ILLUSTRATIONS Icarus Yuji
1) RECYCLING DADDY
Every family fights. And almost every family feud is about money. But only the English Robinson-Spiller family, from Dorset, in the south of the country, will have this story to tell their descendants. In 2014, after father William Spiller, 48, refused to pay a debt, Nathan Robinson, 28, killed him with a knife. Then the son used a saw to dismember the body. And it did! The parts were methodically stored in plastic boxes, which the patricide used as furniture to support the TV set. That’s right: the guy made a rack of his father.
For some time, Nathan continued using William’s cell phone to simulate that he was alive. But the farce did not last long. The neighbor in the apartment below noticed that a strange «pink liquid» began to descend from the ceiling, which helped the police to solve the case. It was blood diluted in water, from the cleaning that Nathan had to do in the apartment after the murder and “woodworking” session.
The boy was arrested and pleaded insanity, but was sentenced to life in prison for cruel murder. Before the crime, Nathan was studying mathematics at the University of Alberystwth. The investigators were surprised not only with the use of the father’s body in the furniture, but also with the dismemberment itself: William was big – he weighed 158 kilos. That is, the piece of furniture was consistent, made of massive human flesh.
2) BUT THE POOR BOY JUST WANTED DINNER
Xiao Bao, a plump Chinese baby, then only eight months old, was 90 times with scissors by her own mother, in 2013. breastfeeding. Taken to the hospital by an uncle, who found the baby in the backyard, covered in blood, Xiao had more than a hundred stitches on his body. Many, on the face. The mother confessed the aggression to the police. Neighbors of the family asked the authorities to take custody of the mother, which did not happen, because she would not have mental problems.
3) NO WORKING LATE, BABY
Fort Myers Airport, Florida, suffered a worrying terrorist threat in 2011. Well, maybe not that worrying… An angry woman on the phone threatened to blow up ten planes later that day. Soraya Evette Billinge was outraged that her husband, an airport worker, had to work the night shift. When she found out about what had happened, the employee tried to defend the woman before the authorities, arguing that the imbroglio was just the result of a misunderstanding. She didn’t. Soraya ended up arrested and indicted. Her husband, however, no longer works at the airport. He regrets that the time he spends at home no longer makes a difference in the couple’s life.
4) SIDEWALK OF INFAMIA
Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel is one of the most feared criminal organizations in the world and is in conflict with the official government. In 2010, cartel members shot 13 mayors whose administrations were trying to stop drug trafficking. The following year, people shopping in the commercial center of Acapulco came across 15 decapitated bodies, lined up next to their respective heads.
It wasn’t the first time, however. Two years earlier, styrofoam boxes of ice and 12 heads were dumped in the carriageway of a busy road. With the passing of cars at high speed, the heads escaped from the boxes and spread across the asphalt. Sinaloa maintains criminal “branches” in most Mexican states and occasionally clashes with the police and opposing criminal organizations. In addition to killing enemies, cartel members also take the lives of civilians to demonstrate power and demarcate territory.
Trafficker Pedro Avilés Peréz was a pioneer in the use of planes in smuggling, when exporting drugs to the United States. Today the heads of the cartel are Joaquín Guzmán Loera and Ismael Zambada García. In 2001, Guzmán was the second most wanted man in the world by the FBI, behind only Osama bin Laden. He was arrested last year. Ismael has led the organization since Guzmán’s prison.
5) FROM A BREAD KNIFE TO AN ELECTRIC SAW
In 2012, in the English town of Stockport, the thirty-year-old brothers Joseph and Anthony Jenkins (photo) spent the night at a club, where they struck up a conversation with John Grainger, a 33-year-old good-natured guy, known at the club for making friends easily . The trio headed to one of the brothers’ apartment for the second part of the party. Alcohol? Drugs? Prostitutes? Before it was all this together. For no apparent (or confessed) reason, the Jenkins hit John in the head with a hammer, stabbed his legs, shot one of his knees and, finally, the head. Well, it wasn’t the end yet.
Next, they tried to separate the head from the victim’s body, using a bread knife. As that obviously didn’t work out, the two used a chainsaw for the decapitation. The brothers transported the victim’s head and body in garbage bags to a nearby deserted street and set fire to it.
On the way back, the duo was stopped in a police raid. His clothes were stained with blood. In the pocket of one of them were shotgun shells. In the apartment, police found the chainsaw soaked in blood and still plugged in. Joseph and Anthony were sentenced to life in prison.
6) NEVER BELIEVE A FISHERMAN
Briton Matthew Clark, 29, owed a debt to the manager of the Saint Peter Port aquarium, where he worked. To pay for it, he decided to participate in a fishing contest in Guemsey, one of the islands in the English Channel, which offered a prize equivalent to R$2,600 in 2013. But Matthew cheated: he kidnapped a 6-kilogram fish from work to compete for the jackpot. And he won the competition. But the trickster’s sea was not for fish and one of the opponents, who frequented the aquarium, recognized the animal. Matthew was eventually arrested, accused of theft and fraud. He hooked a hundred hours of community work.
7) THE DANGEROUS SNOWBALL SHOOTER
It wasn’t an innocent snow fight with friends, the kind you see in American movies. It was gratuitous violence. After systematically throwing snowballs at random people for six consecutive months, teenager Kean Cordeiro, from West Sussex, UK, has had to face justice. The verdict was given in 2012 after 11 victims testified against the boy. The decision prohibited Kean, who also aimed at doors and windows, from throwing or encouraging others to throw any objects at property and people (unless he was playing a sport) for two years.” Well, the penalty came with an expiration date. We are in 2015. That is…
8) THE WOMEN HUNTER. LITERALLY
Robert Hansen was an old-fashioned man known as an exemplary father and an excellent baker. As hobbies, he enjoyed flying an airplane and hunting, a relatively common activity among men in the interior of the United States. The problem is, he liked to hunt…women. In the dense forest. With rifles. In truth.
Between 1973 and 1983, in Alaska, the multifaceted baker seduced women by inviting them on a plane ride. After the romantic flight, the lover would go with them to a cabin he had in the middle of a forest. At this point, every woman was into him and he could date just fine. But not. In the forest, far from civilization, he sexually enslaved them for days. And that was just the beginning of the problem.
When Robert got tired of the sexual part of the adventure, the victims were «released» into the woods for the second part of their sick game: the hunt. This, yes, was his favorite sport, or his “summer project”, as he used to say.
Authorities estimate that Robert shot to death somewhere between 17 and 21 women on his human safaris. He was convicted in 1983 of a series of repeat crimes including robbery, kidnapping, rape and murder. Altogether, his sentence amounted to 461 years. Robert died in jail aged 75 in 2014. The exact number of victims was never known for sure.