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Rotten but still a little sweet! Rotten Mango is a true crime + all things spooky podcast. We love doing deep dives into the darkest crimes and we tend to not leave out any details – which can get a little rotten at times. If you want deep dives in the psychology of killers, no holding back storytelling of crimes, and stories of lesser known criminals from around the world this is the place for you.
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The story starts on TikTok. First, with all the things that don’t make sense.
After Gabby goes missing - the only person that knows where she might be is her fiancé Brian Laundrie. But he’s now missing.
He goes missing for a month straight - before his body is found in a local park in Florida… by his parents. The FBI have been searching for over a month, reportedly spending over a million taxpayer dollars - and his parents find his remains within an hour?
What about his mom’s “Burn After Reading” letter?
She writes that if he needs to bury a body she will bring a shovel.
Or the fact that his remains are completely skeletonized?
These are the things that lead people to believe…there is no way Brian Laundrie is actually dead.
The conspiracy being that he faked his death and is now getting away with murdering his fiancee. But how could that even be possible?
Could he really be living in a bunker under his protective parent’s house? How would they be able to pull something like his off? Is there any truth to the conspiracy? What does the Laundrie family know?
15 days before the murder.
“Hello, I would like to report a dispute. I saw a gentleman slapping the woman.”
The police chase after the van life YouTuber couple in their white, sprinter van. By the end of the hour long investigation of questioning both Gabby and Brian - the two police officers step off to the side to figure out what to do next. One officer tells the other -
“Too many times women who are at risk want to go back to their abuser. They don’t want him charged. They don’t want him to go to jail. Then they end up getting worse and worse treatment and then they end up getting killed.”
The officers decide not to press DV charges….against Gabby. They believe she is the primary aggressor.
In 2 weeks Gabby Petito will be murdered.
And the only person that might know where she is - goes missing.
Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
2 people are rushed into the emergency room. The doctors and nurses don’t ask questions - they have one objective in mind. Save these people.
Both are suffering from stab wounds. Sadly, only 1 of them will make it. 8 year old, Haneul, is deceased from multiple stab wounds to her neck, back, and chest.
The 48 year old woman however, is alive.
The nurses try to piece together what might have happened with the little information they have. The older woman is a teacher. The 8 year old girl was attacked in her elementary school.
Perhaps, a knife wielding madman snuck into the school and attacked the little girl. Perhaps, the teacher tried to protect her student but was stabbed in the process. It will be difficult to tell the teacher that her student that she presumably tried to protect - did not make it.
But when the teacher wakes up - the nurses don’t know how to handle the situation anymore. Because… she is laughing.
She is giggling.
She killed 8 year old Haneul and she is seemingly happy. Content. Giddy with excitement.
Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
“I don’t do naughty things, I’m a really good girl.”
That is what Ruby Franke tells her husband Kevin in a recorded jail call. She’s a really good girl - that almost killed 2 of their youngest children.
She kept them locked away in her marriage counselor/“lovers” mansion basement - torturing them for months. Soon, all the evidence will come out - their abuse diaries, the alleged romantic relationship, and the grim detail that they were planning on buying a 500 acre property in the middle of nowhere to carry out more extreme abuse.
But the question on many people’s minds is - how was nobody else involved and how did nobody else know what was happening?
Kevin Franke, Ruby’s devoted husband, has become the center of conspiracy theories. With people wondering just how much he knew, just how much he’s covering up now, and if he should be charged. Also, why did he try to sue his oldest daughter after his wife was arrested?
What about the mysterious woman - Pam? Two Franke teenage girls were found deep cleaning her home the day of the arrests. How come she doesn’t appear that shocked to find out what Ruby had been doing? Is it because she knew all along?
And what will Ruby and Jodi do to each other in prison? Will they turn on each other to save themselves - or do they still believe everyone is working with the devil?
Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
It was the most viewed home on realtor websites for weeks. It’s a curious looking house. As you swipe through the photos of the 15 foot tall ceilings, the grand glass windows, the $5M price tag starts to make sense.
But what is that? There is an entire concrete bunker like structure underneath the house with its very own panic room. A bank vault door - leading to a room with a toilet and sink.
To keep people out - and to keep people in.
This is the home that Ruby Franke & Jodi Hildebrandt tortured Ruby’s 2 youngest children in. There are detailed diaries left behind by Ruby Franke describing how she tortured them with cactuses, pouring cayenne pepper and honey into their wounds, and all the unique punishments she came up with.
All the while posting podcast episodes - giving advice to other moms.
How to be a perfect mom.
Just like her.
Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
Jodi is one of the most recommended marriage therapists in the area but there’s something about her that feels - wrong.
“Every relationship needs to die in order to be reborn.”
Her pattern is simple yet effective.
Find the husband’s addiction. Each husband has one. It’s usually watching too many explicit videos, staring too long at his female coworkers, or just having too many inappropriate thoughts.
Find the addiction. And stomp. It. Out.
Shame the husband for how he’s ruining the family and give the wife strength and power to run away from him… straight into Jodi’s arms.
It almost seems like that is her intention.
And it seems to work like a charm - every single time.
And just maybe - if Jodi really tries… maybe the men will even end up in prison. Then the wife will have nobody but Jodi.
Youtuber / family blogger, Ruby Franke, should be very familiar with this. Because now all she has - is Jodi.
Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
It’s the middle of the desert and the pavement is scorching hot. If you dare to step barefoot on it, it’s the equivalent of sticking your foot on a cast iron pan on high heat. Enough to cause instant blisters.
But the 12 year old boy has no choice. He has once more chance to escape and he needs to make it to a neighbors house for safety. He crawls out the window and starts pacing. If nobody is home - that could be the end. There are only 3 homes in this part of the desert.
The 1 he’s been locked up and tortured in.
The 1 where nobody would answer the door.
And 1 last chance.
If he can make it there before they catch him. Or if the duct tape around his ankles don’t melt into him.
August 30, 2023 - this little boys escape will kick start an investigation into one of the biggest family vloggers on YouTube.
This is the case of Ruby Franke - the woman who has been vlogging herself abusing her 6 kids for years, and has locked away the two youngest in a windowless safe room - to be tortured.
Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
Police find 10 year old Victoria’s body completely dismembered. Her arms, legs, and organs were severed off and the rest of her body was lit on fire.
When they bring in Victoria’s mother, Michelle, the pieces of the puzzle start coming together.
Michelle states that her boyfriend, Fabian, had been sexually assaulting Victoria.
Michelle states that she liked to watch. But that night in particular it got a bit too wild. Fabian accidentally chokes and kills Victoria during the assault.
Michelle states she sat there and watched Fabian and his cousin dismember Victoria.
Then she went to the kitchen to prepare dinner and soon after had sex with Fabian. This thing is normal for her. She had been going online to find predators to come assault her kid so this is what she wanted.
That’s what Michelle tells the authorities but two years later - she takes it all back. She says it was a false confession.
But that doesn’t explain - what happened to Victoria?
Is there any truth at all to this false confession?
And who is the unknown male DNA they found on Victoria?
Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
A woman walks into the Pavena Foundation.
“You have to help me!! Please!”
She frantically tells the nonprofit that she has just escaped from the country of Georgia. She had been held hostage by an organized crime group that forced her to do unspeakable things. Not only that - there are 100 more girls trapped there.
“What did they make you do?”
They wanted her eggs. Her human eggs. She says the 100 girls were forced to take hormone injections, forcibly go through the IVF process, so the traffickers could take and harvest their eggs.
This is the case - of the human egg farm.
The conspiracies and questions of - who are they selling the eggs to? Where are they getting the victims? Is there a larger industry that we don’t know about? Is this the only organization doing this?
And… is this is the start of the real life “Handmaid’s Tale?”
Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
The man is walking alone in the rain. He’s not pacing, or trying to cover his face with his arm, he is just slowly walking in the rain. He looks like he’s in the middle of a k-drama scene.
To his left there is a whole wall of reporters just silently recording him. Waiting to see what he’s going to do next. He gives them what they want. He collapses onto the ground and cries out to the skies.
“My wife!”
This is not just a random man having a mental breakdown. This is billionaire Fei. One of the “Young Masters of Beijing.” A group of billionaire boys who are known to be party playboys.
His ex wife, Barbie, has just passed away.
But why is he crying in the rain?
Wasn’t he the one that cheated on her? The one that was accused of being violent towards her?
And why won’t his billionaire mom stop trash talking Barbie on her livestreams - even after her death?
Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
In Brazil, this specific prison is known as the “real dungeons.”
Because once you get in - you feel like you’re trapped in hell until they let you out. That is - if you can even get out alive.
BBC reporters are there to interview one of the most high profile prisoners. Every single prisoner in there has been deemed a dangerous criminal - this one even more so.
She walks out. Thin frame. Short blonde hair.
She used to be a model in NYC and was reported to have dated Leonardo DiCaprio. What is she doing in here?
“Why are you in here?” - they ask her.
“They say I can control people minds. Change their brains.” - she responds.
“Can you?”
“What do you think? Can I? I hope so… when I get out you will see the power that I have and if it is real or not.”
“Is that a threat”
Did the prisoner just threaten the BBC reporters?
This is the case of Kat Torres - the Brazilian Instagram “influencer” with over 1 million followers that has been charged with human trafficking and slavery charges.
Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
It’s not the most captivating livestream. Ash Trevino is on the phone with her boyfriend and we, the viewers, are forced to just listen to their seemingly mundane conversations.
Out of nowhere, the 36 year old mom of two starts getting angry. She starts screaming -
“He’s innocent. I don’t care what y’all say. He is innocent and y’all are going to see that. My comments are saying RIP to those who lost their lives...”
Ash Trevino starts cackling. What is so funny? Is she laughing at the 2 teenage girls her new boyfriend killed?
Or is she laughing at all the other victims her other boyfriends in prison have killed?
Welcome to the world of Ash Trevino. Dubbed the “inmate hopper” and the “worst mom on TikTok.” The internet is collectively trying to get her accounts closed and are mass reporting her to Child Protective Services.
Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
16 year old Manohara is walking up towards the private plane. Her mother and sister are grabbing their bags from the black car behind her. She’s walking up the private jet steps… when she feels something. It’s a wave of panic?
A sixth sense? Something in her body is telling her this is not where she should be right now. She turns around and starts heading back down the steps when she hears footsteps behind her. 5 burly men come up behind her and grab her by the arms, dragging her onto the plane.
They slam her down onto her seat and refuse to let her leave. They refuse to let her family get on board.
The instructions were allegedly very clear.
Kidnap 16 year old Manohara and make sure she is returned to her rightful place in the palace.
To her husband.
The Prince of Malaysia.
Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com.
“New Parent Decision Coin.”
It’s a great gag gift for new parents. On one side it reads - “daddy’s turn” and on the other it reads “mommy’s turn.” When the baby starts getting fussy, you flip the coin, and whoever’s side it lands on gets to take care of the new baby.
13 year old Maddie sends the link to the coin with the text -
“We need this - can you get this for us?”
She sends the text message to her mom’s 37 year old boyfriend, Stephan Sterns. It does not appear that Maddie’s mother is pregnant… so who is the coin for?
2 months later - Maddie is found dead.
Her “stepfather” is arrested and graphic pictures and videos of Maddie are found on his phone.
Did he kill her?
Why did he kill her?
Was she pregnant?
And how did her mother not know anything about this?
Those are all the questions netizens have in the case of Madeline Soto.
Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
The plot of a famous thriller goes viral. It goes something like this.
A wife is called into the police station to talk about her husband. There are pictures of her husband with another girl. Graphic photos and now that girl is missing.
Does the wife know what her husband did to the missing girl? Will the wife support her husband or leave him immediately?
Jennifer Soto is at the police station and unfortunately for her - this is not a book plot.
“Do you recognize your boyfriend’s penis?”
“Yes. That’s him.”
She is shown graphic photos of her boyfriend and the girl that has now gone missing but Jennifer isn’t convinced her boyfriend did anything wrong. She says -
“I believe the sex stuff but I don’t think he did anything evil.”
The investigators pause. What did she just say?
They’re disgusted.
Because the missing girl is Jennifer’s own daughter.
13 year old Madeline Soto.
The one her 37yr old boyfriend has been abusing. And yet she defends him?
Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
There’s been a crime in the workplace. Tim, the man in charge, is tasked with figuring out what exactly happened.
He calls in the informants and sits them down at his desk.
“What did you hear?”
They lean forward - “I heard that they meet after hours in her car and they’re having a very inappropriate relationship. She might even be pregnant.”
Tim takes notes. He interviews each of the people that could know exactly what happened… before concluding. These are all just workplace rumors. There is nothing more he should do about it.
There’s just no way that Teacher Of The Year - Brittany Zamora is SAing her 13 year old student in a classroom full of kids.
There’s no way. What would her poor husband say about this?
A lot.
He has a lot to say.
All words of support for his wife.
Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
Dina and Tim know that the footage is going to be bad. They had already seen glimpses… but they weren’t prepared.
The baby camera footage shows a 56 year old woman standing at the edge of the bed. She’s emotionless yet she's holding a newborn baby in her arms...
She takes a moment before calmly - using all her force - to chuck the baby across the room onto the bed. Ever so calmly she walks over and stuffs blankets into the baby’s mouth and slams her down.
This is the case of the worst nanny in San Francisco. And strangely, how a TikTok executive and Snapchat executive get involved in this viral case.
Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
“I thought trash day was just a few days ago?”
Diane hears her neighbors bringing out their trash bins to the street. How is it already trash day? Diane is a young, single mom, and sometimes things slip her mind. She shrugs and grabs the trash bins.
As she’s walking out of her backyard - a man and a young woman appear in front of her. They smash her on the head with a metal pipe. They grab a bottle and pour hot, burning, liquid acid all down her face and back.
Diane knows exactly who did this to her. Her ex-bf. The YouTuber known for eating raw squirrels and pig heads on the streets of London.
He just tried killing her. And he’s going to try again. All whilst making videos for YouTube.
December 12th is the night that everyone has been waiting for.
The invitation is cryptic - it takes some guests weeks to figure out what it reads.
“Sdaeh tsilaer & sesserd gnol eit kcalb?”
The secret is this - you have to reflect it into the mirror to figure out what it says.
“Black tie, long dresses & surrealist heads.”
Welcome to the Rothschild's (one of the wealthiest and most powerful families) newest secret party. Everyone walks in donning a giant bejeweled mask of animals that you would normally hunt. Stags. Deer. Birds in cages.
The staff in the massive mansion are dressed as cats, perched on the stairs, meowing at the passing guests. There’s no way they’re not hunting people afterwards right?
That’s always been the conspiracy. Rich people hunting the poor for sport. But what if it is true? What if it happened in South Korea and became the inspiration of the Netflix show - Squid Game?
It’s the biggest church in South Korea but nobody knows it exists. The church itself can fit at least 4,000 church goers all at once. But that’s not the intriguing part of the church… they just do things differently.
There are a row of people standing in front of the pastor. They are asking him for forgiveness but they’re all wearing the same thing. A red sack with big ugly painted letters on there that read “I am a sinner who has gone against God’s word.”
Pastor Lim prays over them - one by one. Before he turns around and pulls out a set of red boxing gloves. He slowly, calmly puts them on and starts beating the people down. He doesn’t stop till the entire row of red sack wearing people are bloody on the floor.
Then he calmly fixes his clothes and heads back to the podium to continue preaching to the church goers.
This is not a cult story.
This is Brother’s Home.
A government funded camp to cleanse the humans of South Korea ahead of the Olympics.
The true story behind the Squid Game show.
They’re all wearing the same blue tracksuit. Thousands of them standing out in the middle of the woods wearing the same thing. What is this place?
They’re out in the middle of the woods - in what appears to be a small secretive city? A military base? How did they get 60+ buildings out here in the middle of the forest?
And that giant wall… it’s 30 feet tall. Tall enough to keep people out. Or keep them in.
The guards are watching each of the track suit wearing people with precision. One wrong move and you get beat. That’s when they hear it…
The man starts running up onto the roof of one of the buildings - and there he goes. He flies off the top and lands in front of everyone. On his head.
Someone standing right there says - “honestly, I didn’t know the sound of someone’s head exploding could make such a loud splitting sound. I saw his skull explode open.”
A guard member walks out and sweeps up his brains and bones as if nothing happened. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? It kind of sounds like the plot of one of the most famous series on Netflix, Squid Game.
But it’s not.
This is the real life case of the Brother’s Home in South Korea.
The true story behind Squid Game.
Full source note: rottenmangopodcast.com
I received an email from the ex-wife of a serial killer. The subject reads: “ I was married to a serial killer for 7.5 years and I need help!!”
Her ex husband was sentenced to death for the murder of 3 women. When authorities searched his house they found a soundproof torture chamber. Whips, iron chains, and many many files. Video files of him torturing his victims - plucking out their nails one by one.
Now, his ex wife has come forward to ask for help. She was not only one of the first people he tried to kill but now her son (that she shares with him) has been taken. The serial killer’s mother has taken her son and now she’s on the hunt to get him back.
This is her GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-reunite-a-mother-with-her-son-after-35-year
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
Sang’s mom is haunted. Everyone has their own explanations for it but it’s that simple.
Every time she sets the dinner table - she stares at the empty seat. Sometimes smiling, sometimes pouting, but always as if someone is sitting there.
Sang would ask -
“Mom, is everything alright?”
“Just make sure to save some of the meat for Niuniu - you know that’s her favorite.”
Sang’s mom would motion at the empty chair and smile.
The haunting started when Niuniu, Sang’s little sister, went missing. Nobody knew what happened to her other than the fact that she received a creepy doll with moving eyes shortly before she went missing.
26 years later Niuniu would come back to tell everyone the truth. She was kidnapped, trafficked, and sold. After 26 years she was coming back to kill her trafficker. Get her revenge.
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
The man in the olive green jacket is ready. Today is the day. He’s nervously walking through the crowd of New Yorkers to get to his destination.
The last thing he needs is to get stopped by anyone - especially the NYPD.
A man passes by him muttering -
“Bro, idk if you should be doing this but your life choice I guess?”
Another citizen points and squeals -
“He’s the one! He’s the one!”
With that.. the man in the jacket smiles. He is contestant number 6 in the lookalike contest for the shooter that killed Brian Thompson. The CEO of United Health Care.
This man just won $50.
How is it that a man is shot and killed in the middle of Manhattan in broad daylight, his body hasn’t even been laid to rest yet, and the shooter is still on the run… and yet.
There is a lookalike contest for the killer?
Most Americans have been asking themselves this past week - who really is the true victim here?
Is it the one that was shot and killed?
Or is it the shooter himself?
Or is it all of us?
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
“To Catch A Predator” steps:
That is the premise to the show “To Catch A Predator” that has now been cancelled for its moral dilemmas.
But now influencers are recreating the show themselves on their platforms. Luring in predators, confronting them, and then calling the police.
That’s what 17 year old Gavon tells the cops was his plan… He met up with a middle aged man on Grindr for the purpose of robbing him because he deserves it. Why else would he talk to a minor?
But for the police to believe his side of the story they have to go through his phone… and that’s where they find a folder titled - “Dark.”
The password? “Murder.”
Suddenly a simple robbery case turns into a murder investigation because in it… are videos and photos of 17 year old Gavon Ramsay killing and SAing a 98 year old woman in her own home. Gavon Ramsay is the predator.
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
Do you trust a random stranger to give you life-altering advice?
A TikToker is standing on the sidewalk with a giant pasteboard - “ASK ME FOR FREE ADVICE.”
A middle aged man on a bike stops and asks
“Do I go to Uzbekistan or stay here?”
The whole exchange is bizarre. She asks him why would he move? He tells her for a woman. She asks him why doesn’t he just date an American woman? He tells her that he’s already married with kids…
All of this is made more confusing by the fact that the entire time the man appears calm. He’s pleasant and keeps smiling…
That TikTok is filmed in June. In August, just 2 months later, a man goes missing in one of the deepest lakes in the state. He’s presumed dead.
But why does he look identical to the man in the TikTok video?
Did this man actually drown?
Or did he fake his death, abandon his wife and kids, to be with a new woman?
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
“I woke up alone in a hospital. There is nobody here. I can’t find a single person. Humanity is extinct. The date is February 2027.”
That is from a viral TikToker, Javier, who claims he is from the future to warn us about humanity. But there’s no way he’s actually from the future, right?
Meanwhile, in Miami - an IG model is telling the police - “the aliens are coming. They’re coming. They’re coming. They’re coming. They’re coming. They’re coming.”
The authorities are confused. She tells them - “I’m from the future. I’m a crystal ball. You can live off me.”
The police ask her if she remembers what happened.
“Yes, I remember. I died.”
Puzzling. Because she’s not dead. She is very much alive but just one block down there are two people that are dead and they’re not coming back.
Full Source Note: www.rottenmangopodcast.com
Gone South, the Edward R. Murrow award-winning podcast, is back. Unlike previous seasons, writer and host Jed Lipinski brings listeners new episodes every week with no end in sight. Each episode of Gone South Season 4 tells a different story about one of the South's most interesting crimes.
Someone is going to die at the luxury 5 star resort… it’s going to happen. It happened in Hawaii. The hotel manager was stabbed by a wealthy hotel guest.
Then in Italy. A wealthy woman was killed by her husband for her inheritance. And now - someone is going to die at the Four Season Resort in Thailand.
At least in the show White Lotus. Season 3 with Lisa from Blackpink will debut sometime in 2025.
