{"id":4934,"date":"2014-05-20T22:15:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T03:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4934"},"modified":"2014-05-20T22:15:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T03:15:47","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-may-20-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4934","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for May 20, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Fixated Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A case cited by Dr. Melvin Reinhardt in his classic study,\u00a0<em>Sex Perversions and Sex Crimes <\/em>(1957):<\/p>\n<p>The father of a family of three girls, all in their teens, had ceased to have sexual relations with his wife. \u00a0His sexual desires became fixated on the 14-year-old daughter. \u00a0One day, he met her out of school, drove her to a quiet lane, and had intercourse with her. \u00a0The girl admitted in her statement to the police: &#8220;For two or three times. \u00a0Daddy removed my panties&#8230; then I began liking it.&#8221; \u00a0Like many young girls, she was infatuated with her father.<\/p>\n<p>For the next three years they continued to have sexual intercourse two or three times a week, and he also encouraged her to stimulate him orally. \u00a0One night, the mother heard the daughter going to the father&#8217;s bed. \u00a0There was a violent quarrel, and she threatened to report him to the police. \u00a0It was after this that he began to brood on killing his wife and one of the other daughters. \u00a0(The third was away from home.) \u00a0He then enlisted the aid of the incestuous daughter who alleged: &#8220;He said he wouldn&#8217;t interfere with me any more if I helped to pour gasoline on the floor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the afternoon of the murder, he met his youngest daughter, Ruth (age 13), in the kitchen and hit her violently in the stomach, knocking her unconscious. \u00a0When his wife came in, he also struck her with his fists; he was obviously a powerful man, for three blows laid her out, too. \u00a0The eldest daughter then came in: they both soaked the kitchen (and the unconscious wife and daughter) in paraffin. \u00a0As they left, the man tossed a match into the room. \u00a0As the place burst into flames, he drove off, went shopping, went for a swim, and then returned home, and found the fire engines there and the house burnt out. \u00a0The empty paraffin cans gave the police the clue to the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from:\u00a0<em>Crimes and Punishment: The Illustrated Crime Encyclopedia, Volume 2<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Fixated Yet Truly Morbid Fact! A case cited by Dr. Melvin Reinhardt in his classic study,\u00a0Sex Perversions and Sex Crimes (1957): The father of a family of three girls, all in their teens, had ceased to have sexual relations with his wife. \u00a0His sexual desires became fixated on the 14-year-old daughter. \u00a0One day, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4935,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions\/4935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}