During the night of April 25, 2009, 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel from New York left a hotel in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she had been staying with friends during spring break.

Drexel walked to a nearby hotel and sent a text message to her boyfriend, stating that she was on her way back to her motel. Sadly, this marked the final time she was seen alive.

Police investigated Drexel's disappearance but no developments were made public until 2016, when it was announced that a prison inmate had told them that she had been abducted and killed.

The man accused by the informant denied knowledge of any alleged crime. Based on that information, the FBI considered the case a homicide.

In May 2022, police arrested Raymond Moody for the crime, he pleaded guilty to all charges in October.

Drexel's remains were recovered a week later in a wooded area in Georgetown, about 33 mi (53 km) from where she originally went missing.

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On December 28th, 1992, 23-year-old Steven Clark took a walk with his mother Doris. According to her, they stopped at the public restrooms before heading home, but when she came out of the women's room her son was nowhere to be found Steven has never been seen or heard from since.

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In the 1800s, Scottish surgeon Robert Liston became infamous for a surgery that led to an astonishing 300% mortality rate.

He amputated a patient's leg in under 2.5 minutes, operating so swiftly that he inadvertently amputated his assistant's fingers and slashed a spectator's coattails.

The spectator died from sheer terror, and both the patient and the assistant later succumbed to gangrene, marking the only recorded operation with a 300% mortality rate.

On a separate occasion, while performing another leg amputation, Liston accidentally removed a patient's testicles along with the leg.

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Landlord charged with hate crime, accused of stabbing 6-year-old tenant to death allegedly because family is Muslim

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On February 16, 2009, 911 dispatchers in Stamford, Connecticut received a call so shocking it took them several minutes to even understand what was happening.

Sandra Herold frantically screamed into the phone that her friend Charla Nash was being viciously attacked and eaten alive by her pet chimpanzee Travis.

Herold begged the dispatcher to send police immediately and said they needed to bring guns to shoot the mad chimp.

Throughout the entire horrifying call, dispatchers could hear Travis' enraged screams in the background as the attack continued.

Finally, emergency services arrived at Herold's home and found Charla Nash completely covered in blood on the ground, her face all but ripped off and her fingers strewn about the ground around her.

Nash required hours of surgery after the attack, and after her jaw was reattached she later flew to Ohio for an experimental facial transplant.

After the cops shot Travis to death, a toxicology report determined the chimpanzee had been given Xanax on the day of the attack. Sandra had reported this to police, but it's thought the drug may have fuelled his aggression.

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Video filmed in January 2022, shows a man narrowly escape death after stepping out of elevator seconds before it collapsed.

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Nicknamed the "Russian Bird Boy," Vanya Yudin was kept isolated by his mother in a room surrounded by dozens of birds in cages. When he was rescued in 2008 at the age of 7, he could only communicate by chirping and flapping his arms.

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The first people ever killed in an air accident were hot air balloon pioneers Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and Pierre Romain, in 1785.

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Melissa Lourdes Lopez posing for a picture just seconds before being gunned down herself at a memorial for a victim of gun violence.

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In 2022, 24-year-old rapper Markelle Morrow aka "Goonew" lost his life after being shot while on his way to drop off his sister a birthday gift. After his death, his family celebrated his funeral inside of a nightclub with the rapper's embalmed body propped up on the stage.

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At her wedding in April 1989, Linda Kolkena begged her partner Dan Broderick to wear a bulletproof vest because she was terrified that his jealous ex-wife would attack him. Seven months later, that's exactly what happened.

Kolkena and Broderick had begun dating while he was still married to a woman named Betty. For seven years, they snuck around until Broderick divorced his wife in 1985 and moved in with Kolkena.

A devastated Betty Broderick immediately began seeking revenge. She left them constant, angry voicemails, broke into their house and spray-painted their walls, and even drove her car right into the side of their house.

Finally, on November 5, 1989, Betty broke into the couple's bedroom while they were sleeping and shot them to death.

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An inmate at the Dade Correctional Institution died after being locked in a scalding hot shower for hours. Prison guards won’t be charged.

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In 2014, a Russian man, Sergey Grigoriyev, adopted a bear cub and raised it like “his child”. Four years later, after years of bonding, the bear rejected its daily food and proceeded to eat Sergey instead. When the Police arrived, all that remained of Sergey was a pile of bones.

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Elevator footage shows Sarah Sands, a mother of five, just minutes after stabbing 77-year-old pedophile Michael Pleasted eight times after he abused one of her sons. She was jailed for three and a half years in 2015, but later saw the sentence increased to seven and a half years because it was ruled to be too lenient.

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Motel manager James Brock pours Muriatic acid In the Monson Motor Lodge swimming pool, to get black swimmers out of the pool. June 18, 1964.

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In 2023, Jeremy Lee Pauley, was found with buckets full of body parts in his basement.

Pauley runs a legitimate business that sells human "oddities", but what raised concerns is when police intercepted a load of body parts on its way to Pauley from Arkansas, where they had been stolen from a medical school.

The bizarre shipment included “2 brains, one with skullcap, 3 hearts one cut, one large belly button piece of skin, one arm, one huge piece of skin, and one lung.”

In September 2023, he plead guilty to trafficking human remains.

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