Shocking Facts

Desiigner, the Grammy-nominated rapper behind the 2016 hit "Panda," is facing his second domestic v*olence case this year, both tied to the same home outside Conway, South Carolina.

Horry County police say the latest dispute began Wednesday when Sidney Royel Selby III, 29, argued with a woman over him taking televisions off the wall, then smashed her 2 cell phones with a hammer.

According to the incident report, she ran outside holding a child and called for help, and Selby allegedly grabbed her in a neighbor's yard, threw her to the ground, and ripped away her handbag before throwing it over a fence.

She got up, carried the child into the neighbor's house, and locked herself in the bathroom, while Selby allegedly used a hammer and screwdriver on the neighbor's vehicles and threw a wooden chair at a window.

Officers found him standing in front of the home with his left hand covered in bl**d, and he was treated at Conway Medical Center before being booked into the J. Reuben Long Detention Center.

Investigators valued the damaged 2 iPhones and a Dior handbag at $2,700 and charged him with second-degree domestic v*olence and 3 counts of malicious i*jury to personal property.

In March, Selby was charged with third-degree domestic v*olence after police said he ripped car keys out of the same woman's sweatpants and threw her to the floor at that same address, a case that ended with his release on a $1,500 bond.

This time he was given a $1,500 bond on one of the malicious-i*jury counts, but no bond was set on the domestic v*olence charge or the remaining counts.

Zoe Watts spent years being treated for crippling migraines, brain fog and recurrent infections that no doctor could explain, never suspecting the cause was the cup of tea her husband brought her every night before bed.

Her husband, a churchgoing printer she had met in Devon at 17 and married in 2004, was crushing sleeping medication prescribed for their young son into her drink, then s**ually a**aulting her while she was unconscious and recording it in photographs and videos.

Whenever she raised her symptoms he blamed stress and urged her to rest, and at one point she underwent an MRI scan because she had become convinced she had a brain tumour.

In 2018, after the couple returned home from church, he calmly told her he had been sedating her in order to have s*x with her, a confession she has said he delivered with the detachment of someone reading from a shopping list.

Zoe has said it took a long time before she was able to use the word r*pe for what had been done to her, because unpicking 18 years with the man took far more than a single conversation.

In 2022 a jury convicted him of r*pe, a**ault by pe*******on and administering a s*bstance with intent to overpower to allow s**ual activity, over offences spanning 2011 to 2016, and he was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Zoe, now 43, has waived her anonymity and co-founded a survivor-led campaign called End Eye Check with fellow survivor Amanda Stanhope, pushing for new legislation on drug-facilitated r*pe and on the ab*se material traded in online forums.

The campaign takes its name from the practice of pulling back a sedated woman's eyelid to confirm she cannot resist, and Zoe says hundreds of women from around 22 countries have contacted her since it launched.

Dahlia-Rose Gartshore was 3 months old when she was found d*ad in her mother's bed in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, on September 30 2023, with burns covering 18% of the surface of her body.

The source of the heat was a hairdryer, and the infant's DNA was later found on the appliance.

Her mother, Courtney Gartshore, 28, dialled 999 that morning and said she had woken to find the baby had gone "purple" in her sleep, and she went on to tell family and friends that Dahlia-Rose had d*ed of Sudden Infant D*ath Syndrome.

Jurors at the High Court in Aberdeen heard she had been drinking beforehand and that she and the baby were the only 2 people in the property, which prosecutors said meant only she could have switched the hairdryer on.

Pathologist Alan Farnworth told the court the heat damage ran through to the child's bones and was visible on her brain.

The only witness called for the defence, burns specialist Timothy Burge, said he did not believe the heat injuries had k*lled her and told jurors it was possible she was already d*ad when they were inflicted.

On the seventh day of the trial, the jury took just over an hour to unanimously convict Gartshore of culpable hom*cide.

Judge Simon Collins called it a disturbing case, offered the jurors counselling, and remanded Gartshore in custody ahead of sentencing at the High Court in Edinburgh on August 14.

On April 16, 1990, 8-year-old Basil Abdul'Faruq and his 7-year-old brother Jamal went outside to play during spring break in their south Richmond, Virginia, neighborhood, and neither boy ever came home.

Their mother, Tambar Ellis, had worked an overnight shift at a nearby DuPont factory and was asleep when the boys went out that afternoon, and after waking she searched the apartment complex, a playground, and a convenience store for about 45 minutes before calling police.

