Criminal
True crime, exposed – the innocent, the guilty, and the downright gruesome. Criminal explores the intricacies and complexities of law, order, and crime.
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Stories in Criminal that you’ll love, handpicked by our team.
South Korean Plastic Surgery By Ghost Doctor Resulted In Death (Case of Kwon Dae-Hee)
On 8th September 2016, in Seoul, South Korea, 24-year-old Kwon Dae-Hee underwent plastic surgery. It cost him both 6.5 million won ($5,766) and his life because his surgery was performed by a Ghost Doctor.
Dharrsheena Raja SegarranPublished about a month ago in CriminalTruth in the Lies
Kathleen Brannagh stared at the bundle of documents as if they might catch fire where they sat. She chewed the edge of her nail, nose wrinkling at the musty scent found in old houses and the pungent odor of fear combined with grief and disbelief. Overwhelmed, she stomped down the stairs. The past should have stayed where she found it -- in the back of a cluttered closet with moth-eaten baby clothes and stained photographs.
Lisa VanGalenPublished 2 months ago in Criminal- Second Place in the Whodunit Challenge
Dis-Appearance
In the back of her head, Seema keeps whispering to herself. Today can be a little different from yesterday. She is carrying the big bowl of dough toward the tandoor house. The big dug hole in the middle of the room is accepting of anything that can fall in it. She lights the fire in the hole and throws in some more wood sticks. The fire is galloping; the surrounding walls of the tandoor are changing their colour to some red-copper bricks. She reaches those walls and drops herself fully inside the hole. All of a sudden, she feels calmness and purity beyond the screams she is used to. Her hands and feet have never felt this restful. They are swimming in the air, like the air, she is floating freely. Where am I going, without them? She throws the walls behind her and comes back to the oldest room, which is turned into a tandoor house. Half of the room is filled with magazines from the 1980s. She has got good use for them, making more fire. She is halfway finishing up baking the pile of flatbread that will feed some fifteen family members. She folds each flatbread in a half-moon, but her mind goes into the dying fire in the hole.
Parwana FayyazPublished 4 months ago in Criminal in good time
…in light of my own changing values – the expansion of my family and the recent deaths from improperly using the technique – I have decided to discontinue the practice. My last piece, a beautiful frame I spent many hours on for someone very special, will be the last of my work to display fractal burning.
Katie Kelly KoppenhoferPublished 4 months ago in CriminalAn Answer from the Sky
Interview Room 2 is simple and square. The single light in the middle of the ceiling lands at the crown of my head. I have arrived on stage, and they’re waiting for the show.
Catherine DorianPublished 4 months ago in CriminalThe Tale of Wren
A transient fog hovers above the water, while the full moon guides Wren as she walks along the shore. Placing fresh cut willow stalks in her basket. With a stiffness, she moves away from the lake and towards the grassy slopes. The pain was worsening, peaking to a point of paralyses, then vanishing like the wind. Glancing toward camp, dawns colors begin to challenge the darkness as the charcoal skies reveal the vibrancy of a new day. She needs to complete this task before her people wake. Pausing, she waits for her muscles to relax, hoping the pain will go away. Breathing deep, Wren continues towards the woods, to bury the contents of her pack before she is discovered with it. Then, she would wait for him, she knew he would not let her down. She starts to dig when another wave of agony consumes her once more and she doubles over. If it weren’t for that, perhaps she would have noticed the eyes upon her.
The Case of the Missing Top Stories
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Mother CombsPublished 4 months ago in Criminal- Runner-Up in the Whodunit Challenge
Something In the Water
Sascha was the first to find the fish. At least, she thought she must be. The sky outside was still a bruised purple, light gradually seeping through the horizon. No other patients had been in line at the nursing station when Sascha went for her morning meds. She did not know what time it was, only that she had been lying awake in the interminable darkness of her room for longer than she could stand it. Deciding to wander the halls instead, it was by coincidence rather than intention that Sascha was the first to arrive for her medication. The morning nurse had chirped merrily at her, some praise for being an early bird, and did not ask her to wag her tongue when she lifted it after swallowing.
