Scary Criminals
Joe E. Lewis, Al Capone’s Favorite Entertainer
In Chicago in 1927, Lewis refused the request of Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn (an Al Capone lieutenant) to renew a contract that would have bound him to sing and perform at the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, which was partly owned by Capone. After refusing, because he had been offered more money by a rival gang to appear at their own club, "The New Rendezvous", he was assaulted in his 10th floor Commonwealth Hotel room, in November 1927, by three enforcers sent by McGurn. The enforcers, who included Sam Giancana and Leonard "Needles" Gianola, mutilated Lewis (his throat and tongue were cut) and left him for dead.[2] It took him several years to be able to speak again.
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 18, 2019 -
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Category: Scary Criminals, Comedians, Twentieth Century
Insane Killer Dynamited in His Fortress
In earlier eras, there were different strategies for ending a siege than what we are accustomed to today.
Source of fotos.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 29, 2017 -
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Category: Crime, Scary Criminals, Death, Destruction, 1930s
Murder by Flypaper
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 19, 2017 -
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Category: Death, Scary Criminals, Children, 1930s
Execution of Comatose Crybaby
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Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 06, 2016 -
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Category: Death, Scary Criminals, Wimps, Milquetoasts and Cowards, 1920s
Go Answer the Phone
Very creepy. If you were woken by a stranger telling you to answer the phone, would you do it?I'm a pretty deep sleeper. It usually takes me a few minutes after waking to achieve full consciousness. So I suspect this trick would work on me.
Ironwood Daily Globe - Nov 7, 1958
SEATTLE (AP)—Darwin Barker was awakened by a man at the foot of his bed who told him to "go answer the phone."
Groggy with sleep, Barker staggered into another room to the telephone. The ringing awoke him completely.
He rushed back into his bedroom but by that time the man was gone. So were Barker's trousers, wallet and $1.25.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 14, 2015 -
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Category: Sleep and Dreams, Scary Criminals, 1950s
#womenon10
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Further suggestions welcome.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 20, 2015 -
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Category: Money, Scary Criminals, Women
Woman Bites Dog
Crazy lady told her son that if he eats all the meat she will eat his dog. Apparently, not believing her, he ate all the meat. Inexplicably she made good on her threat by starting with the poor animal's testicles which she bit off. One would think a pit bull would fight back but he just ran off screeching in pain. Crazy lady then used an old tricycle to knock out a witness who tried to intervene and made her son bury her with a piece of garden hose to breathe through. The last was to hide from police, not successfully. Ta Da!!!!!!
Posted By: patty - Wed May 27, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Scary Criminals, Can’t Possibly Be True, Genitals, Pain, Self-inflicted and Otherwise, Teeth, Eating
The Strange Ones
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 01, 2015 -
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Category: Scary Criminals, Public Indecency, Children, 1960s
Blood is Money
Man, those are some weird-ass non-Western horror/fantasy tropes from Nollywood.
Caution: lots of fake gore and quick glimpse of the butts of naked corpses.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 20, 2015 -
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Category: Horror, Scary Criminals, Surrealism, Foreign Customs, Fantasy, Africa
The Jake Bird Hex
From Wikipedia:
Bird then said, “I’m putting the Jake Bird hex on all of you who had anything to do with my being punished. Mark my words you will die before I do.” Allegedly, six people connected with the trial died: Judge Edward D. Hodge of a heart attack within a month of sentencing him to death, as did one of the officers who took his first confession. A police officer who took a second confession died, as did the court’s chief clerk, and one of Bird's prison guards. J.W. Selden, one of Bird’s lawyers, died on the first anniversary of his sentencing.
Modesto Bee - Nov 27, 1948
Posted By: Alex - Mon Nov 17, 2014 -
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Category: Death, Scary Criminals, 1940s
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