January 15th 1947,local police had arrived to the nightmarish scene, hardly believing it was possible as they stared down at the porcelain lifeless body of Elizabeth Short. Her limp arms raised above her head; her torso precisely sliced through and her lower half of her body and legs erotically laid out some 30 cm away. This young woman had suffered at the hands of some evil that police and investigators had never come across; some deranged individual or group who had savoured every last m...

"Why can't I have a budgie instead of the spiders and cockroaches I already have in here? I promise to look after it and not eat it…."The coldly uttered words rang out from the haunting shape of a scraggily middle-aged man, who sat behind the steel doors of a solitary confinement unit in the maximum-security wing of Wakefield Prison in the United Kingdom. This was no ordinary man who had made an error turn in his life. This was not some usual prisoner who had become unruly during a...

John Norman Collins was responsible for the "Michigan Murders"...Collins killed young women between 1967-69 in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area of Southeastern Michigan. He targeted victims between the ages of thirteen and twenty-one, kidnapping, sexually assaulting and later killing them. It took three years before authorities finally caught up to Collins, catching him one week after his latest murder. What possessed Collins to commit these awful atrocities and how did he get away with the cr...

A baby that disappeared that disappeared in Arizona would be found in Connecticut...Twenty-four years later.Aleacia Stancil nine months old in 1994 when her Toni left her in the care of a friend. Toni, a known prostitute, would return two days later and find her child missing.Unknown to her mother, Aleacia reportedly was passed along to several people. Toni Stancil soon landed in jail and didn't report her daughter missing until three months later...Only a few months later,...

Thailand's lush beaches and exotic holiday resorts often perfectly hide the depravity that befalls the local poor population of the country. Hidden in the shadows of explicit beauty, lurks an underworld of forced labor and crimes that go unnoticed and unpunished.For Somkid Pumpuang, this type of environment lent itself blissfully to his monstrous killing spree.Due to Thailand's vast lands and poverty-stricken provinces, this monster was able to vent his uncontrollable tempe...

A 31-year-old woman of Asian descent, sits nervously in front of the microphones and journalists; ready to make her statement and ready to talk through how her life has turned out over the past twenty years. Kim Tien cuts a meek figure with her long dark hair pulled back into a ponytail. She sits twisting her fingers anxiously as her blue fleece jersey crumples against the desk. As the journalists shoot off their sensitive questions, she looks wide-eyed at them, taking each question and tr...

Mary Hughes sat with her sister, Kathleen McCormack Durst in the small medical clinic office on a warm morning in June 1976. She pleaded with her sister to not go through with the procedure; that there was a way out of this mess; that she could leave her husband if she wanted to. But Kathleen, through her pained tears only wept softly into her hands, telling her sister 'she had to' – 'it was the only option'.A few minutes later the nurse came to fetch the 24-year-old to take her bac...

Most of us have seen a movie or some tv series on the trials and tribulations of college bullies and the popular football player and cute teenager cheerleader. Most of us have probably already formed some kind of perception on what type of people they are – rude; full of themselves; picking on others and generally a downright plague to those around them. But this was no movie or tv series and, Emma Walker was not any preconceived version of a typical college cheerleader – in fact she was t...

The first edition of The Struggle for Health was published in 1985 and was widely acclaimed by those seeking a broader and deeper political understanding of ill health, beyond the medical model of care. It was a revolutionary book, charting new ways of understanding and tackling the causes of ill health, and suggesting strategies to enable health for all. This second edition includes health problems that have emerged since the 1980s, notably HIV/AIDs, COVID-19, and other epidemics...

"Deeply personal and immersed in myth and folklore, [this] book draws from the old and the new in a manner that will resonate with the modern Witch today." —Christopher Penczak, author of The Temple of Witchcraft and The Feast of the MorrighanHear the Call of the Highlands for Powerful Magick, Healing, and DivinationTake a journey through the magickal folk traditions of Scotland. Barbar...

Hear the Call of the Highlands for Powerful Magick, Healing, and DivinationTake a journey through the magickal folk traditions of Scotland. Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, a Scottish hereditary witch, shares her own spiritual awakening into the craft and shows you how to integrate these practices into your own life. Discover the secrets of divination, scrying, faery magick, and communication with ancestors. Explore herb and plant lore and specific rituals to address what ...