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crvmsdecorum · 4 years ago

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"ɪ ᴍᴇᴛ ᴇᴠɪʟ ᴡʜᴇɴ ɪ ᴡᴀs ᴏɴʟʏ ᴀ ᴄʜɪʟᴅ."

( nina dobrev, 28, female, she/her) Have you seen MILENA WASHINGTON around ? I hear they’re an CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATOR who can sometimes be VINDICTIVE & DEVIOUS. But I also heard they can be DIPLOMATIC & VENTURESOME, if you catch them on a good day. They’re usually hanging around THE PINT in their spare time. I sure hope they’re alright ! ( emma. )

tw: mentions of rape, tw: rape, tw: death, tw: torture, tw: murder, tw: blood.

Meet Milena Zariyah Dashkov ; you and the citizens of Chicago know her as Milena Zariyah Dashkov Washington, I know mouthful but when someone addressees her by last name it is by her adopted surname.

She was brought into the world on January 1st in the year 1992 to Evangelia Dashkov (nee Anderiko) and her husband Alexei Dashkov. Milena was their second born child and first born daughter.

Due to her parents she is a mixture of both Bulgarian and Russian ancestry with being Jewish from both side of the family. Though her mother practiced the religion more so than Alexei did.

The Dashkov family was a loving family. They had a white picket fence, various flowers blooming from Mrs. Dashkov’s garden, and occasionally the kids would be playing a sport out in the front. Sure they lived in the rough parts of Bulgaria but they wouldn’t trade it for the world. They did what they had to in order to make the small cabin a home.

Though not long after turning five is when tragedy struck the family home. The ball hadn’t been dropped long into the New Year and Milena was already tucked into her bed for the night when gun shots were heard outside. She doesn’t remember much, but Milena remembered be in her pregnant mother’s arms as she watched her older brother, Adrian (9) and their father assemble what little weapons that was stashed throughout the house.

Evangelia had faith in her family and that faith in her God that they will survive even though her gut said otherwise. She ended up tucking Milena safely away in an air vent that gave her the perfect view of her little family with her mother ordering the young girl to stay quiet no matter what. Just as she was going to ask her mother if it’s safe to get out is when the front door got busted down by a small group of milita members (three) from the Bulgarian People’s Army -- or at least former members.

She watched as they shot Adrian point blank with no warning before tearing through the house. It took two of the men to disarm her father who put up to a fight. They ended up tying him to the chair after they’ve stripped him of his shirt and Evangelia? What they were about to do to her was far worse.

Milena watched in horror as the three took turns in harming her mother, violating her in front of Alexei. Whenever her father would yell or anything one of the men would end up shutting him up with a hard punch though it kept on to the point they began to use other means in shutting him up. One of them ended up embedding a blade into Alexei’s thigh for ‘disrupting the pleasure’.

‘Moeto Sladko’, is what Evangelia kept muttering through out it all before saying each time close your eyes. The men thought she was referring to Alexei but oh no, she was speaking soothing words to her daughter one last time.

It was too late though for what Milena had witnesses is something that will stick with her for as long as she can remember. By the time the sun rose the men were gun and her family? They were dead.

It wasn’t until about two days later when a Priest with some grave diggers came into the family home. Milena recognized him and ran straight to the man of God. He held onto the orphan and didn’t care she was stained in the blood of her fallen loved ones. Not long after the Priest had brought Milena to safe grounds he placed the orphan up for adoption with the Nuns looking after her.

Let me tell you it was a long and hard year for Milena. Food was scarce among the children and rations at one point for a while went down to only once a day. The orphans she was among were like Milena -- war orphans. She didn’t think she would open up to others after what she went through, but many of them had went through similar things and they all bonded over it. In time the three Milena became closest too were like family to her.

One day that all changed. It was a sunny warm afternoon and all the children were playing outside and of course all of them were on their best behavior as they heard several couples from America were looking to adopt. This was the Priest way of protecting the children and give them a future outside of the country. Milena? She honestly didn’t care for she had her own little family with three other wayward orphans.

As if fate were to have it though, Milena caught the eyes of a very wealthy couple that hailed from Chicago: Mr. & Mrs. Washington. How you ask? Simple. They watched the woman trample a school yard bully for stealing her ‘younger brother’s’ rations and became heartfelt even more so when they witness her give the younger orphan her ration as well. That is what they wanted in a child and they got her.

Oh let me tell you the transition from Bulgaria to America was harsh on Milena and to make it worse she knew very little English. When arriving to the Washington home she met several other children there. Milena didn’t know how to act in this new country and often kept telling herself their language was funny. She tried her best to learn the language on her own but eventually the frustration of it and the tutor the family hired made it only worse for her which pushed Milena to grow increasingly quiet. So quiet she basically went fell blown mute.

It wasn’t until about four months into this is when Sloan one day sat down with the wayward orphan and tried to talk to the confused little girl. She even went so far as in buying a Bulgarian dictionary and butchered Milena’s native tongue by asking if she can teach her English. What was her response you say? The way she spoke it made Milena giggle -- an actual one and it beyond shocked Sloan. She told the oldest Washington she would like that before saying leave the Bulgarian language to the professionals.

This was the first time Milena welcomed anyone of her new family into her heart and it would be a while before she did again.

Fast forward to a few years later to where Milena is 9 years old and Zoe had recently become adopted into the family. She was still quiet though she would hold small conversations in English but Milena still had a long way to go in learning it.

Many believe it was Zoe that made Milena open up more and fully embrace learning the English language which part of that is true, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. Since she adoption the Bulgarian had been sending letters to the Priest that rescued her (of course writing in Bulgarian) and as if it were a coincidence, a letter arrived a week after the new kid and the Man of God held up a promise he made to Milena that night. Her family’s murderers were dead and now properly her family can be at peace. This...this right here is what lead to Milena fully opening up to her new family. Eventually she became Zoe’s partner in crime and oh the trouble those two got in together all while Zoe helped Sloan teach the full English language.

Over the next few years Milena had blossomed into an intelligent young woman who had a thing for parties but managed to keep straight A’s throughout it all. When it came time to graduation she made not only the top ten percent but Valedictorian as well. On the night of her speech she did something unethical but it had to be done. “This paper lantern you see here before you all is for the Seniors who tragically passed away back in December. It is also for those who cannot be here with the graduates today to see this milestone in our lives such as my own biological family who suffered a terrible fate when I was but a child. This paper lantern is for all of them.” Many people were shocked that she had done something like this for she ended up having a reputation of a party girl with a forever resting bitch face. Milena showed to her class that she did have a heart despite it being buried under the thick ice she grew from the things she went through.

After graduation Milena decided to attend Harvard where she gotten an acceptance letter from the school. She didn’t want to leave home but Milena made a promise to keep in touch with all the Washingtons.

Let us flash forward to Milena being about to become 21 years old and having the time of her life. It’s a New Years Eve party on campus and she was beyond drunk. How can she not? It was about to be her birthday and like her fifth birthday this one will be one she won’t forget and it isn’t because she is now legal to drink. Milena became a victim of a date rape drug (GHB). She doesn’t remember much of that night which amnesia is a side effect of it sadly. Not wanting to stain the Washington name and feel like a burden, Milena kept quiet about the whole ordeal when she went home not long after.

While she was with her family Milena came through and remembered who it was behind this horrible fate. Ending her trip early in seeing her family the Bulgarian flew back to her college and she waited. During all of this she switched her career and went into their Criminal Justice program and oh how she thrived in there. It is what lead her to becoming a CSI Investigator. Through this and learning how to cover her tracks Milena used her connections in Bulgaria thanks to the Priest and a week prior to her graduating the man responsible suffered a ‘terrible’ fate.

Despite all the trauma she endured, Milena still did her best to look on the bright side of things but its hard. To the world and those who isn’t in her heart nor family are lead to believe she is a cold hearted person with sarcastic remarks -- that’s only the half of her personality. With her family she will do anything for them and risk it all.

After graduating college with a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, Milena wanted to excel even more and starting studying aboard in Barcelona where eventually she got a Masters. She ended up landing a job as a CSI and during her time there she went back to school to earn an associates degree in Linguistics. She might as well get paid for the languages she has come to learn.

Unknown to her at the time Milena caught the eye of two government agencies: CIA & FBI. They both wanted her to come on board for them and be a Special Agent in Linguistics and even sweeten the deal when she claimed she enjoyed her work in Science even more so. She thought long and hard about the deal, I won’t lie and Milena honestly thought about taking the deal until one night she had a horrible nightmare. The nightmare involved the Washingtons dying a bloody death much like her biological family. This made her pack up her bags in Barcelona, decline both offers and bought a one way ticket to Chicago.

Personality;; Milena can be a cold person and in fact she is especially with her RBF, but she can be a caring and kind person also. Though to see that side? You’d have to be someone that is a Washington or someone she cares about and that circle is very small. You can usually find Milena giving sarcastic comments and at times be a smart ass, she doesn’t even feel sorry about it. She can also be very blunt and most of the times it comes off harsh.

Fun Facts;; Milena is fluent in several languages (Bulgarian, English, French, Spanish, Russian and Italian). She learned Bulgarian and Russian from her parents, French and English from the Washingtons, and learned the other two languages during her time in Spain. Though she is still learning Italian.

Wanted Connections;; enemies, former flings, friends, law enforcement buddies, former flame(s), etc. If you think Milena fits it then I am down!

#crimson.intro #about milena #tw: mentions of rape #tw: rape #tw: death #tw: torture #tw: murder #tw: blood

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amplesalty · 6 years ago

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Day 7 - Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)

5 years it’s taken me to watch this sequel. And to think I hesitated...

That was when I watched Hellraiser 2, or Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 as it was called. Not to be confused with Hellbound?, some form of Christian documentary on Hell, or Hellbound, some form of Chuck Norris vehicle. And after name dropping him in the Puppet Master post, why not pickup the ol' Hellraiser franchise once more?

I seem to recall reading at the time of viewing 2 that, due ot the close proximity of them filming and releasing the two movies, they weren't able to properly gauge the public reaction to Pinhead and realise the cult figure he would become. With a 4 year gap, maybe now they have the opportunity to make him a bit more central.

