What are the top 5 most disturbing cases that you've read about?

There are many that have stuck with me, so choosing only five was hard! 

Junko Furuta was 17 when she was kidnapped by a group of teenage boys and tortured in so many brutal ways and raped more than 400 times in a span of 40 days. What angers me is that she was held hostage in one of the captive’s basement, and his mom was aware of this—yet never intervened because she was ‘’scared’’ of her son.

Shanda Sharer was 12 when she was lured from her home by four teenage girls, tortured ruthlessly for nine hours, then set on fire while she was still alive. This was all because the ringleader was jealous that Shanda had ‘’stolen’’ her girlfriend. This is actually the very first murder case I became deeply invested in.

Kelly Ann Bates was 14 when she got into a relationship with a 48-year-old man. When she was 17, she ran away from home to live with him. Over the course of four weeks, he subjected her to extreme physical torment. He mutilated her and gouged her eyes out. 

Brianna Lopez was just an infant when she was killed. Her parents never cherished her, they treated her sadistically like she was an object of entertainment. They treated her so badly that she died of her injuries. 

Katherine Knight sneaked into her ex boyfriend’s house after he filed a restraining order against him. As he was sleeping, she stabbed him 37 times, then skinned him and hung his fleshy suit up at the door. She even cooked parts of his body and tried to serve it to his children.

a moment of silence for junko furuta 

learning about her story makes me realize how precious life is

and how cruel people are

Junko Furuta was a 17-year-old Japanese girl who was abducted by four teenage boys while walking home from school. They held her captive in the house owned by one of the culprit’s parents’ basement. Only on the first day of her abduction, she was raped over 400 times, starved, fed cockroaches to eat and her own urine to drink, forced to strip naked in front of all her abductors and masturbate, burned with cigarette lighters, and had fireworks set off in her ears and vagina. She was also forced to call her parents and tell them that she had run away. The brutal torture droned on for another 44 days. By day 30, her injuries were so severe that it took her an excruciating hour just to crawl downstairs and use the bathroom. On day 40, she begged her torturers to “kill her and get it overwith.’’ On the 44th day, she would finally meet her tragic fate. The four boys beat her mutilated body with an iron barbell, causing her to profusely bleed from her mouth and nose. They put a candle’s flame to her face and eyes. Then, lighter fluid was poured onto her legs, arms, face and stomach, and lit on fire. This final torture lasted for a time of two hours.

Злые Гномы (Evil Gnomes) and Расчленённая ПугачОва (Dismembered PugachOva) were two bands formed by the Russian serial killers Nikita Lytkin and Artyom Anoufriev, the so-called Academy Maniacs, which killed 6 people from December 2010 to April 2011. You can listen to them here and here.

Emmett Till was fourteen-years-old when three white men abducted and savagely murdered him. Their motive was anger over the young teen supposedly whistling at a white woman. Before the final killing blow, they beat Emmett’s face beyond recognition. Mose Wright, the boy’s great-uncle, took on the unimaginable task of identifying the body. He was able make a positive identification by the engraved ring found on Emmett. This ring was a cherished momento. It originally belonged to Emmitt’s father, Louis Till, who died in 1945.

My child: Who became President after Obama?

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Sketches of Jane Toppan aka Jolly Jane in court. Toppan confessed to the murders of 31 people although the real number of victims still remains unknown. It is believed that Toppan killed the majority of people during her time at Cambridge Hospital, Massachusetts, where she began training to be a nurse in 1885. She murdered her victims with a mixture of morphine and atropine and slowly watched them die.

’This is the signature of a nonconformist’: Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s chaotic, childlike handwriting reveals an identity crisis and his impulsive, defiant nature, say experts.

Link to Article -> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5441889/Nikolas-Cruzs-childlike-handwriting-reveals.html