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Clinical vampirism, more commonly known as Renfield's syndrome, is an obsession with drinking blood. The earliest presentation of clinical vampirism in psychiatric literature was a psychoanalytic interpretation of two cases, contributed by Richard L. Vanden Bergh and John. F. Kelley. [ 1 ] As the authors point out, over 50,000 people addicted ...
Clinical lycanthropy is a rare psychiatric syndrome that involves a delusion that the affected person can transform into, has transformed into, or is, a non-human animal. [ 1 ] Its name is associated with the mythical condition of lycanthropy, a supernatural affliction in which humans are said to physically shapeshift into wolves. [ 2 ]
The death of Akbar Salubiro was the first fully confirmed case of a reticulated python (or in fact any snake) killing and consuming an adult human, [7] as the process of retrieving the body from the python's stomach was documented by pictures and videos taken by witnesses. [8] [9] [10] [11]
c.1564 –1589. Country. Holy Roman Empire. State (s) Electorate of Cologne. Date apprehended. 1589. Peter Stumpp (c.1530 –1589; name is also spelt as Peter Stube, Peter Stubbe, Peter Stübbe or Peter Stumpf) was a German farmer and alleged serial killer, accused of werewolfery, witchcraft, and cannibalism. He was known as "the Werewolf of ...
Lydia Fairchild(born 1976) is an American woman who exhibits chimerism, having two distinct populations of DNA among the cells of her body. She was pregnant with her third child when she and the father of her children, Jamie Townsend, separated. When Fairchild applied for enforcement of child support in 2002, providing DNA evidenceof Townsend's ...
Just over the Ohio River the picture is just as bleak. Between 2011 and 2012, heroin deaths increased by 550 percent in Kentucky and have continued to climb steadily. This past December alone, five emergency rooms in Northern Kentucky saved 123 heroin-overdose patients; those ERs saw at least 745 such cases in 2014, 200 more than the previous year.
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Gypsy-Rose Blanchard (see Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard). Gypsy-Rose was Dee Dee's proxy and suffered over a decade of medical abuse [citation needed] before rebelling and killing Dee Dee with the help of her boyfriend, Nick; Gypsy Rose and Nick were later convicted and sent to prison. Gypsy-Rose has been released from prison as of December 28th ...