Creepy/Weird/Morbid Wikipedia Articles/Wiki Pages

[Bobby Barrows]

Title says it all. This thread is for people to share some morbid, unsettling, or otherwise uncanny Wikipedia articles one comes across and would like to talk about.

Basic rules is to link the article, quote the opening paragraph and any interesting or noteworthy portions you want to bring to attention, then folks can either talk about it, or link one of their own.

This is for anyone to post on and feel free to give your own thoughts.

TEMPLATE POST:

*Warning For NSFW/NSFL If Needed* [Insert Link Here] [Insert Opening Paragraph Here] [Insert Major Info Here] [Insert Relevant Photo Here] [Insert Your Thoughts Here]

 

[Bobby Barrows]

*NSFL Article*

Mary Jane Kelly - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Mary Jane Kelly (c. 1863 – 9 November 1888), also known as Marie Jeanette Kelly, Fair Emma, Ginger, Dark Mary and Black Mary, is widely believed by scholars to have been the final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who murdered at least five women in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London from late August to early November 1888. At the time of Kelly's death, she was approximately 25 years old, working as a prostitute and living in relative poverty.[2]

Unlike the other four canonical Ripper victims—each of whom had been murdered outdoors and whose mutilations could have been committed within minutes—Kelly was murdered within the sparsely furnished single room she rented at 13 Miller's Court, affording her murderer an extensive period of time to eviscerate and mutilate her body. Kelly's body was by far the most extensively mutilated of the canonical victims, with her mutilations taking her murderer approximately two hours to perform.[3]

The neck was cut through the skin and other tissues right down to the vertebrae, the fifth and sixth being deeply notched. The skin cuts in the front of the neck showed distinct ecchymosis. The air passage was cut at the lower part of the larynx through the cricoid cartilage.
Both breasts were more or less removed by circular incisions, the muscle down to the ribs being attached to the breasts. The intercostals between the fourth, fifth, and sixth ribs were cut through and the contents of the thorax visible through the openings.
The skin and tissues of the abdomen from the costal arch to the pubes were removed in three large flaps. The right thigh was denuded in front to the bone, the flap of skin, including the external organs of generation, and part of the right buttock. The left thigh was stripped of skin fascia, and muscles as far as the knee.
The left calf showed a long gash through skin and tissues to the deep muscles and reaching from the knee to five inches above the ankle. Both arms and forearms had extensive jagged wounds.
The right thumb showed a small superficial incision about one inch long, with extravasation of blood in the skin, and there were several abrasions on the back of the hand moreover showing the same condition.
On opening the thorax it was found that the right lung was minimally adherent by old firm adhesions. The lower part of the lung was broken and torn away. The left lung was intact. It was adherent at the apex and there were a few adhesions over the side. In the substances of the lung, there were several nodules of consolidation.
The pericardium was open below and the heart absent. In the abdominal cavity, there was some partly digested food of fish and potatoes, and similar food was found in the remains of the stomach attached to the intestines.[102][n 12]

[Not Posting the Crime Scene Photo Because It's Exactly as Horrific As It Sounds. If you really want to see it, it is in the article]

An absolutely fucking horrible way to die. It really showed that the Whitechapel murderer earned the nickname of The Ripper. One of the most gruesome Murders on record. I've seen both the crime scene photo of Kelly, and the post-mortem photo of Mary Ann Nichols. Horrible, horrible, horrible.

 

[Chris]

This is a list article so I don't know if it will be particularly triggering but it's serial killers so anything associated with them and I'm not sure what images might be in any one article linked here

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_by_number_of_victims

A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people, in two or more separate events over a period of time, for primarily psychological reasons.[1][2] There are gaps of time between the killings, which may range from a few days to months, or many years.[2]

This list shows all known serial killers from the 20th century to present day by number of victims, then possible victims, then date. For those from previous centuries, see List of serial killers before 1900. In many cases, the exact number of victims assigned to a serial killer is not known, and even if that person is convicted of a few, there can be the possibility that they killed many more.

I went down this rabbit hole once and it was sick, so many were kids which made it even worse

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Honestly, the serial killer rabbit hole is fascinating in a morbid way, but sometimes I have to take a break for my own mental health. I don't think the worst though are the ones who kill the most...

The absolute worst are the ones who record their own horrible acts, or keep mementos. Like Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris...

Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Never. And I repeat. Never. Look up the Shirley Ledford transcript. Its not interesting. It's not intriguing. It's just two very depraved scum of the earth torturing a girl to death.

