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A torture murder is a murder where death was preceded by the torture of the victim. In many legal jurisdictions a murder involving "exceptional brutality or cruelty" will attract a harsher sentence if the killing is not sanctioned by authorities or carried out by state security forces themselves.
- Gabriel Fernandez
On May 24, 2013, Gabriel Fernandez, an eight-year-old boy...
- Murder of Sylvia Likens
Sylvia Marie Likens (January 3, 1949 – October 26, 1965) was...
- Category:American torture victims
American victims of torture, the deliberate infliction of...
- Murder of Kelly Anne Bates
Margaret Bates (mother) 1955-2020. Kelly Anne Bates (18 May...
- Torture
Torture. Captured Viet Cong soldier, blindfolded and tied in...
- Gabriel Fernandez
Died on June 16, 1990. Gertrude Baniszewski (1929–1990), also known as Gertrude Wright and The Torture Mother, was an Indiana divorcee who oversaw and facilitated the prolonged torture, mutilation, and eventual murder of Sylvia Likens, a teenage girl she had taken into her home.
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Junko Furuta ( Japanese: 古田 順子, Hepburn: Furuta Junko, 18 January 1971 – 4 January 1989) was a 17-year-old Japanese high school student who was abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered. Her abuse was mainly perpetrated by four male teenagers, Hiroshi Miyano (18), Jō Ogura (17), Shinji Minato (16), and Yasushi Watanabe (17), and took ...
