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Hell hath no fury like a person wronged! Join us as we count down some of the most jaw-dropping real-life revenge stories from throughout history! From ancient rulers who toppled empires to modern-day vigilantes who took justice into their own hands, these shocking tales prove that revenge can be incredibly creative, devastatingly brutal, and sometimes world-changing!
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00:00Would Spex O'Keefe really risk his life by testifying against his former comrades in crime?
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at 50 of the most dramatic revenge stories that actually occurred throughout history.
00:12It's not revenge he's after. It's a reckoning.
00:19Pedro I of Portugal, the King Who Took Hearts
00:23When King Afonso IV ordered the assassination of his son's mistress in 1355,
00:28he underestimated the wrath of a heartbroken heir.
00:31Pedro was devastated by the loss of his Ines de Castro and swore ultimate retribution.
00:36The moment he ascended to the Portuguese throne two years later, he set to work hunting down her killers.
00:42He managed to capture two of the men who carried out his father's deadly orders,
00:46and rather than a standard execution, Pedro demanded a punishment that matched his grief.
00:51He commanded that the assassin's hearts be ripped directly from their bodies,
00:55one from the chest, the other from the back.
00:58The new king coldly declared that men who could murder an innocent woman possessed no hearts at all.
01:04Boudicca, the queen who burned cities.
01:07Not only is it a physical assault on her body and the daughter's bodies,
01:11but it is also a psychological and religious assault on the entire culture of the Icena
01:18and the wider world of the ancient Britons.
01:20You just don't mess with the queen's daughters.
01:22When the king of the Icena tribe died in 60 AD, the Roman Empire ignored his will and immediately annexed
01:30his territory.
01:31To assert their dominance, Roman soldiers publicly flogged his widow, Queen Boudicca, and assaulted her two young girls.
01:38Bad idea.
01:39This horrific mistreatment sparked an unquenchable thirst for vengeance.
01:43Boudicca rallied neighboring Celtic tribes and led a massive rebellion against the occupying forces.
01:48Her furious army descended upon Roman settlements, burning the likes of Camulodunum, Verulamium, and Londinium to the ground.
01:57Before she was finally defeated, the warrior queen's terrifying campaign systematically wiped out an estimated 70,000 Romans and pro
02:05-Roman Britons.
02:06Boudicca's rebellion was an extremely serious revolution in Britain.
02:11She had burned the three largest towns in Roman Britain, including the capital.
02:16She had inflicted some 70,000 casualties amongst the Romans and their supporters.
02:21Queen Tameris, the ruler who kept her promise.
02:24Cyrus the Great thought he could easily outsmart the Massagatai people around 530 BC.
02:29He deceitfully captured Spargapices, the son of Queen Tameris, by leaving behind an undefended camp filled with wine.
02:37Unable to handle the humiliation of his capture, the young prince took his own life.
02:42Devastated and furious, Tameris sent a chilling message to the Persian conqueror, vowing to, quote,
02:48give him his fill of blood.
02:50She led her forces into a fierce battle, successfully destroying the enemy army and killing Cyrus himself.
02:56Fulfilling her dark promise, Tameris ordered that his corpse be beheaded,
03:01then dramatically shoved his severed head into a large wineskin filled with human blood.
03:06Metal!
03:07Shaka Zulu, the king who never forgot.
03:10Shaka Zulu, through one simple act of innovation, he came to dominate all his enemies.
03:16It was that, but also the encirclement tactic.
03:19Ever wanted to get revenge on a childhood tormentor?
03:21Shaka Zulu did.
03:22As a young boy, Shaka and his mother were exiled from their community by his father, the Zulu chief.
03:29Forced to wander, they faced severe poverty and constant mockery from neighboring tribes like the Elangheni.
03:35Shaka internalized this deep humiliation, letting it fuel his ambitions.
03:39After growing into a brilliant military tactician and claiming the Zulu throne for himself,
03:44he initiated a ruthless campaign of payback.
03:47He surrounded the Elangheni tribe, forcing them into total submission.
03:52Shaka then singled out and executed every individual who had insulted his mother during their painful exile,
03:58establishing his uncontested dominance as a total boss.
04:02Hey, what's up, babe?
04:03You rested?
04:05Yeah, I must have been tired.
04:07Uh-huh.
04:07You was talking in your sleep last night.
04:09You always dreaming about Shaka Zulu?
04:13Geronimo, the Apache warrior's wrath.
04:15In his autobiography, Geronimo said,
04:18I did not pray, I had no purpose left.
04:21And whenever I saw anything to remind me of my former happy days, my heart would ache for revenge.
04:27A peaceful trading trip turned into a lifelong vendetta in 1858.
04:32While Apache leader Geronimo and his men were away in town,
04:35a company of Mexican soldiers ruthlessly attacked their camp.
04:39Returning home, Geronimo discovered his mother, his wife, and his three young children had all been murdered.
04:45Heartbroken and burning with fury, he gathered a massive war party to exact his vengeance.
04:51Over the next several decades, Geronimo dedicated his life to terrorizing Mexican settlements.
04:57He led daring raids, ambushing soldiers, and striking fear across the borderlands.
05:02His relentless quest for payback transformed him from a grieving family man
05:07into one of the most legendary and feared indigenous leaders in American history.
05:11Geronimo was against the white people.
05:16The other leaders tried to calm him down, but he wouldn't listen.
05:21He was always hyped up, I guess, and he was ready to go.
05:25They saw him when he raided.
05:27He just went ahead and killed people and ran off their horses.
05:31And it was Geronimo.
05:33François Lolonet, the pirate who hated Spain.
05:36I think it'd be rather exciting to meet a pirate.
05:40Think again, Miss Swan.
05:43Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them.
05:45Some pirates steal for gold.
05:48François Lolonet stole for spite.
05:50Starting his career as an indentured servant, he eventually turned to a life of piracy.
05:55But after barely surviving a Spanish military ambush that wiped out his entire crew,
06:00François swore an oath of eternal vengeance against the Spanish Empire.
06:04He became famous for his unparalleled cruelty, earning him the nickname the Bane of Spain.
06:10In one infamous instance, he terrified a group of captured soldiers by cutting out a Spanish
06:15prisoner's heart and taking a bite, threatening the others with the exact same fate.
06:19His relentless hatred drove him to sack entire colonial cities,
06:23showing no mercy to anyone flying the Spanish flag.
06:27Enrico Dandolo, the Blind Doge's Crusade.
06:30Revenge is a dish best served 90 years later.
06:34Enrico Dandolo was the remarkably capable ruler of Venice.
