After Harold Henthorn was arrested for killing his wife Toni in 2012, investigators also noticed eerie similarities to his first wife Lynn's "accidental" death.To those looking in from the outside, Harold Henthorn and his wife Toni seemed like they had the ideal marriage. Toni was a successful ophthalmologist, while Harold loved to talk about his job as a fundraiser for nonprofits like churches and hospitals.
Shortly after they wed in 2000, they moved to Denver, Colorado to enjoy the mountain views, and they welcomed a daughter in 2005. Read More...
"As the mother's coffin was being raised to the lakkian, suddenly the ladder shifted and collapsed, the coffin fell and hit the victim." One tragedy turned into two during a funeral on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on June 15. Local man Samen Kondorura, 40, was mourning the loss of his mother, Berta, when he too was killed after her coffin fell on him. In the middle of his mother’s funeral, held in the Parinding valley of the North Toraja district, Kondorura and several other pallbearers were carrying the coffin up a bamboo ladder onto a lakkian, a decorated tower where the deceased are placed in traditional Torajan services before the funeral rites take place. Read More...
Not only was William Adams the first Englishman to reach Japan, he became an adviser to the shogun and one of the first Westerners to become a samurai.On April 19, 1600, a ship drifted into the waters near the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. The men on board were a long way from home, and they had suffered terribly to get there.
The ship was part of a fleet that had set out from the Netherlands almost two years earlier, only to see ship after ship lost to storms and violent attacks by natives and rival European powers. Read More...
