My Lil' Baby Brain Has Been Obliterated After Learning These Dark, Shocking, And Wiiiiiiiild Things

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Warning: Graphic contented ahead, including stories of murder.

1. Two things I ne'er expected to perceive successful the aforesaid condemnation were “Olympic athlete” and “FBI fugitive,” but past on came a feline named Ryan Wedding, whose sanction I archetypal heard conscionable this week. Here’s the deal…

Wedding is simply a erstwhile Canadian snowboarder who competed successful the 2002 Winter Olympics. Apparently, helium aboriginal went connected to tally a monolithic planetary cocaine trafficking cognition tied to cartel unit and aggregate murders. After spending a agelong clip connected the tally — and earning a spot connected the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted database — Wedding was arrested successful Mexico conscionable a fewer days ago, reportedly aft turning himself in. Now, he’s successful custody and facing a agelong database of national charges.

2. As idiosyncratic who’s mildly obsessed with the Kennedy assassination, I was floored to larn astir the enigma of the “Babushka Lady” — an unidentified pistillate believed to person filmed oregon photographed the infamous shooting.

She appears successful aggregate photos and films from Dealey Plaza, lasting shockingly adjacent to President John F. Kennedy arsenic shots ringing out. While radical astir her duck, flee, oregon panic, she seems to stay calm, holding what looks similar a camera pointed straight astatine the motorcade. The footage investigators believed she captured has ne'er been found, and she was ne'er identified.

Over the years, theories astir who she was person spiraled wildly. Some judge she was conscionable an mean bystander who ne'er came forward. Others importune she was tied to quality agencies, portion of a cover-up, oregon progressive successful thing acold darker. More than 60 years later, nary 1 knows who she was, what she recorded, oregon wherefore she vanished.

3. The eerie communicative of Branson Perry, a 20-year-old from Skidmore, Missouri, who vanished successful April 2001.

Perry had been cleaning his location with a person erstwhile helium stepped extracurricular to enactment a brace of jumper cables successful a shed…and was ne'er seen again.

There were nary signs of a struggle, and nary idiosyncratic belongings were recovered. Search dogs were brought in, but they reportedly mislaid his scent astir immediately. More than 2 decades later, Branson’s disappearance remains unsolved.

4. The weird Wikipedia leafage astir Rapunzel syndrome — a uncommon aesculapian information with a fairytale sanction and a profoundly disturbing reality. It happens erstwhile idiosyncratic repeatedly ingests their ain hairsbreadth — often linked to compulsive behaviors similar hair-pulling and hair-eating — causing a monolithic hairball to signifier successful the tummy and sometimes widen into the intestines.

Because hairsbreadth can’t beryllium digested, it conscionable accumulates, starring to terrible pain, unsafe blockages, and different life-threatening complications. Most cases aren’t discovered until country becomes unavoidable. And, FYI, I wouldn’t urge googling images of it.

5. The tragic decease day of Kobe Bryant, who died connected Jan. 26, 2020 successful a chopper crash.

The fashionable hoops prima died astatine property 41 erstwhile the chopper helium was traveling successful crashed into a hillside successful Calabasas, California, amid dense fog. Bryant had been connected his mode with his daughter, Gianna, to a younker hoops crippled astatine his Mamba Sports Academy, wherever helium was scheduled to coach. Seven others traveling with them were besides killed successful the crash.

The Los Angeles County coroner’s study (which you tin spot here, though just warning, it’s nauseating) described an highly convulsive and brutal country including extended burns, lacerations, breached bones, and dismembered assemblage parts. In fact, the trauma was truthful bad, Bryant had to beryllium identified utilizing fingerprints aft his assemblage was recovered successful the ungraded extracurricular the wreckage. The metallic lining? They judge everyone “almost certainly” died instantly.

An probe aboriginal concluded that the clang was caused by aviator mistake aft the aviator became disoriented successful mediocre visibility.

6. Finally, the communicative of serial slayer Billy Waldrop.

Waldrop was an American convicted serial slayer who murdered astatine slightest 3 radical betwixt 1973 and 1982. After serving situation clip for sidesplitting 2 men successful the 1970s, helium was released — lone to termination again years later. In 1982, Waldrop and 2 accomplices broke into the Alabama location of 72-year-old Thurman Macon Donahoo Sr. during a robbery, beating and shooting him to decease earlier mounting the location connected occurrence to destruct evidence.

Waldrop fled but was aboriginal arrested successful California connected a DUI charge, waived extradition, and was returned to Alabama, wherever helium was convicted of superior execution and sentenced to death. On Jan. 10, 1997, helium was executed by electrical seat astatine Holman Correctional Facility, reportedly singing “Amazing Grace” arsenic helium was strapped in.

His past meal: Steak with fried onions, baked potato, salad, and cocoa cake.