06:38According to popular legend, Enrico was intentionally blinded by the Greeks
06:42during a diplomatic mission to the Byzantine Empire.
06:45Decades later, now in his 90s, the sightless Doge finally saw an opportunity for payback.
06:51The crusaders couldn't pay the massive debt they owed Venice for the fleet Dandolo had built for them,
06:56so he used this leverage for his own political purposes.
06:58He diverted the massive crusading fleet straight toward Constantinople, the heart of the Byzantine Empire.
07:05Despite his total blindness, Dandolo stood at the bow of his galley,
07:09directing the siege that eventually sacked the Golden City and destroyed his old enemies.
07:14The Doolittle Raid, America's Revenge for Pearl Harbor.
07:17I don't like to use the word revenge, but sure, I mean, there was some revenge that they wanted to
07:26get some back.
07:27You know, they were mad.
07:27The surprise military strike on Pearl Harbor left America reeling in December 1941.
07:33President Roosevelt desperately wanted to strike back, both to hurt the enemy and boost national morale.
07:39In a brilliantly reckless plan, military planners devised a seemingly impossible mission.
07:45Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle led a squadron of 16 modified bombers off the short deck of the USS Hornet.
07:51In April 1942, these pilots successfully bombed Tokyo and several other major Japanese cities.
07:57Lacking the fuel to return, most crews either crash-landed or bailed over China, with one ending up in the
08:04Soviet Union.
08:05While the physical damage to Japan was relatively minor, the psychological revenge was undeniable,
08:11proving to everyone that the island nation was vulnerable to attack.
08:14You know, you reach out and you hurt us, we're coming after you.
08:18And you know what, there ain't a damn thing you can do about it.
08:20Octavian, the heir who hunted assassins.
08:23I dare say, your work today will earn you immortality.
08:28How's that?
08:29I will be in all the history books.
08:31My killer's name, no doubt, will live on also.
08:35Assassinating Julius Caesar was supposed to save the Roman Republic.
08:39Instead, the conspirators unleashed the furious vengeance of his adopted son and heir, Octavian.
08:45Forming the second triumvirate alongside Mark Antony,
08:47the young leader launched a merciless purge of anyone even vaguely connected to his father's murder.
08:52They compiled extensive hit lists, executing thousands of political enemies without a shred of due process.
08:58Finally, the Avengers confronted the lead assassins Brutus and Cassius at the decisive Battle of Philippi in 42 BC.
09:06Facing defeat, both conspirators chose to fall on their own swords rather than surrender.
09:11Octavian's ruthless quest for familial revenge didn't just punish his enemies.
09:15It ultimately birthed the Roman Empire.
09:20You might not want to watch this.
09:22Lorenzo di Medici, the bloody Pazzi conspiracy.
09:26And these two so the whole city can see them.
09:32You can die a soldier's death at the point of a sword.
09:35You know what they say.
09:36If there's one setting for a bloody coup, it's Sunday Mass.
09:38In 1478, the Pazzi family attempted to overthrow the ruling Medici dynasty in Florence.
09:45Assassins viciously attacked Lorenzo di Medici and his brother Giuliano in the middle of a church service.
09:51While Lorenzo escaped with minor wounds, Giuliano was stabbed to death right on the cathedral floor.
09:56This profound betrayal triggered terrifyingly swift payback.
10:00Lorenzo immediately rallied the citizens of Florence, who hunted down the fleeing conspirators.
10:05Within just a few short hours, members of the Pazzi family were publicly hanged from the windows of the Palazzo
10:11Vecchio.
10:12Lorenzo, please do not do anything you will later regret.
10:26Hang them.
10:29Clovis I, the King Who Loved a Vaz
10:32According to historical lore, the Frankish ruler Clovis I claimed a beautiful sacred vase as part of his war loot
10:39following the Battle of Soissons.
10:40However, one remarkably stubborn soldier vehemently objected to the king taking more than his fair share.
10:46In a shocking display of disrespect, the soldier struck the precious vase with his battle axe.
10:52Clovis swallowed his anger and remained silent.
10:54For an entire year.
10:56During a later military inspection, the king finally confronted that very same soldier and threw the man's weapons to the
11:03ground.
11:03As the unsuspecting soldier bent down to retrieve them, Clovis struck his head with an axe,
11:08chillingly declaring, quote,
11:10Thus you did to the vase at Soissons.
11:13King Gujin, tasting the bitter gall.
11:15In this museum, there are two swords.
11:18One representing success, the other failure.
11:21One belonged to the winner, Gujian, king of the state of Yue.
11:25During the ancient spring and autumn period, King Gujin of Yue was decisively defeated by the rival state of Wu.
11:32Forced into humiliating servitude, Gujin spent three agonizing years acting as a servant to the victorious king Fuchai.
11:39After finally being allowed to return home, Gujin secretly swore an oath of destruction against his captors.
11:45To ensure he never forgot his humiliation, Gujin famously slept on a bed of painful brushwood and licked a bitter
11:51gallbladder every single day.
11:53And while pretending to remain loyal, he quietly rebuilt his massive army.
11:58Ten years later, Gujin launched a devastating surprise attack,
12:02completely conquering Wu and forcing King Fuchai into taking his own life.
12:06Talk about dedication.
12:07In the war that ensued, Fuchai was brought to heel outside the gates of Suzhou, begging Gujian for forgiveness.
12:15In vain.
12:17Gujian was made of sterner stuff than that.
12:20Simon Wiesenthal, the unrelenting Nazi hunter.
12:23In his office at the Jewish Documentation Center, he keeps files on hundreds of fugitive war criminals.
12:29It is solitary work.
12:31While many Holocaust survivors wanted to put the past behind them, Simon Wiesenthal, who lost 89 members of his extended
12:38family, made it his life's mission to remember.
12:41Having survived several concentration camps, Wiesenthal emerged from the war with an unbreakable resolve to seek justice and dedicated his
12:49life to hunting down Nazi war criminals.
12:51Gathering endless documents and following obscure leads, Wiesenthal spent over 50 years meticulously tracking down Nazis.
12:58He was instrumental in locating high-profile targets like Franz Stangl, Adolf Eichmann, and Karl Silberbauer, the Gestapo officer who
13:06arrested Anne Frank.
13:07He does find out from the man where he's working and his address.
13:12Stangl and his family are in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
13:16The Sicilian Vespers, the rebellion born of insult.
13:20It only took one insult to spark an entire revolution.
13:23In 1282, the island of Sicily was suffering under the oppressive rule of French King Charles of Anjou.
13:30The immense local tension finally snapped on Easter Monday outside a church in Palermo.
