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<p>Amy Schumer is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actress, and producer. She is the screenwriter and star of the movie “Trainwreck” and has joined her cousin, Sen. Charles Schumer, calling for increased gun control. The pair's joint appearance in New York marked the first time Amy Schumer has spoken out about gun violence since police say John Houser killed two women and then himself at a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater on July 23, using a gun he was able to purchase legally even though a 2008 court order sent him to a mental health facility. Federal law prohibits the purchase of guns by anyone who has been involuntarily committed to a mental health facility, but it does not ban gun purchases by someone who has volunteered for treatment or successfully argued against commitment.</p><p> </p><p>She called for a more thorough background check system as she shared details about the lives of shooting victims Jillian Johnson, 33, and Mayci Breaux, 21. She said, "My heart goes out to Jillian and Mayci, to the survivors, to the families and everyone who was tied to the tragic, senseless and horrifying actions of this man who shouldn't have been able to put his hands on a gun in the first place, I'm not sure why this man chose my movie to end these two beautiful lives and injure nine others, but it was very personal for me. Sen. Schumer, a New York Democrat, said he is introducing legislation that will reward states for submitting all necessary records to the background check system and punish those that do not. The pair also urged Congress to provide full federal funding to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which faces a proposed 4.4 percent cut of $159 million. They also asked the Department of Justice to publish a report comparing state standards for involuntary commitment.</p><p> </p><p><img title=":gift:" alt=":gift:" src="https://themidnightzone.com/uploads/default_gift.gif">  Say ‘Thank You’ To Someone Special With An Amazon Gift Card: Just Click <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LLIKVU/gcrnsts?ie=UTF8&amp;creativeASIN=B004LLIKVU&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=AANGEKV6D5B56AD6&amp;ref_=as_sl_pc_tf_til&amp;tag=themidzon-20" rel="external nofollow">here</a></p>
]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">1490</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2015 13:45:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Khloe Kardashian Gets Her Own Talk Show</title><link>https://themidnightzone.com/articles/celebrity/khloe-kardashian-gets-her-own-talk-show-r1488/</link><description><![CDATA[
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<p>Khloe Kardashian is an American television personality, producer and actress. She has a new show coming your way. Khloe Kardashian will be hosting her own prime-time talk show on the FYI. Most appropriately titled Kocktails with Khloe, she will be joined by celebrity guests and friends for an "intimate" dinner party where talk will naturally include cooking and pop culture. Although, we can also look forward to some drinking party games. She said "Kocktails with Khloe is something I'm extremely proud of and I'm excited to execute it with my amazing partners, I'm lucky that I've been able to invite fans into my life and home on a weekly basis and this show will give me an opportunity to continue to do that with new and exciting guests."</p><p> </p><p><img title=":gift:" alt=":gift:" src="https://themidnightzone.com/uploads/default_gift.gif">  Say ‘Thank You’ To Someone Special With An Amazon Gift Card: Just Click <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LLIKVU/gcrnsts?ie=UTF8&amp;creativeASIN=B004LLIKVU&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=AANGEKV6D5B56AD6&amp;ref_=as_sl_pc_tf_til&amp;tag=themidzon-20" rel="external nofollow">here</a></p>
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<p>Bill Cosby is an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and activist, and he is one of the world's most well-known entertainers and comedians. He has filed legal papers calling for court sanctions against a woman accusing him of sexual assault, saying she breached their confidentiality agreement in the leak of his full deposition from a 10-year-old civil case. He made the filing in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia in opposition to recent motions by Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee who has alleged the comedian tricked her into taking drugs before he sexually assaulted her The lawsuit she brought against Cosby was settled for an undisclosed sum in 2006, and all documents from the litigation were sealed until a federal judge on July 6 released limited redacted excerpts from Cosby's 2005 deposition testimony in the case. Those excerpts included Cosby's admission under oath that he had obtained Quaaludes, the brand name for a sedative widely abused as a recreational drug in the 1970s, with the intent of giving the pills to young women in order to have sex with them.