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In the Access Guide, the Martells are said to have arrived in the area in and to have built their mill to compete with the Packard Mill. It's possible that the Access Guide was written with a biased slant against the Martells and towards the Packards, as the beginning of the guide states that Andrew Packard left some of his money for printing the access guide to the town and he requested that his personal friend, Richard Saul Wurman, be made editor-in-chief of the publication.
Renault is said to later become the head of the infamous Renault Gang crime clan in Canada; during the time of the original TV series, we of course meet crime brothers Jean Renault and Jacques Renault along with brother Bernard. A Grange Hall is a building used for meetings of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry , which often hosts community events as well. The fortunes of the Martell Mill ended during the Depression in and Zebulon Martell found himself selling the Martell land and timber rights to Thomas Packard. Page states that Orville Horne arrived in Twin Peaks in and opened a general store there, by the s becoming Horne's Department Store but, in Episode 3: Orville's father, Danville, had become a millionaire with his own mercantile company in San Francisco during the California gold rush; the California gold rush lasted from The Horne family were the principal investors in the Bijou Opera House of Twin Peaks when it was built in and it hosted stars such as opera legend Enrico Caruso and musician Paderewski Ignacy Jan Paderewski , and it also served as a vaudeville house on the Orpheum circuit, with the Marx Brothers and W.
These were all real world stars in the first half of the 20th Century. A slightly different story of the opera house is told in Twin Peaks: An Access Guide to the Town , but the two are not irreconcilable. Both sources state that Caruso performed there. Vaudeville is a type of travelling variety show performed live. The Orpheum Circuit was a chain of theaters that hosted various entertainment acts across the U. Page states that the Bijou showed The Jazz Singer in The Jazz Singer is a musical film and was the first full-length "talkie".
The photo of the Bijou on page shows the theater's marquee advertising Northwest Passage , starring Robert Young and Spencer Tracy. This is an actual film from Coincidentally or suspiciously , the Sawmill River Lodge burned down the week before the brand new Great Northern Hotel opened. In his book Oh, What a Tangled Web The Japanese mention is a pretty straightforward reference to American fears during the war. The "Hun" reference is not as well-recognized today, but "Hun" was a term sometimes used especially in Allied propaganda for the Germans, comparing them to the "barbarian hordes" of Attila the Hun, the 5th Century warlord.
Page mentions the local premiere of 49th Parallel at the Bijou in The 49th parallel of latitude also forms much of the U. The Brigade met at the Bookhouse. This seems to contradict, to an extent, Harry's telling of the history of the Bookhouse Boys to Cooper in Episode 3: There, Harry says they've been meeting at the Bookhouse for only "the past 20 years. Can the townspeople only remember back to the s? I would suspect that the society has existed in some form for some time, long before Frederick Truman made it semi-public as the Citizens Brigade. Page states that the Bookhouse is located on Highway 21 and was formerly a one-room schoolhouse and then a library.
Franklin Truman served in the Green Berets in Vietnam, then entered law enforcement in western Washington. The Green Berets are U. Army Special Forces personnel who conduct missions of unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, direct action, and counter-terrorism. An Access Guide to the Town lists further members of the team, but omits Frank Truman I guess that character hadn't been thought up yet!
The team went far, but lost the Washington State championship game to the Kettle Falls Cougars; Kettle Falls is a real city in Washington, but they don't appear to have a Cougars school team. The union of the Packard and Martell dynasties is compared to the Bard's Romeo and Juliet on page Romeo and Juliet , of course, is probably Shakespeare's most well-known play, with a storyline about two feuding families whose two children fall in love with each other.
Pete was winner of six straight Lumberjack of the Year awards at the Packard Mill.
He then asks Milford, "You know what happened to Forrestal, Colonel? David died in The Sierra Club is an environmental preservation organization founded by John Muir in Are the two M. The "Connie" mentioned here is a nickname for a Lockheed Super Constellation airliner, used as the Presidential plane during Eisenhower's visit. Pete was winner of six straight Lumberjack of the Year awards at the Packard Mill.
He married Catherine in Page states that Catherine Packard attended Sarah Lawrence. Afterwards, she'd had plans to study in Europe, but canceled them to marry Pete. On page , the Archivist compares the Packards to the Capulets and the Martells to the Montagues, a reference to the two families in Romeo and Juliet , and then uses the more modern comparisons of the Packards to the Vanderbilts and the Martells to the Kramdens. This refers to the Vanderbilt family, a rich and successful American family originally from the Netherlands.
The Kramdens are the American working-class family that appeared in the sitcom The Honeymooners. The Archivist also refers to Pete and Catherine as "star-crossed lovers", a phrase used in the prologue of Romeo and Juliet. The Archivist describes Pete as "a well-liked and simple fellow; Pete played checkers, not chess.
Is the Archivist Briggs intentionally playing down Pete's intelligence for some reason? On page , the Archivist states that Pete, after a few single-malt scotches, admitted, "Catherine is plain hell to live with. Pete also admitted to Harry that Catherine "is plain hell to live with" in Episode 8B: On page , the Archivist refers to Catherine as possessing "an icy Titian beauty and the temperament to match" and states that a local wag referred to her as "a Packard by name, a Medici by inclination.
The Medicis were a politically powerful Italian banking family throughout Europe from the 15thth centuries. Footnote 1 on page reveals that Cooper had cataloged all of the books in the Bookhouse. According to Footnote 1 on page , the pages of "The Packard Case" file found on the shelves of the Bookhouse were typed on an Underwood typewriter that resides in the Bookhouse. Underwood Typewriter Company was a manufacturer of typewriters from This is also the date on which Episode Page states that Pete's management job at the Packard Mill was largely ceremonial, but he was well paid for it.
Pete made it his project to teach Josie English, which she learned extremely quickly, suggesting she may have disguised already knowing the language. Josie was using the alias Josette Mai Wong when she met Andrew. Her real name is Li Chun Fung which means "upright autumn bird". Pages are from an Interpol file from Singapore on Josie. Interpol is the shorthand name of the International Criminal Police Organization. The Interpol emblem seen in the file is the actual emblem of the organization. Josie's Interpol file relates a lot more of her history and criminal background than we received in the TV series.
She was born on September 2, in Guangzhou Province , China. Her father was a Red Pole enforcer in the Siu-wong triad who rose to the position of Deputy Mountain Master; she was raised by him and trained in criminality and ran her own drug and prostitution ring at the age of A triad is an organized crime unit in China. As far as I can tell, there is no triad known as Siu-wong.
Besides her criminal training, she also attended an exclusive boarding school in Shanghai. Josie's mother was a "legendarily beautiful" prostitute known as the Lace Butterfly. After graduation from the boarding school, Josie founded her own fashion label also using it as a cover for cocaine sales and distribution.
