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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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#243: Itaewon Halloween Tragedy - 159 Dead & How The Police Tried To Cover It Up

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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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#361: NYC Top “Escort” Service Catering To Rich Married Men Turned Out To Be College S*x Cult

“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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#360: Dad Moves Into Daughter’s College Dorm & Starts A Cult On Campus

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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#359: 20 Police Officers Listened On The Phone As He Sliced Her Into 365 Pieces To Make Human Flesh Pills

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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#358: Netflix’s “3 Body Problem” New Show Leads To MURDER Of YOUNG BILLIONAIRE

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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#243: Itaewon Halloween Tragedy - 159 Dead & How The Police Tried To Cover It Up

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