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Case of Derrick Robie

  Four years old Derrick Robie lived in Savona, New York with his mother Doreen, father Dave and his 18 months old younger brother Dalton. In the summer of 1993 he was attending a summer camp very close to their house. The road was a dead end and there were no roads to cross. Still his mother took him to the summer camp and came back everyday. In the morning of 2nd August 1993, Dalton started throwing a fit and Derrick asked if he could go alone so mom could take care of the younger brother. His mom agreed to let him go alone as it was a tight knit community and it was just so close to his house. In the evening Doreen went to the summer camp to pick Derrick only to find out he never arrived.. Panicked mom called the police immediately. Police started searching for him and found his body beaten to a pulp, near a small patch of woods closer to the summer camp. His autopsy revealed that he had multiple skull fractures, cerebral swelling and contusions, extreme tearing in chest tissues...

The case of the supermom killing eight people- Diane Schuler

  Diane Schuler, the perfect mom for 2 children caused one of the most fatal accidents in Westchester County since 1934. There are some  bizarre unansweredquestions around this whole case and different people have different opinions. Diane, her husband, her two children and 3 nieces have been camping at the Hunter Lake campground in Parksville, New York. On July 26th 2009 around 9.30 they left the campsite; Diane with children in her 2003 red Ford minivan and her husband Daniel in their pickup truck with the family dog. On their way home to West Babylon minivan made several stops, first at a McDonald's and several gas stations. However at 11.37am, Diane called her brother to tell him that they are being delayed due to the traffic. While she was calling her brother, several other calls were being made by other drivers who were on the highway. They reported a minivan driving recklessly, flashing headlights, honking and tailgating. Other witnesses who reported seeing a woman bend...

The haunted LaLaurie Mansion

Photo Credits: Wayne Hsieh                        Lalaurie mansion is a house that was built in 1800s and it is famous as one of the most haunted houses in New Orleans. This house and its bloody past will surely remind you of how cruel slavery was back in the day. The house is situated in 1140, Royal street and the owner was Delphine LaLaurie. She was born on 19th March 1787 and she was born to a family of five. Her parents moved to the US from Ireland in 1730s and settled down in New Orleans. When she was four years old the Haitian revolution erupted (1791) and several slaveholders including her uncle was killed by the slaves. That incident lead slaveholders to take extreme measures to discipline their slaves. In 1800 when she was just 13 years old she married a Spanish royal officer and in 1804 he was called to the Spanish court. On the way to Madrid with his now pregnant wife Delphine, he passed away in Havana suddenly. Afte...

California House of horrors..

  A  911 call from a 17 years old girl on January 14th 2018 revealed a horrifying stories that later made into international headlines. The teenager said twelve siblings, ages ranging from 2 to 29 were held captive in their own house by their own parents and it took her two years of planning to run away... Insane, right? Lets dig into it.

The Zodiac Killer

                             Zodiac killer is one of the most famous, yet so far unidentified serial killers in history. It came back to life in recently when one of his ciphers were cracked. Let me tell you what we know about this mystery man. 

The Russian historian who snatched dead girls to make dolls

Anatoly moskvin is a Russian historian and a linguist from Nizhny Novgorod and he was arrested after discovering dolls made of mummified human corpses from his apartment in 2011. He had exhumed bodies from local graveyards and mummified them using a salt and baking soda solution and stuffed decayed corpses with rags. He had inserted buttons into girls eyes so that they could "watch cartoons" with him. Authorities also found music boxes inside girls bodies so that they produce music when he touches them. Some mummies had their personal belongings inside them such as a piece of her own gravestone, a hospital tag with the date and cause of death etc. He claimed he did this because he was lonely. He was single and Russian adoption services won't let him adopt a kid because his salary wasn't enough. He had also celebrated the birthdays of the girls and treated them like they were still alive. Authorities discovered 29 mummified dolls with ages ranging from 3 to 25 and A...

A woman who was imprisoned for 25 years by her own mother

On May 23rd 1901 Paris attorney general received an anonymous letter about a spinster who was locked up for the past 25 years starving and living in her own filth. When the police looked into the matter what they found out was unbelievable. A policeman describes what he witnessed as, "The unfortunate woman was lying completely naked on a rotten straw mattress. All around her was formed a sort of crust made from excrement, fragments of meat, vegetables, fish, and rotten bread… We also saw oyster shells, and bugs running across Mademoiselle Monnier’s bed. The air was so unbreathable, the odor given off by the room was so rank, that it was impossible for us to stay any longer to proceed with our investigation." The woman they found was Blanche Monnier, a daughter of a well reputed bourgeoisie family in Poitiers who was renowned for her beauty. She attracted many suitors but she wanted to get married to an old lawyer of her choice to which her mother did not agree. Mother was a...

The Black Dahlia...

PC: Police Bulletin  Board The infamous Black Dahlia is one of the unsolved crime in LA which was featured in many books and movies such as "The Black Dahlia" by James Ellroy and its movie adaptation. There are so many theories about this case and upto this date there is no certain solution. FBI has around 200 public files which you can find here if you are interested. This is also related to the famous Hotel Cecil and the nature of the murder and some theories are mind blowing. I spent a lot of time reading through the FBI files and several other articles written about this case to get an idea about this case in many perspectives. So now it is your turn to test your imagination and intelligence to comeup with a possible solution to this 70 years old cold case.

Suicide or Murder? Or is it Paranormal?

PC: Jim Winstead This is going to be one of the most interesting posts in this blog in my opinion. I was obsessed with judicial medicine since I was a kid and I have a huge collection of those books at my home. This morning I accidentally came across a case that excited me and it's pretty mysterious. So lets see if any one of you can come up with a possible explanation to this mystery.