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Submit ReviewKim had heard the rumors of Pastor Jeong raping his female followers but he knew the devil was working hard to take down their Messiah.
But one day, while working in the JMS church post office - Kim stumbled upon a mysterious package. He opened it up to find a hard drive and hundreds of nude photos of women he recognized from the church.
Photos of women in various stages of undress. Videos of naked women screaming Pastor Jeong’s name, licking his picture, pleasuring themselves, and calling out for Pastor Jeong to come back to them…
Kim realized all the “devil’s lies” were nothing but the truth. Pastor Jeong had talked about “saving” 10,000 female souls. Now, he realized all he wanted to do was rape 10,000 women. Experts say Pastor Jeong would come very close.
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The hospital staff were frantic trying to save the 26 bodies that were being wheeled into the emergency room. A local psychiatric clinic had suspiciously burst into flames. Mental health professionals, doctors, and patients were being rushed into the hospital.
The doctors focused on saving their lives. They started getting to work on a man that was wheeled in with the others. They gave him compressions, checked his vitals, and went to empty his pockets for safety reasons - and they found something odd.
Two cans of tear gas, a knife, and a melted lighter.
They soon realized they were trying to save the life of the killer. The man who started the fire and would soon kill 26 people. But who would target a mental health clinic and kill those who were already so vulnerable?
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Have you ever played Hide & Seek? The game? Sarah and her boyfriend Jorge Torres decided to play one night. The best hiding spot they could find was inside a suitcase. Jorge crawled inside, and Sarah zipped it up.
She waited a moment, then she watched as he pushed up against the suitcase trying to get out. He was struggling to get enough oxygen. He started begging her to let him out. She recorded his screams and laughed in his face.
“This is what it feels like when you cheat on me” - she said.
Sarah left him in the suitcase, calmly went upstairs, and fell asleep for the night. He would be dead by morning.
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He killed 3 people on Chinese New Year. He admitted to it, he turned himself in, and he said in court that he didn’t regret a single moment of it.
He had waited 20 long years to finally do it and now he felt free.
He confessed to a triple homicide so why was a whole country rooting for him?
Because he had gotten revenge on his mom’s killers. He had waited 20 years to take what he felt was his—an eye for an eye.
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17-year-old Janice was hiding under the bed. There were 3 masked men that had broken into the family home. They were going from room to room attacking anyone they stumbled across.
Janice managed to slide under her bed, but she had no idea if they would find her - if she were next. She couldn’t make a single noise.
She tried to text her family to send help. She posted on Facebook, hoping someone would read it and call the police.
By the time her father came home - 2 of the 3 siblings were found dead. But in today’s case - nothing is what it seems.
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Lee’s girlfriend had just moved in with him. It was perfect; Christmas of 2022 was just around the corner, and he was the perfect gift to her life.
Lee, was attentive, caring, compassionate, and the perfect boyfriend.
He even had 3 adorable cats that she grew attached to.
While Lee was out running errands, she started unpacking, and realized she needed to feed one of those cats. She searched everywhere for the bag of cat food, nowhere in the kitchen or pantry. She found herself staring at the open hallway storage closet.
She was just looking for cat food.
But she had stumbled across a dead body.
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Yeram’s wedding day was almost perfect. It was one of the happiest days of her life in a very long time.
She spent the day grabbing fast food with her new husband, unpacking their newlywed house, and calling each other “wife” and “husband.”
Later that night, on their wedding night, Lee Yeram would take her own life. Why? Why would she do this after one of the happiest moments of her life? Just 81 days prior, she was sexually assaulted by her Air Force senior sergeant. This case would become one of South Korea’s most talked about cases with layers of corruption.
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Her only mistake was picking up the phone. That’s it. She didn’t know it was the bully’s boyfriend calling her. This “mistake” almost cost her her life.
She was dragged into a karaoke bar - beaten to an inch of her life. Then later, dragged into an alleyway near an abandoned factory where she was beaten by 5 bullies. They assaulted her for hours until she was drenched in blood, and the whole thing was caught on CCTV.
She barely made it out alive but her nightmare was just beginning. These photos started to circulate in her high school and the victim was taunted for the fact that she was tortured.
That’s just the story of one victim. Another victim was burned all over her body with a hair straightener. Another one was lit on fire for his birthday as a “celebratory candle.”
These are the real-life school violence stories that inspired the K-Drama “The Glory.”
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If you go to South Korea, there are a lot of fortune tellers. They have cafes, automated fortune dispensers, and palm readings; they have everything you need to figure out what’s in store for you in the future.
They have all the answers. When SJ sat down in front of his fortune teller, she smiled. His future was clear as day. So easy to read.
She told him - “You, my dear, will become famous. You will make videos and be known by everyone.”
What she didn’t tell him was that he would be known for being a super spread of Herpes and will be arrested for his crimes.
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Can you be at two places at once? Not in the metaverse, or in VR, but physically? Recently, a case has gone viral because it seemed a YouTuber was able to be at two very different places at the same time.
December 18, 2022, Stephen was home live-streaming for his YouTube audience. His stream was titled “The Violent Night - Christmas Stream.” He was engaged in intense gameplay of Grand Theft Auto.
But at the same time, it was alleged that he was somewhere else completely. Miles away. Allegedly was caught on CCTV on his way to murder his pregnant girlfriend.
But how could that be if he was sitting in front of his camera live-streaming? Is this a case of mistaken identity? A dopple ganger? Or something else entirely?
Non-Profit organizations (please do your own research before committing to a donation)!
https://www.thehotline.org/identify-abuse/
https://rainn.org/?_ga=2.257109385.348324636.1679154857-245043802.1679154857
https://www.rainbowplace.org/s/
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There is something special about late night with friends. The 4 women sat in the corner of the packed BBQ restaurant and placed their order.
Their lives felt perfect. When one friend walked out to take a phone call she heard her friends laughing and joking around. When she came back all she heard were their screams.
Her friends were being brutally beaten by 9 strange men for the pure fact that they refused to sleep with them. No bystander tried to help.
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On October 30th, a man walked out of his tiny little shop in Itaewon. He placed a pink blanket in the grim alleyway. He got on his knees in front of a tray of food he had prepared.
Police immediately swarmed him, demanding he leave right away. Nobody was supposed to be in the alley, not after what had happened there.
The man yelled at the police - “don’t you dare touch the food. Don’t touch it. Please you have to let me do this. The kids need to eat one last meal.”
159 young souls had tragically died in that little alleyway. The man had desperately tried to save them.
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The suburban house sat amongst the others that looked just like it. There was something different about this one. All the windows of the house were covered in dark cloth.
Even the front door was covered by a giant black curtain. The neighbors wondered what secrets the new neighbors were hiding. Perhaps an illegal gambling ring? A brothel?
