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 v... read full post picked by DaftGretel 1 year ago

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 picked by deepcleanfun 3 months ago

If your dad's like mine, this are some hilarious gift ideas here. picked by modmonkee 1 year ago

A Melbourne father who bashed his four-month-old daughter, breaking her ribs and thigh, has been sentenced to six years in jail. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

Fourteen years later, the second opinion yields the truth. picked by misswinkle 1 year ago

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. picked by punthe 7 months ago

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! picked by BrownTrout 2 years ago

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. picked by teaya21 2 years ago

A father allegedly kept his daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years, Austrian police said Sunday.

*Update to this story here. picked by dollyllama 4 months ago

"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. picked by bevissimo 1 year ago

A collection of photos comparing a place about 100 years ago to the same place today picked by muppet 7 months ago

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. picked by bevissimo 3 months ago

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. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A rare 111-year-old New Zealand reptile with links to the age of the dinosaurs is to become a father for the first time in at least 38 years after regaining an interest in sex. picked by AfroMosHi 2 weeks ago

A weekly wrap-up of depravity and sin bubbling up from every street corner of Atlanta. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

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? picked by bevissimo 7 months ago

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. picked by jhordie 3 months ago

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. picked by dollyllama 6 months ago

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. picked by dollyllama 7 months ago

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. picked by kxmk 1 year ago