Josie is fluent in six languages and has as many aliases in different countries. She is believed to have killed her own father in order to inherit his criminal operations which put Josie herself on the triad's hit list and she disappeared. Page mentions the Peking Opera. Jones asks to speak to the South African consulate upon her arrest in Episode Page mentions Chanel No. This is a famous variety of perfume made by Chanel.
Body Heat is a erotic thriller written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan; it does feature a similar boathouse "accident" in which the victim may not actually be dead. Hank was jailed for a hit-and-run on the highway in order to provide an alibi for him just before the boat explosion. Hank's mother, Jolene, worked as a waitress at the RR Diner for 35 years. These were all actual American authors. The Twin Peaks Gazette article about Hank's bizarre fumble in the Washington state high school championship football game on page has Frank Truman saying, "It's almost a crime what happened out there," hinting at a suspicion that Hank had fixed the game.
A portion of another article is seen at the bottom of the one described above, about a go-cart crash on trail 6F near Parker Road. Hank started driving a brand-new cherry red Chevy pickup a few months after the infamous football fumble. Page states that Hank worked as a short order cook at the RR as a young man. Page mentions Perry Mason. Perry Mason is a fictional criminal defense lawyer in novels, movies, and television since , created by Erle Stanley Gardner.
Page states that Big Ed had an uncle who lost two fingers working at the Packard sawmill. Norma's family history seems to be quite a bit different from that presented in the original TV series. No mention of sister Annie is made. The "Marty" name is a play on the "Mar T" name of the actual diner location used when the original TV series was shot there. Page reveals that Big Ed joined the army during the U. He spent his two-year hitch in the command HQ motor pool in Saigon presumably due to his automotive repair skills. Page states that Norma had stuttered as a child and suffered low self-esteem.
Cooper describes Hank on page as a sociopath who is able to simulate sincere emotions without feeling them. Page states that Norma attended community college. Hank and Norma were married at the Chapel in the Woods. Presumably this is a wedding chapel in or near Twin Peaks. Norma's studies were geared towards becoming a nurse, but illnesses in her and Hank's family led to her taking over management of the RR Diner.
The Hollywood postcard sent by Norma to her parents on her honeymoon is an actual postcard available around I don't know if it would have been easily available at the time it was supposed to have been sent, The Tonight Show episode that Norma describes she and Hank having attended appears to have been the April 15, episode judging by her mention of Victor Buono's appearance and the April 17 cancellation stamp on the postcard.
However, she also says that Sammy Davis, Jr. The on the cancellation stamp is a legitimate zip code for Hollywood. Erroneously, the post card has a "First Man on the Moon" stamp on it months before the moon landing took place! Mark Frost was asked about this at a book signing i. Frost responded it was a mistake and took responsibility for the error. But some fans have questioned the reliability of Frost's comments about the moon landing date considering there is another erroneous date for it July 8 in Episode 7: Norma's postcard indicates that her parents lived on Parker Road in Twin Peaks at the time of her marriage.
The zip code is listed as , yet another zip code for Twin Peaks from those listed earlier! This zip code is actually for Snoqualmie, WA. On page , Cooper states that when Norma took over management of the RR, she added a bakery next door to bake her mother's famous pie recipes, eventually even selling them by mail order. This is probably a reference to the real world Mar-T cafe later Twede's that had so many Twin Peaks fans ordering cherry pies there that they had to hire extra pie cooks and even received mail order requests for the pies.
Cooper also states that Norma designed the aqua and white waitress uniforms worn at the RR. The fall of Saigon marked the end of the Vietnam War and the unification of North and South Vietnam under a communist regime. According to Hawk, Big Ed returned to Twin Peaks still carrying "a Statue of Liberty -sized torch for Norma" and moped about her like "a twelve-year-old Girl Scout who lost her cookies". The Girl Scouts of America are known for selling cookies to raise money for their scouting activities. SOB stands for "son of a bitch" and "beaucoup dinky-dow" is a corruption of a French and Vietnamese term for someone who is whacko.
Hawk comments that there was plenty of nookie for Ed to get besides the taken Norma. Hawk states that Ed once referred to a Frankie Valli tearjerker as his and Norma's song. Valli is an American singer active since the s. Hawk mentions the Mekong and Queen for a Day on page The Mekong is a river that runs through several Asian countries, including Vietnam. Queen for a Day was an American radio and television game show geared towards women from Hawk was sent home from Vietnam 6 months ahead of Big Ed due to a VC shrapnel injury incurred to his gluteus maximus.
The gluteus maximus is a hip muscle. Hawk says that Big Ed could assemble a Volkswagen blindfolded and calls him the "engine whisperer".
Olympia is a brand of beer once brewed in Washington, now brewed in California. Catch is a satirical novel by Joseph Heller. Heller did serve in the U. Army, just as Ed suspects in these pages. On page , Hawk reveals that it was Frank Truman who gave him the nickname of "Tommy Hawk", which he resented, commenting, "back then, white people still found condescending shit like that funny.
F Troop was a satirical TV series about a U. Page reveals that Hawk considered moving to Alaska and working on a deep-sea fishing trawler, but was talked out of it by a shrink at the VA. He accepted a deputy position under Sheriff Frank Truman instead. Hawk is a full-blooded Nez Perce. It certainly makes more sense that he would be from a tribe native to the American northwest like the Nez Perce. Is he then the son of a Nez Perce shaman?
Hawk's father was named Henry, a tree-topper for the Packard Mill, which the Department of Labor lists as the most dangerous job in the world. I'm not sure if this is strictly true, but a Bureau of Labor Statistics survey put logging as the most dangerous job in America in Possibly the name "Henry Hill" was inspired by the animated character of Henry "Hank" Hill on the animated sitcom King of the Hill.
She was a gymnast in school. She worked as a seamstress for a time in Spokane. Big Ed met Nadine when she drove her father's John Deere tractor to the Gas Farm for repairs and Ed accidentally backed into her with a tow truck as they were both pulling in. On page , Hawk refers to Ed and Nadine, on their first meeting, as being stuck to each other like Siamese twins.
The term "Siamese twins" refers to conjoined twins, the term originating from the conjoined twins from Siam, Chang and Eng Bunker James' favorite book is Charlotte's Web. This is a an actual children's book by E. Ed and Nadine were married at the Chapel in the Woods, the same chapel Norma and Hank were married at. Page mentions the Young Rascals. This was an American rock band from onward most commonly known as simply the Rascals. Deputy Andy alleges that Nadine had a nervous breakdown when they went to school together in tenth grade.
