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All recent episodes of "Dumb Ways To Die" seamlessly edited together, for convenient watching!
Have fun!
(All the credits for the creative editing go to "Crazyshit")
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My "Now You Fucked Up" MEGA-COMPILATION can be found here: https://watchpeopledie.tv/h/misc/post/8622/now-you-fucked-up-megacompilation-episode
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Video above is an alleged pedophile being burned in a Brazil prison 
I unfortunately do not have much context for the event. The incident likely occurred because in many Brazil prisons, there is 1 guard per 30 prisoners, although the recommended prisoner to guard ratio is 1:5.
With Brazilian prisons, there are even inmates who are considered “keyholders” who are given keys and have access to every cell. They often are drug dealers, selling cell space, and it even leads to instances of rape and violence.
Brazil has had an extensive history of unusual and extremely unprofessional enforcement in their prisons, leading to riots, escapes, murder, going so far as beheading. It is a saying that "going to a Brazil prison is a death sentence."
Youtube results when looking up "Brazil prison"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Brazil_prison_riots
https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/10/19/witness-horrors-brazils-prisons-jorges-story
What happens to pedophiles and sex offenders in prison? Do they always get caught?
It would be safe to assume that pedophiles and child abusers do not have a “fun time” in jail. If not in complete isolation, protective custody, or the reason for their incarceration is not confidential… Many are assaulted, raped and killed before their sentence is complete.
HOWEVER is very common for sexual abuse to remain unreported, and even for incidents that are reported, are left unsolved. Those convicted of their crimes do not always get the most harsh sentencing; although it is absolutely needed and deserved.
Some examples of those who got away with sexual offenses and sexually abusing children:
Christopher Betler, a 20 year old New York man, plead guilty to the rape and molestation of 4 girls as young as 15. The crime occurred when he was 17. The judge originally only gave him only 2 years of probation; Betler violated his probation by accessing pornagraphy on his computer instead got 8 years of probation, no jail time.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/21/us/chris-belter-assault-sentence/index.html
https://nypost.com/2021/11/18/christopher-belter-gets-probation-for-rape-of-teens/
Maria Childers, A 25 year old Kentucky transgender woman, Got a plea deal to avoid jail time after sexually abusing an infant in a daycare center. She hired a transgender advocate lawyer.
She was arrested on $100,000 bond and released last month, almost a year later. She will now remain free if she agrees to make no contact with children and stay away from the daycare she worked at.
This post is NOT meant for hate or debate about transgender individuals, I used this case an example to emphasize how much sex offenders can truly get away with.
Nathan Daniel Larson, a 42 year old Virginian man, a politician who ran a child pornography site and attempted to kidnap a 12 year old girl. He was then arrested, while awaiting trial, he had a hunger strike and was hospitalized. He managed to avoid charges by committing suicide by starvation while in custody.
https://www.newsweek.com/pedophilia-advocate-politician-died-self-starvation-jail-1776103
https://www.blackburncenter.org/post/2016/09/14/why-are-judges-giving-light-sentences-to-rapists
Why do they get away with it? What is rape culture?
There has been a rise in instances where United States judges give extremely lenient, and wildly inappropriate sentences to those who commit sexual crimes. The pattern of this happening is speculated to be because of the uprising of "rape culture". A culture, trend, and even mindset that normalizes sexual abuse, claims it is inevitable and blames their victims. Victim blaming is often claimed to be a psychological phenomenon, when not wanting to believe someone you know and care about did something bad to another individual.
If you are a victim of sexual abuse, yes, even if you are a male, I hope you know it is NOT your fault and you did not do anything to deserve it. Please know that you are not alone.
Consent and sexual education
The lines of consent are askew and blurred, there is NO legal definition of consent, and it even varies state to state. There are even different legal definitions of rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse in each state as well. MANY schools in the United States do not discuss sexual education, consent, and boundaries. In a study conducted by the CDC, they found 8 in 10 teenagers didn't get sex education until after they'd already had sex.
But in a survey of more than 3,000 high school students and young adults nationwide, the overwhelming majority reported they had never been taught how to avoid sexually harassing others or to cope with being groped, catcalled, or bullied in sexual ways. If children and teens are not taught how to respect the boundaries of their peers, or taught anything about how healthy sexual interaction is supposed to be, how will they ever grasp the concept of consent and safe sexual interaction as an adult?
https://www.rainn.org/articles/legal-role-consent
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/were-teaching-consent-all-wrong/2019/01
Believe what you want about sexual education but just know, consent is not only a sex skill, but also a life skill.
The brutality of prisons, and how they treat pedophiles and sex offenders
Many prisoners take it amongst themselves in a form of street justice, wanting to gain respect from their peers, and possibly getting their anger out about their incarceration on someone who deserves it.
Many prisoners are parents, many have been abused themselves, and do not tolerate that kind of person in their environment. Prisoners torment pedophiles and child abusers by defecating and urinating in their food and cells. Taking their belongings and food, assaulting, torturing them and it is even common for their throats to get slit as a tradition in certain states.
Jonathan Watson, a life sentenced prisoner, killed 2 pedophiles who were both convicted for sexually assaulting a child under the age of 14. He beat them both with a cane. He gave warnings to the guards of his plans to do so, they did not stop him.
Richard Huckle, considered one of the UK's worst pedophiles, having sexually abused over 200 children, was brutally murdered by another inmate named Paul Fitzgerald. Paul was planning on murdering 2-3 other inmates but claimed he had "too much fun" murdering Richard. He strangled Richard with a cord, then shoved a pen inside of his brain. Huckle was found gagged and bound by his hands and feet with severe injuries to his face and with an incision made on his neck from a shank made with a melted toothbrush.
Enjoy these videos of convicted rapists and pedophiles being killed and abused in prison:
Pedophile is hung in prison
Pedophile is stabbed in prison
A pedophile being dragged around like a dog in prison
Rapist tortured in prison
Rapist is waterboarded and beheaded in prison
https://www.rainn.org/resources
Do not hesitate to reach out to someone if you have been sexually assaulted. If you need to talk to someone, feel free to even message me, if needed. Support and resources are there for you.
Sources:
https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system
https://federalcriminaldefenseattorney.com/prison-life/special-tactics/how-sex-offenders-survive/
https://www.bop.gov/inmates/custody_and_care/sex_offenders.jsp
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/1994/jun/15/guards-have-duty-to-protect-prisoners/
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/richard-huckles-prison-murder-detailed-in-paul-fitzgerald-trial
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Hello there! I decided to put together all info I could find on particular livestreamed mass attacks and livestreamed crime in general, with added information on the cases. I hope you'll enjoy it, it took me a lot! but anyways, let's start:
Christchurch mosque shootings
Everybody here probably already knows about these shootings but to sum it up: On the 15th March 2019, a 28 year old, nazi, chud retard called Brenton Tarrant committed two consecutive shootings in two mosques, Masjid-Al-Noor and the Linswood Islamic Center of Christchurch, New Zealand. The gunman killed 51 people and injured another 49, all of which were muslims. The attacks were livestreamed on Facebook, along a manifesto written by Tarrant named The Great Replacement, to inspire other far-right extremists to carry out shootings in a similair vein to the Christchurch ones. The livestream isn't the full terrorist attack, as it was taken down before he could reach the 2nd mosque, but it still contains the entire first attack and his escape. Tarrant was then arrested and is currently sentencing a life sentence with no possibility of parole.
Halle synagogue shooting
Christchurch inspired many other shooters, as it intended, and fortunately many of them failed, such as Gemany's biggest cuck: Stephen Balliet. On the 9th October 2019, this dumbass tried to use homemade guns with some 3D printed parts to commit a shooting in the synagogue of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. As you may expect, it went horribly, as he wasn't able to enter the synagogue and instead he killed a random old lady on the street and a dude in a kebab store. Stephen was livestreaming on Twitch and also released a shitty manifesto which is the type of manifesto an edgy 14 year old would make. Balliet was arrested and is currently serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison.
2022 Buffalo shooting
Yet another shooting livestream inspired by Christchurch, this time by a furstrag neo-nazi who shot up a Top's Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York, which is a primarily black neighborhood; The retard once again released a manifesto called The Way Forward, which is literally a copy and paste of Brenton Tarrant's manifesto. He was able to kill 10 people and injure another 3, while sparing everybody in the store who was white. the event was livestreamed on Twitch, just like Balliet, but the livestream cuts out while he's in the supermarket and unfortunately for us gore fans there is no full version of the attack. (there's also a longer version which just includes him driving for a bit longer, check out this post to watch it https://watchpeopledie.tv/h/shooting/post/22653/buffalo-mass-shooting-full-livestream-video)
Jacksonville Landing shooting
This shooting occured on the 26th August 2018, when David Katz lost at tournament for the title of Madden 7 champion of 2018; Since he won the former championship, he raged from being beaten and pulled out a FUCKING GUN, shooting and killing the player who beat him and another player, all the while injuring 10 other people before committing suicide. The event was livestreamed on Twitch, as that's where the tournament was digitally taking place, but the camera cut out as soon as Katz started shooting, so, you can only hear the audio.
Nakhon Ratchasima shootings
A mass shooting that occured in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, when an ex-soldier called Jakrapanth Thomma went schizo mode and decided to steal a few machine guns from a military camp after killing his own commander, and then continuing the rampage by shooting people on the road and setting fire to mall. While all of this occured, he decided it would be a good idea to post updates on his Facebook account and to also livestream the event: unfortunately the full livestream has been lost but I was able to find a few screenshots from it and also his Facebook update posts. Thomma was shot and killed by the police a few hours later.
2022 Memphis shootings
On the 7th September 2022, a dumb Memphis BIPOC called Ezekiel Kelly went outside of his house and starting a shooting spree in which he killed three people and injured another three, while livestreaming on Facebook. You can't really see shit on the video because the dumbass just livestreamed his face while rambling incomprehensible nonsense. Kelly has been arrested by the police and he is currently being convicted.
Eslöv school attack
Another failed Brenton Tarrant copycat, but this time by an edgy 15 year old Swedish nazi named Hugo Jackson. Being a minor he didn't have access to any firearms, so, instead he used a knife to go in his school in Eslöv, Sweden, and stab a random teacher. He wasn't able to unjure anybody else other than that teacher who survived, and the police was called on him... which he tried to threaten with an airsoft pistol. He was arrested and is facing charges for attempted murder in a juvenile correction camp for 2.5 years. One of my friends has actually had the pleasure displeasure of talking with Hugo, and he has confirmed that he is a huge strag who types like a 2000s scenecore kid and uses ":3" when talking to people; To my knowleadge he also constantly gets bullied in the correction center for being a pussy. Unfortunately for us, the police owns the livestream and hasn't released it completely, but I was able to find a few still frames from the livestream.
edit: Hello! I wanted to add another livestreamed shooting that I missed before, I find this one to be a really good case since it ended pretty quickly.
West Freeway Church of Christ shooting
On the 29th December 2019, a schizoid called Keith Kinnunen entered the West Freeway Church of Christ dressed up as Not Important after playing a bit too much Hatred. He pulled out a shotgun after the ceremony and shot dead 2 people in the church, before being quickly dispatched by 71 year old Jack Wilson, who was volunteering as a security guard. the event was livestreamed on YouTube, since the church regularly livestreamed their ceremonies on their channel. I really just wanted to add this shooting in to praise the defender WIlson for his swift action and good aim under all that pressure. Remember: the only person who can stop a bad guy with a gun... is a good guy with a gun!
Hope you enjoyed all of the info I was able to gather and put together! I would've also added the Louisville bank shooting but there's literally no footage known of that shooting other than the CCTV footage and police bodycam, not even screencaps, sorry! Anyways, that's all for today, see ya!
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Hambuger Lady raises the cringe bar to a new level and screams 45 year old edgelord who lives in his grandma's garage and is a huge fan of Andy Warhol and owns all of Jim Morrison's self-published poetry books.
The lyrics to the "song"
By far the worst is the hamburger lady
We must heal them for the qualified technicians
Worst
Alternating nights unrelievedly
She's lying there
Hamburger Lady
Hamburger Lady
She's dying, she is burned from the waist up, she is burned from the waist up
On her arm
Her ear is burned, her nose is burned
Her eyelashes and her fingers are burned
She can't hold anything
And even with medical advances, there's no end in sight
For Hamburger Lady
When somebody tells you that there is a level of pain beyond which the human mind
Lady on the potty chair
Unrelievedly
She's burned from the waist down
That's what keeps her alive, the tubes
And the nice nurses
Hamburger Lady
Hamburger Lady
She's okay if you change the tubes
Tubes in her legs, the tubes in her arms
She's okay
Then he came out and saw one of the burn nurses
She was eating a can of chili-mac
And he flashed on the carpet, flashed on the floor
The Hamburger Lady
Stretch since she came to us
Unrelievedly
The qualified technicians
Hamburger Lady
Hamburger Lady
[...]
The potty chair
Qualified technicians
Keeps her alive
The "mail art" letter the song is based on.
