Rotten Mango

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. 

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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?

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“To Catch A Predator” steps:

1. Hire an adult decoy to lurk on websites advertising themselves as 13 year olds looking for a middle aged companion.
2. Invite the adult predator to a house that has been wired for audio and video recording.
3. Have the host of the famous TV show pop out to ask the predator questions and arrest them on the way out.

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. 

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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?

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“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. 

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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?

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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?

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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” 

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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?

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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 

1. Have I ever been asked out or confessed to? (Joke confessions do not count) 
2. Do a lot of men try to talk to me even though I don’t talk to them first?
3. Have I ever looked into the mirror and resented my parents?
4. Can other people recognize me without makeup?
5. Do I weigh more than 145 pounds?
6. Do I frequent feminist online forums?
7. When I walk on the street, do children avoid me?

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.

Book: “Dead In The Water” - by Penny Farmer

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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.

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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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It’s the crack era. The most violent time in New York City history. The NYPD is fighting a losing battle and instead of protecting the city from drug dealers, some police officers have become them. The Set is the never-before told, first-person documentary of the biggest police corruption scandal in NYPD history and the investigation that uncovered it all. From Audacy Originals and Zak Levitt, the Emmy, Peabody, and NY Press Club Investigative Journalism Award winning creator of Root of Evil, Gangster Capitalism, and Relative Unknown.

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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GoFundMe for victim’s family: https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-justice-for-christian-toby-obumseli

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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https://www.thorn.org

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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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RM VIDEO PODS HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XXanI2UPYY

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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