The only thing is - did you know there was an actual real life murder mystery there?
The wife of one of China’s richest men was found floating in the private villa pool. She was dead. But more interesting than that is the rich man’s first wife was also found dead 10 years prior. Leaving everyone to question - is this wealthy man and high profile business tycoon killing off his wives one by one?
How is he getting away with it?
3 deaths spanning across 3 countries.
1 billionaire family and a son searching for his dad to get answers.
Will White Lotus be based on this true story?
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
When you walk into an Abercrombie & Fitch store - just know, that they’re watching you. They know that most likely you will take a right upon entering. They know approximately how long you will stay in the store. What the scent and the music of the store does to impact your spending.
But most importantly - they know that you were lured in by the shirtless guys standing out in the front. Each employee is meticulously hand selected for their looks and attitude. It’s all about the brand.
This is all the work of then CEO, Mike Jeffries, a “mad genius.”
Who has now been indicted for running a sex trafficking ring of male models.
His alleged ties and connections to Jeffrey Epstein and Diddy are starting to come to light. With everyone wondering - how did this go on for decades?
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
It’s the middle of the day in South Korea. Koreans are at work, grabbing lunch, picking up their kids from school, minding their own business.
Amongst them is an American man named Ramsey- who clearly does not look like he’s up to any good.
He’s live-streaming on his phone while glancing from side to side.
When he feels the coast is clear he takes out his portable speaker… and starts playing… Diddy’s song “Last Night.”
He runs in front of the camera, takes off his shirt, and starts pouring baby oil down his torso.
He starts dancing on the female figure in front of him. Sexually rubbing his body on her frame.
This video will go viral in South Korea. And a new game will start - hunting Ramsey.
Objective of the game?
Hunt Ramsey.
Find Ramsey.
Punch Ramsey.
Because the female figure he tried smothering in baby oil is not any random statue. It is the statue representing the hundreds of thousands of young girls who were taken, enslaved, and SA’d dozens of times per day for years during the war.
It’s a pre-fixed menu - like one of those fancy Michelin star restaurants.
Breakfast is served at 6 with two slices of their in house special bread.
Lunch is their iconic “special k loaf.” A dense mixture of - bread and cereal.
Dinner is typically a thick, goopy, chicken gravy over rice.
If this isn’t your style they always have the a la carte menu where you can order - rib meals, jalapeño cheese, and even hemorrhoid creams.
Reservations not required.
Attendance is mandatory.
Fully booked every single day.
Welcome to the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center.
Famous former residents include - Ghislaine Maxwell, R. Kelly, cult leaders, crypto fraudster Sam Bankman Fried, and now… Sean Diddy Combs.
But there have been whispers….
That Diddy might want to get out as soon as possible. Because netizens are concerned he will face the same fate as Jeffrey Epstein in prison.
That there might be powerful people out there that might not want him to talk…
Technically, there are many powerful, wealthy people with millions of reasons to want him to shut up.
This is part 4 - covering the “Diddy’s List”
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
In September 2024, Eminem released a new song - the lyrics read:
“I’m like a R-A-P-E-R
Got so many SAs
Wait
He didn’t just spell the word rapper and leave out a P-Didhe?
RIP, rest in peace Biggie and Pac
Both of y’all should be living
Cause he might put a hit on me like - Keefe D get em”
Notorious BIG & Tupac were two of the most influential musicians in the world. They were both murdered within 6 months of each other, and Diddy has always been connected to their deaths.
One of them - he saw as his competition
Another he saw as his money-making machine.
Which means - did Eminem just ask the question - Did Diddy kill them?
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
A mysterious new book starts making its way to the top of the Best Sellers category on Amazon books. It just doesn’t make sense though. The book isn’t authored by a well known author… on top of that, it’s quite a pricey book.
59 pages.
$22.
Reviewers say it’s riddled with typos and factual inaccuracies.
Why is it suddenly on the best sellers list?
The title is: “Kim’s Lost Words: A Journey For Justice From The Other Side”
It claims to be a memoir written by Kim Porter, Diddy’s ex gf, and the mother of his 4 children.
Part of the introduction reads:
“He was so charming - a wolf in sheep’s clothing. A devil and I fell for it. This story must be told despite the fact that it will hurt my children. I cannot hide it any longer. Sean Combs must be stopped....”
But there’s no way Kim Porter published it herself - because she passed away in 2018.
So who wrote it? The author claims he received a flash drive from close sources. But is he trustworthy?
But more importantly - why are netizens calling for Kim Porter’s death to be re-investigated?
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Jonathan Oddi has a lot of conspiracies. He believes everything has been engineered with agendas to create the most chaos and confusion possible - that is the fall of humans.
That’s what he’s telling confused investigators in the interrogation room after firing shots inside of a hotel. He’s telling them he did this to wake up the American people from the illuminati. The officers ask him how he knows all of this…
He slams his hand on the table and asks -
“Do you know Sean Combs?”
Is he talking about Diddy? The music mogul, billionaire, and famous artist?
“I was basically his sex slave.”
Jonathan Oddi claims he was having intimate relations with Diddy’s then girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, while Diddy watched. He says while he was there he was forced to take liquid cocaine and he heard LOTS of important details.
Like how Diddy is part of the illuminati.
How they’re all transporting drugs in private jets across the US.
And how Diddy was having him followed.
In 2018 - everyone believed he was a dangerous unhinged man coming up with the most fantastical stories.
In 2024 - everyone is wondering… maybe he’s right about everything…
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A woman named Ashley walks into the emergency room with strange injuries. Bruises all over her body. Scrape marks on knees and bite marks on her face.
The nurses don’t feel comfortable with her explanation of how she sustained such severe injuries. The only answer that makes sense to them… is abuse. Severe abuse. A beating.
They call the police to report it - and by the end of the night, the patient is dead.
Now the police are left to investigate - her boyfriend. Her affair partner from work. Her lover’s girlfriend. And even his little 17-year-old sister.
4 different people with connections with Ashely.
4 different reactions to the news of her death.
And 2 responsible for killing her.
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Ronan’s 6 year old daughter has finally come back home but something is not right. Ever since the little girl got home strange things have been happening…
A cockroach breaking through the window. The child suddenly growing double the teeth in her mouth. Somehow she’s able to shut doors that are on the other side of the room. She’s talking to people who aren’t there…
Ronan knows why. Her little daughter is possessed and it’s up to her to find out how to break the curse.
That sounds like the plot of a movie - doesn’t it?
It is - the horror film “Incantation.” It is arguably one of the scariest horror films to be released recently.
Yet.
It’s all based on a true story of a family of 6 in Taiwan.
A family where they all became possessed until finally 1 of them dies.
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Lucy Li is sitting in a small room with a blanket draping over her shoulders.
A man sits in front of her and asks about how her flight was.
“It’s not the best flight experience, I’m not used to sitting in tight spaces… And I feel really bad for the officers that had to come and get me because they had to make stopovers…”
She puts her hand to her heart, “Me and mom was really concerned about that. And we offered Interpol to tell them we would fly them private.”
Lucy has just gotten off an international flight from Eastern Europe after a murder (double murder attempt), fleeing to multiple countries, and being wanted by Interpol for months.
She’s just a little unhappy that she wasn’t able to fly private to come home.
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For the low price of $200k you can freeze yourself. Freeze yourself so that one day you can reach immortality. One day in the future, if someone can figure out how to make humans immortal - all they have to do is thaw you out.
It’s a luxury only the wealthy can afford.
In Taiwan, an 18 year old boy has been kept in the morgue freezer for over a year now.
But it’s not because he’s trying to reach immortality. He’s been frozen for a completely different reason.
People are demanding answers to his very suspicious death.
These are the events before he mysteriously fell 10 floors to his death
One week before - he inherits $500M.
2 hours before - he marries a total stranger.
Now the question is - did someone kill him? Was it an accident?
And who is going to get his money?
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There was this rumor going around in the K-Pop world in 2016
If you want your favorite artist to do well – you have to buy their albums from two specific retailers…
One of those companies was called Synnara Records.
At their height, it is said they had a 30% share of the record market volume. They are one of the rare business success stories raking in millions of dollars.
Until you dig deeper.
The name Synarra means- New Nation.
The record company was founded by a woman who wanted to create a new nation for her followers.
A woman who allegedly forced young healthy men to line up outside her door to wait for their golden chance to be SA’d by her.
A woman who was tried for the torture and murder of a 5 year old baby.
This is the story of the Baby Garden cult - and how they made millions in the K-Pop industry without anyone knowing…
They’re still around to this day.
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There is an annual competition - where 10 groups come together to use NASA level technology to beat each other in a high speed race. Who can create the fastest car. Who can go the fastest and win.
The key component here is to stay alive because when you’re driving at 200mph. It’s not an easy feat.
That’s why the Formula 1 drivers get paid so much. F1 is ultimately a dangerous sport with car crashes, flips, fires, and death.
But what happens when a 16 year old spoiled teenager gets into a fight with his mom because he wants an American Express Gold Card - and decides to go onto the street to drive like a F1 race car driver?
There are 2 people in the car.
Only 1 survives.
But there are rumors that 2 people will be arrested for this.
Who and why would they be arrested if they were never in the car to begin with?
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He doesn’t know it yet but his wife is about to divorce him. They have been married for the past 50 years and everyone that knows them - believes them to be the perfect couple.
How is he going to explain that it was all an accident? He didn’t mean to film up the girl’s skirts at the supermarket?
He tries to convince her it might be dementia. Perhaps his brain is finally giving out at his old age. His caring wife goes with him to the police station to get it sorted out.
But there’s always more to the story - isn’t there?
The police want to talk to her. Alone.
What’s the matter here?
After arresting her husband for filming up skirt videos in the market - they went through his devices and found a folder titled “ABUSES.”
There were over 20k digital files.
From 2011 to 2020 - for almost 10 years - he had been drugging his wife. Inviting over at least 72 strange men into the house at night to SA his wife in her sleep.
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7-year-old Heaven was brought into the Budha House to be healed. The neighbors who brought her in tried to explain - she had been playing and hanging onto a bar when she fell and hit her head. She is now unconscious.
But the healers could just take one look at Heaven and know - the little girl is dead.
When Heaven’s mom finally sees Heaven’s little body - she finds something even more puzzling. Her mouth is filled with cement. Her autopsy shows she was assaulted “front and back” and had these weird little cuts all over her body.
On her neck, you could almost make out the 5 fingers that were wrapped around her. Suffocating her.
It feels like all the neighbors are in on some big conspiracy. Why do they keep insisting that she fell when it’s so clear she did not. What are they hiding?
Heaven’s mom is going to figure out what the hell happened to her daughter.
https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-heaven-and-her-mother
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It’s said the parents of Nova (Northern Virginia) have their little groups that they stick to during school drop offs and pick ups. It’s an upscale neighborhood - with many residents working in government as politicians or even federal agents. It’s only a 30 minute drive to DC.
But there is one woman that most moms likely avoid at the school bus stop.
The new live in lover of the federal agent that lives down the street.
The whole thing is just eerie.
She moved into that house just months after the federal agent’s wife was brutally murdered.
And now she’s dropping off the murdered woman’s child as if… as if she’s trying to take her place? It’s just strange.
It makes people question - did she have something to do with the murder?
And who was the other man that was found dead in their house?
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South Korea is going through an erase all faces panic. Every single selfie is being wiped from the internet just in case. As a response - a male college student wrote on a forum -
“Put a finger down and ask yourself
If you answered yes to more than 3 of these questions - don’t worry. Your rate of being a victim of sexual deep fakes is very low. Men have standards too. We don’t just deepfake any woman.”
This is the case of the “new Nth Rooms” where over 400 schools have been found to be operating illegal chatrooms where students are getting deepfaked into sexually explicit photos and videos.
A whole network of deep fake trading and creating has been found.
Most victims and perpetrators? Teenagers.
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Grandma C knew that something wasn’t right about what she was looking at. Her daughter is standing there holding her 2-month-old baby. But everything is wrong.
Her daughter’s pants are soaked in urine.
The way she’s talking sounds like someone clamped her tongue, and two-month-old baby Mirabelle is not moving.
In fact, Mirabelle’s little face is bright angry red and her body seems stiff.
Grandma C rushes to put her down and unzips baby Mirabelle’s onesie…
She’s peeling. The skin on her entire body is peeling.
Mirabelle’s mom starts to explain that she must have suffered a stroke while holding her baby and fell on top of her… onto the space heater. Squashing her baby into the space heater and burning her.
But when authorities arrive - they start to think differently.
Because Mirabelle’s injuries are not consistent with someone who has been burned by a space heater. Also, why was her little purple pacifier found in the microwave?
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There is a college student laying down on the hospital bed. She’s staring up at the ceiling in distress as someone records her silently from the corner of the room.
“I’m going to have such a long day tomorrow - I’m not going to answer anyone’s Snapchats!”
The person recording does not respond.
“Well, you’re too quiet. I’m going to start singing since I hate the quiet.”
The girl gets up in the hospital bed to perform Justin Bieber’s “Intentions.” She’s whipping her head around like she’s giving a stage performance on tour. She just doesn’t understand why the man in the room with her is so stiff. Loosen up. Have some fun.
He snaps at her - “you want me to be honest with you? You’re going to jail. You don’t have bond. You killed two people tonight. That’s what’s going on. So no, you’re not going to school tomorrow.”
This is the case of Stephanie Melgoza - the college student who killed two people and proceeded to complain the whole time about how she needed to go to class, told the officers about how excited she was for her Vegas trip, and sang songs at the crime scene.
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Hospitals are no strangers to death. But something very odd was happening inside the walls of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College.
The medical students, junior doctors, professors were all running away from the classroom. Screaming.
Administrators rushed to call Dr. Di’s parents.
‘She self exited.’
That is what her parents were told. Their precious daughter had taken her own life. Perhaps it was the unbearable pressure and long work hours?
Or not.
The autopsy would show that Dr. D, a 31 year old female doctor, was found gang SA’d to the point her pelvic bone was damaged, bleeding from her eyes, mouth, and private parts, bite marks all over, and her legs found bent at an unnatural contorted angle. Anyone could see that she clearly had not taken her own life.
So then, why would her parents be told that? Who is the hospital protecting?
What are they covering up?
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The entire courtroom is quiet as each person walks up to the front and points. They point at this tiny miniature model of a movie theater sitting on the table.
The tiny blue miniature-model seats are positioned just like they were when it all happened.
3 years ago - the emergency exit door to Theater 9 would open. A man with bright orange hair wearing tactical gear would walk into the theater - and open fire.
At the midnight premiere of Batman The Dark Knight Rises.
He is now sitting in the courtroom charged with 24 counts of murder, 140 counts of attempted murder, and 1 count of illegal explosives.
But there are still so many questions - he told his psychiatrist months prior that he wanted to kill people. Why wasn’t he put on a psychiatric hold? Why did he write a notebook filled with his plans to mail to her? Why did he, a neuroscience major, hate humanity so much to believe in something as vile as “human capital?” The idea that taking a life increases the value of your own.
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On June 1, 2024, A Korean YouTube channel uploaded a video titled - “Pack Ki Beom, did you think that I wouldn’t find you?”
The video includes details about Pack’s personal life. Showing his comfortable luxurious lifestyle with his wife and young daughter. It would appear that overnight Korean netizens flock to Pack’s page leaving hate comments.
“I hope your daughter gets taken away from you.”
“I hope the same thing happens to your daughter - then what will you do?”
It seemed overnight all of Korea would turn on a random civilian named Pack Ki Beom.
20 years ago Pack was the ringleader of the Miryang 44 case. Where 44 high school students blackmailed, tortured, and SA’d a middle school girl for over a year straight.
All 44 perpetrators were not punished. Without even a mark on their criminal records. They were free to live as anonymous free men in the world.
Until June 1st.
This would be the start of a string of vigilante justice YouTubers releasing the identities and doxxing the perpetrators involved. One by one.
Leaving everyone in South Korea to wonder - do I know one?
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Ophelia, an Italian mafia boss, had a thing for fingers. She likes the way they curve, the soft bend at the knuckles, the tender skin, just everything about hands. She loves.
She just hates that she only has one.
Her hand was cut off in a war with the enemy mafia over territory.
Ophelia is sitting at a bar when Kim walks in. Kim is part of the enemy mafia. Kim sits down and slides over a gift.
Ophelia peers inside and a small smile creeps onto her face…. This is perfect.
So beautiful.
She uses both of her hands to place the gift bag under the table. Yes, both of her hands.
Because Ophelia’s hands were never cut off.
She’s not a mafia boss.
In fact, her name is not even Ophelia.
She is a South Korean high schooler who joined a role playing game. But now the question is - who is Kim?
Because inside the gift bag are very very real human lungs and flesh.
Including a pretty little finger. Ophelia’s favorite.
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Dr. Nandi walks into the morgue…
She’s a celebrity doctor – she provides Botox and chemical peels to some of the top celebrities in South Africa…
She’s here to pick up her dead father’s body.
But within a few weeks, she’s back at the morgue picking up another body.
And then like clockwork, she’s back at the morgue, picking up another body.
Why does she keep taking bodies from the morgue?
What the hell was she doing with them?
But perhaps the most important – what does she have to do with a murderer who was found burned to death in his jail cell?
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Finding love is not easy. Especially when you’re competing against almost 3.9k other people for just one man. You really only have one shot, so how do you stand out? You could send pictures or even nudes!
Though on second thought…they’ll probably get flagged and he won’t even be able to read them. Maybe a love poem? “I know you’ve been hurt, but I’ll be with you. I see the pain in your eyes.” It’s kind of like the bachelor; everyone fighting for one man’s affections. Who’s going to come out on top?
Only, this man is not the bachelor. He’s a killer. He committed double homicide. He killed two people in cold blood.
He has gone viral on tiktok for being ‘hot’ and now thousands of people from all over the world are writing to him—believing they can change him. This is the case of Wade Wilson.
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Earlier this month, an audio clip went viral on the internet. In the clip you can hear a man’s voice aggressively screaming -
“SHUT UP SHUT UP! You stupid b*tch, didn’t I tell you not to this??”
You can hear a woman crying, begging for him to stop. Begging him to stop and spare her life.
That woman is TzuYang. She is the biggest YouTuber in South Korea with over 10 million subscribers.
And she had essentially been held hostage for the last 4 years of her life and forced to film eating (Mukbang) videos.
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7-year-old Mary Galvin has plans to kill her older brother. The way he roams around town with that empty gaze. The way their parents refuse to talk about his behavior. It was all going to end.
Mary had her older brother, Donald Galvin, tied to a tree as she gathers sticks to pile at his feet. He is a witch about to be burnt at the stake.
Donald is more than happy to play along. In the end, Mary backs out of her plan to kill him—she didn’t bring matches along and by the time she realizes what she’s really doing—she’s sprinting away like it never happened. Donald is fine either way. If she had gone through with it he would’ve happily died right then and there because to him, Mary is more than just his little sister.
She is the Virgin Mary. The Mother of Christ himself—and it makes sense—because they’re not even real siblings. Donald had been switched at birth and his real mother is actually an octopus.
This is the story of the ‘most mentally disturbed family in America’ (according to one psychiatrist). 12 full blood siblings living in one house. 6 out of the 12 siblings would be diagnosed with schizophrenia. This is the case of the Galvin family.
Donate To The Galvin Family Trust: https://galvinfamilytrust.org/
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They are the only ones inside the laundromat and they need help.
The two sisters are standing over baby Benson’s tiny body trying to do chest compressions. Everything was fine two seconds ago.
He was asleep in the car and they brought him while they were running errands - why is he ice cold to the touch? None of this makes sense?
When the police arrive at the scene. They agree. None of this makes sense.
Because baby Benson was dead when the sisters pulled him out of his car seat to perform CPR.
He was dead when they walked into the laundromat.
In fact - he had been dead for a few hours.
Which begs the questions - how long has he been dead, how did nobody notice, and who did this to him?
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This was probably the strangest call the Hollywood police received.
A foul stench coming from an apartment unit. A dead man is found with his head painted green and red. He didn’t even look human - he looked like he was wearing a mask.
But in front of him is a tripod set up - with a camera. Someone had filmed his death. In fact, someone had filmed 20 hours of this man losing his mind. His mental collapse.
20 hours of footage that shows him slowly losing touch with reality and start living fully in his fantasy world. His ultimate fantasy?
Send one of the most famous singers an acid bomb. Because if she’s ugly. Nobody will want her anymore. She will come crawling to him - her biggest fan.
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The police had a strange situation on their hands.
A thief had broken into a multi-million dollar home - to steal a safe.
The safe had 3 items in it.
Jewelry.
Investment documents.
And the home owner’s old phones.
The police were able to quickly determine that the thief did not want the jewelry or the investment documents in the safe. Which means - the thief is going after the home owner’s old phones.
Why would a thief want some old phones? Was there something on there that they didn’t want anyone else to see?
But most puzzling is - who would do this to Goo Hara?
The home belonged to a k-pop idol who had just died just 49 days ago.
What did they want from her safe?
And how does this connect to the Burning Sun case?
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A young man calls the police around 3:30 am to report that he had just been physically assaulted by his ex-girlfriend. Officers are dispatched and the caller greets them with a few red scratches on his face. He had gone over to his ex-girlfriend’s apartment to break up with her—but that’s when she went crazy; scratching his face and twisting his arm. The officers ask the man for her name.
Goo Hara. A K-pop idol from the girl group KARA.