</p><p> </p><p>On July 8, Constand filed papers in court seeking to unseal the entire deposition and her settlement agreement with Cosby, as well as to free her from any confidentiality restrictions. The New York Times has since obtained its own record of Cosby's deposition and posted additional excerpts on its website, revealing testimony in which the entertainer described how he had pursued women and how he obtained Quaaludes. His own court filing stressed that the deposition excerpts so far unsealed by the judge contain no testimony that he engaged in any non-consensual sex or gave anyone Quaaludes without their knowledge or consent. The memorandum goes on to call Constand's request to open the entire Cosby settlement to public scrutiny an "obvious attempt to smear" the performer and says she should be sanctioned for leaking the nearly 1,000-page deposition transcript to the New York Times through her "own hired court reporter."</p><p> </p><p>More than 40 women have come forward in the past year alleging Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted them in incidents dating back decades. He faces at least four civil lawsuits stemming from such allegations. Cosby has never been criminally charged. His attorneys have consistently denied the accusations, which have left in tatters the career and public image of a once-revered entertainer best known for playing the lovable father figure Dr. Cliff Huxtable on the hit TV comedy series "The Cosby Show" in the 1980s and '90s. He has said little in public about the scandal, telling ABC television in May that he did not wish to discuss allegations.</p><p> </p><p><img title=":gift:" alt=":gift:" src="https://themidnightzone.com/uploads/default_gift.gif"> Say ‘Thank You’ To Someone Special With An Amazon Gift Card: Just Click <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LLIKVU/gcrnsts?ie=UTF8&amp;creativeASIN=B004LLIKVU&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=AANGEKV6D5B56AD6&amp;ref_=as_sl_pc_tf_til&amp;tag=themidzon-20" rel="external nofollow">here</a></p><p><a class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image" href="https://themidnightzone.com/uploads/monthly_2015_08/2a.jpg.dff696f75a78d851edd3b6b4c2fe732a.jpg"><img data-fileid="13" class="ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed" alt="2a.jpg" src="https://themidnightzone.com/uploads/monthly_2015_08/2a.thumb.jpg.75dc8926fcd241ccf6c2f4c57db1baa6.jpg"></a></p>
]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">1487</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2015 13:31:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Miley Cyrus To Host The MTV Video Music Awards</title><link>https://themidnightzone.com/articles/celebrity/miley-cyrus-to-host-the-mtv-video-music-awards-r1486/</link><description><![CDATA[
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<p>Miley Cyrus is an American singer, songwriter, and actress with a cheerful disposition that made her a teen superstar. Last year she won an award for Video of the Year, for "Wrecking Ball." Now she is hosting the MTV Video Music Awards. In fact, she announced the news in the best way possible, with a tweet joking that since MTV won't let her perform, she's found a different way to take part in the show.</p><p> </p><p><img title=":gift:" alt=":gift:" src="https://themidnightzone.com/uploads/default_gift.gif">  Say ‘<span style="color:#FF0000;">Thank You</span>’ To Someone Special With An Amazon Gift Card: Just Click <a rel="external nofollow" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LLIKVU/gcrnsts?ie=UTF8&amp;creativeASIN=B004LLIKVU&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=AANGEKV6D5B56AD6&amp;ref_=as_sl_pc_tf_til&amp;tag=themidzon-20">here</a></p>
]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">1486</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2015 13:20:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>50 Cent Files For Bankruptcy</title><link>https://themidnightzone.com/articles/celebrity/50-cent-files-for-bankruptcy-r1475/</link><description><![CDATA[
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<p>Curtis James Jackson III, better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper, singer, entrepreneur, investor and actor, known for the album "Get Rich or Die Tryin','" has filed for bankruptcy. He has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Hartford, just days after a jury ordered him to pay $5 million in an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit. He owns a 50,000-square-foot mansion; the filing lists both the assets and liabilities for the rapper and actor as between $10 million and $50 million and indicates his debts are primarily consumer and not business related.