Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
'Tool Box' killers joined forces to hunt young girls in creepy van named 'Murder Mac'
dailystar.co.ukcriminals who became friends in prison decided to join forces by hunting their victims in a creepy van named "Murder Mac." Pals Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris prowled roads in California in a bid to find young women they could torture and kill in 1979.They captured at least five teens aged between 13 to 18 and inflicted "astonishing cruelty" before ending their lives. READ MORE Evil killer learned to 'pop out eyes' as a child and used taxidermy skills for murders Bittacker and Norris slowly scarred and killed their victims with the use of tools including screwdrivers, icepicks and pliers - which led to them being called “The Toolbox Killers.” The killers, who carried out the campaign of violence from June to October, were described as “organised and sexually sadistic" by true-crime authors Jack Rosewood and Rebecca Lo.
The pair met while serving time at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, reports Crime Oxygen.Bittaker was put behind bars for stabbing a store assistant who accused him of shoplifting in 1974.
While, Norris was jailed for rape.They discovered a shared love for sadism and decided to reconnect once they were both released from prison.Their victims were named as: Lucinda Lynn “Cindy” Schaefer, 16; Andrea Hall, 18; Jacqueline Gilliam, 15; Jacqueline Leah Lamp, 13; and Shirley Lynette Ledford, 16.However, the bodies of Schaefer and Hall are yet to be found.The killers were eventually put to a stop after Norris boasted about their crimes to a friend who went straight to the police.In a bid to avoid the death penalty, Norris agreed to plead guilty and testify against Bittaker.
He was sentenced to 45 years to life in prison in April 1981.Meanwhile, Bittaker was slapped with a death sentence on March.
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