A group of teenage boys murdered a 15-year-old schoolgirl and left her body in the woods to decompose in a sickening plot to 'earn a ticket to hell.' Elyse Pahler was killed in Templeton, Florida, on ...

Ritual killing was a common part of religious sacrifice in the ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá. For decades, media depictions cast the victims of these acts as young women and adolescent girls. In ...