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Vera Renzi.
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When you're in a relationship, it's totally normal to feel a little jealous now and then, and maybe you can even get a bit possessive or tempted to sneak a peek at your partner's text.
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But this particular psychopath, named Vera Renzi, took jealousy and possessiveness to a whole new level.
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Like, six feet under level.
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It's a classic case of, if I can't have you, then nobody can.
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Vera's obsession with men started when she was very young.
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She lost her mother when she was just 13, and by the time she was 20, she was already married to an older wealthy banker.
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Well, her new husband suddenly disappeared, and when people asked her about him, Vera just told them he left.
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She was probably saying the truth because he's left this dimension, but that's probably not what the neighbors were thinking.
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You see, Vera was very pretty, so getting another husband wasn't difficult at all.
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But within a few months, husband number two also disappeared faster than a pizza at a teenage sleepover.
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But the thing is, it wasn't just husbands disappearing
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because every single one of Vera's lovers over the years also suddenly vanished into thin air.
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The truth came to light in 1936 when the wife of one of Vera's latest flames reported him missing.
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The police came knocking and Vera casually confessed to killing him.
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The police, thinking they'd be lucky to find one body,
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were in for a surprise when they found 35 coffins neatly stashed in her basement like some twisted IKEA collection.
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Inside those coffins were her two husbands, her son, and 32 of her lovers,
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whom she killed by poisoning their wine with arsenic because she suspected them of being unfaithful or simply growing tired of her.
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In her twisted mind, this was a way to ensure they would never leave her.
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She was sentenced to life in prison and died in her cell in 1960.
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Miyuki Ishikawa.
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If you were one of the Japanese babies delivered by the midwife Miyuki Ishikawa in the late 1940s
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and happened to make it out alive, it probably means that your parents desperately needed a child or that they were wealthy.
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You see, Miyuki was supposed to be a beacon of hope, ushering new life into the world.
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But instead of seeing her job as a sacred duty of care, she saw it as a burden.
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And if you were a baby born to a poor family, Miyuki figured it was better to help you skip the whole life part altogether.
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The simple yet horrific method she used in killing these babies was by neglecting them.
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As the senior midwife at the Kotobuki Maternity Hospital in Tokyo, she would deliberately not provide care, food, or warmth for these babies till they died.
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In her twisted head, she was sparing them from a life of poverty.
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The craziest part is that her husband
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and a doctor from the hospital were her accomplices because they helped her cover up the deaths.
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Sometimes, they would even make a profit from killing the babies
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because some desperate families who cannot afford the means to care for another child would deliberately accept Miyuki's deadly solution.
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The horrific scale of her crimes came to light in 1948 when two police officers discovered the remains of numerous infants.
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Further investigation revealed that Miyuki killed about 103 babies.
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When she was finally brought to trial, the serial baby killer received just eight years in prison, which was even later reduced to four after an appeal.
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What a joke.
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Juana Barraza.
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If you had a grandmother living in New Mexico from 1990 to 2006, she would probably be on a security detail
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that rivals the President of the United States and a personal bodyguard that would follow her wherever she goes.
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Because Juana Barraza was on the prowl targeting lonely elderly women
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and delivering a death grip far more lethal than anything she had ever used in the wrestling ring.
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This retired professional wrestler turned notorious serial killer would pose as a nurse, social worker, or someone offering assistance to gain the trust of older women who live alone.
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Once inside their home, she would channel the same strength she once used in the
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wrestling ring to strangle her victim to death with her bare hands, stockings, or telephone cords.
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Sadly, she managed to end the lives of 49 old women in this brutal way.
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After strangling her victims, she would rob them, taking whatever valuables she could find to keep herself going.
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This wasn't just a crime spree, it was a full-blown crime marathon, and Juana was sprinting toward the finish line.
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The police, however, were looking for a male suspect, convinced that no woman could be behind such savage killings.
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Eventually, in 2006, she was caught red-handed fleeing the scene of her last murder.
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What drove Juana to such murderous madness?
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Well, it turns out she had some serious mommy issues.
