Mckenzie’s Blog

           His name was RIchard Cottingham and you're probably asking yourself who he is. He wasn't a well-known serial killer and still isn't like Jeffery Dahmer or Ted Bundy. This man had three characteristics to all of his murders. Richard had his own nickname as a serial killer which was “The Torso Killer”. The torso killer came from how he left his victims. When he was finished with them Richard wouldn't leave anything behind but the victims' torsos. Richard was originally from New Jersey, but his crimes were operating in New York between the years 1967 and 1980. One murder he took their hands and heads with him but he was at motel meaning he didnt own anything in the room, so he set the room on fire including the rest of the bodies. His first conviction of murder took place 1981after caught fleeing. Mr.Cottingham killed six people, but he claims that he killed more. He says that there were at least 85 to 100 victims of his. One of his victims had...

  What happened to Beth Frost? Beth Frost was a medical examiner in Dallas. She has her own professional office for her career. Her husband James was a former college basketball player from the University of Missouri. These two had been married since July 2001. They had two children together, a little girl who was nine years old and a son that was five years old. Seems like a pretty happy family that they had been making together for years. Until the day of November 8, 2022 that’s the day this beautiful family was completely changed and not for the better. James and Beth were both found dead at Dallas Medical Examiner’s office on Tuesday. James Frost is believed to have killed his wife by shooting her then another employee that was there with her before finally killing himself. Although, Beth and James died after he shot both of them. The other employee was injured but not killed. Now that this accident has sadly happened people have looked more into it. Beth had filed for a divorc...

          Sam Little, short for Samuel Little, was an American serial killer.  This man took on the role of killing people for years from 1970 till 2005. The FBI and ViCAP has confirmed Mr.Little’s involvement in at least 60 murders. Although that is a lot of people's lives they know he took Samuel confessed to killing 93 people. They have not put 33 murders completely to his name but he did confess to them. Samuel has the largest number of confirmed killings in the United States. Growing up Samuel had many violations and achievement problems while in high school. He was raised by his grandmother most of the time after moving to Lorain, Ohio. Around 1956, he had his first conviction but it wasn’t of murder. He has broken into a property in Omaha, Nebraska. About four years later he moved to Florida to live with his mother. He got two jobs when he moved. One was a cemetery worker, the other happened to be an ambulance attendant. He looked like he was ch...

       This story is absolutely terrible and will hurt your soul. How could someone hurt their family so badly just to have another life. Around August 2018 in Frederick, Colorado a man named Christopher Lee Watts, worked  as an oil field operator. He looked like he was a part of a picture perfect life to the internet. His wife Shannon made videos of their little family doing activities like singing, cooking, anything that made them look like they were having an amazing time together. Chris decided in the early hours of August 13 to murder his wife Shannon who was pregnant, his daughters Bella and Celeste to. He killed his wife and unborn baby boy first by strangulation then, he went to Bella's room. Bella was killed by smothering. In the autopsy report later on it said that she had marks in her mouth showing she tried to fight for her life. Bella was four years old so she couldn’t fight back enough to win the fight against her own father for her innocent little...

         Mr. Charles Standard Severance took three innocent lives. Charles was born on September 25, 1960, in Fairfax, Virginia. He was unfortunately a killer who took lives in Alexandria, Virginia. He was convicted as an American serial killer out of Alexandria, Virginia. Prior to all killings and trials, he was running for Mayor of Alexandria in the 1996 as well as the 2000 election. In 1996 he also ran for the Congress for the eighth district. During the runs of elections, he would answer the questions with different topics of crazy things. In all three of these elections, he lost to other people. He ran as an independent person in all the elections he tried to win. Charles had three victims' lives that he took. The span of these crimes went over a few years, the crimes went from 2003-2014. He was tried for these crimes of Ruthanne Lodato (2014), Ronald Kirby (2013), and Nancy Dunning (2003). All three of these victims were attacked in the daytime by Mr. Stan...

                       No one knows anything about Jack the Ripper's true identity, he was a very mysterious man, and no one could put a face to everything he was doing. Journalist gave this mysterious man two names in newspapers which were Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron. Jack the Ripper name formally came from a letter which someone had written saying that they were the mysterious killer. Everyone believed the letter to not be written by the real killer. The letter did make the story of the killer go around town more quickly and made people more interested in who the mysterious man was. One man named George received an actual letter from the killer because he also received a kidney with the letter. None of the murders the mysterious induvial did were ever fully solved, they could link at least five murders together. These five murders were done during August 31 and November 9 of 1822. The things most peop...

                 Who is Mary Ann Cotton and where is she from? Mrs. Cotton was born on October 31, 1832 in England. She was married four different times and had thirteen children. She was unlike most serial killers she didn’t beat them with something or strangle them. The way she preferred to kill people was by poisoning them with arsenic. Mary was only convicted of one crime, though everyone believes her to be a serial killer. Many say she killed eleven out of her thirteen children. Along with three of her spouses that she used for their insurance policies. Charles Edward was the murder that she convicted of doing. Thomas Riley, a person that asked Mrs.Cotton to help her with a case of smallpox. He was one day asked by Mary if he could send Charles to work in the workhouse because he kept getting her way. Charles was one of the last remaining cotton boys. About five days after Mary had asked for this from Riley, Mary informed Riley that...