Crime and Punishment

Image of Cala Longa's Resort Ruins located in Hotel Alcyon, France
Hotel Alcyon, France

Cala Longa's Resort Ruins

A resort destroyed by a mysterious bombing offers visitors only its remains and the riddle behind it's demise.

About a decade ago, an Italian real estate promoter built a large resort on the shore of Corsica’s Cala Longa beach. It ran for two years before a sudden bombing destroyed the property.... »

Crime and Punishment, Disaster Areas, Odd Accommodations, Incredible Ruins | Edited by katiebaker4

Image of Birthplace of Ted Bundy located in Burlington, Vermont, US | Office building where the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers once stood
Burlington, Vermont, US

Birthplace of Ted Bundy

The looming office building that resides in the spot that serial killer Ted Bundy's birthplace, Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers once stood

Ted Bundy was one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history. His nationwide rampage extended throughout most of the 1970s, his personable demeanor and charming looks allowing him to... »

Crime and Punishment, Eccentric Homes | Edited by JWOcker and Rachel

Image of Grave of Sarah Ware | Grave of Sarah Ware

Grave of Sarah Ware

The grave of the victim of an unsolved murder that may only hold her skull

In September of 1898, 52-year-old divorcee Sarah Ware was walking home from a friend’s house when she disappeared. Two weeks later her body was found decomposing in a field, her head bashed in and... »

Crime and Punishment, Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by JWOcker

Image of Colebrook Murder Victims Memorial | Colebrook Murder Victims Memorial

Colebrook Murder Victims Memorial

Memorial dedicated to the shooting deaths of four citizens in the border town of Colebrook, NH

Colebrook, NH, has a total population of under 2,500 people and is just 10 miles from the Canadian border. In August of 1997, a man named Carl Drega, who was from the nearby town of Bow was... »

Crime and Punishment, Memento Mori | Edited by JWOcker

Image of Graves of the Smuttynose Murder Victims | Graves of Karen and Anethe Christensen

Graves of the Smuttynose Murder Victims

Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire

In northern New England, a pair of matching, adjacent tombstones both bear the epitaph, “A sudden death, a striking call/A warning voice that speaks to all/To all to be prepared to die.” They are... »

Crime and Punishment, Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by JWOcker

Image of The Station Fire Site located in Town of West Warwick, Rhode Island, US | Station Fire site, six years after the tragedy
Town of West Warwick, Rhode Island, US

The Station Fire Site

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans

On February 20, 2003, 472 people gathered at a small nightclub called The Station in West Warwick, RI, to listen to the band Great White. Seconds into the concert, the band’s pyrotechnics display... »

Crime and Punishment, Memento Mori | Edited by JWOcker and Rachel

Image of Grave of the Boston Strangler | Grave of Robert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler

Grave of the Boston Strangler

Grave of the man supposedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s

From 1962 to 1964, the Boston Strangler sexually assaulted and strangled around a dozen women who ranged in age from 19 to 85. Nine months after the last murder, Albert DeSalvo was arrested for an... »

Crime and Punishment, Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by JWOcker

Image of Spooner Well | Spooner Well

Spooner Well

Monument on the spot where in 1778 Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well

In 1778 in the town of Brookfield, MA, a woman named Bathsheba Spooner hired a trio of soldiers to kill her husband, Joshua Spooner. Various motivations for the crime have been bandied about, all... »

Crime and Punishment, Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by JWOcker

Image of Black Dahlia Memorial located in City of Medford, Massachusetts, US | Memorial to the Black Dahlia near the spot where she was born
City of Medford, Massachusetts, US

Black Dahlia Memorial

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born

On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, also known as the Black Dahlia, was found dead in an empty lot in Los Angeles. She was naked, severed in half at the waist, with three-inch gashes... »

Crime and Punishment, Memento Mori | Edited by JWOcker and Rachel

Image of Birthplace of H.H. Holmes | H.H. Holmes House

Birthplace of H.H. Holmes

Home where America's first documented serial killer was born

Herman Webster Mudgett—or H.H. Holmes as he styled himself—was born in Gilmanton, NH, and is generally acknowledged as America’s first documented serial killer. He was possibly also the country’s... »

Crime and Punishment | Edited by JWOcker