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01-31-2019 , 09:46 PM

#4276

Bluegrassplayer

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Dee dee article was a great read.

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01-31-2019 , 10:12 PM

#4277

that_pope

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Seriously, never heard about that. **** her.

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02-01-2019 , 07:47 AM

#4278

kokiri

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Originally Posted by Howard Treesong

The name issue is that American monster whitey bulger has the same last name.

Pretty sure that has nothing to do with it being a big deal in the UK.

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02-01-2019 , 01:51 PM

#4279

JayTeeMe

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Dee Dee case interesting in that i can't feel sorry for nor condemn either the killers nor victim.

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02-01-2019 , 02:09 PM

#4280

that_pope

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I definitely feel sorry for the daughter. If she couldn't run away or escape, she had no other way to prove her Mom wrong. She said herself she feels more free in prison than during her time with her Mother.

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02-01-2019 , 02:15 PM

#4281

EnglishLad72

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Lol at flushing her ashes down the toilet

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02-01-2019 , 03:46 PM

#4282

sumey

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Originally Posted by happy to be hear

This got press because of his name, stories like this happen a lot, unfortunately. Luckily we don't get to hear about all of them :/

Are you talking about James Bulger in this post? His name had nothing to do with it (I'd never heard of Whitey Bulger until Johnny Depp played him), it was the shocking nature of the crime and the ages of the perpetrators.

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02-01-2019 , 03:50 PM

#4283

sumey

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Originally Posted by ChrisV

Reports at the time were that Thompson was the psychopathic ringleader and Venables was the follower; not so sure that was wrong. Thompson apparently never cried in detention and wanted to see news reports on the case. The rumour is that he is pissed off with Venables for constantly getting in the news and dragging the case back into the headlines.

I never saw anything about that, or if I did I've since forgotten.

I've assumed it was Venables who led, because of his form since.

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02-01-2019 , 06:57 PM

#4284

rockfsh

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Largest known intact meteorite. 60 tons. No crater.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoba_meteorite

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02-01-2019 , 07:24 PM

#4285

happy to be hear

adept

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The Bulger case has had increased traffic because of sharing a mobsters name, for instance when I clicked on the link thinking about him.

I'm not saying this isn't a big deal where isn't happened, of course it is. It's a big deal happening anywhere at any time.

It's just a matter of degree to what extent the story has gotten more notarial due to it and really not that important of a point here. Fwiw.

I'd figure id mention that for the few people above asking about my comment.

Seems intuitive to me.

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02-01-2019 , 07:25 PM

#4286

Dominic

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I remember the Bulger case, and it was huge in the US, as well as GB....no one ever said anything about Whitey Bulger then.

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02-01-2019 , 09:00 PM

#4287

ChrisV

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Originally Posted by sumey

I never saw anything about that, or if I did I've since forgotten.

I've assumed it was Venables who led, because of his form since.

For example:

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Laurence Lee, the solicitor who represented Venables at his trial in 1993, said: “I was amazed. If someone said to me one of the two boys has breached his licence, I would have put my house on it being Thompson. Jon Venables was by unanimous agreement the lesser evil."

Who knows, though. Thompson had a very traumatic home life:

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Present were social workers, solicitors, nurses, youth project leaders, child protection officers, and education welfare officers, and the boys’ headteacher. The number of professionals in attendance — 16 in all for just one family — gives you some idea of what kind of household they were dealing with.

The file is horrifying and reads like a real-life version of Lord Of the Flies. The boys [Thompson was 5th of 7 brothers], it said, grew up in fear of each other and their aggressive, alcoholic father, who beat their mother and punished them with sticks and belts.

When he abandoned them for another woman in 1988, the brothers turned on each other. The eldest boy picked on a younger sibling, that sibling picked on the next in line, and so the violence percolated down to Robert.

One of the brothers asked to be taken into care after being tarred and feathered. He was found by a neighbour chained up and locked in the garden shed.

Yet Robert Thompson had shown early promise at school and was regarded as a bright pupil with potential to be a high achiever. But in the two years before the killing he was barely in class.

Not surprising that he was a messed up kid.

