Timeless Tales

 March 3, 1993 — a teenage life ended in seconds. That morning, 18-year-old Joey Fischer stepped into his driveway before school to wash his car. He was an honors student, days away from graduation, with plans for college and a future full of promise. He never made it back inside. Around 7:00 a.m., someone walked up behind Joey and shot him twice at close range — once in the head, once in the chest. He collapsed in his driveway, still holding the garden hose. His mother found him moments later. Joey was pronounced dead at the scene. The truth behind his murder was even more disturbing. Joey was kil*led over a teenage breakup. After her daughter ended her relationship with Joey, Dora Cisneros, the girl’s mother, became consumed with rage. At first, she sought revenge through superstition. When that failed, she paid others to have Joey kil*led, handing over his photo and address. The mu*rder was carefully arranged and carried out by hired men. In court, the plot was exposed...

Kristen Modafferi was a college student spending her summer in San Francisco, working as a barista at a Spinelli’s coffee shop inside the Crocker Galleria mall. On June 1, 1997, just minutes after finishing her shift, coworkers noticed Kristen on the second floor of the mall. She was speaking with an unidentified blonde woman. The conversation was brief. No one recognized the woman. She has never been confirmed as a friend, never identified, and has never come forward. Moments later, Kristen Modafferi stopped at an ATM inside the mall and withdrew cash. That transaction is the last confirmed proof that she was there. After that, Kristen walked out of the Crocker Galleria and vanished without a trace. She never returned to work to collect her $400 paycheck. She left behind all of her belongings in the room she was renting. There was no note, no goodbye, no sign that she planned to leave her life behind. Her disappearance was so deeply troubling that it eventually led to the cr...

Child Forced to Sleep on Plywood. She's Killed when Abused Brother Sets Home on Fire. I'm going to give you a heads up. This is a horrific story. A Georgia jury convicted 51-year-old William Linn McCue of Loganville on felony murder and other serious charges tied to years of abuse that left his 10-year-old daughter Zowey unable to escape a house fire. Zowey had been forced to sleep on a piece of plywood laid across the bathtub inside a windowless bathroom that her parents treated as her locked bedroom. Her mother got two younger sons out during the fire but couldn’t reach Zowey in time. The fire was set by Zowey’s 15-year-old brother, who later testified he did it to escape the abuse he and his siblings were suffering at the hands of their parents. He walked about six miles afterward to get help at a church. Early on he faced his own charges but the focus shifted to the parents once investigators uncovered the full picture inside the home. The kids were beaten, forced to...

Officer Kills 1-Year-Old After Firing Into Vehicle.  A 1-year-old boy died Sunday afternoon after police shot into a vehicle outside a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, while responding to a reported shoplifting call. Officers from the Senatobia Police Department and the Tate County Sheriff’s Office were called to the store. According to statements released by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation and the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, officers saw two adults and a child running from the building and getting into a car. When officers tried to stop the vehicle, authorities say the driver allegedly drove toward them and nearly hit one of the officers. An officer then fired shots into the car. The vehicle left the scene and went to a nearby hospital, where the child was pronounced dead. One woman in the car was critically injured. The child’s mother was not physically hurt, according to family members who spoke with local outlets. The boy has been identified as Kohen W...

“Tião, for God’s sake, I can’t take it anymore. It’s too big, it’s too thick, you’re going to tear me in half.” Maria Rosa’s scream cut through the funereal silence of the early morning, a silence heavy with despair that made the pantry walls vibrate. “Yes, you can handle it, Rosa. Stop being so dramatic, you knew very well what you were getting yourself into.” Tião’s voice emerged like a low thunderclap, firm and without a hint of hesitation. “You spent months circling me, teasing me with those looks and that attitude of yours, like you own the world. Now that the moment has arrived, you will face the consequences until the end.” “I beg you, Tião, to stop. I feel like it doesn’t fit. It hurts just to touch it. Please try somewhere else. Or wait, let me get the butter from the kitchen. We use it to make it easier to slide without hurting so much.” “There’s no butter, there’s nowhere else to go, and there’s no waiting,” retorted the giant. And the sound of something heavy hitting...

The Horrer Execution of Jenny Wanda Barkmann *Warning REAL FOOTAGE She was 24 years old. She wore fashionable clothes to her own trial. She flirted with the guards. She laughed with the other defendants. And when the judge sentenced her to death by hanging, she didn't cry. She didn't beg. She simply smiled and said, "Life is indeed a pleasure. And pleasures are usually short. " 200,000 people came to watch her die. This is not just a story about a monster. This is a story about how an ordinary girl, a dreamer who played with dolls and wanted to be a model, became one of the most feared women in a Nazi concentration camp. And this is the story of how justice finally caught up with her. If you're new here, welcome to Untold War Stories, the channel that goes beyond the textbooks and tells you the history they don't teach in school. Hit subscribe right now and turn on notifications because what you're about to hear is one of the darkest, most haunti...

