Grand Rapids is the economic and cultural hub of West Michigan. It is part of Michigan’s Bible Belt, has a strong education system, a well-established economy from manufacturing furniture, is a clean city with very little unemployment and quite a low crime rate.

Alpine Manor was a large nursing home in Grand Rapids which looked after around 200 elderly patients. It wasn’t a retirement home but more of a nursing home for people who had Alzheimer’s or were terminally ill. The very nature of such a nursing home taking care of unwell elderly patients meant a higher-than-average death rate.

The death rate was about to get higher...

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Located about 170 miles north of London, Leeds is the largest city in West Yorkshire and is the cultural, financial and commercial heart of the county. As with all major cities in the UK, Leeds is very LGBT+ inclusive and there are many LGBT+ events throughout the year including the Leeds Queer Film Festival, the Leeds LGBT Literature Festival and Leeds Pride. It's a warm and welcoming city ... but it has a dark past.

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North Wales is known for its rugged beauty. With the Irish sea to the left and north, this stretch of coastline is, in parts, breath-taking but it also holds a sinister past which is breath-taking for different reasons. 

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New Orleans is a city in Louisiana on the Mississippi River. It's known for its parties, festivals and masquerade balls and has always had a reputation as being a place to have a good time. In the 1970s, it became known as the unofficial queer capital of the south. This doesn't mean that queer people were accepted...

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