history on Instagram: "On March 23, 1944, two white girls, 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and 7-year-old Mary Emma Thames, were found beaten to death in Alcolu, South Carolina. Both had head injuries from a railroad spike. Within hours, police arrested 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr., a Black boy who lived nearby. Officers claimed he confessed, though no written or signed statement was ever produced. He was interrogated alone without a lawyer or his parents present. Stinney was indicted

@horrifiedhistory on Instagram: "On May 16, 2025, a profound tragedy unfolded at Poppy’s Playhouse 2, a daycare facility in Park Hills, Missouri, when 3-year-old Conrad David Wade Ashcraft, a nonverbal autistic child, died under horrifying circumstances. During nap time, staff member Tiffany Hedrick reportedly took Conrad into a hallway, placed a weighted blanket over his torso and face, and used her legs to restrain him until he stopped moving. He was then left unsupervised and unchecked for ap