The alleged ringleader of the trio has been dubbed the "Sweeney Todd cannibal" by the media. Toronto SunThe accused Brazilian cannibals, Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira, his wife, Isabel Pires, left, and his mistress, Bruna Cristina Oliveira.
A Brazilian man has been sentenced to multiple decades in prison, along with both his wife and his mistress, for murdering two women and serving pastries filled with their flesh to neighbors.
Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira, his wife Isabel Pires, and his mistress Bruna Cristina Oliveira da Silva were all given separate prison sentences following their arrests in 2012. Read More...
Even though her parents forbade her to go on the trip, Brittanee Drexel went anyway — and three days later, she vanished outside her friend’s hotel.The maddening disappearance of 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel in 2009 left her friends, family, and investigators in shock. In April of that year, the Rochester native had secretly left New York for a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she vanished.
A cheerful teen who excelled at soccer, Drexel had reportedly grown increasingly depressed in the months leading up to her disappearance. Read More...
We take our calendar for granted. We generally act as if it’s fixed, infallible, one with the Sun — a true guide to what time it is. Then, every four years, February 29 comes around to remind us that not only is the calendar simply a fallible human invention, but a pretty clumsy, ultimately inaccurate one at that.
From the ten days that vanished from October 1582 to the fact that leap year doesn’t actually happen every four years, this look at the origins of leap year proves time isn’t what we think it is. Read More...