The world was shocked to see two stainless steel pots being carried out from that house with human remains found inside.
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He stomped the snow off his boots; the ice storm had no mercy on this town. It was nearly 3:30 in the morning, and the officer had somewhere important to be. He knocked on the woman’s door and followed her down into her basement.
She didn’t even seem to notice the chill in the air. It seemed like she was distracted. Like she had seen something far more scarier than a relentless winter storm.
Tara explained she came down into the basement and saw her son like this. She glanced down, the officer squatted and peeled back the bath towel. There, staring up at him. Was the severed head of Tara’s son sitting in a black bucket.
The details of this case would lead everyone to believe a female Jeffrey Dahmer was on the loose.
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She sat there listening to the man sitting in front of her. She had trusted him before all of this - but now, he was blubbering about what happened. All 6 of the vacationers would find their way to her house to tell her what happened on their Mexico trip.
All of them had their own version of events, but it wasn’t adding up.
How come they all left for Mexico together as “friends,” but they left her daughter, Shanquella, in Mexico? Why was her daughter’s body being held in a foreign coroner’s medical office? Why were these so-called “friends” lying about her daughter’s death?
Who needs enemies when you have friends like these?
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The 20 year high school reunion was a big deal for these friends. They had all grown up, started their own families, but one thing has always united them. Their oath of silence. Their oath of protection.
Everyone sat down at their seats but their smiles quickly faded once they saw the empty chair next to them. They were reminded again of their friend who was not with them.
What happened? Had they died? Had they moved abroad?
No.
They were in jail - for murder.
The friends covered for them for over 20 years.
Why?
Because the victim deserved it.
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The person looked like they hadn’t slept in days. They were clearly agitated and nervous. Pacing.
They flagged down a detective and told them
“The stuff in the mountains. It was me.
The body parts you’re finding.
Scattered around the mountains.
I cut them up and threw them all over the place.
I blacked out, and I don’t know what happened. I just threw them all over the mountains.”
The detectives had no idea what they had just gotten themselves into. They were about to unearth some very dark secrets.
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It was a good day to look for a missing person. It sounds dark, but the conditions at sea were optimal for a search and rescue. But life is funny, it never works out the way you expect.
They searched for days before they gave up. It’s like the man had vanished into thin air. For 6 years, his family mourned his disappearance. A husband, father, son, had been ripped from their lives.
But the story wasn’t over. He would come back 6 years later. He would show up in a small town in summer clothes, in the middle of December, and confused about his surroundings. He was confused about who he was, but he was holding onto a big secret that would shake the whole world up.
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They said she did it. They said they had all the evidence but the victim’s sisters weren’t so sure.
Detective V picked up his phone at the sheriff’s department, there was a woman on the other line. She informed him that her sister had died mysteriously from ingesting a heavily regulated toxin and she was certain she knew who did it.
It was her brother-in-law. She warned the detective -
“And if he did it, you’re never going to catch him.”
“Why is that?”
“Because I believe him to be brilliant.”
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Mary died 6 times that day. Each time, a loud siren would blare through the hospital alerting the doctors.
Her family rallied around her, praying, and hoping for a speedy recovery.
There was her husband - he would soon enter into a romantic relationship with Mary’s sister.
Then there was her son - he had already admitted to sleeping with a minor, what other atrocities could he have committed?
Then there was his ex-gf - the one that accused him of rape + assault.
By the time Mary walked in through the hospital doors, she was already dead. One of these people knew it was too late for Mary to be saved. And they were betting on it.
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The heat was suffocating. She was stuck in her car with no AC in the middle of the Florida summer heat. That’s comparable to being slow-cooked in an oven.
She wiped the sweat off her forehead and left a smear of dark pigment on her hand. She was sweating her disguise off.
She had to look as natural as possible. Not suspicious. But how could she? She was doing blackface in her car, wearing a giant hoodie, shoes that were 5 sizes too big, and a gun resting on her passenger seat.
Maybe she didn’t think this through. She thought it would be easy to kill - especially, when you have the perfect disguise for it.
(Book: “Kill For Me” - by M. William Phelps is the most extensive, thorough deep dive you will find on this case)
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There are experiences that only few will ever have the honor of feeling. Winning the World Cup, winning the presidency, maybe even winning an Oscar. It’s a feeling that feels unexplainable. The adrenaline, euphoria, joy, the release of tension when you realize you’re being rewarded for your work.
The Miss USA pageant was one of those brain chemistry altering moments.The two women stood there, holding hands, waiting for the winner’s name to be called.
The host announced the new Miss USA for 2022, the confetti fell from the sky, and immediately the tension was palpable. The other 50 contestants clapped weakly before exiting the stage. Nobody stood around to congratulate the new winner.
Something was seriously wrong. Let’s expose the dark secrets of the pageant industry, the allegations of abuse and assault.
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The University of Santa Barbara was a picturesque college town. Most days were filled with sun, surfs, and the smell of tanning lotions.
But even the sunny town had sinister residents. Elliot sat in his math class as he wrote about the girl he had a crush on. It destroyed him to find out through social media that his crush, Brittany, already had a boyfriend.
Elliot started fantasizing about kidnapping the couple and stripping Brittany’s boyfriend of all his skin. He wanted to deflesh him while forcing Brittany to watch.
This was the only way to survive his life of torment. This twisted mind would go on to kill 6 people in the picturesque town of UCSB.
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Police had kept a tight lid on this ongoing case of the four University of Idaho students that were murdered in the middle of the night. But now bits and pieces of information have come to light.
And while we have more answers, we have more questions now. Is it true that he visited the victims at the restaurant where they worked? Did he follow and message them on Instagram?
Was he an incel that felt injustice in his life for being rejected by women? Did he have a rare condition, called Visual Snow Syndrome, where his vision looked almost like TV static every day?
But the most pressing unanswered question, why?
Probable Cause Affidavit: https://www.eastidahonews.com/2023/01/read-affidavit-in-kohberger-murder-cased-warning-graphic-content/
Unsealed Search Warrant: https://kfor.com/news/search-warrant-for-idaho-suspect-bryan-kohberger-unsealed/
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There’s never a great time to find out that your husband has nudes of other women on his phone. But this was probably the worst time.
There were 30 of Sabrina’s closest friends gathered in her home when she found out about the pictures. The two men stood in front of her asking if she had any knowledge of her husband having an affair.
Sabrina said it didn’t make any sense. There’s no way he would cheat on her. They were in love.
It wasn’t a good week for Sabrina. First, she found out her husband was murdered. Then, she found out that he had nudes of other women on his phone. Later, she would find out that one of those pictures included her best friend. What’s next? Jail?
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When someone goes missing without a trace, it’s enough to make the hair on our arms stand up. One second they are here; the next second, they are gone.
When 26 kids vanish into thin air on their school bus… the whole nation loses their minds.
