Another Elk Ridge. My first fixed blade knife and a very good purchase. According to Elk Ridge, they’re releasing new knives this year with that finish on the blade, it’s safe to say I look forward to them
One of my four new knives, the curve tanto. The unusual 440 stainless steel blade drew my attention when I saw it. A unique knife to add to my ever growing collection. I’ll be showing the rest of my new blades shortly
Not new anymore but still a brilliant knife, the Mtech kabar. Used in the US military since the 1940s, it has been perfected in every aspect. Also featured in the TV series, Sons of Anarchy, used by the main character, Jackson. A very well rounded blade that fits perfectly in your hand and beautifully designed
In December 2006, a guy named Lorenzo Montoya, who lived in a mobile home in the desert less than three miles from the mass burial site, was shot and killed in an incident that was ruled self defense. It seemed that Montoya had picked up a sex worker on the Albuquerque strip and the sex worker’s boyfriend/pimp followed him in order to provide protection. He waited for the girl to come out of the mobile home and when he became alarmed by how long it was taking, he knocked on the door. Montoya came out with a gun and began firing at the boyfriend but missed. The boyfriend retreated to cover, pulled out his own gun and shot and killed Montoya. He then went into the mobile home and found his girlfriend dead by stranglation. No charges were filed against the boyfriend.
At the time this happened, law enforcement was not aware that local sex workers were disappearing. It was considered a “one off” crime that got minimal Medea attention. Two years laters, in 2009, 11 decomposed corpses were found buried in shallow graves. When the bodies turned up, investigators remembered the Montoya case. A look a Google Earth showed vehicle tracks leading directly from Montoya’s mobile home to the dump site. By that time, Montoya’s mobile home and all of his processions had been disposed of. Very little was known about Montoya but no ties could be found linking home to any of the women found buried at the site. Albuquerque investigators did not feel there was sufficient evidence to declare Montoya the perpetrator and close the case but he appears to be a much stronger suspect than any of the others developed.
Robert Durst was the eldest child of Seymour Durst, whose family owned a prominent real-estate company. Robert studied economics at Lehigh University, and, after graduating in 1965, he attended UCLA, where he became friends with Susan Berman, the daughter of a mobster. Durst later returned to New York City, and in 1973 he married Kathleen McCormack, a dental hygenist. That year he also began to sporadically work at his family’s business. According to various reports, by 1981 Durst’s marriage was unraveling amid allegations that he was violent and controlling. On January 31, 1982, several months before she would have graduated from medical school, Kathleen disappeared. According to Robert, who did not report her missing until February 5, he had taken his wife to the train station in Katonah, New York, so she could return to the city after spending the weekend at the couple’s lakeside home in South Salem. Durst claimed no involvement in her disappearance, and, though his account of events raised questions, several people reported seeing or talking to Kathleen after she supposedly returned to Manhattan. During the media attention, Berman served as Durst’s unofficial spokesperson. Without leads or a body, the case eventually went cold.
In 2000 he remarried. In November that year, amid reports that his first wife’s case was being reopened, Durst moved to Galveston, Texas, where he disguised himself as a mute woman and rented an inexpensive apartment. A month later, Berman, who was to be interviewed by investigators in Kathleen’s disappearance, was found shot to death. The day her body was discovered, policed received a letter stating that a “cadaver” would be found at her address, which was misspelled as “Beverley Hills.”
Durst continued to live in Galveston, and on September 28, 2001, he came home to allegedly find his 71-year-old neighbor, Morris Black, in his apartment, watching television. Although the two were friends, Durst claimed that Black pointed a gun at him. He then said that, in fear for his life, he began struggling with his neighbor, and Black was fatally shot. Worried that he would be accused of murder, Durst dismembered the body, wrapped the pieces in garbage bags, and tossed them in Galveston Bay. He was later arrested, but while out on bail he fled to Pennsylvania. After a six-week manhunt, he was apprehended following his arrest for shoplifting at a supermarket. In 2003 Durst went on trial for murder but was acquitted after claiming self-defense. However, he later pled guilty to several minor charges, including jumping bond, and he served nearly six months in prison in 2005. Soon after being released, he violated parole and spent another 26 days in jail.
In 2006 Durst was reportedly paid $65 million to settle a lawsuit he had filed for his share of the family’s wealth. Several years later he agreed to be interviewed by Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling, documentarians who were making a series about Durst. He met with the filmmakers in 2010 and 2012. During the latter meeting, in a private moment off-camera when he apparently did not realize the microphone was still on, Durst said, “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.” However, the filmmakers said that they did not became aware of the footage until some two years later. They also uncovered other evidence, including a letter from Durst to Berman in which Beverly was misspelled in the same way as in the letter sent to police in 2000. The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst premiered on HBO in February 2015, and the night before the last episode aired on March 15, Durst was arrested for Berman’s murder. In November 2016 Durst appeared at an arraignment hearing in Los Angeles, where he pled not guilty to murdering Berman.
