in Michigan. How he’d swindled multiple women and done prison time and been slapped with restraining orders. How Laguna Beach police, who had also asked for a restraining order against him, had found cyanide capsules in his belongings.

An Orange County judge decided there was no immediate threat to Debra’s safety. Her husband lived in another state; he had never physically harmed her.