Three days later, a worker at the Shoosmith landfill in Chesterfield County, roughly 10 miles from the family's home, noticed a body protruding from a torn plastic garbage bag.

It was Basil, bound with duct tape and gagged, and a medical examiner determined he d*ed of 2 st*b wounds to the back, with a skull fracture that occurred after his d*ath.

Investigators searched the landfill and traced the garbage truck that had carried his body there, but Jamal was never found.

Both parents were questioned and eventually ruled out, and detectives later revisited the evidence, including the duct tape, using DNA methods that did not exist in 1990.

More than 36 years on, no one has been arrested, Basil's case remains an open hom*cide in Chesterfield County, and Jamal, who was 7 years old and about 4 feet 5 inches tall when he vanished, has never been seen again.

Bishnu Shrestha had just taken voluntary retirement from the Indian Army's 8th Gorkha Rifles when the train carrying him home to Nepal was stopped by a gang of armed robbers in the jungles near Chittaranjan, West Bengal, in September 2010.

He was asleep in an air-conditioned coach of the Maurya Express and was preparing to hand over his valuables when the men seized an 18-year-old girl sitting near him, who was traveling with her parents and called out to him for help.

Shrestha pulled out the khukuri that Gurkha soldiers carry and att*cked the robbers inside the moving carriage.

He told the Times of India that he struck at least 3 of them before the gang fought back, fired a sh*t that missed him, wrestled the blade out of his hand and used it on him.

Bleeding and overpowered, he had stopped the a**ault on the girl, though a Nepali newspaper report that 3 robbers were k*lled and 8 injured was never confirmed by police, who said 6 men were arrested and that cash, 33 mobile phones, 14 wristwatches, 2 p*stols and 7 daggers were seized.

Shrestha spent 2 months in medical treatment and regained full use of his injured hand.

When the girl's family offered him a cash reward, he refused it, saying that fighting an enemy in battle was his duty as a soldier and that taking on the thugs on the train was his duty as a human being.

His regiment terminated his voluntary retirement so he could be promoted, and in 2012 the Indian government announced the Sena Medal and the Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak for him.

Investigators in Jefferson County, Idaho, believe 15-year-old Rachelle Fischer and her 13-year-old brother Allen left their remote Monteview home willingly in June 2025 to return to a Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints community in Utah, and more than a year later neither has been found.

Their mother, Elizabeth Roundy, said the teens asked to go down to the family shop to use the internet while she attended a Bible class on the evening of June 22, and when she returned about 2 hours later they were gone.

Detectives narrowed the window to between 6 and 8 p.m. that Sunday and issued an Amber Alert, warning the pair might be traveling toward an FLDS group in Mendon, Utah, possibly with adult siblings.

Early reports pointed to a gray sedan with Utah plates, but the sheriff's office later said it could not find concrete evidence of the vehicle the teens left in.

Rachelle and Allen were not the first children to disappear from that house: their older sister, Elintra, was reported missing on January 1, 2023, at 16, after leaving in her mother's Honda Civic, which was later found without her.

Roundy, who was exiled from the FLDS in 2020 and won full custody of her 3 children in 2021 after an 18-month court battle, believes Elintra and relatives on their father's side helped take Rachelle and Allen, a theory investigators have not publicly confirmed.

In May 2026, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office announced that Elintra had obtained a Utah driver's license and was removed from the national missing persons database, though detectives said they still want to speak with her.

Rachelle, now 16, and Allen, now 14, remain listed as missing, and anyone with information is asked to contact the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.

Police in Salina, Kansas, found 6 children, including 7-month-old twins, sitting inside a parked car outside a Wingstop on July 8 after a witness called 911.

The engine was off and only one window was cracked open, while the outside temperature reached 97 degrees with a heat index above 100.

Officers said the children, who ranged in age from 7 months to 13 years, had been left alone for roughly 20 to 30 minutes.

Their parents, 53-year-old Michael Krueger and 40-year-old Tiffany Krueger, were located inside the restaurant, where witnesses said they had stayed without checking on the vehicle.

Sergeant Aaron Melby of the Salina Police Department said the inside of a parked car can climb well past 120 degrees, and fire officials noted that a child's body temperature rises 3 to 5 times faster than an adult's, allowing conditions to turn d*adly within minutes.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recorded 31 children who d*ed of heatstroke in vehicles across the United States in 2025.