Chaos. Parents calling authorities. People running up and down the streets calling the kids names. FBI booked out every single room in every hotel in the town.
And finally, a lead. The mayor’s wife received an anonymous phone call.
“The children will be found. But there will be others. It’s not over.”
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The 3 men sat in front of the priestess. She was their spiritual godmother. The one that was to help them stay protected in life.
She peered into a crystal bowl filled with water. Her wrinkled face changing rapidly, her eyes darting about, it was as if she was watching a silent movie in the bowl. She told them that bad bad things were happening around them. She saw a spirit.
She looked up and indicated the spirit was behind them. The men jerked their heads and saw nothing.
“She’s there. The woman. She’s following you, her spirit wandering around, what you did to her… it’s bad. She will now follow you wherever you go.”
The 3 men left with chills. How did she know what they did to Kim? They wondered if the spirit behind them was on fire… because that’s what they did to Kim.
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The couple were in bed. The same one that they had slept in every single night for the past few years. Only, nothing about the day was normal. Jackie was inconsolable.
She was sobbing, shaking, not understanding what was going on. Her husband, Tom, tried to comfort her. He told her everything was going to be alright. He was going to be with her.
He tried to lean over and grab her hand so he could lovingly stroke it, giving her more reassurance. Only, nothing was going to be okay. They were tied up, thrown onto the bed, by an evil child star who was making plans to have them thrown overboard the yacht.
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It was her favorite outfit. A red Michael Jordan jersey, black shorts, and sneakers. She was hesitant about wearing it because, well, the color red meant something in the area, but her mom encouraged her to wear what she wanted.
Besides, all she was doing was quietly waiting for the bus to take her back home to Grandma’s. As she stood there waiting, in red, a car drove past.
For a brief second, the guys laid eyes on her. A girl wearing red. She was the one. That split second would lead to the horrific gang rape, torture, mutilation, and murder of a 14-year-old girl who just wanted to wear her favorite color.
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This is the ongoing case of the Idaho Murders. There were 6 roommates living in an off campus house when in the middle of the night, someone had entered the home, and left after taking 4 lives.
Since this is an ongoing case, there have been many speculations online of who it could have been. People were pointing fingers at just about anyone. But breaking news - a suspect has been taken into custody.
Which only brings us to ask more questions - what connection did the suspect have to the victims? Did he know them? And does the fact that he was studying criminology and getting his PhD in Criminal Justice have anything to do with the case?
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Diana’s note in her diary read - “I am sitting here at my desk today in October, longing for someone to hug me, and encourage me to keep strong and hold my head high.”
“My husband is planning an ‘accident’ in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry.”
Diana predicted that her husband wanted her dead in a car accident so he could marry the true love of his life. She worried for her life. She felt someone was watching her, listening in on her, and keeping tabs on her.
Less than a year later - Princess Diana was killed in a car accident.
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His two sons were out playing in the back while he supervised through the kitchen window. The boys were 13 and 12.
What should have been a heartwarming moment, watching his two sons play and get along, was instead filled with anxiety. His friend asked, “what’s wrong?”
“I don’t trust Derek.”
His friend was confused. He peered at the window to see the boys playing on the swing set.
“I don’t trust him. I’ve read the diaries. I’ve seen the pictures. Look at them. Look at them, they look like they’re plotting something.”
Two hours later - Terry would be found dead. Both sons missing. House on fire.
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Joe’s mom had big big plans for him. She was one of those parents that liked to have high expectations for her children. She wanted Joe to accomplish things she never thought of doing when she was his age.
She told him “you’re going to be a big big star in those films Joe.” He was confused. He was only 9. He didn’t know how to read, write, or even talk so how was he going to memorize a full script?
She must have caught onto his curious expression because she looked down at him and beamed…
“You’re going to be world’s youngest p*rn star!”
Joe was too young to know what that meant but he would soon find out.
Book: “Cry Silent Tears” - by Joe Peters (This was one of the most eye opening books I’ve read this entire year. If you do anything this week, please go give this book a read. There is so much to learn here.)
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He was the college “simp.” His friends knew better than to ask him to go to a party with them. He would inevitably be too busy in his dorm room thinking about his girlfriend. Listening to audio clips of her telling her she loves him.
But his best friend was the only one that knew the truth of what was going on. He had secretly recorded conversations he had with his dream girl on campus. Then he edited and spliced together clips of the audio to make her say “I love you.” He would listen to those distorted, unnatural clips for hours on end.
His best friend finally had enough and brought him to a therapist. He had no idea that he would start plotting murder there.
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The letters brought them together. Dean was sitting in his office when he got his letter. He could feel his pulse picking up. Someone knew what he did.
Not too far away, Norman and Todd were shaking as they opened their letters. Inside Norman’s letter were a series of pictures of a woman. Norman understood the blackmailer wanted this woman killed or else he would die.
Todd anxiously waited for his best friend Norman to tell him what was in his package.
“Todd, it’s your wife. They want me to kill her.”
Welcome to the murder games where real lives were at stake.
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They nicknamed her “mini Martha Stewart” because of how perfect she was. Her doctor husband adored her. She took care of their baby girl while still getting her master’s degree, cooking, cleaning, and even volunteering.
Her life seemed so perfect till she was arrested and her secret life started to unravel.
Years ago, before moving to the perfect suburban town, she lived with roommates. She dated 3 of them. And now they were all back.
1 - her husband’s patient.
1 - the man she was having an affair with.
1 - dead.
And they think she did it.
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There are a few things you should do before moving out of your house. Most people will make a short to-do list of sorts. Turn off the power, check all the closets for valuables, things like that.
But even then you will always leave some part of yourself behind… maybe it’s a piece of mail, your welcome mat, or maybe even your scent. It’s inevitable. Understandable.
You probably wouldn’t expect to find dead bodies though. The headless bodies of two young boys. They weren’t hidden in the chimney, or buried in the backyard, they were slumped over in a room in plain sight. You couldn’t help but wonder.
What the hell was the previous owner doing? What happened? And where are the heads?
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“Welcome to IHOP (International House of Pancakes), how many people in your party?”
Dee had the routine down to a science. She knew what to say, when to smile, when to talk about her kids, when to flirt so she could keep the tips rolling in. Today was not her day though. She wanted to throw up.
Her hands were shaking and she was messing up everyone’s orders. She ran to the bathroom to splash water on her face. She reminded herself how important this was. She took out the crumbled piece of paper in her apron that a customer had left for her. It had “$3000” written on it.
That’s how much it would cost to kill the man she wanted dead. He needed to die in order for her to keep her job.
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He was the type of psychiatrist that was to get to the bottom of someone’s underlying problem. What was the real reason she thought herself to be the devil’s child?
What made her feel like she was so evil she could bring out the darkness in others?
