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Johannes Mashiane AKA The Beast of Atteridgeville is a South African rapist and serial killer who accounted for 13 victims before committing suicide in 1989. Mashiane started his murderous activity circa 1977 by killing his girlfriend. He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and was released in 1982. After being released, he immediately started his spate of murder and sodomyaccounting for the deaths of at least 12 young boys by strangulation or stoning. One victim is known to have survived Mashiane's attention. Click here to view the article
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ABC has cancelled Trophy Wife after one season on the air. The freshman comedy premiered last September for a 22-episode run that will conclude next week. The show faltered in the ratings in its 9:30pm Tuesday time slot, where it aired following the just-renewed The Goldbergs, which drew significantly higher ratings. Click here to view the article
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Li Wenxian was a Chinese serial killer who killed 13 female prostitutes inGuangzhou from 1991 to 1996. He was sentenced to death on December 18, 1996 and executed thereafter. Li's first victim was reportedly found on February 22, 1991 and was described as a woman in her early twenties. The genitals were carved out with a knife and the body showed signs of sexual intercourse. Five more murders occurred in the next six months. The victims were either stabbed or strangled, then dismembered, put in rice bags and dumped in rubbish heaps in Guangzhou. A seventh victim washed ashore in Hong Kong in March 1992. The corpse was assumed to have floated from mainland China as no one …
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NBC has cancelled Revolution, opting to pull the plug on the sophomore series after two seasons. The show's Season 2 ratings have been lackluster, and far below its Season 1 numbers. Revolution got off to a strong start when it first premiered in 2012, debuting with a strong 4.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demo and staying at a 2.6 or above for the first half of the season. Viewership dipped for the back half but stayed at a respectable number to warrant a renewal. The show's second season has been a different story, with its premiere starting at a 1.8 and falling as low as 1.1 for its most-recent episode this past Wednesday. Revolution's series finale is scheduled to air …
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Thozamile Taki, also known as the Sugarcane Killer, is a South African serial killer who killed 13 women aged 18–25, dumping their bodies in agricultural plantations. He lured the woman, promised them jobs but killed them and dumped their bodies in sugarcane fields. He murdered 10 victims in the sugarcane plantations around the town of Umzinto, as well as a further three victims in the tea plantations near Port St Johns, KwaZulu Natal. Body parts of some of his victims are alleged to have been provided to a local traditional healer or sangoma. Click here to view the article
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NBC has cancelled Believe after one season. The freshman drama premiered in March but failed to attract viewers in its Sunday night time slot. Nine of the show's 13 episodes have aired thus far, and it appears the remaining four will air as scheduled. The finale is currently scheduled for June 1. Click here to view the article
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The Paturis Park murders are a series of 13 murders of gay men between February 2007 and August 2008. The murders took place in Paturis Park in Carapicuíba, Brazil and perpetrated by an unknown killer dubbed the Rainbow Maniac. São Paulo is the annual stage for the largest gay pride march on Earth and home to one of South America's most vibrant gay communities. But a wave of homophobic murders cast a shadow over one of the most tolerant cities in Latin America. The killer labelled the Rainbow Maniac, was behind the murders of 13 men in Carapicuíba, a city of nearly 400,000 people in greater São Paulo. They were killed in a park used as a gay meeting point. Police also inv…
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NBC has renewed About a Boy for a second season. The freshman comedy has been enjoying a successful run since premiering in February after the Olympics. Adapted from the book and movie of the same name, About a Boy has been one of the network's best-rated comedies this season, airing along side other newbie Growing Up Fisher in the 9:00pm hour following The Voice. Click here to view the article
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William Lester Suff, also known as the Riverside Prostitute Killer, and the Lake Elsinore Killer, is an American serial killer. Between 1986 and 1992, he murdered at least twelve prostitutes in Riverside, California. In 1995, a jury found that the unassuming-looking middle-aged man had picked up street walkers in his van, then strangled or knifed them, and proceeded to do unsettling things with their corpses. His conviction appeared to bring to a close a six year-long manhunt for the so-called “Riverside Prostitute Killer” wanted in connection with the slayings of 19 prostitutes. Riverside’s long search for the prostitute killer led to Suff’s arrest. On January 9, 1992, p…
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TBS has renewed Cougar Town for a sixth and final season. The Courteney Cox comedy has been airing on the cable network since its move from ABC in early 2013. The show will conclude its run with 13 episodes that will air in early 2015. During that time it will surpass the 100-episode milestone. Click here to view the article
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Maury Troy Travis was an American serial killer who committed suicide in a St. Louis county jail, after being arrested for murder. Travis was named in a Federal criminal complaint for the murders of two women. At the time of the murders, Travis was a waiter and on parole for a robbery in 1989. While in his letter Travis claimed to have murdered 17 women, some authorities were doubtful, others thought he may have murdered up to 20 women. He sent a letter and a map to the press and has the dubious honour of being the first serial killer to be caught by Google. That shows advances in technology are making it more and more difficult for a serial killer to remain active. Cl…
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ABC has renewed Last Man Standing for a fourth season. The Tim Allen comedy has experienced continued success on Friday nights, where it has been airing since moving from Tuesdays after Season 1. Look for Season 4 of Last Man Standing to premiere this fall. Click here to view the article
