00:03On November 23, 1990, former Major League catcher Bo Diaz was at his home in Caracas, Venezuela.
00:10The 37-year-old had retired from baseball just months earlier, after a 13-year career.
00:16That afternoon, the weather was windy, and the television signal from his rooftop satellite dish was cutting in and out.
00:23The interruption frustrated him enough to climb up to the roof to adjust the massive dish himself.
00:28The satellite dish was enormous, weighing several hundred pounds, mounted on a metal frame anchored to the roof.
00:36As Diaz worked to reposition it, struggling against the strong winds, the mounting structure gave way.
00:42The heavy dish tipped forward, and in an instant, the full weight of the metal antenna came crashing down on
00:49him.
00:50The impact was crushing.
00:52The dish struck him directly, pinning him beneath its massive frame.
00:56The force of the falling satellite dish fractured his skull and crushed his chest, causing catastrophic internal injuries.
01:05He was trapped under the weight, unable to move or call for help.
01:09By the time family members found him on the roof, he was already dead.
01:16On September 4th, 2006, the world-famous Crocodile Hunter was filming off the coast of Port Douglas, Australia.
01:23The 44-year-old conservationist was in the shallow waters of Bat Reef, shooting a segment for his daughter's television
01:29show during a break in filming for his main project, Ocean's Deadliest.
01:33He was snorkeling above a massive, normally placid stingray, a creature known for its calm demeanor.
01:40But in a sudden, unprovoked instant, the animal turned defensive.
01:45According to his cameraman, Justin Lyons, the stingray propped on its front and began stabbing wildly with its tail, delivering
01:52hundreds of strikes in just a few seconds.
01:54It's believed the ray mistook Erwin's shadow for a tiger shark, one of its natural predators.
02:01The attack was swift and brutal.
02:03A jagged, eight-inch barb at the end of the ray's tail pierced Erwin's chest, creating a two-inch-wide
02:10wound that penetrated his heart and lungs.
02:13When the cameraman panned back, he saw Erwin floating in a rapidly expanding pool of blood.
02:19The crew pulled him from the water and onto their boat, immediately starting CPR.
02:25For over an hour, they fought to save him, continuing chest compressions as they raced to the nearby Low Isles
02:31for medical help.
02:32But the injury was too severe.
02:34The barb had caused catastrophic internal injuries and massive blood loss.
02:40Steve Erwin was pronounced dead on the scene, having died not from venom, but from the direct physical trauma of
02:47the attack.
02:50In October 2003, Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend Amy Huguenard were in the final days of their annual expedition in
02:57Katmai National Park, Alaska.
03:00For 13 summers, the 46-year-old bear enthusiast had lived among the grizzlies, often getting dangerously close and treating
03:07them like companions.
03:09On October 5th, as they prepared to leave, their luck ran out.
03:13A video camera, found later at their campsite, was turned on just before the attack began, its lens cap still
03:21on.
03:21It captured six minutes of pure audio horror.
03:26The recording begins with Treadwell's surprised screams as a bear attacks him.
03:31Amy, 37, can be heard yelling for him to play dead.
03:35The sounds of the mauling are raw and visceral, a chaotic mix of growls, screams, and the tearing of flesh.
03:43As the attack intensifies, Amy's advice shifts from passive defense to desperate action, screaming at Treadwell to fight back.
03:52He yells for her to hit the bear, but the struggle is one-sided.
03:56The audio is a brutal, unfiltered document of a man being consumed alive.
04:03Amy's screams fill the tape as she apparently attacks the bear, trying to save him, before her own cries are
04:09cut short.
04:10When an air taxi pilot arrived to pick them up, he found a large male grizzly sitting on top of
04:15what was left of their bodies.
04:17Park rangers were forced to shoot and kill the bear, and later, a second, more aggressive one.
04:22An autopsy of the first bear revealed human remains and clothing in its stomach, confirming the gruesome end to Treadwell's
04:29and Huguenard's lives.
04:33On April 13, 2009, former Detroit Tigers pitcher Mark Fidrich was working alone on his farm in Northborough, Massachusetts.
04:42The 54-year-old, known as The Bird during his brief but spectacular baseball career, was underneath his 1987 Mack
04:51dump truck, performing routine maintenance.
04:54The truck was running, its engine idling as he worked beneath the chassis.
