What Scares You?
Imagine being out with your fiancé for an evening at the bar. On your way home, you encounter another vehicle in a road rage incident. It’s dark, the car is racing up behind you, lights flashing, swerving in and out of their lane. Eventually they force you to stop. When your fiancé gets out, he is brutally murdered. That’s what Tracie Andrews claims happened. It must be true, right?
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Imagine this, you take a trip to California for a cheerleading competition. The next day, you, your mother, and a friend book a room in a hotel near the entrance to a national park. That night, someone comes knocking on your door, and the unimaginable happens. Cary Stayner is there with his toolbox, and inside is a rope that he will use to strangle your mother before killing your friend and kidnapping you.
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From October 1977 to February 1978, the Hillside Strangler terrorized Los Angeles California. Raking up a body count of 10 women and girls, police knew there was more to this serial killer than what they were seeing. In fact, they would later come to discover that there was not 1, but 2 killers, working together.
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Parents have a lot to think about when naming their new baby. What does a name mean? Do you want to honor a relative by using theirs? What are potential nicknames? Some parents like to get cutesy and creative, and use alliteration in their childs’ names. This can be seen in some celebrities, like Amy Adams, Steven Spielberg, and Marilyn Monroe. For three little girls in Rochester New York, that name alliteration was a death sentence. They will forever be remembered as victims of the Alphabet Murders.
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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept through the coastal areas of the Gulf Coast states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, USA. One of the hardest locations hit was the city of New Orleans in Louisiana. Labeled a Category 5 storm, Winds In New Orleans gusted over 100mpg (160km/h). In total, the storm killed over 1,800 people and damaged or destroyed 275,000 homes. Addie Hall survived Katrina, but would only live to see one more birthday.
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It’s time to go home after a long night at work. You get on your bike and start the ride home. You’re happy, life is good. The night is peaceful, you even ride by a beautiful church. You notice that there’s a single car in the parking lot. It strikes you as odd, but you keep on riding. When you chance a glance back, that’s it, that’s the end – or is it? You are Lisa McVey, and this is her story of how she escaped the Classified Rapist.
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Kitten videos. Everyone loves a good Kitten video. Imagine going online and clicking on one such kitten video, only to find an act so atrocious it would spawn an entire group to become internet sleuths, helping police to track down a killer. Sounds like the plot of a bad “B” movie, right? What if I told you that it really happened, and is even documented in a popular Netflix documentary? What if I told you the killer was a male model, named Luka Magnotta?
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What do you think of when you hear “mashed potatoes”? Is it that warm, buttery, delicious potato that goes great with gravy and chicken, or even steak? Do you think of home-cooked family dinners? I’m sure one thing you don’t think of is the Mashed Potato Murder. So when 33-year-old Alois Rez was given mashed potatoes to eat, he didn’t think twice.
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You have to ask yourself, is it better to be kidnapped and forced into prostitution and sex slavery, or is it better to die? And sometimes, “is there even a choice?” As far as Hamida Djandoubi was concerned, he was in charge, and it was best to just do what he said.
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In America, a child is sexually assaulted every 9 minutes. According to RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), approximately 63,000 children are victims of sex abuse every year. Of those, only about 29% of cases result in an arrest. In Brazil, in 2019, 17,000 cases of sexual violence against children and adolescents were registered. For 10-year-old Gabrielly Magalhães, as soon as she reported her abuse to her mother, she was doomed.
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