And what about those two guys? The ones she was so insistent that they were trying to seduce her? She claimed she just knew they were either going to seduce her or they would all commit some violent crimes together. She seemed scared of her relationship with the two guys.
You’re probably hoping the doctor calls the police to report the two men but that would be impossible. Because the two seductive men were her two 4-year-old sons. And soon Sheila would be labeled as a murderer… but what if there really was a man out there to get her?
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It’s said that there are a lot of dark spirits in New Orleans. It might be one of the most haunted cities in the entire world and one story that the city can’t seem to escape is that of Madame LaLaurie.
The rumors go like this - she tortured her victims and experimented on them. It’s said she liked to drill skulls into victims’ heads and insert spoons inside so she could “stir their brains.”
It’s said that she would stick ash, feces, and other vile things into the victim’s mouths, ears, and eyes, and sew them shut. Another disturbing rumor was that she would cut holes into their stomachs, pull out their intestines, and wrap them around their bodies like belts.
Whatever the rumors were, the truth was much worse in the haunted LaLaurie mansion in New Orleans.
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Becoming a mom is a dream for a lot of people. Especially Tom’s mom. She saw all the other moms and their deep connections with their beautiful children.
So when Tom was born, she was ready for that. She would never get it. Her own son made her nervous. He made her feel unsettled. There was just something sinister about the way he did everything.
He never cried, he would sit for hours in a cold bathtub, unmoving and staring at the wall. He liked to light things on fire… watching everything around it burn.
Tom’s mom was… scared of him. She knew there was something wrong with him, but she didn’t know what. She had no idea that he would go on to commit a triple homicide that would forever change the world.
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When you open the front door you might be expecting a package, the mailman, or even your Karen neighbor, but you wouldn’t expect Greg Marlow.
I know you’re thinking the name doesn’t ring a bell. It didn’t either for Cyndi when she opened the door to see him. But there he was, in his tight shirt, handsome, smiling smoothly at her.
There were a few things Cyndi would soon find out about this mysterious man on her doorstep.
He didn’t show up by chance. He heard her voice and fell in love.
They were going to be lovers.
He was going to be her one-way ticket to the death penalty.
Oh, and he was a wolf.
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The Ingram house from the outside, would have presented itself as the dream life for a family. Situated on a beautiful ranch, with a vegetable garden out back, it was superbly normal.
That is till Paul Ingram, the father and police officer, was accused of assaulting his two daughters since they were 5 years old. Not only that, but he would bring over cop buddies to assault not just his daughters but his young sons too.
The explosive allegations came out back to back. There were poker parties/gang assault parties, hooded figures performing rituals, and over 25 babies being sacrificed to Satan himself. This was the biggest allegation of police officers being involved in a sex Satan cult that had ever been raised. But was it true?
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If you walked into his house, you would be tempted to walk right back out. The smell alone could have knocked you back through the front door. Every surface, every wall, every square inch of the floor was littered with dust.
He collected tens of thousands of bottles, empty cereal boxes, trash, magazines, everything. He kept it all. I don’t know how you would find anything, let alone anyone in a place like that.
It would have been nearly impossible to know that in a tiny little empty sugar box that blended in with the rest of the trash - there was a note. It read, “my name is Amy help me… I have been kidnapped.”
In this house, 5 women were held captive for 15 years, and he almost got away with it.
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Zamy, a Taiwanese influencer, had worked hard to build up a wholesome reputable image. Yet, it was all going to come crashing down in the most nightmare-ish way possible.
One day, she woke up to being flooded with messages with people asking her “what are you doing this for? Do you not make enough money on YouTube?”
It was a “leaked” video of Zamy. She was engaging in sexual activity yet she didn’t remember anything about this encounter. But clearly, it happened because there was no denying that was her face. But the more she studied the video the more she realized a few small things were off. Her body didn’t look the same. She didn’t speak Japanese, but in the video she did.
She was so confused. She had to dig further. What she found was terrifying. A group of thousands of men who were trading and purchasing deepfake p*rn videos of YouTubers and celebrities.
None of the people depicted consented for their faces to be used like this. And this was just the start of a nightmare.
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In the summer of 2009, there were whispers around South Korea. A Korean blogger had gone out to the woods and came back traumatized. They had seen something in the woods they shouldn’t have.
They called it “The Mimic” and it is NOT human. It has no human emotions, no human empathy, but it sounds just like a human. It can mimic anyone’s voice to lure you into their web of death.
It sounds like an urban legend, right? But there are people amongst us that do the same thing. They do not feel love, empathy, and have no care for others but they are so convincing in their acting you would never know. They feel nothing yet you feel like you can trust them. That is the story of the Indonesian Jeffrey Dahmer.
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The cruise was absolutely stunning. The white sand beaches, the baby blue waters, the casinos inside the cruise, it was all incredible.
The passengers were having the time of their life, including the married Nist couple. Mr. & Mrs. Nist had the perfect life - they were millionaires, with a beautiful child, friends who loved them, and they were in love.
But on this cruise, Mrs. Nist would fall in love with a crew member. It would catapult her life into the dark waters where she would be thrown into later. The unraveling of all the secrets aboard the cruise would beg the question… who’s the killer?
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They were meeting up again. They knew they should stop, it wasn’t doing any good for them, but how could they? They were the only ones that really understood each other. So the two of them would leave their spouses, their children, all at home to go be with one another.
And I know what you’re thinking. Cheaters.
Well, don’t judge a book by its cover.
These two were not cheating on their spouses. In fact, they had been cheated on. His wife was sleeping with her husband. They were meeting up to try and heal from their shared trauma.
4 people's lives were shattered by the affair and when 2 of them ended up dead in a car in the most bizarre “suicide.” You have to wonder… was it a suicide pact? Or a perfectly staged murder?
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It all started with a Hollywood divorce. The joint statement released by both parties seemed amicable enough, but the public wanted more. They wanted to know the intimate details of the relationship’s downfall.
They say 50% of marriages end in divorce, so the odds weren’t in their favor to begin with, but nobody expected it to go down like this.
Very quickly, a public divorce turned into allegations of assault, abuse, and cannibalism. One of Hollywood’s own leading men allegedly had a string of victims whom he wanted to eat. Texts about him wanting to cook their ribs, their skin, see their brains, and do horrible things to them were released.
And once that broke the news, people started digging into his family history and they found an empire. An empire of ruthless, egotistical, sexually deviant men. Let’s talk about the Hammers.
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They needed protection in order to go through with their big plans. She turned to black magic. Sure, it was risky to get dark magic and spirits involved, but their plans were more important.
Their plans were to travel up and down the West Coast with their new van! It was a family van, one that could fit all their biological children in, one that you could sleep in, one that the children were supposed to feel safe in.