04:58What he didn't realize was that his clothing was dangerously close to the truck's power takeoff shaft, a spinning mechanical
05:05component that transfers power from the engine.
05:07As he shifted his position under the truck, his shirt snagged on the rotating shaft.
05:13In an instant, the fabric was pulled tight, wrapping around the spinning metal.
05:18The force yanked him toward the machinery, and his clothes twisted tighter and tighter around his neck and torso.
05:25He was trapped, unable to free himself as the shaft continued to spin, constricting his airway.
05:31The pressure on his throat cut off his breathing completely.
05:34He struggled against the mechanical grip, but the power of the rotating shaft was relentless.
05:40Within minutes, he suffocated, his body pinned beneath the truck.
05:45A family friend found him later that afternoon, lifeless under the vehicle.
05:50The medical examiner ruled it an accidental asphyxiation.
05:57On the evening of February 27th, 2015, R&B singer Charmaine Maxwell was at her Los Angeles home with her
06:04husband.
06:05The 46-year-old, a member of the popular 90s group Brownstone, had been drinking wine.
06:12According to reports, she was alone in a room when she fell.
06:15As she fell, she was holding a wine glass.
06:18The fragile crystal shattered on impact.
06:21And in a one-in-a-million freak occurrence, a shard of glass sliced deep into her neck.
06:29The sharp edge of the broken glass acted like a knife, severing a major artery.
06:34Blood began to pour from the wound, and she started to lose consciousness rapidly.
06:40Her husband found her bleeding heavily, and immediately called for help.
06:44Paramedics arrived to a horrific scene.
06:47Maxwell had lost a massive amount of blood in a very short time.
06:52They rushed her to the hospital, but the damage was too severe.
06:56The single, deep laceration to her neck had caused her to bleed out before doctors could intervene.
07:02An investigation later confirmed there was no foul play.
07:09On the morning of September 27, 1975, actor Mark Frechette was in the weight room at Norfolk Prison in Massachusetts.
07:18The 27-year-old, once the star of Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point, was serving a 15-year sentence for
07:26bank robbery.
07:27He had been incarcerated for just two years.
07:30That morning, he was alone in the gym, attempting to bench press a 150-pound barbell.
07:36Without a spotter, he positioned himself beneath the weight bar and began his lift.
07:43As he lowered the barbell toward his chest, his arms gave out.
07:47The heavy bar dropped, landing directly across his throat.
07:51The weight pinned him down, crushing his windpipe and cutting off his airway.
07:57He struggled to push the bar off, but the angle and the weight made it impossible.
08:03His body convulsed as he fought for air, but the pressure on his neck was too great.
08:09With each passing second, his ability to breathe diminished.
08:14A fellow inmate discovered his body hours later, the barbell still resting on his throat.
08:19The autopsy confirmed he had died from asphyxiation, suffocated by the weight he could not lift off himself.
08:26Prison officials ruled it an accident, though some questioned whether it was truly a mishap or something more deliberate.
08:37On December 18, 2000, British singer-songwriter Kirstie McColl was on vacation with her two sons in Cozumel, Mexico.
08:45The 41-year-old, famous for her vocals on the Christmas classic Fairy Tale of New York, was a certified
08:51diver.
08:51That afternoon, she and her sons, Jamie and Louis, were diving in a designated restricted diving area, supervised by a
08:59local dive master.
09:00The water was clear, and the dive was coming to an end.
09:04As they surfaced, the idyllic scene was shattered by the roar of a powerboat illegally entering the restricted zone at
09:11high speed.
09:13The boat was bearing down directly on her 15-year-old son, Jamie.
09:17With only seconds to react, McColl's maternal instincts took over.
09:22She shoved her son out of the boat's path, pushing him to safety.
09:25But in saving him, she placed herself directly in the path of the oncoming vessel.
09:30The powerboat struck her with immense force, the impact causing severe head and chest injuries.
09:37She was killed instantly.
09:39The idyllic family vacation had turned into a scene of horror.
09:43Her final act was one of selfless heroism, sacrificing her own life to save her child.
09:48The man operating the boat, a wealthy Mexican businessman, was later convicted of culpable homicide.
09:55But the controversial and lenient sentence he received sparked a long campaign for justice by McColl's family and fans.
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