</p><p> </p><p>The filing comes after a New York jury ordered Jackson to pay $5 million to a woman who said he acquired a video she made with her boyfriend, added himself as a crude commentator and posted it online without her permission. The jury was scheduled to deliberate on possible further, punitive damages in Lastonia Leviston's invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against Jackson, but the filing may put the trial on hold. Jackson did not appear as scheduled to testify about his finances because of the bankruptcy filing.</p><p> </p><p>The lawsuit stems from a 13-minute video that appeared online in 2009, featuring a wig-wearing 50 Cent as a narrator dubbed Pimpin' Curly. He makes explicit remarks about the images and taunts rap rival Rick Ross, who isn't in the video but had previously had a daughter with Leviston. At the time the video surfaced, Ross and 50 Cent were trading barbs via video, lyrics and interviews. Jackson got the tape from the man in it, Leviston's boyfriend at the time. The rapper said that he didn't actually post the video but that Leviston's then-boyfriend said she wouldn't mind if he did. Jackson is an admitted former crack dealer who has built an empire beyond entertainment. He invested early in Vitamin Water and has expanded his business interests into clothing and audio equipment. Now 40, he has gone on to become an actor whose credits include the Starz network action series "Power" and the upcoming boxing movie "Southpaw." He also was named by Forbes in May as one of hip-hop's five wealthiest artists for 2015. He bought his 17-acre home in Connecticut from boxer Mike Tyson in 2003 for $4.1 million. The house includes 19 bedrooms, more than two dozen bathrooms, a gym, billiard rooms, racquetball courts and a disco complete with stripper poles. It had been listed for sale in 2009 for $10.9 million, but is no longer on the market.</p><p> </p><p>Say ‘<strong>Thank You</strong>’ With An Amazon Gift Card: Just Click <a rel="external nofollow" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LLIKVU/gcrnsts?ie=UTF8&amp;creativeASIN=B004LLIKVU&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=AANGEKV6D5B56AD6&amp;ref_=as_sl_pc_tf_til&amp;tag=themidzon-20">here</a></p>
]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">1475</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2015 10:47:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Amy Schumer Responds To Allegations Of Racism</title><link>https://themidnightzone.com/articles/celebrity/amy-schumer-responds-to-allegations-of-racism-r1473/</link><description><![CDATA[
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<p>Amy Beth Schumer is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actress. She is revising her reaction to accusations that she has a "blind spot" when it comes to race.</p><p> </p><p>Last week, an editorial criticized her work as racially insensitive. "For such a keen observer of social norms and an effective satirist of the ways gender is complicated by them, Schumer has a shockingly large blind spot around race," the piece read. This week, she responded to a question on Twitter about one of the jokes from an old stand-up routine where she had said, "I used to date Hispanic guys, but now I prefer consensual."</p><p> </p><p>It's a much more thoughtful and sensitive response than the original one she made on Twitter shortly after the Guardian piece published. At the time, she argued that she "will joke about things you like, and I will joke about things you aren't comfortable with. And that's OK. Stick with me and trust I am joking. I go in and out of playing an irreverent idiot. That includes making dumb jokes about race." She went on to insist that such jokes can be funny and she has a right to make them, though making them doesn't mean she's racist. "I am a devout feminist and lover of all people," she said. "My fight is for all people to be treated equally. So move on to the next person who is more deserving of your scrutiny and not the girl in your corner."</p><p> </p><p><img title=":gift:" alt=":gift:" src="https://themidnightzone.com/uploads/default_gift.gif">Give Someone The ‘<strong>Anything Gift</strong>’, Amazon Gift Card: just click <a rel="external nofollow" href="https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-1_US_Email-Gift-Card-Email/dp/B004LLIKVU/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=themidzon-20&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=AANGEKV6D5B56AD6&amp;creativeASIN=B004LLIKVU%20">here</a></p>
]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">1473</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2015 05:38:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Bill Cosby Admits To Using Drugs To Have Sex With Women</title><link>https://themidnightzone.com/articles/celebrity/bill-cosby-admits-to-using-drugs-to-have-sex-with-women-r1472/</link><description><![CDATA[
