All tagged folie a deux
Gwendolyn Graham and her girlfriend Cathy Wood met while working in a nursing home in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Their volatile relationship escalated as the two shared dark fantasies of committing murders together. They discussed targeting their coworkers at the nursing home, before settling on much more vulnerable victims -- the patients.
Twenty three years ago today, 36 year old Girly Chew Hossencofft was murdered by her estranged husband, Diazien Hossencofft, and his girlfriend, Linda Henning. Girly Chew met Diazien during one of several trips to the United States from her home country of Malaysia in the early 1990s. After immigrating to marry and start a new life with Hossencofft, Girly's life in America wasn't what she had anticipated.
Alton Coleman and Debra Brown were a young couple from Illinois who together went on a murderous rampage across the midwest in 1984. The duo's 53 day reign of terror spanned 6 states, and resulted in a trail of murders, rapes, and robberies.
For Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, Manchester was their hunting grounds, and the moors -- a vast stretch of barren landscape -- was their dumping grounds. Britain's most reviled killers preyed on children, abducting and violently murdering their victims before leaving their bodies in shallow graves.
