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knight_shadow 03-22-2008 02:14 PM

"Torture death shocks Illinois town"
 
This is absolutely terrible.

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ALTON, Ill. - Banished to the basement, the 29-year-old mother with a childlike mind and another baby on the way had little more than a thin rug and a mattress to call her own on the chilly concrete floor.

Dorothy Dixon ate what she could forage from the refrigerator upstairs, where prosecutors say housemates used her for target practice with BBs, burned her with a glue gun and doused her with scalding liquid that peeled away her skin.


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Full article here.

pinkies up 03-22-2008 08:16 PM

That's terrible!! My stomach aches after reading that story.

Senusret I 03-22-2008 09:31 PM

I couldn't even finish this.

CutiePie2000 03-23-2008 03:20 PM

This reminds me of a similar tragedy:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notoriou.../likens/1.html

There was a book based on this (above link) as well:
"The Girl Next Door" by Jack Ketchum (not for the faint of heart...it's a deeply disturbing book).


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