By far the worst is the hamburger lady, and because of shortage right now of ‘qualified technicians', e.g. technicians who can work with her and keep their last meal down, Screwloose Lauritzen and I have been alternating nights with her, unrelievedly. If you put a 250-lb meatloaf in the oven and then burned it and then followed that by propping it up on a potty-chair to greet you at 11pm each night, you would have some description of these past two weeks. Which is to say the worst I seen since viet napalms. When somebody tells you that there is a level of pain beyond which the human mind cannot retain consciousness, please tell them to write me. In point of fact this lady has not slept more than 3-5 minutes at a stretch since she came to us – that was over two weeks ago and, thanks to medical advances, there is no end in sight; from the waist (waste?) up everything is burned off, ears, nose etc – lower half is untouched and that, I guess, is what keeps her alive. I took one guy in to help me change tubes and he did alright, that is alright till he came out, then he spotted one of the burn nurses (pleasant smiling zombies) eating a can of chili-mac at the desk, and that did it: he flashed on the carpet. It is fucking insane is what it is.
some links for anyone who wants to take a deeper dive into the most retarded rabbit whole ever.
https://www.lomholtmailartarchive.dk/networkers/al-ackerman
Documentary about throbbing gristle
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This is a translation of /h/accident/post/7425/russian-streamer-lets-his-pregnant-girlfriend
The beginning is rough because it's hardly intelligible and understandable, but that's the least important fragment anyway. If you're not watching the whole thing, skip to the EMTs, that's the real black comedy.
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Ted Bundy
Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Rape
Number of victims: 14 +
Date of murders: 1973 - 1978
Date of arrest: February 15, 1978
Date of birth: November 24, 1946
Victims profile: Girls and young women
Method of murder: Beating with metal bar / Strangulation
Location: Washington/Colorado/Utah/Oregon/Florida/Idaho/Vermont, USA
Status: Executed by electrocution in Florida on January 24, 1989
Interview with Ted Bundy a few weeks before the Chi Omega Attack
Ted Bundy interview while on death row
Interview with survivor of the Chi Omega attack
Victims
Joni Lenz, 18
Survived attack: 4 January, 1974. Lenz, a student at the University of Washington, was raped with a bedpost but survived the attack.
Lynda Ann Healy, 21
Died: 1 February, 1974. Healy was a University of Washington student. She was kidnapped and her body found in 1975 on Taylor Mountain, near Issaquah, Washington.
Donna Gail Manson, 19
Died: 12 March, 1974. After confessing to Manson's murder, Bundy said he burned her skull in Liz Kendall's, his girlfriend, fireplace.
Susan Rancourt, 18
Died: 17 April, 1974. Rancourt was abducted on campus at Central Washington State College, and her skull was later found near Taylor Mountain, where Bundy placed several skulls over the years.
Roberta Parks, 20
Died: 17 April, 1974. Parks was abducted from Oregon State University and her skull was found during the same search of Taylor Mountain that found Susan Rancourt's skull. Bundy said he raped and killed her.
Brenda Carol Ball, 22
Died: 1 June, 1974. Ball was abducted from a town south of Seattle. Like many of Bundy's victims, her skull was also found at Taylor Mountain.
Georgeann Hawkins, 18
Missing since: 11 June, 1974. Hawkins disappeared while walking to her boyfriend's house and her body has never been found. Bundy confessed to knocking her unconscious and then killing her.
Denise Naslund, 18
Died: 14 July, 1974. Naslund disappeared from Lake Sammamish State Park. Two months later, her body was found on a hillside near Issaquah.
Janice Ott, 23
Died: 14 July, 1974. Ott was also abducted from Lake Sammamish State Park on the same day as Denise Naslund. Her body was also found in the same location in Issaquah.
Nancy Wilcox, 16
Missing since: 2 October, 1974. Wilcox went missing in Holladay, Utah, after she went out to buy a pack of gum, but her body has never been found. Bundy confessed to sexually assaulting and strangling her, then burying her body near Capitol Reef National Park, located about 200 miles south of Salt Lake City.
Melissa Smith, 17
Died: 26 October, 1974. Smith – the teenage daughter of the Midvale police chief in Salt Lake City – was raped and beaten by Bundy and her body was found in the mountains nearby.
Laura Aime, 17
Missing since: 31 October, 1974. After disappearing on Halloween night, Aime's body was later found frozen in Provo Canyon.
Carol DaRonch, 18
Survived attack: 8 November, 1974. In The Ted Bundy Tapes, DaRonch says that Bundy identified himself as a police officer, told her that her car was broken into and asked her to go down “to the station.” As he attempted to handcuff her, she fought off Bundy and escaped.
Debra Kent, 17
Died: 8 November, 1974. Bundy confessed to murdering Kent and burying her body in the same area as Nancy Wilcox.
Caryn Campbell, 23
Died: 12 January, 1975. Campbell was heading to her hotel room in Aspen when she disappeared. Her body was found naked and beaten next to a road.
Julie Cunningham, 26
Died: 15 March, 1975. Cunningham was walking to a restaurant to meet up with a friend when she offered to help Bundy, who was pretending to struggle on crutches. He kidnapped her and put her in his trunk where he drove to the desert, strangled her to death, and left her body there.
Denise Oliverson, 24
Missing since: 6 April, 1975. Oliverson disappeared while riding her bike to her parent's home. Bundy confessed to killing her and dumping her body in the Colorado River, but it was never found.
Melanie Cooley, 18
Died: 15 April, 1975. After disappearing on her way home from high school, Cooley was tied up and bludgeoned to death with a rock. Her body was found in Coal Creek Canyon. Bundy has been suspected in her murder, but it was never confirmed.
Lynette Culver, 12
Missing since: 6 May, 1975. Culver was abducted from her neighbourhood in Pocatello, Idaho. Bundy confessed he killed her and threw her body into the Snake River. Her body has not been found.
Susan Curtis, 15
Missing since: 27 June, 1975. Curtis was abducted while walking back to her room during a Mormon youth conference at Brigham Young University. Curtis was Bundy's last confession as he walked down to the hall to be executed. She is still regarded as a missing person as her body has not been found.
Margaret Bowman, 21 (victim in video)
Died: 15 January, 1978. On the night of 15 January, Bundy attacked four women in the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University. Bundy beat Bowman with a piece of firewood and strangled her.
Lisa Levy, 20 (victim in video)
Died: 15 January, 1978. Bundy beat and strangled Levy to death in the Chi Omega house.
Kathy Kleiner, 20 (victim in interview video)
Attacked: 15 January, 1978. Bundy bludgeoned Kleiner with a piece of firewood and left her with her jaw hanging off.
Karen Chandler, 22
Attacked: 15 January, 1978. Chandler was Kathy Kleiner's roommate in the Chi Omega house, and Bundy beat both women at the same time. Despite a broken jaw and right arm, and four teeth knocked out, Chandler survived.
Cheryl Thomas, 21
Attacked: 15 January, 1978. Bundy crawled through a window in Thomas' Florida State University home and attempted to beat her to death. She survived after her neighbour raised an alarm over the noise.
Kimberly Leach, 12
Died: 9 February, 1978. Leach was one of Bundy's youngest and last victims. She disappeared in the middle of the school day, then her body was found two months later in a shed behind Suwannee River State Park.
William Lester Suff
Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Rape - Mutilation
Number of victims: 13 - 20 +
Date of murders: 1974 / 1986 - 1991
Date of arrest: January 9, 1992
Date of birth: August 20, 1950
Method of murder: Beating / Strangulation - Stabbing with knife
Location: Texas/California, USA
Status: Sentenced to 70 years in prison in 1974. Paroled in March 1984. Sentenced to death on August 17, 1995
Trial verdict and interview with victims families
News paper interview with Suff's ex-wife
Victims
Rhonda Jetmore
On January 10, 1989, Rhonda Jetmore, 27, a prostitute, entered into a sexual transaction with Suff. The agreement turned violent when he began choking her. She struck him with a flashlight she had in her hand, causing Suff to lose his grip, allowing her to briefly escape. Suff tackled her to the ground and began ripping off her clothes. He stuck his finger in her mouth and she bit down, causing one of her teeth to break. Suff pulled back and Jetmore was able to run to the door, but was tackled again. As she pleaded with Suff to let her go, he lost track of his glasses. She used her flashlight to shine a light on them and when Suff went to pick them up, she ran out the door and flagged down a car. The passenger, who she happened to know, pulled out a gun and fired at Suff, and she was able to escape.
Kimberly Lyttle
On June 28, 1989, Kimberly Lyttle, 28, was found manually strangled to death on the side of the road in Lake Elsinore. Her autopsy revealed that she had been hit in the head, and she had cigarette burns on her arms and other areas of her body; all injuries occurring prior to her death. She was covered with a blue bath towel, which was found to have red, white, and blue fibers that were matched to a sleeping bag in Suff's van.
Christina Leal
On December 13, 1989, the body of Christina Leal, 23, was found strangled and stabbed to death on a Quail Valley hillside; she was last seen the night before. Her autopsy revealed marks around her wrists and ankles, indicating she was bound, scratch marks on her face, a black eye, four stab wounds in the middle of her chest, at least two knife wounds on her genitalia, and one of her nipples was partially removed; all antemortem. A lightbulb had been inserted into her uterus and was recovered intact.
Darla Jane Ferguson
On January 18, 1990, Darla Ferguson, 23, was found strangled in Riverside, just half a mile from the body of Kimberly Lyttle. She was found with her legs propped up and a trash bag pulled over the top half of her body, tied at the waist with a rope. Her wrists had been bound and she suffered blunt force trauma before death.
Carol Lynn Miller (victim in video)
On February 9, 1990, Carol Miller, 35, was found nude, with the exception of a shirt pulled over her head, in a grapefruit orchard in Highgrove. The frenulum connecting her upper lip to her gums was torn, indicating she was struggling while being smothered. She had no trauma to her neck. She was stabbed 5 times prior to death. Next to her body was a peeled and eaten grapefruit.
Cheryl Coker
On November 6, 1990, the body of Cheryl Coker, 33, was found in Riverside, partially inside a dumpster. She was found strangled to death, possibly with a wire, with such great force it cut the skin of her neck. Her right breast had been severed post-mortem and was found on a dirt road 30 feet away. A shoe print matching the size, shape, pattern, and wear of shoes belonging to Suff were found at the scene.
Susan Melissa Sternfeld (victim in video)
On December 21, 1990, Susan Sternfeld, 27, was found strangled, nude, and intentionally posed, near a dumpster in Riverside.
Kathleen Leslie Milne
On January 19, 1991, the body of Kathleen Milne, also known as Kathy Puckett, 42, was found nude, lying on a red robe, near a pile of trash, north of Lake Elsinore. A white sock had been stuffed in the back of her throat. Her death was ruled asphyxiation due to the combination of strangulation and the sock blocking her airway.
Sherry Ann Latham
On July 4, 1991, Sherry Latham, 37, was found nude, face down, in Lake Elsinore. Her cause of death was determined to be strangulation, but due to decomposition, no determination could be made on the method.
Kelly Marie Hammond
On August 16, 1991, Kelly Hammond, 27, of Rubidoux, was found strangled in an alley in Corona. Her nude body appeared to be posed; her right arm was bent and tucked under her abdomen, her left arm was bent with her hand on the ground and palm facing upward, her left leg was drawn to her chest, and her right leg was extended outward. She had two lacerations, which occurred prior to death, on her forehead. Her autopsy revealed her death to be caused by strangulation, with acute opiate intoxication a possible contributing factor.
Catherine McDonald
On September 13, 1991, Catherine McDonald, 30, the only black victim attributed to Suff, was found in Lake Elsinore. Her body was also posed; her legs were spread apart but her feet were together, her arms outstretched to the top of her head. She was four months pregnant. Before she died, she was stabbed in the chest three times. She also had a gaping cut on the left side of her neck. Her right breast was removed post-mortem, and she suffered a stab wound, as well as other lacerations, to her genitals, some before and some after death. Her official cause of death was multiple stab wounds to the neck as well as compression. Shoe prints of the same pattern as the other murders were also near McDonald's body.
Delliah Zamora (victim in video)
On October 30, 1991, the body of Delliah Zamora, 35, was found strangled in Glen Avon. She had fingernail injuries consistent with clawing at a ligature, though method was unable to be determined. Her larynx was crushed and broken down the middle, which would require an extreme amount of pressure.
Eleanor Casares On December 23, 1991, Eleanor Casares, 39, was found in an orange grove near the intersection of Jefferson Street and Victoria Avenue in Riverside. She was stabbed in the chest and strangled. Her breast was removed post-mortem.
A number of additional murders were attributed to Suff, though he was never charged, with the exception of Cherie Payseur:
Michelle Yvette Gutierrez
On October 29, 1986, Michelle Gutierrez, 26, was found in a drainage ditch in the Riverside area.
Charlotte Jean Palmer
On December 10, 1986, Charlotte Palmer, 25, was found near Romoland. Though cause of death could not be determined, authorities believe she was smothered.
Linda Ann Ortega
On April 29, 1988, Linda Ortega, 37, was found nude and stabbed to death near the rodeo grounds in Lake Elsinore.
Martha Bess Young
On May 2, 1988, the nude body of Martha Young, 27, of Albuquerque, was found just a few miles away from Linda Ortega. Her cause of death was determined to be a combination of strangulation and overdose of amphetamines. She was previously reported missing, first by her boyfriend, Joseph Shiflitt, who called her mother on April 10, 1988, and then officially by her mother, 17 days later.
Diane Mae Talavera
On January 17, 1989, Diana Talavera, 37, was found strangled on the beach in Lake Elsinore.