And to a point, they do. As with the previous films, it takes a while for him to be unleashed but when he is, he's more prominent then ever. No longer shackled to the confines of just those that call upon him, he's now unbound and unleashed into the human realm. Free to show them all the boundless unknown pleasures. That just so happens to be in New York City. I don't know why so many of these movies so far have featured or take place in New York. It's like half the Christmas movies taking place in Chicago.

But before we get that far, some poor sap has to fiddling with the puzzle box and drawing out all the chains. It's the Scanners/Hellraiser crossover we never knew we wanted!

TV report Joey Summerskill tries to track down the girl who brings him to the hospital, going to local hotspot The Boiler Room. And I do mean hotspot, aside from the Flaming Moes they're serving, they also seem to have naked flames everywhere as decoration. Surely a nightclub is hot and stuffy enough as it is without having fires everywhere. I like that Joey's tip top investigative skills lead her to state that she's looking for 'a pretty girl'. Lady, it's a night club in the middle of New York, you might have to be a little more specific.

Club owner J.P Monroe has a habit of buying weird oddities to put in his bar and apartment, only this one happens to be the statue that Pinhead is trapped in. As ever, a little bit of blood is just enough to stir the dead and he ensnares one of the girls Monroe back to his place to solve his own puzzle of flesh. So long as Monroe brings more victims, he has a place at Pinhead's right hand.

Meanwhile, Joey is having recurring nightmares of her own father's death in Vietnam, now added to by Captain Spencer's time in the trenches. I don't know why I thought Hellraiser, of all things, would be a good thing to snap me out of this run of symbolic nonsense.

Once Pinhead has enough blood to once more become whole, it's time for the Cenobite rollcall! Forget those guys from the first two movies, they're gone. We've gotta get hip with the kids.

DJ Cenobite, now with CD chucking action! Do you think Abdullah the Butcher can put CDs in his head grooves?

Bar tender Cenobite, complete with cocktail shaker full of petrol! Bustin' down walls like the Kool Aid Man! (OH YEAH!)

And camera man Cenobite! These things keep getting dinstinctly more like the Borg as we go along.

Hell, even the Borg had their own cube.

Cheesiness isn't something that's completely lost on this franchise, with the Doctor in 2 and Pinhead in general having an over the top wicknedness to him. But having such contemporary Cenobites, it's a bit odd.

I think it will be hard for Pinhead to ever top his work in church invasion, as he pulls the pins from his own head and uses them to inflict stigmata upon himself.

And then poses like he's Jesus of Nazarath upon the cross, flanked by two out of control candles. Holy shit.

Feeding part of his own flesh to the priest as part of some sort of demonic communion comes pretty close.

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One other good thing about this flick is that they have a Motorhead cover of Hellraiser during the closing credits. Finally, the prophecy of my throwaway, pre-titles gag has come true! Lemmy playing cards with Pinhead is a pretty amazing visual, I must say. It’s easy to make a good poker hand when you have The Ace of Spades.

Just to round out the symmetry on Puppet Master, Hellraiser too has had another movie released earlier this year. Not quite Pinhead fighting the Nazi’s, nor does it quite sound like the ashcan copy that Revelations was but it still doesn’t have Doug Bradley back as Pinhead. Bah!

#Halloween 2018 #Hellraiser 3 #Hell on Earth

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blackkudos · 6 years ago

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Bill Cobbs

Wilbert Francisco (Bill) Cobbs (born June 16, 1934) is an American actor.

Early life

Cobbs was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to a mother who was a domestic worker and a father who worked in construction.

Career

As an amateur actor in the city's Karamu House Theater, Cobbs starred in the Ossie Davis play Purlie Victorious. Cobbs served in the United States Air Force as a radar technician for eight years; he also worked in office products at IBM and sold cars in Cleveland. In 1970, at the age of 36, he left for New York to seek work as an actor. There he turned down a job in the NBC sales department in order to have time for auditions. He supported himself by driving a cab, repairing office equipment, selling toys, and performing odd jobs. His first professional acting role was in Ride a Black Horse at the Negro Ensemble Company. From there he appeared in small theater productions, street theater, regional theater, and at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.

Cobbs was in Vegetable Soup (1976), a New York public television educational series, and he made his feature film debut in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three in 1974. Cobbs has an extensive film career and has appeared and been a regular on many television programs, including The Michael Richards Show, The Outer Limits, I'll Fly Away, Yes, Dear, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Others, JAG, The Drew Carey Show, October Road, One Tree Hill, Star Trek: Enterprise (as Dr. Emory Erickson, inventor of the Transporter) and many more. He had a recurring role as George, a blind grief-support-group member, in the TV series, Go On, which premiered in 2012.

In 2006, Cobbs played a supporting role in Night at the Museum as Reginald, a security guard on the verge of retirement. The character also served as an antagonist to the story. He played basketball coach and retired basketball player Arthur Chaney in Disney's Air Bud and Medgar Evers' older brother Charles Evers in Rob Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi. He had a role in the Coen Brothers' The Hudsucker Proxy and played fictional jazz pianist Del Paxton in Tom Hanks' That Thing You Do, He did a Brief appearance in the 2010 film The Search for Santa Paws. In 2013, Cobbs costarred in Oz the Great and Powerful, and in late 2014 reprised his role of Reginald in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb. He recorded a public service announcement for Deejay Ra's Hip-Hop Literacy2 campaign, encouraging reading of Ice-T's autobiography.

Filmography

Film

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

Greased Lightning (1977)

A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich (1978)

Trading Places (1983)

Silkwood (1983)

The Brother from Another Planet (1984)

The Cotton Club (1984)

Compromising Positions (1985)

The Color of Money (1986)

Five Corners (1987)

Suspect (1987)

Dominick and Eugene (1988)

Bird (1988)

The January Man (1989)

Decoration Day (1990)

New Jack City (1991)

Carolina Skeletons (1991)

The Hard Way (1991)

The People Under the Stairs (1991)

Roadside Prophets (1992)

The Bodyguard – Bill Devaney (1992)

Demolition Man – Zachery Lamb (Aged) (1993)

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)

Fluke (1995)

Man with a Gun (1995)

Ed (1996)

First Kid – Speet (1996)

That Thing You Do! (1996)

Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)

Air Bud – Coach Arthur Chaney (1997)

Always Outnumbered (1998)

Paulie (1998)

Hope Floats (1998)

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

The Wild Thornberrys (1998)

Random Hearts (1999)

The Others (2000) Series regular as Elmer Greentree

For All Time (2000)

Sunshine State (2002)

Enough (2002)

A Mighty Wind (2003)

Lost (2004)

Duck (2005)

The Derby Stallion – Houston Jones (2005)

Hard Luck (2006)

Night at the Museum – Reginald (2006)

The Ultimate Gift (2007)

Three Days to Vegas (2007)

The Morgue (2008)

Black Water Transit (2009)

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – Reginald (scene deleted) (2009)

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010)

No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School (2010)

Get Low – Charlie Jackson (2010)

The Search for Santa Paws – Mr. Stewart (2010)

The Arcadian (2010)

The Muppets – Grandfather (2011)

Lukewarm (2012)

Oz the Great and Powerful – Master Tinker (2013)

The Ultimate Life (2013)

Dear Secret Santa – Ted (2013)

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb – Reginald (2014)

Of Mind and Music – Stompleg (2015)

The Great Gilly Hopkins (film) - Mr. Randolph (2015)

Television

Sesame Street – episode – 17.30 – Lee (1985)

Kate & Allie – multiple episodes – Sam Butcher (1986)

I'll Fly Away – regular – Lewis Coleman (1991–93)

Coach – episode – Why So Happy, Hayden? – George (1993)

NYPD Blue – episode – The Nutty Confessor – Norval Stevens (1996)

The Outer Limits – multiple episodes – "The Camp", second Elder (1997) – "Fathers and Sons", Joe Dell (1999)

The Wayans Bros. (1997)

Walker, Texas Ranger – episode – Full Contact – Gino Costa (1997)

The Sopranos – episode – Do Not Resuscitate – Reverend James, Sr. (2000)

JAG – episode – Answered Prayers – Chaplain Matthew Turner (2001)

Six Feet Under, Season 1 – episode 6 (2001)

JAG – episode – Port Chicago – Chaplain Matthew Turner (2002)

JAG – episode – Posse Comitatus – Chaplain Matthew Turner (2003)

The West Wing – episode – Enemies Foreign and Domestic – Alan Tatum (2002)

JAG – episode – A Merry Little Christmas – Chaplain Matthew Turner (2003)

Star Trek: Enterprise – episode – Daedalus – Dr. Emory Erickson (2005)

The Glades – episode – Honey – Gregory Richmond (2010)

Harry's Law – episode – American Dreams (2011)

Greenleaf – episode – One Train May Hide Another (2016)

Rugrats – episode – A Rugrats Kwanzaa (2001)

Wikipedia

#Bill Cobbs #06-16

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thesunkenblog · 4 years ago

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We Were Not Content With The Stories

Despite nearing its 30th anniversary, Bernard Rose’s Candyman (1992) continues to create a fervent buzz in the black horror collective -- and not just for its apiary imagery, though the film has become a staple in the iconic horror aesthetics of the 1990s for its visceral entomological body horror. Prior to the nascent black horror renaissance or the roots of black representation in fantastic genres during the mid to late 1990s, Candyman was an uncommon standout, unusual in its centralizing of a developed black supernatural antagonist and strong racially centered narratives resplendent with didactic commentary on real-life horrors straddling the color line; however, its reception as a near-inarguable staple of the black horror canon is complicated and divisive, and many fans and critics indict the film for the staggeringly white lens that it trains onto its worldbuilding and narrative resolve.

