Anthropologists have pieced together the grisly details of one of the most gruesome encounters between Spanish conquistadors and the Aztecs in late-16th century Mexico. In 2019 archaeologists at a site outside Mexico City uncovered evidence of a slaughter of a European convoy by Aztec villagers—who mutilated and ate their captives, including children and pregnant women. … Read more
Anthropologists have pieced together the grisly details of one of the most gruesome encounters between Spanish conquistadors and the Aztecs in late-16th century Mexico. In 2019 archaeologists at a site outside Mexico City uncovered evidence of a slaughter of a European convoy by Aztec villagers—who mutilated and ate their captives, including children and pregnant women. … Read more
Japanese ‘Twitter killer’ who butchered nine ‘suicidal’ people he met online is sentenced to death but asks for his execution to be delayed so he can get married to an ‘an ordinary girl’ Takahiro Shiraishi has been sentenced to death for murdering nine people He arranged to meet the suicidal people on Twitter according to … Read more
Japanese ‘Twitter killer’ who butchered nine ‘suicidal’ people he met online is sentenced to death but asks for his execution to be delayed so he can get married to an ‘an ordinary girl’ Takahiro Shiraishi has been sentenced to death for murdering nine people He arranged to meet the suicidal people on Twitter according to … Read more
Women warriors hunted and slaughtered big game in the Andes some 9,000 years ago, a burial site containing projectile points and butchery tools has revealed. The remains of the 17–19 year old hunter and her artefacts were found in a grave at the high-altitude archaeological site of Wilamaya Patjxa, in what is today Peru. She was … Read more
Police fear serial killer who targets elderly couples could still be at large after they re-examine two ‘murder-suicides’ A new 179-page report suggests that two cases of murder-suicide in the 1990s may be the work of a serial killer Stephanie Davies, Cheshire’s senior coroner’s officer, claims they were murders The report urges authorities to re-examine … Read more
Police fear serial killer who targets elderly couples could still be at large after they re-examine two ‘murder-suicides’ A new 179-page report suggests that two cases of murder-suicide in the 1990s may be the work of a serial killer Stephanie Davies, Cheshire’s senior coroner’s officer, claims they were murders The report urges authorities to re-examine … Read more