Tag: true crime stories
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Dumbest Ways Female Serial Killers Got Caught (Part 4)
I was halfway through researching another article when I realized something. The serial killer industry has a branding problem. Every famous serial killer is a man. Ted Bundy gets documentaries. Jeffrey Dahmer gets Netflix shows. The Zodiac Killer gets entire sections of bookstores. And the women? Nothing. No representation. No visibility. No girlbossification. Frankly, it’s…
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Dumbest Ways Serial Killers Got Caught (Part 3)
I did something stupid today and was feeling like a complete idiot, but then I remembered — at least I’m not a world renowned serial killer. Because why do normal people doubt themselves while serial killers out there exist like they created God from their own rib? So I decided, instead of judging me for…
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The Lead Masks Case: Two Dead Men, a Cryptic Note, and a Signal That Never Came
Some true crime cases are horrifying because of what we know. The Lead Masks Case is horrifying because of what we don’t. There are no gruesome crime scene photos. No blood-soaked murder weapon. No serial killer lurking in the shadows. No dramatic confession decades later. Instead, there are two dead men on a hill in…
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The Dumbest Ways Serial Killers Got Themselves Caught — Part 2
As discussed yesterday, being a serial killer is bad. Like, really bad. One of the worst career choices available, right up there with “guy who tests whether electrical outlets work by sticking forks into them.” But as we also established yesterday, there’s something worse than being a serial killer. Being a stupid serial killer. Because…
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20 Trippy Stories About The 1960s’ Worst Criminals That Sound Too Insane To Be Real
The 1960s looked glamorous from the outside. It was the decade of psychedelic music, flower crowns, rebellion, Woodstock, Beatlemania, and cultural revolutions. But while the world was busy dancing through the Summer of Love, something far darker was unfolding behind the scenes. The decade quietly produced some of history’s most disturbing killers, cult leaders, kidnappers,…