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🕯️ Content note: This piece discusses homicide and systemic failure. Please take care while reading. On April 3, 1997, a 22-year-old college student named Cho Jung-pil walked into a Burger King in Itaewon, Seoul. He never walked out. Cho was stabbed to death in the restaurant’s bathroom — a sudden, violent act committed in a Read more
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We will be making three stops in Korea!!! Three cases. All out of South Korea 🇰🇷 💫L.W. Read more
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🌫️ Summary On the night of November 14, 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk went to the Craigflower Bridge in Saanich, British Columbia, believing she was finally being included by a group of peers. Instead, she was brutally attacked by classmates who had been bullying her for months. Reena never came home. Her body was discovered eight Read more
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🌃 Summary In the summer of 2000, Lucie Blackman was a bright and adventurous 21-year-old from England. She traveled to Tokyo, Japan in search of independence. She also sought new experiences. To support herself, she took a job as a hostess in the nightlife district of Roppongi. The role focused on conversation, charm, and serving Read more
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🌹 Summary Between 1968 and 1985, couples parked in the quiet hills outside Florence, Italy, began turning up dead — murdered while seeking privacy in the moonlight. The killer, or killers, became known as “Il Mostro di Firenze” — The Monster of Florence. For nearly two decades, the Monster terrorized Tuscany, claiming at least 16 Read more
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⚖️ Summary For years, Thabo Bester was known as the “Facebook Rapist” — a South African conman who lured women online with fake modeling and business offers, then assaulted and extorted them. In 2012, he was sentenced to life in prison. But in 2022, a fire broke out in his cell at the Mangaung Correctional Read more
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⚰️ Summary Singapore is an island nation known for its order and safety. In 1981, a disturbing crime shook the country. It was one of the most unsettling in its history. Adrian Lim, a self-styled spiritual medium, along with two female accomplices, Catherine Tan and Hoe Kum Yin, lured and murdered two children in what Read more
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🖤 Summary Sophie Toscan du Plantier was born on July 28, 1957, in Paris, France. A French television producer and intellectual, Sophie lived a life balanced between glamour and solitude. At the time of her death, she was married to Daniel Toscan du Plantier, a renowned film producer. She also had a teenage son, Pierre-Louis Read more
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🩸 Short n Sweet: The Nahir Galarza Case (Argentina) Summary: What Happened? 🥀 Argentina’s youngest woman sentenced to life in prison — explore the Nahir Galarza case, where love, jealousy, and media obsession collide. In December 2017, a small town in Argentina was shaken when 19-year-old law student Nahir Galarza shot her boyfriend Fernando Pastorizzo. Read more
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