Killer Stuffed His House With Leaves, Kept Kidnapped Girl on Bed of Leaves

The Ohio man found guilty of holding a 13-year-old girl hostage after killing her family and stuffing their dismembered bodies in a hollow tree had an obsession with trees and leaves, police documents show.

Pictures of Matthew Hoffman's home reveal a living room stuffed with leaves, a bathroom lined with more than 100 bags of leaves, and a freezer that contained only a couple of red popsicles and two dead squirrels.

Both Daniel and Jessica Groves were facing 11 counts: aggravated murder, murder, kidnapping, child endangerment, tampering with evidence, interference with custody, gross abuse of a corpse and four counts of felonious assault. Jessica was found guilty of all counts. Her husband, Daniel, was found guilty of all but one count, aggravated murder.

How safe is the Appalachian trail really a day spent in nature can be an invigorating one but it's no secret that the wild comes with its fire share of dangers from unpredictable weather to animal encounters to dehydration to infections there's a slew of threat hikers should always keep at least one eye out for but what about the dangers that stretch beyond mother nature what about human nature in this post we're taking a deeper look into such dark encounters along with sharing tips on how to stay safe while on the trail.

In the late spring of 1977, three young lady Scouts – Lori Farmer, Michelle Guse, and Doris Milner – were severely attacked and killed on their absolute first night at Camp Scott in Mayes County, OK. Only hours after they were killed, an instructor found the girls’ battered bodies, stuffed in their hiking beds and unloaded not a long way from Cookie Trail, the principle street into the Girl Scout camp

The Zodiac Killer, or simply Zodiac or the Zodiac, is the pseudonym of a serial killer who operated in northern California from at least the late 1960s to the early 1970s. The unidentified killer originated the name in a series of taunting letters and cards sent to the San Francisco Bay Area press.

this episode covers: Lake Tahoe disappearance,

Santa Barbara murders,

Final Zodiac letter,

Later letters of suspicious authorship,

The Halloween card addressed to Paul Avery on October 27, 1970,

Public speculation,

Current status of investigations.

Aileen Carol "Lee" Wuornos was an American serial killer and sex worker who murdered seven men in Florida in 1989 and 1990

Chilling ordeal of woman held captive in box under bed and only brought out to be raped. A WOMAN has told of the horrific ordeal which saw her imprisoned in a box for SEVEN YEARS, being allowed out only to be raped and tortured. Colleen Stan became known as 'The Girl in the Box' after she was kidnapped and held as a sex slave from 1977 to 1984.

Junko Furuta (古田 順子, Furuta Junko) was a Japanese high school student who was abducted, raped, tortured and murdered in the late 1980s. Her murder case was called the "concrete-encased high school girl murder case" (女子高生コンクリート詰め殺人事件), due to her body being discovered in a concrete drum.

Located in San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz Federal Prison was in operation from 1934 to 1963 and was said to be America’s strongest prison. Alcatraz is also said to be one of the most haunted places in the United States.