What true story horrified you the most?

[shadyJ]

Not talking about some movie depiction, I am talking about confirmed events, so no rumors or conspiracy theories either. What prompts this? Here is a doozy to start off your day (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2341526/Barbaric-parents-water-boarded-children-tortured-whips-iron-bars-jailed-years-Belgium.html). I know there is worse out there, but its hard to imagine what as you read the story. Some of the stories that have come out in Syria in the last couple years have been pretty stunning, but there isn't one hundred percent proof of those.

[shadyJ]

Here is a story (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/20/man-charged-in-unspeakably-brutal-rape-claims-to-have-jesus-on-his-side/) that is fucking horrible. Don't click that if you feel like enjoying the rest of the day.

[Kandarian Demon]

Ouch to the last one!!

I know it's one of the "famous" real life horror stories, but I have always been extremely creeped out by the story of Albert Fish. I think it's that gruesome letter that he wrote to the parents of his last victim... seriously, on top of everything else he did, he had to write such a messed up letter too... he was pure evil!

[self_indulged]

Ouch to the last one!!

I know it's one of the "famous" real life horror stories, but I have always been extremely creeped out by the story of Albert Fish. I think it's that gruesome letter that he wrote to the parents of his last victim... seriously, on top of everything else he did, he had to write such a messed up letter too... he was pure evil!



sounds freaky. ill have to read more into it. never heard. Yeah stories like that, moor murders, texas chainsaw etc

[MichaelMyers]

A little off the beaten path, but a very chilling story....

http://jezebel.com/one-womans-dangerous-war-against-the-most-hated-man-on-1469240835

[Sicknero]

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers who abducted, assaulted and killed at least four children between 1963 and 64 and were finally caught when Hindley's brother-in-law saw Brady killing 17 year-old Edward Evans.

Sadly not the most disturbing story I know but one of the first I ever read when young and which set me off on a life-long fascination with such people.

http://criminalminds.wikia.com/wiki/Ian_Brady_and_Myra_Hindley

[shadyJ]

crap nevermind, wrong post

[Fearonsarms]

The true story that Justin Bieber has fans.

[FryeDwight]

Probably when John Wayne Gacy was caught right before Christmas of 1978 in a Chicago suburb and reading about his horrific exploits. He lived about a half hour car ride from where I lived . I had just turned 17 and was looking for work; in my morbid sense of humor, told people with my baby face and soft skin, he would have been in pig heaven. They waited too long to give him the needle as far as I'm concerned.
Also worth mentioning was living south of Baltimore MD when the Beltway Snipers were doing their cowardly thing in October 2002....everyone was on edge as those assholes were so random.
Always interested in true crime and after reading about Bundy, Fish, Brady/Hindley. The Wests, etc, it's time to bring back Capital punishment everywhere!

[shadyJ]

You'll recall that Gacy was put to death in 94. I don't think capital punishment bothers a serial killer very much. I don't think it deters them, and I would guess it doesn't bother them to die as much as normal people either. For the amount of suffering that these killers have caused, there can be no real justice meted out. I guess that is a part of what makes these guys scary, there is no way to balance the books for what they have done. I am not even arguing against capital punishment, I am just saying it is inadequate as a means of justice.

Btw, I had a friend who grew up on Gacy's street in Chicago during the height of his killing spree. He actually played on his driveway while Gacy was an active killer, lol.

[Rawhead Rex]

The true story of the home invasion by two asshat slimeballs...
They tied up dad and beat him with a baseball bat...
Raped mom and her two daughters...
Then murdered them all and burned the home down.
Somehow, Dad barely got out alive.
Same cannot be said for his wife and girls.
Horrible!

[NightOfTheLiving_Sam]

The story of Jefferey Dohmer always gets to me. A few months ago I watched a documentary about all of the horrible crimes that he did.

http://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/jeffrey-dahmer

[HorrorHound9]

Killers that are a couple are even worse I think... this UK couple were totally nuts and it involved their kids sometimes...

http://wickedhorror.com/top-horror-lists/real-life-villians-crazy-killers-part-three/

[KissMeDissME]

there always seems to be somebody whois willing to go that bit further. I have to say the story about Jamie bulger left me horrified. heart breaking.x

[120DaysofSodom]

There is nothing more horrific then war, except for medical experimentation on humans during wartime. As such, Unit 731 - Japan's top secret bio chemical weapons research unit - is the most horrific thing I've ever studied.

[jrrada]

I write a local history column for The Gettysburg Times. About a month ago, I found a story from 1949 about a worker in a sewer plant finding a baby's head in the filter. The doctors determined the baby had been a few day's old when it's head had been chopped off. The body was never found so they didn't know whether it was male or female (in the days before chromosomal checking). No news was ever found out about the baby despite a reward being offered. I think this struck me as scary because you don't think of something like that in rural America in 1949. At least I don't.

[tfantasy]

Jeffrey Dahmer, The Zodiac, Son of Sam, Jack the Ripper, Ted Bundy, little Adam, and the list goes on and on....

It seems like there's a true horror story, every day, some where......

[jrrada]

I just found out the other day that there was a plan to try and re-animate George Washington after he died. I heard about it on "Sleepy Hollow" and then checked it out to see if it was true.

The designer of the U.S. Capitol, William Thornton, apparently thought if the body of the first president was kept warm next to a fire, air was blown into his lungs with bellows through a tracheotomy and he was given a transfusion of lamb's blood, he could be resurrected.

I think what horrifies me the most about the story is that someone wanted to do it.

[FrankyG]

The death of Sylvia Likens is the one I remember the most, with Gertrude Baniszewski and parts of the neighbourhood joining in on torturing Sylvia.