Julie Lynn Angel
On November 11, 1989, the body of Julie Angel, 36, was found bludgeoned to death in Alberhill, on a street her mother drove every day for work.
Cherie Michelle Payseur (victim in video)
On April 27, 1991, Cherie Payseur, 24, was found on a flower bed behind a bowling alley in Riverside. She was initially found nude, but a patron covered the body with a jean jacket before police arrived. She had been hit in the face, and though no official cause of death could be determined, she was thought to have been suffocated. A number of shoe prints were left at the scene, including a partial shoe print on the small of Payseur's back. The analyzed shoe impressions were thought to be the same as the prints from the scene of Cheryl Coker's murder. The semen collected from Payseur's body revealed two donors, rendering the results inconclusive. The most intensive bands, however, matched Suff, so he could not be excluded as a donor. Suff was charged with Payseur's murder, but the jury was deadlocked, and he was not convicted.
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Long video showing the siege of the police station 17+ minutes
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Fonte Boa - This morning, the angry population took justice into their own hands in the municipality of Fonte Boa, and invaded the Police Station of the 55th Integrated Police District (DIP), where the perpetrator of the rape and death of the 10-year-old girl who had the body hidden under a bed. Armed with stones, machetes and pieces of wood, the residents vandalized the police station and set fire to almost all of the police units' vehicles until the police were no longer able to maintain the integrity of the prisoner, identified as Ronald Gomes Borges, 28 years old. According to preliminary information provided by a police officer from the unit, the police team that was on duty tried to contain the population as much as possible, to maintain the prisoner's integrity, but when they saw that the integrity of the police officers was threatened, they could do no more. nothing, the population managed to invade the police station and take Ronald.
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Short Video Showing the changes of a human eye after death over time
Immediate Postmortem Changes
"Immediate postmortem changes" or "rapid changes after death" relate to the cessation of bodily functions, including the respiratory, circulatory, and nervous systems. These changes are specifically the "signs of death" or "indications of death." In brief, death is considered to have occurred when the vital functions of the body have irreversibly ceased.
Respiration completely stops after death resulting in loss of respiratory movements and breathing sounds. The feather test and mirror test are a couple of traditional tests used to confirm this. However, these tests are quite unreliable.
Circulatory stoppage results in a loss of pulse, which can also be confirmed by a flat electrocardiogram (ECG) in a hospital setting. The absence of respiratory and cardiac sounds on auscultation over 5 minutes indicates a sign of death as advocated by expert clinicians. The finding of the break-up of the columns of blood in the retinal blood vessels (retinal vascular segmentation) on ophthalmoscopy confirms the stoppage of circulation and is one of the earliest indications of death.
Cessation of nervous system functions results in the loss of sensory and motor functions and reflexes. The muscles begin to become flaccid with a loss of tone. Pupils also dilate as a result of this. A flat electroencephalogram (EEG) confirms the loss of electrical activity in the brain in a hospital setting.
Early Postmortem Changes
Three early postmortem changes occur while the body is still in the fresh stage before the breakdown of soft tissues, namely algor mortis, livor mortis, and rigor mortis, which are of forensic significance.
The eye changes during the early postmortem period include corneal turbidity/opacity and tache noire formation. The intraocular tension progressively falls to nil about 2 hours after death, although this is disputable.
Algor mortis
is the postmortem cooling of body temperature until it equalizes the temperature of the surrounding environment. The rate of cooling lags initially, then becomes linear before slowing down again as it approaches the ambient temperature, giving a sigmoid-shaped curve when graphically represented. The ambient temperature is a critical factor that affects the rate of postmortem cooling of the body. Postmortem cooling of the body continues for about 6 hours after death, and the rate of cooling is primarily dependent on the difference in body temperature at the time of death and the temperature of its surroundings. The rate of cooling will hasten in a body immersed in water, a naked body, and a thin body. The rate of cooling will be slower in a well-clothed body and an obese body. A prudent forensic pathologist will not estimate the time since death based on the single criterion of algor mortis. The rate of postmortem cooling of the body is affected by multiple variables.
Livor mortis
also known as postmortem hypostasis or postmortem lividity, is a passive process of blood accumulating within the blood vessels in the dependent parts of the body as a result of gravity, causing a discoloration of the skin that varies from pink to dark purplish. It begins to be apparent about an hour after death, is well-formed in about 3 to 4 hours after death, and gets fixed in about 6 to 8 hours after death. However, it is worth noting that the timing of livor mortis is highly variable. Hemolysis leads to the fixation of lividity. Once fixed, lividity does not shift its distribution when the position of the body changes. The dermal manifestation of postmortem lividity may be absent in the severely anemic or those who have died of severe hemorrhage. It may not be apparent in the dark-skinned.
Livor mortis requires differentiation from a contusion or bruise, which occurs due to blood vessel rupture from blunt force impact and exsanguination of blood into the surrounding tissues.
Rigor mortis (postmortem rigidity)
is the stiffening of the muscles of the corpse due to the depletion of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) after death with the subsequent build-up of lactate in muscle tissue resulting in an inability to release the actin-myosin bond. This postmortem muscle change appreciated grossly follows the initial phase of primary flaccidity of muscles and is itself followed by the secondary flaccidity of muscles that coincides with the beginning of putrefactive changes. The process of rigor mortis uniformly involves all muscles of the body. However, it is first apparent generally in smaller muscles such as the jaw and the eyelids due to quicker depletion of ATP relative to larger muscles in the trunk and limbs. Rigor mortis occurs in both voluntary and involuntary muscles, including the cardiac muscle. It is first evident in the facial muscles at 1 to 4 hours after death. The gelling of the muscle proteins is apparent as muscle stiffening in about 6 hours after death in the rest of the muscles and is complete about 12 hours after death. This rigidity of the muscles lasts for about another 12 hours or so. The body then returns to a flaccid state after the enzymatic breakdown of actin and myosin binding sites. The rate at which rigor mortis passes off will be rapid in a hot environment as the onset of putrefaction is hastened in such an environment. Cold temperatures lengthen the duration of rigor.
In brief, postmortem changes in the muscles include:
Primary flaccidity of the muscles
The rigidity of the muscles (rigor mortis)
Secondary flaccidity of the muscles
Rigor mortis of the arrector pili muscle attached to the base of a hair follicle is also responsible for the phenomenon of cutis anserina (cutis anserine), otherwise known as postmortem goosebumps. Rigor mortis needs to be distinguished from cadaveric spasm/instantaneous rigor, which is an immediate contraction of a small group of muscles at the instance of death, seen in scenarios of violent death like in the case of drowning.
Late Postmortem Changes
Decomposition
Two mechanisms are involved in decomposition: autolysis and putrefaction. Although decomposition begins soon after death through autolysis, the macroscopic changes brought about by decomposition become apparent much later when putrefaction occurs.
Autolysis is a process that occurs due to leakage of hydrolytic cellular enzymes from cells after death. The changes that occur in this process are mainly on a microscopic rather than a macroscopic level. Internally, autolytic changes are most prominent in the pancreas and other organs with a high concentration of cellular enzymes. In comparison, the prostate and the non-gravid uterus take a longer duration of time to decompose.
The leakage of cellular contents also leads to a suitable environment for microbes such as bacteria, fungi, and protozoa, normally present in the human microbiota, to grow and degrade surrounding tissues, which is known as the process of putrefaction.
Unlike autolytic changes, putrefactive changes are visible on a macroscopic level as discoloration of the skin or bloating of body parts such as the face, abdomen, breast, and scrotum. It can appear in various forms, such as putrefactive fluids and putrefactive gases.
Stages of Decomposition
There are five stages of decomposition, namely fresh, bloated, active decay, advanced decay, and skeletal stage. These stages may occur simultaneously in different parts of the same corpse, and it may be difficult for a forensic pathologist to label the state of the corpse with a single stage.
The fresh stage
is the immediate period following death in which autolysis occurs. Algor mortis, livor mortis, and rigor mortis are apparent in this stage.
The earliest external sign of putrefaction is the greenish discoloration of the skin of the anterior abdominal wall in the right iliac fossa region. In this region of the abdomen, the caecum, loaded with semi-solid intestinal content and commensal gut bacteria, lies quite superficial. This greenish discoloration of the skin results from the formation of sulfhemoglobin facilitated by the commensal intestinal bacteria that invade the tissues after death. This skin discoloration in the right iliac fossa region appears about 18 hours after death. In temperate climates, this greening may first appear 2 to 3 days after death. The ambient temperature affects the speed of onset of putrefaction and its rate of progression.
The blowflies (Calliphoridae) and flesh flies (Sarcophagidae) are often the first insects attracted to a dead body. In brief, the invasion of the body by flies and the life cycle of flies (oviposition, hatching of eggs, feeding activity of larvae or maggots, the transformation of maggots to adult flies) coincide primarily with the bloated and decay stages of decomposition. The flies may even be attracted to a dead body towards the end of the fresh stage.
Bloated stage
body parts, including organs and soft tissues, swelling due to the accumulation of putrefactive gases or other decompositional products from the putrefaction process. It usually starts in the abdomen and then slowly affects other parts, including the face, breasts, and genitals. Also, during this stage, skin changes occur, such as blisters and slippage. Skin slippage at the extremities is known as degloving. Moreover, the phenomenon of marbling is also present during this stage, where blood vessels are visible on the skin as greenish-black streaks and eventually results in skin discoloration ranging from green to black. These postmortem changes are apparent in about 24 to 48 hours after death.
Active decay
is a stage where putrefaction accelerates after bloating. Postmortem purging where putrefactive body fluids become forced out of body orifices is observable during this stage of decomposition. The detachment of hair or hair sloughing and black discoloration of ruptured skin are seen.
Advanced decay
also called black putrefaction or late decay, is a stage where bones begin to get exposed, and the body assumes a "caved in" appearance. Degradation-resistant tissue such as hair (although already sloughed) and cartilage are spared up to this stage.
The skeletal stage
also called dry remains stage or skeletonization, begins when bone exposure is extensive, but the bone is yet to break down. The remaining dried skin, cartilage, and tendons are minimal in this stage. Decomposition significantly slows down at this stage, and it takes years or decades for the skeletal remains to disintegrate.
The literature also reports differential decomposition involving mummification or adipocere formation.
Mummification
Mummification results from tissue desiccation and is a phenomenon that occurs when the corpse is in an environment that is hot and dry. The skin of the corpse becomes dark, dry, and appears leathery in appearance.Overall the body appears parched; this preserves the corpse for a more extended period. It can occur to the corpse as a whole or in localized areas such as the extremities or the tongue.
Adipocere Formation
Adipocere is a yellowish to a gray-colored waxy substance that can preserve the corpse as a whole or some parts of it. Adipocere formation in the buccal pad of fat will retain the outline of the cheeks. Unlike mummification, the process of adipocere formation occurs in corpses in environments that are high in moisture. Anaerobic conditions, such as a flooded burial or submersion in water, facilitate adipocere formation. The process primarily involves hydrolysis and hydrogenation of body fats to fatty acids and soaps and adipocere formation. Although reports exist of adipocere formation occurring as early as about three weeks after death, in most cases, it becomes apparent only months after death.
sources:
https://australian.museum/learn/science/stages-of-decomposition
https://www.science.org.au/curious/decomposition
https://aboutforensics.co.uk/decomposition
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK549867
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Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum
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photo #1:
The Apollo 1 fire
Jan. 27, 1967, tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy during a preflight test for Apollo 204 (AS-204). The mission was to be the first crewed flight of Apollo, and was scheduled to launch Feb. 21, 1967. Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee lost their lives when a fire swept through the command module, or CM.
The exhaustive investigation of the fire and extensive reworking of the Apollo command modules postponed crewed launches until NASA officials cleared them for flight. Saturn IB schedules were suspended for nearly a year, and the launch vehicle that finally bore the designation AS-204 carried a lunar module, or LM, as the payload, instead of a CM. The missions of AS-201 and AS-202 with Apollo spacecraft aboard had been unofficially known as Apollo 1 and Apollo 2 missions. AS-203 carried only the aerodynamic nose cone.
In the spring of 1967, NASA's Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, Dr. George E. Mueller, announced that the mission originally scheduled for Grissom, White and Chaffee would be known as Apollo 1, and said that the first Saturn V launch, scheduled for November 1967, would be known as Apollo 4. The eventual launch of AS-204 became known as the Apollo 5 mission. No missions or flights were ever designated Apollo 2 or 3.
The second launch of a Saturn V took place on schedule in the early morning of April 4, 1968. Known as AS-502, or Apollo 6, the flight was a success, though two first-stage engines shut down prematurely, and the third-stage engine failed to reignite after reaching orbit
source:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/apollo-1/
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Preserved autopsy
In 2013, researchers examined a gruesome relic. The partial mummy consisted of shoulders, a neck, and a head. The man's death expression was disturbing, almost like a permanent scream.Scientists thought it was preserved during the 1400s or 1500s, but analysis placed it between AD 1200 and AD 1280. This made it Europe's oldest preserved human autopsy. It also placed the body right in the middle of what many considered Europe's most backward time for science.However, the mummy was prepared by experienced hands and surprisingly advanced techniques. The ancient doctor mixed lime, beeswax, and red cinnabar mercury. The potion was injected into the veins to preserve the body and add a touch of color to the circulatory system. The back of the skull and brain were also skillfully removed This went against the prevailing view that human dissection in the Middle Ages was a “cut up and throw away” affair. This man was possibly even preserved for future use in medical education
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Yellow river
There's a time-honored insult that often arises during heated arguments between people in towns that line the Yellow River: "If you can't bear the situation, jump into the river and end your life," as the barbed phrase goes.
