r/AllThatsInteresting

In 2006, 51-year-old Portland nurse Susan Kuhnhausen came home to a hitman waiting in her bedroom. Trained in self-defense, she fought him off and strangled him. Police soon uncovered that her estranged husband had arranged her murder for $50,000.

In 1982, David Grundman drove into the Arizona desert and blasted multiple rounds into a giant saguaro cactus. The cactus killed him. A 500lb arm broke off and crushed him to death. He was illegally attacking a protected species when it happened.

She grabbed a random street kitten to fight mouse in her house

In 1984, Ruth Coker Burks encountered a young man dying alone of AIDS in an Arkansas hospital. She then decided to use her own money to care for AIDS patients, providing medicine, housing, transportation, and arranging burials for those whose families refused to claim their bodies.

On July 27, 1981, six-year-old Adam Walsh was kidnapped from a Sears in Hollywood, Florida. Two weeks later, his severed head was found in a canal, but the case remained unsolved for decades. His father, John Walsh, went on to champion child protection laws and create America’s Most Wanted.

In 2023, an 18-year-old Miami mother was arrested after attempting to hire a hitman to kill her three-year-old son using a parody website called "Rent-A-Hitman." She provided the child's photo and address with a message stating she wanted “to get something done once and for all.”

Sarah Cheiker lived alone in her LA bungalow for 35 years. 3 strangers claimed to know her dead mother, isolated her, sold her $712K home, drained her savings, drove her 3,000 miles away, then abandoned her in a Maine cabin with no food or lights. They got probation.

In 1939, a German man wrote directly to Adolf Hitler asking permission to euthanize his disabled infant son. Hitler sent his physician, Dr. Karl Brandt, to investigate, and soon after, the child was killed by lethal injection. The case became the model for Nazi Germany’s Aktion T4 program.

In a debate on peaceful religions at the Oxford Union speaker Laurence Fox threatens to reveal a picture of Mohammed. Multiple speakers attempt to stop him but he is allowed to continue

Connor Barthe, 6, and Noah Barthe, 4, went to a sleepover at their friend's apartment in Campbellton, NB. Beneath it was a pet shop. That night, a 3.8m African rock python escaped through the vents, dropped into the room, and strangled both boys as they slept.