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💀True Crime Magazine Giveaway!!!💀

To celebrate over three years of being on Tumblr and over 18 000 followers, I will be giving away THREE magazines from my personal collection of true crime literature to ONE lucky follower!

These magazines are in perfect condition and have been very much cherished, so I hope you guys will appreciate the prize!

Magazines are:

• Real-Life Crimes Issue #4 The Moors Murderers
• Real-Life Crimes Issue #16 Richard Ramirez, the “Night Stalker”
• Real-Life Crimes Issue #33 Charles Manson “The Tate-LaBianca Killings”

All three magazines also feature smaller case studies and forensic articles!

To Enter:

• Follow my blog, reblog this post, and you are in the draw! Simple!

Conditions/Reminders:

• You MUST follow my blog to win the prize
• You may reblog this post as much as you want
• This giveaway is open internationally
• The magazines are in English
• The winner will be drawn on February 1st, 2019

Good luck and thank you for supporting my blog 😊

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Russia’s youngest serial killer, for his time. 

Between 1938 and 1939, horrible childmurders were going on. Small children from the age of 2 and 4. In total seventeen children we kidnapped. Eight children were gruesomely murdered, and the surviving nine were harmed badly. 

Together with the surviving victims, the police knew soon that all the kidnappings were done by one person. A young man, who’d start a small conversation with the children and then asking them to help him find something, with the promise of icecream or candy as reward. He then would bring the children to a abonded place, where he’d strangle them and stab them with sharp objects. The reason he’d strangle them, was his fear of the child screaming. Multiple times he left the child after they had started to scream. 

October 24, 1939. Three soldiers were patrolling around the tramstation of Uralmash, when they saw a thin male with a young child in his arms. They were allarmed when the man started heading towards the forest instead of the houses. 

The soldiers followed the man and saw him strangle the child in his arms, whom seemed already dead. The soldiers arrested the man and were lucky enough to save the 3-year-old girl, Slava Zairsev.

The identity of the young man was shocking to many. 15-year-old lokal student, Vladimir Vinnichevsky. He was known as a smart student and no ordinary person could believe this gruesome news about him. 

His parents were disgusted and spoke pubicly about how their son deserved the worst punishment. On January 16, 1940, he was given the death sentence. Following the law, he was for his time the youngest serial killer. 

In total he’d kidnapped 17 children. 9 survived with terrible injuries, 8 were murdered. The weird part, he’d written it all down. But in a special kind of code that to this day is still a mystery. He might have murdered more children, but we might never know. 

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Sources: Russian website [x]

Special thanks to @nokillnothrill for making a post about this earlier, you were my muse. 

Also, there might be spelling errors, translating ain’t my thing. 

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On 2 September, 2002, 4-year-old Angelina Gavrykina was walking down the street near the house when her mother was about to leave for work, she called Angelina to come inside, but she was no longer there. Her parents went to the police, attracted volunteers, friends and colleagues. Leaflets were made and stuck around, villagers were interviewed, people searched attics and cellars, even checked the local Roma. There was not a single lead. Since that day, after more than 10 years, there are still no leads as to where Angelina may be.

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In 1966, 8-month old David Reimer was being circumcised at a Winnipeg hospital. During the procedure, a general practitioner filling in for the regular surgeon seared the boy’s penis with an electric cauterising machine. His penis was so badly burned that it eventually fell off.

David’s parents sought advice from Dr. John Money, a sex researcher at a Baltimore hospital. Money decided to use David as an experiment to prove that gender depends on how a child is raised.. Money claimed parental influences and society formed sexual identity. He suggested that the rest of David’s genitals be removed and that he be prescribed female hormones. David would live as a girl, it was determined. His name was changed to “Brenda” and his progress was compared with that of his identical twin, Brian. As they grew older, the differences between the two diminished. “I tried really hard to rear her as a gentle lady but it didn’t work,” said David’s mother.

Despite being dressed in girl’s clothing combined with years of counselling and therapy as well as hormone treatments, David insisted he was a boy. When David was 15-years-old, he learnt about the botched surgery from his father. From that point onward, he rejected further treatment, including an operation that was planned to create a vagina. David underwent surgery to remove his breasts and to construct a penis. He changed his name back to David and eventually went on to get married. He was never able to father children himself but became an outstanding stepfather.

His case created an upheaval in theories on sexual identity. Tragically, on the 4th of May, 2004, David committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

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People in many culture have been modifying their teeth for several thousand years and for numerous reasons. Vikings, for example, carved lines deep into the enamel of their teeth. Skeletons at several Viking-era burial sites in Sweden and Denmark have shown evidence of such carvings. The motivation behind the carvings is unknown but one theory is that they represented some kind of achievement. “Maybe they were brave warriors who got a furrow each time they won a battle or tradesmen who travelled together,” said an archaeologist. Another theory is that the Vikings simply found the appearance aesthetically pleasing and gave them a more terrifying appearance.

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While serial killer Richard Ramirez is renowned for his ‘Night Stalker’ murder spree between June 1984 and August 1985, he would later be linked with another, brutal murder that occurred in April 1984. 

Mei Leung was 9 years old when her dead body was found hanging, partially clothed, in the basement of a hotel in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. She had died as a result of strangulation, having been hanged from a water pipe by her blouse. She had also been stabbed and raped. In 2009 Ramirez’s DNA was definitively matched to DNA found at the crime scene.

While the murder was initially attributed to Ramirez alone, in 2016 authorities disclosed that a second suspect had been linked to the crime scene through DNA evidence, but the identity of this suspect was never revealed and charges have never been brought against him. This is because of the lack of corroborating evidence, as there is concern that the quality of the DNA may have resulted in false identification. 

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Rare photos of serial killer Andrew Cunanan during his high school years.

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Lmao y'all wildin’ 💀💀💀💀💀

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On the 30th of December, 2016, 12-year-old Katelyn Nicole Davis from Cedartown, Georgia, hanged herself in her garden. The tormented young girl live streamed the heartbreaking event. After the footage went viral, police were powerless to take it down.

In the first half of the 42 minute video, Katelyn told the camera that she had been sexually abused by a family member. After saying her goodbyes, she kicks the bucket from underneath her feet. The footage doesn’t end when her life ends, however. It continues for another 20 minutes and at the end, a woman shouts her name off camera. By the time police finally arrived, it was much too late. One wonders why nobody watching the video contacted police immediately.

Just days before ending her life, Katelyn detailed the abuse she had suffered on her YouTube where she went by the name “ITZ DOLLY!!!” She told her viewers that she had been beaten with a studded belt and that she had been sexually abused. In one video, she reports that she was neglected by her father and was physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. She gets into an argument with her mother in one video who just shrugs everything she says off. Her mother would verbally) abuse her daughter on camera and threaten to “whip her ass.” She once mentioned that her stepfather even encouraged her to commit suicide: “He told me I should go hang myself because I was worthless.” She often spoke about being bullied at school and was a victim of catfishing. 

To say she lived a hard life is an understatement.

Katelyn did, however, post other videos. She was an active YouTuber and would offer an insight into her life. She sometimes sang on the camera and cracked jokes. She appeared to be the main carer for her siblings; in one video she warns them not to “wake up” their mother. In some videos, she tries to reach out to other kids with depression who may have been feeling like she felt. In a way, it seemed as though she was looking for somebody to relate to, somebody that could understand how she felt. She posted videos urging people not to make fun of others and showed that she had a deep compassion for others.

Her videos show that she had cried out for help but nobody listened. They show a compassionate and intelligent young girl that would have excelled in life if just given the chance.