What Scares You?
With shows like The Bachelor and Love is Blind, reality TV dating has never been more popular. Shows like these all date back to the very first dating show, The Dating Game, which premiered in 1965. After 13 years on the air, The Dating Game had their most controversial contestant ever – Rodney Alcala. A contestant who was later convicted of sex crimes as well as murder.
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Victim blaming is the act of saying, implying, or treating a person who has experienced harmful or abusive behavior like it was a result of something they did or said, rather than placing the responsibility on the perpetrator, or person who did the harm. The most blatant example would be blaming a rape victim for causing the other person to commit the crime – it was their clothes, or behavior. It was their fault for putting themselves in the situation to begin with. That last example is exactly what happened to Sandra Cheskey.
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Bobby Joe Long smiled, “Well, I guess you got me good … Yes, I killed them … All the ones in the paper. I did them all.”
For a working woman, every day is a risk, but you take it anyway. You go to the home of your latest client. Nothing seems out of sorts; you have sex, and while you wait for him to bring you money, you start to get dressed. What you don’t know, is this man wants more than just sex. This was a reality for Josefina Rivera (25), on November 25, 1986, the day she met Gary Heidnik.
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Imagine believing something so strongly, that not even facts, or mainstream religion can change what you, in your heart and mind, know to be true. For some, these beliefs can be harmless. For others, they can lead to kidnapping, polygamy, rape… Here’s the story of the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart.
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Imagine wanting something so bad, that when you decide to try and take it, you destroy it. That’s what happened in the case of William Neil and Fannie Gibbons.
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Halloween night, 1973, back when all the kids used to wait until dark to begin trick-or-treating, 9 year old Lisa Ann French was dressed as a hobo. Although she wanted to be a butterfly, her mom said no, stating it was going to be too cold outside. Little did it matter when Lisa only made it to three houses before meeting her end.
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On Christmas Eve, 2002, in Middletown Pennsylvania, Scott Wholaver, 28, drove his brother, Ernest Wholaver Jr., 42, to the home of his estranged wife and his 2 children. Ernest broke into the home and crept into the bedroom of Jean Wholaver, 43, and pulled out his .22 calibre pistol. He shot her in the head.
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