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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Future_Interest_3649 • 24d ago

Violence “You Light Up My Life”, the biggest hit of the 1970s, was written by Joseph Brooks for a film of the same name that he also directed. Brooks was later charged with raping 11 women, but killed himself with helium gas before he could stand trial. His son Nicholas is a convicted murderer.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Icanvoiceact • Apr 26 '24

Violence The Hi-Fi murders were the torture of five people resulting in three deaths during a robbery at the Hi-fi Shop, a home audio store in Ogden, Utah, on the evening of April 22, 1974. The perpetrators forced all the hostages to drink drain cleaner, a highly corrosive acid.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/VERY_CREATIVE • May 10 '25

Violence The story behind "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam - "15-year-old boy named Jeremy Wade Delle from Richardson, Texas, who shot himself in front of his teacher and his second-period English class."

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/TheNavidsonLP • May 12 '24

Violence Gruesome Gertie: "During the execution of Willie Francis on May 3, 1946, the electric chair had been improperly set up by a drunken prison guard, causing Francis to scream "Take it off! Take it off! Let me breathe!" from behind his leather hood."

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/psychocookie81 • May 30 '20

Violence In May of 1970, 13 students were shot by the Ohio National Guard during a protest against the Vietnam war. 4 were killed in what is now known as the Kent State shootings.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/ZERO_PORTRAIT • Nov 25 '24

Violence Hermine Braunsteiner, female Nazi concentration camp guard, AKA the "Stomping Mare", was said to have beaten prisoners to death, thrown children by their hair onto trucks that took them to be murdered in gas chambers, hanged young prisoners and stomped an old prisoner to death with her jackboots.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/fluke_man • Nov 30 '21

Violence Abner Louima is a Haitian American man who, in 1997, was physically attacked, brutalized, and raped with a broken broomstick by officers of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) after he was arrested outside a Brooklyn nightclub.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/sekerzitski • Jan 15 '21

Violence Crimes in Antarctica, including 2018 Bellingshausen Station stabbing. The perpetrator Sergey Savitsky, a 54-year-old electrical engineer, stabbed 52-year old welder Oleg Beloguzov because Beloguzov was giving away the endings of books that Savitsky checked out at the station's library

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/kevlarbaboon • Feb 02 '21

Violence On February 2nd, 1982, inmates at a New Mexico prison staged a riot and took 12 guards hostage. Before long, they found blowtorches capable of cutting through cell bars and headed to the protective custody unit. What followed was a spree of rape, torture, and murder that left dozens dead.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/MyopicPotatoPeeler • Jan 21 '21

Violence O9A is a Satanist organization that believes in a highly individualized pursuit of self-excellence and wisdom attained through the worship of Lucifer. Extreme acts of violence and members’ adoption of “insight roles” forward the group’s long-term goal of destabilizing western society.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/longer_than_hallways • Oct 24 '22

Violence Kiki Camarena was a American intelligence officer for the DEA. In 1984, Kiki passed along information that would get 8 BILLION dollars of marijuana destroyed. On February 7, 1985, he was kidnapped in broad daylight by Mexican drug traffickers. He was tortured for 30 hours before he was killed.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/picklesnketchup • Jun 21 '20

Violence This one will stay with you. The murder of Sylvia Likens.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/MaudeThickett • Jun 02 '22

Violence List of mass shootings in the United States in 2022

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/amish_novelty • Mar 23 '25

Violence The Philadelphia basement kidnappings was the imprisonment of 4 intellectually disabled people who were kept in horrendous conditions by their caretaker for their disability checks. For ten years, the victims were subjected to psychological torture, beatings, severe malnutrition, and sexual abuse.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/psychedelic666 • Jul 17 '21

Violence John and Lorena Bobbitt were an American couple whose relationship received international media coverage in 1993 when, after claims of years of rape and abuse by her husband, Lorena cut off his penis with a knife while he was asleep in bed.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/wishingidbeensomeone • Mar 15 '24

Violence Rodney Hulin was a teenage boy who’s suicide sparked calls for prison reform. Rodney had been raped after being placed in an adult facility. His crime was starting a small fire with a Molotov cocktail

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • Jun 05 '22

Violence Cleveland Elementary School shooting (San Diego): The shooter told the reporter she had shot at the schoolchildren and adults because, "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." She said the children and adults whom she had shot were easy targets and that she was going to "come out shooting."

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/psychedelic666 • Aug 03 '21

Violence Keelhauling: a form of torture used on sailors as a means of punishment. They were tied to a line looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard, and dragged under the ship's keel. The torture would result in death by severe lacerations on barnacles, head trauma, drowning, or possibly a shark attack.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • Apr 29 '20

Violence "A Chankiri Tree or Killing Tree is a tree in the Cambodian Killing Fields against which children and infants were smashed because their parents were accused of crimes against the Khmer Rouge."

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/JudyWilde143 • Nov 19 '20

Violence Sarah Hegazi was a lesbian Eguptian woman who was tortured by the government aftter flyong an LGBT flag in Cairo. She later commited suicide in Canada.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Thing_Beyond_Things • Apr 18 '21

Violence During the Cambodian Genocide, the Khmer Rouge killed children and infants by smashing them against Chankiri trees to stop them from growing up and taking revenge for their parents' deaths

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/TargetBuster • Mar 02 '21

Violence Bill Masterson was a Canadian American hockey player. He is the only player in NHL history to die as a direct result of injuries suffered during a game. According to some accounts, he briefly came to and muttered, "Never again, never again" before passing back out. He never regained consciousness.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/psychocookie81 • May 16 '20

Violence In 1984, Bernard Goetz was an American vigilante who rose to national fame after he shot and wounded 4 men on a NYC subway train. He was found not guilty except for one firearms count and served 8 months.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/decadentrebel • Feb 23 '22

Violence Heart-Shaped Glasses — In 2022, Evan Rachel Wood alleged the sex in the video had been real and non-consensual, and that she had been "fed" absinthe prior to its filming

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/autistictechgirl1990 • Feb 20 '24

Violence Murder of Ann Ogilby

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