Angela Simpson, tortured, strangled, and cut up a disabled man, Terry Neely. She did this because she thought he was working with the police as a snitch. On August 2, 2009, Angela Simpson lured a disabled man named Terry Neely to an apartment in Phoenix, Arizona, allegedly because she believed that he was a police informant. Once Neely, who used a wheelchair, arrived, Simpson tied him up. She then brutally tortured him over three days, beating him with a tire iron, sta*bbing him 50 times with multiple knives, extracting his teeth, and hammering a three-inch nail into his head. Simpson even forced Neely to watch his torture by placing a mirror in front of him. Eventually, she cut his throat and stran-gled him before dis-membering him and attempting to burn his body parts. However, authorities were able to uncover Neely's charred remains, and it wasn't long before they tracked down his killer — who was already behind bars for a separate charge. Simpson freely...

At 48, I Discovered I Like Being Dominated... The Slave Took Me From Behind and Didn't Stop Until... The gold-framed, worn mirror in my room doesn’t lie, though I wish it would. At 48 years old, the image that returns to my gaze is that of a woman whom time forgot to consult. My hair, still dark but with strands of silver that insist on shining under the candlelight, is always tied up in a bun so tight it seems to want to contain my thoughts as well. I am Flávia, the Baron’s sister, the widow of a man whose face I sometimes find difficult to remember clearly. My wedding to Dr. Arnaldo was an event that brought the province to a standstill. I was young, full of silent expectations, ready to assume the role of wife that society expected of me. But fate has a cruel sense of humor. Three weeks. That was the length of my married life. A sudden and merciless fever took Arnaldo before the scent of the altar flowers had even dissipated from our house. He left, leaving me with the ti...

Instead, she found herself fighting for her life. 💔 In December 2021, 22-year-old Jacqueline Durand arrived at a home in Coppell for what should have been a routine dog-sitting job. She had previously met the dogs and was preparing to care for them while their owners were away. But moments after entering the house, something went terribly wrong. The two dogs attacked. What followed was one of the most severe animal attacks reported in recent years. Jacqueline endured injuries so extensive that doctors later described them as catastrophic. The attack caused devastating damage to her face and head, including the loss of: 💔 both ears 💔 her nose 💔 her lips 💔 significant facial tissue Emergency responders rushed her to the hospital, where trauma surgeons began an enormous effort to save her life. 🏥 The road ahead would be long. Over the following months and years, Jacqueline underwent: 🩺 numerous reconstructive surgeries 🩺 skin graft procedures 🩺 facial reconstruction treatm...

In America, a 15-year-old boy was arrested for stealing bread and cheese. When he was presented in court, the judge asked him why he stole. Tears filled the boy’s eyes, and he said that his mother was seriously ill, he himself was hungry, and he didn’t even have enough money to buy food. Hearing this, the judge became emotional. Instead of punishing the boy, he turned to everyone present in the courtroom and said: “If a child in our society is forced to steal food just to survive, then the criminal is not him — it is all of us.” The judge fined every person present in the courtroom 50 dollars for allowing such a situation to arise. He also fined the shopkeeper 500 dollars for not helping a hungry child. All the collected money was given to the boy, and he was allowed to leave without any punishment. In our country, laws seem to apply only to the poor, while powerful people roam freely. Here, even judges who take crores in bribes still sit in court delivering jus...

In 1939, France carried out its last public guillotine execution. WHAT WAS HIS CRIME ACTUALLY. Eugen Weidmann's crimes centered on robbery and murder for financial gain. A German career criminal born in 1908, he had prior convictions for robbery.  While imprisoned, he met accomplices Roger Million, Jean Blanc, and Fritz Frommer. After release, the group targeted wealthy tourists and locals in France during 1937, luring victims with false promises, e.g., jobs, tours, or investments, before killing them and stealing money or valuables.  Between July and November 1937, Weidmann committed at least six murders:  Jean de Koven, a 22-year-old American dancer and tourist from Brooklyn, was lured to a Paris villa in July 1937 under the pretense of friendship; Weidmann strangled her, buried her in the garden, and cashed her traveler's cheques. Joseph Couffy, a private chauffeur, was shot after being tricked into a fake tourist trip. Janine Keller, a young woman enticed wi...