When the police begin investigating, the man’s story begins to fall apart. If what he’s saying is true, why is there CCTV footage of Goo Hara on her knees—seemingly begging the young man? Why did he email Dispatch, a Korean tabloid, twice during this so-called ‘one sided assault?’ And what does all of this have to do with Burning Sun?
A couple of months pass, and Goo Hara helps reporters blow the lid off the Burning Sun case.
Not even a year later, she is found dead.
This is part two of Burning Sun.
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There’s this fascinating little town called ‘Little Japan.’ It’s a gated community with cookie-cutter houses, though they boast beautiful chandeliers and heated floors, and all of them have a matching set of priceless portraits hanging on their walls.
The residents are nine Japanese families, hence the name, and they have their own private chefs, maids, even chauffeurs in black Mercedes. A small movie theater, a massive sauna house, and a grocery store where they never have to pay. The catch? If they ever want to leave the community ‘gates,’ they must ask for permission from the Supreme Leader… The town itself is not even an hour outside of North Korea’s capital.
The families themselves are neither Japanese nor North Korean royalty, nor are they diplomats or even government officials either.
They’re a gang of hijackers. Hijackers who stole a plane and flew it into North Korea—and now the distinguished guests of the Kim regime were to become his secret weapon.
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A church in South Carolina has gone viral recently--even making national headlines. A young pastor by the name of JP is caught on a recorded sermon saying:
“One day I’m going to preach about getting rich, strong, healthy, and finding a hot wife that loves Jesus!”
The congregation laughs awkwardly because on his left hand ring finger is a wedding band—he’s already married—but he won’t be for much longer.
Just a few weeks later, Pastor JP’s wife—14 years younger than him—is found face down, submerged in a marsh, an entire state away.
Just four days after that, the media reports that Pastor JP was drinking at a bar with a woman thought to be his mistress.
This is the ongoing investigation into the tragic death of Mica Francis Miller.
Mica Francis Miller’s Go Fund Me link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/justiceformica
Official Justice For Mica website link: https://justiceformica.com/home
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3 people are sitting at a table in a diner. Miriam, a middle aged woman sits stiffly, and across from her are two young men. One of them fiddles with a radio; a police scanner. He leans towards Miriam as if they’re sharing a secret across the table.
“Your daughter smoke weed or something?” She gives him a look. Radio man continues, “I mean… she’s just so relaxed. Easy to deal with which is good. I like that. That’s why I want to let her go… for a price.”
He tells Miriam that he will convince his boss to spare her daughter from a torturous death for $2k USD cash. Miriam suppresses a smile; she has to play along or else everything she’s planned will fall apart.
Her daughter Karen had been kidnapped by one of the most dangerous cartels in all of Mexico and Miriam knew that nobody gets taken by that cartel and gets out alive. She also knew that she would not stop until she took every single member out for what they had done to her family.
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Somi doesn’t normally go through her husband’s things, but their house has been so cluttered, she’s going to lose her mind. From the back of their closet, she comes across old VHS tapes and a VHS player that she doesn’t recognize. Home movies, old memories? She pushes the tape in and presses play.
The screen lights up. It’s a bed and two naked bodies. Her husband… and another girl laying next to him. There are words written all over both of their bodies in thick marker, words like ‘Prince’ and ‘King.’
Then Somi sees the blood.
The girl has a long slice down her private area; she’s bleeding, trembling, completely terrified. The male—her husband’s voice—snaps at the girl, “Endure it even if it hurts.” Then he proceeds to SA her. Somi is frozen—but her mind is in overdrive—she can’t shake the feeling that she knows the girl—she can’t place a name but she recognizes the girl’s face.
It was the same one on the missing posters in town.
The girl in the video was the little, 8-year-old girl that had gone missing a year ago.
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A man is laying face first, unconscious in his living room. Alyssa and Vanessa are standing over him. Alyssa reaches for the zip ties and binds his ankles together, three zip ties thick. Vanessa on the other hand is terrified. She’s screaming in her head to ‘STOP! This needs to stop! It’s taking things too far!’ But the words won’t come out; the only thing she can do is wait for a moment when Alyssa looks away—then Vanessa dives for the scissors. She cuts the zip ties off his ankles.
“NO!” Alyssa forces Vanessa aside and reties his ankles and his wrists. Vanessa lost her chance. She can only watch helplessly as Alyssa yields a massive hunting knife and sends it plunging into the man’s neck. Then she begins sawing—back and forth. They watch the blood soak into the carpet.
Police would later find the victim, Harold Sasko, and announce that his suspected killer was a 19 year old girl named Sarah.
However this episode is NOT Harold’s story. Neither Alyssa’s, nor Vanessa’s. This is the case of Sarah McLinn, diagnosed with DID, and the many, many people who believe she should be free.
RAINN Resources
Website link to CHAT w/ a trained staff member who can provide you confidential crisis support: https://hotline.rainn.org/online
Call the National SA Hotline anytime at: 800.656.4673
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Orchards are not fun at 3am. The rustling of the leaves feels no longer feels like a nice sunny, breezy day, it sounds like someone is hiding behind a tree somewhere watching you. Standing in the middle of an orchard is a group of high schoolers and young 20 something year olds just huddled in a circle.
“What did kim say about the—? “HURRY just start pouring it!”
They kick their shovels aside, start pouring the concrete into the hole, and watch as it covers first the hand, then the torso, and now the face.
The face of the 15-year-old girl that they held captive for a month and tortured.
When they’re done, they head back to their cars with their shovels… And honestly? They think they did it; that they’re getting away with it. But don’t they know? History always repeats itself.
A very, very similar case took place 26 years ago in Japan: The case of Junko Furuta.
This episode is about a case that everyone in South Korea has been calling: The Korean Junko Furuta case.
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“I’m going to use the restroom real quick.”
Jia’s husband opens his eyes and looks at his phone. It’s 1AM. The two of them are on an overnight train heading home. He blinks before ripping his blanket off to escort his wife -
“No, it’s okay. I have my phone with me. Just stay here. I’ll be back quick.”
She leaves for the restroom - careful to not wake up any of the other passengers in the sleeper carriage. She climbs down the bunk bed steps and balances through the aisle to the restroom.
BAM. Jia’s husband eye’s fly open and he checks the time. 1:30AM. It’s been thirty minutes and his wife is not back from the restroom. Strange…
He searches the entire carriage before alerting the train conductor…
“Please you have to help my wife is missing!”
The train conductor smiles at him.
“Don’t be ridiculous. Nobody goes missing on a moving train.”
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The to do list for the party mainly consists of purchasing groceries, cleaning the upstairs rooms, and airing out the pungent smell in the bathrooms.
17 year old Cassandra grabs the bottle of bleach and pours it out onto the bathroom floors. There. That should do.
Her boyfriend, Johnny, helps her glue the bathroom door shut. Sealing it with a caulk gun. There. Now nobody can get in and nobody can get out.
But more importantly - the smell won’t get downstairs and ruin the vibes.
“It’s a sewage issue.” That’s what they tell the party guests.
19 year old Johnny had used the restroom and because the sewer lines were blocked up he couldn’t flush. Excuse the smell.
They did not tell them that they were getting high right under 2 dead bodies that were decomposing upstairs.
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The police office ran through the apartment complex - only stopping to investigate a suspicious looking Korean girl in a blue mustang.
“What unit?”
“656” she said.
The exact unit he was called to for a potential home invasion and hostage situation.
“What’s your name?”
“My name is Sunny Han.”
He tried to memorize her face before running to the unit. They found in the apartment 2 college girls had been tied up by gunmen. They were trying to kill the girls.
As the officer is interviewing the two female victims he can’t help but shake the feeling of deja vu.
“Wait, I’m sorry what did you say your name was?”
“Sunny. Sunny Han.”
But that’s not possible. How can someone be two places at once?
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It was supposed to be a cute little road trip.
12-year-old Isabella, her best friend Asunta, and Isabella’s mom were in the car heading towards the beach.
Isabella’s mom tried to keep the spirits high for the girls -
“Okay, why don’t we all share a story! Get our creative juices flowing!”
12-year-old Asunta offers to start. Her voice suddenly shaky -
“There once was a girl who laid in her bed to sleep. She awoke to a man in a mask dragging her body off her bed, covering her mouth, and then choking her with his big strong hands. The girl could not breathe. She could not scream. She was going to die.”
Isabella’s mom pulls the car over to the side of the road because Asunta is bawling her eyes out.
“Sweetie, are you alright?”
Asunta was not alright. This was a true story, and it happened to Asunta - a man broke into their home and tried to kill her.
But when Isabella’s mom talks to Asunta’s parents about it - she’s even more confused. Why are they not freaked out? Why didn’t they report this to the police? Who is this masked man, and is he still out there?
Why would he want to kill Asunta?
And did the man come back? Because 2 months later, Asunta would be murdered.
Soon - everyone in Asunta’s life would become a prime suspect. Including her wealthy adoptive parents.
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The Department of Justice makes a very public statement—it feels more like a threat.
“Please do not reproduce, share, or use this exhibit in any way. If you have downloaded this file, please delete it off your device.”
The DOJ had accidentally leaked a file they previously moved to seal from the public. Not one thing, nor one name was redacted.
The file in question - is the client list to one of the most high profile sex workers in all of Manhattan.
Her revenue in just a few years was in the millions of dollars - her hourly rate was $1500.
It’s safe to assume that this leaked, ’sealed’ file includes the names of NYC’s upper elite. High peorfile businessmen, millionaire-married couples, artists, restaurant tycoons, and lots and lots of rich married men.
Some of the names were recognized to be high level executives at Apple, other major retailers, one wealthy hedge fund manager, one international diamond dealer, and a former NY Supreme Court Judge.
But they hadn’t just been listed as clients for sex work.
They had all been named as alleged clients of a sex trafficking business run by a college cult.
10 years prior, a man had walked onto an elite private school campus to visit his daughter, a sophomore at the university. The man, her father, ends up staying on campus, living in his daughter’s dorm, and quickly begins the process of grooming and brainwashing all of his daughter’s friends.
The result was a decade long cult. Some of the friends turned cult members were ‘promoted’ to chauffeur or solder. Others into forced labor. His daughter’s friends would become his wives.’ And that left one, forced to turn to sex work. They all served one old, middle aged man.
This is the case of Lawrence Ray and his decade long cult of college students and sex.
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“Hey, can my dad stay with us for a little while after he gets out of prison?”
It was an odd request but Talia’s roommates felt like they couldn’t say no. Talia was a good friend, she always talked about wanting to become a lawyer and help people. She just had this tiny little quirk…
She was obsessed with her dad.
Even at parties - she would not stop talking about what an incredible man he was. He’s just going to stay in their dorms while he looks for a new place. What could possibly go wrong?
When Larry Ray moves into Talia’s dorm - he slowly starts brainwashing all of Talia’s friends. Soon, he will be sleeping in Talia’s best friend’s room. Encouraging the students to all have intimate relations with each other… while he watches.
This would be the start of his decade-long college cult.
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Oh Won is getting into his next at home project – everything is set up for success. He has a whole bottle of his favorite Chinese liquor. It’s stronger than Vodka, but he’s tossing it back like water.
His hand reaches for his phone as he feels the urge again. He’s on autopilot mode - staring at his screen, swiping, swiping… He presses play and puts his phone up against the bathroom sink. The woman’s moaning is just echoing off the bathroom wall… He lights a cigarette and squats down with his 8-inch knife.
He starts moving the knife back and forth.
The key is that each cut has to be uniform; all the same thickness and size. It’s the most enjoyable for consumption that way…
Before Oh Won knew it, six hours had passed. 365 pieces of meat, meticulously sliced into uniform, same-sized, thin pieces. He portioned them out and placed them into 17 separate black plastic bags. All that’s left are the bones and the parts that aren’t really important.
He flips over the piece he was working on all morning. He stares at her face. He didn’t—couldn’t take any meat from there. Her face and hair were untouched, but below her neck, all of her flesh had been sliced off up until her knees.
He had deboned her.
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The "3 Body Problem" was going to be Jeff Bezoz’s billion-dollar investment. The plan? Invest $1B into a new sci-fi series and watch the subscriptions to Amazon Prime Video flow in.
All they have to do is buy the English adaptation rights off from the Chinese gaming giant – Yoozoo Gaming. They own the film and TV rights to the “3 Body Problem Universe.”
The deal was close to being done – till CEO Lin Qi of Yoozoo walks into a conference room in LA. Dressed like a gangster. Puts his feet up on the table and suggests a co-production. He blew up the deal that Amazon had been working on for 8 months.
Amazon was upset but as they were walking out of the meeting room… they noticed something. Nobody around CEO Lin looked happy either.
They wouldn’t be surprised when they heard the news 2 years later. The billionaire CEO Lin was murdered by someone inside his company.
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There’s a boring red brick building in the middle of Yale University’s campus. If you walk past it you might think it’s an administrative office. It looks - boring.
But if you look closely - there are 75 CCTV cameras pointed directly at the building. Covering every square inch of the exterior. Why would they need so much security for a university building?
It is the Animal Research Laboratory. It houses over 4000 research mice and has tens of millions of dollars of research experiments being conducted inside the brick walls.
It is one of the most secure buildings on campus.
Till a brilliant Yale graduate student disappears inside.
She walks in.
Never walks out.
She is nowhere to be found in the building - or at least that’s what the authorities initially thought.
But have they checked the walls?
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He once controlled the entire economy of the country—to put it simply. The man in the restaurant security footage is an ex minister of Kazakstan, the third most powerful person in the entire country.
His name is Kuandyk Bishimbaev and his wife, Sultanat Nukenova, were supposed to be on a dinner date; instead the security cameras capture something else.
Around 7 in the morning, the ex minister grabs his wife by a fistful of her hair and throws her onto the ground in the hallway.
Her jacket naturally flips open – and she’s naked, barely covered on the cold dirty floor of the restaurant. He’s standing over his wife’s limp body on the ground. The ex minister lifts his right leg up and starts kicking his wife as hard as he can. He’s holding onto a table to maintain his own balance.
That’s how much force is being used.
Then he drags her by the hair into a bathroom – where there are no CCTV cameras. Any footage of her after that has been erased.
But the ex-minister is seen many times after on the security footage. Spending time with other women – a lunch date with an influencer, texting an alleged sex worker, all while his wife lay dying in the VIP booth of the restaurant.
His excuse for why he couldn’t call for help or get his wife's battered body out of the restaurant? Well—because— Vladimir Putin is coming.
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That was it. He was going to kill her.
Sato, a bachelor, a young man who still lived with his mother terrorized her within the walls of her own home.
Sure, she could still go out, enjoy her life, but Sato had control over the household in a way that made her feel suffocated.
Trapped.
Sato’s mother called the police on him the first time she felt that her life was truly in danger. She was sure he would kill her.
At least that was the version she told the police. But when they came to her house and found a kidnapped girl in her son, Sato’s bedroom—
They discovered the girl had been missing for nearly a decade.
She was nine years old when she had disappeared.
Still, the mother kept to her story. That she too, was held emotionally captive and it seems the police believed her.
But the girl, now a young woman, remembers things a little bit differently
He melted onto the street.
He was 6 years old when he was walking down the street in South Korea. Someone walks up to him and pours sulfuric acid down his throat and all over his face. His clothes were burnt black. The floor had bits of melted flesh.
Third degree burns over most of his body - the boy had a 5% chance of survival.
He was rushed to the hospital where he told the officers that the man - “Mr. Kim” who owned the fried chicken shop was running up behind him with the bag of acid. He was the one that did it!
“Nonsense, acid is liquid. You can’t put it in a plastic bag - it will burn through the plastic.”
That was the police’s response. Had they investigated properly - they would have realized… the fried chicken shop owner was indeed, a little strange.
A family TikToker that posts wholesome videos with his 8 kids goes viral in China. HIs account starts blowing up with followers and a journalist decides it’s an easy story. Wholesome Tiktoker, wholesome interview, an easy article.
But when he gets to the man’s house - he notices something very odd. A woman.
Hidden inside his shed.
Chained.
He quickly records the woman before the TikToker notices. He exposes the wholesome TikToker but the question on everyone’s mind remains - who is the chained woman???
Netizens start digging but as they’re getting close - the video of the chained woman is wiped from the internet. Like she never existed.
How do they save her now?
The first thing they feel is how stiff the table is underneath them… it feels so cold. Then, they open their eyes, and see a masked man staring straight at them holding a scalpel.
The first instinct is to scream. To run.
But that would be silly. They paid thousands of dollars for this surgery.
Suddenly, their eyes start feeling heavy again. The room looks blurry and they start to feel like something heavy is sitting on their chest.
The only comfort is knowing that they booked the best plastic surgeon in all of South Korea. It was a little strange that they had an opening for a surgery the same week… because wouldn’t his schedule be fully booked? If he’s that popular?
And they could have sworn that he had 5 other surgeries scheduled for this very time slot… how could the doctor be in 5 operating rooms at once?
But that’s why they’re called “ghost doctors.” You book a surgery with a top doctor, pay top dollar, only to have him walk out the room the second you are sedated. Then a strange man will come in and perform surgery.
The man that worked the front desk? The medical salesman? The custodian?
They can all be your doctor if they put on a white coat.
The summer sleep away camp for youths is held on the Island of UTOYA every single summer. About 500 teenagers will gather on the wooded island.
They sleep in tents, have bonfires, and tell creepy stories while roasting marshmallows.
But when the kids start playing games - that’s usually when the fun starts. Card games, tag, hide and seek -
A group of 11 teenagers were lying down in the grass right off the “Lover’s Path.”
“Here lay down right here and don’t move. Shhhh. Act like you’re dead.”
If a single one of them sneezes, coughs, or so much as moves - their covers are blown. They hear the footsteps getting nearer on the path… closer…
One of the 11 looks up.
There is a young guy, blonde hair, striking blue eyes - just standing over them.
She makes eye contact with him… he lifts his hand up and a black rifle appears.
He opens fire.
Out of the 11. 10 will die. 1 will survive.
Another 59 on the island will be killed within the hour. There is a mad gunman on the loose on an island full of teenagers.
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There was an emergency at Terri’s daycare. This had never happened before. Ever.
She picked up the phone -
“Hi, uh - there’s been a family emergency. Please come pick your children up right away. Please hurry.”
The parents rush to pick up their children and they let out a sigh of relief when they see all the toddlers are in one piece. But something is wrong with Terri. She’s rushing them into their car seats and you can just tell her mind is elsewhere.
Once all the children are gone - Terri rushes to her phone and dials 911 -
“Hi, it’s an emergency. I found something in my son’s closet wrapped in a plastic bag. He has a shotgun in his room… he just pulled up. Can you please just come?”
Terri kept an eye on her son that just arrived at home.
Any louder, and Brian might hear her.
Any louder and he might realize that his mother Terri knew what he did.
Any louder and he might investigate and find what’s in the kitchen sink. Underneath a blue towel - lay a decapitated head and pair of hacked off hands.
Any louder and the Cohee family would have to ask their 19 year old son - where is there rest of the body??
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Ruth just wanted to tell her boyfriend the truth. It’s not like their relationship sucked - he was just fine? He was kind of smart? But he lacked ambition. He was just a taxi driver… and… well she did have another big secret she was hiding from him. It was finally time to come clean.
Bryan wasn’t expecting it to hurt this much. It was bad enough to hear the love of his life had betrayed him… but to have it happen so publicly?
Bryan looks up and sees rows and rows of people staring at him. He could feel their pity radiating in the air.
He glances around - the cameras are all trained on him. Recording his every move and every facial expression.
Soon, millions of people will see the most embarrassing moment of Bryan’s life. Bryan, along with Ruth’s parents, found themselves on the reality TV show “Moment of Truth” set. They were sitting there listening to their beloved Ruth share all her deepest, darkest, secrets. The ones she had been hiding from them.
And one of them would get her killed.
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In the seat facing away from the camera, all they could see was the student’s back and her arms digging through whatever was in her lap. For several minutes, she stayed like this. Then she got up. Turned around. And looked straight into the lens of the CCTV camera in the corner.
She locked eyes and stayed like that. They felt a chill as they watched the footage. An icy stare. Frozen in place. Then she lifted up her hands and held a body up to the camera. A cat--a campus stray, lovingly named Princess by the other University students. She grabbed the back of the kitten’s neck. Then, with her other hand, wrapped her grip firmly around the kitten’s throat and squeezed.
Shanghai Tech’s very own serial cat killer. This is the case dubbed the ‘animal Nth rooms,’ about the world-wide cat (crush, torture, and kill) gang that was responsible for the viral video—the cat blender.
Who is behind it all? And why?
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Teenage girls start rushing to the apartment building, jumping excitedly and shouting “Hey Lindemberg! Come to the window, I came here just to see you!”
“We like bad boys!” - it’s like a concert for a boy group celebrity.
But Lindemberg is a ticking time bomb. He’s hiding away from the window in the apartment.
The hollers, catcalls, hearing his name - ugh he can’t focus! He needs to focus right now.
He stretches his arm out the window and waves his hand around wildly as a pulls the trigger on his gun.
Pop! Pop! Pop! He shoots straight into the crowd that had formed below him - the groupies and admirers scatter - but Lindemberg is still fuming.
He can shoot into a crowd of admirers but he can’t shoot the girl he came to kill. The one he had taken hostage just hours before. The one he had groomed since she was 12 years old. The love of his life. He’s still deciding if he should spare her or shoot her.
Maybe he should give the big crowd below him what they came for - a show.