While the words are often uttered as an angry curse, many people have literally heeded the advice. At least 10,000 bodies have been recovered along an 80-kilometer stretch of the Yellow River's Lanzhou section in Northwest China's Gansu Province since the 1960s. Around 300 bodies are pulled from the river annually, according to local authorities and corpse collectors who work on the river.
Some of the bodies are returned to relatives, while others are retrieved and cremated by the local civil affairs department. However, many are left flowing along the Yellow River.
Police, body collectors and officials from the civil affairs and environmental departments are often at loggerheads with how to deal with the bodies and the pollution and contamination problems they pose to the river's ecosystem.
source:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/737812.shtml
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Soyuz 11
The Soviet Union established the first experimental space station in Earth orbit in June 1971, when Soyuz 11 cosmonauts Georgi T. Dobrovolski, Vladislav N. Volkov, and Viktor I. Patsayev boarded Salyut and spent more than three weeks aboard the laboratory conducting a variety of experiments. Tragedy struck near the end of their record-setting mission when, shortly before reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, the cosmonauts died as a result of the sudden depressurization of their spacecraft. They were not wearing pressure suits. The Soviet government honored the cosmonauts with a state funeral, with NASA astronaut Thomas P. Stafford representing the President of the United States. As a result of the accident, the Soviets temporarily halted human spaceflights while engineers redesigned the Soyuz spacecraft. Since then, all cosmonauts have worn spacesuits during Soyuz launches and landings.
source:
https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-remembering-the-crew-of-soyuz-11/
Photo #5:
Roopkund lake
When the snow melts, Roopkund lake turns pretty scary as one can see hundreds of skeletons. These skeletons were spotted by a British forest guard in 1942 for the first time.
Uttarakhand in India.
It is a glacial lake which is 5029 mts above sea level and attracts thousands of pilgrims and adventurers and is covered in snow for most of the year. But when the snow melts, it turns pretty scary as one can see hundreds of skeletons. These skeletons were spotted by a British forest guard in 1942 for the first time.
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Creatonotos gangis
Perhaps most notably, the truly astonishing Creatonotos gangis remains one of the most visually distinctive Lepidoptera known to man. Unfortunately for those trying to pronounce it, the remarkable insect also has no generally accepted common name.
The first official scientific recognition of the creature as a separate and distinct species took place in the late 18th century. That formal acknowledgement, like many others, occurred as a direct result of the renowned Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus.
While it may be unknown to many, the incredible moth actually inhabits a moderately extensive range. Due to this unfortunate fact, along with an apparently sizeable and relatively stable population base, the IUCN currently has no listing for the insect.
Although the adults remain completely harmless, the same situation does not hold true for the caterpillar form, however. In point of fact, this life stage of the surprising invertebrate very frequently causes severe damage to local pomegranate crops.
Sadly, however, its fortunate Red List of Threatened Species status could potentially change in the very near future. This lamentable fact occurs for the same reason it does for numerous other species.
source: https://www.ourbreathingplanet.com/creatonotos-gangis/
Photo #7
High powered rifle suicide
Photo is from the police training textbook - PRACTICAL HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION: TACTICS, PROCEDURES, AND FORENSIC TECHNIQUES Fourth Edition
VERNON J. GEBERTH, M.S., M.P.S., B.B.A., FBINA
Lieutenant Commander (Retired)
New York City Police Department
Photo #8:
Sunset on Mars
Martian atmosphere is dominated by large-sized dust particles. These particles cause something called ‘Mie Scattering,' which filters out the red light from the sun's rays and only lets the blue reach our eyes.
But then why do sunsets on earth look red? Because the size of particles is very small in Earth's atmosphere, as compared to the wavelength of light. The tiny particles present in Earth's atmosphere scatter the blue wavelengths through a process called ‘Rayleigh Scattering', so by the time the light reaches our eyes, only the red remains.
Simple put, think of the atmosphere as a filter for sunlight. Earth's atmosphere is good at filtering out blue light and letting in red light, whereas the Martian atmosphere is better at filtering out red light and letting in the blue.
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Photo #9:
Chris Farley
Christopher Crosby Farley (February 15, 1964 – December 18, 1997) was an American comedian and actor. He was known for his loud, energetic comedic style, and was a member of Chicago's Second City Theatre and later a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live for five seasons from 1990 to 1995. He went on to pursue a film career.
On December 18, 1997 at 2:00 p.m. EST, Farley was found dead by his younger brother John in his apartment in the John Hancock Center in Chicago. He was 33 years old. An autopsy revealed that Farley had died of an overdose of a combination of cocaine and morphine, commonly known as a "speedball". Advanced atherosclerosis was cited as a "significant contributing factor.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Farley
Photo #10:
Penguin's mouth
Photo by Clinton Berry
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Photo #11:
WPD screenshot
Screenshot shows the homepage of https://Watchpeopledie.co as it looked (on mobile) 2 hours after Aevann made the first post.
Photo #12
Lunar lava tube
A study published in Geophysical Research Letters confirms the existence of a large open lava tube in the Marius Hills region of the moon, which could be used to protect astronauts from hazardous conditions on the surface.
No one has ever been on the moon longer than three days, largely because space suits alone can't shield astronauts from its elements: extreme temperature variation, radiation, and meteorite impacts. Unlike Earth, the moon has no atmosphere or magnetic field to protects its inhabitants.
The safest place to seek shelter is the inside of an intact lava tube, according to the study.
Lava tubes are naturally occurring channels formed when a lava flow develops a hard crust, which thickens and forms a roof above the still-flowing lava stream. Once the lava stops flowing, the tunnel sometimes drains, forming a hollow void.
“It's important to know where and how big lunar lava tubes are if we're ever going to construct a lunar base,” said Junichi Haruyama, a senior researcher at JAXA, Japan's space agency. “But knowing these things is also important for basic science. We might get new types of rock samples, heat flow data and lunar quake observation data.”
JAXA analyzed radar data from the SELENE spacecraft to detect underlying lava tubes. Near the Marius Hills Skylight, an entrance to the tube, they found a distinctive echo pattern: a decrease in echo power followed by a large second echo peak, which they believe is evidence of a tube. The two echoes correspond to radar reflections from the moon's surface and the floor and ceiling of the open tube. The team found similar echo patterns at several locations around the hole, indicating there may be more than one.
source:
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2017/Q4/potential-human-habitat-located-on-the-moon.html
Photo #13
Marilyn Monroe
On the evening of August 4, 1962, American actress Marilyn Monroe died at age 36 of a barbiturate overdose inside her home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. Her body was discovered before dawn the following morning, on August 5. Monroe had been one of the most popular Hollywood stars during the 1950s and early 1960s, and was a top-billed actress for the preceding decade. Her films had grossed $200 million by the time of her death.
source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Marilyn_Monroe
Photo #14:
Slavemaster Victim
John Edward Robinson AKA "The Slavemaster is a huge piece of shit, and an American serial killer who was convicted in 2003 of the murders of three women during a fifteen-year period. He subsequently admitted responsibility for five additional murders during that time. Because he made contact with most of his post-1993 victims via on-line chat rooms, he is sometimes referred to as "the Internet's first serial killer".
Robinson convinced a lonely licensed practical nurse by day and submissive slave by night named Suzette Trouten (the victim in the video) to move from Michigan to Kansas so they could travel the world together. Trouten's mother received several typed letters, purportedly mailed while the couple was abroad, although the envelopes were stamped with Kansas City postmarks, and the letters were, her mother said, uncharacteristically mistake-free. Later, Robinson told Trouten's mother she had run off with an acquaintance after stealing money from him, but in reality he murdered her and stuff her body into a drum.
source:
https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/robinson-john-edward.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edward_Robinson
Photo #15
Turtle Mouth
The leatherback sea turtle is the largest turtle in the world. They are the only species of sea turtle that lack scales and a hard shell. They are named for their tough rubbery skin and have existed in their current form since the age of the dinosaurs. Leatherbacks are highly migratory, some swimming over 10,000 miles a year between nesting and foraging grounds. They are also accomplished divers with the deepest recorded dive reaching nearly 4,000 feet, that's deeper than most marine mammals.
Source:
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/leatherback-turtle
Photo #16
Anorexia
Anorexia is an eating disorder that causes people to weigh less than is considered healthy for their age and height, usually by excessive weight loss.
People with this disorder may have an intense fear of weight gain, even when they are underweight. They may diet or exercise too much or use other ways to lose weight.
Causes
The exact causes of anorexia are not known. Many factors may be involved. Genes and hormones may play a role. Social attitudes that promote very thin body types may also be involved.
Risk factors for anorexia include:
Being more worried about, or paying more attention to, weight and body shape
Having an anxiety disorder as a child
Having a negative self-image
Having eating problems during infancy or early childhood
Having certain social or cultural ideas about health and beauty
Trying to be perfect or overly focused on rules
Anorexia often begins during the pre-teen or teen years or young adulthood. It is more common in females, but may also be seen in males.
source:
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000362.htm
If you struggle with Anorexia or a other eating disorder here are some resources to get help:
https://anad.org/get-help/eating-disorders-helpline/
https://www.allianceforeatingdisorders.com/
https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline
Photo #17
Postmortem child berth
Photo is from the police training textbook - PRACTICAL HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION: TACTICS, PROCEDURES, AND FORENSIC TECHNIQUES Fourth Edition
VERNON J. GEBERTH, M.S., M.P.S., B.B.A., FBINA
Lieutenant Commander (Retired)
New York City Police Department
Photo #18
Lake Nyos disaster
On August 21, 1986, a cloud of magmatic carbon dioxide gas arose from the bed of Lake Nyos, a freshwater lake located in a volcanic caldera in the populous Northwest Region of the East African nation of Cameroon. The rare event, called a limnic eruption, was announced by a small explosion that residents of a market town near the lake described as being like distant thunder, but it was otherwise unannounced by anything else apart from a foul odour.
The 1.6 million ton cloud of magmatic gas was deadly, and a count of the fatalities indicated that 1,746 people, most from villages by the lake, had been asphyxiated by it, along with some 3,000 cattle and innumerable birds, insects, and other animals. The bodies of the dead showed no signs of trauma or struggle; these people had simply died where they were. A research team from France and the United States arrived at the sceneand noted that the lake was an unusual dark-brown colour, and that a surrounding raffia forest and several other expanses of vegetation had been flattened by both the explosion and the tsunami-like water wave that ensued. That the lake was responsible for the deaths was immediately clear to the scientists, but the mechanism involved was not.
source:
https://www.britannica.com/event/Lake-Nyos-disaster
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Demons Call by BatchBug
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The above video may be not extraordinary, but this case is a twisted one. And sad.
TL;DR: in the morning on 18th of April 2018, the villagers of a jungle hamlet Victoria Gracia (eastern Peru) heard shots. 81 yo Olivia Arevalo Lomas, a local shaman - one of the most respected ones in Peruvian Amazon - was laying dead outside her house. Even though people there didn't trust the authorities, someone called them. Before cops even started to do their job, the local chose their suspect - 41 yo Sebastian Paul Woodroffe, a man from Canada, having trips to this area on regular. Local men strangled him to death. He was later pointed out as a main suspect by the police, but as the lynching was against the law, police searched for a four suspects. At least half a year later, they haven't been found. Why he did it - if the police and locals were right, of course - is partially unknown. However, he was really interested in spirituality and unconventional methods of healing. Over the past few weeks, his mental state went on downward spiral - ending up in both his and his healer's death.
If you'd like to know more about the spirituality and healing part, check the CBC coverage in the sources section at the end. There's a really interesting (and long) article 'Descend into darkness' about Sebastian's mental state worsening.
Sections go as follows:
1. Murder - about the incident and how was the victim remembered. There's no gore apart from her body photo. Includes info about the place and the tribe, also a map.
2. Lynching and arrests - self-explaining. Video attached to the post is here, too, on different hosting (if it's not working for you), also Sebastian's body.
3. But why? - about Sebastian's 'descend into darkness'. That's a story about what happens if you do ayahuasca while you shouldn't due to mental health issues. One big wall of text for these who like reading my longer posts with long stories ;]
⠀MURDER 
Map:
Comments on the place and people:
Victoria Gracia, a village of indigenous Shipibo-Conibo people, in the remote Ucayali region of northeastern Peru
[...] Olivia Arévalo, meanwhile, was not only a grandmother figure to the villagers of Victoria Gracia but also a spiritual matriarch to the Shipibo-Conibo people—one of the largest tribes in the Peruvian Amazon, with 20,000 members, concentrated around the Ucayali River. The descendant of a long line of healers, she knew some 500 herbal remedies and was, to the younger villagers, one of the last links to their dying tribal culture.
The murder took place on 18th of April 2018 (Thursday). Villagers reported that they've heard three shots. There were no direct witnesses, though.
Police had found her lifeless body beneath a coconut tree, with two bullet holes in her chest and three spent .380 ACP cartridges a few yards away. The villagers had been emphatic that the killer was the “gringo.” But Woodroffe was nowhere to be found.
