“He then poured sulfuric and nitric acid over her body.”

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"A second group, not knowing about the gate or the crash, went down a few minutes later. They slammed into both the gate and their injured friends. Then a third sled went down and crashed into the others. The second twin also died, and one of the victims was internally decapitated. The parents sued the park for not having adequate warnings or proper security around the track. 

All the kids had to do was climb a chain-link fence. I can’t remember if they won. On a personal note, I have a friend who taught at the school one of the twins attended. I reached out to her after it made the news. She said he was a brilliant student and the student body president, but the entire school was in shock, struggling to process how someone so smart could make such a fatal decision."

"Kyle Plush, and I didn’t even have to look that up because it’s etched in my brain. The police came twice, barely searched the parking lot, and left, even though he had said he was trapped and suffocating and had described his minivan. They failed him horribly."

"The 911 operator was also at fault. Multiple times, they failed to pass along key information to the police. IIRC, they didn’t tell officers the make or model of the car or that he was trapped, even though he clearly communicated that in the call. You can listen to the recording online.

I’m not saying the police are blameless—they messed up too. I just don’t want the 911 operator to be overlooked and get off scot-free."

"Came here for this one. Honestly, out of everything listed, this still feels like the worst because of how long it went on.

His name was Hisashi Ouchi. His body was exposed to such extreme radiation that it essentially began to break down at a cellular level. He lost most of his skin and suffered multiple cardiac arrests, yet he was repeatedly resuscitated.

He was kept alive despite there being no chance of recovery."

"More recently, we recovered the body of a 12-year-old boy who had wandered into a mine that local kids used as a hangout. He had Down syndrome and had gone there on his own. We found him beneath a collapse he triggered, after falling roughly 300 feet onto a narrow ledge. The fall alone would have been severe, and the debris that followed down the shaft crushed him. The disturbance also released trapped gases, which made recovery even more dangerous and required full protective gear. 

That mine has since been permanently closed. The unfortunate reality is that there are still thousands of these hazards across the western United States.It’s work I’d gladly stop doing, but as long as people underestimate the risks, there will always be more of these situations."

"IIRC, Komarov’s wife requested an open casket for his charred remains, much like Emmett Till’s mother did, so people could see what had been done to him."

"Yeah, at first I thought she might have been blackout drunk, but it seems like she was aware enough to realize what she had done.

There was a similar case where a drunk man drove home with his friend’s decapitated body in the passenger seat. They had been driving back from a party, and his friend was leaning out the window to vomit when he struck a lamppost. The driver didn’t realize what had happened at the time because he was intoxicated and only found out the next morning when a neighbor saw the body and called the police.

But the first case is even more disturbing. The fact that the woman actually spoke to the man while he was still alive and could have gotten him help makes it far worse."

"And there were essentially no consequences for the 911 operator, Donna Reneau, whose handling of the call was widely criticized. While she was harsh and dismissive toward Debra Stevens, she did escalate the call appropriately so that rescue resources were dispatched.

Still, it feels wrong that there were no real consequences for that level of cruelty toward someone who was depending on her in their final moments."

"Her becoming devoutly Christian is a big part of why she was paroled. Finding religion is a cop-out reason for reducing time."

Mrs. Gertrude Wright and Richard Dean Hobbs, her neighbor, were held on preliminary charges of murder in the brutal death of Sylvia Maria Likens.

"Junko Furuta—I was about to comment on that one. It’s definitely one of the most horrifying cases I’ve ever heard of. If you really look into what happened, it’s shocking.

They even found animal semen in her stomach—a good amount, among so many other crazy things that happened. She was raped approximately to 450 times (probably more), and was burned alive. Her reproductive organs were so badly damaged that she couldn't hold her urine and poop. And this is just the light version I'm writing. I dare anyone to research it. It's what nightmares are made of."

"There’s also a case—I can’t remember the name—of a man working at a power plant who was cleaning out a boiler that had become clogged with slag (basically molten material). The buildup suddenly gave way and flooded the area.

The worker called his family to say goodbye. There’s reportedly audio of the call, and you can hear the extreme conditions as the room fills with molten material."

"There’s a famous photo of her, taken while she was trapped in the muddy water. Her eyes appear very dark, which makes the image especially haunting."

"Edit: The show was apparently Taxicab Confessions. Although a similar story was also the plot of an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street. Both shows aired around the same time, so it’s unclear which came first or whether the story was real, but the idea is no less disturbing."

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