13:35An arrogant French soldier brazenly harassed a married Sicilian woman, using a fake weapon search as an excuse to grope
13:41her.
13:42Her enraged husband, or a bystander according to some accounts, immediately drew a dagger and stabbed the offending soldier to
13:49death.
13:49This isolated act of vengeance instantly sparked a massive riot, with furious Sicilians pouring into the city streets and slaughtering
13:56thousands of French individuals.
13:58The attacks successfully expelled the hated occupiers for good.
14:02Alexander the Great, the Burning of Persepolis
14:05Truly, Alexander could love like no other, but to betray him was to rouse a vast and frightening anger.
14:13After defeating King Darius III and conquering the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great marched his victorious army into the magnificent
14:20capital of Persepolis.
14:22However, the celebration didn't last.
14:25During a lavish, drunken feast, a persuasive Athenian courtesan named Thais reminded Alexander of the atrocities the Persians had previously
14:33committed.
14:33Specifically, she reminded him of the fiery destruction of Athens by Xerxes over a century prior.
14:40Fueling his desire for historical payback, Thais convinced the intoxicated conqueror to grab a flaming torch.
14:46In an act of ultimate retribution, Alexander and his men burned the Grand Palace of Persepolis to ashes, settling the
14:53ancient Greek vendetta once and for all.
14:55Though in the end he treated most populations with magnanimity, it is these exceptions, Thebes, Gaza in Syria, and later
15:05Persepolis in Persia, and others,
15:08that are always remembered by those who hate Alexander and all he stood for.
15:13James Ansley, the true kidnapped heir.
15:15Your uncle's just told me he wants the profits of the trip made over to you to set you up
15:25for life, no less.
15:29Imagine being the rightful heir to a massive fortune, only to be sold into servitude by your own uncle.
15:35That was the reality for James Ansley.
15:38His greedy uncle Richard desperately wanted the family's vast Irish estate for himself.
15:42When James was just a boy, Richard hired men to ship him off to America as an indentured servant.
15:48James suffered for over 12 years before finally escaping and making his arduous way back to London.
15:54Armed with undeniable proof of his true identity, James launched a highly publicized lawsuit against his uncle and exposed Richard's
16:01crimes to the world.
16:03However, Richard used his massive wealth to tie the case up in court for years,
16:07and James died in 1760 without ever reclaiming his titles or his fortune.
16:12Mr. Balfour, I tell you pointedly, you go an ill way for your own interests.
16:17My lord, we are both here to see justice done.
16:20Operation Neptune Spear, Justice for 9-11.
16:23Where was the last time you saw bin Laden, huh?
16:27You know, will you lie to me, I hurt you.
16:29The devastating terror attacks of 9-11 completely shattered the United States and triggered a massive global manhunt.
16:36Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the tragedy, evaded capture for years by hiding deep and secretive compounds.
16:43However, American intelligence agencies refused to let it go.
16:47After years of intel gathering, they finally located bin Laden's secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
16:53On May 2, 2011, President Barack Obama authorized a covert military strike.
16:58Elite Navy SEALs dramatically raided the fortified compound under the cover of darkness and killed the notorious terrorist leader,
17:05delivering long-awaited revenge for thousands of grieving families.
17:09Osama!
17:14Nat Turner, The Rebellion.
17:16Sing praise in the assembly of the righteous.
17:22Let the saints be joyful in glory.
17:26Let them sing aloud on their beds.
17:29Let the high praise of God be on the mouths of the saints and a two-edged sword in their
17:33hands
17:33to execute vengeance on the demonic nations and punishments on those people.
17:38Nat Turner sought to dismantle the very fabrics of America.
17:41Born on a Virginia plantation, Turner believed that he was divinely chosen to strike back against the brutal institution of
17:48servitude.
17:49After experiencing what he interpreted as powerful prophetic visions,
17:52he meticulously organized a covert uprising among his loyal followers.
17:57In August 1831, Turner and his men launched a bloody rebellion of vengeance against their oppressors.
18:03Moving rapidly from plantation to plantation, they executed around 60 white individuals.
18:08While the rebellion was eventually crushed and Turner was hanged,
18:12his violent uprising fundamentally shook the southern establishment.
18:23Gavrilo Princip, The Shot That Broke the World.
18:26Painted by some as a terrorist who triggered the conflict in Europe,
18:30Bosnian Serbs consider him a hero, emancipating them from occupation.
18:34It's amazing how a stalled car can change the course of history.
18:37The Austro-Hungarian Empire aggressively controlled Bosnia in the early 20th century,
18:42causing intense resentment among nationalistic Serbs.
18:45That includes Gavrilo Princip, a passionate young student who fiercely hated the imperial occupiers.
18:51Seeking political revenge, Princip joined a secret radical organization dedicated to Bosnia's liberation.
18:58In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand visited the tent city of Sarajevo
19:02and was shot and killed by Princip while sitting in his stalled car.
19:05This single act of vengeance was the powder keg that ignited World War I,
19:10changing the very fabric of human history.
19:13Princip can't believe his luck.
19:15He has an opportunity to finish out what he started earlier that day.
19:22Billy the Kid, Avenging the Boss.
19:38Before he was a legendary outlaw, Billy the Kid was just a young ranch hand looking for a fresh start.
19:43In the Wild West, Billy found work under an English rancher named John Tunstall,
19:47who treated the wayward boy with respect and kindness.
19:50However, rival businessmen hated Tunstall's growing economic success,
19:54and in 1878, they hired armed thugs who murdered Tunstall in cold blood.
19:59Devastated by the loss and burning with rage,
20:02Billy joined a vigilante posse called the Regulators.
20:05Swearing loyalty to his fallen mentor, he ruthlessly hunted down the men responsible.
20:10Billy's bloody quest for frontier vengeance ignited the violent Lincoln County War
20:14and cemented his name in the history books.
20:17William H. Barney, also known as Billy the Kid,
20:21continued to ride, never leaving New Mexico.
20:24He was caught in Fort Sumner by the Sheriff Pat Garrett and killed.
20:28Sources report that he was unarmed and shot in the dark.
20:31Peter the Great, the husband who made an example.
20:34So long as I am your king, treason shall never go unpunished.
20:40Sir Illyn, bring me his head.
20:44Peter the First, or Peter the Great as he's more famously known,
20:48served as Tsar and Emperor of Russia in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
20:53He was also a very jealous man.
20:55Peter discovered that his wife, Catherine the First,
20:58was having an affair with her secretary, Willem Mons.
21:01So in 1724, Peter had Mons arrested on charges of bribery and abuse of office.
21:07He was tried, found guilty, and beheaded.
21:09But there's one more grisly detail.