The body and funeral:
Taurus 9 mm pistol, recovered by the investigators, and later confirmed to be the one used to kill Olivia:
It was posted on Twitter with the following comment:
The 2nd Provincial Corporate Criminal Prosecutor's Office of Yarinacocha reported that the weapon used to murder Olivia Arévalo was found this morning and would correspond to the same weapon purchased by Canadian citizen Sebastian Paul Wooldrooffe on April 3.
Other photos:
On YouTube channel Temple of the Way of Light, there are a few videos featuring Arevalo, as she worked for the temple from 2009 to 2011. Below, there are two videos of her singing an icaro:
In South American Indigenous culture, an icaro is a healing chant. Sung by a curandero, or shaman, it is said the icaro channels medicinal spirits.
How was she remembered:
She was one of the most respected and powerful Onanya – a plant medicine healer – of the Shipibo tribe. She brought the rich cultural and medicinal legacy of the Shipibo to the Temple and was affectionally referred to by many of us as a “living ancestor”; a record keeper of the Shipibo ways and a walking encyclopedia of traditional Shipibo plant medicine. We are blessed and honored to have worked so closely with her, to have experienced her powerful healing abilities and to have been touched by a heart so full of love and compassion.
My wife Klara and I, and every single member of the Temple [of the Way of Light] community, are deeply saddened and shocked by the recent news of Olivia's death. Olivia was in essence one of the founding healers of the Temple, the oldest healer that we have worked with, and was monumental in seeding the healing work that we carry out to this day. She was an overwhelmingly sweet, gentle, fun, and loving woman who had the laughter of a child yet radiated an inconceivable level of wisdom that we will never forget. [...]
Olivia was buried on 22nd of April 2018. Her death was covered by many international and local news agencies. It shook not only the Peruvian community itself, but also the human rights activism one - as Olivia was advocating for the native people rights.
⠀LYNCHING AND ARRESTS 
The same video as in the thumbnail, but on different hosting, in case it didn't work before.
Sebastian's ID and photos:
In the beginning of this video, you can see a recovery of Sebastian's body. Then, scenes from Olivia's funeral are shown.
The body when found and when carried away:
After viewing the clip, officers returned to Victoria Gracia, where they discovered Woodroffe's body about 700 yards from the village. Wrapped in a blue sheet, he had been buried hastily in a two-foot grave. His face was swollen. His body was purple with bruises. His clothes were coated in dirt and dried blood.
On 23rd of April 2018 (Monday), the judge ordered the arrests of two men involved in the lynching. Their identities were known, but not publicly mentioned. In the meanwhile, the investigators were figuring out who else took part in the mob killing. The news are vague when it comes to the arrest. There are news from both late April and early May 2018 stating that the suspects were arrested, but also that they're still on the run.
In the first days of May 2018, the investigators officially identified Sebastian as a main suspect.
Authorities say they found a document showing that Woodroffe bought a gun on April 3 from a police officer, according to Ricardo Jimenez, head of public prosecutors in Ucayali.
Jiminez also said a witness testified that a silver-coloured pistol fell from a backpack Woodroffe was carrying as locals of the remote Amazonian village grabbed him before the lynching.
Other evidence:
Bullet cartridges found near the body of Olivia Arevalo Lomas were traced back to a gun the 41-year-old B.C. man had purchased earlier in April, and gunpowder was found on his clothes, according to Ricardo Jimenez, chief prosecutor in the remote Ucayali province.
At least six months after the murders, the four suspects were still hiding.
[...] Carlos Vilcahuamán, the district prosecutor in Pucallpa charged with overseeing the investigation, told me that he was frustrated that the four suspects in Woodroffe's lynching, as identified in the grainy Facebook video, hadn't been apprehended. “They're still hiding in the jungle,” he said. His consolation was that he was sure of who'd killed Olivia Arévalo. “All the evidence points to Woodroffe firing those shots that day.”
⠀BUT WHY? 
Both the more spiritual or personal scenarios and the more mundane ones were known since the beginning of the investigation.
Woodroffe had been Arevalo's patient and her family claims he killed her because she refused to conduct a ritual in which the hallucinogenic Amazonian plant brew ayahuasca is used for healing and spiritual growth, said Jimenez.
Authorities are exploring several hypotheses related to Arevalo's murder, including one in which another foreigner might have killed her over an unpaid debt, Jimenez said.
I will mostly stick to the quotes in this section of the post.
Steve Ellis, Woodroffe's ex-brother-in-law, recalled turning him on to ayahuasca after attending a ceremony in Whistler, B.C.
"I was interested in physics, quantum mechanics, atoms, energy, crystals," Ellis said. It was after connecting with a community of "open-minded individuals" that Ellis had his first ayahuasca experience. "It was a really scary and profound life-changing experience. I shared [the details] with Sebastian, and he was really interested in it."
By 2013, Woodroffe's fascination with Indigenous culture, plant medicines and ayahuasca — coupled with an intervention for a family member struggling with alcohol — led him to a life-changing decision.
"I've decided to leave my current career behind and in September 2014, I am starting school, beginning a 6 year process to become an addictions counsellor," he declared in an IndieGoGo appeal.
His first step on this new career path was to start a crowd-funding campaign to raise money so he could study plant medicine and take ayahuasca in the Peruvian Amazon.
In September 2014, Sebastian travelled to the Peruvian jungle city of Iquitos. He wanted to study under ayahuasca shaman Guillermo Arévalo (one of Olivia Arévalo's cousins). Guillermo recalled that Woodroffe was a good person, although one struggling with trauma. He didn't want to elaborate. After this trip, Woodroffe's desire to study the ayahuasca rituals more was only stronger. Over the next three years, Sebastian made several more trips to Peru, but also was taking part in illegal ceremonies near his hometown - specifically, in Comox (British Columbia).
Ayahuasca is a dark tea derived from mixing a leaf and a vine. The leaf, Psychotria viridis, contains dimethyltryptamine (DMT). Taken by itself, the leaf is benign, because enzymes in the stomach neutralize the DMT. But the Shipibo figured out hundreds of years ago that when the leaf is boiled down with the ayahuasca vine, Banisteriopsis caapi, it blocks those stomach enzymes, and creates a potent psychedelic brew.
In 2016 and 2017, Sebastian's posts on Facebook became more worrying. He claimed that he feels lonely and low, and want to be with friends. Scott Anderson, author of the 'Descent into darkness' article, managed to talk to some of the Sebastian's acquaintances. Some were pointing out that Sebastian was struggling after breaking up with his girlfriend (and being a single father again). Others claimed that his trips to Peru were causing problems. Matthew Bremner, another journalist, spoke to one of Sebastian's friends, who wanted to stay anonymous.
[...] said that Woodroffe was indeed charming and essentially a good person. “He looked after me on many occasions,” the person said. But, beneath the surface, he also had a temper and could be volatile and obsessive. Ayahuasca changed him, the person seemed sure. He started dieting constantly—not consuming salts or sugars—and lost a lot of weight. “I could see how he could get himself into a lot of trouble in Peru and not back down if he felt he was right,” the person added.
After Sebastian's father, Gary, advised his son to seek professional help, Sebastian was only more withdrawing.
What worried Woodroffe's family most was when they lost track of his whereabouts, only to learn that he was back in Peru.
On July 26, 2017, Woodroffe posted on Facebook: "Anyone like to see me. Feeling low. Reaching out." He appeared to be back in B.C.
But that summer, Woodroffe turned up in Pucallpa. A young American who would not give his real name but goes by Daniel Love recalled seeing Woodroffe walk into a café popular with expats.
Love, who was building his own jungle retreat in Peru at the time, said he saw Woodroffe have a strange conversation with one of his friends.
"As [Woodroffe] left, my friend came up to me and asked me, 'Do you know that guy?' And I said, 'Not really, I've just seen him today in the café,'" Love recalled.
To which Love's friend responded, "'Well, he just asked me for a gun.'"
According to the people knowing Sebastian, he would never kill someone, didn't want to own a gun or even wasn't interested in them. They didn't believe that he'd want to obtain one, and someone called it being '100% out of [his] character'. Well, a known pattern in some murder stories. 'A good lad, [always] telling his neighbours 'Good morning' on a staircase' as we'd say in Polish. Or dindunuffin, as you'd say on WPD.
Nelly Vázquez in the house where shaman Olivia Arévalo, her grandmother, had lived
In December 2017, two weeks before Christmas, Sebastian was heading back to Peru.
Woodroffe arrived in Lima on Dec. 15 and almost immediately ran into difficulty. He reported that his passport was stolen. Then he was involved in a collision in Lima while driving a rental car. While they waited for the police to arrive, Woodroffe and the driver of the other vehicle used their phones to communicate using an online translator.
The man thought Woodroffe had asked him if he knew where he could get a gun. The man thought the translator had interpreted incorrectly, or that he'd misunderstood. He responded by saying, "I don't know," and Woodroffe told him not to worry about it.
When he finally arrived in Pucallpa, Woodroffe sought out a taxi driver to act as a translator and help him locate the famous shaman Olivia Arevalo. He eventually found Herbert Ravelio, who drove him around town until someone was able to tell them where precisely Arevalo lived.
⠀AND JUST HERE STARTS THE PART INVOLVING AREVALO 
Through a translator, Sebastian asked Arevalo if she can help him and his family. She replied that she can, if he has faith. He claimed that he needs to contact his family. Since Sebastian returned to Victoria Gracia, things started to become tense. He insisted on Arevalo taking ayahuasca with him. However, she refused, and the village's mayor claimed that she hadn't taken ayahuasca in years. He appeared to be obsessed with Arevalo family, and started to behave aggressively and suspiciously.
"He wasn't a normal person," said Linares [the mayor]. "Some neighbours found him prowling around there in the darkness. What was he trying to do?"
According to multiple accounts, Woodroffe turned up in the hamlet one night during a healing ceremony wanting to speak to Arevalo's son Julian. Woodroffe was reportedly carrying a long club, and was initially turned away from the lodge. He tried to sneak back, and apparently struck the man guarding the ceremony. Some villagers pursued Woodroffe, but other locals intervened to stop him from being seriously hurt, and ended up taking him to the police.
Linares said community members took Woodroffe to the police on three separate occasions. But local police have no record of this.
His family was worried when Sebastian failed to check in over Christmas and New Year's Eve. Two days later, on 5th of January 2018, he confirmed on Facebook that he's alive. Sebastian left Peru on 12th of January. Instead of a family home, he lived in his RV (recreational vehicle). His posts on Facebook shown that he feels alone and lost about what to do next.
Gary Woodroffe said that each trip to Peru "seemed to close him off to us."
"He wouldn't talk about what he did on the trips, and he wouldn't talk about a lot of things that went on ... I implored him, I asked him many times ... 'Hey, let's sit down, talk about this, see where you're going, see what you want to do.' And he would put it off."
Woodroffe seemed consumed by internal conflict. "Whose [sic] going to Peru. I have lots of peruvian money to sell," he posted on Facebook at the beginning of March, suggesting he might be done with the place.
On 11th of March, he wrote an incoherent FB post: 'i am.off to jungle.to.do some.sould searchin and fix the mind. see you whence.i am healed fml. part 4.'. Family tried to ask him whether he's sure that the jungle trips are helping him. Olivia Arevalo's cousin Guillermo Arevalo claimed that Woodroffe told him that he's bipolar and needs help.
On 14th of March, Woodroffe was back in Pucallpa, but this time he was living in a succession of low-rent rooms in the hamlets around the city. It's not known if he was seeking mental help. 13 days after the arrival, he wrote on FB: 'i am feeling better day by day in peru. so thankful to be sitting with good peeps', and in a reply: 'I am leaving the place I am at due to a tribal disagreement.'.
Looking back now, the final weeks of Woodroffe's life seem dramatic and frantic. He was paranoid, and a darkness seemed to be blocking out his healing spirit.
In the morning of 30th of March, Woodroffe entered a police station in Pucallpa, declaring that he wants to buy a gun. He eventually contacted with Glauco Utia, a 25 yo police officer on duty that day. Using Google Translate, they communicated, and according to Utia's statement, Sebastian wanted to buy a gun 'because he was going into the jungle and wanted protection from animals'. He had 5,000 soles (about $2,000 Cdn) to spend, and Utia agreed to sell him a 9mm Taurus pistol. Nobody else but Utia claimed that he needed a gun for a jungle trip - but if not for that use, why would Woodroffe need a gun for protection?
He claimed on FB that he wouldn't take ayahuasca this time, but it was unknown whether he was sticking to his diet. It is a part of a local spiritual cleansing rituals, but if done outside a supervision of a shaman, it can lead to malnutrition and some mental disturbances. On 1st of April, Sebastian wrote on FB: 'eating street meet [sic] in peru up till this point has been no problem…….until now. shitting in jungle day 3.'.
Over the next few days, he managed to obtain the gun, even though he had no license. On 5th of April, Sebastian wrote on FB: 'Not enjoying life right. Having a rough go. please send me prayers...'. On 10th of April, Sebastian arrived at the airport in Pucallpa, claiming that he wants to contact Arevalo later that day and needs a taxi driver who speaks English. He changed these plans, though, as he found another shaman who was speaking English.
His posts on FB back then were rather positive, suggesting that he's looking forward to the future. Things changed quickly. On 14th of April, at night, Sebastian showed up at the police station in Yarinacocha (outskirts of Pucallpa) with Herbert Ravelio, the mentioned taxi driver. He claimed that he was robbed - not a first time in Peru when Sebastian claimed he lost his passport and mobile phone. If he was carrying his 9mm Taurus that day, he must have it concealed.