The mythic exploration, racially-coded narratives, and bodily representation in the film make strong, pointedly racialized social commentary, but it is commentary that comes at the expense of the very underprivileged black communities that the film attempts to use as backdrop in Chicago's Cabrini-Green projects; despite having many of the right ingredients for an incisive and timely black horror, the film's direction of black trauma and oppression through a white lens commodifies and exploits the pain of both the empathetically-coded black antagonist in Candyman himself and the other black residents of the projects that he terrorizes while perpetuating harmful stereotypes of the residents of the "ghetto" and centering both a white savior and the predatory conception of black men's desire for white women at its primary conflict. It is through a young white doctoral student that we bear witness to these grotesque black stories, and the horror we experience is portrayed through her shock and recoil from the harsh realities of life in the projects. Criticism of the film is not new, brought on by a freshly cynical and “politically correct” audience accustomed to more sensitive and inclusive black horror projects of the new era; The Chicago Tribune itself published on the not-so-sweet taste it left in black viewers’ mouths on its initial release in 1992, citing concerns of its representation as “‘worrisome’. . . [and] ‘irresponsible and racist’” in how it portrays vulnerable intercity life and interracial, predatory love (Lovell).

Tony Todd’s performance as the titular myth cannot be overstated; powerful, commanding villains with decadent and entrancing shibboleths of arcane and nearly-Biblical language are not frequently seen in any horror movie, much less as a role for a black villian, where insidious elegance is often overwritten for more stereotypically thuggish fare. However, as with all media the critical gavel deems to be problematic (and with good reason), modern audiences must receive the film with the knowledge that ultimately white stories -- that of Helen -- that are penned in white ink and shot through a white lens with blackness as a thematic conceit are always primed to discredit and misrepresent the stories of black characters penned as plot fodder for the benefit of white redemption and approval. These stories, though, are culturally critical to the building momentum of black representation in the horror genre and encouragement of black creators who knew they could script more justice to the lived experience -- and, of course, they also have salvage value. A tale of black brutality inherent has threads of empathy in its concession of Candyman himself as the spirit of a lynching victim, and a keen audience feels terror for the project residents terrorized both by their spectral haunter and their uninvited spectator. In moments of narrative doubt and unjustifiable action by Helen as she raises a butcher knife to the dim and swinging light of a young mother’s unit in the project and stabs her in the arm as the woman tries to defend herself from Helen’s decontextualized fugue state, we can easily imagine the horror underpinning this story as seen through black eyes that catch the nuances of the manipulation and ethnographic scrutiny of the white academy in the university and white Academy in Hollywood -- just as we can believe in the new myths to come.

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talesofterror · 7 years ago

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The Story Behind ‘Scary Stories to Read in the Dark’

Alvin Schwartz, the author and adapter behind the Scary Stories trilogy, actually began his career as a journalist, writing for The Binghamton Pressfrom 1951 to 1955. He also had a penchant for wordplay, saying that creating rhymes is a good way for “people to express their feelings without getting in trouble.” After Schwartz left journalism, he started working for a research corporation, which he couldn’t stand, and began doing that part time, devoting the rest of his hours to writing books. One of his first published works: a Parents’ Guide for Children’s Play. His journalistic instincts and whimsical leanings are probably to thank for the Scary Stories’ characteristic surrealism and eerily matter-of-fact storytelling.

Research was a huge part of Schwartz's process for all his books. When writing his book Witcracks, Schwartz turned to the archives at the Library of Congress and those of the president of the American Folklore Society, using that research and his connections for Scary Stories. Among his sources were books like American Folk Tales and Songs and Sticks in the Knapsack and Other Ozark Tales. He also drew from publications like The Hoosier Folklore Bulletin and interviewed folklorists.

"Some of these tales are very old, and they are told around the world," Schwartz wrote in the foreword to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. "And most have the same origins. They are based on things that people saw or heard or experienced—or thought they did."

When asked about his writing process for an interview with Language Arts magazine, Schwartz said, “Basically, what I do with every book, is learn everything I can about the genre. This will involve a lot of reading and scholarly books and journals and sometimes discussions and scholarly folklorists … In the process of accumulating everything on a subject, I begin setting aside things that I particularly like. What's interesting is that eventually patterns emerge.”

The first Scary Stories book was released in 1981, and Schwartz would go on to write two more—More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones—before his death in 1992. By the time the Scary Stories series reached the height of its popularity in the early '90s, the book was condemned by parents nationwide. "There's no moral to [the stories]," former elementary school teacher and mother Sandy Vanderburg told the Chicago Tribune. "The bad guys always win. And they make light of death. There's a story called 'Just Delicious' about a woman who goes to a mortuary, steals another woman's liver, and feeds it to her husband. That's sick."One parent even made a connection between Schwartz’s book and a serial killer, citing the story “Wonderful Sausage,” about a butcher who puts people through his sausage grinder and sells the meat to his patrons. “Right away I thought of Jeffrey Dahmer," Jean Jaworski, then the mother of a fifth grader, told The Argus-Press in 1995. "It's just not appropriate for children." She asked the school board to remove the book from the library, but a special committee voted unanimously to keep the books, and the school turned down an appeal. In an interview with the journal The Lion and the Unicorn, Schwartz said that he didn’t deal directly with complaints about his books. “My editors deal with them,” he said. “Every letter is answered and the point is made that this is traditional material and that, in addition, it has developed a lot of interest in reading.”When discussing how a Christian group had tried to get his book, In a Dark, Dark Room, banned from a Denver library, Schwartz said he wasn't surprised. Instead, he said, he was “pleased to have that kind of attention. It was ironic and pleasing that, at the same time, their ideas were rejected by the children.” The books’ nightmarish illustrations are perhaps as well remembered as the stories themselves—and even less pleasing to parents. One father, J. Daniel Merlino, who called for the books’ removal from his local school’s library, told The Hartford Courant that “I can appreciate the creativity. But the images in those books are surreal. A throat being torn out. A liver being eaten. These images are the stuff of nightmares.”Michael Wohlgenant, whose 7-year-old daughter had nightmares for months after reading “Wonderful Sausage”—its illustration involved a dismembered hand holding a forkful of human flesh—also pushed for the books’ removal. “You entrust your child to the care of school officials when you send them to school,” he said. “You don’t expect them to be traumatized and harmed.”Stephen Gammell, the mastermind behind the creepy drawings, won a Caldecott Medal for picture book illustration for his work in Karen Ackerman’s Song and Dance Man in 1989. Though these illustrations were slightly more lighthearted, they showcased the splotchy, watercolor-heavy style that’s exemplified in the artist's grim, surreal Scary Storiesillustrations. (You can watch a fun time-lapse of Gammell’s process here, in the trailer for his book Mudkin.) "Stephen Gammell has made a very important contribution to these books because he has such a wild imagination," Schwartz later said. When HarperCollins released a new version of the Scary Stories books to commemorate the series' 30th anniversary, fans were dismayed to see that Gammell's illustrations had been removed. The reprint features new illustrations by Brett Helquist, whose excellent work you may recognize from the Series Of Unfortunate Events books.The newer, less creepy illustrations provoked outcry from those who grew up with the books, even prompting a BuzzFeed article called “They’re Ruining Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark.” According to Meredith Woerner in an article for io9, “[…I]f your child couldn't handle Gammell's paintings, they're certainly not going to be able to stomach a short story about a scarecrow who skins a farmer alive and dries out his skin sack trophy on the roof. Gammell's art is an integral part of this collection. The least they could do is release a special art book as a companion. This is just supernatural blasphemy.” The series topped the American Library Association’s list of the Top 100 most frequently challenged books for 1990-1999. Ten years later, the Scary Stories books remained in the top 10, coming in at No. 7 on the list for 2000-2009. The books were most frequently challenged for reasons of “insensitivity, occult/Satanism, violence, (and being) unsuited to age group.”About that last thing: The books fall between the 600 and 760 Lexile mark (a system used to organize reading levels), meaning that the books' vocabulary level is most suited for fifth graders. Some of the Scary Stories vocabulary words highlighted by the Lexile system were “clink,” “blunt,” “shrouds,” “drafty” “afire,” and “shatter”—further proving that the series’ simple vocabulary doesn’t rule out spooky content. The story “The Red Dot” may have instilled a deep fear of spiders laying eggs in your face, but don’t worry—according to the National Geographic, it's not likely to happen. May Berenbaum, entomologist at The University of Illinois, explained that a spider’s egg-laying structure isn’t equipped for injecting. “I suppose a spider could drop or plaster eggs on the skin’s surface,” Berenbaum said, “but it’s not clear why a spider would want to do such a thing.” “The Big Toe,” the notorious story in which a starving boy finds a human toe in the ground and makes the terrible mistake of eating it, is based on an old folktale that dates back to early 19th century Germany. (Maybe not surprising; this is the country that brought us Der Struwwelpeter, after all.) Mentions of the tale were first found in the Grimm Brothers’ notes, and a version of the story—with an arm replacing the titular toe—was later a prominent feature of Mark Twain’s public speaking appearances. When he was done speaking, Twain would jump into the crowd and scream at an unsuspecting audience member. Because the tales featured in the Scary Stories books came from folklore, there were many different versions of the stories floating around—and “High Beams,” which Schwartz told The Lion and The Unicorn was “one of the most popular stories” in the series, was no exception. The story features a girl driving home alone from a nighttime basketball game. “There is a car following her and periodically the other driver will turn up his beams,” Schwartz said. “She can't understand what is going on, and she becomes progressively more frightened. As it turns out, there was somebody sitting in the back seat. He had slipped in when she left and each time he rose up to assault her the guy in the car in back of her turned on his high beams.”The story, he said, is one that’s “told all over … It appears in a dozen different versions. … All of these stories, and there are scads of them, are really saying: ‘Watch out. The world's a dangerous place. You are going out on your own soon. Be careful.’” Schwartz told The Lion and the Unicorn that he’d heard a fragmented version of the tale, “which is about a butcher who is sort of a prototypical Sweeney Todd,” in New Orleans. But it was also inspired by a song he learned as a kid at Scout camp called “Dunderbock and the Sausage Machine.” That butcher in the song, Schwartz explained, made sausage from dogs and cats, “and one day the machine slips or falls and he goes into the machine himself. This is the end of [the song]: ‘His wife had the nightmare. / She walked right in her sleep. / She grabbed the crank, gave it a yank, / And Dunderbock was meat.’” You can listen to a version of the song here. Schwartz told The Lion and The Unicorn that he only implied violence in his stories, and opted for gore instead. There was at least one story that he said he found very upsetting:“Infanticide … is a theme in American folklore and European folklore. There is an Ozark folktale ... in which a man in his youth goes away and travels and becomes quite successful. His parents are quite poor. He comes back one night after many many years have elapsed and he looks completely different. He thinks he will therefore surprise them. He has come back with a lot of money and he wants to give it to them. They have an inn and he takes a room there for the night. They don't recognize him and he thinks that in the morning he will announce that he is their son. Well, they murder him during the night for his money. It's a marvelous story but I would not put it in one of my books. … This kind of thing I avoid.”

