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Grávida de Taubaté, a Brazilian woman who pretended to be pregnant with quadruplets in 2012 and gained national media attention before her pregnancy was revealed to be bogus. Hanxin, a DSP microchip claimed to be developed completely by Chen Jin himself, later found to be a Motorola microchip with its original trademark sanded away.
The Southside Strangler is the media epithet given by the media, and later used by law enforcement, to a serial killer active in the South Side of Chicago from the 1990s and 2000s, responsible for the murders of numerous girls and young women. It would later be established that the killings were committed by different offenders, including ...
Joice Heth (c. 1756 [citation needed] – February 19, 1836) [1] was an African-American woman who was exhibited by P.T. Barnum with the false claim that she was the 161-year-old nursing mammy of George Washington. Her exhibition under these claims, and her public autopsy, gained considerable notoriety.
Since 2001, at least 51 women between the ages of 18 and 58 have been murdered in a similar fashion within the city of Chicago. [2] The victims were predominantly Black, typically employed as prostitutes, and often had previous experiences with the justice system.
The bodies of four men and two women were found strangled and dumped in a pile in Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, prosecutors in the southern state of Guerrero said Tuesday. It was ...
The murder of the Grimes sisters is an unsolved double murder that occurred in Chicago, Illinois, on December 28, 1956, in which two sisters named Barbara and Patricia Grimes—aged 15 and 12 [n 2] respectively—disappeared while traveling from a Brighton Park movie theater to their home in McKinley Park.
In 2022, Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison said in a press release that investigators believe the 10,000 human bones and fragments police found at Baumeister’s property in the 1990s could be ...
Ashley Morgan Smithline has recanted sexual abuse allegations against Marilyn Manson, and now says she was “manipulated” by Manson’s ex-girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood to come forward with false ...