21:12Peter reportedly had Mons' head preserved in alcohol and displayed in a jar as a warning.
21:17At one time, even proudly showing it to Catherine.
21:20Granted, the pickled head story is not definitively proven.
21:24But many historians believe it likely,
21:26due to Peter's documented interest in anatomy and harsh punishments.
21:30Look at it and see what happens to traitors.
21:32He promised to be merciful.
21:34Poulan Devi, the Bandit Queen
21:36Young Poulan Devi was a victim of the Indian caste system,
21:40often forced to endure sexual violence and class oppression.
21:43This resulted in the highly controversial Behemey massacre of 1981.
21:48Poulan had endured horrific abuse by the upper caste Takur men in the village of Behemey.
21:53Devi then took direct action against the men and structures that had brutalized her,
21:57raiding the village with a gang and murdering 20 Takur men in an execution-style shooting.
22:01The Indian government was deeply embarrassed by the violence
22:05and triggered one of the largest manhunts in the country's history.
22:08Devi was imprisoned for 11 years,
22:10but she soon became a local folk hero and later a member of the Indian parliament.
22:15Reinhard Heydrich, the Man with the Iron Heart
22:18Murder, Heydrich.
22:20No, no.
22:21Assassinate, Heydrich.
22:23Murder implies he has a life worth living.
22:25Considered one of the most depraved Nazi officials,
22:28Reinhard Heydrich was dubbed the Man with the Iron Heart
22:31and was the principal organizer of the infamous Final Solution.
22:34He also served as governor of the Czech territories,
22:38crushing resistance through mass arrests and executions.
22:41But in late 1941, the Czechoslovak government-in-exile
22:45and special British forces decided to assassinate Heydrich to boost Czech morale
22:49and show that collaboration with the Nazis would not go unpunished.
22:52They planned Operation Arthropoid,
22:54and on May 27, 1942,
22:57two paratroopers ambushed Heydrich's open-top car in Prague.
23:00One threw a grenade that exploded near the vehicle,
23:03fatally wounding Heydrich.
23:05He died of complications one week later.
23:07The point of the mission is to succeed, yes?
23:10I'm more worried that we haven't planned what to do if we are successful.
23:13What happens afterwards is not important.
23:15The Great Brinks Robbery.
23:16Spex Gets Even.
23:18For three long weeks,
23:19Joseph Spex O'Keefe was on the witness stand,
23:22telling all he knew about the robbery.
23:24On January 17, 1950,
23:26a gang pulled off the biggest heist in U.S. history at the time,
23:30stealing $2.7 million from the Brinks Armored Car Depot in Boston.
23:34The robbery was virtually flawless,
23:36leaving the FBI with few leads.
23:38But tensions soon grew within the gang,
23:41especially with member Joseph Spex O'Keefe,
23:43who wasn't receiving his share of the loot.
23:45So O'Keefe kidnapped a fellow gang member
23:48and demanded his cut as ransom.
23:50After it was paid,
23:51the gang sent a hitman to kill him.
23:53He survived the shooting,
23:55and fed up with the drama,
23:56decided to cooperate with the FBI.
23:58His testimony led to numerous arrests,
24:01just five days before the statute of limitations was set to expire.
24:04Their lawyers did their best to discredit the testimony of a Judas,
24:08which they characterized as self-serving and untrustworthy.
24:11But it was a hollow defense,
24:13and nothing was said to persuade the jury
24:15that they had not heard an accurate account of the famous robbery.
24:18Hugh Glass, the man who survived a grizzly bear.
24:22He's afraid.
24:24He knows how far I came for him.
24:29Same as that elk,
24:30when they get afraid,
24:31they run deep into the woods.
24:34I got him trapped,
24:35he just,
24:36he doesn't know it yet.
24:38The story of Hugh Glass,
24:39while possibly embellished,
24:41shows the resiliency of the human spirit,
24:43and yes,
24:44the motivating factor of revenge.
24:46Glass was mauled by a grizzly bear
24:48while on a fur trading expedition,
24:49and was both robbed and left behind by his companions.
24:52He then crawled and limped hundreds of miles back to Fort Kiowa
24:56to seek revenge against the men who had abandoned him.
24:59He spared the younger of the two,
25:00finding him too youthful and childlike to kill.
25:03He also located John Fitzgerald,
25:05but because he was now a soldier,
25:07killing him would have been a hangable offense.
25:09However,
25:10he took his rifle back from Fitzgerald,
25:12demanded $300 in compensation,
25:14and vowed to kill Fitzgerald if he ever left the army.
25:17You came all this way just for your revenge, huh?
25:24Will you enjoy it, class?
25:26Operation Wrath of God,
25:27the government that hunted terrorists.
25:29We have 11 Palestinian names,
25:31each had a hand in planning in Munich.
25:33You're going to kill 11 men, one by one.
25:36In 1972,
25:3811 Israelis were killed by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September
25:42during the Munich Olympics.
25:43This event shocked the world,
25:45and would famously become known as the Munich Massacre.
25:48So, the Israeli government launched a covert operation
25:50to assassinate those responsible and take their revenge.
25:53It was called Operation Wrath of God.
25:55This attack was personally approved by Prime Minister Golda Meir,
25:59and was overseen by Mossad,
26:01the National Intelligence Agency of Israel.
26:03Their agents then scoured the world
26:05and assassinated a number of key targets
26:07throughout the course of many years.
26:09You killed them for the sake of a country you now choose to abandon.
26:13The country your mother and father built,
26:16that you were born into.
26:17You killed them for Munich, for the future, for peace.
26:20Wyatt Earp,
26:21the lawman who formed a posse.
26:23Well, let's hope he's got another miracle up his sleeve.
26:26If I know Ringo, he's headed straight for us.
26:31If they were my brothers, I'd want revenge to you.
26:34Wyatt Earp is one of the most famous figures of the American frontier,
26:38immortalized in classic works of film and literature.
26:40One of the key aspects of his story is the famous Vendetta Ride,
26:44which occurred through March and April of 1882.
26:47Violence was escalating between the Earp brothers
26:49and the outlaw Cochise County Cowboys in and around Tombstone, Arizona.
26:53Following the gunfight at the OK Corral,
26:55Virgil and Morgan Earp were ambushed by the Cowboys,
26:58resulting in the latter's death.
26:59Wyatt then formed a posse to exact revenge
27:02and rode out to personally murder three cowboys
27:04he believed were responsible for the attacks.
27:07The Vendetta Ride cemented Wyatt's reputation
27:09as a fearless lawman and a mythical figure of the Old West.
27:13You're no Daisy.
