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The Break of the Pan Household

The Break of the Pan Household

Prisma Chavez May 20, 2024

The Pans were a typical family that lived in the suburbs. Bich Ha Pan and Huei Hann Pan had immigrated to Canada from Vietnam and had their children, Jennifer Pan and Felix Pan. There was no speculation...

The Unknown Zodiac killer

The Unknown Zodiac killer

Prisma Chavez May 20, 2024

The Zodiac Killer remains one of the most infamous unidentified serial killers in American history. In Northern California during the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Zodiac terrorized the San Francisco...

Who Is Katherine Knight?

Who Is Katherine Knight?

Mitchell Sherman April 30, 2024

Have you ever heard of the woman Hannibal Lecter? The crazy woman who skinned her lover and cooked him? Well, she is a real, live woman, who is possibly the most notorious female killer ever, not for the...

Seung-Hui Cho

Seung-Hui Cho

Jessica Aguilar-Resendiz April 15, 2024

Link to image Seung-Hui Cho was a South Korean mass murderer who was responsible for the deaths of 32 people and injuring 17 others with a semi-automatic pistol on April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech in...

Easter Sunday Massacre

Easter Sunday Massacre

Jessica Aguilar-Resendiz March 20, 2024

The Easter Sunday Massacre occurred on Easter Sunday, March 30, 1975, when 41-year-old James U. Ruppert shot eleven members of his family with a .357 Magnum handgun and two .22-caliber handguns in his...

University of Idaho Murders

University of Idaho Murders

Kaeden Wise March 20, 2024

On the morning of November 13, 2022, four college students were murdered in Moscow, Idaho. Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin went to the University of Idaho and resided in...

Son of Sam

Son of Sam

Mitchell Sherman March 20, 2024

The Son of Sam is an infamous American serial killer who was also known as the .44 Caliber Killer. David Berkowitz was born in 1953 in Brooklyn, New York. As a child, David went through some hardships,...

The Murder of the Black Dahlia

The Murder of the Black Dahlia

Kaeden Wise March 6, 2024

Elizabeth Short was born on July 29th, 1924 in Boston, Massachusetts to Cleo Alvin Jr. and his wife, Phoebe May Sawyer. Her mother was a housewife, and her father was a US Navy sailor. In 1930, when Elizabeth...

The Jeffrey Dahmer Case

The Jeffrey Dahmer Case

Prisma Chavez March 6, 2024

Link to image Jeffrey Dahmer is one of America's most famous serial killers. He shocked the world with the gruesome ways of his crimes. From 1978 to 1991, Dahmer murdered and dismembered at least 17...

Chicago Tylenol Murders

Chicago Tylenol Murders

Jessica Aguilar-Resendiz March 4, 2024

Link to image The Chicago Tylenol Murders were a bunch of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1982. The victims had consumed Tylenol branded capsules which...

The Truth Behind Gyspsy Rose Blanchard

The Truth Behind Gyspsy Rose Blanchard

Kaeden Wise February 16, 2024

Link to image Gypsy Rose Blanchard was born on July 27th, 1991 to 24-year-old Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard and 17-year-old Rod Blanchard. Gypsy’s parents married in 1990, but the couple divorced...

Saint Valentines Day Massacre

Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre

Jessica Aguilar-Resendiz February 16, 2024

Link to image The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre was the murder of seven unarmed bootlegging members of Chicago's North Side Gang, which occurred on Valentine's Day, 1929. This incident dramatized...

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