● The Zodiac killer

Believed to have killed at least five people in northern California from

1968 to 1969, the Zodiac killer has remained unknown since his first
murders: the shooting of a teenage couple. When another couple was shot
in 1969 (this time one of the victims survived), the killer called the police
to take responsibility for both crimes. He also wrote taunting letters to
newspapers. The letters often began with the words “This is the Zodiac
speaking” and ended with a symbol resembling the crosshairs of a
gunsight.
Those newspapers published not only the killer’s letters but also the
ciphers he sent along with them. The papers encouraged the public to
help decode the secret messages. One text, known as the “408 cipher,”
contained the message “I like killing people because it is so much fun.”
Another, the “340 cipher,” wasn’t decoded until 2020. It began, “I hope
you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me.”
But the letters and the decoded ciphers haven’t been enough to crack the
case. Though several suspects have been investigated, the Zodiac killer’s
identity has never been proven. (The most scrutinized suspect,
schoolteacher Arthur Leigh Allen, was institutionalized in 1975 for
unrelated crimes.) And when we consider the theories that the killer was
active before 1968 and well into the ’80s, we have to admit that we don’t
even know for sure how many people he killed.
● The Black Dahlia
On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was found dead in
residential Los Angeles. Her body was so mutilated that the woman who
discovered it—a mother on a walk with her young daughter—thought she
had stumbled upon a mannequin.
The case was an immediate sensation. Short was soon nicknamed the
Black Dahlia—in reference to her alleged penchant for sheer black
dresses and to the 1946 film noir The Blue Dahlia, which featured the
murder of an unfaithful housewife. Short was characterized as a flighty
party girl with a record of underage drinking. Apparently, developing a
catalog of a young woman’s exploits was more exciting than mourning
her loss. Letters the alleged killer sent to the police only exacerbated the
media frenzy.
 Ever since Short’s murder was deemed a cold case, amateur sleuths have
presented their own solutions. One former police detective publicly
accused his late father of the murder, inspiring the TV miniseries I Am the
Night. A British researcher suggested that California police had conspired
with the killer.
But because most of the physical evidence in the case has been lost to
time and police mishandling—and because most of the key players are
now deceased—no theory is likely to ever be proved beyond a reasonable
doubt.
● The Hall-Mills murders
The murders of a pastor and a choir singer on a makeshift lovers’ lane
shocked a small town—and brought forth rampant accusations,
inconsistent witness testimony, and more than one false confession.
The year was 1922, and New Brunswick, New Jersey, minister Edward
Wheeler Hall was having an extramarital affair with a member of his
congregation: the also-married Eleanor Mills. On September 14 the two
left their respective family homes to meet each other. When Hall didn’t
return home that night, his wife, Frances, and one of his brothers-in-law
began a search, but neither Hall nor Mills was found until two days later,
when another couple walking lovers’ lane found their bodies under a crab
apple tree. Hall had been shot once through the head, but Mills’s body
had been brutalized: she had been shot in the face three times, and her
throat had been slashed so deeply that she had nearly been decapitated.
Later an autopsy revealed that her tongue and larynx had been cut out.
After they were killed, the couple’s bodies had been arranged in a
near-embrace.
The case was clearly personal. Though Hall and Mills’s affair had
apparently been common knowledge around town, both of their spouses
claimed to have been in the dark—an assertion that struck investigators
(and the tabloids, which seized upon the story immediately) as highly
suspicious. Frances, along with her brothers William and Henry Stevens,
were considered prime suspects.
But try as it might, the prosecution could find no evidence to convict the
siblings. Witness statements kept changing, likely influenced by the press
coverage; attention-seekers kept confessing to the murders; and physical
evidence was destroyed when sightseers trampled the crime scene,
 looking for “souvenirs.” As a result, Edward and Eleanor’s murders were
never solved.
● Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden took an axe / And gave her mother forty whacks; / And
when she saw what she had done, / She gave her father forty-one.
The famous rhyme makes it seem as if there has never been any doubt as
to whether Lizzie Borden killed her father and stepmother on August 4,
1892. Officially, though, the identity of the murderer remains a mystery.
Lizzie and a maid, Bridget Sullivan, were alone in the Borden house with
Mr. and Mrs. Borden when Lizzie—according to her
testimony—discovered her father dead. He had been repeatedly struck in
the head with a blunt instrument. Upstairs she found the body of her
stepmother. Initially, the evidence against Lizzie looked damning: she had
recently attempted to purchase prussic acid (a poison) and was alleged to
have burned a dress in the stove. What’s more, Sullivan, her suspected
accomplice, was seen on the evening of August 4 carrying a parcel out of
the house.
But at Lizzie’s trial in 1893 the court determined that all that evidence
was merely circumstantial. Lizzie wasn’t convicted, and no other suspects
were ever arrested.

Introduction (nu de la carte)

Nothing is more chilling than an unsolved murder case, and the world has
plenty of them. Even when the court has given its verdict in some
circumstances, it is difficult for us to accept it. This article consists of some of
the most well-known murder cases that shook the world. In some of the cases,
murderers have been identified, tried, and punished. While other cases remain
open and may never be solved.

● Diane Downs

Diane Downs shot her three children and drove them to the hospital in 1983.
One of her daughters died on the way to the hospital, another had a stroke, and
her son was paralysed from the waist down. Diane stated that a “strange man”
attempted to take her car and then began firing on everyone. Her secret diary,
however, was eventually discovered by the authorities, and it “described her
obsession with a married man who did not want kids.” Her arrest occurred as a
result of this. She was given a life sentence of 50 years in jail.

● Katherine Knight

Katherine Knight was the first woman in Australia to be sentenced to life in jail
without parole. She skinned her husband, John Price, after stabbing him to
death. Soon after, she skinned him and fried various parts of his body, intending
to feed them to her clueless children. She even arranged the table and used place
cards to direct the kids to their seats.

+The Silent Twins (daca nu le stii)

si asta (am vazut-o mai demult la tv si m-am gandit ca ii foarte faina, dar acum
n-am citit-o ca nu am timp deci s-ar putea sa fie alta daca nu apare ceva ca erau
urme radioactive si ca aveau ochii si limba scosi…)
https://allthatsinteresting.com/dyatlov-pass-incident
P.S. pozele is f faine, deci na…

ideeile principale:

1. deci principalul vorbeste cu un politist/ ii un politist care ii gaseste

jurnalul si citeste (ii zice/politistul citeste cum au avut loc crimele care o
sa fie ceva e genu alea de mai sus, dar sa nu fie rezolvata si sa fie de mai
mult timp nerezolvata)-nr 1= optiotional
2. stii cum ii in filme ca si cand povesteste si devine realitate
3. si incepe povestea…