The Atrocities of the Toolbox Killers

It’s so cliché to talk about the serial killer’s van, the stereotypical “white van” used to pick up unsuspecting victims. In this story, the killers used a van, only theirs was silver-gray. Was that one tiny detail enough to give women the tiniest sense of relief when it pulled up beside them? Color of the van aside, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris still claimed their fair share of victims. Together they became known as the Toolbox Killers and are regarded to this day as having committed the most atrocious crimes.

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The Ghosts of LaLaurie Mansion

Imagine if you will, being a young girl, a student at an all-girls school in New Orleans, Louisiana. This was a new school, a primary school for young African-American ladies. A place to learn and grow. But unfortunately, that’s not all that would happen. You would be physically assaulted, running to your teacher with your sleeve rolled up, showing your forearm, scratched and bruised. You can’t help but cry, and when the teacher would ask, “Who did this to you?” the only thing you could say was, “That woman.” What woman would do such a thing? Who, or rather what, was in that school? What if I told you, that the school was once known as the LaLaurie Mansion?

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Robert Hansen: Hunting for Humans

You’ve moved to Alaska, and despite your education and skills, the only job available is exotic dancer. Not ready to give up, you take the job and enjoy the freedom and money it provides you. When a photographer who loves your look, offers you a job, you don’t hesitate. Little did you know, you wouldn’t be getting your picture taken. In fact, the only “shots” Robert Hansen took were with a rifle.

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10 Heinous Medieval Torture Devices

Torture: the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain.

Some would say that people are inherently good. Even so, we have managed to come up with some creative ways of torturing one another. Here are 10 of the most heinous torture devices.

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David Parker Ray and his Toy Box of Torture

Bad choices and money problems; we’ve all been there, so we can empathize with Cynthia Vigil Jaramillo when she ran into the same predicament. She felt she had no choice but to turn to prostitution, which she did in Albuquerque, New Mexico. One night, working the streets, David Parker Ray rolled up next to her. Thinking he was just another client, she wasn’t concerned when he got out of the car. That is until he told her he was an undercover police officer.

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Gary Heidnik: The People Collector

For a working woman, every day is a risk, but you take it anyway. You go to the home of your latest client. Nothing seems out of sorts; you have sex, and while you wait for him to bring you money, you start to get dressed. What you don’t know, is this man wants more than just sex. This was a reality for Josefina Rivera (25), on November 25, 1986, the day she met Gary Heidnik.

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BTK – Bind, Torture, Kill

“I can’t stop it so, the monster goes on, and hurt me as wall as society. Society can be thankfull that there are ways for people like me to relieve myself at time by day dreams of some victim being tortore and being mine. It a big complicated game my friend of the monster play putting victims number down, follow them, checking up on them waiting in the dark, waiting, waiting…the pressure is great and somt-times he run the game to his liking. Maybe you can stop him. I can’t. He has already chosen his next victim or victims. I don’t know who they are yet. The next day after I read the paper, I will Know, but it to late. Good luck hunting.”
– BTK

Dennis Rader BTK
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