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The Unsolved Case Of The Murderous Belle Gunness
Did Lady Bluebeard fake her own death by fire? She was spotted in Chicago years after her teeth were identified in the ruins...
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"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" Has A Bloody, Horrific Origin
The famous nursery rhyme really tells the ghastly story of Queen Mary I, or "Bloody Mary."
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Your mother didn't tell you this when you were a kid: The Mary referenced in the famous nursery rhyme "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" is actually Queen Mary I, known as "Bloody Mary." The famous rhyme tells the story of Mary, who had many people killed in her garden. Her garden was actually a graveyard. It has been said that adding more bodies to the cemetery was the equivalent to "growing the garden." The cockle shells and silver bells mentioned in the rhyme, though seemingly benign, are the torture devices used to kill Protestants during Mary's murderous reign.
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5 Most Evil Women Who Killed
"Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one."
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