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<p>Bill Cosby admits, in a 2005 deposition, that he obtained Quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women in order to have sex, and that he gave the sedative to at least one woman.</p><p> </p><p>The Associated Press went to court to compel the release of the documents, which have since been made public. Lawyer Dolores M. Troiani asked in September 2005, "When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?" Cosby answered, "Yes." The comedian had been testifying under oath in a lawsuit filed by a former Temple University employee and said that he gave her three half-pills of Benadryl. That particular lawsuit was settled for undisclosed terms in 2006. Since then, more than a dozen women have accused Cosby of sexually assaulting them. He has never been criminally charged, and most of the accusations are barred by statutes of limitations.</p><p> </p><p>Lisa Bloom, lawyer for model Janice Dickinson said "now we know why" Cosby has failed to appear for a deposition in her defamation lawsuit against him. Dickinson sued Cosby, saying that denials made by his representatives after she accused him last year of raping her in 1982 were defamatory. Given Cosby's 2005 testimony, Bloom said in a statement Monday evening "how dare he publicly vilify Ms. Dickinson and accuse her of lying when she tells a very similar story?"</p><p> </p><p><img title=":gift:" alt=":gift:" src="https://themidnightzone.com/uploads/default_gift.gif">Give Someone The ‘<strong>Anything Gift</strong>’, Amazon Gift Card: just click <a rel="external nofollow" href="https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-1_US_Email-Gift-Card-Email/dp/B004LLIKVU/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=themidzon-20&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=AANGEKV6D5B56AD6&amp;creativeASIN=B004LLIKVU%20">here</a></p>
]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">1472</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2015 05:36:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Marisa Tomei Lands A Role On Empire</title><link>https://themidnightzone.com/articles/celebrity/marisa-tomei-lands-a-role-on-empire-r1470/</link><description><![CDATA[
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<p>Marisa Tomei is an American actress and film producer, and the Oscar winner will play Mimi Whiteman, a demanding venture capitalist and billionaire who loves hip-hop, social trends, and beautiful women. She is best known for the films My Cousin Vinny, The Wrestler, In the Bedroom and Crazy, Stupid, Love. Though she began her career on television on As the World Turns and A Different World, her most recent television credit was four episodes of Rescue Me in 2006. She is also set to play Gloria Steinem in an upcoming HBO miniseries.</p><p> </p><p>Give Someone The ‘Anything Gift’, Amazon Gift Card: just click <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-1_US_Email-Gift-Card-Email/dp/B004LLIKVU/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=themidzon-20&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=AANGEKV6D5B56AD6&amp;creativeASIN=B004LLIKVU%20" rel="external nofollow">here</a></p>
]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">1470</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2015 05:29:56 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Serial Killer: Juana Barraza (The Old Lady Killer)</title><link>https://themidnightzone.com/articles/celebrity/serial-killer-juana-barraza-the-old-lady-killer-r1386/</link><description><![CDATA[
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<p>Juana Barraza is a Mexican professional wrestler and serial killer dubbed La Mataviejitas (The Old Lady Killer) was sentenced to 759 years in jail for killing eleven elderly women.The first murder attributed to Mataviejitas has been dated variously to the late 1990s and to a specific killing on 17 November 2003. The authorities and the press have given various estimates as to the total number of the killer's victims, with totals ranging from 24 to 49 deaths.</p>
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<p>Little is known of Enriqueta Martí i Ripollés before she arrived in Barcelona in the early years of the 19th Century. What is known is that she did not arrive alone. She brought with her a brutal penchant for survival and an equally fierce desire to rise above a poverty that she would soon sadistically twist to her advantage. She preyed on young children from Barcelona’s destitute Raval Quarter. She would prostitute them to the pedophiles and deviants who had for so long protected and frequented her brothels. She could at once appear impoverished, dressed in rags to entice her prey and then as evening fell, attend the lavish galas of the El Liceu (Barcelona Opera House) as gentry. She continued unabated before finally being discovered in 1912 by a vigilant neighbor who alerted police.</p>
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<p>Siswanto sexually molested and killed 12 boys, aged 9 to 15, from December 1994 to when the last body was found on July 5, 1996. Police reported that he had slashed open the stomachs of all his victims, with most being found naked. He also told police that he enjoyed drinking his victims' blood and kept pieces of their skin. On August 6, 1996, he confessed to 8 murders in Jakarta, Indonesia, and 2 in Pekalongan in central Java. He was sentenced to death for 12 murders on May 21, 1997.</p>
