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In London, during December 2013, a disagreement over a public computer in a community center escalated to murder when six teenagers beat an older man with a chair. Two weeks later, than man died.
After a fight broke out in a neighborhood of Yazoo City, Mississippi, a 42-year-old man, Michael Marshall, beat 28-year-old Demarcus Jones to death, with a shovel. Directly afterward, Jones' brother shot Marshall in the chest.
In 2010, simply trying to break up a fight between his friend and a stranger, Englishman Drew Clark struck the stranger on the head with a fire extinguisher. The blow ended up breaking the man's skull, and he died in the hospital shortly afterward.
One of the more creative and gruesome instances of murder with an unusual weapon occurred in 2006 when a 61-year-old man from Florida strangled a 29-year-old woman with a pair of sweatpants.
In a tragic and seemingly random act of violence, a man in Hannover, Germany, was literally stabbed in the back by the point of an umbrella that was apparently modified with a needle at the tip, which injected mercury into the man's body, sending the man into a coma from which he did not wake up.
Tragedy stuck Forth Worth, Texas, in 2013, when a 13-year-old boy struck his five-year-old neighbor twice in the head with a bowling ball, crushing the five-year-old's skull.
A gruesome murder was uncovered in Australia in 2009 when a Chinese exchange student, Chen Liu, was found wrapped in a carpet. Using a high-powered nail gun, 34 nails were lodged into Liu's neck and skull.
In this tale of righteous revenge, a teenage boy who had been the victim of assault at the hands of a much older man for years finally fought back against his abuser, and bashed the older man over the head with a pickle jar. After the judge learned the details of the incident in court, the boy was only sentenced to five years of probation.
In the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, a father of three was found face up in his own bedroom, with a corkscrew lodged in his head. The killer was never found.
A disturbing crime of passion occurred in England in 2007, when the jealous lover of Rebecca Love stabbed her no less than 93 times with a pen. Love's body wasn't found until two days afterward.
While chainsaws are a favorite murder weapon in horror flicks, its not every day you hear of one actually being used in real life. Jose Corona made this popular trope into a gruesome reality one day in Texas, when he dismembered his wife with his chainsaw and left her body in the street.
An argument in Augusta, Georgia, turned violent and then fatal when Bryant Willerson grabbed a floor lamp in the vicinity and attacked William McClain. McClain was later pronounced dead at the scene of the crime.
Texan pastor Danny Kirk was the victim of a ruthless murder when a man, later described as severely paranoid, beat him to death with a guitar.
In an awful event of filicide, a woman from Utah was found guilty of first-degree murder in 2011 for beating her five-year-old daughter to death with a kitchen spatula.
A robbery went horribly wrong in England when one Richard Clare hit his victim, the elderly Timothy Magee, other the head with a dessert spoon. While likely not intending to kill Magee, Clare's blow to Magee's head caused internal bleeding and led to Magee's death.
A 20-year-old woman was beaten to death by her boyfriend in 2013. The murder weapon? The boyfriend's Xbox 360 video game console, which was found battered and bloodied next to the woman's body.
Two 18-year-old-boys in a neighborhood of Queens, New York, got into an altercation that ended in a bloodbath. While the reasons for the argument are still unclear, it was effectively put to an end when one of the teens slayed the other with a massive samurai sword that he kept in his room.
In a series of events that seems too cold and heartless to be true, the mother of a 28-day-year-old baby put her child in a microwave during an alleged drunken blackout for more than two minutes. The mother is now serving a life sentence in an Ohio prison.
A woman named Debra Hewitt, from Louisiana, beat her boyfriend to death in 2011 with her own prosthetic leg, allegedly while balancing on her good leg.
In 2012 in the midst of an argument, Nora Peterson killed her boyfriend with a frying pan from their kitchen. Later Peterson was charged with first-degree murder and sentenced to 22 years in prison.
A lover's quarrel turned deadly in 2006 when Marvin Hill tried to end things with his girlfriend, Christina Eubanks. When Eubanks protested, Hill resorted to violence, and hit her over the head with the heavy lid to his toilet tank, resulting in Eubanks' death.
A grisly story played out in Lyndon, Kansas, when John Paul Harris shot, abducted, and then tortured James Gerety for two days before removing his head with a guitar string. It was reported that Harris kept the head for a number of days, talking to it as part of a "voodoo ritual."
This tale of murder comes from a 14th-century Norse legend, which tells the story of chess opponents Faber and Sowden. What began as the two Vikings throwing chess pieces at each other escalated to murder when Faber bashed Sowden over the head with the chess board itself, allegedly killing him instantly.
A crazed robber named Jared Kuester broke into a farmhouse in Wisconsin in 2013. When met with resistance by the residents of the farmhouse, Kuester resorted to murder, committing a triple homicide with a cast-iron fireplace poker.
Sources: (The Guardian) (Ranker) (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
See also: The most mysterious murders of all time
In 1935, 21-year-old Edith Maxwell was sentenced to 25 years in prison after beating her father to death with a high-heeled shoe after the father and daughter got into a fight in their home.
In a fit of reprehensible violence, a man from Ohio beat his wife to death with not one, but two banjos. After the first banjo was obliterated, the man continued with a second.
Reginald Hemsley-Doddingdale was the victim of what the police said was the the "worst case of pumpernickeling" they had ever seen. Hemsley-Doddingdale had been hit in the back of the head with a loaf of pumpernickel bread allegedly so hard that it caused blunt-force trauma and killed him.
A woman in Northern Ireland was charged with murder for brutally beating an older woman with a crucifix on Christmas Day.
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We all know the classic murder weapons: guns, knives, poison, and the like. Sometimes, though, murderers pull off their vile acts with much stranger objects. Whether due to inefficiency, rarity, or a simple lack of apparent murder power, some conduits of killing just seem surprising. Nevertheless, there's been no shortage of murders over the years that have been realized by the most unexpected means.
Read on to learn about some of the weirdest murder weapons that made the news.