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

John Emil List was a convicted multiple murderer and long-time fugitive. On November 9, 1971, he killed his wife, mother, and three children in their home in Westfield, New Jersey. List remained a fugitive from justice for the next 18 years.

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Charles Howard 'Smitty' Schmid, Jr., was known as "The Pied Piper of Tucson," A serial killer, Smitty was responsible for at least 3 murders in the mid 1960s.

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Perhaps the most famous case of past life recall is that of Virginia Tighe who recalled her past life as Bridey Murphy. Virginia was the wife of a Virginia businessman in Pueblo, Colorado. While under hypnosis in 1952, she told Morey Bernstein, her therapist, that over 100 years ago she was an Irish woman named Bridget Murphy who went by the nickname of Bridey. During their sessions together, Bernstein marveled at detailed conversations with Bridey, who spoke with a pronounced Irish brogue and spoke extensively of her life in 19th century Ireland. When Bernstein published his book about the case, The Search for Bridey Murphy in 1956, it became famous around the world and sparked an excited interest in the possibility of reincarnation.

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Leonard Borchardt was a side show performer who became known as "Oofty Goofty: The Wild Man of Borneo" In 1891, he met and fell in love with a fellow performer and con artist named Big Bertha Heyman.  The relationship did not go well.

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In 1950, Timothy Evans was convicted of murdering his wife and daughter in England.  He was sentenced to death and eventually hanged.  Three years after his execution, it was learned that the murders were actually committed by Evan's neighbor and serial killer John Christie.

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On July 15, 1974, Christine Chubbuck, a young and talented newscaster in Sarasota, Florida, pulled out a gun and shot herself on live television. This is her story.

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Serial Killer Dayton Leroy Rogers is responsible for the murder of at least 8 women in the Portland,Oregon area during the 1980s.

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On Dec. 1, 1958, a fire consumed Our Lady of the Angels grade school on the West Side of Chicago, killing 92 children and three nuns.

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Matthew J. Hoffman is a sex offender and killer responsible for a triple homicide and the abduction and rape of a thirteen-year-old girl in November 2010.

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Christian VII ruled Denmark from 1766 until his death in in 1808. The King was rather an odd fellow. His mental instability has been attributed to a brutal childhood governor and to morally corrupt court pages. After his 1766 marriage to Caroline Matilda he gave himself up to debauchery.

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