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<p>John Justin Bunting is an Australian serial killer from Adelaide, South Australia, currently serving eleven consecutive sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for his role in the murder of 11 victims of the Snowtown murders. He was driven to murder by his hatred for pedophiles and homosexuals, has been described as a skilled manipulator of people and "Australia's worst serial killer". The ringleader of murderers whose victims were people they already knew. Under the instruction of Bunting, the group would prey upon the weak so they could steal their welfare payments. His crimes led to the longest and most expensive investigations and criminal trials in South Australia's history.</p>
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<p>Joseph G. Christopher was an American serial killer, active from September 22, 1980 until his arrest on May 10, 1981. He was known as the "Midtown Slasher". It is believed that he killed at least twelve individuals and wounded numerous others, almost all African Americans, with one Hispanic male. His homicidal rampage began on September 22, 1980, when he was 25 years old. He started his crimes by shooting African American men with a sawn-off .22 rifle while they went about their daily duties, striking in the middle of the day and into the night with sometimes more than five murders in one day. However, Christopher changed his method of killing midway through his onslaught of terror by choosing a knife as his new weapon, stabbing his victims to death and cutting the heart out of two of his victims, who were cab drivers.</p>
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<p>Charles Sobhraj was a famous serial killer in the 1970's, known for drugging and killing between 12 and 24 western tourists in Asia. His several successful escapes from prison coined him the nickname, "The Serpent." Known for a string of killings in Vietnam in the 1970's. Born to an Indian father and Vietnamese mother, he spent most of his childhood on the rough streets of Saigon. He befriended mostly western tourists in Asia, later drugging and killing them. Between 1972 and 1976, it is speculated he killed anywhere from 12 to 24 people. He earned the nickname “the Serpent” for his numerous escapes from jail.</p>
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<p>Kenneth Alessio Bianchi is an American serial killer,kidnapper and rapist. Known as the Hillside Strangler, worked with his cousin Angelo Buono to commit 15 rapes and murders. They went on a killing spree between October 1977 and January 1978, raping and murdering 15 victims in Los Angeles. The men posed as policemen and targeted prostitutes to begin with, moving on to middle-class women and girls. They usually left the bodies on the hillsides of the Glendale Highland Park area, earning the moniker "The Hillside Strangler."</p><p>
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In 1975, he left Rochester and moved to Los Angeles, where he lived with his older cousin, and later moved in with his girlfriend, Kelli Boyd, and had a child. A chronic liar, he set up a psychology practice with a phony degree and told his girlfriend that he was dying of cancer. Before long, he and Buono teamed up for a spree of kidnappings, rapes and murders that eventually claimed 15 victims,</p>
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<p>Maury Troy Travis was an American serial killer who committed suicide in a St. Louis county jail, after being arrested for murder. Travis was named in a Federal criminal complaint for the murders of two women. At the time of the murders, Travis was a waiter and on parole for a robbery in 1989. While in his letter Travis claimed to have murdered 17 women, some authorities were doubtful, others thought he may have murdered up to 20 women. He sent a letter and a map to the press and has the dubious honour of being the first serial killer to be caught by Google. That shows advances in technology are making it more and more difficult for a serial killer to remain active.</p>
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<p>William Lester Suff, also known as the Riverside Prostitute Killer, and the Lake Elsinore Killer, is an American serial killer. Between 1986 and 1992, he murdered at least twelve prostitutes in Riverside, California. In 1995, a jury found that the unassuming-looking middle-aged man had picked up street walkers in his van, then strangled or knifed them, and proceeded to do unsettling things with their corpses. His conviction appeared to bring to a close a six year-long manhunt for the so-called “Riverside Prostitute Killer” wanted in connection with the slayings of 19 prostitutes. Riverside’s long search for the prostitute killer led to Suff’s arrest. On January 9, 1992, police cruising the prostitution district saw a van stopped along curbside, where the driver had a conversation with a woman on the sidewalk. When the van pulled away suddenly and made an illegal U-turn, police stopped it. Although they arrested Suff for driving with a suspended license and lapsed vehicle registration, what he had inthe back of his van was the break detectives had been looking for: a rope, sleeping bag, and bloody knife.</p>