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The gore, guts and horror of an NFL fumble pile

Jameela Wahlgren

Stories from the bottom of the most lawless play in sports.

Retired NFL defensive lineman Fred Smerlas recalls them as the most exhilarating yet frightening moments in pro football, a purgatory of cheap shots and atrocities where you did your time unwillingly, a place where dragons lurked.

The fumble scrums. The barbaric scramble to recover a bouncing oblong spheroid, maddening in its Boing! Boing! Boing! misdirection.

As an offensive player, covering the ball keeps a critical drive alive. As a defensive player like Smerlas, you can proudly present the prize to your own sideline, offering it up like some precious blood-ruby.

In tight games, the fumble stakes were so high, the adrenaline coursing so strongly to the brain, that the big defensive linemen, those lumbering apex predators, would hold up the ball and beat their chests, howling primal screams of accomplishment.

“As a defenseman, recovering a fumble was the difference between getting off the field or having to stay there for another 10 plays and getting your head caved in,” Smerlas said. “They were huge. You trained for them since when you were a little kid. And then, boom! A fumble happens and everything goes dark. Only the ball lights up. No matter what’s around you, you go for that thing. When those lights go out, it’s ‘Here we come!’”

Now 62, Smerlas was a five-time NFL Pro Bowl selection during a 14-year career as a nose tackle with the Buffalo Bills, San Francisco 49ers and New England Patriots. No pushover between the lines, he was then the only Greek player in the NFL, with a 6’3, 270-pound body filled out by dolmades, bougatsa and baklava.

Inside the pile, you kept your eyes closed, like a feeding shark, to guard against knifing hands that were trying to maim and blind, yank and punch scrotums, and dislocate fingers.

Yet the billy-club violence of those pileups still makes him shudder. The man-weight was so great that he could hardly breathe, and players hurt one another for the fun of it. Nothing was safe or sacred when 2,000 pounds of unscripted National Football League flesh-and-muscle pressed down on anything lying beneath it — untuned baby-grand pianos crushing hapless players fighting for both the ball and for oxygen.

Inside the pile, you kept your eyes closed, like a feeding shark, to guard against knifing hands that were trying to maim and blind, yank and punch scrotums, and dislocate fingers. The football changed hands often and ruthlessly. Late-comers dove into the jumble with their helmets first, heat-seeking missiles looking to break or dislodge anything in their way — the ball, even teeth. You couldn’t even trust your own teammates because in the heat of the scrum, it was often impossible to determine friend from foe.

Years after leaving the game in 1992, Smerlas still remembers the screams that came from a snapped femur or tibia, the animal grunts, that soulless profanity. Perhaps worst of all, he can still smell the rank breath of those miners’ sons and blue-collar pigskin heroes, many amped up on amphetamines or steroids, or both, a concoction that made them unscrupulous and even dangerous.

“You got guys grabbing your balls, punching you in the chest, gouging your eyes. In the fumble pile, everything gets whacked. You’ve got 330-pound men jumping on you. Let me tell ya, get hit by guys that size with pads and helmets, and it gets ugly fast,” Smerlas said. “In the pile, we used a different language. Part Greek. Part Italian. Part filth. ‘You fucking cocksucker, I’m gonna kill you.’ Guys would purposely go without brushing their teeth and eat garlic for five days straight. You’d be down there and pick up some rank smell and tell yourself, ‘I don’t want to know what that is.’”

So dreaded are the pileups that they come to players in their dreams long after retirement: The ball is still bouncing. Mammoth men converge. All that villainy and violence, and without a referee in sight.

The average National League Football game is comprised of 24.7 possessions, about 12 per team, and 3.2 of them (about 13 percent) end in turnovers. Out of 2.3 fumbles per game, on average at least one will be lost.

The 1938 Chicago Bears and 1978 San Francisco 49ers share the indignity of suffering the most fumbles in a season (56), and the 2011 New Orleans Saints can boast about having the fewest (6). The most fumbles to occur in a single game is 10. That slapstick ineptitude took place four times between 1943 and 1978.

Those numbers don’t tell the whole tale. While fumbles are brief events, their casualties, from lost molars to blown momentum, add up quickly. Famous college coach John Heisman, canonized with his own trophy after he died in 1936, once advised his players, “Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.”

Fumbles changed the rules of the game, and many earned their own monikers: The “Holy Roller” (also known as the “Immaculate Deception”), the “Miracle at the Meadowlands”, the “Butt Fumble”, and an incident between the Broncos and Browns in 1987 that was so crushing it became known simply as “The Fumble”. In the 1960s, a generation of players earned reputations as ball-strippers, boasting nicknames that evoked the wicked street-poetry of the The Longest Yard: “Refrigerator”, “Assassin”, “Night Train”, “Diesel” and “Bus.”

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Today’s game is its own cacophony of violence, and fumble pileups are still no place for the meek. Players are bigger, faster and more agile than ever before. But back in the old days, before instant replay and probing multi-angle camera shots kept players in check, before the emergence of new rules that banned head slaps and ruthless high-and-low hits, the field of play was more primitive, more ungoverned, more savage, according to interviews with 18 retired players, coaches and officials.

Gary Plummer, a former linebacker for the Chargers and 49ers, believes his era of fumble piles was more ruthless than today’s. He says that modern players are as prized and protected as Triple Crown racehorses.

“They can call it a respect for your opponent, but I think that it’s because most players realize that they’re making $5 million a year, and you don’t want to mess up somebody’s career, so the intensity isn’t as heightened,” he said. “When we played, guys were fighting to put food on the table. Today, it’s all about getting an extra Ferrari. There’s a difference.”

Cliff “Crash” Harris, a cog in the Dallas Cowboys’ fabled “Doomsday Defense”, was tagged by Washington Coach George Allen as “a rolling ball of butcher knives.” Oakland quarterback Kenny Stabler, himself known as “the Snake”, described mammoth Raiders offensive lineman George Buehler as a “Coke machine with a head.”

Defensive lineman Rich Jackson, who played for the Raiders in the late 1960s, was known for a bear-paw swipe called the “halo spinner”, and once broke Green Bay Packers offensive tackle Bill Hayhoe’s helmet with a head slap. Lyle Alzado, the terrorizing Raiders defensive end, called Jackson the toughest man he’d ever met.

Jackson called himself “Tombstone”.

“When they asked me why,” he said, “I’d tell ‘em that the tombstone is the termination of life, a symbol of death, the end of the road.”

Even Tombstone considered fumble scrums to be cold-blooded places. “You’d hear guys holler and you couldn’t imagine what was going on to make a man scream like that, the dirty things taking place,” he said. “But I was down there. And I did whatever it took. We played desperate in the old days.”

This lawlessness built football legends. Some players had particular reputations for violence. They possessed the honed skills of hired hitmen, only too glad to employ them inside the scrum.

Gremlins like Dick Butkus, Ray Nitschke, Jack Lambert, Lawrence Taylor and Joe Greene, who was known for being just plain mean.

“Everybody knew that you didn’t piss off Joe Greene,” said Clinton Jones, now 74, a former running back drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in 1967. “You’d even try to compliment him. You’d say ‘Nice hit, Joe.’ Because you knew that if you didn’t treat him nice he might try to eat you, and that would make for a long afternoon. Some guys had no limits.”

Then there was Conrad Dobler, who earned lasting infamy — and a cover story in the July 25, 1977, issue of Sports Illustrated — as the dirtiest player in football.

As Los Angeles Times sports columnist Jim Murray once wrote, “Conrad didn’t play football, he waged it. You couldn’t describe what he did as play. Not unless you figure the Indians played Custer. Dobler turned a line of scrimmage into a killing ground. He went about the game with … maniacal, suicidal fervor.”

For many players, the word “Dobler” meant frothing, filthy hits.

“Guys like Conrad Dobler would bite your eyeballs out,” Smerlas said. “Conrad would eat a child, for God sakes. He had no conscience. He’d tape his hands and rub them in salt and go after your eyes. He was like a crab. Everything on him was going to hurt you. If the ball was on the ground, he would punch you in the ribs or in the throat. You could beat Conrad to death, he wouldn’t care.”

Yet even the formidable Dobler quakes at memories of the scrum. “All that stuff they said I did at the bottom of the pile was bullshit; I avoided piles,” he said. “They were dangerous places. You could get hurt. Being there on the ground with your legs spread out and guys piling on, you could break something. One of the most dangerous places was standing around a pile. You’d get hit by some guy using his helmet as a battering ram. It was a good way to get your ass knocked off. All I wanted to do was get out of that pile and check my bones to see if anything was broken.”

Dobler insists he didn’t need the cover of a fumble scrum to inflict his damage. “If I hurt players, I did it out in the open. I’d bring up my hands and hit ‘em in the face mask. I’d catch ‘em in the solar plexus with my fist. That stopped ‘em real good. It was all legal. The refs didn’t like my leg whip, but it was sufficient to knock a guy off his feet.”

Fumble piles were the perfect cover for criminality. Players who moments earlier had been felled by brutal hits sought out scrums to exact revenge, knowing they could hide from cameras and the discerning eyes of opposing sidelines and referees.

“When we played, there was no place to hide between the white lines,” Dobler said. “If I got my hands on a defense guy in the pile, I beat the shit out of him. You got no mercy. I made a guy cry once.”