Nadine spent time at a mental health facility and returned to school about 6 months later claiming to have been a foreign exchange student in France during that time. Page reveals that Nadine's father had a little money from having invented an industrial flame retardant. This goes towards Nadine wanting to invent silent drape runners in episodes of the TV series.
In this version of Nadine's story, she accidentally got her eye shot out by Big Ed when she was spying on him during a bird hunt with Harry not on their honeymoon as related in the TV series. Page states that Dr. Jacoby returned to Twin Peaks from Hawaii after his mother died in By this point he had written a series of controversial articles and a book, The Eye of God: This is a fictitious publisher.
In his discussion of Jacoby's book, the Archivist mentions Margaret Mead. Mead was an anthropologist who had studied South Pacific cultures, just as Jacoby did for his book. Jacoby was briefly married to the daughter of an aboriginal chief in the South Pacific or South America. The back cover of Jacoby's book features quotes from Dr. Leary was an American psychologist who was known for advocating the use of psychedelic drugs in therapy.
Garcia was an American singer-songwriter in the band the Grateful Dead and also known for his drug use. Baba was an Indian spiritual leader who took a vow of silence from July until his death in ; his quote on the book cover, "I'm speechless" is a joke in reference to his vow of silence. Jacoby's back cover states he is a Jungian psychiatrist. Jungian psychology also known as analytical psychology is psychological therapy that emphasizes the individual and that individual's search for their own authenticity or conscious self, originated by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung The back cover photo of Dr.
Jacoby is stated to be by Harvey Trufant. Notice that the photo is tinted half-red and half-blue, like the glasses he wears. In his book, Jacoby describes using ayahuasca. Ayahuasca is a psychogenic concoction brewed from plant materials by indigenous tribes of the Amazon. On page , the Archivist remarks that Jacoby's book enjoys a cult status to this day. One of the reasons Dr. Jacoby returned to Twin Peaks was to care for his brother, Robert, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
In his report on Nadine's condition, Dr. Jacoby mixes a couple of quotes together from "Beatle Paul with St. Paul" using "the road to Damascus is long and winding. Paul was on the road to Damascus when the resurrected Jesus appeared before him. Nadine's mother was diagnosed as a manic-depressive 10 years earlier about and assigned for psychiatric care to "a former fort built in Thorazine was used in her treatment; Thorazine is the brand name of chlorpromazine in the U. Jacoby states that she died about five years ago On page , Jacoby mentions "Miltowns". Miltown is one of the brand names of meprobamate, a low-level tranquilizer.
In the report, Jacoby proposes to treat Nadine with Rolfing "to release the patterns locked into her fascia.
The technique is generally considered quackery by the medical establishment. Jacoby's report continues on page , the first three sentences of paragraph 2 are partially reprinted within each other. Presumably, this is just a printing mistake and not meant to be interpreted as the way it was typed by Dr. On page , Dr. Jacoby remarks on his theory that glasses with one red polarized lens for the right eye and one blue polarized lens for the left would slightly suppress the activity of the right intuitive and left logical hemispheres of the brain, increasing activity in the corpus callosum and allowing the two sides of the brain to work together more easily.
The corpus callosum is a bundle of neural fibers that connects the two hemispheres and allows communication between them. Jacoby is, of course, seen wearing glasses with these colored lenses in the TV series. He apparently used the identity to travel to and from Hong Kong. Possibly the name "Anton Walbrook" is borrowed from the Austrian actor of the same name who worked out of the UK.
Footnote 3 on page has Agent TP stating that Cooper was wearing a Kevlar vest when he was shot by Josie, expecting the assault. But in the episode in which the assault happened, Episode 7: He also remarks that "she already felt like a ghost," possibly an intimation of her body found to weigh only 65 pounds by the coroner, much less than that it should have in Episode Hayward's autopsy report on Josie Packard is dated March 11, But Josie's death did not occur until March 20th in Episode This does not quite match correctly with the day of the explosion as seen in Episode The article reveals the fates of the characters in the bank at the time, with Pete, Andrew, and Del Mibbler all killed and Audrey injured and in critical condition at Calhoun Memorial Hospital.
The article reveals that Del Mibbler's full first name is Delbert. On page , the Archivist states that Catherine grieved for the loss of her brother Andrew and husband Pete and became a recluse, alone at Blue Pine Lodge. The sale of real estate contract on page reveals that Ben's middle name is Joseph. The contract shows that the sale of the Packard Mill land to Ben was made on March 23, This does not match the timeline already laid out of Andrew dying on March 27 or 28th. The contract states it was made and recorded by Honorable M. The notary seal on the document is from Mary Jo Plutnik.
Are the two M. Or just a "coincidence"? The address of the Twin Peaks Registrar on the document is the same as the one seen in the document seen in Episode 7: Audrey's note to her father on pages seem to indicate that her act of "civil disobedience" at the Twin Peaks Savings and Loan was part of a plan to stop her father's Ghostwood Development project, rather than associated with her father's "save the pine weasel" campaign as seen in the original TV series.
This would seem to be a nod to the proposed maximum security prison facility in the area mentioned in Twin Peaks: Ben Horne's birth date of August 4, on Dr. Jacoby's psychiatric report is the same as that given in the Twin Peaks card set of The report is dated March 22, This is a couple of days after Ben's fantasized victory over the Northern troops in the U.
Civil War as seen in Episode Jacoby's statements here suggest that Ben's "victory" never occurred and that Jacoby is planning to help enact the South's surrender at Appomattox shortly instead. In footnote 5 on page , Agent TP states that the doctor's later patient files reveal that Ben did eventually "surrender at Appomattox" and find his way back to health. This occurred in Episode After being taken back into custody for parole violations in Episode But he was knifed by a distant cousin of the Renault family in the prison weight room and died shortly after, confessing to all his assorted crimes on his deathbed.
Hank is said to have been the last of the Jennings clan in Twin Peaks. The photo of Hank on page purports to be of his last day at the RR, but it is a shot from Episode 5: House of Representatives from to investigate citizens and organizations suspected of having Nazi, Fascist, or Communist ties. Nixon was, in fact, a congressman and member of HUAC in The Archivist finds that Douglas Milford had connections to L.
Ron Hubbard and Jack Parsons These were both real historical figures and they did indeed engage in occult rituals, similar to what is suggested in the book. Hubbard was also the founder of the Church of Scientology. Hubbard was born in the small town of Tilden, Nebraska, as stated here. In an article in the December issue of Look magazine, Hubbard commented on the same ailments he suffered from as are listed in Nixon's interview of him here. Jack Parsons' mansion home in Pasadena was known locally as the Parsonage, just as stated by Hubbard on page ; it was located on Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena as stated on page He was a member of English ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley's new religion called Thelema, which invokes a number of individual deities.