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Jolly’s whole family was dead. Well, almost all of them, but she never let that get her down. But this time, her friends noticed - something was very wrong with Jolly.
She seemed out of it at the small gathering.
Anytime someone tried talking to her - she would glance across the room. It seemed like she was waiting for someone to walk in.
“Don’t you want to marry someone like him?” - Jolly said.
Her friend looked at her like she sprouted another head - “Excuse me?”
“That guy over there - he just seems so peaceful and calm.”
Jolly’s friends were confused - was she talking about Shaju? He’s happily married with two kids… and not to mention… he’s her cousin.
Her friends didn’t think too much into it until Shaju, Jolly’s new love interest, his wife and child died mysteriously…
Was Jolly Joseph killing everyone that she felt was in her way? Or… was there something just in the curry?
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Kenta's Tuesday morning routine was always the same — a 5 a.m. breakfast of rice, miso soup, and salted salmon, followed by his walk to work at Tomogaoka Middle School, where he greeted students at the blue gates every morning.
But today was different.
Kenta took the same route as always — turned the same corner — and dropped his briefcase onto the ground. His hand flew to his mouth. Maybe he let out a scream, maybe he didn’t – and it was all just in his head.
Shaking, Kenta read the letter:
"This is the beginning of a game
You stupid police
Try and stop me if you can
Murder is something I cannot help but enjoy
There's nothing I want to see MORE than people's deaths
Let the foul vegetables be punished with death
Let there be bloody judgment for my many years of bitterness."
On the blue metal gates of the school — right next to the sign that read TOMOGAOKA MIDDLE SCHOOL — sprouting from one of the jagged metal picks of the fence -
The severed head of an 11-year-old.
The note was shoved in his mouth.
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Timothy, a film director, had a new script land on his desk. The movie was in its final screenwriting stages and it just needed his final approval.
They had been working to turn Alice Sebold, the famed author of “The Lovely Bones,” they were working on turning her memoir into a movie. Her memoir was about her real life assault in college and her fight to send her violent attacker to prison.
But the more Timothy read - the more he didn’t feel right about this. There was so much wrong. The details. The evidence.
Timothy picked up his phone - he called his private investigator.
I need you to look into Alice Sebold for me. The New York Times Bestselling author… something’s not right. I think… I think she’s lying.
It was during the production of her movie - that it was discovered, Alice Sebold, had sent the wrong guy to prison for 16 years.
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15-year-old Eddie comes home from his jog – changes out of his soiled clothes – and starts googling on his computer:
HOW TO COMBAT ANXIETY.
He’s waiting for a text message from the girl he likes - but it’s not her.
It’s a former classmate of his – Scarlet. The message reads.
“My brother just told me not to go to Linear Park because a woman got stabbed there.”
Eddie replies: “Jesus – really?”
She responds: “Yeah, they say it’s murder…”
He lets the news sink in—someone was murdered at the very park that he had just been to… When the realization of that hit, Eddie would do two things.
One, he would hide the 5-inch knife in his room; it was covered in blood.
And two, he would never speak again.
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All the police could do was watch the livestream - the camera was set up in a motel room. They could see in the video the girl was helplessly crying as she was assaulted by a man.
One by one - more men showed up to the motel room to assault her.
They all stood in line in the order that they came - waiting for their turns. The victim would be found dead soon after. When news broke in the livestream chatrooms that she died - the comments started pouring in.
“Wait, did the motel girl really die? That’s so sad… we should go relieve ourselves on her funeral portrait. One last gift from us!
“Dang, if she knew she was going to die, she should have given us her body one more time.”
The police saw the video but they had no idea who these assaulters were, who orchestrated the attack, or how to even catch them.
All they knew was there were more victims. Hundreds of them. All victims of the Nth room. And they needed to save them before another dies.
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The SBS news producers sat around a laptop in the conference room. They replayed the video of a girl with a bag over her head and a red string tied around her.
She says:
“I am The Doctor’s slave. I will light myself on fire in a few days in front of the SBS headquarters if they air the episode on The Doctor’s Room.”
The producers call the police who secured the headquarters but they needed to find out who the girl is. They need to find out who she is - so they can stop her. Or else someone will die at SBS.
Because The Doctor was playing games with them and he was willing to do whatever it takes to win.
This is the case of BAKSA – the DOCTOR - who ran the most prolific, international CP torture rings of recent times ALL of which was available on the clean, World Wide Web—not the dark web—the public internet.
In fact, it was on one of the most commonly downloaded apps by netizens… TELEGRAM.
Welcome to the doctor’s room.
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Eunhee was an A list actress and had always had star treatment but this was a whole new level. She had a guarded mansion and millions of dollars at her disposal.
Every evening, platters of shrimp, lobster, sushi, delicacies shipped in from all over the world filled an entire banquet table. It was all just for her.
Every morning, a new gift was delivered for her downstairs, a fur coat, lacy lingerie, or beautiful gowns. She added them to the closet in ‘her’ bedroom already stuffed to the brim. Every single piece was perfectly tailored to fit her body; her exact measurements all the way down to her undergarments. She had guards watching her every move and tending to her every need.
The one condition was that - she couldn’t leave… unless he called.
A week into her stay - her assistant burst in through the door excited to get her ready. He had invited her to a party and she needed to look perfect.
She got all dolled up and was led down to the front where she was face to face with the man who kidnapped her.
The Supreme Leader of North Korea. Kim Jong Il.
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Gustavo stumbled out of the nightclub, barely keeping balance. He felt like he was hallucinating. He noticed people looking at him with very concerned looks – what? Did he have something on his face? He looked back up to a random man rushing towards him with a pail of water. He threw the water onto Gustavo’s arms.
Everyone was acting so strange…
Then a woman yelled at him, “HEY! You need to call an ambulance!—There’s something wrong with your body!”
Gustavo was taken aback but reassured the woman, “NO! Don’t worry. It’s just my shirt—I tore it on the way out of the club; that’s all…”
He was sure of it. He could feel his shirt in that moment, shredded and hanging off his body. Every time he took a step forward or turned around to look at another stranger yelling at him, he could feel it swaying, hitting other parts of his torso.
The woman looked at him very concerned, “Sir. You’re not… wearing a shirt.”
Gustavo walked towards a streetlamp and looked down at his arms. His flesh was eviscerated, hanging only by his wrist.
His skin was melting off..
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In South Korea - there were 2 women sitting inside a prison cell together. One was in for fraud. The other for drugs.
But they had a lot in common. They were both young. Pretty. And wanted a lot of money.
Around the time their friendship developed - on the other side of the world - at the 92nd Academy Awards (The Oscars), Lee Sun Kyun was standing on stage with the cast of ‘Parasite.’
He was at the height of his career - internationally acclaimed actor and family man.
Within 4 years - he would be found dead in his car after a 19 hour interrogation by the police, leaked personal phone calls, $300k lost to blackmailers, and his life completely ruined.
And those two girls - would have everything to do with it.
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“I can’t let you in…”
The housekeeper was confused - what does the mom mean she can’t let me in?
“Could you just toss the keys from your balcony?”
The mother threw her keys from the balcony and vanished into the house. The housekeeper walked into the house and it was immediately chaos. The mother was hysterical - the father was banging his head on the wall.
The mother threw her arms around the housekeeper. She cried and ushered her to a bedroom, “Come, come, inside and see what happened!”
Lying in her bed was the family’s 13 year old daughter, dead. Her throat slit ear to ear. Her body looked posed and so were her stuffed animals, though they were eerily free of any blood or splatter. This case would become known as the JonBenét Ramsey case of India.
Rumors of cheating, black mail, revenge, honor killings, truth serum, grooming and orgies consumed the media but the only thing we know for certain is - whoever her killer or killers are – they are free.
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“Could you please help me? I need money for my baby.”
Something strange was happening in the small city of Fuyang, China. There was an influx of families begging for help on the street. All of them said something was very wrong with their child. The baby had a mystery illness and needed help.
When passerbys would bend down to take a closer look - they realized that the 5 month old infant had the head size of a “full size watermelon.”
This was not a genetic condition nor was there an explanation.
The truth would lead to over 20 arrests and 2 death penalty sentences.
And the eerie feeling that - there must be something in the water there.
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The surveillance footage that captured the limp body of a young boy getting dragged into a closet was surprisingly clear.
“You’re pathetic, but I already knew that.” The person talking came into view and positioned the boy in front of the camera. His body was completely nude except for a sagging diaper. To be alive - seemed agonizing.
The little boy’s breathing sounded like a fish out of water - they bent over and pinched the little boy’s lips together.
“See? You don’t need to breathe through your mouth like that - dummy.”
Those would be the last words he ever hears. The boy would die in that closet. After enduring endless torture- starvation, ice baths, and being forced to drink hot sauce. But who was behind the camera watching?
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He woke up from the smell. His head was pounding as his eyes adjusted to the harsh bathroom light. Did he drink too much the night before?
What is that smell?
He reached his hand up to rub his eyes… it was covered in blood. He looked down - blood. All over his clothes, the tiles, everywhere.
He slowly turned his head to the bathtub - and there floating in the water… were dismembered body parts. Along with a severed head with long black hair that was getting tangled…
“I swear I woke up and there was just a body here.” The police would never fall for it. He had no choice but to put on a raincoat, mask, and eye goggles and get to work. Finish the job.
But eventually, he would stop, right? This would be the 9th severed head in his collection.
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The Maxwell Family rubbed shoulders with the British Royal Family in England. They were untouchable with a net worth of $2 billion. Ghislaine Maxwell, the favorite heir, was well connected. With friends like Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, and other high profile world leaders.
Ghislaine Maxwell could have had anything - but all she wanted was 2 men. She would have done anything to please her father. She would have done anything to please her boyfriend - like run an intricate trafficking ring for the world’s upper elite. But both of them would end up dead.
Her billionaire father - that would be found naked & dead off the side of his yacht “Lady Ghislaine.” There are speculations that somebody murdered him.
Her billionaire boyfriend - that would be found dead inside his prison cell. There are speculations that somebody murdered him.
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Be like Barbie, Nina thought. She pushed her chest out and applied bubblegum lip gloss as she arrived at the seaside mansion for the first time. The last thing she wanted was to look like a child.
But to Jeffrey Epstein, that was absolutely what he wanted. In fact, quite possibly the only thing he desired at all.
What do rich men desire when they know they can buy almost everything in the world? They want what they can’t have. For Epstein that was young girls, illegally young girls, inexperienced young girls—his desires weren’t uncommon by any means either.
Epstein was a multi millionaire rubbing shoulders with princes, socialites, tycoons, magnates, all over the world who had exactly the same desires. How far would the rich go to get something they couldn’t buy?
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Most business deals are done at the dinner table. You quite literally wine and dine your potential investors. CEO Chen knew the song and dance better than anyone.
He invested in companies with unique products to offer to the market.
The businessman in front of him was doing everything to get CEO Chen to open his wallet.
“Our product is really unique and hopefully this is comforting to know - I quality assure each and every single product sold.”
CEO Chen smiled and the businessman knew it was time to go bigger. He eagerly stated -
“We also give back to our local communities. We provide aid for elementary and middle schoolers. Here, take a look at what we’ve given to them.”
CEO Chen leaned over to look at the businessman’s phone.
The man smiled at his screen and kept swiping from the videos…
Each video depicted a 12 year old being brutally assaulted in a dimly lit hotel room. The investment opportunity? A child sex trafficking ring disguised as a student aid foundation.
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They called it the House of Death.
If you’re not careful and step foot inside the house, the owner will kill you and feed you to his dogs. 2 men had visited the House of Death, managed to get out with their lives, and told the police a bizarre story.
They saw it with their own eyes they said. The owner of the death house was feeding the pack of dogs the small severed hand of a woman.
They said they knew who the hand belonged to.
She was a young woman who had gone viral recently for exposing a famous professional soccer player.
She told reporters -
“If something happens to me - it was him. He did it.”
The 2 men told police that she was kidnapped, held hostage, killed, and fed to the dogs in the mysterious “House of Death.”
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It takes 2 minutes for a car to drown to the bottom of the river - and having your car sink to the bottom of the Han River was as good as a death sentence.
33 year old, Minjun, woke up in his sinking car. He had no idea how he got here…
His car was filling up with water. His only way out was to break the window using nothing but the force of his body. He pushed the glass shards out and closed his eyes before jumping out…
He plunged into the cold…
Concrete.
Minjun looked around. He was on a half-submerged concrete island in the middle of the deadly river. The bridge he had been driving on had collapsed - plunging 66 feet down into the water.
He could see people, covered in blood, crawling out of their cars. Screaming for help.
Help would come too late.
It was up to the 49 people to save each other on the concrete island. By the end 32 would be dead.
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In the dense forests of Washington - there is a suspicious wooden door leading into a mountain. If you look too quickly you just might miss it. It’s strange. If you were to open the door you would be standing inside of the tall mountain… how is that possible?
Peter Keller had spent the past 8 years building his secret bunker inside the mountain. It a massive feat - 2 stories tall, log cabin walls, stockpiles of food, weapons, his favorite candy bars, and all the supplies he would need to live off the grid for years.
He vlogged the process of building his bunker for the end of the world.
Cyberattack that breaks America? Massive earthquake that leaves everyone without power? Peter was ready.
He had his secret bunker to hide out in case the world ended. He just needed to kill 2 people before he could live out his doomsday fantasies…
This is the case of Peter Keller
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Mr. C looked through his peephole. The police were here again, probably to talk about that psychopath. Just 10 months ago, a complete stranger tried to stab and kill Mr. C. They didn’t even know each other! It was shocking to know that such depraved, evil, monsters existed in this world.
Mr. C let the police officer in but now under the bright light of his foyer… he realized this man was no police officer. He was the killer from 10 months ago - back to finish the job.
The attacker grabbed a hammer and slammed it down on Mr. C’s head.
The attacker would be caught and he would scream to the world that he did this for justice. Justice was to kill Mr. C!
This was justice for 8 year old Nayoung. The little girl that Cho Doo Soon (Mr. C) had kidnapped, assaulted within an inch of her life, mutilated, and disemboweled just 12 years ago. He had left her for dead after he brutally SA’d her. She miraculously survived and now Mr. C was a free man - living just half a mile from his victim.
This is the case of the most hated - yet most well protected man in all of South Korea. The government has spent over $1 million dollars to ensure Cho Doo Soon’s safety. The safety of the man who assaulted an 8 year old girl in a church bathroom.
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Dr. Bickham was the coroner for the small town of Slaughter. For the past few decades, he had looked death in the face - that was what the job required, and he was good at it. Until January 3, 2022.
He was called out to the small white suburban house with the well manicured lawn - he could tell someone had died there judging by the smell. He walked into the living room and there in the center was a couch.
The living room was organized and tidy even, except this couch was at the center covered in feces. The smell was stinging his eyes. He walked closer, and he saw - melted, into the couch the body of a young woman.
She was unclothed, maggots in her hair, rotting flesh eaten off her bones, and she was sitting there with her eyes and mouth open. She had been sitting on this very couch, alive, for the past 12 years.
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Deep Sea Liner 2682 was coming back to port early. Nobody knew why - just that something very bad had happened at sea. The original plan was a group of 33 people would embark on a 2 year long deep sea fishing mission. But now they were coming back after just 8 months. What happened?
When the giant vessel docked - concerned family, corporate employees of the fishing company, and even 11 police cars were lined up waiting for them. Police went on board escorting each one of the passengers off in handcuffs.
Forensic teams in full hazmat suits rushed onto the boat and sprayed it down with Luminol. The whole boat was glowing. Blood. There was blood everywhere.
33 people on a ship in the deep sea for 8 months. 22 murdered and only 11 came back. And nobody wanted to talk about what really happened out at sea.
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Hellen, Coco, and John were 3 peas in a pod. Hellen was dating John but Coco was her best friend and they did everything together. Right now, they were sitting side by side planning what to do for Hellen’s 19th birthday.
Hellen and John shared suggestive looks with each other before the door opened and their nemesis walked in. Camellia. Hellen and Camellia had been in a fight over the same boys and it was coming to an end now. Hellen had finally put Camellia in her place.
The 3 best friends’ names were called. They stood up, smiled at each other, and made their way to the front. The judge read their charges - “kidnapping, assault, and torture.” How do you plea?
“Not guilty.” They smirked and glared at Camellia.
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A young woman was rushed into the emergency room carrying a tiny 7-pound baby- she had blood all over her face, body, and feet. She had just given birth in the car coming home from Walmart.
A normal delivery is already dangerous but to give birth in a moving vehicle, while driving, could pose a lot of health risks. It was all hands on deck in the emergency room.
If the mother’s uterus was bleeding heavily - that could mean life or death for the mother. The nurse put her fingers on her stomach (as a trained nurse she could tell by pressing on the outside of one’s stomach if blood was dangerously flowing from the uterus). But she felt nothing. No blood flow. No uterus.
The nurse froze.
She turned to her colleagues in pure horror and stated - that’s not her baby.
Then whose baby could it be? And whose blood is this woman covered in?
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The 3 women had a lot of drama between them. They all hated that they were constantly being compared to one another. Sure, they all ran in the same circles - knew all the same people, but was that really a reason to keep them in competition with one another?
Each one felt like they were above the other 2.
But Kanae hated Miyuki for a reason that ran a lot deeper than just competition. She hated that her love interest spent a lot of time with Miyuki. What did she have that Kanae didn’t?
Kanae stated she had never felt jealousy in her entire life - till this moment. She couldn’t help but wonder… if her love interest was going to write a book on female serial killers - why couldn’t he just have wrote the book about her?
Today’s case dives into the lives of Japan’s 3 most notorious female serial killers and their ongoing hatred for each other in prison.
It all starts with a man and ends with a bizarre death in prison.
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16-year-old Gao was one of the most popular girls in the entire boarding school - till she went missing. All the students had their own little theories on what happened. Some believed she ran off with a guy she met online. Others speculated her ex-boyfriend had something to do with it. Or her best friend. Her best friend was the last one to see her alive.
But they all agreed - wherever she was now… she was far away from the school. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
Gao’s body was found in the locked boy’s restroom in the main building of the boarding school. Her body had signs of torture, SA, and even necrophilia.
The students had been living with their dead classmate just 30 feet away from them.
And now they were living with a killer.
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It’s normal to cringe when you think back to your middle school crush. Jane hated thinking about Robert. She had an obsession with him when she was 12 years old. She remembered everyone in the class would fight over him, try to get alone time with him, and he seemed to love all the attention he was getting.
When Jane found out he was dating another girl - she was so devastated she didn’t know what to do with herself. He got her alone in an office, lifted her onto the table, kissed her on the forehead, and told her -
“You’re a total knockout and I’ll take you on a date when you turn 18.”
Jane was 12. Robert was a full grown police officer leading the Police Explorer’s Program she was in. Later, Jane would discover he was being interviewed about his connection to Sandra Birchmore. A pregnant 23-year-old woman that had been mysteriously found dead.
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The 7 “friends” were going to spend the entire day with each other cliff jumping at a local waterfall but the entire day there would be filled with tension.
Eunhae was the glue of the group, she was the one that organized the whole trip, and she was there with her boyfriend Joe. But her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend were also in attendance.
Oh - and Eunhae’s husband was also there and he had no idea Eunhae was dating other people.
When the husband mysteriously dies at the waterfall that day - there are 3 main suspects -
Eunhae’s boyfriend - who secretly ran a sex trafficking ring.
Eunhae’s ex-boyfriend - who she was allegedly still sleeping with.
And Eunhae - the widow who had a whole double life nobody knew about.
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They each had a fantasy of watching their wives be intimate with other men. The only problem was that their wives were not open to the idea.
The 7 husbands gathered on an online forum to talk about how they weren’t going to let their own wives get in the way of fulfilling their dreams. They felt they were entitled to this.
For the next 8 years, the men would plot, drug, and facilitate the assaults of their own wives all the while filming it for their online chatrooms. They had dreams of impregnating each other’s spouses and they laughed at how their wives had no clue that they were being betrayed and assaulted in the worst ways possible.
This is the shocking case of how a group of husbands created a trafficking network - where the victims were their own wives.
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Congresswoman Flor was a lot of things - politician, pastor, gospel singer, wife, and mother of 55 adopted children. From a campaign standpoint she was unstoppable. She appealed to every possible demographic. The only thing standing in her way was the pesky rumor that she attended “swap” parties.
The rumor was Congresswoman Flor and her husband would show up to these explicit parties wearing masks and watch each other with other partners… and sometimes… they would even bring their adopted children with them to watch.
So when Congresswoman Flor’s husband was gunned down after allegedly attending one of these wild parties - the door to Flor’s house swung wide open for investigators.
With Pandora’s box now open, allegations started spilling out - allegations of sexual abuse in the family.
Mother to sons. Father to daughters. Brothers and sisters.
Allegations of dark magic being used and rituals being performed. Allegations that Congresswoman Flor was a witch.
And allegations of an elaborate plan within the family to murder Congresswoman Flor’s husband.
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Madame Ddu makes money off of love. For every match (marriage) she creates between ultra wealthy families - she gets paid $100k as a matchmaking fee.
Madame Ddu united two powerful families through the marriage of their children, and she expected to be compensated for it. When the groom’s side refused to pay their share of her matchmaking fees - Madam Ddu was willing to play dirty to get them to break up.
She would anonymously plant seeds within the wealthy families accusing the spouses of cheating. Mother-in-laws started believing incest was taking place. Private investigators were hired. In the end - one would die, and the others would be in jail for murder.
