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The Quick 10: The Real People Behind 10 Fashion Houses. The Ten Most Gross and Disgusting Celebrity Deaths. The untimely deaths of Heath Ledger and Brad Renfro, and the suicide attempt of Owen Wilson, have brought to public attention how high the price of fame is. Compared to the grotesque, disgusting and sometimes even creative celebrity deaths in yesterday’s world of entertainment, death by drug overdose in today’s show business world (real or accidental) seems an almost gentle way to check out. Not so for these ten: Bob Crane – Death by Tire Iron The popular star of “Hogan’s Heroes” met his maker in an Arizona motel. Lupe Velez – Death by Toilet Beautiful, feisty Lupe Velez, star of nearly 50 movies from 1927 through 1944, former wife of Johnny “Tarzan” Weissmuller, and passionate lover of Gary Cooper, drowned in the toilet.

According to her suicide note, pregnant Lupe had taken a huge dose of Seconal when the father of her baby gave her the big kiss off. Ramon Novarro – Death by Dildo Marie Provost – Death by Dachshund Peggy Entwistle – Death by Sign Gwili Andre – Death by Newspapers. What happened in my birth year? - StumbleUpon. The girl in the window. Part One: The Feral Child PLANT CITY — The family had lived in the rundown rental house for almost three years when someone first saw a child's face in the window.

A little girl, pale, with dark eyes, lifted a dirty blanket above the broken glass and peered out, one neighbor remembered. Everyone knew a woman lived in the house with her boyfriend and two adult sons. But they had never seen a child there, had never noticed anyone playing in the overgrown yard. The girl looked young, 5 or 6, and thin. The child stared into the square of sunlight, then slipped away. Months went by. Just before noon on July 13, 2005, a Plant City police car pulled up outside that shattered window. Clutching his stomach, the rookie retched in the weeds. Plant City Detective Mark Holste had been on the force for 18 years when he and his young partner were sent to the house on Old Sydney Road to stand by during a child abuse investigation. They found a car parked outside. "Unbelievable," she told Holste. Dr. Click. - StumbleUpon. A Brief History of Stockholm Syndrome.

Time and again during the 18 harrowing years she allegedly spent in captivity, Jaycee Lee Dugard must have had the chance to cry for help. She assisted her alleged abductor, Phillip Garrido, with his home business, sorting out orders by phone or e-mail. She occasionally greeted customers alone at the door. She even went out in public. But she apparently never made a run for it, returning each day instead to a shed in the backyard of the man who allegedly kidnapped and raped her.

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