It was the summer of 1979. The last vestiges of the 1970s were set to expire and welcome in the rip and roar era of the 80s.  This chapter takes place in Torrance, California, a coastal town where the air smells faintly of salt and sun-baked asphalt.  The streets glow soft orange beneath the high pressure sodium streetlights.

Sixteen-year-old Lucinda Lynn Schaefer walks those streets often, the kind of girl who never seems out of place anywhere.  Her friends call her Cindy. Blonde hair, bright blue eyes, always with a book tucked under her arm or a quick smile ready to disarm a stranger.

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No credits this week because I didn't want to delay this episode any longer.
For their plan to work, Larry Bittaker knew they couldn’t rely on just any car. They needed something bigger… something that could trap a victim inside. In February of 1979, with money from Norris, he bought it—a silver-gray 1977 GMC Vandura.

The van was windowless on one side, with a sliding door large enough to swallow someone whole. Bittaker later admitted that when he first saw that door, he knew. They could pull up close to a girl, slide it open, and drag her inside without anyone noticing.

The pair gave the vehicle a name. To them, it wasn’t just a van. It was their “Murder Mac.”

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Two men are locked inside the California Men’s Colony — a medium-security state prison tucked away in the rolling hills of San Luis Obispo.

It wasn’t a fortress like San Quentin.

It didn’t house the state’s most violent criminals.

And its reputation was far from what you’d expect of a place that would soon become a breeding ground for one of the most sadistic criminal partnerships in modern history.

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BABY-DOLL-BEATZ
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Two men. Five girls. One summer of calculated, incomprehensible cruelty.

This is the story of The Toobox Killers. (If you think you already know this story you might be surprised.)

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In the suburbs of Long Island, behind the quiet streets and manicured lawns, something dark was festering. Joel Rifkin, a man with a soft voice, thinning hair, and a passion for gardening, harbored a secret—one that would horrify the nation.

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(00:00:00) Unsportsmanlike Conduct

(00:00:19) chapter 1

(00:04:38) chapter 2

(00:13:07) chapter 3

Three tales of rage and ruin in the sports world.

Chapter 1 = The Gruesome Death of Otavio da Silva
Chapter 2 = Bruiser Brody
Chapter 3 = Snook

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Eighteen-year-old Becky Thomson Brown grabbed her keys and asked her 11-year-old half-sister, Amy Burridge, if she wanted to come along for a quick grocery run.

It was a trip that would ultimately change both of their lives forever.

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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-23-mn-7229-story.html

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On the quiet morning of April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City stirred awake like any other spring day—cloudless, bright, and filled with the mundane rhythms of a midwestern weekday.

Office workers filed into the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building downtown, parents dropped children off at daycare, and streets buzzed with the easy calm of routine.

No one could have known that the next few minutes would etch themselves into the darkest chapters of American history.

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A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995 
Released 2011
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It started like any ordinary Saturday morning in southern Israel. Families were still waking up. Children played. There was a music festival in the desert—people dancing under the early sun.
But just after dawn… a sound tore through the calm.

These are three stories from Kibbutz Be'eri taking place on October 7th.

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