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<p>The Paturis Park murders are a series of 13 murders of gay men between February 2007 and August 2008. The murders took place in Paturis Park in Carapicuíba, Brazil and perpetrated by an unknown killer dubbed the Rainbow Maniac. São Paulo is the annual stage for the largest gay pride march on Earth and home to one of South America's most vibrant gay communities. But a wave of homophobic murders cast a shadow over one of the most tolerant cities in Latin America. The killer labelled the Rainbow Maniac, was behind the murders of 13 men in Carapicuíba, a city of nearly 400,000 people in greater São Paulo. They were killed in a park used as a gay meeting point. Police also investigated whether the same killer was behind three murders in the neighbouring city of Osasco, where a similar weapon was reportedly used. The killing began on 4 July 2007 when 32-year-old José Cicero Henrique was murdered in the Paturis park. 12 other men have been killed in the park, nine in virtually identical circumstances. Their half naked bodies were dumped in the undergrowth with a .38 caliber bullet in the back of the head and their trousers wrapped around their knees.</p>
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<p>Thozamile Taki, also known as the Sugarcane Killer, is a South African serial killer who killed 13 women aged 18–25, dumping their bodies in agricultural plantations. He lured the woman, promised them jobs but killed them and dumped their bodies in sugarcane fields. He murdered 10 victims in the sugarcane plantations around the town of Umzinto, as well as a further three victims in the tea plantations near Port St Johns, KwaZulu Natal. Body parts of some of his victims are alleged to have been provided to a local traditional healer or sangoma.</p>
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<p>Li Wenxian was a Chinese serial killer who killed 13 female prostitutes inGuangzhou from 1991 to 1996. He was sentenced to death on December 18, 1996 and executed thereafter. Li's first victim was reportedly found on February 22, 1991 and was described as a woman in her early twenties. The genitals were carved out with a knife and the body showed signs of sexual intercourse. Five more murders occurred in the next six months. The victims were either stabbed or strangled, then dismembered, put in rice bags and dumped in rubbish heaps in Guangzhou. A seventh victim washed ashore in Hong Kong in March 1992. The corpse was assumed to have floated from mainland China as no one was reported missing in Hong Kong. The victim had been slit from throat to stomach, poorly stitched back together and had her fingers severed. Li was identified by a surviving victim in November 1996. He had been described as a farmer from southern Guangdong who migrated to Guangzhou in 1991 and worked for a construction team. Li confessed to the murders and claimed to have been motivated by a hatred for prostitutes that was fueled by him being cheated by one after arriving in Guangzhou. He was convicted of rape, robbery and murder. He was sentenced to death on December 18, 1996 and later executed.</p>
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<p>Johannes Mashiane AKA The Beast of Atteridgeville is a South African rapist and serial killer who accounted for 13 victims before committing suicide in 1989. Mashiane started his murderous activity circa 1977 by killing his girlfriend. He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and was released in 1982. After being released, he immediately started his spate of murder and sodomyaccounting for the deaths of at least 12 young boys by strangulation or stoning. One victim is known to have survived Mashiane's attention.</p>
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<p>Vasiliy Kulik was born in Irkutsk Oblast, Soviet Union to an aristocratic family. His father was a doctor of Biological Sciencesand writer, his mother a school-headmistress. A few years later, Kulik left home and began work as a medic in the Irkutsk Emergency Station. He married and had three sons. After his arrest, the police interviewed the Kulik family. His mother told the police that her son had grown weak and had developed a limp. She said that her son had tortured animals as a child, and that he had assumed a dominant male persona in his manner of dress and in his interests. His sisters reported that he was selfish and cruel. Kulik grew up in an unstable environment and, when his father died, tried to commit suicide. Kulik became sexually active at an early age and had many girlfriends. In school, he had been involved with a girl