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Bowling ball
- Tragedy stuck Forth Worth, Texas, in 2013, when a 13-year-old boy struck his five-year-old neighbor twice in the head with a bowling ball, crushing the five-year-old's skull.
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Umbrella
- In a tragic and seemingly random act of violence, a man in Hannover, Germany, was literally stabbed in the back by the point of an umbrella that was apparently modified with a needle at the tip, which injected mercury into the man's body, sending the man into a coma from which he did not wake up.
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2 / 29 Fotos
Guitar
- Texan pastor Danny Kirk was the victim of a ruthless murder when a man, later described as severely paranoid, beat him to death with a guitar.
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3 / 29 Fotos
Samurai sword
- Two 18-year-old-boys in a neighborhood of Queens, New York, got into an altercation that ended in a bloodbath. While the reasons for the argument are still unclear, it was effectively put to an end when one of the teens slayed the other with a massive samurai sword that he kept in his room.
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4 / 29 Fotos
Jar of pickles
- In this tale of righteous revenge, a teenage boy who had been the victim of assault at the hands of a much older man for years finally fought back against his abuser, and bashed the older man over the head with a pickle jar. After the judge learned the details of the incident in court, the boy was only sentenced to five years of probation.
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5 / 29 Fotos
Guitar string
- A grisly story played out in Lyndon, Kansas, when John Paul Harris shot, abducted, and then tortured James Gerety for two days before removing his head with a guitar string. It was reported that Harris kept the head for a number of days, talking to it as part of a "voodoo ritual."
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6 / 29 Fotos
Spatula
- In an awful event of filicide, a woman from Utah was found guilty of first-degree murder in 2011 for beating her five-year-old daughter to death with a kitchen spatula.
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7 / 29 Fotos
Chess board
- This tale of murder comes from a 14th-century Norse legend, which tells the story of chess opponents Faber and Sowden. What began as the two Vikings throwing chess pieces at each other escalated to murder when Faber bashed Sowden over the head with the chess board itself, allegedly killing him instantly.
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8 / 29 Fotos
Pumpernickel bread
- Reginald Hemsley-Doddingdale was the victim of what the police said was the the "worst case of pumpernickeling" they had ever seen. Hemsley-Doddingdale had been hit in the back of the head with a loaf of pumpernickel bread allegedly so hard that it caused blunt-force trauma and killed him.
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9 / 29 Fotos
Toilet tank lid
- A lover's quarrel turned deadly in 2006 when Marvin Hill tried to end things with his girlfriend, Christina Eubanks. When Eubanks protested, Hill resorted to violence, and hit her over the head with the heavy lid to his toilet tank, resulting in Eubanks' death.
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10 / 29 Fotos
Floor lamp
- An argument in Augusta, Georgia, turned violent and then fatal when Bryant Willerson grabbed a floor lamp in the vicinity and attacked William McClain. McClain was later pronounced dead at the scene of the crime.
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11 / 29 Fotos
Xbox 360
- A 20-year-old woman was beaten to death by her boyfriend in 2013. The murder weapon? The boyfriend's Xbox 360 video game console, which was found battered and bloodied next to the woman's body.
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12 / 29 Fotos
Corkscrew
- In the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, a father of three was found face up in his own bedroom, with a corkscrew lodged in his head. The killer was never found.
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13 / 29 Fotos
Pen
- A disturbing crime of passion occurred in England in 2007, when the jealous lover of Rebecca Love stabbed her no less than 93 times with a pen. Love's body wasn't found until two days afterward.
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14 / 29 Fotos
Prosthetic leg
- A woman named Debra Hewitt, from Louisiana, beat her boyfriend to death in 2011 with her own prosthetic leg, allegedly while balancing on her good leg.
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15 / 29 Fotos
Crucifix
- A woman in Northern Ireland was charged with murder for brutally beating an older woman with a crucifix on Christmas Day.
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16 / 29 Fotos
Chair
- In London, during December 2013, a disagreement over a public computer in a community center escalated to murder when six teenagers beat an older man with a chair. Two weeks later, than man died.
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17 / 29 Fotos
Frying pan
- In 2012 in the midst of an argument, Nora Peterson killed her boyfriend with a frying pan from their kitchen. Later Peterson was charged with first-degree murder and sentenced to 22 years in prison.
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18 / 29 Fotos
Chainsaw
- While chainsaws are a favorite murder weapon in horror flicks, its not every day you hear of one actually being used in real life. Jose Corona made this popular trope into a gruesome reality one day in Texas, when he dismembered his wife with his chainsaw and left her body in the street.
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19 / 29 Fotos
Nailgun
- A gruesome murder was uncovered in Australia in 2009 when a Chinese exchange student, Chen Liu, was found wrapped in a carpet. Using a high-powered nail gun, 34 nails were lodged into Liu's neck and skull.
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20 / 29 Fotos
Banjos
- In a fit of reprehensible violence, a man from Ohio beat his wife to death with not one, but two banjos. After the first banjo was obliterated, the man continued with a second.
