50 years for a crime that never was Posted: 3 months ago by Moe
He went to an asylum for the criminally insane and spent 50 years there. There was just one problem. His father, whom he was thought to have killed, was still alive.
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City Insane Asylum. Record of Patients Posted: 1 year ago by DaftGretel
New Orleans (La.) City Insane Asylum
Record of Patients, 1882-1884; 1888
This volume contains information on insane patients visited by the City Physician and recommended to the State Asylum. For each patient, the record includes name, race, sex, age, place of birth (in general terms), type of insanity and sometimes a description of the patient's behavior. An index is included at the end of the volume.
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FAther Who Rapes Daughter and Has 7 Kids Gets ONLY 15 Years Posted: 3 months ago by deepcleanfun
Austrian authorities have now confirmed that 73-year-old Joseph Fritzl, who fathered seven children by the daughter he kept in a dungeon and repeatedly raped for 24 years, will get maximum of 15 years
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Father's Day Gift for the Couch Potato Posted: 1 year ago by modmonkee
If your dad's like mine, this are some hilarious gift ideas here.
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Father given six years for bashing baby Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
A Melbourne father who bashed his four-month-old daughter, breaking her ribs and thigh, has been sentenced to six years in jail.
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Put into asylum 14 years ago, oops, it's MS Posted: 1 year ago by misswinkle
Fourteen years later, the second opinion yields the truth.
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Baby-Killer Gets 23 Years Posted: 6 months ago by punthe
A Mount Airy man will spend 23 years in prison for fatally shaking his girlfriend’s 8-month-old son to death in February 2006 while trying to stop the infant from crying.
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Woman boards the wrong bus and gets lost for 25 years Posted: 1 year ago by BrownTrout
A woman who boarded the wrong bus on an attempted shopping trip from Thailand to Malaysia has returned home after 25 years. There were some language barriers and mistaken identity issues but hey... she should have been back home in 12 years tops!
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US soldier gets 18 years for Iraq murder Posted: 2 years ago by teaya21
A US soldier has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering three detainees during a raid on a suspected al-Qaeda compound in Iraq last year.
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Daughter kept in cellar for 24 years Posted: 3 months ago by dollyllama
A father allegedly kept his daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years, Austrian police said Sunday.
*Update to this story here.
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Then and Now - 100 Years Ago to Today Posted: 6 months ago by muppet
A collection of photos comparing a place about 100 years ago to the same place today
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Another scumbag dad Posted: 1 year ago by bevissimo
"JERSEY CITY, N.J. - A father who raped his teenage daughter over several years and ordered her to throw two newborns he had fathered with her down an air shaft was sentenced to 35 years in prison."
And folks still wonder why W1K uses New Jersey as a euphamism for Hell.
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Early Humans In China One Million Years Ago Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
China houses several early-human (Paleolithic) archaeological sites along the Nihewan Basin near Mongolia, some with artifacts that date back about 1 million years ago.
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Man orders father murdered to get his job Posted: 2 months ago by bevissimo
PATNA, India (Reuters) - An Indian man, frustrated at failing to find employment, ordered the murder of his father to get his government job, a day before the victim was to retire, police said on Tuesday.
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Body lay in UK apartment for 8 years Posted: 6 months ago by bevissimo
Workers responding to neighbors' complaints of a bad smell coming from an apartment in western England discovered a body that lay decomposing on a couch for years while another resident lived there, officials said Friday.
After 8 years, it still had a smell?
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"Crime doesn't pay" -- what a crock. Crime has been paying my rent for years Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
A weekly wrap-up of depravity and sin bubbling up from every street corner of Atlanta.
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A Free Man for 30 Years, Fugitive Faces Prison Posted: 5 months ago by dollyllama
For the last 31 years, Charles Free has lived an ordinary life. He fell in love, married and raised two children. He spent more than 20 years in the Las Vegas construction business, working his way up to project manager. His family calls him a caring man, a model citizen.
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Woman gets 7 years in Haitian slavery case Posted: 2 months ago by jhordie
A former teacher was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in prison for forcing a Haitian girl to work as a slave for years, each day of the week, in her South Florida home.
Apparently the woman still refuses to admit she did anything wrong.
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Woman Dies 9 Years After Being Shot; Man Charged With Her Murder Posted: 6 months ago by dollyllama
A man who served six years in prison for the nonfatal shooting of a 16-year-old girl now faces a murder charge because the woman died.
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Man Reunited With Wallet After 37 Years Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A man who lost his wallet in 1970 got it back after 37 years with everything still inside.
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US soldier gets 110 years for rape/murder of Iraq girl Posted: 12 months ago by kxmk
A soldier convicted of rape and murder in an attack on an Iraqi teenager and her family was sentenced Saturday to 110 years in prison.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 126 [+].