Growing up, Armin Meiwes was captivated by German fairy tales, especially “Hansel and Gretel,” where a witch plans to fatten and devour two children. This early exposure sparked a lifelong desire within Meiwes to consume human flesh, leading him to find a willing participant online who consented to a gruesome act involving his own dismemberment…
A mother shot her daughter’s murderer during his trial for the crime. Marianne Bachmeier’s seven-year-old daughter, Anna, was found dead on May 5, 1980. Klaus Grabowski, who admitted to murdering Anna, was subsequently arrested and tried for his actions. He was apprehended after his fiancée contacted the police, leading to his confession of killing the…
A woman from Louisiana was taken into custody after she declined to return $1,200,000 that was mistakenly deposited into her bank account. It’s understandable that letting go of such a substantial amount might be difficult once it’s in your possession, but returning it is still the correct action. However, Kelyn Spadoni, a 911 dispatcher from…
At first look, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables appeared to be two typical 10-year-olds. But in 1993, these two British lads became cold-blooded murderers, murdering a child. Their youthful age, along with the savagery of their crime, shocked the United Kingdom to its core. On February 12, 1993, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables kidnapped James…
A man managed to deceive Facebook and Google into paying him over $100 million by simply sending them invoice requests. The process wasn’t exactly straightforward, but it was certainly bold and ultimately successful in extracting a whopping $122 million from the tech giants—until he was caught. Evaldas Rimasauskas of Lithuania, along with others who remain…
Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group’s insurance unit, was fatally shot outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning in what seems to be “a brazen, targeted attack,” according to the New York Police Department. “I want to be clear at this time, every indication is that this was a premeditated, preplanned,…
Brian Thompson, a 50-year-old executive at UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot on December 4 near the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The masked shooter reportedly came up behind the CEO and fired shots that struck his right calf and back. Authorities have now apprehended and charged Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate, after locating him…
A 2-year-old boy was found dead after a 10-day search. Dane Paulson was last seen playing outside his family’s home in rural Oregon on March 1. On Tuesday, March 11, at around 11:13 a.m., his body was found in the Siletz River, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said. He was found about 3 miles downstream…
Police said this week that an 11-year-old boy has been arrested for a hit-and-run that killed a bicyclist in New Mexico last year. The crash was recorded and shared on social media. Police said the 11-year-old was arrested on Tuesday and will be checked by New Mexico’s Children, Youth, and Families Department. The Albuquerque Police…
A white couple from West Virginia was sentenced to many years in prison this week for abusing their adopted Black children. They forced the children to do hard work, similar to slavery. Donald Lantz, 62, was sentenced to 160 years in prison after being found guilty of forced labor, human trafficking, child abuse, and neglect,…