In 2022, 31-year-old Cameron Hogg was humiliated after he lost a game of basketball against a 21-year-old woman named Asia Womack in Dallas, Texas. He was so embarrassed that he shot her 5 times and killed her.

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In 2013, Philip Chism was only 14-years-old when he followed his algebra teacher Colleen Ritzer into the schools bathroom. Once he was inside, he attacked her with a box cutter, raped, robbed, and killed her.

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'Bamboo torture' was a torture method that made a restrained victim sit on a bamboo sapling. Bamboo grows really fast. In this case the sapling would grow and tear the anus and continue growing into the victims body.

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Rat torture was a method used in medieval times. It worked by putting a pot of hungry rats into a cage that was strapped to the victims stomach. Then the cage was slowly heated, making the distressed rats chew and claw through the victim, trying to escape.

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In 2009 in Kashmir, India, Rukhsana Kausar saw her parents being beaten as part of a forced marriage proposal by a militia commander, she killed one miliant with an axe, gunned the commander down, then started a 4 hour gun battle with the militia.

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This shocking image shows how 27-year-old Chen Lui died. He was found in the marshlands outside Sydney, Australia after being shot with a nail gun 34 times.

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Martin Pistorius, the boy who spent 12 years of his life in a coma like state, claims that he 'heard everything' including his own mother saying "I hope you die'.

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Dave Halley took a photo before taking off to their dream vacation onboard flight MH17. Shortly afterward, the plane was shot down over Ukraine by Russia-led forces, killing everybody on board.

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British serial killer Myra Hindley was allowed to complete an Open University degree in prison. She graduated in 1989 with a BA (Hons) in Humanities, and a special ceremony was held for her at Cookham Wood Prison.

Hindley was jailed for life in May 1966 along with her lover and partner in crime Ian Brady.

Hindley was found guilty of the murders of Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17, plus being accessory to the murder of 12-year-old John Kilbride by Brady.

In 1987 Hindley and Brady confessed to murdering Pauline Reade, 16, and Keith Bennett, 12.

Hindley died in 2002 aged 60.

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Over 200 dead bodies lay along the route to the top of Mount Everest. The bodies are used as landmarks by climbers and have been given nicknames such as "Green Boots".

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In 2010, a homeless man saved a woman from a knife attack in New York. He was stabbed trying to help, but despite being injured he chased the attacker away, then collapsed. CCTV cameras captured over 20 people walk past him. Some stared, but non helped. He ended up dying on the sidewalk where he collapsed. His name was Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax.

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Letter from a trapped coal miner saying goodbye to his wife, 1902.

“Ellen, darling, goodbye for us both. Elbert said the Lord has saved him. We are all praying for air to support us, but it is getting so bad without any air.

Ellen I want you to live right and come to heaven. Raise the children the best you can. Oh how I wish to be with you, goodbye. Bury me and Elbert in the same grave by little Eddie.

Godbye Ellen, goodbye Lily, goodbye Jemmie, goodbye Horace. We are together. Is 25 minutes after two. There is a few of us alive yet.

Jake and Elbert

Oh God for one more breath. Ellen remember me as long as you live Goodbye darling”.

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8-year-old Thomas Valva froze to death after his dad an ex-police officer, forced him to sleep outside in a cold garage. He had a body temperature of 76 degrees when he was found. His body also shown signs of beatings and starvation.

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Cheerful Chinese students just before being slaughtered in the Tiananmen Square Massacre, 1989.

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A child gives another child a flower at Auschwitz whilst sat in a grove near gas chamber number four prior to their extermination. May, 1944.

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In 1983, a man confessed to his wife's murder after part of a female skull was discovered in a peat bog near his home in England. He was convicted of her 1961 murder based on this confession.

The skull, however, turned out to be from a woman who had died about 1750 years earlier, dating back to the Roman period.

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Richard Beasley aka "The Craigslist Killer" used Craigslist to post fake job offers in order to lure men to a remote spot in southern Ohio. Once they were there, Richard robbed, shot, and killed them. The scheme was only uncovered when a fourth man was shot but escaped.

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The body of 23-year-old bookkeeper Evelyn McHale rests peacefully atop a crumpled limousine minutes after she jumped to her death from the Empire State Building, 1947. The photo has been dubbed "the most beautiful suicide.”

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Russian man devoured by a tiger shark in Egypt, people watched as the terrible event unfolded.

“It’s eating his remains now,” one eyewitness said

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A young Chinese civilian kneels down, his hands tied behind his back, as he awaits execution by beheading at the hands of a Japanese soldier during the Nanjing Massacre.

The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing, was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking in the Second Sino-Japanese War, by the Imperial Japanese Army. Beginning on December 13, 1937, the massacre lasted six weeks.

The number of Chinese killed in the massacre has been subject to much debate, with most estimates ranging from 100,000 to more than 300,000.

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Ted Kaczynski, better known as the “Unabomber" has passed away at the age of 81, in prison.

He killed three people and injured 23 more during a mass mail-bombing spree between 1978 and 1995.

He was arrested in 1996 and was sentenced to serve 8 life sentences in federal prison.

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