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Her mother had been abusive and even sold her to an older man as a child.
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This deep-seated rage festered inside her, and in her twisted mind, every elderly woman she strangled was a stand-in for the mother who betrayed her.
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Now she was convicted of 16 counts of murder and sentenced to 759 years in prison, where she remains to date.
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Dorothea Puente.
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So it's 1982, and you start looking for the perfect home to put your sick dad for care, and a friend tells you about this nice old woman called Dorothea Puente,
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and her boarding house in Sacramento, California.
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Basically, Dorothea was an old woman who was offering free rooms to the elderly and mentally disabled individuals,
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but what you don't know is that her hospitality came with a sinister catch.
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This woman was basically killing people and burying them in her backyard
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and cashing in the victim's social security checks as a pastime hobby.
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Once you lodge as one of her guests, she would drug you with heavy doses of sleeping pills, then suffocate you.
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Most of the time, some people would even die from the drug overdose.
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Her scam show finally came to an end in 1988 when Alberto Montoya, a mentally disabled man who was living at Dorothea's boarding house, suddenly disappeared.
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His social worker got suspicious when Dorothea's excuses started piling up like uncollected rent checks, and the social worker filed a missing persons report.
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When the police showed up, they didn't suspect anything but saw Dorothea as a sweet old lady running a home for people in need.
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But when her story about Alberto's disappearance didn't add up, they decided to dig a little deeper, literally.
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A total of seven bodies were dug up from her backyard, one of which was Alberto's.
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The gruesome discovery led to her arrest, but Dorothea, being an ever-crafty granny, tried to play it cool and even asked the officers if she could step outside for a moment.
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She used that opportunity to run away, but they caught up with her in Los Angeles a few days later.
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In 1993, Dorothea was convicted of three murders, though she's suspected of at least nine, and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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Jane Topan Jane Topan, affectionately known as Jolly Jane, was a nurse in the late 1800s who had a deadly fascination with the human body.
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Well, unlike most nurses, Jane preferred to see people dead rather than alive, and she took it upon herself to make it happen.
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Between 1895 and 1901, she used her position as a nurse to experiment on her patients,
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blending her medical knowledge with a twisted desire to play God.
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Jane's method was as chilling as it was calculated.
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She would administer her patients with a lethal cocktail of morphine
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and atropine that would push her victims to the brink of death and then pull them back, only to repeat the process.
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She got a sick thrill from watching them suffer, taking pleasure in the moments when they hovered between life and death.
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Sometimes, the sick woman would even have sex with her victims as they took their final breaths.
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For Jane, this wasn't just murder, it was a twisted form of intimacy.
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Over the years, Jane claimed the lives of at least 31 people,
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but her killing spree came down in 1901 when the family of one of her victims demanded a toxicology report.
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The results show that the patient had been poisoned, leading to Jane's arrest.
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During her trial, Jane confessed to 31 murders and expressed a desire to have killed more people than anyone else in history.
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She was declared insane and committed to a mental institution for the rest of her life where she died in 1939.
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Bella Gunness.
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These days, people use Tinder and such to find their partners and go on dates, but things were a little different in the 1880s.
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Then, if you wanted to find a husband or wife, you would have to place an ad in the Lonely Hearts newspaper to explain what you want
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and what you have to offer.
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Well, things took a really dark turn from 1884 to 1908, because a woman named Bella Gunness,
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who was fondly called the Black Widow of the Midwest, used the newspaper ads to lure unsuspecting males to her farm.
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It seems that Her idea of happily ever after usually involved a shovel and a plot of land out back.
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She was like the praying mantises of the human world.
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Now, once you fell victim to her newspaper ad and came to her farm, she would drug you up until you're out cold, then strike you on the head with a blunt weapon,
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or sometimes would just slit your throats.
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The crazy woman would then cut up your body into tiny pieces, feed some to her pigs, and bury the rest.
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Over the years, Belle is believed to have killed more than 40 people,
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but thankfully, everything came to a stop in 1908 when her farmhouse burned down under mysterious circumstances.
