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In the late 1970s, up to 3 million people died in the Killing Fields of the Cambodian genocide. Few horrors compare to the Killing Fields of the Cambodian genocide. Over four short years, from 1975 to 1979, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge systematically exterminated up to 3 million people.  The people of Cambodia had to live in fear, knowing that they might be the next one dragged out to the Killing Fields. The chances of being chosen were indeed high – by the end of the massacre, the Khmer Rouge had wiped out nearly 25 percent of the population. The nightmare began in Phnom Penh, with the end of the Cambodian Civil War. It was the last stronghold of the right-wing, military-led Khmer Republic, and with its fall, Cambodia came into the hands of the dictator Pol Pot and his communist Khmer Rouge regime. When the Khmer Rouge emerged from the civil war victorious and marched down the streets, thousands of terrified people fled, some rushin

In the 1980s, musician Daryl Davis set out to understand the Ku Klux Klan. So he started befriending members at Klan rallies and joined an all-white country band.    Then, he met Imperial Wizard Roger Kelly. Davis spent years building a relationship with Kelly, establishing trust and, eventually, a friendship.⁠   They ate meals at each others' homes while Davis listened to Kelly, seeking to see how he could hate a person like Davis without even knowing him.  Eventually, Kelly started listening to Davis and left the Klan altogether, giving Davis his robes and hood.  And over the past decades, Davis has now convinced over 200 former Klan members to walk away.

On June 3, 2022, three-year-old Ryker Webb was playing with his dog when he decided to take a walk on his own and wandered off.  After two hours of his disappearance, the family reported him missing.  A massive search for Ryker was launched, and for two days the search team made no progress.   On June 5th, 2022, a family that was visiting their remote cabin in the middle of the wilderness heard the sound of a little boy crying out from behind a shed.   When they went behind the shed, they found Ryker Webb. Ryker was found tucked into a lawnmower bag. He was dressed in a light blue onesie that had been covered in dirt.  They quickly called the police and were shocked when they learned that a massive search for Ryker had been going on.   He survived two days in Montana wilderness in near-freezing temperatures in an area that, according to locals, is heavily populated with bears and mountain lions.

In 2020, Horrible Video footage of Sarah Boone zipped her boyfriend Jorge Torres in a suitcase and he died as a result. She is charged with second-degree murder. Her trial will start on January 29, 2024. According to investigators, Boone told them that she and Torres had been drinking wine and playing hide-and-seek, when she claimed she went upstairs and passed out in her bed. WATCH  VIDEO  She said she woke up hours later to her cellphone ringing multiple times. She then allegedly realized her boyfriend was possibly still inside the suitcase, and when she unzipped it, she found Torres unresponsive and not breathing. Boone called 911 and deputies arrived to find Torres dead.   In the video, Boone is heard laughing as Torres screamed in terror from inside the suitcase, pleading for help until his final breath, investigators said.

He was famously depicted in the movie Schindler’s List, as firing on concentration camp prisoners with a sniper rifle from his balcony. Amon Leopold Göth  (11 December 1908 – 13 September 1946) was an Austrian SS functionary and war criminal. He served as the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland for most of the camp's existence during World War II. Göth was tried after the war by the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland at Kraków and was found guilty of personally ordering the imprisonment, torture, and extermination of individuals and groups of people. He was also convicted of homicide, the first such conviction at a war crimes trial, for "personally killing, maiming and torturing a substantial, albeit unidentified number of people." Göth was executed by hanging not far from the former site of the Płaszów camp. The 1993 film  Schindler's List , in which Göth is portrayed by Ralph Fiennes, dep

On January 18, 1977, Lazio star Luciano Re Cecconi and teammate Pietro Ghedin decided to play a prank on a jewelry shop owner by pretending to rob him. They entered the shop with their faces covered and shouted "Hands in the air! Luciano Re Cecconi and Pietro Ghedin were unaware that Giuliano Tabochini's shop had been robbed just a few weeks earlier, and he was prepared for another potential break-in. When Tabochini saw the two men enter his shop with their faces covered, he thought he was being robbed again. He pulled out a shotgun, and Ghedin quickly raised his hands in an attempt to calm him down. However, Re Cecconi failed to realize the danger and continued with the prank. Tabochini opened fire and shot Re Cecconi in the chest. Re Cecconi was rushed to the hospital, but he died about 30 minutes later. Re Cecconi died aged 28 and left behind his wife and two children. As he lay on the floor dying, it is believed his last words were: "It's a joke! It's just a j

If anyone knows who's to credit for this scene, please let me know and will give credit.  Today 104 years ago, on December 3, 1917, British Private Joseph Bateman was executed for desertion. Unlike other British soldiers who were "Shot at Dawn" during the First World War, not much is known about Private Joseph Bateman, but this is what we know: Joseph Bateman was born in Wordsley, England around 1889. In November 1913, he married a woman named Florence Rudge, and on their first anniversary in November 1914, Bateman enlisted into the British Army with the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment of the British 2nd Division. Bateman arrived on the Western Front sometime in 1915 or 1916, and most likely fought on the frontlines on the Somme. However, less than 6 weeks into his service, he went missing for unknown reasons. When he was found he was put into detention and then released on a warning, though the following day he went missing again, for w