It was going to be perfect. The couple had dreams about this day. The day that they could assault their own children in their incest torture van.
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The two police officers ran out of their car. They knew there was time was of the essence when they saw the stream of blood running down the residential driveway. They had their guns drawn and started making their way into the garage where they heard animalistic noises. A dog perhaps?
They didn’t know what to expect but it wasn’t this. On the ground they found the victim laying flat on their back, arms spread, blood everywhere, looking up at them. The victim pleaded with them, “please help me.”
And next to the body of the victim was another man. He was latched onto the victim’s body using both hands to hold the victim’s face in place…so he could bite off his face flesh. He chewed. He swallowed. He was eating the victim’s face in front of the police officers. He was like a real-life parasite attached to the victim’s face.
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It was a bit gruesome even for a carnival act. The snake and the rat. A giant king cobra in the cage hissing about and an employee would throw rat after rat into the cage.
No matter how full, bored, or even tired the snake was, it would kill each rat that entered the cage. Even most adults would grab their child’s arm and rush away. It was never a pretty sight to see death in action, but little Pee Wee Gaskins sat glued to the bars of the cage.
Eyes never leaving the snake. He felt in awe. The snake didn’t kill because it was hungry. No, the snake killed because it wanted to. This revelation was Pee Wee’s first erection, and he knew from that day forward he wanted to be a king cobra snake. He wanted to be the most prolific of all the serial killers.
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They were called “Comfort Women,” but their lives would not be in any sense comfortable. They were kidnapped, tortured, and held hostage to be assaulted by military officials.
Soldiers had their own name for them; it was “public toilets.” Most of these women either died in captivity from murder, disease, or from the sheer violence of their assaults.
But don’t be fooled by the name, sometimes comfort women were girls as young as 11 years old. Why? Well, wartime always brings out the superstitions in soldiers, and it was believed that assaulting a virgin brought soldiers strength and power.
And they would need that strength to go out and kill over 200,000 citizens in the city of Nanking. This might be one of the darkest cases we have covered in a very long time.
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Leslie only had Marie to lean on. They were best friends. Sure, they just started bonding, but Leslie really needed someone to count on. They spent countless hours on the phone, whispering, giggling, staying up, hoping their parents wouldn’t hear them.
But it was a bit strange that she kept asking Leslie about what had happened in that basement. Leslie had been gang raped by some of the most popular kids in high school in the football captain’s basement. There was a trial underway for it. Marie kept asking about it.
Marie asked about how much fun Leslie had if she would do it again, and how Marie could be invited to be assaulted by the boys. She said she wanted what Leslie had. Leslie was desperate for a friend. She said she was willing to go a second time with her new best friend - if that’s what she wanted.
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When I say “it was the town’s best-kept secret,” what do you imagine? Maybe an unknown hole-in-the-wall restaurant with the best milkshakes? Maybe a secret hangout spot near the river with the best city views.
Not for the town of Glen Ridge; it was much darker than that. For them, their best-kept secret was their boys. The town’s group of star athletes - the football players, wrestlers, basketball players, and the most popular boys in class.
So why are they a secret? Well, they’re not. But the secret was over a dozen of the most popular boys gang raped a disabled high school girl. They assaulted her with a baseball bat and broomstick.
It was a secret kept by the boys, the parents, teachers, faculty members, coaches, and social workers, for 3 full months before the police were alerted.
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On the surface, there was nothing remarkable about Larry Lavin. He lived in a quiet neighborhood with his wife and family, drove a Volvo, and practiced dentistry in Philadelphia. But, from 1978 to 1984, Dr. Lavin moonlighted as one of the largest cocaine kingpins on the Eastern Seaboard.
Through the voices and perspectives of law enforcement, drug runners, friends, business associates and Larry Lavin himself, Wolves Among Us, Season One, The Larry Lavin Story, tells the story of Lavin’s dual life, his impact on Philadelphia culture in the late 70s and early 80s, and the stunning events that led to an intense manhunt for one of the FBI’s 10 most wanted fugitives.
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John was devastated when he got the call from his wife’s twin. His wife of two and a half years had just passed. Sure, he knew that she had been terminally ill for a while, but that didn’t ease the grief he felt.
So when his wife’s twin sister showed up at his front door, he welcomed her in with open arms. She was the only one that understood his pain.
They were identical twins, but she had blonde hair, whereas his wife had brown. She was also a bit thinner than his wife. Maybe she reminded him so much of his wife that he slowly fell in love with her.
He felt it was natural to connect with her, but he had no idea that she had planned it all. His wife’s twin had been obsessed with their life. Their picture-perfect marriage, their lovely plush house, and she wanted it for herself. She felt she deserved it more than her twin. So she was here to take it. Everything. The house, the husband, and the life.
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They say when you seek revenge, you should dig two graves. One for yourself as well. The PTA moms didn’t think of that when they raged war.
Jill was said to have gone up and down the hallways of the wealthy school to pass out flyers. Flyers that were printed with baseless accusations against another PTA mom. It’s said that she was jealous of the other mom. Some say it’s because she was trying to distract the community from the fact that she was cheating on her attorney husband with 4 firefighters - at the same time.
Regardless Jill’s obsession will turn into a web of conspiracies involving child abuse, cheating with the tennis coach, drugs, and death. The result? Two behind bars and millions of dollars on the line. This is the PTA mom nightmare.
(Book Red - “I’ll Get You” - by Kelli Peters & Riley J Ford. Such a good book I couldn’t put it down and the emotions were so raw and so real. Please check it out)
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Edward’s new boss loved a good team-building event. Most companies would take their employees out for a fun night of bowling.
But not Edward’s boss, Robin; he liked to have a more intimate setting. He gathered all 3 of his employees in the attic of his house and told them to follow after him.
He started chanting random phrases while holding up an object into the air above them. Then he dramatically pressed the object to his mouth and took a bite. He cackled maniacally and passed it around for everyone to eat.
It was an amputated human breast. They were all going to be cannibals from this point on. Robin didn’t care though. He didn’t even care that he ripped the flesh straight from a human being who was still alive. All he cared about was that his employees were bonding with him.
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Her boyfriend loved a good surprise. Surprise dates and gifts were kind of his specialty, but this one felt a bit different. She was blindfolded and taken into a building.
He tied her to a chair in the middle of an empty room. She was getting giddy. He had been talking to her about buying a house for her soon. Maybe, he had finally done it!
He ripped off her blindfold and got in her face to say, “welcome to my mortuary!” Her eyes adjusted to the light, and she looked around. Around her were 2 dead bodies of women laid out on the ground. On the mattress in front of her was a woman tied spread eagle. She was still moving.
Book: “Love Me To Death” - by Steve Jackson
(Such a good deep dive on this case and honestly really dives deep into the terror that everyone involved must have felt)
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You’ve heard of the red rooms - the alleged deep web livestreams of people being assaulted, tortured, and killed.