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Kenneth Alessio Bianchi is an American serial killer,kidnapper and rapist. Known as the Hillside Strangler, worked with his cousin Angelo Buono to commit 15 rapes and murders. They went on a killing spree between October 1977 and January 1978, raping and murdering 15 victims in Los Angeles. The men posed as policemen and targeted prostitutes to begin with, moving on to middle-class women and girls. They usually left the bodies on the hillsides of the Glendale Highland Park area, earning the moniker "The Hillside Strangler." In 1975, he left Rochester and moved to Los Angeles, where he lived with his older cousin, and later moved in with his girlfriend, Kelli Boyd, and …
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CBS has renewed The Mentalist for a seventh season. The once-ratings heavyweight has seen its viewership dip in recent years, falling to series lows in Season 6, which concludes May 18. It is rumored that the show will return for one final season of 13 episodes, short of its typical order of 22 or more. Click here to view the article
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Charles Sobhraj was a famous serial killer in the 1970's, known for drugging and killing between 12 and 24 western tourists in Asia. His several successful escapes from prison coined him the nickname, "The Serpent." Known for a string of killings in Vietnam in the 1970's. Born to an Indian father and Vietnamese mother, he spent most of his childhood on the rough streets of Saigon. He befriended mostly western tourists in Asia, later drugging and killing them. Between 1972 and 1976, it is speculated he killed anywhere from 12 to 24 people. He earned the nickname “the Serpent” for his numerous escapes from jail. Click here to view the article
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CBS has cancelled The Crazy Ones after one season. The Robin Williams comedy got off to a strong start when it premiered last September. Four weeks into its run it ranked as the season's #1 new comedy, causing the network to pick up the full season of the show. Things, however, got worse during the second half the season. Ratings started to dip, and by its finale fell to less than half of what it pulled in during its early episodes. Click here to view the article
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Joseph G. Christopher was an American serial killer, active from September 22, 1980 until his arrest on May 10, 1981. He was known as the "Midtown Slasher". It is believed that he killed at least twelve individuals and wounded numerous others, almost all African Americans, with one Hispanic male. His homicidal rampage began on September 22, 1980, when he was 25 years old. He started his crimes by shooting African American men with a sawn-off .22 rifle while they went about their daily duties, striking in the middle of the day and into the night with sometimes more than five murders in one day. However, Christopher changed his method of killing midway through his onslaught…
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CBS has cancelled new comedy Bad Teacher. The mid-season series premiered just last month and has only aired three episodes. Ratings have been average thus far but clearly not at levels the network would like to see in its time slot. Click here to view the article
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John Justin Bunting is an Australian serial killer from Adelaide, South Australia, currently serving eleven consecutive sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for his role in the murder of 11 victims of the Snowtown murders. He was driven to murder by his hatred for pedophiles and homosexuals, has been described as a skilled manipulator of people and "Australia's worst serial killer". The ringleader of murderers whose victims were people they already knew. Under the instruction of Bunting, the group would prey upon the weak so they could steal their welfare payments. His crimes led to the longest and most expensive investigations and criminal tri…
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CBS has cancelled Hostages after one season. The freshman suspense drama ran for 15 episodes during 2013-2014 but failed to draw significant viewership during its run. With the storyline effective wrapped up in the show's final episode, many already expected that it would not return. Click here to view the article
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Siswanto sexually molested and killed 12 boys, aged 9 to 15, from December 1994 to when the last body was found on July 5, 1996. Police reported that he had slashed open the stomachs of all his victims, with most being found naked. He also told police that he enjoyed drinking his victims' blood and kept pieces of their skin. On August 6, 1996, he confessed to 8 murders in Jakarta, Indonesia, and 2 in Pekalongan in central Java. He was sentenced to death for 12 murders on May 21, 1997. Click here to view the article
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NBC has cancelled Dracula, axing the new drama after one season. The show aired for a short 10-episode run during 2013-2014, but drew lackluster ratings over the course of the season. Dracula joins Believe and Crisis as other recently-cancelled NBC freshman dramas. Click here to view the article
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Little is known of Enriqueta Martí i Ripollés before she arrived in Barcelona in the early years of the 19th Century. What is known is that she did not arrive alone. She brought with her a brutal penchant for survival and an equally fierce desire to rise above a poverty that she would soon sadistically twist to her advantage. She preyed on young children from Barcelona’s destitute Raval Quarter. She would prostitute them to the pedophiles and deviants who had for so long protected and frequented her brothels. She could at once appear impoverished, dressed in rags to entice her prey and then as evening fell, attend the lavish galas of the El Liceu (Barcelona Opera House) a…
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ABC has renewed Nashville for a third season. The country music drama has continued to be a decent performer for the network, garnering fairly steady ratings week to week. Over its two seasons, the show has won critical acclaim and amassed a loyal following of fans. Music from the series has also been steadily released featuring songs sang by the cast. The Season 2 finale of Nashville airs this Wednesday, May 14. Look for Season 3 to return this fall. Click here to view the article
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Juana Barraza is a Mexican professional wrestler and serial killer dubbed La Mataviejitas (The Old Lady Killer) was sentenced to 759 years in jail for killing eleven elderly women.The first murder attributed to Mataviejitas has been dated variously to the late 1990s and to a specific killing on 17 November 2003. The authorities and the press have given various estimates as to the total number of the killer's victims, with totals ranging from 24 to 49 deaths. Click here to view the article
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