Tag: Murder

Following the suspicious death of her 18-year-old son Grant, Angie Solomon tried to procure the cemetery plots surrounding Grant to make sure strangers wouldn’t be buried next to him. After making an initial order with the funeral home, Angie was shocked to discover her ex-husband Aaron was...

A little less than a month ago, I learned through the grapevine about the existence of the Long Island serial killer, also known as LISK. A quick Google search gave me the troubling facts: between the years of 1996 and 2011, 11 bodies had been found (many on separate occasions) along a tiny ...

Arthur Thompson Jr — known as “Arty” to distinguish him from his father, Arthur Thompson Sr, known as “The Godfather” — wasn’t a real gangster. He used his father’s reputation to threaten, terrorize and generally bully people who, in his opinion, had o...

Fan Man-yee was a 23-year-old nightclub hostess whose life ended tragically in one of Hong Kong’s most horrifying and notorious murder cases, known as the “Hello Kitty Murder.” The case received its eerie name because her murderers confined her, abused her, and eventually dismember...

October 1628: Commander Francisco Pelsaert set sail from Texel, Holland. He had with him around 316 men, women and children as part of a fleet of six other vessels. His destination was an active trading port, today known as Jakarta. Between them were months of rough seas and unpredictable weather. B...

Even our prehistoric ancestors knew that to commit the perfect murder, you must get rid of the body. Fortunately, nature does a pretty good job of making a body disappear. Bacteria in the air begin to break down the body’s cells twelve hours after death. As tissue decays, a green mix of met...

In October last year, I received an email from a certain ‘Georg’, a Russian man, who approached me in regards to my partial Family Tree on Geni.com which displays some connections to Russian aristocratic families. Not wasting any time on pleasantries, ‘Georg’, in an assert...