Crowley was called by some of his detractors, hyperbolically, "the most evil man in the world", as Hubbard relates in his interview some also referred to him as the Beast, as mentioned on page Hubbard's field report on Jack Parsons on pages is typed on stationary from U. This is an actual air station. Parsons' "Suicide Squad" of engineers and scientists was real. They were called the Suicide Squad due to the dangerous nature of their rocket experiments. I have been unable to confirm that Parsons referred to "rocket fuel" that he and his team concocted as "alchemical elixirs" as stated by Hubbard on page Hubbard describes Parsons as a fan of Jules Verne and H.
Wells in his youth. This appears to have been true. Parsons was associated with Caltech for much of his career. Hubbard describes Parsons has having a Barrymore mustache. This is a reference to American actor John Barrymore He describes Parsons has having the "louche air of a sybarite". Hubbard goes on to refer to Parsons as a Pied Piper to his houseguests' illicit behavior; t his is a reference to the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a character in a German fairy tale who was hired by the town of Hamelin to lure away the local rat infestation with the notes of his magic flute.
Hubbard describes Parsons' room as decorated with swords, Tarot symbols, pagan artwork, a skull-shaped altar, and life-sized statue of the demi-god Pan. I'm not able to confirm all of these, but Parsons did have a statue of Pan and a collection of daggers and swords in his room at the Parsonage. Pan is the Ancient Greek god of the wild in the form of the half-man, half-goat satyr.
Parsons was known for chanting "Ode to Pan". Footnote 4 on page states that the Parsonage was originally built by Caltech benefactor Arthur Fleming, a lumber baron, with high-grade lumber from the region around Twin Peaks. Fleming was a real world lumber tycoon and benefactor of Caltech. I've been unable to confirm whether the Parasonage mansion was built by him, but it is highly possible, as he did build other mansions on Orange Grove Boulevard, which came to be known for a time as Millionaire's Row.
Footnote 5 on page has Agent TP mentioning that Crowley was a notorious drug addict. Crowley was known to use recreational drugs. TP also compares Crowley to a perverted Bond villain; this refers to the megalomaniacal villains found in the James Bond series of spy novels and films. On page , Parsons discusses eros or agape Theleman tenets stated that every individual was God. On page , Hubbard mentions seeing Parsons worrying a ring on his right ring finger around The description of the ring suggests it is the Owl Cave ring. Parsons mentions Isaac Newton on page Sir Isaac Newton is often considered the father of modern science.
On page , at the Parsonage, Parsons mutters, "The magician longs to see And "spirits in this wood" is a touchstone back to the Log Lady's log and the possible entrapment of Josie's spirit in the wood of the Great Northern at the end of Episode On page , Hubbard is said to have conned Parsons out of his life's savings and ran off with Parsons' girlfriend, Sara "Betty" Northrup Footnote 7 on page mentions Hubbard's book Dianetics as the basis of his later "religion", Scientology. Dianetics was published in On page , Parsons mentions the grays from Zeta Reticuli.
Agent TP's footnote 8 on this page about Zeta Reticuli is accurate; the binary star system of Zeta Reticuli is about 39 light-years from Earth. Agent TP's footnote 9 on page on the star Sirius is accurate. Sirius is the brightest star in Earth's sky, about 8. The Working of Babalon mentioned by Parsons on page was an actual series of rituals performed by Parsons and including Hubbard from January to March in an attempt to manifest the goddess Babalon of Crowley's Thelema religion.
The goddess Babalon is also known as the Mother of Abominations, as mentioned on page The "Technicolor redhead" woman who pulls up in a Buick roadster to pick up Parsons is Marjorie Cameron , Parsons' wife at the time, believed by him to be an elemental who would become his lover and that their eventual child would be Babalon born on Earth.
They never had a child together, though she reportedly did get pregnant by him once and terminated the pregnancy. Technicolor is a process of shooting and processing motion picture film to make color movies. The information about the Arroyo Seco near JPL on page is accurate, including the rock outcropping that looks like the face of a devil. The Sumerian bas relief of the Whore of Babalon on page is an actual artwork from around BC known more commonly as the Queen of the Night or the Burney Relief for the London antique dealer who acquired it, Sidney Burney.
Notice that two owls stand at her sides and she has the feet of an owl herself. Doug Milford's statement that the Tongva Indians believed the Devil's Gate of the Arroyo Seco to be a portal to the underworld I've been unable to confirm, though the Tongva are an actual Native American tribe in the region who considered the Arroyo Seco to be spiritually significant. Allegedly, Crowley did refer to the Devil's Gate of Arroyo Seco as one of seven gateways to hell that existed on Earth, as stated in footnote 10 on this page.
Prior to forming Scientology, Hubbard had stated that a good way to make money was to start a religion, as stated on page He is alleged to have said this on different occasions in and Hubbard bought a yacht in Miami , FL with the money he had stolen from Parsons in Hubbard's Scientology religion holds that spiritual beings called Thetans created the universe for their own pleasure and eventually became so caught up in it they forgot their own spiritually-elevated existence and became trapped in the universe, endlessly reincarnating and attaching themselves to material bodies.
Agent TP's footnote 14 on page seems a bit off from what Hubbard actually wrote about Thetans and her assumption that his story was based on Richard Shaver's Lemurian stories of underground cities. Scientology uses the term "thetan" to refer to the spirits of "alien" beings that cling to human bodies.
The story in footnote 16 of a construction worker who killed some children near the Arroyo Seco is true. The man was Mack Ray Edwards On page , Parsons is stated by a colleague of his to have performed rituals aimed at bringing across an entity called the Moonchild, seemingly based on Crowley's novel Moonchild about a battle between black and white magicians over an unborn child who may be the Antichrist. Whether Parson's ritual in New Mexico actually took place the week before the UFO crash incident in Roswell, as stated here, I've been unable to confirm. The closed session testimony of Jack Parsons seen in a document on page is recorded as having taken place in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Parsons and his wife did actually live in a room of the Cruikshank estate on Orange Grove Boulevard at the end of his life, as stated on page I've been unable to confirm if the article content itself is what actually appeared in the paper. The article states that Parsons was pronounced dead at Pasadena General Hospital after the explosion at his home.
I've been unable to confirm whether there was a ever a hospital by that exact name in Pasadena at the time. Jack Parsons' mother, Ruth Parsons, did take her own life with an overdose of barbiturates, after hearing of his death, as also stated in the article here. On page , the Archivist states that Parsons' friends had disposed of hypodermic needles they found around the area of the explosion to protect his reputation before police arrived. Later, they also painted over the devil's head that was on the wall of his room.
