For years, Ed Gein holed up inside his dilapidated home in Plainfield, Wisconsin as he carefully skinned and dismembered his victims in order to fashion everything from a chair to a bodysuit.Most people have seen classic horror films like Psycho (1960), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). But what many may not know is that the terrifying villains in these three movies were all based on one real-life killer: Ed Gein, the so-called “Butcher of Plainfield. Read More...
The as-yet-unnamed rhino calf weighed in at 150 pounds and will weigh some 5,100 pounds when it grows up.Walt Disney WorldKendi and her yet-unnamed baby are recuperating after a 16-month pregnancy.
A southern white rhinoceros calf born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park has conservationists cheering for this near-threatened subspecies. According to CNN, the pregnancy took 16 months — and saw the first rhino born at the park in 1999 become a mom. Read More...
On January 16, 1997, Ennis Cosby pulled his car over to the side of a Los Angeles interstate to change a tire and was brutally gunned down by Mikhail Markhasev during a failed robbery.George SchoolEnnis Cosby lived with dyslexia until it was formally diagnosed when he was an undergraduate. From then on, he sought to help other students with learning disabilities.
By the 1990s, Bill Cosby — untainted by future scandals — was known as one of the funniest men in America. Read More...
