Crime

14-year-old Ella Holdridge had an obsession with death that led to her poisoning a number of her neighborhood friends in 1892 — There are a good number of people who may act morbidly from time to time, but few who have it fully consume them. Unfortunately, 14-year-old Ella Holdridge loved death and funerals so much that she began killing her friends in 1892 because she believed they would look nice dead, and…

Then after a week, dumped her in a country lane and set her on fire — In 1992, a cruel group of four individuals were sentenced to prison for kidnapping, torturing, and burning alive 16-year-old Suzanne Capper in Greater Manchester. During a 1993 trial that lasted 22 days, it was revealed that Suzanne Capper was enticed to Powell’s estranged wife Jean’s terraced house in the Moston…

People get fired every day, even graduate students. — Because there’s a big gap between now and June when something else happens in the Idaho 4 case, people are trying to fill said gap by claiming everything is “big news.” The newest thing is that Kohberger got fired from a WSU-Pullman TA job when he was a grad student…

Then ended up going to the same school as her biological sister — Two girls, who by chance attended the same secondary school, had such a strong resemblance that their classmates even commented on their similarities. One of the girls was 17 years old, while the other was 13. The parents of the younger girl arranged to observe the two girls together while…

The poet’s first-ever dramatic monologue with dark humor and a murderous narrator — For my inaugural post in Poetry Explained, I thought I’d return to a Robert Browning poem I analyzed for a college class way back in 2005. That class, “19th-Century British Poetry,” sparked my interest in looking closely at great poems. My instructor for the course went on and on about…

Having your phone stolen is a big problem in some African countries especially when your money is mobile — Thursday, 9 February 2023 By: TB Obwoge A Ghanian man had his phone snatched while driving in his car, he chased the robbers. In the process he crashed his car killing one of the robbers on his motorbike. Though the news video claims in Twi that 2 people have died. …

Chapter 19: The Confession —