I've been unable to confirm if these are true. Also on page , the Archivist compares Parsons to Icarus. Icarus is a Greek mythological figure, who used wings made of feathers and wax to fly, but flew too close to the sun, which melted the wax and caused him to plummet to the sea, where he drowned. On page , the Archivist writes that one of Parsons' closest friends, an unnamed science-fiction writer, had called him "an American Byron". The man is also said to have used the following quote in relation to Parsons' death, "Once a magician stands between two worlds, he's in danger of not belonging to either one of them.
Parsons was known to have mixed with several science-fiction writers during his life, most notably L. Ron Hubbard and Robert Heinlein. Presumably, the Archivist would have named Hubbard if it had been him he was speaking of since Hubbard has already played a prominent role by name in the dossier. So, the man may be Heinlein, but I have been unable to confirm anyone referring to Parsons as a "an American Byron".
The "magician" quote is obviously fictional, to tie into the "Fire walk with me" chant of Twin Peaks. On page , the Archivist comments on German scientists who avoided prosecution at the Nuremberg trials by agreeing to work for the American government. As stated in footnote 2 on page , Parsons had a crater named after him on the far side of the Moon in She is commenting on Milford's apparent propensity for being involved in U. Fidel Castro was the communist ruler of Cuba from The CIA is alleged to have considered, or attempted, to put thallium salts in Castro's famous beard in order to destroy it and thus make him look foolish.
Griselda Blanco — The infamous drug lord had roughly people murdered by her hand or her order during the Drug Wars in Miami , but outdid herself by putting a contract on one of her hitmen and killing his 2-year-old son by mistake in a drive-by. Blanco received a ten-year prison sentence. Barbara Graham — Pistol-whipped a lonely widow to death in Oakland, California , turning what was supposed to be a robbery into a murder.
She was executed in Juanita Spinelli — A woman who proclaimed herself to be the "Queen of Thieves" fostered young teens and taught them to become her henchmen, but when they accidentally kill an innocent man, she murdered one of her helpers to keep him from talking. Spinelli was executed in at the age of Mary Winkler — A preacher's wife, Winkler shoots her sleeping husband in Selmer, Tennessee , claiming she was subjected to physical, sexual and emotional abuse. After a trial that gained national attention, her sentencing would become one that would divide the nation.
She was charged with manslaughter and now is released and has full custody of her three daughters. Christina Walters — In Fayetteville, North Carolina , this year-old defied the odds by becoming a gang leader and attempted to earn the Crips ' tear tattoo under an eye, meaning they have killed. As a deadly initiation, Christina and her gang kidnapped three women in two separate abductions and shot them like lambs to the slaughter.
The seemingly senseless murders would have remained unsolved if it were not for one thing — one woman was still alive. Walters was sentenced to death, later in December , her sentence was commuted to life without parole. Judith Neelley — At age 15, she married her husband Alvin, and they immediately began a crime spree. After being released on armed robbery charges, Judith and Alvin commit the most heinous of crimes by abducting, raping, torturing and murdering two women, one of them a year-old girl in Fort Payne, Alabama.
One extraordinary breakthrough led to an eyewitness confession and one detail ultimately led to their arrest. Both Neelleys were sentenced to death, which later was commuted to life. Alvin died in prison in Tiffany Cole — In Jacksonville, Florida , Tiffany Ann Cole, her boyfriend, Michael Jackson, and friends, Bruce Nixon and Alan Wade kidnapped and buried alive an elderly couple who had helped care for her as her father was dying from terminal cancer and stole their money.
Upon their arrest and conviction, Jackson, Cole and Wade were all sentenced to death and Nixon, who agreed to lead authorities to the gravesite and testify against his cohorts, is serving 45 years. Walter received a death sentence, and in August , her sentence was commuted to life without parole. Lydia Sherman — A mother and wife laced food and drinks with arsenic in Burlington, New Jersey , killing three husbands and all of her children.
Sherman got a life sentence. Paula Sims — A young mother murdered her two young daughters in Brighton, Illinois , but let her son live due to her personal view that the girls were unwanted. Sims is not eligible for parole. Darlie Routier — Jealous of the attention given to her children, a Rowlett, Texas housewife stabbed two of her sons and staged a break-in to get that attention back. She now awaits execution on Texas' death row.
Frances Elaine Newton — In , Frances cold-heartedly shot her husband and two young children for life insurance money. She was executed in September of by the state of Texas. Louise Peete — A Southern belle shot and killed multiple partners, leaving a trail of blood and bodies behind her before the state takes her life in the gas chamber. Jane Dorotik — Instead of divorce, horse owner Jane Dorotik chose to murder her husband so she would not have to share the money she planned on using for her own ranch.
Dorotik is serving a 25 year sentence. In order to kill her father through a hitman, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong coerced an acquaintance to rob a bank for her under the pretense that he was a hostage and had a bomb around his neck, although he was unaware that the bomb was real. Armstrong is serving a life sentence. Rosie Alfaro stabbed her friend's 9-year-old sister over 50 times in Anaheim, California to rob the house and trade the items and money stolen in exchange for drugs and booze. Rosie is sentenced to death.
Amber Cummings , a woman from Belfast, Maine , shot her abusive, white supremacist, child-pornography-watching, Nazi-obsessed husband to save her daughter from being sexually assaulted. Afterward, the authorities discovered that her husband had been planning a terrorist attack at the inauguration of then President-elect Barack Obama , and that Cummings might have saved not only her daughter, but also the President.
Cummings did not serve time in prison. In , maid and thief Kate Webster murdered her employer, Julia Martha Thomas, and disposed of the body by dismembering and boiling it. She was executed by hanging. Thomas' skull remained undiscovered for years. Self-proclaimed voodoo queen Josephine Gray terrified her husbands and killed them in Baltimore , but due to lack of evidence, locking her up called for some very drastic actions. Gray eventually got 40 years in prison without parole.
Elisa McNabney and Sarah Dutra have a bond so strong that it left Elisa's husband the third person in his marriage. Money and pure selfishness motivated them to execute Larry. Elisa committed suicide in prison and Sarah was released from prison. Robin Lee Row needed money to pay off her excessive spending.
Her solution was to set her Pocatello, Idaho house on fire with her husband and two kids inside. But her watertight alibi led police on a wild goose chase for clues and a conviction — leading to dark secrets from her past and only one way to expose her. Row was sentenced to death. Marybeth Tinning of Duanesburg, New York loved the attention she receives after her third child died of meningitis as a baby.
To keep receiving that attention she quietly killed her other eight children over a span of years. She was seen as a woman with a series of unfortunate events, until she went one step too far by smothering an adopted child. Tinning got a 20 years to life sentence, and was denied parole in March and January Rachel Wade and Sarah Ludemann engaged in an online battle for the affections of a boy in Pinellas Park, Florida and the battle entered the real world. When Sarah took one risk too many by confronting Rachel, Rachel was armed with a knife and used it to effectively kill Sarah. Wade is serving a 27 year sentence.
