Death

A Grave Undertaking
I debated as to whether to discuss this subject or not because it is discouraging. However, many deaths are preventable. Dr. Kevorkian, sometimes called Dr. Death, will not be discussed here because I have another web page entitled "Suicide". Suicides are often preventable, but so are murders. Some murders are discussed on the Forensic Medicine page, which is closely related. However, these topics are so vast that I could not do justice to them in only one page. Even two pages aren't enough. For example, a suicide can be faked. This happened with Marilyn Monroe and with Dorothy Kilgallen. Sam "Mono" Giancana may have hired the assassin "Needles" to kill Monroe. Monroe was killed shortly before JFK was murdered (1963). The JFK murder may have also been arranged by Giancana. Giancana had a lot of help in the JFK and RFK assassinations.

This photo shows Paul "the Waiter" Ricca, who was a human version of the grim reaper. After the demise of Al Capone, Ricca took over the Chicago syndicate. The picture is from The Crime Library, which probably got it from an old newspaper. The Crime Library is an outstanding website which has a great deal of old information on the mafia. Thus research into the history of the mafia is possible on this site.

Shown here is Jack Ruby killing Oswald, his former friend. Ruby was a gangster who worked for Giancana. Oswald was from New Orleans. Oswald, the patsy, was killed so that he couldn't talk and reveal the whole conspiracy. Ruby was ordered to do this by the mafia. If he had refused, he probably would have been tortured and killed.

This shows Sam Giancana in the Cook County morgue in 1975 after he was shot to death.

This shows the campgrounds in Australia where Lindy Chamberlin's baby was taken in the night by a dingo, which is a wild Australian dog. Lindy was then convicted of murdering the baby in a terrible miscarriage of justice!

Andrew Borden, Lizzie's father, was rich. He was one of the two bloody victims, the other being his wife. One theory is that William Borden, a retarded, supposedly illegitimate son of Andrew, committed the murders because, hypothetically, Andrew refused to put William in Andrew's will. This was proposed in a provocative book. William then left with his hatchet. This is probably the best of many theories. Another theory involves Bridgette, the maid. However, Bridgette had no motive, did not take off, and had no blood on her or her dress. This Bridgette theory is very weak.

Tony Accardo, like Sam "Momo" Giancana, had worked with Capone. The photo is Accardo. Accardo took over the Chicago Mob after Ricca.

This photo shows Bobby Kennedy after he was shot in 1968. His brother, JFK, had been asassinated in 1963. Martin Luther King was shot in 1968. Although Sirhan Sirhan was blamed for the RFK asassination, the autopsy showed that the fatal wound was fired from point blank range directly behind RFK. Sirhan Sirhan was in front. The whole scenario was remarkably like the JFK asassination in that JFK was supposedly shot from the Texas Schoolbook Depository, but in reality there was an entrance wound in his face and another in the front of his neck. The Depository was in back of JFK.

Shown here is a painting of the Salem witch trials, which took place in the 1600's. Unfortunately Rev. Cotton Mather believed in witches and demonic possession, and this may have inspired the trials.

Lizzie Borden was aquitted in the Fall River tragedy because the hatchet murders of her parents would have spattered blood all over her and her dress. No blood was found on her or any of her dresses. No hatchet was ever found, suggesting that the real murderer left with it.

This drawing shows a victim of Jack the Ripper, the notorious 19th century serial killer of London. Jack killed prostitutes, but nobody knows why. The killer was never identified, unfortunately. However, the killings stopped after the body of a doctor who committed suicide was found in the Thames. Years later there were imitators, but the imitators did not contact the police as Jack did.