Burried Alive

Reggie and Carol Sumner

To commit a murder may take more than most of us can endure. However, some murderers are even too cowardly to COMMIT MURDER: They ARE killers, but they - sort of - don't kill. How is that possible? Well, being cowards they put the victim in a position that inevitably will kill him or her which I suppose may give the murderer the false impression that in reality they "didn't do anything".  

One of these murderous cowards is Tiffany Ann Cole (Born 1981) who has been found guilty in the kidnapping and murder of Reggie and Carol Sumner in July 2005. They died by being buried alive in a robbery to steal all their money. Tiffany Cole and her three male accomplices had dug their grave before kidnapping the couple which makes it clear that they knew what they were doing as it was planned. Cole was sentenced to death, but in 2023 her sentence was changed into a life sentence (which I for one find very strange).

This case is cruel and has some gruesome details that seem unparallelled, that is until one reads about the murder of the 9 years old Jessica Lunsford.

To lose one's life at nine years old is unfair, especially when it only happens to give a sentenced sex offender a sexual pleasure that wasn't given, but stolen. Jessica disappeared from her room in the middle of the night and there were no traces to follow. Everybody in her community went looking for her and it's a sad fact that she might have been found when the police came to the house where her abductor, John Couey, hid her in his cabin. At that time she was still alive, but she dared not make herself heard so the police went away without finding her.

When she was found it was in a grave, and it was obvious that she had been buried alive with a toy. Before that this disgusting pig had raped her several times which, frankly, is unbearable to think of even now, twenty years later.

The cowardice of Couey made him cruel and he murdered the child in a way he himself may have seen as less cruel, but which in reality was much worse than e.g. shooting her.

 

https://people.com/jessica-lunsford-murder-people-magazine-investigates-boogeyman-8734299 

 

https://eu.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2023/08/23/verdict-spares-tiffany-cole-death-in-jacksonville-buried-alive-case/70663608007/ 

 

https://www.cvsa1.com/solved-cases/jessica-lunsford-murder-case/ 

 

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Graves of Prostitutes

 

One might think that Death brings equality to people, no matter whom and what they were before they died, but no, that's not the case. For instance, Tudor England deemed it so very sinful to be a prostitute that the women who had made a living in that profession were excluded from "decent folks": No bone-mixing after death with those who may have been their customers in life!

In Crossbones they had their allotted spots with e.g. paupers and other "non-decent" citizens, and there they lay until 1853 when the churchyard was closed. Later on it was kind of "resurrected" as a memorial place for thoughts and regrets of people who had turned wiser. It has been estimated that it held at least 15,000 graves when it was closed.    

"It's all the women's fault ...." 

Crossbones is only one churchyard for prostitutes, paupers, etc. In some countries prostitutes have made their own graveyards and they themselves tend to them as the "decent" people don't want to have anything to do with them. 

 

https://agraveinterest.blogspot.com/2012/03/closer-look-at-prostitutes-in-cemetery.html 

 

https://crossbones.org.uk/ 

 

https://livinglondonhistory.com/crossbones-the-fascinating-story-of-the-sex-workers-graveyard-on-the-southbank/ 

 

Wikidata: By Matt Brown - https://www.flickr.com/photos/londonmatt/15131959769/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69515739

 

 

Eternal Life of An AI-ghost

 

Jennifer Ann Crecente (1987-2006) was a lovely, young girl and high school pupil who met several problems when dating, including being murdered by ex-boyfriend Justin Crabbe. After her death e.g. a memorial grant was created in her name as well as legislation was passed in Texas in order to prevent teen dating violence. Actually an impressive legacy of a girl who tragically lost her life to a brute killing by a former boyfriend.

When the murderer was jailed and Jennifer's friends and family had had time to grieve one should imagine that that would be the end of the tragic case, but no, it wasn't: Without the consent of the family Jennifer was sort of resurrected as an AI-generated robot. October 2024 the father of Jennifer had a Google alert that the name and character of his murdered daughter had appeared online as if she had still been alive. There was a profile, a chatbot, etc., but there was no Jennifer as she was as dead as before.  

This "new, artificial Jennifer" whom one might chat with was created on Character.ai and they were forced to close it down. However, the shock of something like that will linger on which makes it obvious that this is a public area that needs to be restricted by laws as soon as possible.

REAL Jennifer 

Wu, Daniel (October 15, 2024). "His daughter was murdered. Then she reappeared as an AI chatbot". The Washington Post.

https://www.digit.in/news/general/ai-raises-dead-2006-murder-victim-recreated-as-chatbot-without-familys-consent.html

 

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/cltr/ai-daughter.html 

 

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When Muhammad's Daughter-In-Law, Zaynab bint Jahsh, became his wife

When people in The Western countries talk of Muhammad's wife they most often think of Aisha, the 6 years old girl, he married, "consummating their marriage" when she was nine. However, he had 13 wives, and No. 7 is kind of special. Her name was Zaynab bint Jahsh and she was not only his cousin, but also his daughter-in-law as well as his wife. 

HOW is that even possible??? Well, Zaynab was the daughter of the sister of Muhammad's father and thus his first cousin. She was born in 590 and died in 640/641 as one of the widows of Muhammad who had died in 632, her third husband. Little is known about the first one who seems to have died in 622, but No. 2, Zayd Ibn Harithah, started out as the slave that had been a gift from Muhammad's first wife, Khadijah. Muhammad never had a biological son which may be the reason why he adopted this slave and made him his son. Maybe he married him off to his cousin, Zaynab, to boost his status in society, but the legend is that all of a sudden Muhammad was beset by the beauty and sex appeal of his cousin + daughter-in-law, Zaynab, and poor Zayd ended up in a very, very hot spot which he tried to get out of by divorcing his wife. Not that it saved his life because it didn't: He was sent off on a military mission that (was meant to???) end with his death. 