Caroline Young was so upset at the thought of losing her grandson to his biological father, she stabbed both her grand-kids ages 6 and 4 and also stabbed herself but survived — all while her grandson's mother was watching. She was sentenced to death and died in prison. After learning her first husband had an illegitimate child, Raynella Dossett Leath began to control every aspect of her new husband's life in Knoxville, Tennessee , including his death when she was overcome by greed.
Leath received 51 years to life in prison. Soon afterwards, another shocking secret was revealed. In Las Vegas , Margaret Rudin was sick of her husband wasting all of his money on alcohol, guns and sleeping with other women and decided to shoot and dismember him before going on the run.
She soon discovered that her efforts were for naught, as her husband had changed his will and completely disinherited her. Rudin was eventually caught and received a life sentence with possibility of parole after serving 20 years. Sarah Mitchell of Oakland, California lived rent-free in the house of her hard-working, well-to-do older sister Stevie. When Stevie cut her off after learning Sarah had been stealing money and writing checks in her name, Sarah's plans go from devious to diabolical by killing, dismembering and re-emerging from a fire as her sister.
Mitchell is not eligible for parole. Two twins, wholesome schoolteacher Peggy Lowe and flashy, audacious nurse Betty Wilson found themselves caught in a web of deception and mystery after a man they both met murdered Betty's ailing husband a well loved eye-doctor whom Betty married for money and claimed they both made him do it.
The truth was one that shook Huntsville, Alabama to its core. Despite Peggy believing that her sister was innocent, Betty was sent to spend the rest of her life in prison. In s London , respected midwife Elizabeth Brownrigg secretly abused her servants and ruthlessly tortured, beat and starved them. It was not until one girl was found dying from numerous open sores that this woman was finally unmasked and she is branded a monster for centuries to come. She was put to death by hanging. Kerry Lyn Dalton discovered that, while she was in jail, her flatmate, Irene May, sold some of her belongings to pay for crystal meth, which both women took.
Kerry, high on meth, responded by torturing Irene to death via everything from electrocution to stabbing to bludgeoning. Dalton remains on death row. Susan Wright was supposedly abused and controlled by her husband, Jeff, who spent days having affairs with strippers and using drugs while Susan raised their two young kids in Houston. Susan did not believe in divorce and felt the only way out was murder. Wright's sentence was 25 years but was reduced to 20 years. In Memphis , Alice Mitchell had plans of moving to Boston with her lover Freda Ward and living as a married couple disguised as a man, but when Freda's family stopped those plans dead in their tracks and forbade her to see Alice, an obsession began leading Alice to destroy the one she cherished most.
Within hours of meeting in juvenile detention, troubled teens Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf began to plan a life together and step one in the plan included killing somebody at random. Their victim of choice: In Norfolk, England , Lorraine Thorpe saw a father figure in a year-old in her group of alcoholics. He violently beat his girlfriend and eventually killed her, and Lorraine happily participated; when Lorraine's father learned of the murder and became suspicious, they killed him too. Tina Powell and LaFonda Foster were drunk and high when they go on a killing spree, taking five friends hostage and killing them all in different ways.
The night proved to be the deadliest in the history of Lexington, Kentucky. Melinda Harmon-Raisch was a housewife in Olathe, Kansas who fell for a student at a nearby college. She had her lover murder her husband so they could be together and they framed two black people. The two went on to marry other people and the secret was hidden for a decade.
Jane Andrews was appointed the wardrobe specialist for Sarah, Duchess of York , but was fired. After losing her job, her only connection to the high life of England was her boyfriend. When he broke things off, she murdered him in his bed. Sentenced to life imprisonment, Jane was paroled in June Shana Parkinson had a volatile temper that prompted her husband to leave her for another woman. She stabbed him and his new fiancee to death. However, she got caught quickly due to an unlikely eyewitness who saw the murders unfold.
Shana got a life sentence with 27 years minimum. Kirsten Costas reminded her classmate Bernadette Protti of everything she wanted, but could never have. The solution to the problem was to annihilate the source of the pain by stabbing Kirsten to death. Bernadette served a seven-year sentence in juvenile hall and is now a free woman.
Karen Severson and Laura Doyle were friends with Missy Avila since grade school, but as they grew older, the friendship dissolved. On the pretense of wanting to reconcile with Missy, Karen and Laura took her into the woods, beat her up, cut her hair and drowned her in the lake. The crime was unsolved for years until an unexpected confession appeared as if out of nowhere. Sentenced to 15 years to life, both Karen and Laura were free on parole as of December When Patricia Robinson-Olsen had money problems, she resorted to soliciting her teenage son Christopher into shooting her second husband Neil to death, and then attempted to have him take the fall.
Patricia got life without parole and Christopher's sentence was 30 years in prison. French immigrant Valerie Pape was a hair salon owner and a Scottsdale, Arizona socialite with an abusive husband, Ira Pomerantz. When Valerie had had enough of her husband's abuse, she turned to murder, then dismembered his corpse. His torso was found in a dumpster behind a supermarket, but the rest of his remains have never been found.
Pape was given a year sentence and is eligible for release in Spending most of her life in expensive British boarding schools, American teen Elizabeth Haysom was an honor student who had plans to study the arts, but her parents did not support her ambitions. Her life subsequently went off the rails, and Elizabeth, who blamed her parents for all of her troubles, got her boyfriend to destroy them both.
Heather D'Aoust was the year-old adopted daughter of a loving couple, but had depression and bipolar disorder and was briefly institutionalized. After she was caught engaging in sexual activity with a female friend, she decided to kill her mother with a claw hammer. She pled guilty to second-degree murder and got 16 years to life. Suzan Carson and her husband Michael — both of whom are mentally ill and abuse drugs — have a list of people they think are witches that they wish to exterminate, and they go on to viciously murder three people.
Both are serving 75 to life. O'Mahoney received an eight year prison sentence and her comrades received twelve years. Missing her mother's companionship, high school student Marie Robards poisons her loving father to move back in with her mom. She keeps it a secret for a year until her college roommate recites Claudius's guilt monologue from Hamlet , causing her to break down. The ways of wild, promiscuous "jazz baby" Dorothy Ellingson don't mesh with those of her old-fashioned parents who try to keep her from partying. Enraged at her parents and desperate for freedom, Dorothy shoots her mother in the head and goes partying afterwards.
In prison, she appears to change her ways and begins to give lectures to teenagers on the dangers of delinquency. After Dena Thompson attempts to murder her new third husband with the lure of sex, he barely survives and she gets three years in jail. Police eventually discover she's a murderer after finding large amounts of poison in the exhumed body of her second husband.
