Language keeps evolving and when I came across the word Simping on Twitter, a whole new world of the bizarre opened right before me. According to Wikipedia, the term “is an Internet slang term describing a person (usually male) who performs excessive sympathy and attention toward another person (usually female), sometimes in pursuit of a sexual relationship.”
The moment I googled that definition, suddenly, my YouTube recommendations have been all about clips of men going above and beyond for women or, as the term suggests, men who were simping or videos about women cheating. My google ads were all about…
When Harold and Toni Henthorn went hiking on the Rocky mountain national park, Toni did not know that she was walking into the jaws of death. The couple was celebrating their 12th wedding anniversary.
Toni Henthorn was born on January 10, 1962, in Jackson, Mississippi. Her mother, Yvonne, was a nursing teacher, and Bob Bertolet, her father, was a geologist. The family was relatively wealthy, making their money from oil found on their land. Toni was an eye surgeon and had a thriving medical practice. Despite her achievements, starting a family of her own was the next stepping block to…
Murdering her two husbands and possibly her father, mother of two Stacey Castor, betrayed the sacred bond between mother and child. In an attempted murder gone wrong, she tried to kill and frame her daughter for her crimes.
On July 24, 1967, Stacey was born in Clay County, New York, to Jerry Daniels and Judie Eaton. As a teenager, Stacey was a functioning introvert who struggled to let people in but could socialize in social gatherings. As a 17-year-old, she met 23-year-old Michael Wallace, her complete opposite personality-wise. …
Betrayed by the man she killed for, the suburban wife and mother of two, nurse Kristen Gilbert was convicted for the murder of four veterans but is thought to have murdered over 100 veterans in the seven years she worked at the Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center. Her modus operandi was inducing cardiac arrest.
The Stricklands were a typical middle-class family. Richard Strickland worked as an electronics executive after a career in the United States Coast Guard, and his wife Claudia was a homemaker and a part-time school teacher. The family lived in River Falls, Massachusetts, where their oldest daughter, Kristen…
Ilaria Alpi was born in Rome on May 24, 1961, to Giorgio and Luciana Alpi. She was an only child. Ilaria studied literature, graduating from the University of Rome’s Department of Oriental Studies. She was fluent in Arabic and reported news from Lebanon, Kuwait, and Egypt for the Italian newspapers Paese Sera and L’unita before she landed a position at the RAI- Radiotelevisione Italiana, Italy’s national broadcaster.
Ilaria loved her job despite the danger that came with it. On this, she said, “I know this can be dangerous, but it is better than covering the same old things in Rome…
In a crime that shocked the people of Kenya, the remains of a missing Dutch business tycoon, Mr. Tob Cohen, was found in an empty underground water tank in his lavish suburban home in Nairobi, which he installed to capture rainwater to irrigate his garden. Alas, for 55 days, it was his grave. As the police found his body, his hands, neck, and legs were bound together; he was viciously tortured before being killed and dumped. He was 71 years old.
Tob Cohen was born in the Netherlands and was described by his sister, Gabrie Van Straten, as a very…
President Trump is a man of many talents. He has mastered the art of getting under people’s skin. This is a man who is both loved and loathed in an equal measure.
He is a patriot unless you disregard the Russian connection and is a successful businessman, when you overlook his big-time failures, from Trump’s airlines to Trump’s Beef Steaks. If you thought Trump sucked in his tweets, wait till you see Trump trying to sell you steaks. I like Trump, with all his faults. Ever since he became a president, he turned politics on its heads. His Twitter followers…
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