Stuff That Happened

Any one who has spent significant time studying true crime through books and documentaries has learned about certain people that put absolutely zero value on human life other than their own. Every time we think we’ve finally found the most vile, disgusting sociopath of all time, there’s always some one even worse to learn about in another case. Today, we’ll be discussing the case of one of these kinds of people – and she is one of the worst of the worst – as the judge who sentenced her said, she is in a class all by herself. This person is Stacey Castor and she was more than your typical black widow who murders her husbands for life insurance money – this woman was willing to frame and kill any and every one to protect herself – including her own flesh & blood. Stacey Castor was born as Stacey Daniels in Clay, New York in 1967 and from outward appearances, led a relatively normal life. She met her first husband, Michael Wallace, when she was 17 and they had two daughters togeth...

In almost any situation in the real world where some one is in trouble and needs help, the right thing to do is help them. This is an automatic instinct for most people. If a player gets injured in a baseball game, the trainer comes running out and every one watching is concerned for the player’s well-being. However, there is one place in the world that is so inhospitable, so brutal in its environment, that just making sure that you yourself survive oftentimes takes priority over helping others. This place, of course, is Mt. Everest and there has been many incidents of climbers in serious trouble who needed help, but no one was able to save them. David Sharp One of these climbers was named David Sharp and what happened to him sparked outrage throughout the climbing community. Did over 40 climbers walk right by him as he sat dying, noticing him but opting not to help him so they could continue their quest towards the summit? Or, is there are another explanation as to why nobody wa...

During the winter of 1979, a well-known writer and yoga expert named Marcia Moore mysteriously vanished without a trace, leaving all her belongings behind as well as her husband. The discovery of her body 2 years later offered more questions than answers. Then, about 30 years later, another body was discovered, which turned out to belong to a man who had also gone missing in a strikingly similar case. Unbelievably, the man was Marcia’s son… Marcia Moore was born on May 22nd, 1928 in in Cambridge, Massachusetts into a successful family. Her father, Robert L. Moore, founded the Sheraton Hotel chain, which today operates over 440 hotels around the world. One of her three brothers, Robin Moore, became a successful writer with multiple books rising to the top of Best-Seller lists. Two of them, The Green Berets and The French Connection, were adapted to film. Marcia was also a talented writer but was also deeply into nature. She became an expert in the philosophy of yoga. Her senior...

In 1961, John F. Kennedy proclaimed that we would go to the moon before the end of the decade. His proclamation was inspiring and powerful, but also gave NASA a deadline that would be extremely difficult to meet. America had only recently put the first men in space during Project Mercury. And the difference between entering space and successfully landing on the moon are massive. Space begins at about 73 miles above sea level and the world’s altitude record was a mere 850 miles, set by Gemini 11. The moon is 240,000 miles away from the Earth. In other words, at the time of JFK’s speech, we had made it about .003% of the way to the moon, which by the way, is a moving target that takes near perfect precision to successfully reach. A lunar landing was a task of such enormous complexity that it seemed nearly everything would have to go perfectly in order to accomplish the feat in such a short amount of time. Of course, everything did not go perfectly. There were multiple delays be...

In 1978, 15-year old Mary Vincent, far from home without money or transportation, decided to hitchhike to her next destination. A man picked her up, and a horrifying sequence of events would follow, leading to an incredible survival story, a horrible miscarriage of justice, and a murder that should have never been allowed to happen. Mary Vincent Mary Vincent was born in 1963 and grew up in Las Vegas. She was one of seven children, living with her mother, a former blackjack dealer, and her father who worked as a mechanic. She was a typical teenager and enjoyed competitive dancing. She had dreams of someday becoming a professional and traveling the world. Sadly, her parents decided to divorce and Mary, along with her boyfriend at the time, drove off to California. There, the two lived out of a car for a while, until her boyfriend was arrested for the raping of another girl. Vincent was now on her own and made the decision to hitchhike to her grandfather’s home in Berkley, California...

One of the biggest challenges for any climber who takes on a mountain like Everest is to maintain an extremely large amount of confidence and determination needed to make it to the top, while also not being overconfident or too determined, which can get you killed. There have been far too many instances of climbers who would not or could not quit even after the mountain had made it abundantly clear that continuing would result in almost certain death. However, there has possibly never been a climber more determined – or some might say more reckless – than Japanese climber, Nobukazu Kuriki, who’s decisions went from overly ambitious to downright suicidal over a period of time in which he attempted to climb Mt. Everest eight times. Kuriki was born on June 9th, 1982 in Hokkaido, Japan. After graduating High School, he had no particular dreams or goals. He spent a year basically doing nothing, what is known as a NEET life – not in education, employment or training, until he decided to a...

  On July 21st, 1961, the second U.S. manned suborbital spaceflight, Mercury-Redstone 4, also known as Liberty Bell 7, launched with Gus Grissom at the controls. The mission was to continue to research and study man’s capabilities in space, as well as test new features in the spacecraft, one of which was an explosively actuated side hatch. This hatch was designed to utilize an explosive charge that would fracture the 70 bolts that attached the hatch, and quickly separate it from the spacecraft. Both the astronaut inside and the support team outside had the ability to trigger this function, which was meant as a safety device in case the astronaut needed to quickly exit the spacecraft.  Gus Grissom Shortly before the launch, a technician noticed that 1 of the 70 bolts was misaligned, but it was determined that the other 69 would suffice and nothing was done about it. The spaceflight went as planned and reached an altitude of 102.8 nautical miles, with a period of weightlessness...