Woodroffe was up early on the morning of April 19. One of his housemates said he saw him leave on the motorcycle at 7 a.m. Another saw him leave again at 10:30 a.m. Woodroffe was carrying his backpack and allegedly told the landlord's son that he was going to take ayahuasca.
He arrived in Victoria Gracia just before midday, and stopped outside of Olivia Arevalo's house. Witnesses say Woodroffe called out for Julian Arevalo through the windows. Woodroffe shot the gun into the air. Julian Arevalo allegedly ran out the back of the house. Around the same time, Olivia came out to speak to Woodroffe.
And what happened next, you've seen in the beginning of this post. Why exactly he wanted to speak with Olivia that day is still unknown.
⠀SOURCES 
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/sebastian-woodroffe-death-ayahuasca-peru
https://templeofthewayoflight.org/tragedy-in-pucallpa-the-death-of-maestra-olivia-arevalo
https://matthewembremner.com/2019/03/24/blurred-vision-mens-journal
https://www.comoxvalleyrecord.com/news/woodroffe-named-as-main-suspect-in-peruvian-shooting-1581598
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The information in the video and in the text below do not cover "honor killings" or "dowry deaths" those I might cover in a future post but did not want to put them under the same umbrella as what is covered here, because both honor killings and dowry deaths have the added elements of culture and religion to blame
Of the estimated 4,970 female victims of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter in 2021, data reported by law enforcement agencies indicate that 34% were killed by an intimate partner (figure 1). By comparison, about 6% of the 17,970 males murdered that year were victims of intimate partner homicide.
Overall, 76% of female murders and 56% of male murders were perpetrated by someone known to the victim. About 16% of female murder victims were killed by a nonintimate family member—parent, grandparent, sibling, in-law, and other family member—compared to 10% of male murder victims.
A larger percentage of males (21%) were murdered by a stranger than females (12%). For 1 out of every 3 male murder victims and 1 out of every 5 female murder victims, the relationship between the victim and the offender was unknown.
Mythology
The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is a data collection system designed and maintained by the FBI that compiles data on all crimes recorded by participating state and local law enforcement agencies. NIBRS captures extensive information on each incident known to law enforcement. The NIBRS database collects detailed information on 52 different offenses that can occur within a crime incident and collects arrest-only information for an additional 10 offenses.1 In 2021, national estimates of crime were based on data received from about 11,790 of the 18,800 law enforcement agencies in the United States, representing approximately 65% of the U.S. population. (See BJS's National Incident-Based Reporting System page and the FBI's Crime Data Explorer for more information.)
Definitions
Murder
Murder is composed of the two homicide categories: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter. The FBI defines murder and nonnegligent manslaughter as “The willful (nonnegligent) killing of one human being by another.”2 Attempted murders, accidental deaths, suicides, and traffic fatalities are not to be coded as murders in NIBRS. In addition, felony murder or situations where a victim dies of another cause (such as a heart attack) because of a crime being committed against them should not be classified as a murder.
Relationship of victim to alleged offender
The relationship of the victim to the alleged offender(s) is based on the NIBRS Relationship(s) of Victim to Offender(s) data element, which includes 27 distinct relationship types. For this analysis, the relationship types were aggregated into six categories, detailed below:
Intimate partner—includes Victim Was Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Victim Was Common-Law Spouse, Victim Was Spouse, Victim Was Ex-Relationship (Ex-Boyfriend/Girlfriend), and Victim Was Ex-Spouse
Nonintimate family—includes Victim Was Child, Victim Was Grandchild, Victim Was Grandparent, Victim Was In-law, Victim Was Other Family Member, Victim Was Parent, Victim Was Sibling, Victim Was Stepchild, Victim Was Stepparent, and Victim Was Stepsibling
Friend or other known person—includes Victim Was Acquaintance, Victim Was Babysitter, Victim Was Child of Boyfriend or Girlfriend, Victim Was Employee, Victim Was Employer, Victim Was Friend, Victim Was Neighbor, and Victim Was Otherwise Known
Stranger—includes Victim Was Stranger
Victim was offender—includes Victim Was Offender; this relationship type is used to denote when a participant in a crime incident was both a victim and an offender, such as domestic disputes or bar fights where two or more persons were identified as participating
Unknown relationship—includes Relationship Unknown
The relationship category Victim Was Offender is not included in this report. Less than 2% of murders and nonnegligent manslaughters in 2021 were estimated to include this type of relationship.
Despite making up only 15% of the female population, African American women and girls accounted for nearly 34.6% of missing women in 2021, according to the National Crime Information Center. By the year's close, 14,323 Black women and girls were still missing. And their cases drag on four times longer than average, according to the task force report
https://bjs.ojp.gov/female-murder-victims-and-victim-offender-relationship-2021
Globally
In 2022, around 48,800 women and girls worldwide were killed by their intimate partners or other family members (including fathers, mothers, uncles and brothers). This means that, on average, more than 133 women or girls are killed every day by someone in their own family. Current and former intimate partners are by far the most likely perpetrators of femicide, accounting for an average of 55 per cent of all intimate partner and family related killings.
This year recorded the highest number of total intentional female homicides, indicating that the world is failing to stop deaths that could be prevented through early intervention, gender-responsive policing and justice, and access to survivor-centred support and protection.
Like all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, femicide is a problem that affects every country and territory across the globe. According to the new report, in 2022, Africa recorded the largest absolute number of female intimate partner and family related killings with an estimated 20,000 victims; followed by 18,400 in Asia; 7,900 in the Americas; 2,300 in Europe; and 200 in Oceania.
Adjusted for total population size, the available data shows that, in 2022, 2.8 women and girls per 100,000 were killed by an intimate partner or family member in Africa; compared with 1.5 in the Americas; 1.1 in Oceania; 0.8 in Asia; and 0.6 in Europe.
While the numbers presented in the report are alarmingly high, they are the tip of the iceberg. Too many victims of femicide still go uncounted: for roughly four in ten intentional murders of women and girls, there is not enough information to identify them as gender-related killings because of national variation in criminal justice recording and investigation practices.
In many cases, only gender related killings perpetrated by an intimate partner or family member are counted as femicides—yet we know that gender-related killings take place in many contexts beyond the private sphere. They can be related to rape or sexual violence by someone unknown to the victim; linked to harmful practices such as female genital mutilation or so-called honor killings; a result of hate crimes linked to sexual orientation or gender identity; or connected with armed conflict, gangs, human trafficking and other forms of organized crime.
Ensuring the availability of comprehensive disaggregated data is critical to strengthening femicide prevention, protection and response measures, as well as access to justice. To help move beyond the current limitations in data collection, UNODC and UN Women developed the statistical framework for measuring the gender-related killing of women and girls (“femicide/feminicide”), approved by the United Nation's Statistical Commission in March 2022.
There continue to be significant limitations in data and information on gender-related killings of certain groups of women and girls. Women in the public eye, including those in politics, women human rights defenders and journalists are often targets of intentional acts of violence, both online and offline, with some leading to fatal outcomes and intentional killings.
Despite data limitations, the available evidence from Canada and Australia suggest that indigenous women are disproportionately affected by gender related killings. At 4.3 per 100,000 women and girls, the rate of female homicide in Canada was five times higher among indigenous than among non-indigenous women and girls in 2021.
To prevent femicide, it is crucial that national authorities record comprehensive data on victims. By identifying women and girls at greater risk, countries can better inform prevention and protection mechanisms.
Gender-related killings and other forms of violence against women and girls are not inevitable. They can and must be prevented through primary prevention initiatives focused on transforming harmful social norms and engaging whole communities and societies to create zero tolerance for violence against women. Early intervention and risk assessment, access to survivor-centered support and protection as well as gender-responsive policing and justice services are key to ending gender-related killings of women and girls.
One innovative practice with the potential to enhance necessary reforms are in-depth multi-stakeholder reviews of gender-related killings of women and girls. These often involve families and social networks of victims, with the aim of improving institutional responses and preventing future killings.
In Aotearoa New Zealand, the Family Violence Death Review Committee conducted in-depth reviews of family violence-related killings to better understand the context, help-seeking behavior, and agency responses. The Committee recorded 320 family violence deaths between 2009 and 2020, of which 178 (56 percent) were women and girls. The Committee's findings showed that the most vulnerable—Māori, women, children and people with disabilities—are often unfairly assigned responsibility for their circumstances from the way they are portrayed in case records, their interactions with case workers, or the inadequate responsiveness of agencies. To address these issues, the committee recommended agencies should adjust their approach to draw from the methods used by Kaupapa Māori organizations. This more respectful approach focuses on well-being and involves training of service providers, shifting the focus to the entire family to break the silence of violence and shifting the status quo and norms of institutions so that initiatives are responsive to the needs of families.
More research is required to better understand what is driving increased femicide in certain contexts, and what factors have enabled decreases in others to better inform prevention strategies.
Sources:
https://bjs.ojp.gov/female-murder-victims-and-victim-offender-relationship-2021
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3384540
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0886260517729404
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0886260517729404
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447915
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1359178919300874
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Necklacing is a method of extrajudicial summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tire drenched with petrol around a victim's chest and arms, and setting it on fire. The term "necklace" originated in the 1980s in black townships of apartheid South Africa where suspected apartheid collaborators were publicly executed in this fashion.
Today necklacing is carried out in south africa as a form of street justice and done to people accused of everything from theft and robbery to rape and murder and everything in between.
Here is the first necklacing ever recorded on video
17+ minute video of the lynching and necklacing of 2 men in Diepsloot South Africa
Lynching and necklacing in South Africa 2015
Articles on recent necklacing in South Africa
https://www.voanews.com/south-africa-police-7-burned-to-death-in-township-mob-attack/7382253.html
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057070.2019.1642646
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2012/5/13/mob-justice-in-south-africa
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2013/6/18/xenophobia-and-its-discontents-in-south-africa
Info Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing
https://www.rhodesia.nl/truthlie.htm
https://allthatsinteresting.com/necklacing
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Necklacing
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Lynched part 1
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Photo #1. Sunspot
Sunspots are regions of the solar surface where the magnetic field is so strong it essentially chokes the solar atmosphere, making the region cooler and appear darker than its surroundings.
A sunspot isn't really a hole, but it sure looks like one. That dark, gaping maw at the center of the sunspot is called the "umbra" — the shadow — and the surrounding stringy structures are the "penumbra."."
cool clip shows an up close view of rolling solar plasma.
Photo #2. The 1981 exhumation and autopsy of Lee Harvey Oswald
The following is a Washington post article published on October 4th 1981
DALLAS, Oct. 4, 1981 -- he body of accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was exhumed from a Fort Worth cemetery early today, and after a four-hour autopsy, a team of doctors declared that "beyond any doubt" it was Oswald who had been buried in the grave 18 years ago
The exhumation and autopsy of the man who allegedly killed President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, ended three years of legal maneuvering and put to rest the theory of a British author, Michael Eddowes, that Kennedy had been killed by a Russian agent posing as Oswald and that it was the agent who had been buried as Oswald.
"Beyond any doubt--and I mean absolutely any doubt--the person buried under the name Lee Harvey Oswald is in fact Lee Harvey Oswald," said Dr. Linda Norton, an associate professor of pathology at the University of Alabama, who headed the team that examined the remains.
The team, which included two forensic pathologists and two forensic odontologists, based their findings on a comparison of Oswald's Marine dental records made before he defected to Russia and a set of 16 dental X-rays made today.
Doctors also matched a defect on the left mastoid bone with records of surgery done on Oswald as a young boy. In addition, two rings on the little finger of Oswald's left hand were identified by his widow, Marina Oswald Porter, as those placed there just before his burial in November, 1963. Oswald was shot to death by nightclub owner Jack Ruby two days after Kennedy was assassinated
Jerry Pittman, a lawyer representing Mrs. Porter, who had agreed to the exhumation more than a year ago, said she was "totally satisfied" by the results of the autopsy
Eddowes, who financed the operation, said in a statement read by one of his lawyers, "Though surprised, I am in no way disappointed in the apparent disproving of my evidence of imposture. Rather I have accomplished my objective in obtaining the exhumation and I am glad for those who have steadfastly maintained the contrary for whatever reason."
The exhumation, which began in darkness early today, was made possible when Oswald's older brother, Robert, decided to drop his legal fight to prevent the removal of the body. A temporary restraining order blocking the exhumation had expired at midnight Saturday.
Security guards arrived about 4 a.m. CDT today at the gravesite at Rose Hill Burial Park in Fort Worth. About 6:45 a.m., a backhoe began to scoop out the earth above Oswald's grave. A tent had been placed over the gravesite "for dignity," according to cemetery manager Neil Wretberg. Nonetheless, news helicopters hovered over the cemetery. Reporters and photographers, who had been alerted to the exhumation late Saturday, were able to get no closer than 30 yards from the site.
The digging stopped a few inches above the concrete vault surrounding the casket, according to William C. Dear, a private security agent who was in charge of security.
Dear said the vault was cracked and the oak casket had deteriorated so badly that a makeshift pasteboard box was needed to lift the casket and body out of the grave.
The body was badly decomposed, according to the doctors. Oswald's skeleton was covered with "a cheesy, white type of tissue," Norton said at a press conference. Others who saw the body said there was some hair remaining on the scalp and that Oswald's clothes were still there.