Warning: the content of these murders is graphic and unsettling.
Charlie Chop-off - PART 1 - The victims
Between 1972 and 1974, the bodies of 5 young black and Puerto Rican boys were discovered in Manhattan, New York. Another boy was assaulted and left for dead. The victims were stabbed or slashed, and their genitals were mutilated and, in most cases, removed entirely.
Douglas Owens, age 8. He was the first victim, discovered in March of 1972 after he went missing while running errands on a rainy day. He was stabbed 38 times and his genitals were cut almost all the way off, but not removed. His shoes were off when he was found. There was evidence of potential sexual assault. He was discovered just two blocks from his home, his body left on a rooftop.
An unnamed victim was assaulted in April and left for dead in the hallway of an apartment building. He was identified as a 10-year-old black boy but not named in the press. Like Douglas Owens, he was attacked on a rainy day while running errands. Like Owens, his shoes were removed. He was sexually assaulted, stabbed, gutted, and his genitals removed. The perpetrator took the genitals with him when fleeing the scene. He survived but was unable to provide the police with much information about his assailant, due to the trauma he experienced. The police were able to develop a very vague profile of the suspect: Spanish or Italian, with a mole on his cheek, thin, neither light-skinned nor dark-skinned, possibly with a limp. He called himself “Michael” and lured the boy to him with the promise of 50 cents. This victim’s genitals were later recovered in a park by the police, who found a group of children playing with them.
Wendall Hubbard, age 9. He vanished while playing in a yard near his home in East Harlem in October 1972. His mother called him to come inside, and, when he didn’t make it into the apartment, she promptly reported him missing. He was discovered on the rooftop of his own apartment building a few hours later, which was just six blocks away from where Douglas Owens’ body was found. He had been stabbed 17 times in the abdomen, neck, and chest. His body was mutilated and his genitals were removed and apparently carried away by the attacker. There was evidence that he had been sexually assaulted.
Luis Ortiz, age 9. He went missing in March 1973 after purchasing milk and bread at a local store. Discovered in the basement of an apartment building, he was the first victim who was not black; he was a dark-skinned Puerto Rican boy. He was also stabbed 38 times in the back, neck, and chest, and his genitals were removed and taken by the perpetrator. Multiple witnesses reported seeing the boy’s abductor, resulting in the development of a composite sketch.
Steven Cropper, age 8. He was discovered on the 6th floor of a tenement house in August 1973. His murder was different from that of the other victims. He was slashed with a razor blade, rather than stabbed with a knife. The cause of death was a severed artery in his arm. There was no mutilation of the genitals in his case; however, his body was posed in a “sexually suggestive” manner that was indicative of assault. His shoes were removed and placed by his body. Nonetheless, the police concluded that he must be the victim of the same killer, reasoning that it would be too coincidental for two killers with similar victim profiles and MOs to be operating in the same area.
Psychopath child killer Marc Dutroux has been called “the monster of Belgium” since he and his then wife, who acted as his accomplice, murdered four girls as young as eight years old. The Belgian serial killer planned a mass abduction of girls to create his own underground city of kidnapped children.
Two of the girls were buried alive, two starved to death as Dutroux’s wife Michelle Martin fed the dogs guarding the imprisoned. Two other girls miraculously were rescued before Dutroux had time to kill them. One of the girls had spent 80 days chained up and raped in a filthy secret room built into one of the psychopath’s many properties.
He decided to compose letters to the parents of his victims. Dutroux, who claims freedom is his human “right” as a citizen is writing the letters “to demonstrate he is not necessarily the cold monster” described in accounts of his terrible crimes.
The father of one of Dutroux’s victims denounced the letter on Facebook as “purely strategic for his release”. J
But the justice system in Belgium was partly responsible for the fact that the psychopathic child molester was free to commit them.
It has never been fully explained why Belgian police didn’t go straight to Dutroux and arrest him when little girls across the country began to go missing.
Dutroux, the child of teachers who worked in the Belgian Congo, trained as an electrician and began his criminal career stealing cars, dealing drugs and robbing people in violent muggings.He made enough money trading stolen cars to countries behind the iron curtain to buy seven houses, three of which he would use to torture children. At his main residence in Marcinelle, an old mining suburb in the southern Belgian town of Charleroi, he built a secret cellar hole one metre wide, 1.6m tall and just over 2m long. It was hidden behind a concrete door disguised as a shelf.
I’m jonesing for a new tattoo! I’ve got an artist I’ll be using in Nashville who would likely be willing to do a live tattoo session with me on Skype and/or record a video of my tattoo session.
Here’s where you come in! I’m looking for someone to fund my tattoo(s). You’ll pick the piece from the various ones I want, pick a location I get a tattoo (or pain level for you sadists out there), or choose a dollar amount you’d like to spend. In return you’ll get either a live Skype of the tattoo process, a video of the tattoo process, or get custom work in return for the tattoo you’ve purchased.
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