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Bowling ball -

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.

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Umbrella -

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.

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Guitar -

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.

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Samurai sword -

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.

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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.

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Guitar string -

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."

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Spatula -

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.

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Chess board -

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.

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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.

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Toilet tank lid -

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.

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Floor lamp -

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.

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Xbox 360 -

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.

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Corkscrew -

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.

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Pen -

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.

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Prosthetic leg -

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.

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Crucifix -

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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Chair -

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.

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Frying pan -

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.

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Chainsaw -

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.

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Nailgun -

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.

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Banjos -

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.

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Dessert spoon -

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.

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Microwave -

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.

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Fire extinguisher -

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.

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High heels -

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.

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Sweatpants -

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.

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Shovel -

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.

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Fire poker -

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

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