27:14You're no Daisy at all.
27:16Vlad the Impaler,
27:17the man who battled an empire.
27:19Brand Castle,
27:21billed as the last standing relic of a man some call Dracula.
27:26You probably know Vlad the Impaler as the man who inspired Dracula,
27:30but his story is fascinating in and of itself.
27:32Vlad lived during a violent time of political instability,
27:36and two key events shaped his path of revenge.
27:39He was taken hostage and mistreated by the Ottomans,
27:42and Wallachian nobles killed his father and brother.
27:44After reclaiming the throne in 1456,
27:47Vlad took revenge on the Wallachian nobility
27:50by impaling a number of elders
27:52and forcing others into servitude.
27:54He also launched a guerrilla war against the Ottoman Empire
27:57and utilized terrifying psychological tactics,
28:00like publicly mounting thousands of Turkish corpses
28:03in the horrifically named forest of the Impaled.
28:05It's no wonder he took on such a fearful reputation.
28:08And he promised that he will return.
28:10That was his curse,
28:12and I will take revenge against those that they betrayed me.
28:15Svein Forkbeard,
28:16the Viking who invaded a country.
28:18There's nothing I despise more than a traitor.
28:22In 1002,
28:24King Athelred of England had grown frustrated
28:26by the growing Danish presence in his country,
28:28so he ordered a mass killing of Danes living in England.
28:31This is known as the St. Bryce's Day Massacre.
28:34Said to be among the dead
28:35were the sister and brother-in-law of Svein Forkbeard,
28:38the King of Denmark.
28:39The massacre of his people and family incensed Forkbeard,
28:43and he launched a series of devastating invasions
28:45over the next decade.
28:46His raids were brutally savage,
28:48and he was successful in conquering England,
28:51forcing King Athelred into exile
28:52and taking his role as king.
28:54His brief reign marked the first time
28:56that a Viking king ruled the entirety of England.
28:59Now that's revenge.
29:01If anything should happen to Svein,
29:14do I have your word?
29:15Gary Ploughshay,
29:16the man who shot his son's abuser.
29:19I didn't know that Gary was standing there.
29:21I didn't recognize him.
29:22I was looking behind the TV lights
29:25to see if who else was there.
29:28In February of 1984,
29:30Gary Ploughshay's son Jody was kidnapped
29:31by his karate instructor, Jeffrey Doucette,
29:34and taken to a motel in California,
29:36where he was subject to mistreatment.
29:38The ordeal ended when Doucette allowed Jody to call his mother,
29:41leading to a police raid and Doucette's arrest.
29:43Not long after, Doucette was escorted
29:45through Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport by law enforcement.
29:48Unbeknownst to everyone,
29:50Gary Ploughshay was waiting near a bank of payphones.
29:53As Doucette walked past Ploughshay,
29:55he turned and shot Doucette in the head,
29:57in full view of law enforcement and a local news crew.
30:00Amazingly, Ploughshay never served time in prison,
30:03instead receiving a suspended sentence,
30:05five years of probation,
30:07and 300 hours of community service.
30:09Did you learn anything from this?
30:12Just how much I love my children.
30:14Marvin Heemeyer, the Killdozer creator.
30:17Wait.
30:17This is a bad situation, guys.
30:19We might need to watch him.
30:20For years, Heemeyer had clashed with people in Granby, Colorado,
30:24including neighbors, town officials, and the press.
30:26After one last injustice,
30:28he sold off his property and spent 18 months
30:30turning his bulldozer into a weapon.
30:33Heemeyer reinforced it with concrete and steel,
30:35fitted video cameras and slots for firearms,
30:37and filled the interior with supplies.
30:40In 2004, Heemeyer drove the vehicle,
30:43known as the Killdozer, through Granby,
30:45destroying properties belonging to those who wronged him.
30:48He was upset that a batch plant was built
30:51next to his muffler shop.
30:54But no one expected this.
30:55This included the town hall, the concrete plant,
30:58and the home of the former mayor.
31:00No one perished from the rampage,
31:02but it's believed Heemeyer caused
31:03around $7 million in damage.
31:05After the bulldozer got stuck in debris
31:08and was badly damaged,
31:09Heemeyer took his own life.
31:11Did he actually say he was going to take a bulldozer
31:14and armor it?
31:15Well, he didn't say he was going to armor it.
31:17He said, I'm going to take a bulldozer
31:19and just to the town.
31:21Olga of Kiev, the saint who destroyed a tribe.
31:24In 945, Igor, the prince of Kiev,
31:28confronted the Drevlyan tribe
31:29after they stopped paying him a tribute.
31:31After getting money and leaving,
31:33Igor went back to get more,
31:34only to be murdered by them.
31:42Igor's wife Olga then took over
31:44the regency of Kievan Rus.
31:45The Drevlyans sent multiple parties of ambassadors
31:48to take advantage of the chaos.
31:50Instead, each group was lured in by Olga
31:52before being slain.
31:53She then went to Igor's tomb
31:55in Drevlyan's territory to hold a funeral.
31:57While the tribe paid their respects,
31:59Olga had thousands of them killed.
32:08Over the course of a year,
32:10her army wiped out the remaining Drevlyans
32:12and set their settlements ablaze.
32:14Olga later converted to Christianity
32:16and was canonized as a saint.
32:19Julius Caesar, from hostage to tormentor.
32:22Certainly in relation to the commanders of the ancient world,
32:26a great thing really is to plan the overall strategy,
32:31to get the army to the place it should be,
32:34to choose the battlefield.
32:35Before he became the ruler of the Roman Empire,
32:38Julius Caesar traveled from Rome, Italy,
32:40to Rhodes, Greece to study oratory.
32:42However, pirates attacked
32:43and took the 25-year-old for ransom.
32:46But when Caesar heard how much they were asking for him,
32:49he laughed.
32:49Not because it was an impossible figure,
32:51but for being far too low.
32:53Your time is up, Roman.
32:57I'll fight one of you for another day.
32:59Instead, Caesar told them to substantially increase it
33:02due to his status.
33:03For his 38 days there,
33:05he threatened the pirates that he would crucify them.
33:07Yet none believed him.
33:09After his release,
33:10Caesar gathered an army and a fleet.
33:12They found the pirates at the island
33:14they had held him at and arrested them.
33:16Caesar followed through on his promise
33:17by executing them all.
33:19Rome is waiting, Caesar.
33:21You are triumphant.
33:23Cornelia's waiting.
33:26That's for Rome.
33:27Ken McElroy, The Vengeance of Skidmore.
33:30If they kept somebody,
33:32and he's tried,
33:33and he's found guilty,
33:34would you feel that justice has been done?
