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Though David Parker Ray’s girlfriend Cindy Hendy helped him commit numerous rapes and murders in the 1990s, she was released in 2019 and walks free today. New Mexico Corrections DepartmentCindy Hendy was in prison for 20 years and released without parole in 2019. In the late 1990s, New Mexico couple Cindy Hendy and David Parker Ray abducted, raped, and tortured as many as 60 women in the American southwest. Inside Ray’s torture trailer that he called his “Toy Box,” the disturbed couple tormented their victims with electric shocks and medical instruments, while mirrors installed in the ceilingforced the women to watch themselves suffer....

The Indigenous Tlingit people had occupied the area for 11,000 years. So when colonialist Russian forces moved in, the Tlingit weren’t going to give up without a fight. National Park ServiceThe Kiks.adi people attempt to thwart Russia’s naval attacks during the Battle of Sitka in 1804. Neither sleet nor snow could stop resilient archaeologists in Alaska from making the discovery of a lifetime. According to NBC News, researchers on Baranof Island have just unearthed the remnants of a 200-year-old Indigenous fort used as a defensive base against the Russian invasion of 1804....

Built in the 13th century by Clan Maxwell, Caerlaverock Castle is a striking triangular fortress on Scotland’s southern coast — which can still be visited today. Flickr/FloydThe castle sits on the Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve which spans 21 square miles. While there are more than 2,000 castles scattered throughout Scotland, not many have seen as much historic conflict as Caerlaverock Castle. Situated on the southern coast about seven miles from Dumfries, the 13th-century monument withstood the Wars of Scottish Independence and its numerous sieges by the English....

These photographs reveal what daily life was like for the people living in Japanese internment camps of the United States during World War II. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Heartbreaking Photos Taken Inside Of Manzanar, One Of America’s WWII-Era Japanese Internment Camps True Stories Of The Japanese-American Internment Program Trump Administration To Use Former Japanese Internment Camp To Hold Migrant Children...

Juneteenth National Independence Day is the United States’ first new national holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was created in 1983. It will be celebrated annually every June 19. Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden signing the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law on June 17, 2021. The United States has a new federal holiday. President Joe Biden has officially established June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day. The date commemorates June 19, 1865, when the Union Army freed all enslaved persons in Texas following the Civil War and has long celebrated the end of American slavery in general....

The entire incident was captured by security cameras and is currently being investigated. AsiaWireThe mahout and the elephant, before the unfortunate accident. An elephant trainer and wrangler, also known as a “mahout,” was crushed to death in India after he lost his balance and fell beneath the animal’s torso as it lowered itself to sit. The accident occurred in Karappuzha, in southern India’s Kottayam district of Kerala, the Daily Mail reported....

New research suggests that in-utero snacking helped make the megalodon the behemoth that it was. Herschel Hoffmeyer/ShutterstockThese ancient oceanic beasts could live up to 100 years and dominated Earth’s oceans for millions of years. Megalodon was a massive 110,000-pound prehistoric predecessor of modern-day sharks — and a new study has revealed that newborn megalodons were equally menacing. Not only were megalodon babies found to be larger than most adult humans at birth, but also that they cannibalized each other in the womb....

The woman’s remains show four projectile points, three in her chest and one in her ribs, and were buried with a 24-week-old fetus. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission/The Mystery Of The Monongahela Indians Illustration of Monongahela Natives. Not much about the burial of pregnant women from prehistoric times can be found in current archaeological literature, but one researcher hopes to offer a stepping stone in that direction. Forbes reported that bioarchaeologist Robyn Wakefield-Murphy examined the skeletal remains of a young pregnant Native American woman who was shot and killed by four arrowheads....

On the night of July 13, 1966, Richard Speck brutally murdered eight nursing students in their Chicago residence — and the details were horrifying. Richard Speck was one of the most fiendish mass murderers in American history as his slayings of eight nursing students — in a single evening — captured the attention of the entire nation. On July 13, 1966, Speck unleashed his terror on Chicago by breaking into a building in the neighborhood of South Deering....

During World War II, Susan Ahn Cuddy broke countless barriers in the U.S. Navy, training naval aviators and working with top-notch code breakers. Flip CuddySusan Ahn Cuddy broke barriers when she enlisted to fight in World War II. Susan Ahn Cuddy wasn’t the type to back down. While teaching male sailors how to use .50-caliber machine guns, one shrugged off her instruction and threw in an anti-Asian slur for good measure....

