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Asif Mohammad | The Malda Murders

In June of 2021, police got a phone call from someone who introduced himself as Arif Mohammad. What Arif told police next was a story that made headlines. On February 28 of the same year, a Friday night, Arif and his family were having dinner. The family consisted of the father Jawad Ali (50), mother Ira Bibi (45), sister Arifa Khatun (17), grandmother Alekjan Bibi (75) and his younger brother Asif Mohammad. Everything was going great until they got to the drinks. Arif said that after the family had all felt drowsy. When this happened the younger brother Asif had suggested that they take photos. Then he led each family member to the place that he was planning to take the pictures. and one by one, each family member disappeared. Arif remembered Asif telling him to follow him and then Asif led his older brother to a tunnel that he had dug himself. Asif had made him lie inside a wooden structure he had constructed. Arif expected Asif to take pictures of him, but to his surprise, ...

Futoshi Matsunaga | Mind Controller

  What Futoshi Matsunaga did was so disturbing that the Japanese media refused to report the details of his crime. Reader discretion is advised. Futoshi was born on April 28, 1961 in Kitakyushu, Japan. Not much is known about his childhood, but what we do know is that he was a pretty good kid, straight A’s and a ‘charming’ personality. He did have disciplinary issues, though. After engaging in a relationship with a junior high school girl, he was transferred to another high school. He got married at 19 and had a son. Futoshi had a bad habit of cheating and was involved with at least ten mistresses whilst being married. One of those mistresses was Junko Ogata, one of Futoshi’s former schoolmates. In 1984, Futoshi told Junko that he would marry her and Junko was thrilled. On the other hand, her mother, Shizumi Otaga, was not. Shizumi did not approve of the relationship because Futoshi would often abuse her daughter. As a result, Futoshi went on to rape Shizumi. Yes, you read th...

Abraham Shakespeare | Money, Mistakes & Murder

     Abraham Lee Shakespeare never thought that winning the lottery would make his life worse than it was before… he was wrong. On November 15, 2006, Abraham, who was an assistant truck driver, and his co-worker Michael Ford were heading towards Miami when they stopped at the Town Star convenience store in Frostproof, Florida to buy drinks and cigarettes. This was also the place that the Florida Lotto winning ticket, worth thirty million dollars, was being sold at. So, they’re at the convenience store, Michael gets out of his truck and asks Abraham if he wants soda. Abraham says no, instead he hands Michael $2 out of the $5 he had on him that day and asks Michael to get him two lottery tickets. Michael does as told and miraculously, it turns out that Abraham had just bought the winning ticket. Later that year, in 2006, Abraham actually won the $30 million, and after taxes, still managed to walk away with $17 million. Of course, to Abraham, this was amazing, the best thing...

Roch Thériault | The Ant Hill Kids

     Roch Thériault was born on May 16, 1947, into a French- Canadian family. Roch was considered to be very intelligent, but he dropped out of school in 7th grade and began to teach himself the Old Testament of the Bible. He started believing that the end of the world was near and it would be brought on by a war between good and evil. He ended up ditching his family’s Catholicism for the Seventh-Day Adventist Church (like Christianity, but they believe that Jesus will soon return to earth). He decided that he wanted to make sure that the apocalypse was at hand and that is where the Ant Hill Kids cult started.      In the mid 1970s, Roch became a self-proclaimed prophet and, using the help of his charisma, convinced many of the Seventh-Day Adventists to break off and follow him. He forbade his followers from eating meat, unhealthy foods and consuming tobacco, but the drinking habit that he had continued. His main goal was to establish a commune where people...

The Indian ‘Jack the Ripper’ | Raman Raghav

     In the late ‘60s, dead bodies started piling up on the streets of Bombay (now Mumbai). These people ranged from slum dwellers to stray animals. Anyone without a proper home was a victim. People lived in fear. No one knew who was doing this and why. Bombay, which was the ‘city that never sleeps’, was put to bed.       A homeless man named Raman Raghav was responsible for this. Every night, when the streets were empty, Raman would emerge from the woods with his iron rod and hammer the life out of anything that moved- from stray animals to men, women- even infants. To him, people weren't people, they were ‘objects from an opposite faction that he could smash and curb with blunt objects’. From 1965 to 1966, up to 19 people were attacked by Raman along the Central Railway Line. Some of the people who were lucky enough to come across but survive from Raman reported this to police and soon there were more than 2000 police officers, roaming around the str...

