In a small rural community in Illinois, Julie Rae and her son Joel were sleeping in their home when Julie was awoken by a scream. She dashed out of bed to find an intruder wearing a ski mask. She tried to chase him down, assuming he was kidnapping Joel, but the man knocked her on the ground, beat her head while she was down, and walked off into the night. When police arrived on the scene, Julie learned that things were much worse than she originally believed, and she was their number one suspect.

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Auburn Calloway, a flight engineer for Fed Ex, boarded cargo flight number 705 with a guitar case and a sinister plan. Shortly after the flight stabilized at a cruising altitude, Calloway put his plan into action. He attacked the flight crew, sparking an intense fight to survive, thousands of feet above the ground. The tactics the crew used to gain the upper hand, pushed their bodies and the aircraft to their absolute limit.

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Gabby McKenzie was only 16 years old when she met 20 year old Andy Wilson. At first everything with him was great, the two had  started dating and soon enough, had moved in together. But things changed when Gabby got pregnant. Andy became extremely possessive and violent. Gabby got up the strength to leave him, but he told her if she ever found a new boyfriend, he'd kill the guy. And he meant it.

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Jim Holly and Jens Lundy wanted to get closer to both of their fathers, and decided to plan a joint fishing trip to Mexico.  However, instead of taking a commercial flight, Jim would fly all of them down in his own plane. The flight went well until they got over the Gulf of Mexico, where there was an unexpected storm system. Jim decided to fly through it, thinking it was small enough to power through., but the storm never let up. Jim pulled the plane up to get above the storm, and just a few moments after breaking free, the plane's engine failed. Jim and Jens were about to have a bonding experience with their fathers in a way they never expected.

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19-year-old Jennifer Asbensen desperately needed a ride to work after missing the bus one evening in September of 1992. When a seemingly kind stranger pulled up and offered one, Jennifer hesitated, but ultimately decided to get into the car to avoid being late and losing her job. However Jennifer was about to be abducted, tortured and almost killed in a remote desert by one of America’s most prolific serial killers.

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We start off part 2 where we left off, at the beginning of what was the longest shootout in LAPD history. The SLA are cornered, and Patty is still at large with Bill and Emily Harris. Unsurprisingly, the shooutout does not end well for the SLA, but Bill, Emily, and Patty continue to escape capture for over a year after this. This party crosses state lines, and by party I mean domestic terrorism. It culminates in their most grotesque forms of "activism" with a new cast of characters. Will anyone be held accountable? Unfortunately money talks quite loudly.

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Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of media magnate William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a revolutionary marxist "army". She was used in order to force her family to donate food to those in need. It was a story like no other at the time, and to make it even more sensational, Patty seemed to begin taking the side of her captors? This story continues to not make sense to us.

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Let's talk about some amazing animals that saved people's lives! We love these. 

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Three masked men broke into the home of a man named Michael and demanded a million dollars they believed Michael had. They threw Michael and his roommate Mary Barnes into the back of a van and drove out into the desert where they were convinced Michael had buried this money. But when they didn't get what they wanted, these psychotic men tortured Michael and left the two of them for dead. Once police got involved, the case took so many twists and turns that this story should really be turned into a Netflix series.