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Among the ruins, authorities discovered the bodies of her children, body parts of several men, and a headless corpse that was initially believed to be Belle herself.
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However, the size of the body didn't match Belle's physical stature, leading to suspicion that she had faked her own death to escape capture.
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Sadly, she did evade the capture.
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Nanny Doss If you were a man in the US from the 1920s to the 1950s, and you happened to be charmed by a middle-aged woman with a sweet,
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seductive smile, there's a good chance you just met Nanny Doss.
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And if you were unlucky enough to marry her, well, let's just say you'd soon be six feet under, possibly with a belly full of poisoned pie.
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Nanny was married five times, and each husband died by her hand, but not before she had taken out hefty life insurance policies on them.
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Her weapon of choice was poison, which she would usually mix into food or drink.
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Crazy Nanny didn't stop at killing her husbands, though.
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She extended her deadly touch to her children, grandchildren, and even her own mother and sister.
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Clearly, Nanny believed in keeping things in the family, especially when it came to her poison supply.
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Thanks to her constantly smiling face and habit of giggling, which earned her the nickname Giggling Granny,
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she was never suspected of a thing until 1954 when she murdered her fifth husband, Samuel Doss.
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Apparently, Samuel Doss had been hospitalized with flu-like symptoms but recovered, only to drop dead as soon as he got home.
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An autopsy revealed enough arsenic in his system to kill five men.
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This new development opened up an investigation that led to the arrest of Nanny Doss.
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In total, she murdered about 11 people.
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During her confession, Nanny was disturbingly nonchalant, admitting to the murders with a smile on her face.
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In 1955, she was sentenced to a life in prison at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary,
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where she continued to be cheerful and unrepentant until she died on June 2nd, 1965.
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Beverly Allitt Well, if you were not a young child admitted to the Grantham
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and Kestavan Hospital in England during the early 1990s, then you have nothing to worry about, because sadly this is where this This particular predator, disguised as a caring, attentive,
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and perfect caregiver for vulnerable children, decided to carry out her most horrible acts.
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You see, Beverly Allitt would inject the children in her care with insulin or potassium, causing them to suffer from sudden,
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life-threatening conditions like cardiac arrest or hypoglycemia.
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In some cases, she went old school and smothered them with a pillow.
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And over just 59 days, she managed to kill four children and left nine others with severe, lifelong injuries.
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She was basically a one-woman wrecking crew in a nurse's uniform.
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The worst part was that the hospital didn't initially suspect that one of their own was behind these incidents.
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After all, who would ever imagine that a nurse, a person whose very job it is to care, would be the one causing such devastation?
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It wasn't until after several suspicious deaths and near-fatal incidents that the hospital began to investigate the pattern of sudden collapses,
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all occurring when Allett was on duty.
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This eventually led to her arrest, and then during her trial she was diagnosed with Munchausen syndrome,
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a condition where a caregiver causes harm to those in their care to gain attention or sympathy.
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Rosemary West Now, when a man and a woman meet up and start talking about marriage and family, you would think they were discussing matters concerning children or buying a house.
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Well, yes, but not for Rosemary West and her husband Fred West.
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This depraved couple during the 1970s and 1980s killed, brutally tortured, mutilated, and sexually assaulted at least 12 young women and girls,
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including their own daughter.
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Sadly, their victims were sometimes lodgers, while others were just abducted from the streets to be subjected to extreme cruelty and torture before being killed.
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Once you died, they would dismember and bury you in the cellar or garden of their home at 25 Cromwell Street,
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which became infamously known as the House of Horrors.
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Well, they were finally caught when their daughter Heather suddenly went missing.
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The police opened an investigation, found Heather's body buried in the garden, and, well, the bodies of the other poor victims.
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Rosemary and her husband were arrested, even though the man took the chicken way out by unaliving himself just before trial.
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Rosemary faced trial, however, and was convicted of 10 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
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She remains in prison to this day, one of the few women in the UK to be sentenced to a whole life order.
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Janine Jones.
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If you were sadly born in one of the hospitals where nurse Janine Jones worked, the chances of you reaching six months old were very, very slim.