Norris first shouted for Ledford to: "Go ahead and scream or I'll make you scream."[12]: 262  In response, Ledford pleaded, "I'll scream if you stop hitting me," then emitted several high-pitched screams as Norris encouraged her to continue until he ordered her to stop.[12]: 262 

Norris then reached for the sledgehammer as Ledford—seeing him do this—screamed, "Oh no!" Norris then struck Ledford once upon the left elbow. In response, she informed Norris he had broken her elbow, before pleading, "Don't hit me again."[12]: 262–263  In response, Norris again raised the sledgehammer as Ledford repeatedly screamed, "No!" Norris then proceeded to strike Ledford 25 consecutive times upon the same elbow with the sledgehammer, before asking her, "What are you sniveling about?" as Ledford continuously screamed and wept.[9]: 252 

More than 100 people were present in the courtroom as the tape was played, and many members of both the jury and the audience wept openly upon hearing the contents, with several members of the audience either burying their heads in their hands, dabbing tears from their eyes or rushing out of the courtroom before the tape had finished.[58] Bittaker was undisturbed at hearing the contents of the tape, and smiled throughout the duration of the recording.[36]: 28 

In one of two instances throughout the trial when prosecutor Stephen Kay was reduced to tears,[12]: 267  he walked out of the courtroom during recess following the hearing of the recording of Ledford's rape, abuse, and torture. Weeping openly, Kay stated to the reporters gathered outside the courtroom: "Everybody who has heard that tape has had it affect their lives. I just picture those girls ... how alone they were when they died."[58] When questioned by reporters whether the audiotape should have been introduced into evidence, given the obvious psychological and emotional trauma caused to many in the courtroom through the contents being broadcast, Kay simply stated: "You're darn right it [the audio tape] should have been. The jury needs to know what these guys did."[59]

Stephen Kay, the prosecutor at Bittaker's trial, still considers the murders committed by Bittaker and Norris as being the worst criminal case he has ever prosecuted or encountered and remained insistent in his belief that, prior to Bittaker's death via natural causes, he had been more deserving of being executed than any other inmate incarcerated on California's death row. In interviews, he has stated that for over two years following the trial of Lawrence Bittaker, his sleep was disturbed by recurring nightmares in which he would be rushing to Bittaker's van to prevent harm coming to the girls, but would "always get there too late."[81]

Paul Bynum, the chief investigator of the murders committed by Bittaker and Norris, committed suicide in December 1987. He was 39 years old. In a ten-page suicide note,[12]: 276  Bynum specifically referred to the murders committed by Bittaker and Norris as haunting him and of his fear they may be released from prison.[81]

The audio cassette Bittaker and Norris created of themselves raping and torturing Ledford remains in the possession of the FBI Academy; this recording is used to train and desensitize[85] FBI agents to the raw reality of torture and murder.[86]

Both of those fucking monsters died of natural causes in 2019 and 2020. They should have had the same excruciating torture done onto them. If Hell does exist, I hope to God that Norris is getting exactly what he gave.

 

[Chris]

https://allthatsinteresting.com/bobbi-parker

He wasn't good enough to make wikipedia but I wanted to share the story of this guy. I didn't remember most of this myself and I'd actually tried to research it from what I did remember multiple times and failed but somehow this time I had the right combination of keywords in google lol

But my connection that the article doesn't cover is this guy and his wife/possible hostage were members of the church my grandpa was the pastor for at the time, and it was a small town so everyone was fairly close. I can't remember if it would have been Easter 2005 or 2004 (he was captured in April 2005 and that turnaround seems right to me but I don't trust my memory) but we only went to the church for Easter and Christmas and one Easter he was actually on the same pew as my family, on the other side and gave this big speech about having one foot in the grave but being thankful and then literally a couple weeks later he's captured and we find out everything. Arguably the most shocking thing that's happened in my parents lives except for maybe the time the FBI raided someone on our street that we didn't know years later for child porn, maybe I need to try and find that story to see what actually happened too now.

But anyway, now I'm reading more about this since I'd obviously forgotten so many details and yeah this is crazy, I think the general consensus in the area is she was an accomplice after a time and ended up loving him, but that's also the juiciest gossip so no surprise it's what they'll believe

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Nice nice, I'll change the title of the thread to actually open things up to similar articles that aren't on Wikipedia

 

[Chris]

Nice nice, I'll change the title of the thread to actually open things up to similar articles that aren't on Wikipedia

It made national headlines at the time, my parents found out bc their homepage was fucking yahoo before anyone even called (and there were lots of calls). So I'm surprised there's not a wiki lol