![]() Stoops died due to a combination of blood loss and an infection. The torture he endured prior to his death included electric shocks via a spatula placed across the eyelid in an unsuccessful attempt to blind him. Todd StoopsĢ1-year-old Todd Stoops was kidnaped because Berdella felt sexually frustrated at him. He was killed after 3 days of torture by suffocation. Next year, a friend of Berdella, 18-year-old Robert Sheldon, came to stay with him for a few days and found himself drugged and held captive in the basement just like Howell before him. This was the beginning of his torture and murder spree. In the following hours he repeatedly raped his victim, wrote carefully about the process into his diary, and took several pictures to relive his fantasy later. On July 5 th, 1984, Berdella invited Howell to his house, where he drugged him with sedatives for animals and immobilized him by binding him to a bed. In 1984, he started dating Jerry Howell, a good-looking 19-year-old male prostitute. Berdella was conscious of his homosexuality. He raped, tortured, and killed at least six men. Robert Andrew "Bob" Berdella was an American serial killer from Kansas City, Missouri. ![]() ![]() 31 women are identified, some of them still alive – including Bradford's ex-wives.īradford died in 2008, taking the secret with him to his grave. Bradford, his wife, and their newborn child. Photos of Shari Miller just prior to her murder. ![]()
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When the emperor's rivals learn of her deception, there is hell to pay, but the war raging around Maia is nothing compared to the battle within.Įver since she was touched by the demon Bandur, she has been changing. Edan, the boy she loves, is gone-perhaps forever-and no sooner does she set foot in the Autumn Palace than she is forced to don the dress of the sun and assume the place of the emperor's bride-to-be to keep the peace. ![]() She returns to a kingdom on the brink of war. Maia Tamarin's journey to sew the dresses of the sun, the moon, and the stars has taken a grievous toll. ![]() the stakes are higher than ever in this thrilling sequel to Spin the Dawn! From the New York Times bestselling author of Six Crimson Cranes comes a fantasy filled with courtly intrigue, deceitful demons, and breathtaking gowns. 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