Knives as Bookmarks

   Gwen Graham, born on August 6, 1963, in Texas, and Cathy Wood, born on March 7, 1962, in Michigan, met at the Alpine Manor nursing home where they worked as nurses aides. Their relationship quickly grew to friends, then lovers and murder partners. According to Wood's account, in January 1987, Graham smothered a patient with Alzheimer's while Wood was the lookout. The death appeared to be natural, so no autopsy was done. Over the next few months, Graham murdered four more patients with Alzheimer's and at first, they were trying to select victims so to spell "murder," but eventually counted their murders as a "day," and they would tell each other "I will love you forever and a day" or "I will love you forever and four days" as they accumulated kills. Wood also claims that Graham collected souvenirs from the victims, which were never found, and that Graham was the dominant in their relationship. Their relationship ended when Graha...

   Born Emilia Yera on August 4, 1984, in Citra, Florida. She was the second of three sisters and a psychologist estimated her IQ to be 125. When he was 15, she reported abuse by her father, but then withdrew her statement; eventually, her father was convicted of attempting to solicit the murders of his family and sentenced to four years in prison.     Carr was married twice and had three children. She had to file a restraining order against one of her ex-husbands and was also sentenced to two years of probation for her involvement in her ex-husband's grand theft of exotic birds(not sure if it was the same ex as the one she had to get the restraining order from). In November 2008, she was engaged to Joshua Fulgham, who ended marrying Heather Strong one month later, although Carr stayed in contact with them, babysitting Strong's two children. In January 2009, Fulgham was arrested for threatening Strong with a shotgun, but eventually, the charges were dropped; it w...

   Let's talk about one of the most notorious killers: HH Holmes, the man with his own murder house. HH Holmes was born on May 16, 1861, as Herman Webster  Mudgett in Gilmanton, New Hampshire to an affluent family. He was fairly intelligent at an early age with an interest in medicine and he reportedly practiced surgery on animals, tick one for the MacDonald triangle. He graduated high school at the age of 16 and worked as a teacher after graduation. On July 4, 1878, he married Clara Lovering and had a son named Robert on February 3, 1880. At the age of 18, he enrolled at the University of Vermont, but after one year he left and then in 1882, he enrolled at the University of Michigan and graduated two years later. Before he graduated, Clara took his son and left back to New Hampshire, people that knew them would say Holmes treated Clara cruelly. His schemes started in medical school where he would steal corpses to make false insurance claims.     ...

  Keeping on the trend of "goal setting killers," let's talk about Alexander Pichuskin, although most people know him as the Chessboard Killer. Pichuskin was on April 9, 1974, in Russia and was known as a fairly sociable child although at the age of four he fell off his swing, resulting in damage to his frontal cortex. Once he was in school, he was physically and verbally bullied, which intensified his anger, and eventually, his mother put him in a school for disabled children, I couldn't find anything about Pichuskin's father just btw. Anyways, his grandfather though, was kind of his father figure and believed that Pichuskin was much smarter and the school wasn't engaging him enough so he taught him how to play chess and for a while, this was his outlet for aggression.   However, his aggression never went away and in 1992, Pichuskin committed his first murder when he pushed a boy out of a window, killing him. Pichuskin was questioned but eventually, the po...

  I'm super excited to finally be doing this, so let's talk about some murder! So, I want to give some explainers first since this is the first one. One, I'm not glorifying these killers in any way, following Philip DeFranco I won't be showing the killer's face unless they haven't been caught. Two, I won't intentionally mock or blame the victim's, but of course, I can't know how other people might respond to this, so know that I'm not intentionally being garbage, I might not convey my thoughts in the best way possible, I'm still human after all. Three, reader's discretion is advised, I will be discussing murder, but I will be discussing child abuse, domestic abuse, rape, torture, etc depending on the case, I will try to label certain triggers as best as I can, but don't go crazy because I'm discussing murder.  I think that's it for right now, but to quote Small Town Murder "Shut up and give me murder!"  Let'...