With the help of large belts, the casket was hoisted out of the ground and placed in a black hearse. Mrs. Porter remained in a car at the site during the exhumation. Her husband, Kenneth, a carpenter in the nearby town of Rockwall, observed the removal of the casket.
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Photo #3. Sylvia Likens
Sylvia Likens
In 1965, 16-year-old Sylvia Likens was sent to the home of a family friend, Gertrude Baniszewski, while her parents were traveling. But Likens never made it out alive.
Gertrude Baniszewski and her children tortured Sylvia Likens to death. The perpetrators even managed to involve an entire neighborhood of kids to help them commit this brutal murder.
As the autopsy in the Sylvia Likens case later showed, she endured unimaginable torment before she died. Nevertheless, her killers faced almost no justice at a
How Sylvia Likens Came Under The Care Of Gertrude Baniszewski
Sylvia Likens' parents were both carnival workers and were therefore on the road more often than not. They struggled to make ends meet as her father Lester had only an eighth-grade education and a total of five children to care for.
Jenny was quiet and withdrawn with a limp from polio. Sylvia was more confident and went by the nickname “Cookie” and had been described as pretty though she had a missing front tooth.
In July 1965, Lester Likens decided to take up with the carnival again while his wife was jailed for shoplifting that summer. Sylvia's brothers, Danny and Bennie, were put into the care of their grandparents. With few other options, Sylvia and Jenny were sent to stay with a family friend named Gertrude Baniszewski.
Gertrude was every bit as poor as the Likens and had seven of her own kids to support in her run-down home. She made little cash by charging her neighbors a few dollars to iron their laundry. She'd already been through multiple divorces, some of which resulted in physical abuse against her and dealt with a crippling depression through heavy doses of prescription drugs.
She was in no condition to take care of two teenaged girls. The Likens, though, didn't think they had any other choice.
Lester Likens cryptically requested that Baniszewski straighten his daughters out,” when he placed them in her care for $20 a week.
For the first two weeks at the Baniszewski's, Sylvia and her sister were treated kindly enough, though Gertrude's oldest daughter, 17-year-old Paula Baniszewski, seemed to butt heads with Sylvia often. Then one week their father's payment came in late.
“I took care of you two bitches for two weeks for nothing,” Gertrude spat at Sylvia and Jenny. She grabbed Sylvia by the arm, dragged her into a room, and closed the door. Jenny could only sit outside the door and listen as her sister screamed. The money arrived the following day, but the torture had just begun.
Gertrude soon began to abuse both Sylvia and Jenny in broad daylight. Though a frail woman, Gertrude used a heavy paddle and thick, leather belt from one of her husband's who had been a cop. When she was too exhausted or too weak to discipline the girls herself, Paula stepped in to take her place. Sylvia, however, soon became the focus of the abuse.
Gertrude Baniszewski demanded that Jenny join in, lest she take her sister's place as the brunt of the abuse.
Gertrude accused Sylvia of stealing from her and burned the girl's fingertips. She took her to a church function and force-fed her free hot dogs until she was sick. Then, as punishment for throwing up good food, she forced her to eat her own vomit.
She allowed her children — in fact, encouraged her children — to partake in the abuse of Sylvia and her sister. The Baniszewski kids practiced karate on Sylvia, slammed her into walls and onto the floor. They used her skin as an ashtray, threw her downstairs, and cut open her skin and rubbed salt into her wounds. After this, she would often be “cleansed” in a scalding hot bath.
Gertrude gave sermons on the evils of sexual immortality while Paula stomped on Sylvia's vagina. Paula, who herself was pregnant, accused Sylvia of being with child and mutilated the girl's genitals. Gertrude's 12-year-old son John Jr. delighted in forcing the girl to lick his youngest sibling's soiled diapers clean.
Sylvia was forced to strip naked and shove an empty Coca-Cola bottle into her vagina while the Baniszewski children watched. Sylvia was so beaten that she was unable to use the bathroom voluntarily. When she wet her mattress, Gertrude decided that the girl was no longer fit to live with the rest of her children.
The 16-year-old was then locked in the basement without food or access to the bathroom.
An Entire Neighborhood Joins Gertrude Baniszewski In The Torture
Gertrude spread every story she could imagine to get the local kids to join in on the beatings. She told her daughter that Sylvia had called her a whore and got her daughter's friends to come over and beat her up for it.
Later during the trial, some of the kids were open about how Gertrude had recruited them. One teenage girl named Anna Siscoe recalled how Gertrude told her that Sylvia had been saying: “She said my mother went out with all sorts of men and got $5.00 for going to bed with the men.”
Anna never bothered to find out if it was true. Gertrude told her, “I don't care what you do to Sylvia.” She invited over to her home and just watched as Anna threw Sylvia down to the ground, beat her face, and kick her.
Gertrude told her own children that Sylvia was a prostitute. Then she had Ricky Hobbs, a neighborhood boy, and her 11-year-old daughter Marie carve the words “I'm a prostitute and proud of it” into her abdomen with a heated needle.
At one point, Sylvia's older sister Diana attempted to see the girls under Gertrude's care but was turned away at the door. Jenny later reported how Diana snuck food into the basement in which Sylvia was hidden. A neighbor had also reported the incidents to a public health nurse who, upon entering the home and not seeing Sylvia for she was locked in a basement, concluded that nothing was wrong. Baniszewski had also managed to convince the nurse that she had kicked the Likens girls out.
Other next-door neighbors allegedly were aware of how Sylvia was abused. They had seen Paula strike the girl in the Baniszewski home on two separate occasions but claimed not to report the abuse because they feared for their own lives. Jenny was threatened, bullied, and beaten by the Baniszewski's and neighbor girls alike should she go to the authorities.
The abuse of Sylvia continued unhindered, in fact, aided by all those around her.
Gertrude could tell too and so she forced Sylvia to write a note in which she told her parents that she'd run away. Sylvia was also forced to write that she'd met up with a group of boys and given them sexual favors and afterward, they'd beaten her and mutilated her body.
Shortly after this Sylvia overheard Gertrude Baniszewski tell her children that she was going to take Sylvia to a forest and leave her there to die.
A desperate Sylvia Likens attempted one final escape. She managed to get out the front door before Gertrude caught her. Sylvia was so weak from her injuries she could not have possibly gotten too far. With the assistance of a neighbor boy named Coy Hubbard, Gertrude beat Sylvia with a curtain rod until she fell unconscious. Then, when she came back to, she stomped on her head.
Sylvia was dead by Oct. 26, 1965, from a brain hemorrhage, shock, and malnutrition. After three months of torture and starvation, she could no longer form intelligible words and could barely move her limbs.
When the police came, Gertrude stuck with her cover story. Sylvia had been out with boys in the woods, she told them, and they'd beaten her to death and carved “I'm a prostitute and proud of it” into her body.
Jenny, though, took her chance. As soon as she could get close enough to a police officer she whispered, “Get me out of here and I'll tell you everything.”
The police arrested Gertrude, Paula, Stephanie and John Baniszewski, Richard Hobbs, and Coy Hubbard for murder. Neighborhood participants Mike Monroe, Randy Lepper, Darlene McGuire, Judy Duke, and Anna Siscoe were also arrested for “injury to person.” These minors would blame Gertrude for being pressured to partake in the slaughter of Sylvia Likens.
Gertrude herself pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. “She's not responsible,” her defense attorney told the court, “because she's not all here.”
There were several more children involved who proved just too young to be charged.
Ultimately though, on May 19, 1966, Gertrude Baniszewski was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. She was spared the death penalty despite her own lawyer admitting that, “In my opinion, she ought to go to the electric chair.”
Paula Baniszewski, who had given birth to a daughter during the trial, was convicted of second-degree murder and was also sentenced to life imprisonment.
Richard Hobbs, Coy Hubbard, and John Baniszewski Jr. were all convicted of manslaughter and given two 2-to-21-year prison sentences based on the fact that they were minors. The three boys were all paroled just two years later in 1968.
Gertrude spent 20 years behind bars. There was no question about her guilt. The autopsy backed up everything Jenny told the police: Sylvia Likens had died slowly and painfully over several months.
In 1971, both Gertrude and Paula were re-tried to the result that Gertrude was again found guilty. Paula pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to two to 21 years. She once even managed to escape despite being recaptured. After about eight years behind bars, Paula was released and she moved to Iowa where she changed her name and became a teacher's aide.
She was suspended from her position when in 2012 an anonymous caller tipped off the school district that Paula was once convicted of the death of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens.
Gertrude Baniszewski was granted parole on good behavior on Dec. 4, 1985. Jenny and a whole crowd of people picketed outside the prison to protest her release, but it was no use, Gertrude Baniszewski was set free.
The only relief Jenny received came five years after Gertrude's release when the murderess died of lung cancer. “Some good news,” Jenny wrote to her mother with a copy of the woman's obituary. “Damn old Gertrude died! Ha ha ha! I am happy about that.”
Jenny never did blame her parents for what happened to her sister. “My mom was a really good mom,” Jenny has said. “All she did was trust Gertrude.”
sources:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/sylvia-likens-gertrude-baniszewski
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sylvia_Likens
Photo #4. Window chip ISS
ESA astronaut Tim Peake took this photo from inside Cupola in 2016, showing a 7 mm-diameter circular chip gouged out by the impact from a tiny piece of space debris, possibly a paint flake or small metal fragment no bigger than a few thousandths of a millimetre across. The background just shows the inky blackness of space.
“I am often asked if the International Space Station is hit by space debris. Yes – this is the chip in one of our Cupola windows, glad it is quadruple glazed!” says Tim.
To cater for such possibilities, the Station is provided with extensive shielding around all vital crew and technical areas, so that minor strikes, like this one, pose no threat.
While a chip like the one shown here may be minor, larger debris would pose a serious threat. An object up to 1 cm in size could disable an instrument or a critical flight system on a satellite. Anything above 1 cm could penetrate the shields of the Station's crew modules, and anything larger than 10 cm could shatter a satellite or spacecraft into pieces.
“ESA is at the forefront of developing and implementing debris-mitigation guidelines, because the best way to avoid problems from orbital debris is not to cause them in the first place,” says Holger Krag, Head of ESA's Space Debris Office.
“These guidelines are applied to all new missions flown by ESA, and include dumping fuel tanks and discharging batteries at the end of a mission, to avoid explosions, and ensuring that satellites reenter the atmosphere and safely burn up within 25 years of the end of their working lives.”
source:
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2016/05/Impact_chip
Photo #5. Trayvon Martin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trayvon_Martin
Photo#6. Haid Al-Jazil
Haid al-Jazil is one of the villages in Daw'an District in Hadhramaut Governorate, which has a population of 17.
The mud-brick buildings of the village are built on a huge boulder overlooking the Wadi Dawan valley.
source;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haid_al-Jazil
Photo #7. Otis Redding
On Nov. 22, 1967, Otis Redding recorded “(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay,” which he'd written three months earlier on the deck of a houseboat in a harbor in Sausalito, California.
Two weeks later, on Dec. 7, he recorded the final overdubs, and his hit song was complete. Sadly, he wouldn't be around to see the sensation it would become.
Redding was set to perform in Madison, Wisconsin on the night of Dec. 10, 1967. That afternoon, at around 12:30 p.m., the singer, his assistant, and five members of his band, the Bar-Kays, boarded the twin-engine Beechcraft H18 Redding had recently purchased. One other band member, James Alexander, had taken a commercial flight because there wasn't enough room on the plane.
Redding and the Bar-keys
The weather was rainy and foggy, but pilot Richard Fraser assured Redding he could get him and his band to Madison safely. So, they took off from Cleveland, Ohio and headed west to Madison.
Musician James Brown later recalled, “On the last morning we talked, I said, ‘That plane is not big enough to be doing what you're doing. It can't carry all those people and all that equipment. You shouldn't be messing around with it like that.
"That plane was an old plane, with a bad battery and a lot of service problems,” Brown continued, “and it had no business flying in that kind of weather.”
Unfortunately, Brown's concerns turned out to be founded. Just four miles from the Madison airport, Otis Redding's airplane crashed into Lake Monona.
The only survivor of the crash, trumpet player Ben Cauley, later said that he woke up as the plane was going down with a “tremendous feeling that we were in a spin.”
The aircraft hit the water, and Cauley grabbed onto a seat cushion to keep himself afloat. He heard another bandmate screaming for help.
“I started swimming over to him, but before I got there, he went down,” Cauley recalled.
Fans were already in line at the concert venue when news of the plane crash broke. They went home that evening hoping that Redding had somehow survived. Divers searched the wreckage until dark and then resumed their rescue mission the following morning.
James Alexander, the bassist who had taken a commercial flight instead, told Tidal in 2021 that the search took three days. “On the second day is when I identified Otis,” Alexander said. “He was still strapped into his seat"
Otis Redding was dead at just 26 years old.
Redding being pulled from the lake
sources:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/otis-redding-death
https://www.biography.com/musicians/otis-redding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Redding
Photo #8. Dive bell accident
November 5, 1983, aboard a North Sea oil rig called the Byford Dolphin. Explosive decompression killed four divers and an attending crewman instantly. It only took one hatch, mistakenly opened during a routine procedure, to cause the accident; under extreme pressures, even that minor slip-up had disastrous consequences.