The existence of red rooms is largely debated. But have you ever heard of the “Little Red Mansion?” Because this one is very real.
The mansion itself was beautiful, filled with crystal chandeliers, gold crown moldings, and massive rooms filled with over-the-top furniture. It felt like an expensive boutique hotel.
But for the girls trapped inside it was the biggest nightmare. They were being held hostage, trafficked to high-powered government officials, injected with hormones, and in the end, their eggs were ripped from their bodies to be sold on the black market.
If you walked by the Little Red Mansion, you would think it’s a nice building - you would never imagine the secrets it held.
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Detective Nel was having a rough time falling asleep. She had a debilitating migraine and was throwing up all night long. Sure, her job as a detective wasn’t easy, but she almost always slept like a baby.
The next day she went into work and was rushed to the cell of a young, doe-eyed girl that she personally arrested last night. It was a shocking case. The girl skinned someone’s entire face off. She wanted to be the next Ed Gein it seemed. In the cell, she saw the same girl covered head to toe in blood, deep gashes in her legs, smiling up at her.
There was writing on the walls - in blood. “Along came a little girl” it read.
And next to her?
A voodoo doll with a piece of hair tied tightly around the neck. It was Detective Neil’s hair.
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It was going to be a long day - just like the movies. Each housewife was getting ready, staring into the mirror, clasping on their string of pearls.
They hated these gatherings. All the other moms, bratty children, and don’t even get them started on the attorneys that shuffled into the room. Tensions were high. The 5 moms in total hated each other.
Technically they should have a lot in common - being that they are all married to high-powered businessmen.
They had similar problems but the biggest one of all? Was that they were all dating the same man. And now he was dead. Who killed him? And who will inherit his fortune?
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She wore a turtleneck out to the grocery store that day. Sure, a blizzard was coming down on them, but she did it to hide the bruises.
She looked around at all the happy faces. The smiling couples. They were so in love. If only they could see what she was going through at home. She couldn’t tell them instead she suffered silently gathering up her groceries.
Maybe she heard the other families talking about the winter storm or the news of the escaped prisoner.
You know? The one in her living room waiting for her return. The one that had her entire family tied up upstairs? Yeah, that one. She had to hurry back to him.
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It had been months since Abby had been held captive in the bucker/torture chamber. The cruelest torture had been carried out on her, every single day.
She wanted it all to be over. It didn’t matter anymore that she would never graduate the 7th grade. Nothing mattered except making sure her kidnapper paid for this.
Abby wrote a note, naming her kidnapper, and what he had done to her before slipping it into the lining of her shoe. She hoped whoever found her would find the note.
And then she filled the tiny gross sink in the corner of her cell, one of the only things that filled the tiny space, and prepared herself to end it all.
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Nicole’s phone had been ringing nonstop. It felt like the end of her 15-year-old life. Someone was going around calling Nicole’s friends to tell them nasty rumors about Nicole. How she had no eyebrows, she got ugly, she was talking bad about them, and how she had AIDs.
It sounds ridiculous, but to Nicole this was her life. Someone was out there trying to take her down. Take her crown of being the most popular girl in school.
She would not stand for it. When she found out who did it - she would do anything to stop them.
This is the story of how 8 high school kids played a hand in a 14-year-old girl’s brutal murder.
Book: “Under The Bridge” - by Rebecca Godfrey (the best deep dive you will get on this case - she really shed light into the victim’s life and struggles.)
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There were always 12. 10 foster kids in the house at all times, plus the two biological children of the Baker parents. 12 kids.
All 12 kids would grow up to see some heinous things. It’s alleged that the Bakers would force the foster boys to molest the foster girls in their care.
It’s said that the Bakers would even force brothers to inappropriately touch sisters under their direction. Victims came forward to say they were assaulted weekly by Mr. Baker, and they remember being starved as a fear tactic.
Most of these kids came out of the foster home as survivors, but one, one child grew up to become the predator. One that would prey on victims where they might be the most vulnerable - the church.
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She never used to sleepwalk, but maybe that’s what happens when you hit your 30s? Her life was spiraling out of control because of it.
She woke up one morning dangling off the side of 4th-floor balcony. She had no idea how she even got there. She could have seriously hurt herself or even died… she was just thankful he was there to save her.
Or that time she woke up covered in blood. He told her that he found her roaming around at night, in a daze, with a knife in her hand. He thinks she murdered someone…
She started panicking. That’s exactly what he wanted. If history had taught him anything, it was that she was close. Close to taking her own life. He wanted to break her.
National Human Trafficking Hotline: 1(888) 373-7888
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It sounded like a new age of crime. We’ve all heard of jealousy being the motivation behind the murder, but this was a bit different.
She was jealous that Naomi was a bigger “influencer” than she was. She hated that she was getting all the love, the likes, the follows. She was going to put a stop to it. Her brilliant plan? Have her boyfriend assault Naomi so that she would be too traumatized to work again.
The plan spiraled out of control, and Naomi ended up murdered. But this case is far from simple. The boyfriend was the son of Cartier’s Chairman in Asia. As new information came out - people found themselves changing their minds nonstop. Did she really kill out of jealousy? Did she even know?
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He called it the “bear cave.” He liked the sound of it. Bears were unassuming predators… that kind of sounded like him.
Inside his “bear cave” there was a desk, an inviting yellow beanbag, and of course, it was filled with snacks and sodas.
Don’t forget his hidden condom box, a stack of porn magazines, and pillows hidden in a box that said “Christmas decorations.”
The only really odd thing about his “cave?” - it was in the library of a local middle school.
The teacher had been using it to sexually molest and rape dozens of middle school students.
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Both men were racing in their cars for different reasons.
Peter was stepping on the pedal to his wife. She was sick, and he needed to get to her ASAP. He was worried for her.
Larry was in his car - racing to his girlfriend, who wasn’t picking up his calls. He was worried for her.
Both men were gripping their steering wheels till their knuckles turned white. They were both racing to the same woman. They both knew it. Maybe they hoped whoever got their first would get her love.
But both would walk away without her. She would choose neither of them because someone had taken her life.
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Tom was shaking after the call. A mysterious woman had called to tell him that she knew where his missing mother was. He didn’t know if it was a scam or a real lead. All he knew was that the police weren’t doing enough.
So that’s how he found himself at a random Starbucks waiting for the mysterious caller. When she walked in, he knew that she had something up her sleeve. The confidence. The secrets behind her eyes.
At the end of their meeting, he passed him a piece of paper with a number on there…
“I’m part of the Triad here in Vancouver, and we know what happened to your mom. Don’t trust the police. Trust me. I can help. Call us.”
