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First shot in Cleveland at the diamond lounge. (at Diamond...

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:34:01 -0500

First shot in Cleveland at the diamond lounge. (at Diamond Lounge)

I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU FOR SO LONG. (at West End...

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:51:49 -0500

I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU FOR SO LONG. (at West End Bistro & Bar)

Finally on our way to Cleve

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:07:22 -0500

Finally on our way to Cleve

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Thu, 23 May 2013 21:58:08 -0500

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Thu, 23 May 2013 21:57:47 -0500

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Thu, 23 May 2013 21:57:01 -0500

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Thu, 23 May 2013 21:56:32 -0500

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Thu, 23 May 2013 21:55:45 -0500

fuckyeahoddities: The Cleveland Torso Murderer (also known as...

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:55:30 -0500

fuckyeahoddities:

The Cleveland Torso Murderer (also known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run) was an unidentified serial killer who killed and dismembered at least 12 victims in the Cleveland, Ohio area in the 1930s.

The Torso Murderer always beheaded and often dismembered his victims, sometimes also cutting the torso in half; in many cases the cause of death was the decapitation itself. Most of the male victims were castrated, and some victims showed evidence of chemical treatment being applied to their bodies. Many of the victims were found after a considerable period of time following their deaths, sometimes a year or more. This made identification nearly impossible, especially since the heads were often not found.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 21:55:03 -0500

fuckyeahoddities: Leonarda Cianciulli (November 14, 1893,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:54:06 -0500

fuckyeahoddities:

Leonarda Cianciulli (November 14, 1893, Montella, Province of Avellino – October 15, 1970) was an Italian serial killer. Better known as the “Soap-Maker of Correggio”, she murdered three women in Correggio between 1939 and 1940, and turned their bodies into soap. Having been born the child of a rape, she led a sad childhood with a hateful mother. She attempted suicide twice. In 1914, she married a registry office clerk, Raffaele Pansardi, and moved to Lariano in Alta Irpinia. Their home was destroyed by an earthquake in 1930, and they moved once more, this time to Correggio, where Leonarda opened a small shop and became very popular as a nice, gentle woman, a doting mother and a nice neighbor. In 1939, Cianciulli heard that her eldest son, Giuseppe, was to join the Italian army in preparation for World War II. Giuseppe was her favorite child, and she was determined to protect him at all costs. She came to the conclusion that his safety required human sacrifices. She found her victims in three middle-aged women, all neighbors. After murdering her first victim with an axe she got rid of the body in this way (her own words):

“I threw the pieces into a pot, added seven kilos of caustic soda, which I had bought to make soap, and stirred the whole mixture until the pieces dissolved in a thick, dark mush that I poured into several buckets and emptied in a nearby septic tank. As for the blood in the basin, I waited until it had coagulated, dried it in the oven, ground it and mixed it with flour, sugar, chocolate, milk and eggs, as well as a bit of margarine, kneading all the ingredients together. I made lots of crunchy tea cakes and served them to the ladies who came to visit, though Giuseppe and I also ate them.”

Cianciulli’s second victim was killed in exactly the same manner. Her final victim, opera singer Virginia Cacioppo was killed in the same way but with one twist:

“She ended up in the pot, like the other two…her flesh was fat and white, when it had melted I added a bottle of cologne, and after a long time on the boil I was able to make some most acceptable creamy soap. I gave bars to neighbors and acquaintances. The cakes, too, were better: that woman was really sweet.”

Cianciulli was caught due to an eyewitness and found guilty of murder. She was sentenced to thirty years in jail where she died of a brain hemorrhage. More information (including an image of the tools she used) can be found here.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 21:52:38 -0500

fuckyeahoddities: Dr. Henry Howard Holmes (May 16, 1861 – May...

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:51:22 -0500

fuckyeahoddities:

Dr. Henry Howard Holmes (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), was one of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term. Holmes opened a hotel in Chicago for the 1893 World’s Fair, which he built himself and which was the location of many of his murders. While he confessed to 27 murders, of which nine were confirmed, his actual body count could be higher.

Holmes purchased a lot across from the drugstore which he manipulated a widow to sell to him, where he built his three-story, block-long “Castle”—as it was dubbed by those in the neighborhood. It was opened as a hotel for the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, with part of the structure used as commercial space. The ground floor of the Castle contained Holmes’s own relocated drugstore and various shops, while the upper two floors contained his personal office and a maze of over one hundred windowless rooms with doorways opening to brick walls, oddly angled hallways, stairways to nowhere, doors openable only from the outside, and a host of other strange and labyrinthine constructions. Holmes repeatedly changed builders during the construction of the Castle so only he fully understood the design of the house, thus decreasing the chance of being reported to the police.

