Dankzij de lamlendigheid en lafheid van haar buren kon de moordenaar van Kitty Genovese ongestoord zijn gang gaan, schreef de New York Times. De factcheck kwam pas veertig jaar later.
Dankzij de lamlendigheid en lafheid van haar buren kon de moordenaar van Kitty Genovese ongestoord zijn gang gaan, schreef de New York Times. De factcheck kwam pas veertig jaar later.
Summary Maud Comissiong, aged 54, was alone on a rented cabin cruiser, moored near the yachting station of Great Yarmouth. She apparently wanted to make a cup of tea. She opened the filler cap of a paraffin stove, presumably to…
Summary Peter Seaton, aged 11 months, died in a fire on the morning of December 25, 1938. His cot was on the ground floor of a tenement house. He slept alone. His room was heated by an electric heater. At…
Spontaneous Human Confabulation: Requiem for Phyllis by Jan Willem Nienhuys <janwillemnienhuys@gmail.com> – Skeptical Inquirer, 25(2), March/April 2001 Examination of an oft-repeated tale of spontaneous human combustion reveals distortions, errors, and mystery mongering. According to popular books on the unexplained, a young…