Elle MariePublished 4 months ago in Criminal
Latest Stories
Most recently published stories in Criminal.
THE MISSING CUPCAKE
In the picturesque town of Sweetwater, where cobblestone streets wind past pastel-colored storefronts, lies the heart of the town's sweet obsession – Betty's Bakery. With its mouthwatering aroma of freshly baked goods wafting through the air, it's no wonder why Sweetwater is known as the dessert capital of the world.
She Died Saving Her Baby’s Life During a Brutal Attack by The Baby's Father
Jessica Arrendale hid her six-month-old daughter inside the toilet bowl in the bathroom of their third-story home and shielded the opening with her body when her abuser, Antoine Davis, opened fire on her. Jessica died, although Antoine did not see baby Colbie, and took his own life instead.
True Crime WriterPublished about 6 hours ago in CriminalHer Adoptive Parents Murdered Her In A Terrible Way Thinking That They Would Get Away With It
In the early morning of September 22, 2013, two men passing through a forest track in the municipality of Teo in A Coruña (Spain) made a shocking discovery: on one side of the road lay the lifeless body of a 12-year-old girl whose parents had reported her disappearance 3 hours earlier.
Based On a True StoryPublished about 14 hours ago in CriminalThe bender family lived together and killed together.
While some children are forced to murder by their parents others are ready and willing to kill. For the family on the prairies of Kansas in the 1870s, passing travelers stopped to see a Wild West Medicine Show. The frontier men are mesmerised by a beautiful young woman who offers spiritual cures for earthly ills. Kate Bender was a very pretty woman. It's been said that she had lips. She was around five six and a very slender woman She had quite a bit of class. She wasn't like most of the women here in the prairie area. She was very outspoken and quite the talker. She did seances, maybe she would laugh and flirt through this kind of thing. She was a lure.
Lesedi MolutsiPublished about 14 hours ago in CriminalKate was always given credit for slitting the throats from ear to ear.
What kind of parent will ask their child to kill. Children cannot say no to a parent that wants them to kill. They compared her to Charles Manson in the Wild West. The family business is murder. Kate was always given credit for slitting the throats from ear to ear. A terrifying mother has a deadly request. Murder is a family affair it runs in the bloodlines. On a quiet April day in 2001 Greg Hyman visits his sick father. Something is very wrong, the house has been emptied. Korea his grandmother suffering from Alzheimer's has been abandoned, slowly starving, she had survived by eating newspapers, the only thing she could reach.
Lesedi MolutsiPublished about 14 hours ago in CriminalAnu Singh decides to host a dinner party with her own death as the main attraction.
It was a dinner invitation they couldn't refuse. It's wonderful occasion Anu singh has enticed her fellow law students with a spine-chilling promise. She told a whole bunch of people ‘I'm gonna commit suicide come to my place and we'll have a farewell dinner’. One person doesn't know of her sinister plan, her fiance Joe. Somewhere in that process she said to herself well if I am going to die Joe should die too. It is beyond my comprehension that those at the party that knew what this was all about did not speak up speak up and stop it.
Lesedi MolutsiPublished about 14 hours ago in CriminalThis man was a hero, he survived five tours of duty in the Middle East and yet he could not survive five months of marriage
It's after midnight on the edge of a ranch stock pond in Texas, Wendy Davidson has something she desperately needs to hide. She knew that if she dumped him in water his body would rise to the surface pretty fast.
Lesedi MolutsiPublished about 14 hours ago in CriminalRobert Pickton butchered female sex workers and feed them to his pigs
Robert Pickton, a name synonymous with terror and depravity, is did so many heinous acts shocked the world. His story is not just about the gruesome murders he committed but also about the failures of the justice system and the deep societal issues that allowed his atrocities to go unchecked for far too long.
Deji AkomolafePublished about 14 hours ago in Criminal
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