On August 6, 2004, punk-funk legend Rick James was found dead in his Los Angeles home. He had nine different drugs in his system — including cocaine and meth. Rick James’ death struck the music world like a tidal wave. In the 1980s, the “Super Freak” singer had taken funk music out of the nightclub and delivered mainstream hits on a silver platter. He had sold over 10 million records, was a Grammy Award winner, inspired countless artists, and become an icon in his own time....

More than 70 tiger sharks joined this feeding frenzy over a whale as tourists looked on. And the whole thing was captured by a drone. This past weekend, a swarm of more than 70 tiger sharks converged on Australia’s Shark Bay to feast on a massive whale as tourists looked on. And a drone was there to capture the entire bloody scene. Western Australia’s Eco Abrolhos cruise service came upon the feeding frenzy near Dirk Hartog Island with some of its patrons floating just above the carnage in some small boats....

After stabbing everyone he could, 24-year-old Kyota Hattori set fire to a train car in a disturbing attack that injured 17 people in total. @NewsForAllUK/TwitterKyota Hattori said he went on the rampage because he wanted to get the death penalty. Though primarily celebrated in the United States, Halloween has become a global tradition. While most trick or treaters around the world came home with candy last night, 17 subway passengers in Tokyo, Japan came home with injuries — after a knife-wielding man dressed as the Joker terrorized them right in the middle of their commute....

Though he received special attention as Joseph Stalin’s son, Vasily Stalin also gained a reputation for being a spoiled drunk. He was just 40 years old when he died in obscurity. Getty ImagesVasily Stalin and his sister, Svetlana, with their father in the 1930s. Stalin never hid the fact that his daughter was his favorite, often ridiculing and belittling his sons. At the height of his power, Joseph Stalin reigned supreme over nearly 200 million Soviet citizens and almost a sixth of the Earth’s surface, gaining infamy for the brutality of his regime....

The world’s tallest teenager now has the world’s largest pair of 3-D printed shoes. Thanks to the wonders of 3-D printing, the world’s tallest teenager finally has a pair of shoes that fit his enormous feet. Feetz CEO Lucy Beard hand-delivered a pair of 3D-printed size 28 shoes to 19-year-old Broc Brown, an 7’8″ teenager with Sotos Syndrome on March 1, according to the Jackson Citizen Patriot. “Whoa,” Brown told Beard after receiving the shoes....

Clay Higgins, a GOP Congressman from Louisiana, incited controversy after saying America should hunt and kill suspects of Islamist extremism. YouTubeClay Higgins as the communications rep for a rural Louisiana sheriff’s department. Clay Higgins is a freshman in the U.S. House of Representatives — having ridden the 2016 wave of nationalism from Louisiana to Washington, D.C. A former sheriff’s department spokesman, Higgins gained Internet fame by making candid Facebook videos — delivering a tough-on-crime message in a growling Southern drawl....

From H. H. Holmes’ murder hotel to Madame LaLaurie’s house of horrors, these nine lairs of notorious serial killers were the scene of some of the most brutal crimes in history. Though the gruesome murders perpetrated by serial killers can send shivers down the spines of even the most hardened true crime fans, the horror is only worsened when those murders are preceded by terrifying acts of torture. And even among this subset of killers who torment their victims to prolong their suffering, there are those especially sadistic predators who build their own torture chambers in order to inflict maximum pain on their helpless prey....

When Americans look on in horror at the pollution choking China and India, considering it a problem that “others” have, they do so at their own peril. Share Flipboard Email The breezy state of California suffers from a sweeping pollution problem as well, so much so that the American Lung Association’s 2016 “State of the Air” report concluded that California cities occupy seven of the top 10 positions in the U....

It was nearly impossible to bury all the corpses that fell onto the battlefield, leaving some to say that their spirits still linger over a century later. Timothy H. O’Sullivan/Wikimedia CommonsThe Battle of Gettysburg saw 50,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest conflict of the American Civil War. Some say those souls remain on the haunted Gettysburg field. The Battle of Gettysburg was the Civil War’s grisliest, and the carnage it wrought is said to linger on the battlefield even today....

In 2012, China spent a billion dollars building an exact replica of the historic Austrian village of Hallstatt. Though Austria was initially outraged, the two sister cities have since developed an unlikely bond. Public DomainA construction worker in Hallstatt, China, the replica Austrian village. The Austrian village of Hallstatt looks like something out of a European fairytale. Its UNESCO-protected architecture and centuries-old landmarks are made all the more beautiful by a serene river and picturesque mountains....