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

At 16, Anneliese Michel was a thoughtful, intelligent and beautiful young lady..and then things went terribly wrong.

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Between 1990 and 1996, a total of seven young backpackers were murdered in Australia. This is the story of Australian serial killer Ivan Milat.

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On December 28,1956 Barbara Grimes, 15 and her sister Patricia 13 ,went to the movies a few blocks from their Chicago home. They never came home.

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Since 1969, at least twenty one girls have either disappeared or have been found murdered along Highway 16 in British Columbia, Canada. This 450 miles stretch of road has become known to the locals as "The Highway of Tears".

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Actor Bob Crane was the star of the hit T.V. series "Hogan's Heros" in the late 1960s. A very likable man, Crane also had a darkside.  In June 1978, Crane was found bludgeoned to death in his apartment, a murder that remains officially unsolved.

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Richard T. Chase became known as "The Vampire of Sacramento" because he killed 6 people, drank their blood and cannibalized their remains.

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In the early 1990s, the bodies of young women started turning up on the streets of Dallas, Texas. They all had one thing in common, their eyeballs had been removed. 

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Since 2007, in the small town of Bridgend,Wales, 146 young people have hanged themselves and nobody seems to knows why.

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In Austin, Texas in 1864, over the course of one year, a madman brutally murdered 6 women, a man and an eleven year old child in their homes. Then with the whole city in a frenzy, the murders ended as mysteriously as they began.

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On June 13, 1977 three young girl scouts, ages 8 to 10, were brutually murdered in their tent the first night of camp. The crime remains unsolved to this day.

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