She is given a minimum year sentence. She manages to escape prison by using the poison to harm herself and spends the rest of her days paralyzed. Elisa takes delight in torturing her stepdaughter Zahra, who earlier survived bone cancer that left her almost deaf and took one of her legs. Zahra eventually dies and Elisa dismembers her body. Baker's sentence is 18 years in prison. Della Sutorius comes off as a sweet, charming and beautiful woman to the men who fall in love with her, but her true colors come out after the weddings.
She turns out to be a greedy, violent monster whose five husbands end up either on-the-run, abused, or in the last husband's case murdered for money. Sentenced to 23 years to life, Della dies in prison in November Natasha Cornett is an outcast in her rural Kentucky town due to her Gothic appearance and devil worship.
However, she soon finds like-minded friends, who decide to embark on a killing spree. In , Natasha and her gang are responsible for the killings of a Jehovah's Witness family at a Tennessee rest area. Natasha and her gang each get life without parole. Brooklyn teen Tiana Browne appeared to have a promising start in life, until she was raped and ran away from home.
Taken in by her aunt, Tiana becomes roommates with her cousin Shannon, who is a straight-A student, but Tiana resists their efforts to help her get on the right track. Tiana, jealous of her cousin's success, stabs Shannon to death, then steals Shannon's sneakers and cell phone. Tiana was found guilty of second degree murder and was sentenced to 15 years to life. Malaika Griffin is known as a brilliant chemist who graduated from college cum laude , but has a hot temper and harbors an intense hatred for white people.
One night, she gets into a heated argument with her white neighbor, Jason Horsley, and his girlfriend. When the girlfriend leaves, Malaika shoots Jason in the back and flees while he dies, evading capture for several years. Ellen Etheridge is ecstatic when she gets to marry her new millionaire husband after his wife dies. However, she's not so fond of having to fight for his love due to her eight new stepchildren and finds pleasure in poisoning them with lye to get her way. She ultimately kills four children and is suspected of killing her husband's first wife as well, and is given a life sentence.
Heather Stephenson Snell is a well-educated psychotherapist by day, and a hard-laced biker gang leader by night. After a failed courtship with her lover, Heather wants revenge, and she sets her sights on her ex-lover's wife, Diane Lomax. Posing as a trick-or-treater on Halloween night, Heather attempts to shoot Diane with a shotgun, but winds up shooting a neighbor instead. Her sentence is 22 years to life. The two begin an affair, but Arthur is eventually forced to choose between Anne and his wife.
When his wife dies, Arthur breaks up with Anne too. Anne responds by shooting Arthur to death. Anne is tried for first-degree murder but acquitted. Stacey Barker is at first a devoted single mother to month-old Emma, but soon she spends her nights partying while her mother watches Emma. Barker's sentence is 25 years and she will be in her 50s when released. Kelly Silk is a Christian and a mother of four children, including a 2 month-old baby.
However, Kelly has extreme post-partum depression and is still dealing with the trauma of having witnessed her own mother's suicide as a child. She kills her husband, two of her children, and herself. In , the two embark on a killing spree through several Midwestern states.
Both are sentenced to death; Coleman was executed in and Brown's sentence was commuted to life without parole. Janice Buttrum was neglected, abused and ostracized by her peers as a child, and at age 17, she is married, living in Dalton, Georgia , and expecting her second child. She and her husband Danny befriend Demetra Faye Parker, and in September they decide to use Demetra in a sex game. Demetra is beaten and raped, and stabbed 97 times by Janice. Both are sentenced to death, but Danny commits suicide soon afterward and Janice's sentence is commuted to life in prison in In , Canadian Melissa Ann Shepard drains her husband's bank account and then drugs him and runs him over with her car, and is briefly jailed for manslaughter.
Her next two husbands die of mysterious illnesses, with Melissa draining both their bank accounts as well, and she is briefly jailed for theft and forgery. Army wife Kelly Renee Gissendaner is a promiscuous party girl who shamelessly sees other men, even while her husband Doug remains devoted to her. Kelly enlists her boyfriend, Greg Owens, to beat and stab Doug to death in February , so she can profit from the marital house and two life insurance policies. She was sentenced to death. Ada Wittenmeyer likes the finer things in life, and seeks to accomplish this by finding wealthy men and then marrying and murdering them so she can enjoy their money.
During the s, she poisons two husbands with arsenic, and enjoys watching them suffer while they die. Convicted of both murders and jailed for life, she commits suicide in prison in Daryl Smith's former lover and sex slave [ clarification needed ] , Morgan Smith , who has borderline personality disorder, is obsessed with Daryl, and follows him when he moves to Florida to be with his new girlfriend, Andrea Stranko. Daryl tries to share himself with both women, but after Morgan assaults Andrea with an axe, Daryl breaks up with Morgan for good.
In Greenwood, Indiana , Sarah "Cindy" White is the daughter of an alcoholic mother and sexually abusive father, and the stress lands her in a psychiatric hospital for a year. Charles and Carol Roberson take her in as a nanny for their four children, but re-open Cindy's old wounds when they also sexually abuse her. To escape, Cindy burns down the Roberson home on New Year's Eve , killing the entire family, and is serving six concurrent life sentences.
Kathleen Hagen was a brilliant urologist with a bright future, but by , her life has disintegrated — she has lost her career and her marriage, she has severe bipolar disorder , and has a strained relationship with her parents, James and Idella, who are always critical and cold to her. In August , her stressors cause her to snap, and she asphyxiates her parents.
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In New Orleans during the early 19th century, French socialite Delphine LaLaurie beat, tortured, and performed medical experiments on slaves in the basement of her mansion. In the state of Washington , Linda Burfield Hazzard , a quack doctor and a self-proclaimed "fasting specialist", believed she could heal her patients through exhausting diets and starvation.
Hazzard's practice of starvation resulted in the death of a visiting English heiress in and many others. Linda died by using the fasting diet on herself in In the early s, on a small farm in La Porte, Indiana , Norwegian immigrant Belle Gunness used strychnine to poison her boyfriends before feeding their remains to the hogs. Gunness's motive was to collect life insurance, cash and other valuables from her victims. Between and , in Windsor, Connecticut , nursing home proprietor Amy Archer-Gilligan purchased life insurance policies on her elderly residents before poisoning them with arsenic.
In Cordele, Georgia , in the s, Janie Lou Gibbs poisoned her three sons, her grandson, and her husband for the purpose of collecting life insurance. The two sisters became known as "The Black Widows of Liverpool". Catherine and Margaret were executed by hanging in In , Katherine Knight , who has borderline personality disorder , stabbed her partner before dismembering him and using parts of his body to cook a stew; Knight was later sentenced to life imprisonment. Blanche Taylor Moore used arsenic poisoning to kill people close to her for over 20 years. She repeatedly poisoned her boyfriend, Raymond Reid.