33:37No.
33:38For decades,
33:39Ken McElroy terrorized the town of Skidmore, Missouri.
33:42He was accused of committing many crimes,
33:44including thieving livestock,
33:46arson,
33:47animal cruelty,
33:48and burglary.
33:49McElroy also assaulted an underage girl,
33:51who he later married after a reign of terror
33:53against her family,
33:55including slaying their dog.
33:56Do I believe that there was bad things that dad did?
33:59Yes.
34:00He wasn't a perfect man by far.
34:02In 1981,
34:04after appealing his conviction
34:05for the attempted murder
34:06of the local shopkeeper,
34:08Ernest Bowenkamp,
34:09McElroy went on a rampage of harassment
34:11against Bowenkamp's supporters.
34:13The town was done with him.
34:15As McElroy sat with his wife in his truck,
34:17he was fatally shot multiple times.
34:19While there were dozens of witnesses to the slaying,
34:22no one said anything.
34:23To this day,
34:24the perpetrator has never been identified.
34:27Ironically,
34:28it was this shooting back here
34:30that led to the final shooting
34:32right here at the bar,
34:34a matter of 50 feet away.
34:35Alan Rolsky,
34:36the poetic spam revenge.
34:38Email will always surpass
34:40everything you've ever seen or heard about.
34:43Media,
34:44any kind of media,
34:45email is still king.
34:47No one likes junk mail,
34:49whether email or postal.
34:50Sure,
34:50for every coupon book you might want,
34:52there are numerous advertisements
34:54for products you'll never use.
34:55One of the biggest scourges of sending this
34:57was Alan Rolsky.
34:59In his spamming prime,
35:00he was reportedly sending
35:01one billion emails a day.
35:03But in 2002,
35:05Rolsky had an interview
35:06with the Detroit News.
35:07The article was then shared online,
35:10along with the address
35:10for his new property.
35:12People then added Rolsky
35:13to every mailing list they could find,
35:15flooding his home with junk mail
35:17and giving him a taste of his own medicine.
35:19Okay,
35:20I had to have made some kind of a dent
35:22by now.
35:26In 2009,
35:28Rolsky was sentenced to jail
35:29for four years
35:30for various felonies,
35:32including fraud,
35:33spamming,
35:33and money laundering.
35:35Jeanne de Clisson,
35:36taking to the seas
35:37against the French.
35:43How there hasn't been
35:45a blockbuster biopic on her life
35:47we'll never understand.
35:48Jeanne was a Breton-French noblewoman
35:50who was married
35:51to Olivier IV de Clisson.
35:52In 1343,
35:54Olivier was executed
35:55by King Philip VI of France
35:57for apparent treason.
35:58After showing their sons
35:59their father's head on display,
36:01Jeanne sold the family estates
36:03and began her plan of piracy.
36:05She gathered ships
36:06with the main one
36:07called My Revenge
36:08and started attacking French vessels
36:10and aiding the English.
36:12Jeanne's feats earned her
36:13the nickname
36:13The Lioness of Brittany.
36:15Eventually,
36:15the French sank My Revenge,
36:17causing Jeanne and her sons
36:18to be adrift for days.
36:20But she continued pirating
36:21for years more.
36:23Udham Singh,
36:24the retaliator of a massacre.
36:26In 1919,
36:28the Jaliyavallabagh massacre
36:29took place in India
36:30with British soldiers
36:31firing on protesters,
36:33taking the lives
36:33of up to 1,500
36:35and injuring
36:36as many as 1,200.
36:37They've had their warning.
36:40No meetings.
36:44Singh was a revolutionary
36:45who fought for India's independence
36:47from British colonialism.
36:48While in London, England,
36:50he planned his revenge
36:51against Michael O'Dwyer,
36:52who was the lieutenant governor
36:54of the Punjab
36:54during the terrible event.
36:55In 1940,
36:57O'Dwyer,
36:57who had ties
36:58to pro-Nazi groups,
37:00was speaking
37:00at Caxton Hall.
37:01Singh walked in
37:02with a firearm
37:03concealed in a book.
37:11He approached O'Dwyer
37:13and shot him,
37:14ending his life
37:15and injuring
37:16several others.
37:17Singh was arrested,
37:18yet was defiant
37:19during the court case
37:20for his beliefs.
37:21He was found guilty
37:22and executed.
37:28Genghis Khan
37:29obliterating an empire
37:31from history.
37:32With his wife rescued,
37:33it was now
37:34that Genghis first emerged
37:36as the brutal
37:37mass murderer
37:37of history.
37:38In 1218,
37:40Genghis looked to trade
37:41with the neighboring
37:42Khwarezmian empire
37:43and sent an envoy
37:44of several hundred merchants.
37:46However,
37:46the governor of Ohtrar,
37:48Inalchuk,
37:49who was related
37:49to the Khwarezmian ruler
37:51Muhammad II,
37:52arrested the caravan
37:53for treason
37:53and executed them.
37:55This was to be
37:56the complete destruction
37:57of an entire tribe.
37:59Aiming to avoid a war
38:01and get revenge
38:01against Inalchuk,
38:03Genghis sent ambassadors
38:04to Muhammad II.
38:05One was executed
38:06by the ruler
38:07while the others
38:07were shaved
38:08and sent back
38:09to Genghis.
38:10With that,
38:10the Mongol ruler
38:11was livid.
38:12Genghis took most
38:13of his army
38:14and decimated
38:15the Khwarezmian empire,
38:16assassinating Inalchuk
38:17along the way.
38:18The Mongols
38:19destroyed Khwarezmian cities
38:20and took the lives
38:21of millions of people
38:22as they wiped
38:23an empire from history.
38:37The Dachau Liberation Reprisals.
38:39They didn't have
38:40food to eat.
38:42The weather was cold.
38:45Wintertime.
38:46So,
38:47they were gone.
38:48In 1945,
38:49the U.S. soldiers
38:50approaching the infamous
38:51Dachau concentration camp
38:53had no idea
38:54of the horror
38:54they would witness.
38:55In the weeks
38:56leading to the liberation,
38:57prisoners were shipped
38:58to Dachau
38:59as they started hiding
39:00the evidence
39:00of what had happened.
39:01As the U.S. fought
39:02the SS soldiers
39:03to surrender,
39:04they discovered
39:05thousands of bodies
39:06in piles,
39:07some shoved
39:07into train boxcars,
39:09and the extremely
39:10malnourished
39:10and abused survivors.
39:12The smell was horrible.
39:14We thought,
39:15golly,
39:15what is this?
