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ramirezbundydahmer: Edward Gingerich murdered his wife Katie in Crawford County, Pennsylvania in 1993. He has the distinction of being the only Amish man to have been convicted of murder. He killed and disemboweled his wife in a schizophrenic frenzy that was witnessed by his two children. He was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter  At the time, he had stopped taking medication for paranoid schizophrenia for nine months. Gingerich was released from prison in March 1998.
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A 16th-century mummified cat that was found in the wall of a Dutch farmhouse, where it wais as placed to ward off evil spirits, witches, bad luck, or anything else that might have threatened the home. The cat is still in remarkable condition, with intact claws and teeth.
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ramirezdahmerbundy: Despite his cutesy nickname there was nothing baby-like about Lester Gillis “Baby face Nelson”, who had a fearsome temper and propensity for violence, resulting in him killing more than a dozen policemen. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on 6 December 1908, he began his criminal career at an early age as a car thief and was arrested aged 13 and sent to a borstal. Two years later he was released on parole, but within five months he was returned on a similar charge. Like many criminals, Nelson was on the short side at 1.63 m (5ft 4in). He was arrested for bank robbery in Chicago on 15 January 1931 and jailed for a year but escaped on 17 February 1932, after overpowering a guard. The following year, with safe-cracking Eddie Bentz, Nelson went to Grand Haven, Michigan on 18 August 1933 and robbed a bank. The robbery was a disaster but most of those involved escaped. In 1934 Nelson joined John Dillinger’s gang. Following Dillinger’s death, Nelson became Public Enemy Number One. Just four months after Dillinger was shot to death, Nelson met his own end. On 27 November 1934 Nelson, his wife Helen Gillis, and John Paul Chase were driving in Barrington outside Chicago when they saw a police car coming towards them. Nelson had a pathological hatred of the police and federal agencies, even going so far as to complete a list of their unmarked car registration numbers. He recognised the car and gave chase, resulting in his car ending up in a ditch. Nelson came out of the ditch firing a Thompson sub-machine gun, fatally wounding Special Agent Herman Hollis, 31, and Inspector Samuel P. Cowley, 35. Nelson was hit 17 times but with the help of his wife and Chase, made a getaway in the FBI car. The next day the FBI found the bodies of their two agents and in a ditch in front of St Peters Catholic Cemetary in Skokie they found the corpse of Baby face Nelson. His wife later said that he had died at precisely 8 p.m. and she had wrapped a blanket around him because “Lester always hated to be cold.” He was 25-years-old.
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