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Incidents of violence against boys

  • John Wayne GacyOn the 21st of December 1978, an evidence technician named Daniel Genty crawled into a space measuring 28 by 38 feet beneath a ranch-style house outside Chicago. He worked his way to the southwest corner and began to dig. Within minutes he…
  • Dean CorllDean Corll was the man whose death a frightened caller reported to the Pasadena Police Department at 8:24 on the morning of the 8th of August 1973. The operator who answered was named Velma Lines. The caller was a teenager, and he blurted…
  • River PhoenixRiver Phoenix was an American actor and musician, and at the 92nd Academy Awards his brother Joaquin spoke one of River's lyrics aloud. Accepting the Best Actor prize, Joaquin told the room that River wrote it at 17: "run to the rescue…
  • Elmer Wayne HenleyAt 8:24 on the morning of the 8th of August 1973, Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. phoned the Pasadena Police Department from Dean Corll's home in Pasadena, Texas. He was seventeen years old. He told the operator: "Y'all better come here right now!…
  • Jeffrey DahmerJeffrey Dahmer killed seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991. He became known as the Milwaukee Cannibal and the Milwaukee Monster. On the night of the 22nd of July 1991, police officers in a Milwaukee apartment pinned him to the…
  • West Memphis ThreeThe West Memphis Three are three men who were convicted as teenagers of murdering three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993. Around 7:00 pm on the 5th of May 1993, John Mark Byers made the first report to police. His adopted…
  • Lindbergh kidnappingThe Lindbergh kidnapping began at about 9:00 in the evening on the 1st of March 1932, when the nurse Betty Gow went looking for a 20-month-old boy and could not find him. His mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, had just come out of the bath,…
  • Emmett TillEmmett Till was a boy from Chicago who was lynched in Mississippi in the summer of 1955. When his body came home, his mother, Mamie Till-Bradley, made a decision that would reach far beyond her family. Looking back, she said: "There was…
  • Albert FishAlbert Fish was caught because of a letter he mailed in November 1934 to the mother of a girl he had killed six years earlier. Mrs. Budd could not read, so her son read the pages aloud to her. The letter carried no signature. Police traced…
  • Murder of James BulgerA grainy frame from a security camera in the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, near Liverpool, shows a two-year-old boy being led away by the hand. The child is James Patrick Bulger. The two boys leading him are ten years old. Later,…
  • Leopold and LoebLeopold and Loeb, two University of Chicago students, killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks on the 21st of May 1924. Nathan Leopold was 19, and Richard Loeb was 18. Afterward Leopold described his state of mind to a psychiatrist with a single…

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