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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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🌹 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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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Danny Casolaro (left) and his son, Trey (right) On August 10, 1991, journalist Joseph Daniel “Danny” Casolaro was found dead. His body was discovered in the bathroom of Room 517 at the Sheraton Inn Read more