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Chloe was used to her pictures being posted on the internet. She was a model, after all. She posted on social media and updated her followers on her personal life. But she had never been posted on this type of website before in her life.
It’s the type of website that you and I probably couldn’t access. You can’t just Google it. No. It exists only in the deep layers of the dark web.
The post read: “Chloe. Born in the UK. Abducted in Italy. 19 years old. Measurements: 35DD.
Starting bid: $300k.
Auction open: July 16, 2017.”
Her auction would be seen all over the world.
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In the comfort of her own private living room, Rachel complained about her bad back to her husband. They needed to drive across the border to see a specialist.
In Caroline’s place, Caroline argued with her husband about going on a double-date road trip for Rachel’s bad back. Her husband argued it was going to be boring, but he caved eventually.
So it was settled the two couples would be road-tripping to Finland.
Sounds like a mundane conversation? Boring almost?
Then why were agents carefully transcribing every single word that they heard inside Rachel and Caroline’s house? Why were they listening through their electronic devices?
Rachel and Caroline were seemingly normal people… why did government agents care to spy on them? And are they listening to you right now?
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Joanne’s mom had always been a bit out there. Nobody could quite put her finger on it, but there were whispers that family members were witches.
When Joanne’s mom sent her out in the middle of the night to dig up something in the woods for a spell… Joanne was confused. She was terrified of walking alone in the dark. What spell was her mom talking about?
Joanne imagined she would be arrested that night. But she wouldn’t be. Nobody gets arrested for digging up someone’s flowers.
But soon, Joanne would find herself digging in the darkness again for her mom. This time it was for a dead body, and Joanne would be arrested but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
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Welcome to the BDSM Dungeon party. If you’ve never been or if you’ve never heard of such a thing - you might think it sounds scary
But it’s not scary at all. In fact, it can be very fun if that’s your thing.
Bob’s favorite part of the dungeon party? Well, he couldn’t choose, was it the giant orgy room in the center of the building, or the crosses that you can tie people to, maybe it’s the playrooms where your deepest desires come true.
This type of party is normally a great time between consenting adults but Bob had other plans. He didn’t care about the BDSM community - all he cared about was murder.
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Margaret was cooking up her favorite stew. She could use it. The temperature was below zero, the winter storms were approaching, and Margaret hoped the nutrients from the pork bones would give her energy.
She would need the energy for her cleaning job.
She took her pork bones, which were neatly pre-sliced, she took them out, washed them, and plopped them into her water.
It was almost muscle memory - but when she stuck her hand in again she felt something strange. She pulled out some bony pieces in the bag and it took her a moment to realize she was staring at 3 severed human fingers.
Margaret didn’t have pork meat. She had the dismembered remains of a university student. The police would find 2000 more pieces of that student dropped around campus.
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The community was relieved. The killer couple was put behind bars and finally, they could relax. Thankfully the police were able to catch them after their first victim… the thought of having a serial killer on the loose was spine-chilling.
They all felt safe.
But many many miles away in a public restroom were the scribbles…
“I killed Tanya. Yes, I’m sick, but I enjoyed myself. People took the blame and I’m free :)”
A happy face. The happy face serial killer was free and ready to kill again.
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Summer in Italy - where else would you want to be?
Marco was a lifeguard working at one of Italy’s beautiful seaside resorts. After his shift, he rushed over to his girlfriend’s house, and ate dinner with her entire family.
They all got along. It’s like he was part of the family already.
Even after dinner, Marco wanted to wash the scent of saltwater off his body and asked if he could take a bath.
Of course they let him. And in that little bathroom, Marco would die. The house was filled with people. How did nobody know what happened? Or maybe, they all have their own secrets to protect.
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The dead list - well, he called it the “List of the Doomed.”
On there was a long meticulously written list of 50+ local young girls. In the years to come he would sit down, pull out his little dead list, and in a red pen, he would methodically write “D” next to a name.
D for dead. Another one is dead.
It didn’t matter if the girls on the list knew they were doomed. It didn’t matter how much they tried to protect themselves. Once they were on the Doomed List they were going to die a painful death.
Not a single girl on the list would survive.
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When he was found dead at the bottom of a building in Beijing - the police found two notes of interest. His suicide note where he named his killer. That seemed odd?
And another note - a piece of paper that was handwritten. Where he had promised $2 million dollars to someone within the next 120 days.
Could that even be a real contract? Would a handwritten random note be used in the court of law? Why was this successful tech CEO so scared of losing $2 million dollars? Why had he promised it in the first place?
The answer will lead you to the person that pushed him off the edge of the building.
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When Theresa started dating David she had a gut feeling - that something was off about David’s ex-girlfriend.
Sure, maybe Theresa was a little jealous? Cindy, his ex, was said to be beautiful, had an hourglass figure, and was wild in bed.
But it wasn’t those things that made Theresa uneasy.
It was the fact that David’s ex never showered. She doused herself in perfume hoping it would mask the scent. She would zone out and forget everyone around her. And she only got intimate with David if she could call him “Daddy” in a teeny tiny 5 year old girl’s voice.
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Middle schooler Alice got off the train with excitement bubbling in her chest. She was meeting 17-year-old Peter for the first time.
She had no idea that she would be ambushed by Peter and his friends, dragged to a local motel where she would be gang r*ped by more than 40 high school boys. They filmed the entire thing.
Her torture would last a year.
The boys blackmailed her into coming back for more assaults. Just when she thought the nightmare was over - the police kept asking her “why did you go back unless you liked it?”
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They say Lake Erie is haunted. That’s where the “Lady of the Lake” lives. The bizarre pieces of the puzzle started to come together.
A 14-year-old girl came out of the lake screaming, she claimed she saw a hand waving to her at the bottom of the lake. A few fishermen pulled up their line to find it tangled with a chunk of blonde hair. Human hair.
A ferry operator claimed to see a suspicious bobbing object in the water. He said it looked like a head.
What was going on? Why were body parts washing ashore?
The dismembered “Lady of the Lake” turned out to be the first victim of the still free “Cleveland Butcher” serial killer.
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Someone was out to get the Allanson family. That much was clear. Someone was targeting 3 generations of the family. But who?
The Allanson’s started experiencing off-putting things as if they were being stalked. One family member was in her yard when she saw a man standing there. Watching her. Sleeves rolled up. Pants down - exposing his private parts. She ran inside.
Another family member found sugar dumped into the gas tank of his car. Another member reached into her fridge and pulled out a funky jar of milk. Someone had snuck in and put formaldehyde into the milk.
Whoever wanted them dead - would stop at nothing. 2 would be dead. Another 2 nearly dead.
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It was supposed to be a place of growth, learning, and happy laughter filling the yards. It was a place where people were supposed to feel safe.
But in the parking lot of the elementary school, under a suspicious white van, there was a woman lying nude. Murdered.