39:16You know,
39:17somebody suggested
39:18that the Germans
39:18were using
39:19some kind of
39:19poisonous gas.
39:21Many of the U.S. soldiers
39:22couldn't wrap their heads
39:23around the atrocities
39:24and were filled
39:25with unbridled rage.
39:27The exact details
39:28of what went down
39:29are hazy.
39:29However,
39:30it's believed
39:31the U.S. soldiers
39:32and some of the prisoners
39:33took the lives
39:34of between
39:3435 and 50
39:36SS guards.
39:37The 47 Ronin
39:38Avenging Their Master's Memory
39:40He wants Kira dead
39:42and his vision
39:44depends on
39:44organization
39:45and stealth.
39:47One of Japan's
39:48most famous legends,
39:49the tale of the 47 Ronin
39:51is actually rooted
39:52in reality.
39:53After their master,
39:54Asano Naganori,
39:55was forced to commit
39:56seppuku in 1701
39:57by the ruthless
39:58Kira Yoshinaka.
39:59The former samurai
40:00spent over a year
40:01biding their time
40:02until Kira's forces
40:04believed they were
40:05not a threat.
40:06Then,
40:06they struck.
40:07In 1703,
40:09the Ronin
40:09attacked Kira's
40:10residents,
40:11fighting many
40:11of his retainers.
40:12I take a vow
40:13before you.
40:15But I will not
40:16rest
40:17until justice
40:18is done.
40:19Eventually,
40:20they located Kira
40:21and offered to let him
40:22commit seppuku.
40:23However,
40:24he couldn't do it.
40:25So,
40:25their leader,
40:26Oishi Yoshio,
40:27did it for him
40:28and took Kira's head
40:29to Asano's grave.
40:30Each Ronin
40:31was sentenced
40:32to death
40:32for their revenge
40:33but was given
40:34the choice
40:34to commit seppuku
40:35which they all took.
40:37They weren't corrupted
40:38by court life
40:39and they were probably
40:41really rough
40:42country men
40:43who just would not
40:45take that sort of
40:46treatment and insult.
40:47Pierre Picot,
40:48the real Count
40:49of Monte Cristo.
40:51Just as God
40:52has freed it
40:52from my heart
40:53and what has replaced it.
41:00The Count
41:00of Monte Cristo
41:01is one of the greatest
41:02revenge stories
41:03in literary history
41:04and though it is
41:05a work of fiction,
41:06the main character
41:07Edmond Dantes
41:07is said to be based
41:09on a real man
41:09named Pierre Picot.
41:11A 19th century shoemaker
41:12from southern France,
41:13Picot was falsely accused
41:15of being an English spy
41:16by his alleged friends.
41:17Following years
41:18of forced servitude,
41:19Picot was released
41:20and after some
41:21careful plotting,
41:22murdered the three men
41:23who had betrayed him.
41:24He was particularly ruthless
41:26in dealing with Lupien,
41:27the man who had married
41:28his former fiancée.
41:30Picot tricked the man's
41:31children into lives
41:32of crime before finally
41:33stabbing their father
41:34to death.
41:35How did you ever
41:35call yourself my friend?
41:37We were friends, Edmond.
41:40Alexander Alec Turner,
41:42the man who got even.
41:44Reminiscent of a real-life
41:45version of Django,
41:47Alec Turner was born
41:48into servitude
41:48on a Virginia tobacco
41:49plantation in 1845.
41:51At a young age,
41:52he was taught to read
41:53and write in secret
41:54by the plantation
41:55owner's granddaughter.
41:56They were eventually
41:57caught, however,
41:58and Turner was badly
41:59beaten and whipped.
42:00Eventually able to escape
42:01at the start of the Civil War,
42:03Turner joined the Union Army.
42:04In 1863,
42:06Turner returned
42:07to his old plantation
42:08with his regiment
42:09and personally shot
42:10and killed
42:10his former overseer.
42:12Now,
42:13all you black folks,
42:14I suggest you get away
42:16from all these white folks.
42:19Not you, Stephen.
42:20He survived the war,
42:21eventually settling
42:22on a farm in Vermont,
42:23appropriately named
42:25Journey's End.
42:33Nakam,
42:34the Jewish Avengers.
42:36Understandably,
42:37many people were dissatisfied
42:39with the result
42:39of the Nuremberg Trials,
42:41where only 24 individuals
42:42were indicted.
42:43And so a group formed
42:45named Nakam,
42:46shortened from
42:46Dam Yehudi Nakam,
42:48or Jewish Blood Will Be Avenged,
42:50with the goal
42:50of seeking their own
42:51form of justice.
42:52The group poisoned
42:533,000 loaves of bread
42:55that were being sent
42:56to an American POW camp,
42:57intended for former
42:59SS members.
43:00I don't know how many,
43:01but what I know is
43:03that the American army
43:04has mobilized
43:06all the ambulances,
43:09and they had thousands.
43:10Over 2,000 prisoners
43:11were reportedly made ill.
43:13But,
43:14to the retroactive
43:15disappointment
43:15of former Nakam member
43:16Yosef Hamatz,
43:18there were no
43:18confirmed fatalities.
43:20According to some members,
43:21however,
43:22the group had originally
43:23desired to kill
43:236 million Germans
43:25by poisoning the water
43:26supplies of the country's
43:27main cities.
43:28To kill 6 million Germans,
43:30that's,
43:31that's even insane
43:32to say that.
43:34Which 6 million?
43:35Where?
43:36How?
43:37Frank Eaton,
43:38the man who avenged
43:39his pa.
43:40Born in the mid-19th century
43:41in Connecticut,
43:42Frank Eaton moved to Kansas
43:44with his family
43:44when he was 8 years old.
43:45Around this time,
43:46his vigilante father
43:48was killed by
43:48six ex-confederate soldiers.
43:50A family friend
43:51told Eaton,
43:52quote,
43:52my boy,
43:53may an old man's curse
43:54rest upon you
43:55if you do not try
43:56to avenge your father.
43:57Frank began training,
43:59quickly earned the nickname
44:00Pistol Pete,
44:01and was said to be
44:02faster on the draw
44:03than Buffalo Bill.
44:04As the story goes,
44:05he managed to seek out
44:06and kill five of the murderers
44:08before he turned 30,
44:09with the last,
44:10John Ferber,
44:11escaping Eaton's wrath
44:12only by dying
44:13before Eaton
44:14could get to him.
44:15Aaron Burr,
44:16the vice president
44:17who'd had enough.
44:18We've heard of
44:19political rivalries before,
44:21but nothing quite like this.
