Rotten Mango

Middle schooler Alice got off the train with excitement bubbling in her chest. She was meeting 17-year-old Peter for the first time.

She had no idea that she would be ambushed by Peter and his friends, dragged to a local motel where she would be gang r*ped by more than 40 high school boys. They filmed the entire thing.

Her torture would last a year.

The boys blackmailed her into coming back for more assaults. Just when she thought the nightmare was over - the police kept asking her “why did you go back unless you liked it?”

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They say Lake Erie is haunted. That’s where the “Lady of the Lake” lives. The bizarre pieces of the puzzle started to come together.

A 14-year-old girl came out of the lake screaming, she claimed she saw a hand waving to her at the bottom of the lake. A few fishermen pulled up their line to find it tangled with a chunk of blonde hair. Human hair.

A ferry operator claimed to see a suspicious bobbing object in the water. He said it looked like a head.

What was going on? Why were body parts washing ashore?

The dismembered “Lady of the Lake” turned out to be the first victim of the still free “Cleveland Butcher” serial killer.

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Someone was out to get the Allanson family. That much was clear. Someone was targeting 3 generations of the family. But who?

The Allanson’s started experiencing off-putting things as if they were being stalked. One family member was in her yard when she saw a man standing there. Watching her. Sleeves rolled up. Pants down - exposing his private parts. She ran inside.

Another family member found sugar dumped into the gas tank of his car. Another member reached into her fridge and pulled out a funky jar of milk. Someone had snuck in and put formaldehyde into the milk.

Whoever wanted them dead - would stop at nothing. 2 would be dead. Another 2 nearly dead.

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It was supposed to be a place of growth, learning, and happy laughter filling the yards. It was a place where people were supposed to feel safe.

But in the parking lot of the elementary school, under a suspicious white van, there was a woman lying nude. Murdered.

The police had the killers in the back of the cop car… they could see one of them looking at the victim. His lips curled up into a small smile.

He was happy with what he had done. He wanted to do this for a while. He told his accomplice - “hey at least I’m not a virgin anymore." They high-fived.

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He ran an anti-abduction training program called “Project Taken.” He would teach young girls how not to get kidnapped.

He was not someone to mess around. Ex-military man. Specialist in kidnapping prevention. International hostage negotiator. He did it all.

Well, nobody expected he would find himself wrapped up in one of the strangest, most bizarre kidnapping cases in all of true crime history. The kidnapping of Sherri Papini.

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The authorities burst into the room and their jaws dropped. The entire room was completely white. Even the books on the shelves were bound in white leather.

But the most shocking was the pure white bed in the middle of the room surrounded by an arc of chairs. As if people sat around the bed like it was some sort of show.

Which they did. Authorities found audio recordings of middle-aged men assaulting underage girls while their friends watched. Some victims are as young as 12. There are hundreds if not thousands of victims.

What kind of monsters would do such a thing?

Book Rec: “The Witness Wore Red” - by Rebecca Musser

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Pam was a normal housewife, she had a nice husband, and a job in the insurance industry. Everything about her was normal.

Except, the dead body in her hallway.

She had been ambushed in her own home and shot her attacker.

When the police arrive they find the attacker had no ID, but a bizarre note in his pocket, it was detailed instructions on how to kidnap and murder Pam.

“Make sure the knife is sticking out of her neck. Make it look like Russ’s wife.” The police were shocked. Russ’s wife had recently been murdered and the killer left a knife lodged in her neck.

Was someone targeting the housewives of Missouri?

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The Burning Sun scandal exposed some of the most beloved K-pop idols to be depraved predators. The Burning Sun was a popular club.

The type of club where rich men ruled. If you wanted a rare bottle of champagne. They would get it. If you wanted the club to stay open an extra hour. They would do it.

If you wanted the bartenders to roofie a random girl’s drink so that you could have her escorted into your private room to assault… they would do it.

The Burning Sun exposed a lot - it would even take down one of the richest women in Korea. The Milk Princess.

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The woman leaped to her death - plunging her body into the cold water of the river. She left a note that said “to my devil husband, I can only commit suicide to expose your crime and to tell the world about my helplessness.”

It shocked the nation. She had been married to one of the richest, most powerful men in the nation. What did he do?

And how does that connect to the haunting last picture of a woman that lives 7,168 miles away? The one that vanished after a suspicious taxi ride. Her driver even took a haunting last picture of her before she was killed. How are these two women connected?

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He emerged from the thick jungle for the first time in a long time.

He had been waiting for this moment for years. The day World War II would come to an end. He would be relieved from his duties and Japan glorious in their victory!

Onoda held his breath while his commander read his release. Onoda waited for further orders but there were none. Just a tub of face cream.

“What’s this for?” - asked Onoda.

“You’re going to need it. For all the interviews… Onoda, the war ended 29 years ago. We’ve been looking for you. The world will want to know what on earth did you do in the jungle for the past 29 years? How did you even survive? And how many did you kill?”

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