27 Most Frightening Murders That Happened Around Christmas
Christmas Day is just another day on the calendar, and bad things can happen to you any time. The world doesn't stop just because it's December 25th.
Read MoreChristmas Day is just another day on the calendar, and bad things can happen to you any time. The world doesn't stop just because it's December 25th.
By Asher Cantrell Read MoreWatts had strangled his wife and children, then he took their bodies out to an oil well, where he buried his wife and hid the girls' bodies in oil tanks.
By Cody Copeland Read MoreOne Blackpool, England resident has made a name for himself as the town's foul-housed Christmas curmudgeon.
By Cody Copeland Read MoreOscar Pistorius was a Paralympic athlete and an Olympic athlete who captured the world's attention - with both is talent and his crimes. Here's the story.
By Chandler Stark Read MoreThe most frightening crimes to ever take place on Thanksgiving often occur between family members and loved ones amid the holiday celebration.
By Jeff Somers Read MoreOne of the strangest incidents to occur during the band's long career occurred in the early 1980s, when an unexpected connection between the band and a notorious L. A. County serial killer put the band on the front pages for all the wrong reasons, and led to them being tarred as devil worshipers.
By S. Flannagan Read MoreGenerally, Vikings could be very terrible.One of those terrible elements of Viking culture is the possible invention of criminal profiling. You know, the kind that predicts if people will be criminals based on how they look. The thing that some authorities still use even though it's unfair.
By Emilia David Read MoreThere was a time when kids were allowed to go out and explore their neighborhoods, but several high-profile disappearances in the 1980s caused some big changes.
By Asher Cantrell Read MoreAccording to Copeland, Padovani "could play guitar better than I could, and I could play guitar better than Joe Strummer ... well, in those days. So I reckoned he'd be okay, but I didn't figure Sting would see it that way."
By Karen Corday Read MoreAccording to eyewitness accounts reported by Vice, after a night's filming, Terrence just dropped his radio and ran into the forest, where he quickly disappeared into the trees. Several search and rescue efforts found no signs of him, and as of this writing, Woods is still missing.
By Cody Copeland Read MoreHere are some crazy true stories of politicians convicted of crimes.
By Marina Manoukian Read MoreDoorbell cams record when they detect motion. And sometimes what they capture is pretty freaky. These are the creepiest things caught on doorbell cams.
By Asher Cantrell Read MoreMalaysia Airlines Flight 370 was carrying 239 people when it disappeared in 2014. Here are the chilling details known about its mysterious disappearance.
By Nick Vrchoticky Read MoreOf the many bizarre things that only exist in North Korea, one of the strangest has to be the presence of actual fashion police.
By Karen Corday Read MoreParisian, fortune teller, serial killer, secret abortionist, poisoner, clairvoyant, black mass priestess, businesswoman, possible sociopath: quite a resume for one person. But this list of crimes and occult practices did indeed belong to a single individual: Catherine Monvoisin.
By Richard Milner Read MoreAll serial killers are evil, but the Golden State Killer was particularly terrible. In early 2020, the four-decade-old case came to a close and it gave a lot of people a lot of hope — hope that there's always still a chance for justice. Here's how the Golden State Killer was finally caught.
By DB Kelly Read MoreDJ Jam Master Jay was integral to early hip-hop as part of Run-DMC, but he was shot to death in 2002 in a case that went unsolved until 2024.
By Andrew Amelinckx Read MoreFake kidnappings cause media sensation but distract authorities from more serious matters. Here are some of the craziest fake kidnappings.
By Nick Vrchoticky Read MoreKarla Homolka was born on May 4, 1970, in Canada. She appeared to have a regular childhood, living at home with her parents and her younger sisters in Ontario. But her life would take a dark turn.
By Aimee Lamoureux Read MoreThere are some stories that define the 1990s, but there are also some huge events that many of us have forgotten about today. Here's a refresher course.
By S. Flannagan Read MoreAs the band prepped to fly to the U.S. for a tour in February 1995, Edwards was spotted leaving his hotel early in the morning, as explained by a BBC report. When he didn't return, the cops got involved and Edwards was declared to be missing.
By Boshika Gupta Read MoreCountess Elizabeth Báthory was accused of murdering over 600 young women, which earned her the title of the most prolific female serial killer of all time.
By Marina Manoukian Read MoreWhile they seem ubiquitous now, police departments are a relatively modern invention. The police as we know them did not really come into being until after the passage of the Metropolitan Police Act in England in 1829.
By Aimee Lamoureux Read MoreOn the morning of December 17, Holt went to Cheviot Beach in Portsea with his neighbors and two of their friends. While the weather was perfect for a swim, the sea looked rough. Holt, however, insisted they swim.
By Emilia David Read MorePatz's widely publicized disappearance made media headlines and grabbed the nation's attention. Concerned parents began pushing for a nationwide system to track missing kids, eventually forming the Missing Children Milk Carton Program in 1984. The program was soon adopted nationwide.
By Aimee Lamoureux Read MoreA day later, his car was found, but there was no sign of Sullivan. His guitar, clothes, wallet, and copies of his second album were found in his car and motel room, but there was no note indicating what might have happened. No further trace of Sullivan ever turned up.
By Karen Corday Read MoreBetween 1921 and 1926, a series of murders of Osage Indian Nation members occurred in Oklahoma, after the tribe was targeted for their oil rights and wealth.
By Marina Manoukian Read More