1Buckskin Girl
The “Buckskin Girl” was murdered in 1981. Unable to be identified, she was named after her coat. In 2017, an unrefrigerated lab vial of her blood was successfully DNA analyzed and she was identified as Marcia King. Her mother was located still living in the same house, refusing to move or change phone numbers hoping for her return.
2. Madame Popova was an 19th century woman who operated a murder-for-hire service in Russia that specialized in liberating married women from their cruel husbands for a fee. She murdered over 300 victims, by using poison, her own hands, a weapon, or hiring an assassin.
3. On the 1st of March in 2000, Katherine Knight murdered her husband John Charles Thomas Price, then disemboweled and carved up his body. She proceeded to cook his head in a stew and roasted his buttocks in the oven with vegetables. They were then served as steaks with notes addressed to his son and daughter.
4. In 1982, 7 people were murdered via cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules. The tampered pills were all purchased from the Chicagoland stores. The perpetrator behind these murders remains at large and no one was ever charged.
5. In 2002, Antron Singleton a.k.a. Rapper Big Lurch murdered his girlfriend Tynisha Ysais and ate her lungs under the influence of PCP.
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6Alam Khan's Revenge
A 12-year-old boy named Alam Khan saw his own father being murdered by a family friend. He wanted to avenge his father’s death and planned for 12 years before killing the alleged murderer in a revenge attack. He cut him into 12 pieces, one each for the years he had to wait.
7. In 1993, a 2-year-old boy named James Bulger was taken away from his mother and murdered by two 10-year-old boys. The boys threw paint in his face, threw bricks, and dropped a 10kg rod on his head. In order to cover their tracks, they left James on rail tracks to make it look like a train accident.
8. Bruno Fernandes das Dores de Souza is a Brazilian footballer who was convicted of the murder of his mistress Eliza Samudio in 2013. Samudio’s body was cut up and some parts were fed to dogs. Bruno has since been released and continues to play and receive offers from teams.
9. Israel Keyes was a serial killer who had no preferred victim type and never killed in the same area twice. For one murder, he flew to Chicago and rented a car to get to Vermont, then used a murder kit he had hidden two years earlier. When shopping, he kept his phone off and only paid in cash.
10. In 945, Igor of Kiev, while attempting to collect tributes from the neighboring Drevlians, was murdered by being attached to two bent birch trees, which when released in opposite directions, tore his body in half.
11Lynching of Emmett Till
A 14-year-old boy named Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after flirting with a white woman. His killers were acquitted of the crime and later admitted to the murder. Till's mother had an open-casket funeral to display the injustice, helping spur the civil rights movement.
12. In October of 1994, when The "Order of the Solar Temple" famously began their mass suicide plot, they began with the murder of a 3-Month-Old boy named Emmanuel Dutoit, believed to be the Anti-Christ, whom they stabbed repeatedly with a wooden stake.
13. Jane Stanford, the founder of Stanford University, was murdered by strychnine poisoning. The president of the university at the time, David Starr Jordan, was suspected of covering up the murder. The killer was never found.
14. The murder of Laetitia Toureaux is a real life locked-room mystery. She was found stabbed in an empty carriage in Paris Metro. No one was seen entering the car. Her killer had less than 90 seconds to commit the crime and was never caught.
15. In 2010, 26-year-old man named Hugo Hernandez was kidnapped by Mexican cartel and killed. His corpse was cut into seven pieces and his face was stitched onto a soccer ball as a threat to rivals.
16The Boy in the Box
‘The Boy in the Box’ is a still unsolved murder of a toddler whose naked, battered body was found in a cardboard box in a wooded area of Philadelphia in 1957.
17. In 1922, Union workers in Southern Illinois made 19 replacement miners crawl to their own graves before beating, shooting, urinating on, and slitting their throats while a mob of 1,000 cheered.
18. Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr., who is known as the first American to die in Vietnam, was actually murdered by a fellow soldier in 1956. He was giving candy to local children when he bumped into a drunken colleague who shot him on sight. It took 43 years for his name to be added to the Vietnam War Memorial.
19. Two murderers in a labor camp in Siberia persuaded a man named Ivan Vasilievich to escape with them. Ivan was a well-fed cook and they ate him on their journey towards freedom.
20. In 1991 NBA basketball player, Metta World Peace also known as Ron Artest, witnessed the murder of a fellow basketball player when, during an altercation, someone threw a broken-off table leg at the player and it went straight through his heart.
21Niels Högel's Patients
A German nurse named Niels Högel was sentenced to life in prison without eligibility for parole after he murdered more than 85 patients because he wanted to show off his resuscitation skills and be the hero who saves them on the hospital bed.
22. People in The Philippines have been murdered after doing karaoke of the song “My Way,” popularized by Frank Sinatra.
23. In 1906, a Moroccan serial killer named Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi was sentenced to be walled up alive after he was found guilty of murdering 36 women (the bodies were found buried beneath his shop and garden). His cries for help were heard for two days before he went silent.
24. A Utah woman named Kristy Manzanares was allegedly murdered by her husband while on a murder mystery trivia cruise in Alaska. The event was a musical Sherlock Holmes-themed murder mystery trivia program, and some of her fellow passengers thought the screams coming from her cabin were part of the show.
25. A soldier named LaVena Johnson in Iraq was found dead in her tent in 2005. Her autopsy report and photographs revealed a broken nose, black eye, loose teeth, burns from a corrosive chemical on her genitals, and a gunshot wound to the head. Her death was ruled a suicide.
