Anne Noblett was a 17-year-old student at Watford Technical College in Marshalls Heath, Hertfordshire. Her family described her as being a “quiet, home loving girl.” On the 30th of December, 1957, Noblett attended a dance at Lourdes Hall with several friends. When the dance ended at around 6PM, Noblett bid farewell to her friends and hopped on a nearby bus to go back home. This was the last time she was ever seen alive.

When Noblett didn’t arrive home that night, her mother and father, Hugh and Ira, reported her missing. A search party was assembled and they were assisted by sniffer dogs who trawled throughout the surrounding area but were unsuccessful in picking up a scent to track. By all appearances, Noblett had vanished without a trace. With no leads or tips to follow, the case very quickly went cold and remained inactive for a month.

On the 31st of January, 1958, two brothers, Hugh and Brian Symonds, were walking their dog, Rip, in Rose Grove Woods which was around seven miles from where Noblett got her bus. As they trudged through the woodland, they stumbled across Noblett’s body. She was fully clothed but had been sexually assaulted and then strangled to death. Her killer then hid her body in some scrubs around 300 yards from the main road, hidden from passing eyes. Rose Grove Woods had already been searched during the initial investigation. However, the body wasn’t there at the time leading investigators to believe she must have been dumped there sometime afterwards.

The ensuing investigation determined that Noblett had been picked up by somebody that she knew, who, instead of taking her home, took her elsewhere and sexually assaulted her and murdered her. When her body was discovered, it was practically frozen solid. Investigators determined that this frozen state wasn’t caused naturally by being outside in the elements but caused by being kept in a refrigerator, presumably for at least several weeks. The grim murder case subsequently became known as the “Deep Freeze Murder.”

12-year-old Muriel Drinkwater from Penllergaer, Swansea, Wales, was the youngest of four sisters. She attended the local grammar school and went to Sunday School. She was also a member of the Nightingale Patrol of the Girl Guides. Muriel had a habit of singing everywhere she went; she would later be nicknamed “little nightingale.”

On the 27th of June, 1949, Muriel caught the school bus back to her home. She jumped off the bust and started walking the short distance home. The route she took back home meandered through Penllergaer Forest. 13-year-old Hubert Hoyles walked past Muriel on the path after he purchased some eggs from her parents’ farm. When she didn’t arrive home, her mother searched the village before calling police. By that night, a search party was assembled. Torrential rain pummeled down on the searchers; as her parents called her name, their voices cracked with panic.

At around 10:35Am the following morning, PC David Lloyd George spotted something in the undergrowth in Penllergaer Forest. It was a blue school coat and red gloves. As he approached the brightly coloured items, he spotted her. Muriel Drinkwater was laying on her back, one arm outstretched by her side and the other slightly raised. Her eyes were wide open and her skin was deathly white. Just a few weeks short of her 13th birthday, she had been beaten, raped and then shot twice in the head.

The murder weapon - a US Army Colt .45 pistol - had been dropped at the scene. It had a distinctive butt that had been customised with a checkered pattern Perspex grip. A photograph of the gun was projected on the screen in local cinemas and a nationwide appeal was made in the hopes that somebody could identify it. It was eventually discovered that it had been manufactured in the Springfield Armoury in 1942 and then shipped to US forces in Europe. Unfortunately with so many weapons in circulation at the time, there was no record of which soldier it had been issued.

“I have just killed my parents” - written by Kip Kinkel in his journal after fatally shooting his parents on the night of May 20th, 1998.

I haven’t seen anyone talk about this so I’ll make a post about it.

Mark Marek founded the website BestGore in the mid 2000s with the intention of providing an unbiased news site where people could freely access information. At first, he made all of the posts himself, taking influence from previous shock sites but Mark included information about the photographs such as the location, events and aftermath. This built up a community of users which began to post their own content to the site and expanding on the ideas expressed through individual interpretation. 

In 2012, a video was sent to Mark via an unlisted YouTube video. The video which Mark was asked to upload showed a man in a room, tied to a bed before being stabbed by a hooded person. The video showed other acts such as necrophilia and dismemberment. There was not information about who was in the video, so the BestGore community began to research the video titled “1 Lunatic, 1 Icepick”. They quickly found a Canadian man named Luka Magnotta to be connected to the video, Luka had shared the video and talked about it on various websites and blogs. 

In Canada, packages were delivered to various schools and to a politician containing parts of the victim. Police were contacted and a manhunt began. Shortly after the video was posted, Magnotta fled to Paris where he uploaded a video wanting to thank his fans. A few days later, at an internet cafe in Berlin, Luka was spotted. The owner of the cafe alerted police who arrested Magnotta. 