In 2017, 19-year-old Tanner Scott Ward left his home in Trenton, Missouri, telling his family he’d be back in about 30 minutes. He kissed his daughter Sophia goodbye — a loving father with a future he hoped to rebuild.  But Tanner never returned. As hours turned to days and then weeks, his family’s worry grew into a nightmare. An endangered person advisory was issued, and loved ones scoured the area, hoping for news, answers, any sign of him.  Six months later — on December 4, 2017 — his body was found by children walking near a wooded area just blocks from his family’s home. Tanner’s remains were discovered hanging from a tree, badly decomposed and missing his feet.  Police and the Grundy County coroner ruled his death a suicide after a full autopsy, but Tanner’s family has never accepted that conclusion. What really happened to him?

 “You have three choices.” That was the sentence a German commander gave me when I was sixteen years old. None of them let me remain innocent. My name is Arianne Davaux. I am 82 years old now. I live quietly near Chalon-sur-Saône, in a small house with a garden full of hydrangeas. To the people who pass by, I am just an old woman who smiles politely and keeps to herself. They don’t know that I have carried two deaths inside me for nearly eight decades. They don’t know that in 1943, I learned that hell doesn’t need fire. It only needs a man who smiles… and offers you water before destroying you. I never told this story to my children. I never told it to my husband before he died. I buried it deep, like a body no one was meant to find. But now, sitting alone in this silent house, I know something: If I die without speaking, the truth dies with me. People often believe the horrors of World War II happened far away — on battlefields, in camps with names they learned from books. They im...

In 2014, two 12-year-old girls, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, lured their friend Payton Leutner into the woods and st**bed her 19 times in order to impress Slenderman. Leutner crawled to a road where she was found, and recovered after six days in the hospital. Slender Man’ att*cker Morgan Geyser found a day after cutting off monitoring bracelet A woman who stabbed her sixth-grade classmate to win favor with a fictional internet character named “Slender Man” more than a decade ago has been taken into custody, a day after cutting off her monitoring bracelet and leaving a group home where she’d been living, police said. Morgan Geyser, 23, was found Sunday at a truck stop in Posen, Illinois – roughly 20 miles south of Chicago, Posen police told CNN. She was found with another person, whom police did not identify. “There is no longer a need to search for Morgan Geyser at this time,” police in Madison, Wisconsin, said in a statement late Sunday. Police said they received confirmation aroun...

At her wedding in April 1989, 28-year-old Linda Kolkena couldn’t stop shaking.  Dressed in white, she smiled for photos and tried to enjoy what should have been the happiest day of her life — but inside, she was terrified. Before walking down the aisle, she begged her groom, 44-year-old Dan Broderick, to wear a bulletproof vest. She was convinced his ex-wife, Betty, might try to kill them. Seven months later, her worst fear came true. Linda had once been Dan’s secretary — bright, full of life, and deeply in love. Their romance began while Dan was still married, a secret affair that would eventually tear two families apart. When he finally divorced Betty in 1985, it wasn’t the end of their story — it was the beginning of a nightmare. Betty Broderick, heartbroken and consumed by rage, couldn’t let go. She left venomous voicemails, vandalized their home, and even rammed her car into the side of their house. Her anger burned hotter with every wedding photo, every reminder that D...

On July 14, 1991, Gregory Green stabbed his pregnant wife Tonya Clayton Green ten times in the neck, face, chest, and back in their Detroit home. Both Tonya, who was six months pregnant, and their unborn child died. Green called 911, told officers what he had done, and showed them the murder weapon stashed in the refrigerator. He pleaded no contest to second-degree murder in 1992 and was sentenced to 15 to 25 years in prison. Green was denied parole four times before being released in 2008 on his fifth attempt. Pastor Fred Harris, a Detroit civil rights activist, wrote letters supporting his release. After his parole, Green married Harris's daughter, Faith Harris-Green, becoming stepfather to her two children. The couple had two daughters together. On September 21, 2016, Green murdered all four children. He shot his stepchildren Chadney Allen, 19, and Kara Allen, 17, execution-style in front of their mother after binding her with duct tape and zip ties. He slashed Faith...

TimetyTales Rare Historical Photos Titan Submersible Wreckage: Photos From the Ocean Floor On the morning of June 18, 2023, a small submersible named Titan slipped beneath the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean carrying five people bound for one of the most famous shipwrecks in history. None of them would return. The events of the next four days drew global attention and forced a reckoning with deep-seated questions about safety, regulatory oversight, and the limits of experimental deep-sea exploration that experts had been raising for years. Behind the search operation that dominated headlines was a story of ignored warnings and calculated risk that would only become fully visible once the wreckage was found. The Titan submersible on a platform awaiting a signal to commence the dive. Titan was designed and operated by OceanGate, an American company that specialized in crewed expeditions to deep-sea sites. The submersible measured 6.7 meters in length and weighed approximately 10,432 ...