History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

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Keith Hunter Jesperson is a Canadian born American serial killer known as the "Happy Face Killer" for the smiley faces he drew on his many letters to the media. A truck driver by trade, it is believed that Jespersen is responsible for at least a series of four murders in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Nannie Doss was a serial killer who earned the monikers "The Giggling Nanny,” "The Giggling Granny," and "The Jolly Black Widow" after going on a killing spree that began in the 1920s and ended in 1954.  Doss was easy to entertain. Her favorite pastimes included reading romance novels and poisoning members of her family to death.

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Dr. Jack Kevorkian was a pathologist who assisted people suffering from acute medical conditions in ending their lives. After years of conflict with the court system over the legality of his actions, he spent eight years in prison after a 1999 conviction. Kevorkian's actions spurred national debate on the ethics of euthanasia and hospice care.

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Lisa Nichol Lopes better known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American rapper, singer, songwriter, producer and the creative force behind the hit group TLC. The group would become the best selling girl's group ever in the United States. Despite her professional success,Lisa's personal life was full of pain and tragedy. This is her story.

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Sean Richard Sellers was a troubled teenager in the 1980s when he turned to Satanism.  In 1986, when Sean was just 16 years old, he murdered three people including his mother and step father. 

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Leonard Fraser was an Australian serial killer convicted of killing four women in the 1970/80s.

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In the early 20th Century, Emily Davison was a suffragette who fought for the right of women to vote in Great Britain.  On June 8, 1913, Davison pay the ultimate price for her convictions, when she stepped in front of King George V's race horse "Anmer" during the final turn of the Epsom Derby.

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The Bizarre story of how a dead homeless man help change the course of World War II.

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Richard Kuklinski was in life a true monster and a sadistic murderer. Some of the crimes he perpetrated are beyond belief, the embodiment of living nightmares. Referred to as the "Ice man" and dreaded throughout the criminal underworld, he was for a time a top mafia hit man. Richard Kuklinski claims to have killed 200 people during his career.

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