Salina EMS evaluated all 6 children at the scene and reported no injuries or immediate health concerns, and each child was taken into protective custody.

Both parents were booked into the Saline County Jail on 6 counts of aggravated endangerment of a child, one count for each child, and appeared before a judge for the first time two days later.

Benjamin Hulleberg spent years writing letters, signing up with an adoption registry and taking a DNA test to find the birth mother he knew only as Holly, never realizing she was already working in the same hospital he was.

Holly Shearer was 15 when she gave birth to him in 2001 and placed him for adoption with Brian and Angela Hulleberg, a Utah couple who had struggled with infertility.

For the first 3 years she received letters and photos from his adoptive parents, but the updates stopped and the adoption agency closed in 2014, leaving her no way to check in.

She eventually found his social media page when he was 18 and said she held back for roughly 2 more years because she did not want to disrupt a life that already looked full.

On Benjamin's 20th birthday in November 2021, she sent him a Facebook message telling him she had thought about him every day and had no intention of turning his life upside down, and he replied almost immediately from his shift as a machine operator.

The two met over dinner with both of their families on November 21, 2021, where Benjamin also met 2 half siblings he had never known about.

During that first meeting they realized they had both been at HCA Healthcare's St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City, where Shearer worked as a medical assistant in the cardiology department and Benjamin volunteered in the neonatal intensive care unit.

He said he began visiting her at the hospital afterward, having coffee with her before his shifts in the NICU, and the two have remained close since.

Nearly 40 charges and 25 felony counts had piled up against Alexander Dickey over a decade, and he had still never been sentenced to serious prison time when police say he broke into a Columbia home in May 2025.

Logan Federico, a 22-year-old from Waxhaw, North Carolina, had come back to the Cypress Street rental where she was staying with friends near the University of South Carolina at around 3 a.m. on May 3, 2025.

Police said Dickey, 30, burglarized the house next door first, taking car keys, a wallet, and a g*n, then entered the unlocked home where Federico was and fatally sh*t her in what officials described as a completely random encounter.

Her friends found her body later that morning, and officers were called to the house at 11:14 a.m.

Investigators said Dickey drove off in a stolen car and spent the next day using stolen credit cards at stores across several counties, until he was arrested in Lexington County after reportedly breaking into another home and setting it on fire.

Records later showed his history included gaps because his fingerprints had not been properly submitted, and in 2023 he pleaded guilty to third-degree burglary and received probation despite earlier burglary convictions.

He was indicted on 12 charges in Richland County, including m*rder, and faces more than 20 additional charges in Lexington County, while Attorney General Alan Wilson has urged the Fifth Circuit Solicitor to seek the d*ath penalty.

As of May 2026, Dickey remained jailed without bond with no trial date set, and Logan's parents stood with South Carolina lawmakers as they introduced Logan's Law, a bill that would create a registry of violent repeat offenders.

Farkhunda Malikzada was a 27-year-old religious studies student in Kabul who confronted the custodian of a shrine over the amulets being sold to women there, telling him the practice was un-Islamic, and he answered by publicly accusing her of burning a Quran.

The accusation was false, and a presidential investigation later confirmed she had not desecrated a Quran that day.

Word of it spread through the crowd outside the Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque on March 19, 2015, and within minutes she was surrounded by a mob of men who beat her with sticks, stones, and wooden planks while police failed to hold them back.

Officers briefly lifted her onto the roof of a nearby shed, but the men below hurled poles and planks until she fell back into the crowd, where she was thrown down, run over by a car, dragged for close to 100 meters, and set on fire near the Kabul River.

Hundreds of people watched, several police officers among them, and many in the mob filmed the att*ck on their phones while chanting, footage that spread across Afghanistan and then the world before her family had understood what happened to her.

Her funeral broke with Afghan tradition when women carried her coffin in public, and 49 people were eventually arrested, with 4 men sentenced to d*ath and others given prison terms.

On appeal, in closed hearings her family was not present for, the d*ath sentences were reduced to 20 years and 10 years, the man who first shouted the false accusation had his sentence commuted, and a fortune-teller whom investigators believed helped set the mob in motion was found not guilty and walked free.

Farkhunda's family later fled the country, and a monument now stands at the spot where she was k*lled, still visited by Afghan women.