but became depressed after she moved to another city. At age 20, he started pursuing older, married women, but was frequently rejected. In 1980, Kulik wrote a novel in which the main character forms a relationship with a nine-year-old girl with the sole purpose of having sex with her. Prior to the murders, Kulik had committed a series of rapes of children. In 1984, he drugged, raped and strangled an elderly woman he encountered on the street. His second victim was an eight-year-old girl. The third was a 53-year-old woman whom he killed with a gun and a kitchen knife. His other victims included six children, the youngest was only 2 years 7 months, and seven elderly women. On 17 January 1986 Kulik was arrested and eventually convicted of 13 murders and near 30 rapes and assaults. He was sentenced to death by firing squad on 11 August 1988. He was executed in 1989.</p>
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<p>Prosecutors say that while Lorenzo Gilyard was escaping detection as a serial killer for two decades, advances in DNA testing were being made that would eventually link him to seven women who were killed in Kansas City in 1986 and 1987. "The defendant wasn’t counting on the fact that science would catch up with him, but it did," said Ted Hunt, chief trial assistant, during closing arguments in the murder trial. "Twenty years later, a part of his own body is pointing a finger back at him." Six other murder counts, including one stemming from the death of an Austrian national, were dropped last week as the trial got under way, although prosecutors could refile those charges later.</p><p>
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Gilyard, a former trash company supervisor, would face life in prison if convicted of any of the slayings. His fate is being decided by Jackson County District Judge John O’Malley. Prosecutors made DNA evidence linking Gilyard to all seven women the centerpiece of their presentation. The cases were connected in April 2004 when the police department’s crime lab tested evidence from unsolved homicides using a federal grant. His semen or seminal fluid was found on six of the women, and his hair was found on the seventh victim. All of the victims were left in sexually compromising positions. But defense attorney Susan Elliott said the lifestyles of the victims - all but one of whom were prostitutes - suggested it was not only probable but likely that they had sexual contact with other men. The defense went through each of the cases suggesting alternatives, including that one victim was killed as retaliation for talking to the FBI about a drug supplier and that another had been threatened by a boyfriend before her death.</p>
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<p>Born into a strict Roman Catholic family, Herbert Mullin began life on April 18, 1947 in Fenton, California. Herbert was a good child, excelling in school quickly and was voted “most likely to succeed” by his high school chums. He was athletic, fit, and very handsome, always helpful and polite to others. His only strange distinction was his oddly close relationship with his best friend Dean Richardson. Just out of high school, at 17, Herbert became engaged to his longtime girlfriend, intending to begin a life with children and a little household.</p><p>
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At 18, Herbert’s life suddenly crumbled when Dean was killed in a car accident. Devoted deeply to Dean, Herbert mourned the loss of his friend in bizarre ways. Lovingly setting up a shrine for Dean in his bedroom complete with photographs and trinkets and old toys, Herbert could not seem to get past his grieving for Dean. He broke up with his girlfriend, announcing that he was a homosexual. Dean’s memorabilia was never removed from Herbert’s bedroom from then on. Around this time, Herbert’s family began to discover strange behavior in Herbert. Though it is unknown if there was a history of mental illness in the family, Herbert began having fits of echopraxia, a well known symptom of schizophrenia. His manner became erratic as well. Herbert preferred to be alone as often as possible, talked to himself, believed others were plotting against him and continuously thought he was being followed by someone that wanted to harm him. To calm himself, Herbert turned to hallucinogenic drugs, thinking they might oppose the gradual confusion that was blocking his thought processes. The drugs only worsened his thought patterns, the limb he was desperately clinging to beginning to slip quickly from his grasp.</p><p>