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During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Janine would inject her young patients with drugs like digoxin,
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heparin, and sucanilcholine, which are medications that can stop a heart or paralyze their lungs.
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After inducing these crises, Janine would often be the first on the scene, appearing to save the child in a sick attempt to play the hero and save the child.
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It's believed that she was driven by a condition known as hero syndrome.
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This psychological condition leads a person to create dangerous situations so they can save the victims, thereby gaining praise and recognition.
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Unfortunately, many of her victims did not survive these attempts, making her actions even more tragic.
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The truth began to surface in 1982
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when the unusually high death rate among her young patients caught
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the attention of hospital staff at Bexar County Hospital in San Antonio.
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An investigation revealed that Janine was the common link in many of these cases.
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She was convicted in 1984 of murdering 15-month-old Chelsea McClellan by injecting her with a lethal dose of muscle relaxants
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and the attempted murder of four-week-old Rolando Santos.
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She was sentenced to 99 years in In 2017, she was indicted on additional murder charges for the deaths of other children,
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bringing her total number of suspected victims to possibly over 60.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questo video contiene 165 frasi e 2724 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 15:14. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 179 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Solo il 78% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| twist verbo | /twɪst/ | torcere, attorcigliare |
| poison sostantivo | /ˈpɔɪ.zən/ | veleno |
| convict verbo | /ˈkɑnvɪkt/ | condannare |
| lethal aggettivo | /ˈliː.θəl/ | letale |
| bury verbo | /ˈbɛɹi/ | sotterrare |
| disappear verbo | /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ | sparire, scomparire |
| elderly aggettivo | /ˈɛldɚli/ | anziano |
| arsenic sostantivo | /ˈɑɹsənɪk/ | arsenico |
| giggle verbo | /ˈɡɪɡl̩/ | ridacchiare |
| inject verbo | /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛkt/ | iniettare |
| midwife sostantivo | /ˈmɪd.waɪf/ | ostetrica, levatrice |
| disable verbo | /dɪsˈeɪbəl/ | disabilitare |
| spree sostantivo | /spɹiː/ | orgia, frenesia |
| granny sostantivo | /ˈɡɹæni/ | nonna, nonnina |
| parole sostantivo | /pəˈɹəʊl/ | libertà condizionale, condizionale |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| add up verbo | sommarsi | |
| carry out verbo | /ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/ | compiere, realizzare |
| cover up verbo | insabbiare, occultare | |
| find out verbo | scoprire | |
| open up verbo | aprire | |
| pile up verbo | impilare, impilarsi | |
| run away verbo | scappare, fuggire | |
| stand in for verbo | sostituire, fare le veci |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | was sentenced · was finally brought · was caught |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | prison, which was · women who live · woman who was |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — un’azione in corso in un momento del passato | was probably saying · was sparing · was sprinting |
| Comparativi -er than / more … than — confrontare due cose | faster than · more lethal than · more people than |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 16 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come didn't, wasn't, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: lethal /ˈliː.θəl/, wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/, thrill /θɹɪl/, warmth /wɔɹmθ/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, casually /ˈkæʒuəli/, unusually /ʌnˈjuːʒuəli/, confession /kənˈfɛʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/, intimacy /ˈɪn.tɪ.mə.si/, disappearance /dɪsəˈpɪəɹəns/, unusually /ʌnˈjuːʒuəli/, notorious /nə(ʊ)ˈtɔː.ɹɪ.əs/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: horrific /həˈɹɪfɪk/, hospitality /ˌhɑ.spɪˈtæl.ə.ti/, hobby /ˈhɑ.bi/, happily /ˈhæp.ə.li/, habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: twist /twɪst/, convict /ˈkɑnvɪkt/, arsenic /ˈɑɹsənɪk/, inject /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛkt/, midwife /ˈmɪd.waɪf/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: sadly /ˈsædli/, granny /ˈɡɹæni/, backyard /bækˈjɑːd/, grandchild /ˈɡɹændˌtʃaɪld/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come twist, poison, convict.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.