Tag: true crime
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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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The Dumbest Ways Serial Killers Got Themselves Caught
Being a serial killer is bad. Like really, really bad. One of the worst career options if you ask me. But you know what’s worse? Being an idiot serial killer. And I mean honestly, the job of a serial killer requires a lot. A lot of brains. A lot of willpower. A hell of a…
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A True Crime Fan’s Complaint About Serial Killers
The World of Crime and All Things Evil Owes Me An Apology There’s very little a serial killer can do to, you know, disappoint you. This person is already a serial killer. They’ve already committed to one of the worst hobbies available to mankind. How much lower can we really go from there? What else…
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The Black Dahlia Case: Hollywood, Horror, And The Woman The World Turned Into Myth
I won’t lie, I only googled this case because it was Wednesday Addams’ favorite unsolved murder mystery in the Netflix series Wednesday. In the scene where Thornhill gives Wednesday her welcome plant — a black dahlia — I immediately knew there had to be a real story behind it. And very honestly, having read and watched…
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Most Famous Murder Cases That Were Too Chilling For The World To Forget
There are some murder cases that stop being “news” and become something darker. The kind of cases people remember years later because of how disturbing, bizarre, or horrifying they were. Some were so brutal that they changed how people looked at crime forever. Others became famous because the killer was never found, which somehow makes…
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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,…
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The Annecy Shootings: A Crime Scene Without Answers
On September 2, 2012, a quiet forest road near Lake Annecy in southeastern France became the site of one of Europe’s most baffling unsolved crimes. What initially appeared to be a targeted execution soon unraveled into a case riddled with contradictions, investigative missteps, and theories that refuse to settle into a single narrative. Four people…