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After seeking out a doctor, Herbert disclosed his symptoms, believing he might be going mad. The doctor diagnosed Herbert with severe paranoid schizophrenia, and he was placed in a mental hospital for a year. When treatment proved to be working, Herbert started to feel better and well enough to leave the hospital. Like many sufferers of diseases, especially ones that affect the mind, Herbert must have stopped treatment soon after he left the hospital, for the voices in his head began to haunt his psyche again. This time, it wasn’t just the usual voices telling him to do unpleasant things, it was Satan himself, urging Herbert to kill. On October 13, 1972, Satan sent Herbert out onto the streets to find a suitable person that must be annihilated. The prey was chosen apparently at random, as were all of Herbert’s victims. Herbert found a lowly tramp named Lawrence White, searching thorough a garbage can. Clubbing White to death, Herbert found that Satan was not satisfied with only one kill. Herbert would have to again find another person undeserving of life, and he did, two weeks later. A Santa Cruz University a student named Mary Guilfoyle, enjoying a long walk in a park, found herself face to face with Herbert. Seeming wrong and disagreeable in some way, Guilfoyle attempted escape from the man following her. Herbert produced a long knife and stabbed the girl repeatedly until she was well beyond death. With the comforting words of Satan whispering in his ear, Herbert continued his slaughter by pulling out her insides and leaving them scattered all around her body.</p><p>
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Not long after Guilfoyle’s death, Herbert found himself conflicted with what he had done. He understood that something was wrong with killing, but not his intent. Satan had orchestrated all of the horrid acts, and Herbert decided that he must be stopped. To rid his conscious of guilt, Herbert sought out a priest to talk with. He confessed everything he had done, omitting no details. After speaking about what he had done, Herbert was not only horrified with his crimes, but slightly and clearly began to hear Satan’s slow whispering in his ear again. Satan commanded the blood of the priest, and Herbert realized that the priest might go to the police about the recent killings. Herbert, in his diseased mind, had only one choice then. He stabbed the priest to death in the confessional, left the body to be found later, and went on his way. In December of 1972, Herbert began a rampage that shocked all of Santa Cruz. Buying his first gun, Herbert had been told by Satan that this would be a cleaner way of killing, and Herbert could get away with it easily. In one day, Herbert shot five people to death, two of them small children. He was never identified because his victims were his only witnesses. Satan continued to converse with Herbert, telling him that his crimes were for the good of mankind. There was going to be a great earthquake, Satan warned, and Herbert’s victims were grateful to be taken before the disaster could occur. Herbert maintained that what he was doing was good, helpful, and actually a good idea. The next five murders occurred within two weeks of each other, showing the severity of Herbert’s psychotic episodes related to his schizophrenia. After finding four teenagers camping out at Cowell State Park in Santa Cruz, Satan allowed Herbert to shoot them all, assuring Herbert that he was doing a fine job. The final murder that took place was on February 13, 1973. An old man, tending to his garden was shot by Herbert as he passed in his car. Luckily, a neighbor was present at the time and was able to write down the registration number on Herbert’s car.</p><p>
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Not long after the police were phoned, Herbert was hauled into questioning by police. Mullin confessed to all 13 murders, telling police that Satan was the mastermind behind it all. The lawyer plead with the judge that Herbert could not be guilty because he was insane. Herbert told the police that he was trying to save California from an earthquake by killing innocent people. The jury saw Herbert fit to stand trial and was charged with 10 murders, found guilty on two counts of two counts of first degree murder and eight counts of second degree murder. In July 1973, Herbert Mullen was sentenced to life imprisonment, eligible for parole in 2025. Classified by professional doctors as a common example of a severely violent paranoid schizophrenic, Herbert Mullin was not given the right or the opportunity to serve out his sentence at a mental hospital, where he could be medicated properly and guarded for any signs of deviance. Without treatment, Herbert’s condition may not only worsen, but ruin him completely. His pal and constant companion, Satan, might continue to hurt and ultimately advise Herbert to kill others or himself.</p>
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<p>Francisco Antonio Laureana was an Argentine serial killer who raped and murdered 13 women in a six-month period from 1974 to 1975. He would strangle his victims and occasionally shoot them with a handgun. He was killed in a shootout with police on February 27, 1975. A composite sketch had been made of him by a man he had shot at after fleeing from a murder. Laureana was married and had three children.</p>
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