It's a listener request this week! Holly Bobo was a beautiful 20 year old who had her entire life ahead of her when she was approached by a man in her driveway and lead into the woods, never to be seen alive again. Who would want to hurt Holly? And better question, why would anyone want to hurt her? Meg takes us through this heartbreaking case and the events that followed.

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Andy Castillo was arrested in January 2020 on charges of cyber stalking realtors. When over 100 realtors reported that they had been receiving harassing text messages along with pictures of their children that had been taken from social media. What investigators didn't expect was a DNA sample that would unlock the mystery of a pair of 17 year old cold cases.

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School shootings are a very real part of our existence in the US and they leave the communities they occur in reeling. Meg takes you through a shooting in Pennsylvania, detailing what happened when Charles Roberts entered the West Nickel Mines Amish School, murdered 5 students, wounded 5 others, then turned his gun on himself. 

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The UK was rocked in 1993 when two year old James Bulger was lured away from his mother while shopping at the Strand Shopping Center. It wasn't just the brutality of the crime that shocked the country, it was the fact that the suspects in the case were ten years old. Coni takes you through one of the the most difficult cases we have covered.

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In every Psychology 101 textbook, the case of Kitty Genovese is referenced when discussing the bystander effect– the idea that people won’t help a victim if other people are around. Meg takes you through the murder of Kitty and the several other atrocities that Winston Moseley committed during his crime spree in the 1960’s. 

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Coni takes you through a tale that we've seen too many times -- a man ruined by neglectful parents and a broken system. A serial killer with genuine remorse and a desire to remained incarcerated? It almost sounds too crazy to be true. David Edward Maust is an anomaly in the serial killer world who had Coni feeling something she usually doesn't feel when researching serial killers in addition to her disdain.

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Meg takes your through a classic love triangle gone wrong. Did Edythe Klumpp murder the estranged wife of her boyfriend, Bill Bergen? Did Louise Bergen point a gun at Edythe? Why is Bill the worst? Answers to all of these questions in this episode!

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40.3 million victims: that's the number of human trafficking victims worldwide in 2021. On the heels of the most trafficked event in the United States, the Super Bowl, Coni covers the difficult topic of human trafficking by reading survivors stories in their own words.

Source Material:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/human-trafficking-nena/554846/

https://www.ijm.org/stories/kashi

https://ag.nv.gov/Human_Trafficking/HT_Signs/

https://ourrescue.org/blog/6-forms-of-human-trafficking-exploitation-and-how-o-u-r-fights-to-end-each-one/

https://exoduscry.com/blog/shiftingculture/a-survivor-of-teen-porn-trafficking-speaks-out-on-pornhub/

Human Trafficking Resources:

Domestic Violence: National Domestic Violence Hotline, 24 hour Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

Missing Children and Child Pornography: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 24 hour Hotline: 1-800-THE-LOST (843-5678)

Sexual Abuse: Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN), 24 hour Hotline: 1-800-656-4673

Text the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 233733

Contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline Web Chat via www.humantraffickinghotline.org/chat

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After a life of crime, Ahmad Suradji decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a dukun, another name for an Indonesian shaman. But over the course of a decade more than 80 women disappear from the small village where Ahmad was practicing black magic... What did the sorcerer do? 

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Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate started as love crossed teenage lovers and ended as two of the most notorious murderers in Nebraska's history. Coni takes you through the 11 murders that rocked the Midwest state. Was Caril an innocent bystander who stuck by Charles's side out of fear for her life? Or was she as trigger happy as he was? 

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