After the completion of the hotel, Holmes selected mostly female victims from among his employees (many of whom were required as a condition of employment to take out life insurance policies for which Holmes would pay the premiums but also be the beneficiary), lovers and hotel guests, torturing and killing them. Some were locked in soundproof bedrooms fitted with gas lines that let him asphyxiate them at any time. Some victims were locked in a huge soundproof bank vault near his office where they were left to suffocate. The victims’ bodies were dropped by secret chute to the basement, where some were meticulously dissected, stripped of flesh, crafted into skeleton models, and then sold to medical schools. Holmes also cremated some of the bodies or placed them in lime pits for destruction. Holmes had two giant furnaces as well as pits of acid, bottles of various poisons, and even a stretching rack. Through the connections he had gained in medical school, he sold skeletons and organs with little difficulty.

On May 7, 1896, Holmes was hanged at Moyamensing Prison, also known as the Philadelphia County Prison. Until the moment of his death, Holmes remained calm and amiable, showing very few signs of fear, anxiety or depression. Holmes’s neck did not snap immediately; he instead died slowly, twitching over 15 minutes before being pronounced dead 20 minutes after the trap had been sprung. He requested that he be buried in concrete so that no one could ever dig him up and dissect his body, as he had dissected so many others. This request was granted.

deja-feutre: sext: i have Brand New tickets

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:49:56 -0500

deja-feutre:

sext: i have Brand New tickets

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Thu, 23 May 2013 21:49:49 -0500

fuckyeahoddities: Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:48:59 -0500

fuckyeahoddities:

Lizzie Andrew Borden(July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was a New England spinster who was the central figure in the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on August 4, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts in the United States. Although Lizzie Borden was acquitted, no one else was ever arrested or tried, and she has remained a notorious figure in American folklore. Dispute over the identity of the killer or killers continues to this day.

On August 4, 1892, Andrew Borden had gone into Fall River to do his usual rounds at the bank and post office. He returned home at about 10:45 a.m.; Lizzie Borden found his body about 30 minutes later.

During the murder trial, the Borden’s twenty-six year old maid, Bridget Sullivan, testified that she was lying down in her room on the third floor of the house shortly after 11:00 a.m. when she heard Lizzie call to her, saying someone had killed her father; his body was found slumped on a couch in the downstairs sitting room. Andrew Borden’s face was turned to the right hand side, apparently at ease, as if he was asleep.

Shortly thereafter, while Lizzie was being tended by neighbors and the family doctor, Sullivan discovered the body of Abby Borden in the guest bedroom located upstairs. Both Andrew and Abby Borden had been killed by crushing blows to their skulls from a hatchet. Andrew Borden’s left eyeball was cleanly split in two.

The case was memorialized in a popular skipping-rope rhyme:

Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one.
Folklore says the rhyme was made up by an anonymous writer as a tune to sell newspapers. Others attribute it to the ubiquitous, but anonymous “Mother Goose”. In reality Lizzie’s stepmother suffered 18 or 19 blows and her father just 11 blows. Even though she was acquitted, Lizzie was ostracized by neighbors after the trial. Lizzie Borden’s name was again brought into the public eye when she was accused of shoplifting in 1897.

kill-whitepeople: charmandork: fatflagrantfeminist: thedarkcho...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:28:04 -0500

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charmandork:

fatflagrantfeminist:

thedarkchocolatedandy:

beam-meh-up-scotty:

Kanye West getting deep on twitter

SOLID.

this is why I love this man.

Okay, if you don’t love Kanye, I question you and will forever until you learn.
I’ve never had a man ask me straight up if it was okay to use the word “bitch” even endearingly.
Not once.

is this real

yes

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/kanye-west-introspective-word-bitch_n_1853966.html

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Thu, 23 May 2013 20:21:36 -0500

deucebowl: How the FUCK am I supposed to have a good day when 28% of Americans aren’t getting...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:11:16 -0500

deucebowl:

How the FUCK am I supposed to have a good day when 28% of Americans aren’t getting enough fiber?

anitaleocadia: Kieran Brent

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:05:06 -0500

anitaleocadia:

Kieran Brent