An opponent once tried to bite off Dobler’s finger in the scrum. “But I always wrapped my hands before games. They were caked in dirt and mud and sweat. I might have even picked my nose with those fingers. So I laughed at those guys.

“Myself, I never bit anyone. I liked my teeth too much. And I still have beautiful teeth.”

Though steeped in venom and hostility, the fumble scrum is also a place where real technique, finesse, sophistication — perhaps even something like artistry — could shine. Think of Mikhail Baryshnikov with a helmet and shoulder pads.

Some players entered the fumble scrum more as pacifists than combatants. The game was built as much on savvy and skill as testosterone and eye-gouging, they reasoned. Sure, smash-mouth worked, but so did sleight of hand.

“Players talked trash in the pile, but I didn’t get into it. You throw down all that hate and you get consumed by it,“ said Riki Ellison, who played linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Raiders between 1983 and 1992. “Every locker room had the big bad-ass defensive linemen who were on the top of the food chain and set the mood. But some guys played a game of psychology in the pile. Matt Millen always talked about stuff that had nothing to do with football, like the weather, how his parents were doing or what was going on in his life. It was pure comedy. It would throw off a guy’s aggression.”

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Few players were as crafty as Cliff Harris.

“As a free safety, I caused a lot of fumbles, many more than I recovered,” recalled Harris, who played in five Super Bowls and was elected to six consecutive Pro Bowls. “I had a technique. It wasn’t any big secret. I’d come up from behind a player and punch the ball out with my fist. We called it stripping.”

By the 1960s, teams were practicing how to snatch loose footballs. “You were trained to fall on a fumble in a certain way,” Harris added. “You weren’t supposed to dive and land on the ball, but hit the ground next to it and curl up around it. If you tried to pick it up and run with it, there was better chance you’d really get injured.”

Players worried the fumble scrum might result in season-ending injuries. Football could fulfill dreams of glory, then tear everything away when one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse rolled over your leg.

“When I got to the NFL in 1976, I had to develop a receptivity to pain and learn how to deal with brutal, nasty, mean people,” said linebacker Reggie Williams, who played 14 seasons for the Cincinnati Bengals. “In the fumble piles, you’d expect someone to go for your gonads. Before instant replay, I felt a bunch of hands going for my nuts, so I’d get in the fetal position and clamp my buttocks together. One guy put his finger inside my nose and pulled, trying to rip the skin. Players would scratch your eyes, give you infections. It was all part of the nastiness of that pile. The dirtiest players were usually the ones on steroids. A steroid-induced athlete is a different kind of animal.”

Neck-twisting was considered fair game. “It wasn’t unusual for some guys to grab a player’s face mask and just twist, you know, literally wring his neck,” said Lee Roy Jordan, who played weakside linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys in the 1960s.

Thirty years later, necks and other vulnerable body parts are still being wrung in the pile. Today’s players don’t carry brass knuckles like Butkus or Nitschke, but they have ways of going for the jugular. “You put your hands up by somebody’s neck and, especially with an elbow, they stop moving,” said Stephen White, a former defensive end who played between 1996 and 2002 for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New York Jets (and now contributes to SB Nation). “You hit the throat, the ribs or the midsection, somewhere that makes the guy cough up that ball.”

Smerlas likens the toughest players to prison enforcers.

“We pounded the shit out of people. A lot of guys should have been put in cages after the game. We brought the adrenaline to every game,” he said. “I popped a finger out a few times and pulled it back myself. Once I hit the side of some guy’s helmet and ripped the side of my hand off, pinky to wrist. I ran off the field with all this white stuff oozing out, and they sewed it up right there without any pain killers. That kind of aggression.”

Kevin Gogan, a veteran offensive linemen who retired in 2000, earned the nickname “Big Nasty” for his legal hits as much as his reputation for dirty plays. Calling scrum violence “learned behavior,” he offered some pointers on exerting maximum nastiness.

“The best place to hit was right in the soft tissue. I’ve poked my fingers in people’s eyes,” Gogan said. “It’s not a good feeling, oh no. I remember one game where I kneed this guy in the nuts, hurt him real bad. He got up before me and stomped on what he thought was my leg, with those fierce inch-long cleats they used for grass fields. But he hit my teammate instead of me.”

Even referees have developed techniques to survive the fumble pile. After all, they venture between the lines without the same protective equipment or blind aggression as players. In a scrum, they feel more like the Christians than the lions.

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Now 90, Jim Tunney was nicknamed the “Dean of NFL Referees,” and wore No. 32 on his black-and-white uniform. He was particularly wary of fumbles, which he called “the most exciting play in football.”

“As an official, you’re foolish to dive into those scrums. I told younger refs, ‘Take your time. Don’t worry about it. Let things settle down,’” Tunney said. “Sorting through those players was like trying to take a steak from a dog’s mouth. I’d see referees dig into that pile and I’d tell them, ‘What are you worried about? Trying to find the right guy with the ball? C’mon.”

Once Tunney sensed that the worst brutality was over, he pounced.

“That ball comes loose and 22 guys come looking for it all at once. Only one or two are going to get to it. The rest are piling on, trying to hurt each other,” he said. “As an official, you peel those guys off. You say ‘It’s over, it’s over. Get off of there.’ And most times they would. But until you got down to the bottom of the pile, it was Darwin’s survival of the fittest. I would tell players, ‘If you haven’t read Charles Darwin, you better go back and read him.’”

Most players simply have to come to terms with the idea that sacrificing their bodies is for the good of the team. Because inside the pile, some drooling 380-pound lummox with pads and an attitude could hurt you even when he wasn’t trying. Like a hippo rolling on the riverbed.

“The weight of the pile was overwhelming and caused physical pain. I broke my arm underneath one pile against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Just the weight of all those bodies,” Ellison said. “A guy was on top of me and my arm was in an awkward position. You can’t do anything about it. You just gotta suck it up and wait the 10 seconds for the bodies to unpile.”

Geoff Schwartz, an offensive guard who played for five teams and retired in 2016 (and now contributes to SB Nation), said that fumbles took a particularly hard toll on the largest players. He stands 6’6 and played at a whopping 340 pounds.

“Fighting for the ball in those piles was the most exhausted I’d ever been on the football field over a 30-second period,” he said. “Trying to keep control of the ball, when guys would do anything to punch it out. It just wore me out.”

Sometimes, fumbles would punish players for their instincts. When a football popped loose into the open field, big defensive linemen got hurt doing something they later reconsidered as plain foolhardy: picking up a loose fumble and trying to run for a touchdown.

“Defensive linemen never got any glory so when we could pick up a fumble, we tried to score,” recalled Bob Lilly, a Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle in the 1960s. “One time I had Larry Cole on my left, and Cliff Harris, another one of my teammates, wants the ball too. So he comes running up and hit me in the back and tore my hamstring in two. I thought two things while I was falling: I wonder who that son of a bitch was who hit me in the back, and that I should have lateraled to Larry Cole.”

“Tombstone” didn’t fare much better in a similar situation. “I was playing Cincinnati one day and there was a fumble on the 5-yard line. The rest is kind of blurry. But it was the worst experience I ever had,” he said. “I picked it up, and I was thinking TD. I took the first step and it suddenly felt like the entire stadium was on me. They had me by the arms and the legs and the neck, pulling and punching and doing everything they could to get that football. And I told myself right there, ‘Man, don’t you ever do that again.’”

If a retired NFL player’s long-past career can seem like a fading dream, then the fumbles are the nightmares, those nagging memory loops, full of anxiety and feelings of impotence, that wake you up in a sweat at 3 a.m. Suddenly, you’re drowning in the bathtub, or caught stark naked on a public bus, mired in quicksand while trying to outrun a serial killer.

Gary Plummer once picked up an opponent by the eye sockets in retaliation for being kicked in the groin.

Either you come to terms with the chaos and the powerlessness, maybe even embrace it, or you don’t. You shudder, block it out of your mind. Or get therapy.

Gary Plummer once picked up an opponent by the eye sockets in retaliation for being kicked in the groin. How’s that for a nightmare? His mantra: hit or be hit. “If you weren’t fearless on the football field, you wouldn’t have a very long career,” he said.

Many players avoided people like Plummer. After all, why mess with Bigfoot when you know the bloody outcome? “I wasn’t in many of those piles,” said Harris. “I chose not to be until I had to be.”

Wait, even the guy known as the “rolling ball of butcher knives” avoided the pile? “I was a tough player, but I was also a smart player,” Harris said. “What kept me healthy was my thinking, not my instincts. And my instinct was to stay away from those scrums.”

Though fumbles are still much-ballyhooed by fans, NFL officials maintain a love-hate relationship with them. In 2018, the league changed one rule, no longer calling a loose ball a fumble if the player who lost the ball regains control “immediately”.

Some have called for a possession arrow, like the one used in basketball, to curtail the violence and the guessing game of the fumble scrum. Even coaches have begun asking their players to hold back.

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Players who once sought out the fumble pile now can only shake their heads. “It’s amazing to look back on it,” said Plummer. “I was a broadcaster for the 49ers for 13 years and I’d go to practices and training camps and I’d watch the drills and hits and I started thinking, “My God, I used to do this. How crazy that was. It’s like you have this ’S’ on your chest and a cape on your back when you’re playing. Fear never once entered into the equation.”

Long-retired NFL veterans describe their fumble psychosis as if they’re lying prone on the analyst’s couch. “Our era featured the sons of coal miners and men who worked in the steel mills. For them, football was bloodsport,” Clinton Jones said. “And when players left the game, they had post-traumatic stress. They had nightmares of the piles and the intensity of the sport, one campaign after another. They remembered all the vicious hits. Deacon Jones was a good friend of mine, and he’d always say, ‘Somebody slams the door and I jump.’”

Deep down in that fumble-pile flashback, desperate men will always be fighting for the football, brutality still being waged. The ball is right there for the taking. The only question that remains: How badly do you want it?