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21 / 29 Fotos
Dessert spoon
- A robbery went horribly wrong in England when one Richard Clare hit his victim, the elderly Timothy Magee, other the head with a dessert spoon. While likely not intending to kill Magee, Clare's blow to Magee's head caused internal bleeding and led to Magee's death.
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22 / 29 Fotos
Microwave
- In a series of events that seems too cold and heartless to be true, the mother of a 28-day-year-old baby put her child in a microwave during an alleged drunken blackout for more than two minutes. The mother is now serving a life sentence in an Ohio prison.
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23 / 29 Fotos
Fire extinguisher
- In 2010, simply trying to break up a fight between his friend and a stranger, Englishman Drew Clark struck the stranger on the head with a fire extinguisher. The blow ended up breaking the man's skull, and he died in the hospital shortly afterward.
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24 / 29 Fotos
High heels
- In 1935, 21-year-old Edith Maxwell was sentenced to 25 years in prison after beating her father to death with a high-heeled shoe after the father and daughter got into a fight in their home.
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25 / 29 Fotos
Sweatpants
- One of the more creative and gruesome instances of murder with an unusual weapon occurred in 2006 when a 61-year-old man from Florida strangled a 29-year-old woman with a pair of sweatpants.
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26 / 29 Fotos
Shovel
- After a fight broke out in a neighborhood of Yazoo City, Mississippi, a 42-year-old man, Michael Marshall, beat 28-year-old Demarcus Jones to death, with a shovel. Directly afterward, Jones' brother shot Marshall in the chest.
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27 / 29 Fotos
Fire poker
- A crazed robber named Jared Kuester broke into a farmhouse in Wisconsin in 2013. When met with resistance by the residents of the farmhouse, Kuester resorted to murder, committing a triple homicide with a cast-iron fireplace poker. Sources: (The Guardian) (Ranker) (Sarasota Herald-Tribune) See also: The most mysterious murders of all time
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28 / 29 Fotos
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0 / 29 Fotos
Bowling ball
- Tragedy stuck Forth Worth, Texas, in 2013, when a 13-year-old boy struck his five-year-old neighbor twice in the head with a bowling ball, crushing the five-year-old's skull.
© Shutterstock
1 / 29 Fotos
Umbrella
- In a tragic and seemingly random act of violence, a man in Hannover, Germany, was literally stabbed in the back by the point of an umbrella that was apparently modified with a needle at the tip, which injected mercury into the man's body, sending the man into a coma from which he did not wake up.
© Shutterstock
2 / 29 Fotos
Guitar
- Texan pastor Danny Kirk was the victim of a ruthless murder when a man, later described as severely paranoid, beat him to death with a guitar.
© Shutterstock
3 / 29 Fotos
Samurai sword
- Two 18-year-old-boys in a neighborhood of Queens, New York, got into an altercation that ended in a bloodbath. While the reasons for the argument are still unclear, it was effectively put to an end when one of the teens slayed the other with a massive samurai sword that he kept in his room.
© Shutterstock
4 / 29 Fotos
Jar of pickles
- In this tale of righteous revenge, a teenage boy who had been the victim of assault at the hands of a much older man for years finally fought back against his abuser, and bashed the older man over the head with a pickle jar. After the judge learned the details of the incident in court, the boy was only sentenced to five years of probation.
© Shutterstock
5 / 29 Fotos
Guitar string
- A grisly story played out in Lyndon, Kansas, when John Paul Harris shot, abducted, and then tortured James Gerety for two days before removing his head with a guitar string. It was reported that Harris kept the head for a number of days, talking to it as part of a "voodoo ritual."
© Shutterstock
6 / 29 Fotos
Spatula
- In an awful event of filicide, a woman from Utah was found guilty of first-degree murder in 2011 for beating her five-year-old daughter to death with a kitchen spatula.
© Shutterstock
7 / 29 Fotos
Chess board
- This tale of murder comes from a 14th-century Norse legend, which tells the story of chess opponents Faber and Sowden. What began as the two Vikings throwing chess pieces at each other escalated to murder when Faber bashed Sowden over the head with the chess board itself, allegedly killing him instantly.
© Shutterstock
8 / 29 Fotos
Pumpernickel bread
- Reginald Hemsley-Doddingdale was the victim of what the police said was the the "worst case of pumpernickeling" they had ever seen. Hemsley-Doddingdale had been hit in the back of the head with a loaf of pumpernickel bread allegedly so hard that it caused blunt-force trauma and killed him.
© Shutterstock
9 / 29 Fotos
Toilet tank lid
- A lover's quarrel turned deadly in 2006 when Marvin Hill tried to end things with his girlfriend, Christina Eubanks. When Eubanks protested, Hill resorted to violence, and hit her over the head with the heavy lid to his toilet tank, resulting in Eubanks' death.
