Rotten Mango

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

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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. 

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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? 

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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. 

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