Forever lurking in the deep are delinquents like Lambert, Nitschke, and Butkus. “They were fierce. They loved the fumble scrum,” said Tunney. “That’s all a linebacker cares about. He doesn’t care if he’s having dinner that night. He just wants that ball. If you’re a running back and you fumble, you might make one attempt at the ball, but you wouldn’t be caught dead on the bottom of that pile. You leave that to the big guys.”

By the time he retired in 1973, Butkus had hard-coded trepidation into a generation of NFL veterans, not only for his felonious tackles, but for what he did in the pile, and everywhere else. He broke bones, crushed egos and prompted stretchers to be brought onto the field. NFL Hall of Fame defensive end Deacon Jones said Butkus, “was a well-conditioned animal,” and that “every time he hit you, he tried to put you in the cemetery, not the hospital.”

After both retired, Tunney asked Butkus about his zest for violence. “I

always called him Richard. I asked him, ‘Richard, did you ever intentionally try to hurt somebody?’

“He said, ‘Nah, not unless it was in a game or something.’”

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For years now folks have been comparing Kobe Bryant to The good Michael Jordan, and you will find certainly some similarities inside their online games. They the two led groups to many nationwide titles, they both equally show a assured fairly cocky Perspective, and they are both somewhat the same type of participant. For some time now there has been a semi the vast majority opinion that puts Jordan atop the throne as finest basketball player at any time. A very tricky seat to generally be in while you are competing with fellas like Larry Hen, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul Jabaar, and far too many other fantastic gamers to say. Oh wait, I forgot one, Kobe Bryant. In recent times There was really serious discussion that Bryant could possibly be nearly as good as, Otherwise, a lot better than Jordan, and this does not choose out merit. Along with the similarities I mentioned previously mentioned lets not neglect that they're two of the best gamers ever. Scratch that, the two best gamers at any time. That currently being mentioned I am not below to make any closing conclusions on who's the ultimo hombre, plug "Los Suns," as that would be accompanied by fully excessive criticism. Let alone I've always been one that sits around the fence about bests of sport. So in its place it appears that evidently a common comparison might be extra proper. That way it is possible to make your mind up on your own.

Lets get started in chronological buy with number 23, His Airness, Michael Jordan. When anybody hears his identify spoken there is tiny that pops into your head In addition to greatness. There's not something to dispute The reality that this dude is at the best. A goliath of your court docket who could simply not be stopped. If he needed to rating he could. And how about that nickname, His Airness? I read through a quote by A different NBA player and I understand I will butcher it, nevertheless it went a little something to your impact that "when Jordan jumped he acquired to the top of his jump and just decided 'very well I guess I will just hold out up right here for quite a while." Thats exactly what it gave the look of. Click here and you'll see what I mean.

Now lets check out a number of the ex-Bull's stats. I would like I could obtain a location that puts up his stats from his Bulls years only, but I cant, and i am not about to compile them myself. So this is going to have to include the stats from his complete job from 1984-2003, together with his final two years when he performed with the Washington Wizards, a crew that he later came to very own. He sported a field purpose proportion of 49.seven, and getting from my second quality Trainer who taught me to round that means that Jordan made each other shot, enough said. His three-level percentage is a bit within the low aspect at 32.7% but I would like to indicate that through the '94-'ninety five time, after his return from the a person calendar year crack, he shot 50% from powering the stripe. Jordan also place up a rounded down common of thirty points, six rebounds, and 5 assists. You truly can not say plenty of regarding how excellent Those people stats are. To head out about the courtroom and for all purposes have your hand in 40 factors is unreal. Jordan set the bar rather large, and in some cases to be in comparison to the legend is something in its own ideal.

Now on to Kobe, who should really feel very good just currently being the number 1 contender. To me he is owed this compliment. It in some cases gets tossed all over that Kobe is really an overrated participant. That just just isn't real. The "Black Mamba" as he is a short while ago being called can evade the peskiest of defenders, and put up unattainable shots though executing acrobats within the air that someway seem to be to find The underside with the nylon. If anybody will be as compared to Jordan, Kobe is it for my money. Also, I don't buy the concept that Kobe has a better supporting Forged, and its been tested two times in a very row now that he can without a doubt get without the Diesel. I mean how deep into their bench could the Lakers go this yr right until they acquired into iffy territory? I'm gonna say to the sixth man, Lamar Odom. Even he failed to execute constantly every evening. Kobe will be the glue which has held all of his championship teams collectively instead of another way all around. Did I mention most of his highlights look eerily similar to Jordan's? Click here to view what I necessarily mean.

Now onto a few data to the contender. Kobe places up a fairly amazing industry intention proportion at 45.five% and Whenever your questioned to score as much as he is usually that range carries much more weight. When thinking about his 3-place share you might be strike with A further superior amount. Coming in at an even 34% Kobe is up there Using the likes of Jason Kidd. Thinking about the massive 3 stats, details, rebounds, and assists, Kobe comes in at twenty five factors, five rebounds, and five assists for every activity. Go ahead make the comparison. He is a significant total lower during the points class, and just one rebound shy of Jordan's mark, truly.9 when you don't round for all you sticklers to choose from. To me the most significant stat for Kobe is his 3-position taking pictures. Previous time I checked He's 23rd all time in three balls designed, and he should be able to allow it to be into your leading 10 by the tip of profession, barring some unfortunate conditions. He's In spite of everything considerably harm prone currently.

Like I mentioned I am not in this article to crown a king, no reference to LeBron intended, but only to try and give either side with the story. For approximately 10 peak years of Jordan's career he was pretty much feared because of the opposing workforce. Kobe has finished precisely the same to his opponents for a long time now. So to me It's not at all absurd to check with the question of who is healthier. I do think its fairly clear that both of those are freaks of character In regards to playing basketball, and for some cause the gods attained down and blessed them both of those with an awesome gift. Each players should have many of the praise they get. I suppose the one strategy to see who is https://widemencantjump.com/ better is to use a type of computer programs that they had in the most up-to-date Rocky Motion picture and toss a ball concerning electronic Jordan and electronic Kobe and find out which a single will come out on major. On next believed there would still be skeptics, but hey, it would make for quite the display in true everyday living.

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The Most Infamous Crimes From Each of the 50 States