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She was one of the top realtors in all of Toronto, and that day she was going to be showing a $6.9M house to potential buyers. She gracefully toured the 12k square foot mansion with them before getting to the deepest corner of the basement level. The indoor lap pool.
She pressed the button to let them in, and the room had this eerie glow to it. The only light on was the pool light - reflecting a blue back hue to the ceiling.
And on the very far end of the room were two bodies hanging and posed like statues. They were unmoving. The buyers joked that the homeowners have strange taste in art. The realtor laughed and quickly led them out. She knew those weren’t statues. It wasn’t art. They were her billionaire clients - dead and staged in one of the most bizarre, eerie scenes.
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Lily’s instructions were clear. She was to wait at the bottom of the mountain in the dark till she saw the light. The flashlight would beam down the mountain, leading her to where she needed to go.
She was nervous, but she knew she needed to follow the directions. When she got to the top of the mountain - Lily saw the light led directly into a pre-dug 5-foot grave. Two men jumped out and snapped her neck while recording it.
They were going to send the murder video to the special forces team of the military - because Lily was a fake flight attendant. Fake college student. They believed she was really- a secret spy for an enemy nation.
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He had sold his soul and now to keep the devil happy he needed to make sacrifices with dead bodies & his Ouija board. 200+ bodies were found in Colombia brutally assaulted, tortured, and dismembered.
Some were certain the serial killer was a priest that participated in satanic activities at night.
Others stated it was a local crazy man that had gone criminal.
Some even believed that it was a local witch that was going around killing to make sacrifices….
Whoever it was - they would be known as the Beast Of Colombia. The world’s deadliest serial killer… that was set to be released this year in 2023.
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The yoga retreat was supposed to be a week of relaxation, connecting with nature, and peace. It was going to be held at the beautiful volcanic Lake Atitlán in Guatemala.
12 people were going to be at the week-long retreat together. Eating together, doing yoga together, hiking together - till one of them goes missing.
The mysterious circumstances surrounding Nancy’s disappearance still have no answers. Where and how did she go missing? Why did the 11 others fly home within hours of her disappearance? And why are they not being more cooperative with the authorities? Are they hiding something? And most importantly - where is Nancy?
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An IT specialist working at a data forensics company came across something odd. He was employed by the police to recover any missing files from a phone. He was good at his job - so he recovered it all.
But when he took a look at the recovered data - he saw 200k text messages, photos, and videos of women being drugged and sold to the highest bidder in sinister group chats.
He had just uncovered a complicated human trafficking ring.
The buyers? Overseas wealthy businessmen, politicians, and corrupt police officials.
The product? Female victims who had no idea they were going to be drugged, sold, and SA’d.
The sellers? Famous K-Pop idols who had images of being the wholesome guy every girl in the nation wanted to date.
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There were 5 people “trapped” on the boat, and 1 of them was a serial killer in the making. By the time the boat came back to shore, two people would be dead. They would have been mentally and physically tortured for two days straight.
The serial killer would play games with the two victims. He wanted to torture them not only physically and sexually but also mentally. He wanted to pit them up against each other and make them fight so only one could live.
The thrill of seeing them naked and terrified begging for their lives was euphoria for him. The worst part is - he would get away with all of it.
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What would Ivy League students do to be on top? Or the better question - what wouldn’t they do?
Ling was a chemistry major at the top university in China. The Harvard of China, if you will.
One day, Ling went into the shower and saw fist-sized clumps of hair fall to her feet. By the end of the semester - Ling would be wheelchair-bound, unable to speak, unable to use the restroom on her own, completely bald, and nearly blind.
She went from being one of the most promising students to having the mental age of a 6-year-old.
She was slowly poisoned by someone in that school - but who?
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A candid photo of 21-year-old Yuka had gone viral. She was sitting on the floor in her short t-shirt dress, phone up to her ear, and a cigarette relaxed between the fingers of her hand. She looked relaxed and causal. Pretty but in an effortless, almost innocent way.
This photo would inspire people to make Fanclubs, donation links, and even fan art for Yuka. They were taken aback by her beauty and youth. They completely ignored the fact that she was drenched in blood and the dying body of her love interest lying motionless behind her.
Some even went as far as to beg her to stab them next.
They wrote - “she’s my dream girl.”
“She’s too pretty to kill.”
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There were things that fascinated him: surgery, polygamy, and torture. He decided the only way to have all 3 was if he started his own cult in the isolated woods of Canada.
He gathered 40 followers in a small cabin, convinced them that the apocalypse was coming and the only way they could be saved was if they followed his every word. His male followers’ private parts were cut off, teeth were pulled out with pliers, and they were creatively beaten on a daily basis.
He performed open stomach surgery on one of his wives without painkillers or anesthetic. He amputated another one of his wife’s arms without any painkillers just because he felt like it. And he kept all the spare body parts as evidence of torture in his little trophy shed.
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Every college student has their secrets - but Sydney’s was that she was no longer in college. She had been suspended but hadn’t told a single person. She stayed in her dorm, pretended to go to class, studied with friends in the library, even attended sorority meetings.
She was living a lie - and it was all about to come crashing down because her mom was on the phone with her school. She was about to discover the truth and all the lies Sydney had told.
Sydney grabbed a heavy cast iron skillet & steak knife… her murder weapons. She would murder her mom, and her family would stand behind her. Was Sydney legally insane at the time of the killing? Or was she willing to do anything to keep her secret - secret?
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Lucy had just moved in with her new husband. Though she didn’t marry for love she felt like it would be easy to fall in love with this man. He cooked her 3 meals a day and got upset whenever she stepped foot in the kitchen.
He said he just wanted her to rest and be happy. It was sweet.
But soon Lucy noticed that even stepping foot near the kitchen would send her newlywed husband on edge… it felt like there was something in that kitchen she wasn’t allowed to see.
One day, while he was at work, she ventured into the kitchen to make a small snack. She opened the freezer —— and made eye contact.
A woman’s head. Frozen. Eyes wide. Staring back at her.
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The real-life Cinderella Castle is situated on a steep cliff in Germany. It’s one of the most breathtaking tourist spots that has over 6k visitors per day.
It was a symbol of romance, fairytales, and happy endings. Until a 21-year-old college graduate was murdered there.
Two Asian-American college grads, Eva & Kelsey, were thrown off the 165-foot cliff by a man who was obsessed with Asians.
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They were all taken from their beds in the middle of the night. Four men standing over them, ready to hogtie them, and throw them into vans. The teenagers were being kidnapped, and their parents had paid the kidnappers. They were going to be taken to an elite academy where all the bad traits of being a kid were going to be tortured out of them.
They would be thrown into isolation cells for 2 weeks, beaten, assaulted, and mentally manipulated till they became blank slates. The perfect obedient children for the parents to show off to their friends and family. Who wouldn’t want that?
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Ansreen’s daughter was a rising TikToker that was gaining followers by the day. May loved showcasing her dancing, fashion, and even religion on her platform to inspire others.
Even Ansreen was getting attention from joining May in some dancing TikToks. And with fame - comes people who want to cross boundaries to be with you.
Ansreen had what she deemed a stalker. He was far from harmless. He had videos of her that would end her life, marriage, family, and even her daughter’s career if they were ever leaked.
She and her daughter would team up to make sure that never happened. Even if meant killing two people to keep their secret.
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A lot of love motels are themed - and they are exactly what you imagine they would be used for. Couples coming and staying for a few hours to have their alone time.
Runa, a 29-year-old living in Japan, was in an all-pink room of the local love motel. He was waiting for her in the bathroom, but she had a few things she had to prepare first. She reached into her suitcase and pulled out her raincoat. She could smell the scent of the fresh plastic.
She then reached in and grabbed gloves. Now, she was ready for him.
3 hours later, she would be seen rushing out of the motel. Her dad was picking her up, and she didn’t want to be late. She got into his car in fresh clothes, and a blonde wig, and threw her suitcase in his trunk. The suitcase with the decapitated man’s head inside.
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There had been rumors floating around that children were pulling their parents out of the high-end mall. Some of them reported seeing bloody ghosts trying to climb onto the backs of the employees.
Parents brushed off their children because this was one of the most luxurious malls in the entire nation. A coat can easily sell for $1k here. This was not a place where there would be ghosts… especially not bloody ones.
But maybe the children were being warned? Soon after, 502 people would die inside this very mall in Gangnam. And to this day, 40 people are still missing…
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Jamie (25) was getting emotional talking about her cat. If anything, she was getting riled up. Her parents decided to give her cat to her grandma, and that was just unacceptable. Her grandma could get her own cat. This one was hers!
She ranted on the phone about it - as well as other things that had been weighing on her mind. Jamie complained about the food. Colored pencils. Lack of yoga mats.
But most passionately - she complained about how she was going to be stuck in jail for a very long time. She screamed -
“Why me? Omg, I just can’t believe this happened… it could have happened to anyone. Why me?”
Jamie made a series of actions that killed a bride on her wedding day, but she asks - “why me?”
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The team of therapists was making their way over to the mansion. They never really did house calls, but when one of the most powerful business tycoons in the entire city calls you - you pick up.
They were going to talk to the businessman’s son to see how they could help him. Once they arrived at the house, they realized it was much more serious than they originally thought. They would have to break in to get to their patient.
After climbing through an upstairs window, the 6 therapists stepped foot into a crime scene. Blood everywhere. On the floor was the wealthy son’s ex-girlfriend. Her body lay in a pool of blood. Her head was detached and 3 feet away from the rest of her.
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The mob was forming outside the 13 year old’s house. They were there day and night screaming her name, cursing, and some just silently crying. She was the most hated person in the Philippines right now.
A video was circulating of the little girl pulling the hair of a woman moments before her murder. She asked the woman - “do you know who my dad is?”
Her dad was a killer and he was about to commit a double homicide right in front of his teenage daughter.
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12 K-Drama Directors that had worked on sets behind some of the most beloved, wholesome, shows were predators in disguise. They preyed on the extras. The ones that were desperate for work and just getting their foot in the door.
They “passed them around” as if they were all some objects they had control over.
For 3 months, Sora, was tortured at the hands of 12 casting directors. By the end of this case -
Sora will die.
Her little sister will die.
Her father will die.
And the perpetrators are still working in the Korean entertainment industry.
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Coco Lee was more than just a singer - she was an absolute legend in most Chinese households. She was known for her talent, but her signature was her big smile and fiery personality. And after 28 years in the industry, she wasn’t slowing down now.
Her most recent project - she was a judge on The Voice Of China.
June 2, 2023 - Coco Lee left a voice message for her fan group telling them how much she loves them, thanks them for their support, and misses them. She was always such a positive ray of sunshine to her fans.
That very same day, Coco Lee would be dead.
Soon after, a 9-minute audio clip was released revealing to the world that Coco Lee had endured bullying, humiliation, and abuse while on set for The Voice Of China. This is the case of how one of the most famous shows in China played an “evil” role in the death of an icon.
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Dr. Crush and Lucy Letby would always lean on each other for support during the tough times. They always prided themselves on being a good team. Even when times were tough, which they often were in the NICU, their bond remained strong.
Chester Hospital was facing a dangerously significant uptick in infant deaths in its NICU unit. It felt like every other week, the nurses and doctors had to go home and weep with their families. They had lost another one.
Nobody knew what it was. Was the hospital haunted? Cursed? Maybe there was something contaminating the baby formula, water, or air?
Or maybe a sweet, kind, smiling nurse was secretly a serial killer hiding amongst the hospital staff…
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Shannon’s driver had a few roles. He would drive her to the client’s home, wait outside, and make sure she made it out of the house in one piece. He was security if you will and in this line of work (escorting) - security was everything.
He wasn’t expecting the client to come rushing out demanding that Michael get Shannon out of his house. Confused, he went inside to see that Shannon was already on the phone with 911.
She was accusing both men of being in on it together, of plotting to kill her tonight, and she knew that her life was in danger. The men tried to calm her down, but she ran out of the house, down the residential street, out of the gated neighborhood, and vanished.
She would be found dead & the investigation into her disappearance would uncover one of America’s notorious serial killers.
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She had the perfect “soft girl lifestyle” on TikTok. Kathy would share tidbits of her life on social media where she amassed thousands of fans who were all interested in her new luxury apartment, pastel-colored decor, and ultimately, her perfect relationship.
Many of her TikToks were about how to find a partner that actually values you, cherishes you, and even showers you with the gifts that you deserve. She inspired a lot of viewers to want to have a perfect boyfriend and not settle for anything less.
They were the perfect couple online.
Till she was accused of cleaning up a crime scene.
Till her boyfriend was wanted by Interpol for allegedly brutally killing two people.
REMINDER: Please keep in mind that this is an ongoing case! This is just the information that we have as of the publication date, and things could easily change as the trial pushes forward. We will do our best to keep you updated on the case.
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A young Chinese couple were vacationing at a National Park in Thailand. It was the husband’s gift to his pregnant wife with one last trip before their family grew!
But during their sunrise hike the husband claimed his wife wandered off and fell off a 110 foot cliff. He screamed in Thai at the first responders -
“You must help my wife! Please save my precious wife, she’s my everything!”
He leaned down and caressed his wife’s face. She was alive but unable to speak or move. He held her hand and whispered in Mandarin so the Thai authorities couldn’t understand him -
“Nobody speaks Mandarin here. There’s no evidence that I did anything. If you want to live - behave.”
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In a South Korean emergency room a young family anxiously waited for help.
Their 3 month old baby had been perfectly healthy but now his X-rays showed evidence that his lungs were literally solidifying and turning into rock. He was dying and there was nothing they could do to save him.
They walked in a family of 3 - walked out a family of 2.
Just a few days later the same family of 2 walked back in - and only 1 walked out alive.
In the matter of a week 2 family members had died. But that’s not all - doctors around the nation noticed an alarming new killer on the streets. A new poison targeting children and pregnant women. Could they find the culprit before it was too late?
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Nobody was seen entering or exiting the couple’s hotel room, but now they were both dead.
The girlfriend was found in the bathtub strangled to death by her own pajamas. It was clear she had been murdered. Her boyfriend was found naked, crawling down the hallway groaning for help. He had 20 wounds all over his body including on his back - they were inflicted using a sharp, jagged edge of a broken beer bottle.
Authorities stated the boyfriend murdered his girlfriend in a crime of passion before taking his own life. But nothing was adding up…
How did he inflict all those wounds on his back? Why would he suddenly turn on his girlfriend? Why did they have multiple different hotel reservations that same night in Bali? And how come his fingerprints were found nowhere on the beer bottle he supposedly hurt himself with?
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When two cases of very public, very mysterious deaths are linked together - the public is bound to have questions.
June of 2020, Disha Salian allegedly slipped off the 14th floor balcony and passed away. She was a manager in the mystifying world of Bollywood.
Just 6 days later, Sushant Singh Rajput, a beloved actor she had once managed, passed away mysteriously. People couldn’t help but draw a connection between the two suspicious deaths.
This case would draw a cloud of suspicion over Sushant’s famous girlfriend, the murderous dangers of nepotism, and what many refer to as the “Bollywood Mafia.”
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Kimchi is a Korean spicy fermented cabbage side dish. It is traditionally prepared in big red buckets…
The two detectives were standing staring at one of those kimchi buckets. But they knew there was more than just kimchi inside otherwise, they wouldn’t be in a morgue right now.
They slowly opened the lid to the massive kimchi bucket and inside they were confronted with 2 bodies. From this point on, the clock started ticking. The investigators would need to find the woman responsible for this and make sure she didn’t kill again.
This is the story of South Korea’s most unhinged serial killer in the making.
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Otto and his tour group were staying at a 5-star luxury hotel where all their needs were met. They had a barbershop, pool, casino, multiple restaurants, and even a bowling alley inside the hotel. They had no reason to ever want to leave.
The only strange thing was - ALL GUESTS WERE PROHIBITED FROM ENTERING LEVEL 5 OF THE HOTEL.
It was strictly forbidden.
But in early 2016 - a guest supposedly entered the restricted floor and tried to steal a poster off the wall. He would be arrested and held captive, and when he was finally released a year later - he was brain dead.
All in North Korea, where no deed goes unpunished.
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Ah-young, a popular Korean live-streamer, took to Instagram to tell her devoted followers that she was suddenly taking a break. In a long post, she wrote about how she wanted just to be a “normal person” for a little while.
After seeing her post, one of Ah-Young’s friends texted her to see if she had any big plans during her break. Ah-Young responded -
“I am leaving the country because of my stalker. Hopefully, I can come back soon and spend some time to myself.”
She would never come back. She would be found dead 2 months later 2,195 miles away in a foreign country. How did she end up there? Was she hiding? Did her stalker find her there?
The viral case has only stirred up more questions than answers.
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Parul was just catching her breath as she stepped through her front door. She had left her 8-year-old son to watch her 6-month-old nephew all alone while she ran errands.
She saw her son playing with his toys but didn’t see the baby anywhere. So she asked her son-
“Where is the baby?”
He smiled.
She asked again till he finally responded
“I killed him. I smashed his head with a brick and buried him.”
This is the story of the world’s youngest serial killer.
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Rosa was in her 80s and struggling with dementia. But recently, it seemed like things had gotten worse. Rosa would point at the door at the end of the hallway and whisper to her family -
“Rudy is here. He’s there. He’s in that room.”
Her adult children would all glance at one another before comforting Rosa that there was no way Rudy was there.
Rudy Farias was a boy that had gone missing 5 years ago. 3 years after Rosa passed - Rudy Farias was found alive. He had been living in that locked room for the past 8 years. He had been held captive.
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May of 2022, 26-year-old “Minhee,” was walking home after meeting up with friends. She didn’t realize someone was following her home.
When she walked inside her apartment building and waited for her elevator- the stalker came up behind her and kicked her in the head 6 times.
She was knocked unconscious… he then dragged her limp body to a dark corner of the lobby that didn’t have CCTV cameras. He was with her body for 7 minutes. What on earth happened in those 7 minutes?
And why was Minhee randomly attacked by a complete stranger?
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December 2018, 20 year-old Sanda Dia was brought into the emergency room by his so-called “college friends.” He was unconscious and cold to the touch.
His friends did not give doctors any information on what was wrong with him. They didn’t tell doctors that for the past 48 hours, they had tortured Sanda to the point of his death.
After fighting for his life in the hospital - Sanda died of multiple organ failure. Doctors performed an autopsy to discover in his stomach - whole goldfish, decapitated heads of mice, decapitated heads of eel, and more than 2 months of the average salt intake.
Sanda Dia was tortured to death by the fraternity all because he was black.
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The boarding school of nightmares shouldn’t have been open for as long as it was. The Inhwa Boarding School was for students that had mental, physical, and intellectual disabilities.
It was nestled in the mountains of South Korea - and it was keeping a dark secret.
It was filled with what the students called “perverts.” The perverts would force students into empty classrooms to sexually assault them. The perverts would play movies in class and drag students to the back to assault them in front of their friends. The perverts would play adult films for the students. And if the victims ever got pregnant - they disappeared. The students were beaten into silence.
The perverts were the very teachers and administrators that vowed to protect, teach, and serve the students with disabilities.
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What would you do if you saw a child on the side of the highway at night? What if the child was in distress, alone, and in a diaper?
July 13, 2023, Carlee Russell saw a small toddler on the side of the highway. She stopped her car, called 911, and while on the phone with her friend, she got out to check on the child.
She would go missing, and the whole nation believed she was human trafficked by evil people who used a child to lure her out of her car.
49 hours later, she showed up at her parent’s doorstep - barefoot and dazed. Her reappearance only promoted more questions. Where is the child now? Why won’t Carlee answer the questions? Is she even telling the truth?
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This was the first hit that Zainab’s family got after she went missing. The shop owner said he didn’t see her personally but he had CCTV cameras outside his shop.
The family sat around holding their breath - eyes scanning the grainy footage. Some of the others were comforting them that they would find her in the footage and realize she was just lost. She would come home safe.
But it fell silent. Nobody believed that anymore. On the screen, they saw 7-year-old Zainab in her pink coat walking hand in hand with a stranger. A strange man. He was not someone the family knew. He was Pakistan’s worst serial killer.
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In an upscale cafe in Jakarta - 3 women sat in a booth. Jessica, Hani, and Mirna had been friends since college and decided to reunite to catch up.
One had gotten married and was ready to start her own family.
Another had just landed a new job.
Another was going to live full-time in Australia with her boyfriend.
And by the end of the coffee date - one would be dead in the booth. The culprit? A strange yellow-colored coffee sitting at the table.
Was the coffee tainted? Was she deliberately poisoned? Who were the suspects, her best friends from college?
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The house was on fire, and it was going to collapse. The firefighters stood in front of it doing everything they could to put out the angry flames. There was a 66-year-old lady screaming at them.
“Please my son is in there! You have to go back in and get my son!”
They knew the house was going to collapse any minute now - but the firefighters always sacrificed their own lives in an attempt to save another. 10 firefighters went in. The house would collapse killing 6 of them.
But the son was never found in the house - did he even exist? Where was he? Did his mom know he wasn’t in there? And who set the fire?
This is the house of horrors that changed South Korea forever.
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Within the busy halls of a hospital, a terrifying story unfolded. Alexee Trevizo, 19 years old, raced towards the restroom, clutching her backside in a desperate struggle.
She locked the bathroom door behind her and time stretched on—5 minutes, then 10, and eventually 20—fueling the growing apprehension among the nursing staff.