Nannie Doss | 'The Giggling Granny'

     Nannie Doss was born as Nancy Hazle on November 4, 1905, in Alabama. She was one of five children. Nannie's father, James, would force his children to work on the family farm instead of going school, resulting in Nannie's poor academic performance. He also forbade them to go to dances and other social events and to develop friendships with boys. When she had some time to herself, Nannie’s favorite thing to do was reading her mother's romance magazines and dreaming of her own romantic future. When she was 7, the family was taking a train to visit relatives in southern Alabama. The train she was on had suddenly stopped, causing her to fall forward and hit her head. Because of this, she suffered severe and long term headaches, blackouts and depression.      Nannie Doss met Charley Braggs in 1921. He was a co-worker from a linen factory that she worked at. He was the caretaker and lived with his unwed mother. Charley (first husband) and Nannie began dating...

Richard Angelo | The 'Angel Of Death'

     Richard Angelo was born on August 29, 1962. Both of his parents worked in the educational system: His mother was an economics teacher and his father was a high-school guidance counselor. Later in his life, it was discovered that he suffered from Hero Syndrome. There were indications of it in his youth though; he became an Eagle Scout and after graduating high school, he became a volunteer fireman. He craved praise.      He graduated from New York State University as a registered nurse in May 1987. He briefly worked at two Long Island hospitals before he got a job at Good Samaritan Hospital, in West Islip, during April 1987. That was also where his crimes started. Angelo was unable to gain enough praise in the hospital, so he devised a scheme to gain more attention. He would poison the patients by injecting them with unprescribed drugs, usually Pavulon and Anectine, that would bring the patients into critical conditions. Then he would “rescue” them befo...

Issei Sagawa | The Cannibal Celebrity

     One day, a little boy in Kobe, Japan had a dream. This little boy, Issei Sagawa, dreamt that he and his brother were being boiled in a pot to be eaten. He woke up the next morning and all he could think about was how it would be like to flip the script. Issei began to wonder what it would be like to eat another human rather than be eaten. This interest soon turned into an obsession.      Issei was born in a rich household. His father, Sagawa Akira was a businessman who had served as president of Kurita Water Industries and his grandfather had been an editor for The Asahi Shimbun. When Issei was in first grade, he experienced more cannibalistic desires after he saw his male classmate’s thigh. He had also partook in relations with his dog. Later in the years, when Issei was 24 years old and living in Tokyo, he followed a tall, blonde, German woman home and broke into her apartment while she was asleep. Issei’s intent was to slice off part of her body and...

Amarjeet Sada | Serial Killer at 8 years old

     There was always something weird about the Sada family, ranging from how it seemed like they had a big secret to the fact that many of the girls in the family were going missing. The villagers of Mushahar, Bihar, didn’t think much of it though, they respected the Sada’s privacy. That was until 2007, when Kushboo, the six month old baby of one of the Sada’s neighbors, went missing.      Kushboo Devi, the new born baby of the Sada’s neighbor, went missing after her mother had left her at the school daycare in the village so she could better tend to her chores. Later in the day, when her mother went to the school to pick her up, she discovered that Kushboo was missing. The mother went around asking anyone and everyone if they had seen her baby but no one knew where Kushboo was.      Finally, when Kushboo’s mother asked someone from the Sada family if they knew about Kushboo’s whereabouts, she was able to get some answers. When the mother ha...

Michael Alig | The Killer Club Kid

     Michael Alig was born on April 29, 1966. His mother, who was a native of Bremerhaven, Germany, had moved to the United States after marrying his father, John, a computer programmer. The marriage was rocky from the start, but the couple got a divorce when Michael was four years old.      After attending Grissom Middle School, he went to Penn High School. There, he was a straight-A student, but got bullied because of his homosexuality. He graduated in 1984, then went on to attend the  Fordham University in New York City before transferring to the Fashion Institute of Technology. There, he met the boyfriend of artist Keith Haring. The boyfriend introduced Michael to New York nightlife, which Michael took a great interest in. While I was researching this case, I found out that many people blamed Michael's parents for what he did later in life (I will go over that later), because they let him hang out with an artist who expressed his love of the drug, ...