She was later sentenced to death. In , bar hostess Ruth Ellis shot her boyfriend, David Blakey, to death after he punched her in the stomach and caused her to miscarry. She was the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom. The Lainz Angels of Death murdered at least 38 of their patients between and by morphine overdose or by forcing water down their lungs. Melinda Loveless — In , she kidnapped, tortured, and murdered a year-old in Madison, Indiana , with the help of 3 other schoolgirls. She was sentenced to 60 years in prison. Brenda Spencer — In , when she was sixteen years old, Spencer opened fire on a schoolyard in San Diego , killing two and wounding nine.
She was sentenced to 25 years to life.
Spencer has been denied parole four times. Tracey Wigginton — In Brisbane , Australia , in , an obsession with the occult culminates in a murder. Wiggington was sentenced to life in prison, but was released on parole on January 11, She was pursuing a romantic relationship with a married man who didn't want children and refused to leave his wife. She was sentenced to life imprisonment. Martha Wise — In Medina County, Ohio in , Wise, who was mentally ill, poisoned three of her family members to death and injured more than a dozen with arsenic.
She was sentenced to life in prison and died in Valerie Parashumti and Jessica Stasinowsky — On December 18, , in Perth , Australia , the couple drugged, bludgeoned, and strangled their year-old flatmate Stacey Mitchell to death, after only knowing Stacey for three days. Both women pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 24 years in prison.
Christina Marie Riggs In , in Sherwood, Arkansas , Riggs smothered her own children in and attempted suicide afterwards. Riggs was executed in May of Bobbie Sue Dudley — In St. She was found guilty of second degree murder and was sentenced to 65 years in prison, but died in prison during her sentence. Judy Buenoano — Over a twelve-year period, the Starke, Florida -based serial killer murdered her husband and son and attempted to murder a second husband to claim on insurance policies she had set up in advance.
Buenoano would be executed in March of Eugenia Falleni — Born a woman, but living as a man under the name "Harry Crawford" in conservative turn-of-theth century Sydney , Australia , Falleni killed her partner, Annie Birkett, in to keep her true gender concealed. She also attempted to murder Annie's son, also named Harry. She was sentenced to death in , but was released from prison after 11 years and lived the rest of her life as a cisgender woman. Genene Anne Jones — In Kerrville, Texas , the pediatric nurse killed as many as 46 infants left in her care between and She was originally given a year sentence.
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However, due to developments in the case since this episode originally aired, she may be released as early as Beverley Allitt — In , the British nurse murdered four children and injured five others by injecting them with insulin or potassium, causing cardiac arrest.
Allitt has to serve a minimum of 30 years. Stella Maudine Nickell — In , the Seattle -based nurse poisoned her husband and an innocent shopper by planting cyanide-laced pain-relief capsules on drug store shelves in a intricate plan to cash in her husband's life insurance policies.
Nickell has a 90 year sentence. Kathleen Folbigg — On a killing spree that lasted from until , the Australian serial killer murdered four of her children by suffocating them. She is serving a 30 year sentence. Aileen Carol Wuornos — The famed Monster serial killer shot and killed seven men in Florida between and Wuornos was executed in October of Dorothea Puente ran a boarding home and preyed on her guests in Sacramento during the s.
Puente was accused of poisoning her victims, stealing their Social Security checks, then burying seven of their bodies in her backyard. Puente is sentenced to life in prison and maintained that she was innocent until her death on March 27, Hahn poisoned her victims and stole money from them, killing five people. She was executed in December of In , Cooper committed suicide after being released for nearly two years. Tarlton was released from prison in August Jane Toppan — In Cambridge, Massachusetts , a nurse who murders at least 31 of her patients in a sadistic fashion for sexual pleasure.
She was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was committed to an insane asylum. Dana Sue Gray — In , Gray killed three women and severely injured another in Chowchilla, California due to a craving for power, thirst for cash, and hatred of her mother. She was sentenced to life without parole. Christine Falling — In Perry, Florida , the year-old unstable babysitter betrayed parents' trust by suffocating the children that she was supposed to protect during to She was sentenced to life without parole for at least 25 years.
Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt — The two Hungarian immigrants aged in their seventies killed two homeless men for insurance money in Santa Monica, California.
Both women are serving life without parole. She was executed on February 24, Kimberly Michelle "Kim" Hricko — In , while Hricko was living in Talbot County, Maryland , she set her loving husband on fire to hide her affair with another man on a romantic getaway. She was sentenced to life plus 30 years in prison.
Richardson would be released from prison in August Winnie Ruth Judd — In , Judd impulsively murders her friends after fighting over a man, Jack Halloran, and has them cut up with the intention of dumping their remains in the Pacific Ocean. Some speculate Jack Halloran helped her dismember the friends. She died in after being released in In , Carolyn becomes involved with Paul Solomon, who was already married. Being fed up him having yet not divorced his wife, she shot his wife nine times.
Carolyn's sentence was 25 years to life. Her sentence was life without parole. Herman would be released from prison in , while Brady would die in prison in May Montgomery — In in Melvern, Kansas , she faked a pregnancy , and to avoid being exposed, she murdered a pregnant woman so she could steal her unborn baby. The baby survived and was safely returned to her father when police caught Montgomery the next day at her home. Montgomery received a death sentence. Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme — The best friends were so obsessed with each other and their fantasy world, they killed Parker's mother in Christchurch , New Zealand to protect their friendship in They were arrested and since they were too young to face the death penalty, they each served five years, and were released separately.
Catherine Birnie was hopelessly in love with a sexually sadistic serial killer and became one herself, the two killed four people in Both were sentenced to four terms of life imprisonment. David died in Rosemary West — In a period spanning almost 30 years, West and her husband raped, tortured and murdered at least 11 women in the United Kingdom before burying them under their backyard. Rosemary was sentenced to life in prison. Martha Beck — On Long Island , Beck helps her boyfriend trick women, and three lives two women and a toddler are cut short as a result. Martha Beck was executed in the electric chair on March 7, Her execution was one of the most gruesome in history, requiring four applications of electricity before she was pronounced dead.
Erika Grace Sifrit — goes to Ocean City, Maryland with her husband, invites a couple back to her condo, and murders them together with her husband. Erika is sentenced to life in prison, and her husband Benjamin is sentenced to 38 years. She has perfected the ability to craft medical info, and the story together makes it easier to understand. The author has also created a cast of suspects where it becomes both interchangeable and questionable as to who the actual offers is.
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