When Alexee swung open the door - the nurses saw the entire bathroom was covered in red blood. Hospital staff rushed to clean up the biohazard only to stumble upon Alexee’s haunting secret concealed within the bathroom trash can. She had been 9 months pregnant. She had given birth in the bathroom. And now there was a dead baby at the bottom of the bin.
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La Mu’s livestream started with her singing, dancing and interacting with her viewers as usual. Her lives were always a safe space on the internet. Everyone loved La Mu for being a wholesome influencer.
But suddenly, on camera, La Mu’s expression changed. She went from smiling to looking fearful. She stood up abruptly, knocked over her phone, but the live never disconnected.
The horrified audience could hear her screaming “murderer!” They could hear her yelling for help. She told everyone to run because she had just been doused with gasoline and he was about to set her on fire…
Was she faking it? Was it a stalker? Was it someone she knew? Who would set her on fire in
the middle of a livestream?
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The submarine went missing, and the whole world stopped to watch. Two people were trapped inside - underwater with only hours of oxygen left.
Would it be possible to find them in time? People wondered if it was engine failure - or maybe the sub had imploded.
But the mysteries kept piling up - why did the submarine sink? Why did only one person make it out alive? And why were body parts washing up ashore?
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May 27, 2023. 3AM. South Korea.
A taxi driver pulled over to put up a young girl and her suitcase. He watched her struggle to load it into his trunk, but when he offered to help she refused.
They got in the car and silently drove towards the park near the river.
How odd, he thought.
The park at this hour? With a heavy suitcase?
And she looks as young as a middle schooler - what could she be doing?
Because of what he does next - she is arrested for murder. This is the recent viral case of a South Korean woman who posed as a middle schooler to get away with murder. She said she did it - because she was curious. She wanted to know what it felt like…
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11 hours - 25 hostages.
An unhinged man had boarded a Hong Kong tour bus and started waving his rifle around. He told them if everyone stayed still and did what he said he would not kill them.
He lied.
For 11 hours, the bus was parked in the middle of the busy street. Police, media, journalists, and civilians were all surrounding the bus.
The hostage negotiators were in charge of preventing loss of life, but they would make mistake after mistake that would cost lives.
All everyone could wonder from the outside was - will those poor hostages live? Or will they die?
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March of 2023, a local news station interviewed a new children’s book author, Kouri Richins. She had just written a book for kids on grief. She said she pulled from her experience of losing her own husband and trying to help her 3 kids move on.
She talked about how she wanted to help other kids and parents cope with their pain. The news anchor felt tears pool in her eyes, listening to a grieving widow.
Right after the interview aired, the news anchor received a chilling anonymous email. It simply read, “you know she killed her husband…”
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He was on his way to airport security when the girls came up to him. The first one came up behind him and covered his eyes. She ran off. Then almost immediately after, another woman came up and put her hand on his mouth and ran off.
The two girls, who had never met prior to this, had just executed a near perfect assassination. They had a deadly chemical agent VX on their hands that was now on his face. He would die a painful death in the matter of 30 minutes.
But more puzzling is - why did he have the antidote to that very illegal substance in his backpack? Did the girls know he was Kim Jong Un’s brother? Were the girls working for North Korea or were they really just filming a YouTube prank video?
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The famous TikTok star strained to hear the conversation through his phone. He knew the voices - one was his soon-to-be ex-wife and the other was a male voice.
They had no idea that he had installed spyware in her home and was listening to every part of the conversation as he sped on the highway to go meet them.
He felt rage. How could she give up their fame, followers, and career for something like this? How dare she leave him?
By the end of the day - two people would be dead, and the TikTok star would be found driving down the highway with his 5 year old daughter and a loaded gun in the car.
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When a 22 year old mall employee vanishes without any trace - netizens can’t help but bring up the dark whispers of the past.
“How is it possible that there is no footage of her leaving the mall?” - people wondered. Then does that mean she’s still in the mall?
When there are no answers to the case - people start to wonder if the tunnels were back. Rumor has it, the mall had an underground tunnel system that connected to each of the fitting rooms. When a young, beautiful woman enters, the floor drops open, sending her sliding through the tunnels to be taken. Taken for what?
Human trafficking?
To be fed to the son of the mall owners?
Was this an urban legend? Or was this the cause of her vanishing?
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A video went viral in South Korea of a CEO slapping an employee on the face in front of all his employees. Netizens were enraged - but as new details emerged, they realized the truth was even darker.
The sadistic CEO would force his employees to decapitate live chickens during company retreats, force them to drink beer till they urinated themselves, he force-feed them multivitamins till they threw up, and shoot at them with BB guns for fun.
The terrifying part was that this was just the tip of a very dark, cold iceberg.
This is the true story that inspired the hit K-Drama series “Taxi Driver.”
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They say a dead body smells like rotting meat - but with a thick, syrupy, sweet undertone. It’s the sweet part that makes most people want to vomit. But these days heavy chemicals are used in morgues to neutralize those smells - but working in a morgue is far from easy.
The students at the University of the Philippines sacrificed partying on the weekends to work at the University hospital - inside the morgue. One day, the students curiously watched as police officers ran into the morgue. They had two bodies covered in white sheets. They warned the students - it was gruesome, bloody, and one victim had evidence of being assaulted and tortured by at least a few killers.
The students held their breath as they peeled back the sheet. They stood in horror to see their friends from college laying on the cold steel tables.
This case would lead to the vanishing of a police officer, 7 high profile killers being thrown in jail with a combined sentence of nearly 2,000 years, and even the President getting involved.
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Kavita was on a flight from London to Mumbai, India to visit her older sister and mom. Her sister was a successful actress in Bollywood but she managed to carve out time in her schedule to celebrate Kavita’s birthday.
When she landed - she connected to the airport wifi and all the text messages, DM’s, calls, that she had missed while in the air kept flooding in.
She collapsed on the airport floor. Her sister had died while she was in the air. She was found mysteriously hanging from her ceiling fan. The police rules out foul play but there were too many suspicious conditions - like the fact that there wasn’t a single fingerprint in key parts of the room. Not a single print. Not even her own.
A few days later - Bollywood went up in flames when 6 pages of her personal diary were leaked. Her death would now be connected to a powerful family in Bollywood. How much involvement did they play in her death?
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In January 2023, a guard and his faithful dog patrolled the grounds of a Chinese boarding school. His routine was typically mundane, involving occasional chases after stray chickens. However, something had changed. A student had vanished three months earlier, casting an unsettling aura over the surrounding woods.
On a fateful day, the guard's dog suddenly erupted into a frantic bark, diverting his attention. Intrigued and apprehensive, he cautiously followed the dog's lead, arriving at an abandoned shed on campus.
What he saw would never leave his memory. Suspended from the trees, the missing student dangled lifelessly, held by nothing more than a pair of shoelaces.
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For two decades, Dennis Bradford concealed a haunting secret, a secret so sinister that it remained hidden from every soul on this planet—his ex-wife, his current wife, his own children. The only person that knew, died with his secret 20 years ago.
Yet 20 years later, he was unexpectedly summoned to an interrogation room, Dennis found himself under scrutiny, bewildered as to why the authorities had suddenly turned their gaze upon him.
As the detectives confronted him, their words pierced his consciousness like icy shards. "Remember that innocent eight-year-old girl? The one you subjected to unspeakable torment, her throat slit, left vulnerable upon an anthill to face her demise?"
“She’s alive and she’s been hunting you down every single day for the past 20 years.”
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In that dark and gloomy room, the rescuers stumbled upon two students who had sought refuge together. Maybe they even held hands or offered comforting words.
There's some debate about their relationship status - some say they were dating, while others claim they barely knew each other. But one thing's for sure: when faced with their last moments, they didn't want to face it alone. They cleverly tied their life jacket strings together, refusing to be separated as the room flooded with water.
Let's talk about the heart-wrenching Sewol Ferry tragedy in South Korea. It shattered the nation and claimed the lives of over 300 people. But the aftermath was just as crazy. The president was impeached, the prime minister resigned, a billionaire was suspiciously found dead, and the vice principal of a high school was found dead - hanging from a tree.
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In June 2014, a strange event occurred in South Korea. A man, seemingly homeless, was discovered deceased in an apricot orchard wearing a lavish Italian jacket.
Beside him lay a book, an empty bottle of shark liver oil, and numerous alcohol bottles. However, DNA testing would later unveil that this vagrant was, in fact, a vanished billionaire.
His passing was so puzzling that many speculated he was still alive, lurking in the shadows. But the intrigue surrounding his demise pales in comparison to the enigma of his life.
The elusive billionaire founded a church and owned the domain "god.com," and his name was connected to two of the most sinister tragedies in South Korea.
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Johnny was a legendary figure in the world of J-Pop, known for his uncanny ability to turn unknown talents into superstars. He held the music industry, media, and A-listers of Japan under his spell, making his every command a golden ticket to success.
Some saw him as a genius businessman and marketing mastermind, while others whispered that he was more akin to a devil, preying on the souls of his chosen trainees. But no one could deny the power he held, or the price he demanded for his services.
Celebrities are often accused of selling their souls to the devil. Making deals with the devil. But it’s alleged that Johnny didn’t do deals and he took what he wanted. And what he wanted were the souls of every trainee he liked. He wanted his prey.
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In 2021, a well-known live streamer named "Little Kitty" took her life on camera, sparking public outrage against cyberbullying. The story made national headlines and dominated social media feeds for weeks.
Yet just when people thought they had heard it all, the case took an even stranger turn. It was later revealed that three men had stolen Little Kitty's remains, all in the hopes of marrying her ghost.
And as chilling as this tale might be, it's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the gruesome underworld of human trafficking involving dead bodies.
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In the dark of night, eight Korean teenagers raced for their lives, one by one, as their “friends” fell, taken down by the relentless pursuer.
One of the girls, unable to bear the pace any longer, slowed to a stop. As she turned to face her fate, she saw the shadowy figure closing in on her, and with a wry smirk, whispered, "God, that was really rough."
Moments later, she was tackled to the ground. These teenagers were not the victims in this case, but rather, the predators. They had mercilessly taken the life of a man, and now, with the thrill of chase gone… they felt at ease. Because they knew they would get away with it.
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Courtney has over 2 million followers on Instagram. She has made over $3 million in the past 2 years on OnlyFans.
In the beginning of 2022, it looked like the year couldn’t get any better for Courtney. She was bringing in a lot of money, living in a $ 10k-a-month apartment in Miami, and dating the love of her life.
Till she stabbed him, just inches above his “Courtney” tattoo. But she wouldn’t be arrested for a long time. In fact, she would still post on OnlyFans after his death.
She claims it was self-defense, but there are secret recordings her boyfriend took of her that muddy the waters. What really happened here?
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Jade had always been a good stepdaughter. Ever since she was 12, she had respected, loved, and admired her stepfather. Even now, at 37 years old, she was his primary caretaker.
Her stepdad struggled with his health and every time he was hospitalized, Jade wanted to do something nice for him. She would clean his entire house so that he wouldn’t have to come home to a messy place.
She didn’t have to, but she wanted to. One fateful day in December 2020, she was cleaning his office when his computer screen came alive. She looked up to see the desktop photo was a picture of a woman’s nude breasts. She stumbled backward. She was shocked.
Not because it was a nude photo - but because it was her nude photo. She searched his computer and found hundreds and hundreds of meticulously organized nude photos of herself.
Some dating as far back as when she was 16 years old. This discovery would lead her down a path of destruction that would end in murder.
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Kim 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?
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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.
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.
Wolves Among Us is a presentation and creation of Peabody-nominated C13Originals, a Cadence13 Studio.
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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The Watkin’s family moved into their new home and their first project was ripping out the old, brown, ugly carpet. Rip. Rip.
Wait, what is that? They found a hole in the ground. Strange. Inside that hole is a little treasure. Jewelry and a roll of undeveloped film.
They had it developed and it showed 112 pictures. A series of photo sequences leading up to the gruesome torture and murder of a young woman.
They called the FBI. The FBI could do nothing. They knew the killer but he was untouchable. He was protected by law. Why?
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Have you heard of the Chinese urban legend? It’s about the most famous thief in history. He was able to steal entire train cabins from moving trains.
When he was finally caught - the thief was sentenced to death. He said his very last wish in life was to be breastfed one last time. The mom pitied her full-grown son and laid her chest bare. One last time. He lifted his mouth up, and with the most force he could summon, he ripped off her nipple.
“This is all your fault” - he screamed. It begs the question, how much of a crime is the parent's fault? And how do criminals’ parents truly feel?
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Unicorns are mystical creatures. They are so rare that most of us wouldn’t know what to do if we came across one.
When the inmates heard that the Unicorn Killer was joining them - they were terrified.
Most of them had heard of the Unicorn, heard the whispers. How even the CIA was terrified of the Unicorn. How the Unicorn evaded capture for 20 years.
But nobody could answer the one pressing question the inmates had - what happens when you come face to face with a real-life Unicorn?
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There were 6 people on the boat that night. A-list actress, Tangmo Nida, her manager and lifelong friend, as well as 4 very wealthy socialites were on the boat.
A lot of rumors currently surround the six.
There are whispers of affairs, inheritances, and wills. But the most sinister rumor? That they were trying to sell Tangmo Nida, the A-list actress, to a high-powered Thai businessman/ government official.
But when only 5 make it back alive - it seems like the questions are never ending, and the secrets are only getting darker.
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Have you heard about how to boil a frog? They say if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water - it will jump out.
But if you throw a frog in a pot of cool water… and you slowly start turning up the heat.
Slowly but surely. So slow that it’s just incremental changes in heat. It’s said the frog will sit there, completely unaware of its impending doom, and it will be cooked to death.
The frog has been “willingly” cooked alive.
Do you think humans are any smarter than frogs? Maybe not.
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She woke up disoriented in the dark. She didn’t know where she was… oh god, what’s that awful smell?
Her hand was touching something sticky on the ground. When her eyes slowly adjusted to the dark she saw - bodies. Dead bodies. Stacked on top of each other. Some of their faces were frozen still as if they were still screaming.
The stickiness on her hand? The bodies coming together and forming a sticky sludge filled with maggots.
Now the question - how would she escape the dungeon?
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Sean hopped into his car to pick up his girlfriend. He was always so happy to see her. He couldn’t get enough of her.
“Honey bunny” I’m over here! Sean’s girlfriend slid into the passenger side and he leaned in for a kiss.
He couldn’t help but pull back with a giant grin. He wondered if she could taste it. He could…
The taste of human flesh always lingered in his mouth.
Book Rec: “Dismembered” - by Susan D Mustafa & Sue Israel (The best deep dive on this case I could find! Truly amazing work)
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The FBI agent walked into the warehouse. It was exactly what he expected…
A concrete fortress, barely any natural light, and then he saw it. The walls. The walls were filled with rows and rows of decapitated heads, skulls, and bones. Some still had rotting flesh on them - others were completely skeletonized.
When the FBI agent made it to the back he came face to face with the man. He was shirtless, barefoot, and stirring a giant pot with a head inside.
“I wasn’t expecting you today” - the man said...
Do they know each other? What is behind the mysterious Vidocq Society?
Book Rec: “Murder Room” - by Michael Capuzzo (One of my fave books this year and brb while I go read all his other books. Do yourself a favor and read this one!)
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The gas station attendant was helping him fill up his car. What timing. It was a hot summer’s day, the sweat trickled down his forehead, and he was anxious to get going. The two of them stood awkwardly at the back of his truck waiting for his tank to get full.
Drip. Drip. Drip.
“Sir, I think your car is leaking.” They both looked down to see a red liquid drip down onto the pavement. The gas attendant didn’t know that there were 3 bodies in the trunk - and the driver was going to keep it that way.
Book Rec: “Alice & Gerald” - by Ron Franscell (an amazing author who really dives deep into the emotions of a case)
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It’s said that some pathological liars are even considered functionally delusional. They can even pass a lie detector test. They believe their own lies.
Sometimes they re-write their lies and memories on the spot. You can see their eyes flutter, a shift in attitude, and boom. They are living a new reality and you almost feel like you’re the one going crazy.
But as humans, we can detect lies, right? Or can we? What happens when a pathological liar takes a stand in front of the whole nation to say - “my child has been kidnapped by her nanny! Help me!”
Would you believe her?
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The public was split. Most wanted him dead. He didn’t deserve to live, he killed 2 people, and shot another in the face.
Another group of people, a smaller group, fought to save his life. Activists, professors, and lawyers fought hard. They knew he was guilty but they fought.
One man fought the hardest. He traveled the world campaigning for his release. The world was shocked. They asked him: are you sure you want him to be free? Are you out of your mind? Do you need psychiatric help?
“But… but didn’t he shoot you in the face?”
Book: “True American” - by Anand Giridharadas (this is one of the best books I’ve read all year… it’s incredibly emotional and I highly recommend it)
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Think about your dog, cat, or any beloved pet. If you don’t have one - imagine one. Would you ever chain your dog up to your chair all day long while you and your buddies watched TV?
Would you make the dog beg you on all fours to use the restroom?
And if the dog did something you didn’t like - would you ever dream of chaining up outside to a tree in the cold winter night?
You wouldn’t dream of doing that to a dog. It would make you a horrible person.
But that’s how David liked to treat his girlfriends. What does that make him? A murderer.
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Children say the scariest things. Sometimes you can’t help but feel like they know something you don’t.
One daycare worker vividly remembers a moment that sent shivers traveling down her spine. A little boy was playing with a little girl. House. Innocent right?
Out of nowhere, the little boy started to scream and smash mommy doll up against the wall. It was so unlike him.
The alarming part? The little boy’s mom had recently been murdered and everyone suspected someone close to her. Did the boy know more than he told the police?
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Book Rec: “Shattered” - by Kathryn Casey (amazing deep dive and really shines a light on the victim)
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The only thing he loved in life was his mom. She was his everything. He couldn’t bear to be fighting with his “Mama Bear.”
He was worried that South Hill Rapist would come for his mom. I mean why wouldn’t he? He was terrorizing the entire neighborhood - no woman was safe.
The rapist would drag women into the bushes, assault them, threaten them, and then whisper in their ears. “I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to, you didn’t deserve this, are you okay?” In a high-pitched baby voice.
His mama bear did always say his baby voice was just so adorable.
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The Cleveland Health Department had been flooded by calls from residents on Imperial Avenue. The residents complained of an inescapable, pungent, thick stench that was so strong that it made their eyes sting.
After years of calls, the inspectors went out to investigate. The source was clear.
Ray’s Sausage Shop! That made perfect sense, fresh meat being ground daily into sausages has to produce some stench right?
No matter what the residents tried - the smell never went away.
At least for years. 11 bodies later.
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
What would scare you the most about being on a deserted island? The sharks? The thick jungle that is so thick and humid you have no idea what animals are lurking beyond?
Or maybe it’s basic survival - finding out how to get water, food, and shelter.
The last thing on your mind would be murder right? That’s what the Graham couple thought when they docked on the deserted isolated island of Palmyra.
But they didn’t know that they weren’t alone there. And that they would never leave the island ever again.
Book Rec: “And The Sea Will Tell” - by Vincent Bugliosi & Bruce Henderson (best deep dive on this case and fascinating perspective into the trials but heavily biased)
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Jean was a successful doctor working as a researcher at the well-respected World Health Organization. His wife was a pharmacist and they had 2 beautiful children. Ah yes, it’s another perfect family.
But we both know that there’s no such thing. Jean was cheating on his wife with a mutual friend - a child psychologist.
But the affair does something mysterious to Jean. He starts blacking out, has holes in his memory, but most alarming of all - he wakes up one day to find himself hovering over his wife’s dead body... What really happened here?
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
Carol demanded to see what Doug had been doing with his other women. Recently their relationship had changed - all Doug cared about was cheating with other women and threesomes.
He warned her. This would scare her away. She couldn’t handle the truth. Doug was smug. He walked over and he plopped down into the sink…
A severed head.
Carol didn’t scream, she didn’t run, instead, she sat down and started applying makeup on the severed head. Doug was her man and she would stick by him.
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It’s a tale as old as time. A farmer was walking his fields one cold winter when he spotted a snake. The snake was frozen stiff from the cold.
The farmer knew the snake to be deadly but he couldn’t help himself. He scooped it up and put it in his jacket to warm it up.
Slowly the snake woke up and gathered enough strength to look up at the kind man who saved him… and bit him. The ultimate betrayal.
But we know snakes are cold-blooded. Humans are different - we would never do such a thing to someone who saved our lives. Or would we?
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
You might think her life is perfect. Millionaire boyfriend, $13million dollar mansion, and a cute dog.
But behind closed doors it was rough - her boyfriend’s ex-wives hated her, she fought with his teenage kids all the time and spent a lot of her time babysitting his youngest child.
One day under her care - the little boy ends up unconscious and is rushed to the hospital. Nobody blames her though - or do they?
Because just 2 days later she is found dead with the words “she saved him, can you save her?” scribbled on the door.
Book Rec: “Death On Ocean Boulevard” - by Caitlin Rother (Yes, there’s a ton of info on this case but this is the best deep dive you will find).
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15 year old James gathered all his friends at the bowling alley and dragged them outside. He wanted to show off his 13 yr old girlfriend and his brand new car!
The kids were shocked - how did James get a new car? He doesn’t even have a license but they were too excited to care. They all packed in the car. Windows down. Music on. Speeding on the streets.
