Strange Deaths Pre 1992.


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In a meat rendering plant, making fertilizer, oustside of Redwood Falls, Minnesota, a worker went into the room-sized "Cuisinart" where whole cows are dumped and liquidized--instantly. The worker was going to do some cleaning, and his mate came in and accidently flipped the power switch. Mark Thrailkill - circa early 1970's

A traveling salesman became involved with a notorious town prostitute in Redwood Falls, Minnesota and drove down to the 'River Road'. The following day they were both found dead from Monoxide poisoning and then frozen whilst still in the act of copulation.Mark Thrailkill - circa early 1970's

1990


Priscilla Brayboy and a friend drove down a street in Housten, Texas, looking for her husband, Joe, whom she suspected of visiting his lover. On spotting a grey Volvo parked in a driveway, she knocked on the door and began to force her way inside. A resident heard the commotion, armed himself with a shotgun and shot her dead. When Mrs Brayboy's friend saw what had happened, she ran down the street screaming and then noticed the light grey Volvo parked in a different driveway a few houses away. Independant - 7 Dec 1990

1991


Hester Fourie, 19, was talking barefoot on the telephone when lightning struck overhead telephone wires near East London in South Africa on 11 February. She died later in hospital. Johannesburg Star - 13 Feb 1991

Piera Rutelli,40, was killed by a falling piece of ice that pierced the roof of her car as she drove through a tunnel outside Genoa in Italy. Daily record (Scotland) - 28 Feb 1991

A 56-year-old man tricked his way into a house in Alicante in Spain by saying that he was a sewing machine technician, and then stole £80 pounds worth of pesetas from a woman. As she chased him, he tripped, swallowed his false teeth and choked to death. Johannesburg Citizen 16 May; European 17 May 1991

Micheal Bennett, 22, from Driffield, Humberside, burst into tears after overturning his 'pride and joy', an E-reg Citreon AX, on a bend after he hit some boulders. Hours later his body was found hanging from a tree by the same rope he had used to tow his car home. Daily Mirror - 26 Sept 1991

Armando Cassa, 24, got so depressed when he was reported to have died in a fire that he jumped to his death from a high-rise in Puerto Rico. The Sun - 15 Oct 1991

A 20-year-old woman with a severe allergy to milk died merely from smelling it, when she delivered census forms to a Dairy near Treviso. Italy. Observer - 10 Nov 1991

A Treviso wine enthusiast drowned in 500 gallons of home-made wine. Orfeo Agostinetto drank too much of the previous year's wine and fell into the new vat he had just made. Scottish Daily Record - 11 Nov 1991.

Francis McCorry, a civil servant age d38, of Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, suffocated when his head jammed in a wash basin on 12 November 1991. A policeman broke into the house and found Mr McCorry slumped in the basin with his head under the tap which had not been turned on. The inquest recorded an open verdict. Nottingham Evening Post - 18 Nov 1991



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