On 5 July a gale developed and Méduse showed signs of breaking up. 146 men and one woman boarded an unstable raft. The raft had few supplies and no means of steering or navigation. By the fourth day there were only 67 people left alive on the raft and some resorted to cannibalism to survive. On the eighth day the fittest decided to throw the weak and wounded overboard, leaving just 15 men remaining, all of whom survived another four days until their rescue on 17 July by the brig Argus which accidentally encountered them. (2 July 1816)
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Saturday 21st of April 1973 (-) — Mother and victim of Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer Clarnell Strandberg-Kemper is bludgeoned to death and her throat slit by Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer Kemper then decapitated his mother and engaged in irrumatio with her severed head before using it as a dart board. He also cut out her tongue and larynx and put them in the garbage disposal. The garbage disposal could not break down Clarnell's tough vocal cords and ejected the tissue back into the sink. "That seemed appropriate,"Kemper later said "as much as she'd bitched and screamed and yelled at me over so many years."
Saturday 21st of April 1973 (-) — Victim of Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer Sara Hallett is strangled by Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer Kemper invited his mother's best friend Sally over to the house for dinner and a movie. When Hallett arrived Kemper strangled and decapitated her and spent the night with her body.