James and his girlfriend felt free for the first time in their lives.
Well almost free - they had to get rid of the body in the trunk first.
Book Rec: “Kill Grandma For Me” - by James & Jim DeFelice (the best deep dive you will find on this case!)
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The FBI agent watched her across the store. He was seasoned enough to know what that little girl was trying to do.
He watched her steal a notebook and make a run for the door. Not today. The agent grabbed her arm and stopped her. She was under arrest.
“I’m an FBI agent and you just committed a crime, little girl. I need to take you to my boss.”
This is how Sally Horner was kidnapped, held hostage, and tortured for 2 years.
Book Rec: “The Real Lolita” - by Sara Weinman (without her this case would have been forgotten).
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What is a nymphet? It’s a seductress of course. She knows what she’s doing.
She finds men that are alone, vulnerable, and she tempts them.
She will walk by and by using her superpower seduction she doesn’t even need to talk to them. She doesn’t touch them. She simply exists and that is enough.
The men then drop to their knees and forget to think straight.
They are willing to risk it all for her. Even years of their lives in prison.
Why prison you ask? Did I forget to mention nymphets are 9 years old?
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The sisters were arrested - they went with the plan.
Stare at a fixed object to the point of looking hypnotized.
The police were getting fed up “YOU'RE AN EVIL LITTLE MANIAC TELL US WHERE THE BOMBS ARE.”
The sisters remained “hypnotized” till at exactly 3 PM they looked at their wristwatch and let out a big sinister smile.
BOOM.
The bomb went off in the busy streets of London injuring hundreds. The sisters had 3 more.
Book Rec: “Say Nothing” - by Patrick Keefe (one of my favorite authors of all time you won’t be disappointed by any of his books)
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The three girls never went anywhere without each other. They were besties.
Well, except Biology Class - the one class that only Rachel and Sheila were in.
Maybe that’s why during biology Sheila would ask a lot of strange questions.
“Excuse me, what kind of acid would you dispose of a body in?”
“I don’t know… why?”
“Oh, we’re trying to figure out what to do with Skylar.”
Rachel would be off on the side giggling. That’s how the two girls started to plot their best friend’s murder in biology class.
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The two women met in the psychiatric ward and instantly sparks were flying.
Their hair was wild, they were heavily drugged up but they knew that it was only a matter of time before they had s*x.
They were so different but it worked. One woman - the wife of a millionaire. The other woman - was struggling with life and addiction.
But they just knew that they would be together. They just didn’t know it would be in jail… for murder.
Book Rec: “She Wanted It All” - by Kathryn Casey (an amazing deep dive on this case I was hooked).
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The 16-year-old girl couldn’t stop ranting at work.
Life is so short - her high school teacher’s husband had just been viscously murdered. Can you believe it? Her teacher is now a sad widow.
During her rant, one of her coworkers cut her off.
Wait- didn’t you tell me a few weeks ago that your 15-year-old friend was planning on murdering him? So that he could be with his teacher?
Cecilia looked up and responded… “Oh, sh*t I forgot I told you that.”
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They were just like any other couple.
They went on dates on the beach, went shopping for lingerie together, and they had “fun” wherever they could.
In cars. At their houses. In the park. Everywhere.
Sure, they were plotting a murder but does that really mean much in the grand scheme of their all-encompassing love?
By night - they were plotting the perfect murder.
By day - he was a 15-year-old high school student and she…
Well, she was his high school teacher of course.
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The wife of high-powered influential Harry Piper was kidnapped.
A random note was left - “We want $1 million dollars to be paid in 50,000 unmarked $20 bills.” The family paid it.
It would be two full days till Virginia was found chained up to a tree. Alive.
She never saw the kidnapper’s face.
After three long years, the police presented her with a few audio clips. She perked up. “That’s him! My kidnapper! I’m sure of it! I remember his voice.”
If this were true Virginia was lucky to be alive.
She was listening to the voice of the Hammer Man- who smashed women to death with his bare hands.
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Tony was getting fed up. His friend wasn’t listening to him.
“No no no you don’t get it! I’m f***ing my mother!” - he screamed.
The restaurant went quiet.
Tony came from a strange family, to say the least. His great-grandparents were the creators of plastic. Yes, plastic. His mom was an eccentric aspiring author working on her debut novel about a mom who seduces her son on a yacht - that everyone believed to be more of an autobiography.
Strange? Sure.
Homicidal? Absolutely.
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The stories were becoming wilder.
Did you know that right after killing her roommate with her boyfriend - she took a shower in the blood-soaked bathroom?
She killed her roommate over a threesome gone wrong!
She even did cartwheels, backflips, and splits in the police station.
If this were true she just might be the evilest woman in all of Italy.
But what if it wasn’t? What if this was an innocent woman spending 5 years in prison for a murder that she did not commit?
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The American exchange student skipped home - her life in Italy was perfect.
She had great roommates and a new Italian boyfriend. Nothing could ruin her time abroad.
That is - till she finds the door to her apartment wide open, blood smeared all over her bathroom, and one of her roommates dead in her room.
Her “strange behavior” makes her a target for the police. I mean would an innocent person do yoga in the police station, journal about pizza during an interrogation, and “make-out” with her boyfriend while police are around?
Book Rec: “Waiting To Be Heard” - by Amanda Knox (one of my fave books of the year)
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They say family secrets are like vampires - they never really die.
The Murdaugh family knows this better than anyone. For generations, they were one of the most powerful, wealthiest, families in South Carolina.
But when those around them start mysteriously dying… and even two of their own end up dead.
You have to wonder - is someone finally getting their revenge on the untouchable family? An eye for an eye?
Or are the Murdaugh family secrets out for blood?
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
He was about to sell his family company and become a billionaire. But then he went missing.
In order to find him, the police had to dig into his personal life.
Why was a private detective following him? Who hired them? What’s on the videos the PI took of him?
Why was he visiting a very shady chat forum every single day - what kind of information was he looking for on there?
And most importantly - did the dismembered body parts scattered on the side of the road have anything to do with this?
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
“Welcome to the House of Gucci.” You’re instantly hit with the smell of leather and well - money.
This is what Gucci is all about - wealth, excess, and opulence. It’s a household name. But have you heard of the Gucci killer?
The one fueled by lust, greed, and counterfeit bags. The one that would kill in the name of Gucci.
They say money can’t buy happiness - but it’ll get you a whole lot of Gucci.
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Welcome to Ghostwriter, a new gripping and suspenseful podcast movie listening experience from C13Features. In Ghostwriter, Kate Mara and Adam Scott star in a psychological thriller about a former journalist who reluctantly accepts a job ghostwriting a new murder mystery novel for an eccentric billionaire. Kate Michaels has been living a solitary life after a traumatic experience, but after pressure from her rational agent and candid best friend, she begrudgingly concedes that she needs the work. As she collaborates with the enigmatic James Webber on the project, she finds herself growing dependent on him and starts to suspect that something is wrong…deeply wrong. Will Kate be able to trust herself with James’ story, or even her own voice? Get ready to pop some popcorn, and get lost in your imagination in this invigorating new podcast movie experience, Ghostwriter, from C13Features, dropping December 6.
Bbzzz - when the buzzer goes off they know it’s game time. The high contact sport of water polo begins.
For the next few hours - they attack, get dragged underwater, and they try to win at all costs.
And then afterward the team will reward themselves with shots at the bars. Keli was nervous.
She didn’t know how to sneak out of the party early without anyone knowing. But what choice did she have?
She was going to give birth tonight. In secret. For the second time.
Book Rec: “Nice Girl” - by Rachel Jane Chin (so good!)
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The highway patrol officers turned on their sirens. 2nd drunk driver of the night. This guy was worse than the first.
He had a friend in the passenger seat - drunk, passed out, and he didn’t even realize they had been pulled over.
He sat there sleeping while the driver was being arrested.
“Come on bud time to find a new ride” - the officer tapped the window.
That’s when he realized - the passenger wasn’t drunk.
He was dead.
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In the halls of their high school - nobody dared to walk near her.
Most of the students pretended they didn’t see her, hear her, or know her.
If you were new there you might ask - “What did she do?”
“Oh, you don’t know? That’s Gitchie Girl. She went into the woods with 4 of her friends and she’s the only one that came out alive. And we all know that Gitchie Girl is hiding something.”
Book Rec: “Gitchie Girl” - by Phil Hamman & Sandy Hamman (There are 2 books written by the authors and both are incredible, heartbreaking reads)
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In Florence, Italy - it’s said that 1/3 of people are conceived in cars.
Young couples would drive up the isolated hills to have some fun - and creepers would flock to watch them. They would watch, record, “enjoy” themselves, and then go home.
Except for one creeper - he wanted more.
He would ambush the couple right after they were done - and drag the woman out of the car to take something for himself.
His little trophies…
Book Rec: “The Monster of Florence” - by Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi (Might by me favorite read of the whole year - you need to pick it up)
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Alligators are one of the world’s oldest predators. Their bite is 3x stronger than that of a lion. So it was a no-brainer to police when they were told Mike Williams went missing at Lake Seminole.
“He was eaten alive - maybe they took his body to their dens for later food.” - they thought.
But when pieces of clothes that presumably belonged to Mike surfaced - people were confused. There were in pristine condition. Practically new.
The dark waters and mystery at Lake Seminole will haunt 4 families for over 20 years. But the truth will eventually come to shore.
Book Rec: “Evil At Lake Seminole” - by Steven Epstein (such a good deep dive and amazingly written)
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Jason was a straight A college student, with 2 jobs, and his favorite show was “The Sopranos.” He was a nice kid with a bright future ahead of him.
One day police found Jason’s mom had gone missing. Jason was worried.
He had thrown her headless body off a cliff - just like what he learned from his favorite show. But he had been so busy - that he hadn’t gotten around to burning her head and her hands. They were still sitting in the closet waiting for him.
Book Rec: “Such Good Boys” by Tina Dirmann (best deep dive on this case and an amazing read)
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He wrote in his diary everyday about his love and desire for Susan.
He took hundreds of pictures of Susan - of her getting dressed, eating cereal, using the restroom, even shopping at Costco.
Her husband was no good for her. They were not in love. Not like the way he and Susan were in love.
You probably guessed it but Susan had no idea that he was in love with her.
And she definitely wasn’t interested in dating her father-in-law.
When Susan went missing - all his creepy secrets would be exposed. But you know what they say - like father like son.
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
It’s healthy for couples to talk to each other.
That’s exactly what Mrs. C was trying to do to keep her marriage alive. She would come home to tell her husband about the love triangle at work.
“Melissa loves Jack but Jack is seeing Anna” can you believe it?
At first, it seemed like innocent coworker drama but slowly it got sinister. Mrs. C wanted to help Melissa spy on the couple, hack into voicemails, and even break into apartments.
Mr. C also knew all about Melissa & Jack’s sex life. How in love they were behind Anna’s back.
But he didn’t know that his wife was telling him all the dirty details of her own affair. Or that it would lead to two people being stabbed.
Rec: “Obsessed” - by M Phelps - this is such a good book by one of my fave authors!
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Family should always be close. The two cousins did everything together.
They slept with their son's underage girlfriends together, started a business, and even lived together.
They wanted to experience life’s greatest pleasures - together, as a family.
The rush of injecting a woman with Windex (the window cleaner) to see how they would convulse. The rush of hooking up a woman to electrical wires from an auto shop. The rush of leaving naked bodies all over happy Los Angeles.
They did it all - as a family.
Rec: “The Hillside Stranglers” - by Darcy O’Brien (best deep dive on this case out there but it is really intense.)
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Kenny was ecstatic - he was finally moving to LA where he would chase his dreams. To make things better his older cousin was letting him stay at his house. He would also teach him a few lessons on how to be successful.
“Lesson #1: You gotta hit the bullseye. Make it your target.
Right between the legs.
Always use a wet towel. It doesn’t leave bruise marks.
Oh, and Kenny? Don’t chicken out when you strangle them.”
The two cousins would be known as the “Hillside Stranglers” and they would leave behind a trail of bodies all over the hills of LA.
Rec: “The Hillside Stranglers” - by Darcy O’Brien (best deep dive on this case out there but it is really intense.)
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The beekeeper called for his friend - “Jose you need to come now!”
He had found something near the abandoned house. They rushed over to a small pit on the ground covered with branches.
They bent down - used an old spatula to move around the dirt. It was a watch.
They screamed…the watch was still attached to its owner.
The two men unknowingly discovered the bodies of 3 missing girls, that would lead the whole country down a rabbit hole of conspiracies, scandal, and a man on Interpol’s most-wanted list.
Rec: “Alcàsser Murders” - by Netflix
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This night was special from the rest - he felt his stomach rumble violently. Oh no. He bent over and threw up everything…
What was the problem? He was used to drinking all night - in fact, it was his only true joy.
Maybe it was her fault. He looked down at the girl laying on the ground covered in her own blood.
Maybe her blood just didn’t sit right in his stomach.
He is, after all, the Vampire of Düsseldorf.
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A perfect town comes with a terrifying price. From C13Features comes Treat, a podcast movie starring Kiernan Shipka as Allie West, an unpopular teenager who is dealing with issues beyond her years while struggling to fit in with her seemingly perfect small town. But, on one Halloween night, everything changes, and she discovers that her town’s idyllic image comes at a deadly cost. As she learns about the mysterious Piper’s powerful hold on the town, she, along with her younger brother, realize they are the only ones who can save their community before it’s too late. Can Allie West help rescue her family, and their town, and even herself, from its evil past and own demise? Grab some popcorn, and get lost in your imagination in this new thrilling and frightening podcast movie experience, Treat, from C13Features, a Cadence13 Studio. Available now.
You look around - you’re in the hospital but you feel trapped.
Why can’t you talk? Why can’t you move? You start to feel your body involuntarily shake…
The nurse noticed and rushed to your bedside. Good, someone is coming to help.
She pulls back your covers and crawls into the bed with you. She’s stroking your hair, kissing your face, and wants to look you directly in the eye as your pupils dilate, violently convulse, and you take your last breath.
You were always her favorite patient… right?
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
“Big John” loved his little apartment. It wasn’t nice but it was his.
He was in his 40’s and he wanted to decorate it with whatever style he pleased. His bedroom was more of a game room with a mattress on the ground.
The walk-in closet was wall-to-wall with the newest and latest games. Nintendo games, board games, barbies, you name it. His drawers were stuffed full with candy and his mini-fridge only had soda in it.
The only thing is - none of these things were for Big John.
Book Rec: “Buried Memories” - by Katie Beers (Written by the victim of the crime - and how she recovered from such a traumatic event. Get your tissues ready)
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Charles took a step back from his self-portrait. He was just adding his finishing touches of paint.
“Are you sure this is what you saw? This is how I’m going to die?”
“Yes” the voice said.
The painting showed Charles with a gag in his mouth and 5 bullet wounds on his forehead. It was a gruesome piece of art but everyone that knew Charles said he was just “eccentric.”
They had no idea that’s almost exactly how Charles would later be found at the crime scene.
With the painting hanging above him…
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They sat around the dinner table - whispering. As if the man the town called “The Ripper” could hear them.
“Don’t wear red shoes - he will kill all girls wearing red shoes.”
“I thought it was red clothes?”
“I heard it was girls with long hair - because it’s easier to grab when they try to run away.”
Whatever it is - we have to try it all. Cut your hair. Throw out your red clothes because if The Ripper gets a hold of you…
He will leave you without your hands, ears, breasts, and sometimes even the skin on your back.
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The banyan tree is a terrifyingly beautiful sight.
The 7 nursing students were huddled in their dorm room bunk beds - panicking about what to do next. They had been tied up by an intruder.
The 17 year old girl woke up in a panic. Where was she? It was so bright and cold - a hospital?
“Ooooh Sanford get out here! I have a present for you - it’s in the bucket!” Sanford didn’t understand why his uncle was so giddy to be back to the chicken farm but he rushed outside.
All morning there had been whispers at LHS - they found a student’s body in the old gym. The body of 17 year old KJ had been found rolled up into a giant gym mat about 6ft tall.
The couple embarked on a cross country trip in their converted van to experience the beauty of the national parks. They documented their trip, posted on Instagram, YouTube, they were in the process of starting their blog.
When you walked by her house in the exclusively rich part of Newport Beach California you would never think it holds such sinister secrets.
First day of Kindergarten is always a nerve-racking time for parents. But when they meet Mrs. W their tensions are probably eased.
You want us to do what? - the couple had been kidnapped and forced to live in North Korea for years before they found out the truth.
She couldn’t believe it. They wanted her to write a letter to her kidnappers thanking them for all that they have done for her.
The goal was simple. Break into the house - sneak into the upstairs room and murder the 18 year old high school girl.
She was rushing to the emergency room - her 5-year-old son was in the back. Every minute could mean life or death. He had been having seizures all day.
Her body was found by her own children. When the police rushed to the scene they were shocked.
He wasn’t like the other boyfriends and husbands. He treasured every single moment that he spent with her.
3 people stranded on a boat in the middle of the ocean.
“Welcome to Bob’s Bazaar Bizarre” - the small shop for oddities from around the world. May Bob interest you in some genuine human skulls? Perhaps a shrunken head in a jar?
When you leave the shop’s bizarre environment you can’t help but wonder… that Bob guy is so strange…
And how does he even collect so many real human skulls? You can’t help but wonder what Bob does in his free time to enlarge his collection.
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The police had been searching for Shannon for 24 days - a search that would cost taxpayers over $3.2 million.
Joe wasn’t your average Joe - he wanted to be someone spectacular. Someone to be feared.
After a rough start, Kristin was adjusting well at Cal Poly. She made friends and even took a lifeguard position that required her to get up by 4:20 AM.
Nearby, Mary had just rented a new house but the problem was that dang alarm. It would go off every day at 4:20 AM and she didn’t know where it was.
*The podcast “Your Own Backyard” - by Chris Lambert is one of the most heartbreaking, thorough, and well-done podcasts I’ve ever listened to… Please go give it a listen because there’s so much more to this story.
Did you hear? The upper elite of New York City had a new resident - Clark Rockefeller. You know - from the billionaire Rockefeller family.
He swooped in with his impeccable designer suits, tens of millions worth of art, and his old beat down car. Some might think that to be strange.
But why did he kidnap his 7-year-old daughter in the middle of the street? And how is he related to the Sohus family murders from 20 years ago?
If you saw Patti & David walk down the street they look like the perfect couple. But those who knew them looked like they had seen a ghost.
And why is the younger sister of his dead wife wearing all of her clothes and jewelry?
Strange things happen in perfect towns.
You walk into an empty abandoned bank. You walk straight for the vault.
6 giant barrels lined up against the wall. Maybe they’re filled with money?
Or maybe it contains the tortured, dismembered, and cannibalized remains of 8 people. Well, go on - open it.
Wanda was reading a tabloid of “The Perfect Crime.” She couldn’t believe it - how does a family man just viciously murder his entire family in their 19 bedroom mansion?
And the worst part is he got away with it and has been on the run for 18 years.
At that moment she looked up and saw the killer. Staring back at her. Only it wasn’t John List. It was her new neighbor… or was it?
The investigators arrived at the scene - it was Friday the 13th and the victim had been brutally killed with an axe. The victim suffered over 40 stabs with a 3ft long axe and half of her face was missing.
When 2-year-old James goes missing at the mall his mom is quick to start her frantic search. Within seconds he had disappeared into the crowd.
What would you do if someone unfriended you on Facebook?
How dare they unfriend you on Facebook? This case is filled with twists, delusions, social media drama, and so much cat-fishing that you start to believe there’s no way this is real.
In 27 years he only spoke one word. “Hi.”
For decades he lived without a mirror - he had forgotten what he had looked like.
When he is finally arrested after 27 years - the questions remain. Why did a 20-year-old walk into the woods and decide to disappear? Was he running from something? Does he know something we don’t? And what happens to someone who has no social contact for 27 years?
Sharon - the high school student with straight A’s. She seemed perfect - but why does a 14-year-old have a closet full of lingerie and provocative clothes?
Tonya - the mom who took a job as a dancer at a club. She was found dead on the side of the road. But why is her husband acting so strange?
Sandra - the mom whose baby was kidnapped. But why are there rumors that Sandra sold her child?
And how do these three individual stories collide into one big devious mess?
Full Source Notes Here: rottenmangopodcast.com
The rookie police officer was sent to the local middle school to give a lecture on how to be safe. Stranger Danger! But this town had nothing to worry about - it was a safe small town.
The 4 teenage girls decided they wanted McDonald's for breakfast after their all-nighter. They carefully reverse parked into the lot so that all the bloody handprints on the back of their trunk would be hidden.
Full Source Notes Here: rottenmangopodcast.com
The hottest clubs in New York City were run by Michael. He knew how to throw a party - serving cat food as appetizers, performances of women pulling Christmas lights out of - well, you know where.
A rotating wheel of 6 cow tongues for anyone to “rub” up against. This was the place to be.
But when rumors started circling that Michael had injected one of his friends with Drano and dismembered him in his bathtub… nobody believed it. Or maybe they didn’t want to? Because the party must go on.
Source: "Party Monster" by James St. James - wow... this book is a first-hand account of the whole scene, the environment, but also the crime. Really fantastic read that goes far more in-depth!
Full Source Notes Here: rottenmangopodcast.com
You’ve booked a room in a nice hotel that everyone calls “The Castle.” You quickly realize things are not what it seems here.