We all have a little bit of hometown respect, something that reaches us all proud to argue its own history plus it’s merriment to brag a little about what establishes your metropoli different or special. But with every good state reaches a dark area that we don’t get too excited to tell tourists or calling friends. Each country comes with its own luggage and narratives, some much darker than others. These are some well-known violations that happened in every nation. Heads up, some of these are a little disturbing. Advertisement div > Alabama Watched the “American Monster” ID episode on Anniston’s Audrey Marie Hilley carnage event. If you’re not familiar: https :// t.co/ JozZr3Ckgp — WilliamThornton (@ billineastala) July 25, 2017 They called her the pitch-black widow. Audrey Marie Hilley was guilty of poisoning her husband with arsenic and poisoning her daughter slowly over age with huge doses of arsenic after she took out a life insurance policy on her. She was sentenced to life in prison and managed to escape but was concluded four days later, crawling in the woods. She suffered from hypothermia and intent up living from a heart attack. Advertisement div > div > Alaska What I’m about to say will just solidify every wavering might have ever had about wanting to visit Alaska. In 1984, Robert Hanson, a partner, leader and local business owned, pleaded guilty to killing four women and was sentenced to 400 years in prison. He confessed to killing 17 dames, many of them prostitutes and exotic dancers. They announced him the” Butcher Baker “. Hansen died in prison at the age of 75 in 2014. A movie was procreated inspired by the narrative announced Frozen Ground em> performing Nicholas Cage and Vanessa Hudgens. Advertisement div > div > Arizona via: Getty Images Bob Crane was a Hollywood performer known for his role in Hogan’s Heroes. He was found dead in his apartment in 1978. No one was ever charged with his death and this murder example still remains unsolved to this day. Advertisement div > div > Arkansas Huge story from my AR days: 7 yrs after his departure, John Glasgow’s continues have been are available on Petit Jean. pic.twitter.com/ IL71aCKOZz — Sonseeahray Tonsall (@ tonsalltv) March 12, 2015 John Glasgow, a CEO of CDI Contractors, was doing seven people a year and was a public figure in Little Rock. In 2008, he backed out of his driveway and no one ever learnt him again. In 2015, skeletal remains were found in Petit Jean Mountain and sleuths confirmed that they belonged to John Glasgow. No one ever figured out what happened to him or who was responsible for his death. Advertisement div > div > California The list for California is quite long. But in my opinion, one of the most famous crimes in this country has to be the Zodiac Killer. If you have encountered the movie, you know how indeed creepy-crawly it is. If you haven’t, well you need to. The Zodiac Killer preyed on young pairs in secluded neighbourhoods. He would transport ambiguous words to newspapers and peril if they didn’t publish them, he would kill more people. Terror spread in San Francisco in the 60 s and 70 s and it is still a chilling mystery because he was never caught. Colorado via: Getty Images JonBenet Ramsey was six years old when she used were dead in her cellar the day after Christmas in 1996. The cause of death was asphyxiation. No one was ever arrested and her fatality is still a unsolved case. Advertisement div > div > Connecticut via: Getty Images The first case in Connecticut where person or persons was tasked with carnage, even though their own bodies was never perceived, was coined as the” Wood-chipper Murderer .” In 1986, Richard Crafts assassinated his wife and disposed of their own bodies abusing a wood-chipper. Private investigator Keith Mayo( photo above) was hired by Mrs. Crafts required to determine whether her husband was having an affair. He afterwards helped in the investigation of her fatality, informing police that Mrs. Craft often talked about how the couple was having marital issues. Advertisement div > div > Delaware Steven Brian Pennell: Blue Fiber #SerialKiller of #Delaware Profiled @DiscoveryID #gravesecrets https :// t.co/ 7JwMqkp8Qe #crime #tvnews pic.twitter.com/ Gb6LGi5gdn — Traciy Curry-Reyes/ Tv Crime Sky (@ Traciyreyes) November 16, 2016 Delaware only has one known serial assassin and his word is Steven Brian Pennell. He was called the” Route 40 Killer” because he would pick up his victims on the freeway. He was imprisoned of killing two women and was suspected to have killed three others. He was arrested in 1988 and was executed in 1992. Advertisement div > div > Florida Christine Falling was hired to watch a 2 year old-fashioned #onthisday in 1980. The toddler succumbed a few days later https :// t.co/ XTq7RvHGKX — Daily News Flashback (@ NYDNFlashback) February 22, 2018 ” The Babysitter From Hell” is a true Florida fright story. Christine Falling was is guilty of covering five children while she was babysitting them. The exterminates has just taken place between 1980 -1 982. She said there were articulations in her pate that told her to kill the children. She was found guilty and sentenced to serve to three life sentences. Advertisement div > div > Georgia via: Getty Images Eric Robert Rudolph was known for his terrorist acts in the United States. His first bombing was in the 1996 Time Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He likewise professed to bombing an abortion clinic and a lesbian bar in Georgia. Rudolph plead guilty to all indictments and is currently serving four life sentences. Hawaii Episode 10 is out. Listen as we speak about the Xerox Murders. Pictured are the victims that Byran Uyesugi killed on November 2nd, 1999. pic.twitter.com/ GGomPqRXCr — It’sAboutDamnCrime (@ IADCpodcast) April 24, 2017 In 1999, Byran Koji Uyesugi dedicated what was and is the deadliest mass shooting in Hawaii’s history. Known as the Xerox Murders, Byran testified up at his work with a 9 mm Glock and killed six of his coworkers and his supervisor. He was sentenced to life in prison. Advertisement div > div > Idaho Our alum @c_jensen_ writes about Lyda Southard, Idaho’s Black Widow of the 1910 s: https :// t.co/ rHhda0nMl 6 pic.twitter.com/ wzXOMsulX3 — GHS UIowa (@ GHSUIowa) November 7, 2015 Lyda Southard( Lady Bluebeard) of Idaho has been called the first female serial killer. In the early 1900 s, she was imprisoned for the poisoning and killing of her husband and daughter. She was thought to have killed her past four husbands. She escaped confinement but was later caught despite her hopeless take measures in order to flee her sentencing. Advertisement div > div > Illinois Ep 015: @TobyBallNH and I analyse H.H. Holmes’s slaughter castle with the aid of some off-brand Wilhelm Screaming https :// t.co/ tmuUTyT0 0m pic.twitter.com/ 5jV1wcSt2v — The Blotter Presents (@ blotterpresents) July 13, 2017 Did “youve been” watch American Horror Story: Inn ? Well, the show had its springs and insight from the acclaimed H.H. Holmes’s Murder Castle in Chicago, Illinois. H.H. Holmes well-developed a successful inn in 1893 with stairways that led to nowhere and a continually changing floor plan so no one could understand the layout of the hotel but him. It confirms that he killed 27 men and women, but it was suspected that the number of victims could have been over 200 during their five-month run. Advertisement div > div > Indiana via: Getty Images Famous boxer Mike Tyson was convicted of raping a Miss Black America Pageant contestant in 1991. This took place in his hotel room in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was sentenced to six years in prison despite his complete and total self-denial of the incident. His career continued to plummet after he was released from prison. Yes, I am referring to him chewing off the hearing of another boxer. Advertisement div > div > Iowa Anna Ecklund was a ordinary daughter from Iowa until she started playing a bit, well, possessed. The year was 1928 when an exorcism was acted on Anna that lasted 23 days. The exorcism inspired the movie The Exorcist and became one of the most famous exorcisms in the United States. Heads up, this trailer is a little freaky. Kansas At least 15 people recognized Wolf Rimann shot in downtown KC. The gunmen was ever witnessed. https :// t.co/ jffIAsiTkz — Shane R Sanderson (@ shanersanderson) July 16, 2017 Wolf Rimann, a professional golfer, country club proprietor, and small-town luminary was fire in the middle of the working day in Kansas City in 1949. Many people appreciated his murder, but the shooters were never linked or arrested. Advertisement div > div > Kentucky Angel of Death: Life of Serial Killer Donald Harvey by Jack Smith https :// t.co/ Tbzos3m 6Vj — Jennifer (@ prettyhotbooks) February 21, 2018 Meet Donald Harvey, the Angel of Death. Harvey worked at a hospice where he would poison cases applying arsenic, cyanide, and morphine. He would also turn off ventilators and inject cases with HIV and Hepatitis B in order to objective their lives quicker. Police attributed anywhere from 30 -6 0 assassinates to Harvey, but he admitted to 87 assassinations. He was sentenced to life in prison but was seen beaten to demise in his cadre in March 2017. Advertisement div > div > Louisiana Another American Horror Story stimulated narrative. Madame Delphine LaLaurie, a New Orleans socialite, was known for her horrible treatment of her slaves. After word went out of the torture chamber she retained her slaves in, an indignant gathering cracked into her house and tore apart everything we are able to get their hands on. Delphine LaLaurie escaped and her whereabouts were never discovered , nor was her death ever recorded. Advertisement div > div > Maine In 2008, Matthew Cushing murdered his mother, step-father and step-brother, then lights his home on fire. His motivatings were never fully understood or explained. He was found guilty of the three assassinations in 2013 and is performing three life sentences. Advertisement div > div > Maryland via: Getty Images Samuel Sheinbein was exclusively 17 when he killed one of his classmates that had been involved in a fight. He recruited the other student involved in the altercation and the two killed and dismembered their own bodies of Alfredo Tello Jr. in 1997. When the evidence of the murder conducted a clearly defined footpath to Sheinbein, he fled to Israel to avoid abuse and gained instant citizenship. He was extradited and be subject to 24 years in prison but got shot in a police stand-off in 2014, time one year before he was eligible for benefits parole. Massachusetts via: Getty Images Michael McDermott is providing seven consecutive life sentences for the Wakefield massacre of 2000. The day after Christmas, McDermott entered the offices of Edgewater Technology and fatally shot seven employees. The prosecution found that McDermott’s intentions were be traced to his employer’s garnishment of his wages. Advertisement div > div > Michigan via: Getty Images Jimmy Hoffa, a famed American labor union chairwoman and the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He disappeared in 1975 when he was 62 years old. He was on his nature to meet with two mafia leaders. He was inferred dead even though no one ever found his mas and no one was ever convicted of his murder. Advertisement div > div > Minnesota MN Supreme Court substantiates murder conviction of Byron Smith in fatal Little Falls shootings. https :// t.co/ GurvU6FdTQ pic.twitter.com/ pio9uduGsT — Star Tribune (@ StarTribune) March 9, 2016 The small town of Little Falls, Minnesota is now known as the city where the Thanksgiving Day assassinations occurred. Byron Smith killed two girls that undermined into his house but did not call the policemen until the next day because he didn’t want to spoil anyone’s Thanksgiving. He was imprisoned of first-degree premeditated carnage and be subject to life in prison. Advertisement div > div > Mississippi Carla Ann Hughes is a teacher formed murderer. She is serving two life sentences for killing her lover’s fiancee. She was romantically involved with another professor who was engaged to Avis Banks, who was pregnant. Banks was perceived stabbed and film in her own garage. Hughes asserted the 5th at her visitation and refused to speak. She was found guilty of two tallies of fund murder. Advertisement div > div > Missouri Robert Berdella: The True Story of The Kansas City Butcher: Historic Serial Killers and Murderers( True Crime by Evil Killers)( Volume 5) PDFhttps :// t.co/ rX8SRSv8BU pic.twitter.com/ Y9GlbQgdM0 — Books Library Land (@ bookslibland) February 15, 2018 ” The Butcher of Kansas City” was Robert Berdella, a local business proprietor who had a monstrou secret. He kidnapped, abused and abused young men in his apartment. After a detailed acknowledgment, Berdella was found guilty of five slayings, sentencing him to five life sentences. He died in 1992 due to a heart attack at persons under the age of 43. Montana Montana newlywed Jordan Linn Graham goes 30 times in husband’s murder Developing story: http :// t.co/ NeiNn0cAHb pic.twitter.com/ qEODW8UO 18 — KYTX CBS1 9 (@ kytxcbs1 9) March 27, 2014 Jordan Linn Graham pushed her husband off a cliff in Glacier National Park in 2013 after being married for only eight days. She falsified some crazy legends and tried to cover it up through use a bogus email address, but eventually acknowledged to propagandizing her husband off the cliff, announcing it a” reckless accomplishment “. She was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Advertisement div > div > Nebraska via: Getty Images Charles Starkweather went on a full-fledged annihilate rampage in 1958. He was simply 17 years old when he and his 14 -year-old girlfriend Caril Anne Fugate committed crimes that still haunt Nebraska’s history. Starkweather made 11 lives, three of them were Caril Anne’s family members. He was given the death penalty by electric chair in 1959 and Caril Anne received a life sentence but was granted parole after acting virtually 18 times in prison. Advertisement div > div > Nevada via: Getty Images This might be the most famous one in my opinion. Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas in 1996. This case is famous for two obvious rationalizations: the luminary status of Tupac and the fact that no one was ever charged with his murder. The rapper was exclusively 25 when he was killed. Advertisement div > div > New Hampshire From “In the Evil Day”: pals/ EMTs around Dennis Joos minutes after he was shot by Carl Drega. #crime #amwriting pic.twitter.com/ F2224jXrEN — richard adams carey (@ richadamscarey) September 19, 2015 Carl Drega had some serious strain with the law enforcement in Bow, New Hampshire. This tension that initially started with a code imposition on his property contributed significantly to Drega killing and killing two state trooper, a referee and a newspaper editor. He was eventually shot and killed by police officer in a stand off after Drega absconded back to his home and adjusting it on fire. Advertisement div > div > New Jersey 1967: FRIDAY: RICHARD FRANCIS COTTINGHAMNANCY SCHIAVA VOGEL: 29 years- 1st known casualty( 1/6) pic.twitter.com/ OsdzYxgMLc — SerialADay (@ SerialADay) October 27, 2017 Richard Francis Cottingham was convicted of killing six women around 1980 but claimed to have killed anywhere from 80 -1 00. Cottingham often vanished after sexes but one of his casualties was a baby of two children. He is helping 200 years in prison. New Mexico It’s been 28 years since the darkest period in Las Cruces. Maybe you could be the one to help solve the Bowling Alley Massacre? https :// t.co/ EvBlsV1RQX — NewsChannel9 El Paso (@ KTSMtv) February 6, 2018 In 1990, a massacre has just taken place in a bowling alley in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Two gunmen photographed seven proletarians there, four of them being youths, lighted the bowling alley on fire and left with $5,000 they took from the safe. Only three of the seven preys lived through the shooting. The gunmen were never encountered and the murders persist unsolved. Advertisement div > div > New York Richard Kuklinski, aka “Iceman,” was a prominent hitman hired by mobsters to do their dirty work in the concrete jungle. In a 36 -year span, Kuklinski admitted to killing over 200 people. Prosecutors accused Kuklinski with five assassinate countings and six artilleries violations. He was convicted and sentenced to consecutive life sentences. He croaked at the age of 70 in 2006 due to a heart attack. Advertisement div > div > North Carolina Exclusive photos of Jeffrey MacDonald’s family before the assassination that shocked America https :// t.co/ pIRW6I 0a5d pic.twitter.com/ mjaOBcSolV — People (@ beings) January 24, 2017 Jeffrey MacDonald was a doctor who was convicted of assassinating his wife, her unborn newborn, and their two daughters in 1970. He staged the murders to look like someone came in and massacred the family, but after intense investigation and analysis of all relevant considerations, it was disclosed that MacDonald was the murderer. He was sentenced to serve three consecutive life sentences and is still in prison today. Advertisement div > div > North Dakota Baby Emma – the only survivor of the Wolf family massacre. Sounds the floor on today’s minisode #truecrime #ND #murder #mystery pic.twitter.com/ bHRiQV0YJr — Cold Traces (@ cold_traces) October 28, 2017 Turtle Lake, North Dakota in 1920 had a population of 400 people. A family farm owned by the Wolf family became an unbelievably tragic crime scene. An incensed neighbor listed Henry Layer shot seven members of the Wolf family and one chore boy. The only survivor was the nine-month-old baby. Layer admitted and was sentenced to life in prison. Advertisement div > div > Ohio via: Getty Images Anthony Sowell, nicknamed the “Cleveland Strangler” was sentenced to death in 2009 after the authorities of 11 brides were found in his home. Sowell sits on fatality row. The metropolitan of Cleveland said that his home be demolished. Oklahoma “Im sorry I killed five people, okay? ” Gary Alan Walker pic.twitter.com/ JHlkaQuMJk — KillersSayWhat (@ ShitKillersSay) January 19, 2017 Gary Alan Walker was a serial executioner in the 80 s that is responsible for the death of five people. These slayings took place over 19 dates and consisted of kidnap, crimes and torturing. Walker was given the capital punishment by lethal injection in 2000. Advertisement div > div > Oregon Diane Downs Mother Shoots Three Children – ABC News http :// t.co/ LaYz4oYHC 4( via @ABC) — Derek Gendvil (@ dgendvil) April 7, 2013 Diane Downs was having an liaison with a lover who said he did not require babes so, in order for her to fit his needs, she decided to try and kill her two daughters and her son. She shot her children then photographed herself in the limb and drove to the hospital, claiming they had been attacked. One of her daughters was dead on reaching, her lad is increasingly becoming paralyzed from the waist down and her other daughter suffered a massive stroke. Downs was sentenced to life, plus 50 years; the gues intended for use by Downs to never be free again. Advertisement div > div > Pennsylvania via: Getty Images Jerry Sandusky was an assistant football coach at Penn State. He likewise started a kindnes called The Second Mile that was devoted to children with absentee families. Sandusky was living a double life; he was later charged with 52 tallies of sexual abuse of young boys over a 15 time span of hour. He was guilty of forcible intercourse and rape of minors. He was sentenced to 60 years in prison in 2012. Advertisement div > div > Rhode Island In 2003, Jeffrey Mailhot killed a woman and dismembered her body. Within the next year and a half, he slaughtered two other women in the same fashion, putting their body parts in different trash bags. Mailhot is currently serving two life sentences, plus 10 years. Advertisement div > div > South Carolina via: Getty Images Dylann Roof is known for the Charleston Church shooting in 2015. He shot and killed nine people. Roof was a neo-nazi that was targeting pitch-black Americans. The now 23 -year-old waits on death row after he was sentenced to demise by lethal injection. South Dakota #SouthDakota TV #journalists in the media room as hanging of Eric Robert nears. @KDLTNews @ksfynews @keloland pic.twitter.com/ YEj1DYRZ — Amber Hunt (@ ReporterAmber) October 16, 2012 Eric Roberts simply murder was convicted inside the prison walls. He was primarily arrested and imprisoned for masquerading law enforcement officers and kidnapping the status of women. He was sentenced to 80 years. In an attempt to escape, he beat a corrections officer to fatality with a pipe. He was then sentenced to death by lethal injection in 2012. Advertisement div > div > Tennessee Jessie Dotson has been sentenced to 40 years for each of the 3 struggled slaughter charges against him. Watch … http :// fb.me/ KMwVzNdu — WREG News Channel 3 (@ 3onyourside) November 9, 2010 Jessie Dotson killed six people, one was his brother and two were his nephews. An argument between Jessie and his brother broke out in 2008 and conclude with Jessie filming his own brother, then continuing to kill any and all witnesses. Dotson was sentenced to six life sentences in 2010 and received an additional 120 years in prison. Advertisement div > div > Texas High school teacher Charles Albright, AKA the Texas Eyeball Killer, killed three women. https :// t.co/ 41 DeEpzTEK — Ben Pobjie (@ benpobjie) February 16, 2018 Charles Albright was known as the “Eyeball Killer” because he removed the eyes of the three women he murdered. Albright was a teacher at one point, with a phony college unit and a history of petty stealing and sexual assault to a minor in 1981. He was arrested and charged with the murder of three women but was simply found guilty of one. He was sentenced to life in prison. Advertisement div > div > Utah Highly impressed and somewhat sickened to be acknowledged that uncanny the similarity between Zac Efron and Ted Bundy is. This movie is going to be amazing. pic.twitter.com/ hAqxoonlE6 — compassion, ana (@ ItsAnnaSP) March 19, 2018 Ted Bundy admitted to 30 murders in seven different states. He listened University of Utah Law School where he would chase and allure maids before slaughtering them. One of his countless preys was the Midvale, Utah, police chief’s daughter. In 1976 he was sentenced to serve 15 years in the Utah State prison but was last-minute transferred to a confinement in Aspen, Colorado after being extradited. This was all just the beginning of his cluttered and long period of being tried in different government courts. Bundy eventually lived at the age of 42 by electric chair in 1989. A movie is being made about these assassinates and Zac Efron is toy Bundy. I don’t know how I feel about someone so excellent toy someone so evil. Advertisement div > div > Vermont UVM murder case defense argues message not shared: At Vermont Supreme Court hearing, Brian Rooney’s protection .. http :// bit.ly/ aHEtS2 — BurlingtonFreePress (@ bfp_news) March 18, 2010 Brian Rooney was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Michelle Gardner-Quinn in 2006. Michelle was missing for six days when her body was learnt suffocated, whips and raped. Rooney was blamed in 2008 and sentenced to life in prison with no parol. Virginia via: Getty Images Seung-Hui Cho was the murderer held liable for the Virginia Tech Massacre in 2007 that killed 32 parties and injured 17. Cho situated bonds on the doors of a campus house where he opened fire for nine times before he shot himself in the head. Cho sent a packet to NBC News claiming that his reasoning for the purposes of our kill was because he wanted to condemn the” rich minors .” Advertisement div > div > Washington Has the #DBCooper contingency FINALLY been solved? Talking with generator/ researcher #RobertBlevins on #AfterHoursAMTheCriminalCode – His #IntoTheBlastTheTrueStoryOfDBCooper has been optioned by a feature film companionship https :// t.co/ vilsiHa5Ia pic.twitter.com/ MuhvIJa7S 0 — AmericasMostHaunted (@ amhaunted) March 22, 2018 This might be the most interesting crime. D.B. Cooper, which might not even be his real figure, is known for hijacking an aircraft heading toward Seattle in 1971. He stole the airline stewardess a memo claiming he had a device. Cooper necessitated $200,000 and a parachute so he could escape. He bought his ticket for the purposes of the name Dan Cooper, but no one even knows his real identity. People doubt he would have been able to survive a jump that high, or if this whole occurrence even happened. To this day, this is the only unsolved breeze infringement occasion in business aviation history. Advertisement div > div > West Virginia Skylar Neese Fatality: Person found in Pennsylvania is missing West Virginia teen, federal officials respond https :// t.co/ 3jsNZXyibk — StarBaby (@ ReyleneReyes) May 3, 2016 Skylar Neese was murdered by her two best friends in 2012 plainly since they are did not want to be friends with her anymore. The 16 -year-olds were tried as adults after they jabbed Neese to demise and “ve been trying to” inter her body. Both girlfriends were jailed, one for 15 years to life, and the other, 10 to 30 years. Advertisement div > div > Wisconsin via: Getty Images Jeffrey Dahmer killed 17 people between 1978 and 1991. He was a cannibal and a necrophiliac that preyed on gentlemen that he would pick up at tables or on the side of freeways. He often deterred body parts in his fridge and freezer. He was arrested in 1991 and was sentenced to 16 life calls. In 1994, he was vanquished to demise by a fellow inmate. Advertisement div > div > Wyoming via: Getty Images In 1974 across the encompas of 7 weeks, four young girls went missing. Then nine years later, one of the bodies was found. Since the other bodies were never detected, it was difficult to collect evidence. The small town of Rawlins, Wyoming has not bind any loose end or imprisoned anyone for the assassination and goings of these girls. Read more: http :// twentytwowords.com/ the-most-infamous-crimes-from-each-of-the-5 0-states / http://dailybuzznetwork.com/index.php/2018/06/24/the-most-infamous-crimes-from-each-of-the-50-states/

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