The police had the killers in the back of the cop car… they could see one of them looking at the victim. His lips curled up into a small smile.
He was happy with what he had done. He wanted to do this for a while. He told his accomplice - “hey at least I’m not a virgin anymore." They high-fived.
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He ran an anti-abduction training program called “Project Taken.” He would teach young girls how not to get kidnapped.
He was not someone to mess around. Ex-military man. Specialist in kidnapping prevention. International hostage negotiator. He did it all.
Well, nobody expected he would find himself wrapped up in one of the strangest, most bizarre kidnapping cases in all of true crime history. The kidnapping of Sherri Papini.
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The authorities burst into the room and their jaws dropped. The entire room was completely white. Even the books on the shelves were bound in white leather.
But the most shocking was the pure white bed in the middle of the room surrounded by an arc of chairs. As if people sat around the bed like it was some sort of show.
Which they did. Authorities found audio recordings of middle-aged men assaulting underage girls while their friends watched. Some victims are as young as 12. There are hundreds if not thousands of victims.
What kind of monsters would do such a thing?
Book Rec: “The Witness Wore Red” - by Rebecca Musser
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Pam was a normal housewife, she had a nice husband, and a job in the insurance industry. Everything about her was normal.
Except, the dead body in her hallway.
She had been ambushed in her own home and shot her attacker.
When the police arrive they find the attacker had no ID, but a bizarre note in his pocket, it was detailed instructions on how to kidnap and murder Pam.
“Make sure the knife is sticking out of her neck. Make it look like Russ’s wife.” The police were shocked. Russ’s wife had recently been murdered and the killer left a knife lodged in her neck.
Was someone targeting the housewives of Missouri?
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The Burning Sun scandal exposed some of the most beloved K-pop idols to be depraved predators. The Burning Sun was a popular club.
The type of club where rich men ruled. If you wanted a rare bottle of champagne. They would get it. If you wanted the club to stay open an extra hour. They would do it.
If you wanted the bartenders to roofie a random girl’s drink so that you could have her escorted into your private room to assault… they would do it.
The Burning Sun exposed a lot - it would even take down one of the richest women in Korea. The Milk Princess.
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The woman leaped to her death - plunging her body into the cold water of the river. She left a note that said “to my devil husband, I can only commit suicide to expose your crime and to tell the world about my helplessness.”
It shocked the nation. She had been married to one of the richest, most powerful men in the nation. What did he do?
And how does that connect to the haunting last picture of a woman that lives 7,168 miles away? The one that vanished after a suspicious taxi ride. Her driver even took a haunting last picture of her before she was killed. How are these two women connected?
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He emerged from the thick jungle for the first time in a long time.
He had been waiting for this moment for years. The day World War II would come to an end. He would be relieved from his duties and Japan glorious in their victory!
Onoda held his breath while his commander read his release. Onoda waited for further orders but there were none. Just a tub of face cream.
“What’s this for?” - asked Onoda.
“You’re going to need it. For all the interviews… Onoda, the war ended 29 years ago. We’ve been looking for you. The world will want to know what on earth did you do in the jungle for the past 29 years? How did you even survive? And how many did you kill?”
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Truth serum. It has quite a dark history.
The CIA tested the heavy sedative on suspected criminals, murderers, and terrorists. They hoped it would even the smartest spies to - well, tell the truth.
It would be hard to imagine a world where truth serum was tested on children on a large scale. But it happened.
In Aston Hall Mental Hospital a sick, twisted, depraved doctor hand-picked young girls to experiment on.
He would have them admitted to his hospital where he pumped them full of truth serum and violently assaulted them. He filmed it all. And the truth took a very long time to come out.
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The text messages were released. At first, it only circulated amongst smaller group chats - but like a fire, it spread.
It was too good of a scandal. Two normal everyday people and the innermost private parts of their lives. Their affair.
Wanda, the married woman, and mother, cheats on her husband with the mailman. Nude pictures and videos were circulating of the two. Wanda lost everything. She lost her job, her family, her friends, her reputation. Her entire life was ruined by this leak.
But something nobody would have guessed? Everything was faked. Two men had set out to ruin this woman’s life for very sinister reasons.
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Everywhere he went, he was kind. He was kind to the woman he passed by in the produce aisle, the female cashier, and even the woman next to him at the red light.
Maybe he was nice because he loved to picture all these women naked and in his bed. Sure, some would call it crass but was Ned’s favorite thing to do.
Regardless, the women were nice back. They liked Ned. He was well dressed, clean cut, and seemed gentle.
They had no idea that he was fantasizing about strangling them. Staring into their eyes while they took their last breath.
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It all started when a woman jumped from her bathroom window. The police questioned whether or not it was a suicide.
The whole nation did. Why did the seemingly happy wife and mother take her own life? Maybe someone pushed her?
Why was her entire back filled with sexually derogatory tattoos?
Just weeks later her father-in-law took his own life, and a 14-year-old girl’s body was found stuffed in a suitcase.
How were they all connected?
To make things more puzzling - the person at the center of the web was someone that is loved by the entire nation...
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The four of them sat in the hospital room. The sound of rain pelted the windows.
Al stood up and started shouting “They’re coming! They’re coming to take the wicked and the evil!”
He fell to his knees in front of where the woman was sitting and started rubbing her with his palms. “MOMMY! DON’T LEAVE ME! PURE MOMMY. PURE AS SNOW.”
The woman was shocked. The man was her husband, who was also a successful therapist. What happened to him? Did a patient do something to him? Did one of them drive him mad?
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The couple’s vacation in Ocean City was supposed to help them fall in love again. Marriage is tough - they lost that spark.
They were even staying in the penthouse of a beautiful oceanfront hotel. The penthouse bathroom had a hot tub that they were certain was going to help ignite their romance again.
But the night ended with two headless bodies in the tub. They were dismembered. And honestly, it was exactly what the couple felt they needed.
They were in love again.
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Being a marriage counselor is a tough job.
I imagine the married couple Erika & BJ would tell very different stories about their couples vacation.
BJ would say that he fell asleep in the car while his wife went into a hotel room with a couple they just met. He was heartbroken and devastated when he found out what she had done.
Erika would argue that BJ was there the whole time - in fact, he wanted her to take pictures of him with the couple’s decapitated heads.
Only, they weren’t talking to a counselor but to the police.
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He knew this was going to happen sooner or later. The FBI had already stopped by twice to let him know that he was on a criminal’s “kidnap wish list.”
He just didn’t know - that the one being kidnapped wouldn’t be him. It would be his very own son. The heir to the Coors Beer Dynasty.
He felt confident he could deal with this. It’s like a business transaction. He just had to make sure his son had no secrets.
Who knew beer had so many secrets?
Book Rec: “The Death of an Heir” - by Phillip Jett (amazing read I couldn’t get enough!)
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