© Shutterstock
10 / 29 Fotos
Floor lamp
- An argument in Augusta, Georgia, turned violent and then fatal when Bryant Willerson grabbed a floor lamp in the vicinity and attacked William McClain. McClain was later pronounced dead at the scene of the crime.
© Shutterstock
11 / 29 Fotos
Xbox 360
- A 20-year-old woman was beaten to death by her boyfriend in 2013. The murder weapon? The boyfriend's Xbox 360 video game console, which was found battered and bloodied next to the woman's body.
© Shutterstock
12 / 29 Fotos
Corkscrew
- In the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, a father of three was found face up in his own bedroom, with a corkscrew lodged in his head. The killer was never found.
© Shutterstock
13 / 29 Fotos
Pen
- A disturbing crime of passion occurred in England in 2007, when the jealous lover of Rebecca Love stabbed her no less than 93 times with a pen. Love's body wasn't found until two days afterward.
© Shutterstock
14 / 29 Fotos
Prosthetic leg
- A woman named Debra Hewitt, from Louisiana, beat her boyfriend to death in 2011 with her own prosthetic leg, allegedly while balancing on her good leg.
© Shutterstock
15 / 29 Fotos
Crucifix
- A woman in Northern Ireland was charged with murder for brutally beating an older woman with a crucifix on Christmas Day.
© Shutterstock
16 / 29 Fotos
Chair
- In London, during December 2013, a disagreement over a public computer in a community center escalated to murder when six teenagers beat an older man with a chair. Two weeks later, than man died.
© Shutterstock
17 / 29 Fotos
Frying pan
- In 2012 in the midst of an argument, Nora Peterson killed her boyfriend with a frying pan from their kitchen. Later Peterson was charged with first-degree murder and sentenced to 22 years in prison.
© Shutterstock
18 / 29 Fotos
Chainsaw
- While chainsaws are a favorite murder weapon in horror flicks, its not every day you hear of one actually being used in real life. Jose Corona made this popular trope into a gruesome reality one day in Texas, when he dismembered his wife with his chainsaw and left her body in the street.
© Shutterstock
19 / 29 Fotos
Nailgun
- A gruesome murder was uncovered in Australia in 2009 when a Chinese exchange student, Chen Liu, was found wrapped in a carpet. Using a high-powered nail gun, 34 nails were lodged into Liu's neck and skull.
© Shutterstock
20 / 29 Fotos
Banjos
- In a fit of reprehensible violence, a man from Ohio beat his wife to death with not one, but two banjos. After the first banjo was obliterated, the man continued with a second.
© Shutterstock
21 / 29 Fotos
Dessert spoon
- A robbery went horribly wrong in England when one Richard Clare hit his victim, the elderly Timothy Magee, other the head with a dessert spoon. While likely not intending to kill Magee, Clare's blow to Magee's head caused internal bleeding and led to Magee's death.
© Shutterstock
22 / 29 Fotos
Microwave
- In a series of events that seems too cold and heartless to be true, the mother of a 28-day-year-old baby put her child in a microwave during an alleged drunken blackout for more than two minutes. The mother is now serving a life sentence in an Ohio prison.
© Shutterstock
23 / 29 Fotos
Fire extinguisher
- In 2010, simply trying to break up a fight between his friend and a stranger, Englishman Drew Clark struck the stranger on the head with a fire extinguisher. The blow ended up breaking the man's skull, and he died in the hospital shortly afterward.
© Getty Images
24 / 29 Fotos
High heels
- In 1935, 21-year-old Edith Maxwell was sentenced to 25 years in prison after beating her father to death with a high-heeled shoe after the father and daughter got into a fight in their home.
© Shutterstock
25 / 29 Fotos
Sweatpants
- One of the more creative and gruesome instances of murder with an unusual weapon occurred in 2006 when a 61-year-old man from Florida strangled a 29-year-old woman with a pair of sweatpants.
© Shutterstock
26 / 29 Fotos
Shovel
- After a fight broke out in a neighborhood of Yazoo City, Mississippi, a 42-year-old man, Michael Marshall, beat 28-year-old Demarcus Jones to death, with a shovel. Directly afterward, Jones' brother shot Marshall in the chest.
© Shutterstock
27 / 29 Fotos
Fire poker
- A crazed robber named Jared Kuester broke into a farmhouse in Wisconsin in 2013. When met with resistance by the residents of the farmhouse, Kuester resorted to murder, committing a triple homicide with a cast-iron fireplace poker. Sources: (The Guardian) (Ranker) (Sarasota Herald-Tribune) See also: The most mysterious murders of all time
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28 / 29 Fotos
Strange and unexpected real-life murder weapons
When there's a will, there's a way...
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We all know the classic murder weapons: guns, knives, poison, and the like. Sometimes, though, murderers pull off their vile acts with much stranger objects. Whether due to inefficiency, rarity, or a simple lack of apparent murder power, some conduits of killing just seem surprising. Nevertheless, there's been no shortage of murders over the years that have been realized by the most unexpected means.
Read on to learn about some of the weirdest murder weapons that made the news.
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