Doors with spikes attached. Vaults filled with acid. Secret peepholes in the rooms. Staircases that start and stop out of nowhere.
You see the “elasticity machine” it’s supposed to stretch your body so you can be taller. The owner wants to create a new race of giants…
The hardworking FBI agent was on his way to a meeting when he noticed the large crack on the passenger window of his car. How is he going to explain that?
He had a lie for the large wound on his hand. What about the deep scratches all over his neck? Surely he could come up with something.
Now the only thing left to take care of - was the decomposing body in his trunk.
Nothing an FBI agent can’t handle.
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
“What’s the last thing you ate?” the doctor asked.
All 16 of them responded the same - “human flesh.”
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
Most people collect ordinary things - paintings, books, baseball cards. But what if you could collect your darkest desires? Two men decide they will collect women to be held captive in their torture bunker.
When you step into this Walgreens it feels like any other - aisles filled with cosmetics, household goods, and a pharmacy. The employees are kind but they’re harboring their own dark secrets.
The store manager has a deadly liking for underage girls.
Another employee is plotting the murder of 3 people.
But is this really more sinister than your local Walgreens?
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
She died twice on that 12 story bridge.
The first time - she was thrown off the bridge by two men in hopes of killing her. This would be the only way their night of sick torture would stay secret.
A man with a briefcase entered the cockpit of Western Flight 701. The man tells the pilots there are 2 bombs on the plane and a grenade in his suitcase.
A family of 4 is startled awake by two masked men - they tell them that everything is going to be okay. We just want money - that’s all.
Slowly for the next 7 hours - it becomes clear that’s not all they want. The 11yr old daughter was assaulted. The mother was assaulted and strangled. The house engulfed in flames - all while the police were standing outside.
“A thief in the night. I’ve come to steal NOT your jewels and money. But your personal safety, privacy, and security. I violate your inner asylum of intimacy.” - Cheshire Home Invader / Killer.
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
They knew something was different about their family. The sisters saw it. They had guests doing chores - completely nude - in the house. Guests being duct-taped to the walls.
Dear Mr. John Wayne Gacy…
That’s how it all started… One letter to the “Clown Killer” who was responsible for 33 murders of young boys - and Jason was hooked.
Why do so many people go missing in National Parks? Alien conspiracy theory? Government experiments? Or just lost in nature?
There is international panic on the fate of the missing British Airways flight attendant… and the crazy leads don’t make it any easier for police.
She was sold to the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia).
A Japanese Hostess Club - purchase a table by the hour - female hostesses will come and sit with you the entire time. They pour your drinks, light your cigarette, flirt with you, and stroke your ego.
There’s an unspoken law that all the flirting - was nothing but a fantasy.
But when a British Airways flight attendant disappears while working at a hostess club - a question arises…
Was her abduction someone’s fantasy?
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
You look out your window - the landlord has dug up another large hole in the backyard… they’re always doing strange gardening projects late at night.
You walk into the kitchen - there’s that smell again… the landlord says it’s new fertilizer but the smell is distinct.
There are usually 8 tenants but once in a while, one will disappear without notice… what really is going on in this house?
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
Did you know pigs will eat anything?
The Pickton Pig Farm - was isolated, private, had its own slaughterhouse equipped with commercial freezers, and hundreds of very hungry pigs.
For where 49 women get murdered…
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
A massive 3 story sanatorium in the isolated woods of Washington. The whispers about what goes on in there - I heard she buries another patient every single day. If you walk past it the scary doctor might snatch you, lock you in a room, and starve you to death.
A family begged their community to help find their missing 16 year old daughter. #FindBecky started trending on social media. Nobody was prepared to find out that -
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
Ellen could hear her 8-year-old daughter splashing around in the bath with her barbies. Thankfully her son was fast asleep - another long exhausting day as a single mom.
The Richardson family was found viciously murdered in the middle of the night… The police are gathering clues when they realize that a family member is missing.
The 12-year-old daughter… where is she? Has she been abducted? Did she escape? Was she killed? Is her body somewhere else? Time is ticking...
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
She was driven off the main road where she was assaulted, disemboweled, and left for dead.
Against all odds, she managed to survive this attack. But that was just the beginning of a diabolical crime...
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
She was held captive for 24 years in the secret basement of the house that she grew up in. During her captivity she gave birth to 7 children - all in the dark with nothing but a pack of diapers and a pair of scissors.
For 24 years there were two families residing in one house.
The “family above” lived a normal life. Celebrating holidays. Taking pictures.
The “family below” lived a life with no sunlight, mold on the walls, and torment beyond imagine.
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
Who would ever suspect a sweet little grandma with the best-baked goods in town of having a sinister past?
She was a doting grandmother, wife, daughter, and a “domestic goddess.” But once in a while, she would add a special ingredient to her baked goods resulting in the death of her loved ones. After 11 funerals - nobody suspected the grieving grandma.
Do you trust your grandma?
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
Two friends go fishing - instead of fish they catch:
The press claimed she had a “perfect score” on the Psychopath Test - making her the most psychopathic woman in South Korea.
5 men board 5 different Tokyo subway trains at the same time. Each of them are carrying plastic bags filled with poison.
They met in High School and became popular and inseparable. One of them was even voted “Miss Irresistible.”
The CandyMan and his 2 assistant killers are ramping up their serial murders...
29 boys go missing from the same small town.
Where are the police?
And who finally takes down Willy Wonka?
It all ends with one last party.
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
The “CandyMan” is what all the little boys called him. He was a candy factory owner who passed out free candy to all the kids.
In the same small town of Houston Heights 29 boys go missing in the span of a few years…
At a time where it felt like nobody could be trusted - the CandyMan seemed like a wholesome adult figure. But you know where this story goes.
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
A cult in Korea heard the saying “eat the rich” and they decided to do just that. Literally. They turned their victims into side dishes for their Korean BBQ.
Is this about the ever-growing wealth gap or are they just a sinister cult looking for blood?
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
From the outside - they’re perfect. Wealthy, educated, compassionate, veteran, with 5 children in a blended marriage.
When Kathleen is found dead at the bottom of the staircase - all of the Petersons' family secrets come to light. We have more questions than ever…
IF she fell (like Michael Peterson claims) why was there blood soaking the floor & walls? Why did Michael delete personal emails right after he found out his wife died? Why do people believe an owl (the bird) killed Kathleen?
And what about the other woman in Michael’s life found at the bottom of a staircase?
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
A convicted murderer - sentenced to life in prison - decides to start publishing children’s books, short stories, and even a memoir. The elite literary community soaks in every word and praises him for becoming a reformed man in prison.
They even start a petition to the President of Austria to let this reformed man out and walk the streets amongst us!
Once released - it’s his second chance to do the things he’s always wanted to do! Become a serial killer.
Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
Guests of the Cecil Hotel started complaining about water quality issues - their tap water was brown and had a strange taste to it...
They sent a maintenance man to go check on the water tanks on the roof that only staff had a key to - as it was a restricted access area and armed.
There he found the body of Elis Lam in one of the water tanks. She had been missing for 3 weeks. How did she get up there? Why was she in the water tanks? What about the elevator footage? Things just get stranger from here...
Source Notes @ rottenmangopodcast.com
When a law student goes missing - you can’t help but suspect everyone in her class. Was this law school jealousy, a love triangle, or a random crime?
A woman falls feet first down a 12 story trash chute to her death. The police are quick to determine it's a suicide or accidental death.
But there are still more questions than answers:
The famous soap maker was giving away free soaps & tea cakes from her beloved soap shop.
The neighbors were ecstatic to take home their luxurious bars of soap that they got for free and couldn't wait to test them out...
They wouldn't know till it was too late that the Soapmakers recipe included the bodies of her victims.
Two serial killers operating in the same state with the same goal - to be the next Ted Bundy. "A superstar" one says.
They both have a thing for beheading women and staging the crime scene to look as if the victim's head is staring at her own headless body.
Melissa was sick of telling her teenage son to clean his room. For the past week, there had been a disgusting stench coming from it.
She had a theory - his waterbed was leaking and was causing the smell. She lifted it up hoping to find the source. But instead, she found a dead little girl.
They saw their dad as a "Half God" - the product of Lucifer mating with humans.
They followed his every command whether it was - marrying him, fathering children with his daughter, having sexual relations with their own siblings, or even killing people who learned of his secrets.
He led the FBI on a massive manhunt that would ultimately lead to the unraveling of his secret cult.
She told all of her friends that she was pregnant. People started getting suspicious when they realized she was so close to her due date but hadn't even started showing yet.
But Lisa had a plan. She would go visit an unsuspecting pregnant friend and cut the unborn baby from her womb.
Welcome to the first-ever minisode!
We will have long episodes, as usual, every Wednesday + the new additional mini-episodes on Sundays!
I hope you guys like the new schedule!
Cheerleading tryouts at this junior high school become deadly once a mom hires a hitman to literally "knock out" the competition.
What's a couple of dead people when your daughter has the chance to be a cheerleader?
We also cover the story of the Blood Countess. One of the most prolific female serial killers who has claimed the lives of over 600 victims.
She believed the secret to youth was to take baths... full of blood.
Blood baths.
A 15-year-old hitchhiker catches a ride with a sweet "grandpa looking man." She was excited to go home but he had plans of his own. His plans resulted in her with both her arms amputated and thrown off a cliff.
On the other side of the world, another girl got on a bus after visiting the movies with a friend. She would be found tossed off the bus clinging on for her life.
Some of the darkest cases I've covered but it's been highly requested and we need to keep these stories alive. Get your tissues ready - it's gut wrenching.
She wakes up in a room with no memory of where she is and even who she is... What's even more alarming is that her kidnapper tells her that she will only survive this if she falls in love with him.
Anytime the kidnapper believes it isn't going as expected he drugs up the victim and resets her memory once more...
Today's episode is a Baking A Mystery which is a completely fictional story! If you are only into true crime no worries we post every single Wednesday!
Police are called out about clogged drains underneath a house in London... doesn't really sound like detective work.
BUT it soon becomes apparent that the drains have been clogged with human remains. Someone inside the house has been flushing human remains down the toilet. (Remember Jeffrey Dahmer?)
The police think they're about to arrest a murderer but little do they know they've got a serial killer on their hands.
A deaf & mute horror writer is staying isolated in the cabin so that she can focus on her manuscript.
A serial killer happens upon her house and decides to make her his next victim. Can she outsmart him? How will she escape?
After all, he has the advantage. He can hear her.
Today's episode is part of the Baking A Mystery series and is a completely fictional story! But it's got an intense mystery for you!
If you are only interested in true crime, no worries we will be back every Wednesday!
Korean YouTubers decide to explore the most haunted place in South Korea... Gonjiam - an abandoned mental asylum where there are rumors of patients who were driven to madness and eventually murdered by the evil hospital director.
The YouTubers are live-streaming their entire experience inside the haunted place and slowly... one by one... they go missing.
Today's podcast episode is a Baking A Mystery! It is a completely fictional story! If you are only into true crime don't worry we post every single Wednesday!
A slumber party filled with responsible football moms whose kids all play football together... when they wake up one of them is dead in the backyard.
When the police start investigating things start getting weirder...
A woman tries to bribe the police with Dunkin Donuts gift cards (yes, you read that right).
A boyfriend in law enforcement kept accessing Tamla's investigation file unlawfully.
And that's just the tip of this murky, confusing, mysterious iceberg of a case.
The body of a deceased CEO of a major pharmaceuticals company goes missing from the morgue before it can be autopsied. The police find mounting evidence that the husband has a lot of motive to murder his wife and then steal her corpse so all evidence of the murder will be gone.
The husband also finds mounting evidence that his wife is not dead at all... and maybe she walked out of the morgue?
GREAT READY FOR THE MOTHER LOAD OF PLOT TWISTS
*This is a Baking A Mystery so it's based on a fictional story and not a true crime case! If you're only into true crime don't worry we post every Wednesday here!
A serial killer who only kills other murderers. He has killed over 60 drug dealers, murderers, molesters, and fellow serial killers in some of the most brutal ways.
Fun Fact: He's a free man today.
Is he the real-life Dexter? Is this vigilante justice?
Or is he just as sick and twisted as all the other serial killers out there?
She was tortured with bleach till her skin fell off - and then her friends lit her on fire.
Another girl had her knees crushed by her boyfriend so she could never run away.
Frequently spoken about alongside Junko Furuta's case... these two cases are some of the vilest cases of torture we've researched.
We also do a quick dive into where torture even started (the CIA gets involved). It's an intense one. Buckle up.
77 minutes of absolute psychological torture, murder, and loss. His youngest victim was 8 months old.
This might be one of the saddest cases we cover.
He took something from his first victim - one of her feet. He kept it in the freezer and used it to model his collection of high heels.
A collector of sorts - feet, breast, high heels, and underwear from unsuspecting women for over a decade but his dream was to have a collection of women in his freezer. Did he make his dream come true?
The Korean movie "The Call" that has been highly requested is finally here!
This is what happens when a serial killer keeps calling you asking for favors. It's a really intense one so buckle up!
Today's episode is a Baking A Mystery! This is a fictional story and did not happen in real life. If you are only interested in true crime (don't worry) we have episodes every single Wednesday and I'll see you then!
Let me know if you've seen this movie before! It's insane.
Daisy's Destruction - the 1-hour long video with 3 adults torturing an infant (18-month-old Daisy) was released onto the dark web in 2012.
To most of us, it sounded like an urban legend, but to a lot of twisted people in the world, it was worth the $10,000 viewing price.
Today's episode enters the world of the dark web "Pedo-Empire" and you would never believe who's behind the screen.
A millionaire who dreams of having dozens of women to all get pregnant with his children at the same time. He will do whatever it takes...
There's electrocution, a Cuisnart blender, and a freezer full of meat, even stomping screwdrivers into women's ear holes..
64 squares on a chessboard. And each represented a victim he viciously murdered.
His trademark? Shoving a vodka bottle into the cracks of the skull he just split. The victims were almost always still alive during this.
Obsessed with the Queen's Gamebit? Got a new fascination with chess? He was obsessed too. Meet the chessboard killer.
She was kidnapped and placed in a coffin-like box for 23 hours a day for 7 years.
The kidnappers placed her under their water bed all day and only brought her out at night to torture her.
They made a sensory deprivation box outfitted for her head that they forced her to wear. It prevented light, sound, smell, and fresh air from entering. This episode is about couples who kidnap young women to fulfill their sick fantasies. It gets wild.
2 women were terrorized in the back of a yoga store at the time of closing.
2 men in black caught on security cameras.
The investigation comes to a sudden halt when the investigators realize nothing is as it seems.
All for some yoga pants.
An undiagnosable patient at a mental asylum has driven every single one of his doctors into madness and often times... to their mysterious death.
Is there something sinisterly wrong with him or is it a contagious madness?
Welcome to the Halloween special of Baking A Mystery! This is a fictional story and isn't true. As always, the video version is up on the YouTube channel "MissMangoButt"
If you are exclusively into true crime there will always be a new episode every Wednesday!
4 wealthy men isolate themselves on an island with 40 victims and spend 4 months torturing them with the most vile, sick torture.
This is the inspiration behind the prolific serial killer couple from the UK.
In an isolated mansion, a "gardener" is obsessed with his "butterfly" collection. His kidnapped victims must play into his sick fantasy or risk being killed.
Welcome to another Baking A Mystery (BAM) series! Today's video is a fictional story and is NOT a true crime story. If you guys are only interested in true crime stay tuned every Wednesday!
The visual version of this is up on YouTube under "MissMangoButt Baking A Mystery"
He blindfolds his victims, releases them out into the wilderness, gives them a head start... then he hunts them down with his hunting rifle.
Hunting is his favorite game and human are his favorite prey.
This is the story of the real-life Hunger Games serial killer.
She killed her husband then tried to feed his children dinner... that she cooked with his body parts.
He likes to cover people in bacon before roasting them.
In honor of Spooktober, today's episode is a long juicy one with two different killers who have completely different methods + motives... but a strange fascination with the forbidden meat. Whatever you do ... don't look in their oven.
Peepholes installed for his viewing pleasure.
Chains from the ceiling to suspend the victims.
Baby monitors placed strategically so he could hear her from anywhere.
Shallow graves in the basement, garage, and backyard.
We are starting off Spooktober with the Real House of Horrors. This is one house you would never want to step foot in. Nobody is safe. Especially the children.
And she only has 15 hours to figure out which one of them is the killer. It's only a matter of time before the killer realizes that she's onto them.
Baking A Mystery #3! This is a fictional story (if you are only into true crime please come back for our scheduled Wednesday postings!)
*If you would like to see the video version of this it is up on YouTube "MissMangoButt Baking A Mystery" there is a playlist where all of the visuals get posted! See you Wednesday!
A quadruple homicide
An adult film star (known for his spectacularly large "asset") at the center of the murder investigation
The police compared the brutality of the crime with that of the Manson murders... and it left everyone wondering... What actually happens in Wonderland?
He injected his victims in the skull with hydrochloric acid and sometimes boiling water - all because he wanted to create living zombies.
Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most twisted serial killers in history.
It's a real life nightmare guys. Get ready.
We've seen the movies Silence of the Lambs + Texas Chainsaw Massacre and went to bed thinking "at least it's just a movie."
But what if it wasn't? What if the person the movies were inspired by was darker, more sinister, and scarier than the movies themselves?
This is the real life story those movies are inspired by. He wears dead people's skin. Seriously.
3 girls from a dairy farm in Ohio go to Florida for their first ever vacation. It was going to be the trip of their dreams. Disney World. Beaches. Boat Rides. They documented everything on their camera.
Then they were found floating attached to concrete blocks in Tampa Bay. They had been dead for days. The investigators follow their entire itinerary to catch a potential serial killer on the loose.
He was a product of incest, born with "Dracula hands"...
He would then grow up to murder 4-year-old girls
Drink their blood
And take their hands home to roast and to consume..
She's an Agoraphobe that never leaves her house
Agoraphobic - an extreme/irrational fear of the outside
Through her window she witnesses her neighbor being murdered. But everyone around her including the police, her own family, and the neighbor's family all tell her that the neighbor she saw die NEVER even existed...
BAKING A MYSTERY #2 is a fictional minisode on the Rotten Mango
If you guys are just interested in true crime please watch out for a crazy story coming to you on Wednesday!
One of Russia's most infamous serial killers ever...
He has killed over 53 women and children... and it all started because he couldn't get a boner. You read that right.
His erectile dysfunction led him down a dark sinister path of murder.
The title is NOT a lie. This serial killer is into having sex with severed heads. For some reason he doesn't like it when the head is attached to the body.
One of the nastiest necrophiliacs I've researched.
*Necrophilia [noun] sexual intercourse with or attraction towards dead bodies
She gets a job at an apartment building.
Her boss gives her a list of strange rules to follow.
DON'T BE NOSY is one of them.
But she can't help but notice that everyone is going missing in this building.
Welcome to Baking A Mystery where I tell you guys the story of a mystery (fictional usually) that I've been thinking heavily about. This series started on my YouTube channel (MissMangoButt) and will be released here for the audio listeners! If you are interested in seeing me actually bake while telling this story the visuals will be on my YouTube!
If you are just here for the true crime and no fictional mysteries that I'm obsessing over - those episodes will still be up every single Wednesday!
Remote-controlled dildos
Russian mafia
Columbian drug cartels
A strip club named Porky's
and
The $35 million Russian military submarine that was about to be sold to transport 40 tons of cocaine right under the nose of the FBI.
I can't make this shit up.
A 19 year old girl goes missing
Two days later her abusive uncle “commits suicide”
Then police arrest 11 family members
Coincidence? Or was the family hiding something as dark as an incestuous sex ring run by an uncle who wanted everyone to “swap children.” Warning - this story is really dark and triggering.
On her stomach, she was branded with the words "I'm a prostitute and proud of it"
She was tortured by Coca-Cola bottles and knives for months..
This might ruin soda for you forever
He murdered a woman because he wanted to eat her bottom, breasts, and thighs. The police caught him but set him free.
The free man who happens to be a cannibal + murderer then turns in an ADULT FILM ACTOR.
THIS IS A WILD STORY.
I can't even write a summary without wanting to pull out my hair in confusion.
And guess what? He's a free man today.
Are you afraid of clowns? Most clowns when they take off their makeup and costumes they're just normal people. But today's case is about a clown... when he took off his makeup he was something scarier... a serial killer.
"Do you want to see a magic trick?" - it's about to get really creepy.
The decapitated head of a woman was found sewn into a giant Hello Kitty doll...
The rest of her body was missing.
A 14 year old girl claims to have been haunted by her ghost.
BUT IT GETS WEIRDER...
If you love Hello Kitty - this one might give you some nightmares.
Not your typical serial killer case... you have a genius Harvard graduated mathematician inside a tiny wooden shed in Montana making 16 different bombs to ship across the nation. He terrorized America for almost 20 years and caused one of the largest manhunts in FBI history....
Honestly the scary thing is he might have gotten away with it if it weren't for...
biss you better listen I'm not going to tell you in this box
One man wants to eat human flesh with a glass of wine. One man wants to have his "eggplant" bitten off and grilled. They end up going on a deadly date and filming the 4 hour long deed. They called it the "slaughtering."
Is it murder if the victim got off to it and wanted it?
Grab a plate of sausages and eggs and let's get cooking. I'm kidding. Just bring the sausages.
The darkest case I have ever covered
44 days of the sickest torture... there's burning alive... and fireworks involved? It get's really dark.
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