To fully grasp what happened to the crew of the Byford Dolphin, it's necessary to understand the dangers of diving. When it comes to working underwater, pressure is everything. For every 33 feet (10 meters) a person descends, the ambient pressure increases by about one atmosphere's worth, equivalent to 14.6 pounds (6.6 kilograms) on every square inch of your body. At a depth of 250 feet, that's more than 125 pounds per square inch.
This puts serious limits on divers. The main problem with diving is not actually going under high pressure, but coming out of it; deep enough underwater, the force exerted on the body is such that nitrogen gas compresses to a fraction of its normal volume, and ends up dissolved in the bloodstream. When divers come up too quickly, the sudden release of pressure causes a condition known as decompression sickness, or “the bends.” Dissolved nitrogen suddenly forms bubbles throughout bodily tissues. Effects include nausea, dizziness, severe joint pain, paralysis, and sometimes death. The only way to avoid decompression sickness is by returning slowly and carefully to the surface, allowing time for pent-up nitrogen to diffuse naturally. This process can take hours, or in the case of deep-water dives, days—a prohibitive restriction when it comes to oil drilling, maritime salvage, and other situations where people have to work for extended periods in the deep sea.
Saturation divers are elite professionals that can operate at considerable depths because they live constantly under high pressure, for up to 28 days at a time. During the 28 days, their living quarters are maintained at the same pressure as the bottom of the ocean, allowing them to commute back and forth with relative ease.
Workers aboard the Byford Dolphin used saturation diving to deploy and maintain drilling equipment in the depths of the North Sea. Between shifts, the divers inhabited a specialized chamber system, on the rig's deck, pressurized to nine atmospheres—which is to say, 131 pounds (60 kilograms) per square inch. They traveled between this chamber and the work site using a diving bell, operated by specialist tenders. At all times, the divers had to remain under intense pressure, and extensive procedures were in place to move them around without any exposure to the outside world.
The chamber system of the Byford Dolphin had two main compartments, chamber one and chamber two, with a smaller section, called the trunk, connecting chamber one to the diving bell. Two diving tenders on the outside supervised the crew transfer process and operated the various hatches involved. Only once the door to chamber one was shut, sealing the saturation divers in their pressurized living quarters, could the trunk be reduced to normal atmospheric pressure. At that point, the tenders could safely undock the diving bell.
At 4:00 am on November 5, 1983, two dive tenders, William Crammond, and Martin Saunders, assisted the return of saturation divers Bjørn Bergersen and Truls Hellevik. Another two divers, Roy Lucas, and Edmund Coward, were resting in chamber two. The diving bell door was already closed, and the returning divers had entered chamber one. Hellevik was supposed to shut the interior trunk door, sealing chamber one, after which Crammond would vent air from the trunk, and finally open a clamp to release the bell. This was a normal procedure; everyone involved was highly experienced in saturation diving and had done this many times before. No one knows why Crammond opened the outside clamp before Hellevik could close the inner door. It's only known that he did—and the results were immediately catastrophic.
The moment the trunk was unsealed, all the high-pressure air in the chamber system was free to vent through the trunk into the outside world, and it did so with tremendous force. Remember the figure from earlier: every square inch was under 131 pounds of pressure. It was enough to push the diving bell into the two tenders. Crammond died immediately, while his colleague Saunders was severely injured.
The strangest effects, however, were reserved for the divers. Three of them—Lucas, Coward, and Bergersen, who were all far from the door—had their blood literally boil as enormous amounts of dissolved nitrogen suddenly became gas again. They were killed instantly. Postmortem analysis revealed that their arteries, veins, hearts, and livers were clogged with fat, precipitating out of the bloodstream.
The fourth diver, Hellevik, had the most gruesome death of all—he was pinned against the jammed interior trunk door, which was open by a crack, and the escaping air forced him through it, dismembering him and launching vital organs as far as 30 feet (10 meters) away. Like the other divers, he didn't live long enough to know what had happened; it was all over in a moment.
source:
https://oddfeed.net/byford-dolphin-accident/
https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/byford-dolphin-accident.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin
Phone #9. Pier Paolo Pasolini
One of Italy's most famous and controversial filmmakers, Pier Paolo Pasolini was also a novelist and poet. Born in Bologna to a military family that moved frequently, Pasolini began writing poetry at age seven, attended the University of Bologna, and was eventually drafted to serve in World War II; his regiment was captured by the Germans after Italy's surrender and Pasolini escaped and fled to the small town Casarsa where he lived for years. His first book of poetry, Poesie a Casarsa, published in 1942 before his war experiences, was written in Friulian, his mother's dialect. Many of Pasolini's later works, for the screen and page, bring together different orders of experience—folk, suburban, biblical—and attempt to find forms that might encompass proletarian themes, the fringe cultures of Roman prostitutes and pimps, and radical utopianism. According to Adam Thirlwell, “In his movies, he loved fusing the hieratic with the everyday. And in his writing, too, he liked combining two things that don't usually go together: a classical form or tone that could absorb its squalid subjects.”
Pasolini joined the Communist party in 1946 but was soon expelled for being a homosexual. Nonetheless, inspired by the writings of Antonio Gramsci, Pasolini remained loyal to the Party for the rest of his life, attempting to fuse Marxist tenants with radical Catholicism. In the 1950s Pasolini moved to Rome to be a teacher. In Rome, he became involved with the working classes, fringe subcultures, and criminal underworlds that feature in so many of his films. During this period he also wrote his most famous novels.
Pasolini was violently murdered in 1975. Although a male prostitute was charged with the murder and the case officially closed, speculation about the murderers and motivation behind the killing continues.
source:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/pier-paolo-pasolini
Photo #10. The corpse flower
Titan-arum or corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) is native to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Its enormous flower spike is the largest unbranched inflorescence (flower structure) in the Plant Kingdom. The fleshy central spike, called a spadix, bears small flowers in rings around its base. The spadix can grow up to 12 feet tall. The spadix is wrapped in a frilly, modified leaf called a spathe. When the plant is ready to bloom, the spathe unfurls, exposing the flowers inside. You may recognize the structure's resemblance to calla-lily, anthurium, and jack-in-the-pulpit, which are all relatives in the arum family, Araceae. Amorphophallus titanum is often called corpse flower because when it blooms, it emits a powerful stench similar to that of rotting meat. This scent, along with the deep-red, meaty color of the open spathe, attracts insect pollinators that feed on dead animals.
Titan-arums take years to form flower buds, but when they finally do, the flowers mature very quickly. Horticulturists noticed that a three-inch-tall flower bud had formed on Saturday, May 15. In the beginning of the bloom cycle, a titan-arum grows four to six inches each day. By June 19, 2019, the bud was 44 inches tall. Later, growth slows significantly. Two leaves at the base of the spathe shrivel and fall off. The spathe begins to open, revealing the red-purple color inside, and completely unfurls over the course of about 36 hours. During full bloom, the spadix self-heats to approximately human body temperature, which helps disseminate odor particles.
source:
https://www.nybg.org/garden/the-corpse-flower-amorphophallus-titanum/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphophallus_titanum
Photo #11. Yukiko Okada
On April 8, 1986, Okada was found with a slashed wrist in her gas-filled Tokyo apartment, crouching in a closet and crying. She was discovered by a rescue team called in by the apartment's manager after other residents noticed the smell of gas. Okada's manager eventually arrived and took her to nearby Kita Aoyama Hospital, where her injuries were treated.
In a 2016 article on the Asahi Weekly, Sun Music former managing director Tokio Fukuda recalled that Sun Music founder Hideyoshi Aizawa called him to pick up Okada from the hospital. When he met her, she was crying softly. He then asked her where she wanted to go: to her parents' home in Nagoya, her apartment, or the office. She replied that the office was good, so she was brought to the sixth floor of the Sun Music building. Aizawa then called Fukuda, leading him to step out.
While Fukuda, the management director and the staff were discussing how to avoid a media scandal, Okada ran to the stairs, went to the roof of the seven-story building, took off her shoes, and jumped, resulting in instant death. It was 12:15 PM JST.
The reason for the suicide is unclear. Okada was reported to have been "upset and depressed about an unhappy love affair", with an actor described to be "old enough to be her father",Tōru Minegishi, a co-star in Kinjirareta Mariko. Minegishi said that "he thought of her more as a younger sister". When asked if a relationship with Minegishi was the cause, Fukuda replied that he did not know or denied it, speculating that Okada's second suicide attempt was due to the shame that the first attempt would bring to Sun Music.
Okada's remains were cremated, and were interred at the Jōman-ji Temple, Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
source:
https://www.yoshabunko.com/suicide/Okada_Yukiko.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukiko_Okad
Photo #12. Owen Hart
On May 23rd 1999, Roughly 75 minutes into a WWE pay-per-view event at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri, Owen Hart prepared to descend from the arena rafters as his match was introduced. Hart had performed the stunt before. He was to be hooked to a cable and lowered into the ring.
Instead, witnesses in attendance saw Hart fall 78 feet and hit his head. At first, fans thought it was part of the act. They quickly discovered that it wasn't.
We thought it was a doll at first,” 15-year-old fan Robert McCome told CNN at the time. “We thought they were just playing with us. We were really shocked when we found out that it was no joke.”
Some witnesses reported seeing the cable snap, while others said it seemed as if Hart had never even been hooked in the first place. Some said they saw Hart's head snap backward when he smacked against one of the ring's padded turnbuckles.
Medics rushed into the ring to perform CPR on Hart before he was transferred to Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, where he was pronounced dead. He was 34 years old.
“I didn't see it, but from what I can gather, somebody slipped up,” Stu Hart said. “You don't get up 60 or 70 feet in the air without being properly anchored down. I haven't talked to Vince McMahon yet, but somebody was careless or missed something or else Owen would still be here.”
A subsequent investigation into the accident determined that a subtle movement may have triggered his quick-release harness to unhitch. Still, whatever the cause, the result was the same: WWE start Owen Hart had died, just a couple of years before he planned to retire.
source:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/owen-hart-death
Photo #13. Bruce Lee
In July 1973, Bruce Lee was working on a number of new projects, most notably the movie Game of Death. He'd been married to Linda Emery Lee for nine years, and they had two children together: 8-year-old Brandon and 4-year-old Shannon.
on July 20, 1973, Lee went to take a nap after complaining of a headache and never woke up. An ambulance was called after he was found unconscious, but Lee was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital. Lee's sudden death at 32 years old was due to cerebral edema, or swelling of the brain — though several theories have emerged over the years regarding the edema's cause. In the '70s, experts claimed the brain swelling was caused by a hypersensitivity to prescribed medication, while more recent studies suggest the edema could have been due to heat stroke or from drinking an excessive amount of water
sources:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bruce-lee-dies-at-age-32
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee
Photo #14. Pearl Harbor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
Photo #15,16, and 17. Twilight Zone Helicopter accident
On July 23, 1982, a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter crashed at Indian Dunes in Valencia, California, United States, during the making of Twilight Zone: The Movie. The crash killed actor Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, who were on the ground, and injured the six helicopter passengers. The incident led to years of civil and criminal action against the personnel overseeing the shoot, including director John Landis, and the introduction of new procedures and safety standards in the filmmaking industry.
The filming location was Indian Dunes, a movie ranch in the Valencia neighborhood of what is now the city Santa Clarita, California, that was used throughout the 1980s in films and television shows, including The Color Purple, Escape from New York, MacGyver, and China Beach. The location was within the 30-mile zone, its wide-open area permitted more pyrotechnic effects, and it was possible to shoot night scenes without city lights visible in the background. Indian Dunes' 600 acres also featured a wide topography of green hills, dry desert, dense woods, and jungle-like riverbeds along the Santa Clara River which made it suitable to double for locations around the world, including Afghanistan, Myanmar, Brazil, and Vietnam.
The night scene called for Morrow's character to carry the two children out of a deserted village and across a shallow river while being pursued by American soldiers in a hovering helicopter. The helicopter was piloted by Vietnam War veteran Dorcey Wingo. During the filming, Wingo stationed his helicopter 25 ft from the ground, while hovering near a large mortar effect; he then turned the aircraft 180 degrees to the left for the next camera shot. The effect was detonated while the helicopter's tail-rotor was still above it, the metal lid on top of the mortar striking the tail-rotor, causing the rotor to fail and detach from the tail. The low-flying helicopter spun out of control. At the same time, Morrow dropped Chen into the water. He was reaching out to grab her when the helicopter fell on top of him and the two children. Morrow and Le were decapitated by the helicopter's main rotor blades, while Chen was crushed to death by the helicopter's right landing skid; all three died almost instantly.
At the trial, the defense claimed that the explosions were detonated at the wrong time. Randall Robinson, an assistant cameraman on board the helicopter, testified that production manager Dan Allingham told Wingo, "That's too much. Let's get out of here," when the explosions were detonated, but Landis shouted over the radio: "Get lower... lower! Get over !" Robinson said that Wingo tried to leave the area, but that "we lost our control and regained it and then I could feel something let go and we began spinning around in circles." Stephen Lydecker, another camera operator on board, testified that Landis had earlier "shrugged off" warnings about the stunt with the comment, "We may lose the helicopter." Lydecker acknowledged that Landis might have been joking when he made the remark, but added, "I learned not to take anything the man said as a joke. It was his attitude. He didn't have time for suggestions from anybody."
source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident
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