44:22Both Alexander Hamilton
44:24and Aaron Burr
44:24were big players
44:25on the political stage
44:26at the turn
44:27of the 19th century.
44:28Burr had gone up
44:29against Thomas Jefferson
44:30for the presidential nomination,
44:31but lost,
44:32thanks in part
44:33to Hamilton's influence.
44:34The choice between
44:35Jefferson and Burr
44:37fell to the House
44:37of Representatives,
44:39controlled by
44:40Hamilton's party
44:41called Federalists.
44:44Now, Aaron Burr
44:46had to make
44:47a very hard decision.
44:49A few years later,
44:50Burr ran for governor
44:51of New York,
44:52only to once again
44:53see his ambitions
44:54dashed by the counter-efforts
44:55of Hamilton,
44:56who campaigned
44:57aggressively against him.
44:58Fed up,
44:59Burr,
44:59who was still vice president
45:01at the time,
45:01challenged Hamilton
45:02to a duel.
45:03The pair met
45:04in Weehawken,
45:04New Jersey,
45:05and Hamilton
45:06was mortally wounded.
45:11Buford Pusser,
45:12the sheriff
45:13who walked tall.
45:14Yes, I was beaten
45:15and robbed
45:15on the Mississippi
45:16and Tennessee
45:16state line,
45:17and of course,
45:18the local law enforcement
45:19wasn't doing
45:20anything about it,
45:20and that's when
45:21I decided to run
45:22for sheriff.
45:23During his time
45:24as sheriff
45:24of McNary County,
45:26Buford Pusser
45:26waged a one-man war
45:28on crime,
45:29focusing primarily
45:30on the state line mob,
45:31which operated
45:32along the border
45:33of Mississippi
45:33and Tennessee.
45:34Naturally,
45:35this did not sit
45:36well with the gang,
45:36who severely wounded
45:38Pusser and murdered
45:39his wife
45:39in a drive-by
45:40assassination attempt.
45:41Pusser's ensuing
45:42quest for revenge
45:43inspired a trilogy
45:44of films
45:45in the 70s
45:46and a 2004 remake
45:47starring Dwayne Johnson.
45:48I grew up in this town.
45:51People used to walk
45:52tall in this town.
45:54They wouldn't have
45:55traded the mill
45:55for a crooked casino.
45:56Though the exact details
45:58are largely obscured
45:59in mystery and rumor,
46:00various authors
46:01and local law enforcement
46:02have suggested
46:03that Pusser
46:03had a hand
46:04in the killing
46:04of three of the four men
46:06he accused
46:06of being behind
46:07his wife's death.
46:08People need
46:10or looking for
46:11maybe a hero type,
46:13somebody that stood up
46:14for the underdog.
46:15Carl V. Erickson,
46:16the retiree
46:17who really held a grudge.
46:19High school
46:19can be a difficult time,
46:21particularly if you
46:22aren't considered
46:23one of the so-called
46:23popular kids.
46:25Carl Erickson
46:25experienced this firsthand
46:27when he was the victim
46:27of a cruel prank.
46:29While the exact details
46:30of the incident
46:31are unclear,
46:32it did involve
46:33a jockstrap being placed
46:34on Erickson's head
46:35in front of a group
46:36of students.
46:36Erickson blamed
46:37Norman Johnson
46:38for the prank
46:38and took the idea
46:40that revenge
46:40is a dish best served cold
46:42a little too far.
46:43He waited over 50 years
46:45to get even,
46:46confronting Johnson
46:47and killing him
46:48in his home in 2012.
46:50Both men were
46:51in their 70s
46:52and Erickson
46:53was given a life sentence
46:54for his crime.
46:54Jared Harris,
46:56the avenging
46:57amateur tattoo artist.
46:58Prison is a rough place
47:00in general,
47:00but for those
47:01who've been convicted
47:02of crimes against children,
47:03it is living hell.
47:05Back in 2006,
47:06Anthony R. Stockleman
47:07was sentenced
47:08to life in prison
47:09after assaulting
47:09and murdering
47:10the young Katie Coleman.
47:11To the ignorance
47:12of officials,
47:13Stockleman was placed
47:14in the very same prison
47:15as Katie's older cousin,
47:17Jared Harris,
47:17who was serving time
47:18for burglary.
47:19From what investigators
47:20could put together,
47:21it seems that Harris
47:22cornered Stockleman
47:23and with the help
47:24of other inmates,
47:25tattooed the words
47:26found on the inmates'
47:27forehead the next morning.
47:28The script in question,
47:30Katie's revenge.
47:31Lorena Bobbitt,
47:32the knife-wielding wife
47:33who refused
47:34to be the victim anymore.
47:36I will wake up
47:37shaking and scared
47:38and I will have nightmares.
47:41We've heard
47:41of volatile marriages before,
47:42but this case
47:43caught the attention
47:44of the international community.
47:46According to Lorena Bobbitt,
47:47she'd suffered
47:48various forms of abuse
47:49at the hands
47:50of her husband for years
47:51and on the night
47:52that she finally snapped,
47:53he had forced himself
47:54on her.
47:55That was June 23rd, 1993.
47:57A date ex-husband
47:58John Wayne Bobbitt
47:59is unlikely
48:00to ever forget.
48:02My mind went blank.
48:04I could barely walk,
48:06could barely breathe.
48:08While her husband slept,
48:09Lorena took a knife
48:10from the kitchen
48:11and cut off his appendage,
48:12drove several miles
48:13and threw it into a field.
48:15It was eventually found
48:17after an extensive search
48:18and reattached
48:19during an over
48:19nine-hour operation.
48:21It took a long time
48:22to actually
48:23to get to
48:24what I am right now.
48:26It's really
48:28psychologically.
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49:02Aku Yadav,
49:03the accused predator
49:04who met mob justice.
49:06For over a decade,
49:07Indian gangster Aku Yadav,
49:09real name Bharat Kalicharan,
49:11terrorized locals
49:12in a slum
49:13outside the city of Nagpur.
49:14He sexually assaulted
49:15over 40 women
49:17and killed
49:17at least three people.
49:19After a mob
49:20burned down his house,
49:21Yadav had the police,
49:22who were in his pocket,
49:23arrest him
49:24for his own protection.
49:25In response,
49:26hundreds of women
49:27stormed the courtroom
49:28where his bail hearing
49:29was being held
49:30and stabbed him to death.
49:31The women openly
49:32admitted responsibility
49:33and while some
49:35were arrested,
49:36the police eventually
49:37backed down
49:38and released them.
49:39Were these people
49:40justified or no?
49:41Let us know
49:42in the comments.
49:42of people
49:49Have you ever had
49:49Have you ever told me
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