Shortly after Luka’s trial, another trial began in Canada. Mark Marek, the owner of the website where the video was first posted, was arrested for violating a Canadian law of “corrupting morals” under section 163 (1) (a) of the criminal code. Marek had been prohibited from accessing his website and from using the internet until his trial ends. Despite this, he stated his position on the matter in interviews as he prepared for his trial. On 25 January 2016, Mark plead guilty to the charges 

On April 22, 1974, two enlisted United States Airforce airmen, Dale Pierre Selby and William Andrews (with four other accomplices who did not take part in the killings), drove to a Hi-Fi store located on Washington Boulevard, Odgen. They entered the store, pointing their weapons at the two store clerks - 20-year-old, Stanley Walker, and 19-year-old Michelle Ansley. They took the two young employees to the basement and tied them up. They then began to rob the store of the $25,000 worth of equipment. They were interrupted by 16-year-old, Cortney Naisbitt, who had come to visit his friend, Walker. They took him to the basement and tied him up with the other two. Not long after, Stanley’s father, Orren Walker, came to the store, worried his son had not returned from work. Just like the rest before him, he was tied up in the basement. Carol Naisbitt, the mother of Courtney, entered the store looking for her son. She too was tied up in the basement. What happened next is unfathomable.

Andrews went to the van and returned with a bottle hidden in a brown paper bag. The liquid was poured into a cup and the hostages were ordered to drink it after being told it was vodka and sleeping pills. In fact, the liquid in the cup was drano - a drain cleaner. The victims were forced to drink the drano which burnt their lips, tongues, and throat and caused unimaginable pain. It was said that Pierre had gotten this idea from the film, Magnum Force, in which the victim dies a quick death. Angry that the plan didn’t go accordingly, Pierre shot Courtney and Caroll Naisbitt in the back of the head. He then turned the gun on Orren Walker and shot, but only grazed his head. Stan Walker was then shot and killed instantly. With most of the hostages dead, Pierre turned his attention to Michelle Ansley. He forced her to take off her clothing and proceeded to rape her. When done, he shot her in the back of the head. Realising that Orren Walker was still alive, regardless of swallowing drano and being shot, Pierre attempted to strangle him with a wire, which was again unsuccessful. Pierre then stabbed him through the eardrum with a pen, which exited out of his neck. Following this, the men left with their loot. The case became known as the “Hi-Fi Murders.”

On the early morning hours of August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman, a former Marine sharpshooter, murdered both his mother and wife, leaving a note behind declaring his love for both women and that he killed them to save them from future humiliation. Later that morning, he armed himself with three rifles, two pistols, and a sawed-off shotgun before making his way to the University of Texas. Wheeling his equipment toward the Main Building of the university, he entered the elevator and exited on the 27th floor and climbed his way up a flight of stairs. He then encountered receptionist Edna Townsley. Quickly, he knocked her to the ground and, using the butt of his rifle, struck her twice over the head. He then started shooting at people who were coming up the stairs before approaching Edna to put a bullet in her brain, killing her instantly. Charles then entered the observational deck on the 27-story clock tower, which was located in the middle of the campus, giving him a perfect bird’s-eye view the surrounding campuses and streets. He then opened fire on the unsuspecting pedestrians below him. The attack carried on for a harrowing 96 minutes, only ending once two Austin police officers made their way up to the clock tower and shot Charles dead. By then, there were 15 people dead, including an unborn baby, and over 30 injured. 

Joe Arridy was a mentally disabled 23-year-old who was falsely accused of rape and murder of a 15-year-old schoolgirl in Pueblo, Colorado. He was put to death on 6 January 1939. Arridy was officially pardoned in 2011 (72 years after his death) as evidence proved he was coerced into confession. 

Arridy was known for spending his time on death row playing with a toy train, given to him by prison warden Roy Best, who called Arridy “the happiest prisoner on death row.” He was liked by both the prisoners and guards. His execution was commented on by warden Roy Best “He probably didn’t even know he was about to die, all he did was happily sit and play with a toy train I had given him.”

For his last meal, he requested ice cream. When questioned about his impending execution he showed "blank bewilderment” and it was clear that he didn’t realize the meaning of the gas chamber, telling the warden "No, no, Joe won’t die.” He even saved some of his ice cream for after the execution.

‘’Guilt? It’s this mechanism we use to control people. It’s an illusion. It’s a kind of social control mechanism – and it’s very unhealthy. It does terrible things to our bodies. And there are much better ways to control our behavior than that rather extraordinary use of guilt.’‘

18-year-old Scotty Joe Weaver lived a short and difficult life. He survived childhood cancer, suffered depression having made several suicide attempts, and was incessantly bullied throughout his life for being gay. Just as his life appeared to be on the turnaround, he was brutally murdered.

Scotty was paying off a trailer which was in his mother’s name. He had two roommates - 18-year-old Nichole Kelsay who he had been his friend throughout his life and 20-year-old Christopher Gaines. In July of 2004, 18-year-old Robert Poter, a friend of Christopher, also moved in. They often mocked Scotty for being gay and made it clear they hated homosexuality. Scotty decided he had to ask the three to move out as the atmosphere was tense they refused to pay for anything. Instead, they decided they would kill Scotty. 

On the 22nd of July, 2004, Scotty was attacked when he arrived home from work. He was strangled, stabbed numerous times and then partially decapitated. His body was doused in gasoline and lit on fire. It was an unimaginable death for a young man who had faced down death years before when battling cancer. Christopher and Robert were sentenced to life imprisonment while Nichole was sentenced to 20 years. In 2007, Christopher said he wakes up in fits. He said he cannot close his eyes without seeing Scotty’s face begging him to stop.