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02-02-2019 , 03:53 AM

#4288

JayTeeMe

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Originally Posted by rockfsh

Largest known intact meteorite. 60 tons. No crater.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoba_meteorite

This was mentioned on the Interesting Things podcast about meteorites. He did not mention that it was shaped like a square. Wtf? Seems like aliens imo.

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02-02-2019 , 05:29 AM

#4289

sumey

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Originally Posted by happy to be hear

The Bulger case has had increased traffic because of sharing a mobsters name, for instance when I clicked on the link thinking about him.

Your first post suggested that it got more press at the time because of the victim's name. This is wrong.

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02-02-2019 , 12:34 PM

#4290

rockfsh

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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe

This was mentioned on the Interesting Things podcast about meteorites. He did not mention that it was shaped like a square. Wtf? Seems like aliens imo.

If it was a cube you'd be right.

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02-02-2019 , 10:03 PM

#4291

xander biscuits

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Originally Posted by kokiri

Frankly I still can't bring myself to read about the Bulger case. The few minor details I picked up over the years haunt me.

(& I've no idea what the 'name' comment means)

I was 9 when it happened and only knew the vaguest of details.

Only just read the full article now. It's beyond horrific, you made a wise choice not reading it.

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02-02-2019 , 11:07 PM

#4292

microbet

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Originally Posted by happy to be hear

This got press because of his name, stories like this happen a lot, unfortunately. Luckily we don't get to hear about all of them :/

No. Stories like that do not happen a lot.

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02-04-2019 , 12:17 PM

#4293

Perhaps Shimmy

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Some interesting ones on this list

Examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disapp...f_Ben_McDaniel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disapp...f_Leah_Roberts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disapp...rilyn_Bergeron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disapp...deleine_McCann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disapp...f_Maura_Murray
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disapp...f_Kyron_Horman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disapp..._Brian_Shaffer

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02-04-2019 , 01:37 PM

#4294

JudgeHoldem

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That Tiffany Whitton went down right around where I live and I know many of these locations. Never heard of her until now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disapp...iffany_Whitton

is she the hottest missing person? i would think so!

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02-04-2019 , 06:25 PM

#4295

COCKBOAT

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Need a Ms. Missing OOT to make sure.

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02-04-2019 , 07:15 PM

#4296

suzzer99

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Dyatlov Pass Incident

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The Dyatlov Pass incident (Russian: Ги́бель тургру́ппы Дя́тлова) is the death of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union between 1 and 2 February 1959 under unclear circumstances. The experienced trekking group, who were all from the Ural Polytechnical Institute, had established a camp on the slopes of Kholat Syakhl in an area now named in honor of the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov. During the night, something caused them to tear their way out of their tents and flee the campsite while inadequately dressed for heavy snowfall and sub-zero temperatures.

After the group's bodies were discovered, an investigation by Soviet Union authorities determined that six had died from hypothermia while the other three showed signs of physical trauma. One victim had a fractured skull; two others had major chest fractures. Additionally, the body of another team member was missing its tongue and eyes. The investigation concluded that an "unknown compelling force" had caused the deaths. Numerous theories have been put forward to account for the unexplained deaths, including animal attacks, hypothermia, avalanche, infrasound-induced panic, military involvement, or some combination of these.

Russia reopens investigation into 60-year-old Dyatlov Pass mystery

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However the new inquiries will only investigate three theories considered the "most likely ones."

"All of them are somehow connected with natural phenomena," said Alexander Kurennoi, the official representative of Russia's Prosecutor General.

"Crime is out of the question," he said, adding: "There is not a single proof, even an indirect one, to favor this (criminal) version. It was either an avalanche, a snow slab or a hurricane."

hmmm

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02-04-2019 , 08:19 PM

#4297

de captain

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Putin

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02-04-2019 , 09:40 PM

#4298

DisGunBGud

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That tongue and eyes thing is what really gets me

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02-04-2019 , 10:15 PM

#4299

microbet

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My bet is the locals killed them. The wiki says something about the Mansi people. Seems like the kind of thing the Soviets would want to cover up.

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02-04-2019 , 10:21 PM

#4300

suzzer99

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Well supposedly there were no other footprints in the snow, which would make it hard to be the Mansi.

And the tongue and eyes thing is supposedly consistent with lying face down in a stream for 4 months.

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