What also died was the Muslim adoption system as all of a sudden it was not seen as acceptable.

As to Zaynab she was a skilled tanner by profession and went on in her trade, both before and after the death of Muhammad. However, she also seems to have been a great humanitarian as she was reputed to have given away all her profits to the poor of Medina and always having a heart for those in need.

 

https://neareasternstudies.cornell.edu/node/9478 

 

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Napoleon and The USE of Religion

 

People practicing  religion - Christian or whatever - get pleasure in associating with a special community, that welcomes them as "one of us". They look at history and cultural trends and feel a bond that enriches their life. However, that doesn't mean that they are religious in the Biblical sense that they've read, understood and agree with EVERYTHING in The Bible. To them religion isn't a question of teachings, but of traditions and a church that makes it possible for people to "be together" in the "safety" of an assumed equality. 

Most of them may not even understand the meaning of what Naploen said although it's common knowledge to those who don't have any affiliation with a church-community. Religion is a means of power because it upholds the system as it is in a very smart manner: Those who are repressed do the repression themselves as they don't fight it in the hope of getting their reward after death. Matthew 20:16: "So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen."

A very, very ingenuous system even though the Matthew-quote may not have been read the way it was said. Those who need consolation for awful lives will take the first part of it at face-value: My oppressors or even tormentors are being punished after death (Hail, that lovely HELL!!!!!!) while I  shall "sit by the side of Jesus" in glory and supreme happiness.  

 

Hitler and other Nazi scumbags visiting the grave of Napoleon in 1940

Napoleon became the Emperor of France, but in reality he was more like a dictator who gained power because no one stopped him.

Yes, even Napoleon was defeated, just like most of those "strong men" of our time.

Just like most of them he too ended up beaten and robbed of the power he had gained which, of course, was seen as an instance of "God's Will" by those religious people he had mocked.

Religion is what the sense of "Shame" is to moral, but non-religions people: It's the teacher within as well as the inherited and built-in guardsman that keeps us from behaving "badly" ....

 

The Woman Who Lived a Life in Disguises

 

Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841-1898) was born in Canada to a mother who seems to have doted upon her and a father who may have resented her for not being a boy. When she was 15 years old her abusive father tried to marry her off, so she decided to run away to hide from her family. She went to USA all by herself and then she turned into Franklin Thompson, at first pretending to be a bible salesman and then a bookseller from Michigan.

However, Sarah Emma was a strong supporter of the Union, so she made use of her male "pseudonym", Franklin, and joined the army, at first as a nurse, but later on as a spy.

In order to infiltrate the Confederate camp she once more changed her identity and became Cuff, a black man, by using silver nitrate to blacken her skin. People from the camp soon picked her up for work, but what they didn't know was that "Cuff" was all ears and spying eyes. In a few days she found out a lot about the Army, it's decoys and plans. When she escaped and returned to those she supported she had a lot of useful information, thus proving her worth as a spy. All in all she took part in eleven spy missions, some in new disguises, and at the end of the war (1865) she published a popular fictional account of her exploits as a spy.

 

 

In 1867 she married. At that time she had achieved full recognition and, as the only woman, was grafted a military pension from the Civil War. When she died in 1898 she was buried with honors at Washington Cemetery in Texas.

 

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Skinned Alive

 

OK, animals may eat their prey alive, and we shudder at the thought, but then THEY DON'T KNOW BETTER and Ethics are not part of their being, not even as a pretence. For that kind of ideas we have to go to our own breed: Only humans KNOW that certain actions are against all written and unwritten laws of decency. Actually, that may be the very reason they do the unthinkable as e.g. skinning people alive: It's so cruel that some people like e.g. the Assyrian warriors who are skinning a couple of prisoners in this ancient rendering of the "event" would choose it as their way of execution.

Skinning seems so awful, so unthinkable that it's logical that a man like murderer Ed Gein and his obsession with women's skin stand out. However, his victims were dead which takes the extra cruelty of the torture out of it. Some were not even murdered by him, as he became a sort of grave robber who harvested parts of dead and buried women. Still, it seems exceedingly cruel and demeaning.

As to a modern day equivalent of the Assyrian cruelty there is one instance which stands out: The live skinning of the Polish university student Katarzyna Zowada (1975–1998). She went missing on November 12, 1998, but January 6, 1999, it was known what had happened to her as her empty skin was found. It had got caught in the propeller of a tug boat.

The investigation proved that she had been skinned alive, and that her skin had been turned into a suit that had been worn by the murderer for some time. Many experts - also from FBI - came to Poland to try to solve the case, but it took 19 years to make an arrest. Before that there had been a suspect who had been seen in a mask made of his murdered father's facial skin. He was charged with murdering his father, and many thought that he had also killed Katarzyna, but there was no evidence. Anyway, he was sentenced to jail, but the Katarzyna-case went cold until 2012.

 

Nineteen years after the murder (and torture) of Katarzyna, the by then 52-year old Robert Janczewski was arrested. He knew her and had a history of harrassing women and he also had had a job in a dissecting lab where he dealt with human corpses. 

What made him do what he did? Your guess is as good as mine, as he didn't tell WHY .... I for one would also like to know WHY The Court of Appeal found him NOT guilty on 31st October 2024 thus turning this gruesome case into something VERY confusing. (I suppose it's easier for Poles to find more about the case than for anyone outside of Poland ....)

^{https://allthatsinteresting.com/flaying} 

 

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