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In the Summer of 2011, in a small town in Southern Ohio, a weird craigslist ad was posted. The ad was posted by a man named Jack who was looking for an older man, single, and willing to move onto his property for a few months to keep up with the maintenance of his land and animals. The ad even stated %E2%80%9CIt%E2%80%99ll feel like a vacation if you enjoy nature and country life.%E2%80%9D while also including you would get paid weekly for your services. This ad sounded like a dream come true, getting to enjoy the slow country life and tending to the farm while getting paid to do it. This ad would receive hundreds of replies from applicants interested in the position. But what these applicants didn't know was that the person on the other side of the screen, was a serial killer.
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Bianca Edmunds grew up getting everything she wanted. She was a master manipulator and could trick any guy into doing whatever she wanted and wiggled her way out of any trouble she was in. At 27 years-old, Bianca would meet a man, 25 year-old Michael Caposiena. The two quickly fell in love, moved in together, got engaged and expected their first child all in the first year of meeting. However, Bianca would start to show her true colors and became very manipulative, controlling, and abusive. Micheal decided to leave Bianca and no longer responded to her manipulative tactics and called her out when she was doing them. Bianca pretended to be over Micheal by dating a new man, 42 year-old Glenn Casidy, another man Bianca was able to control and manipulate. But Bianca still resented Micheal because he was the first to ever walk away from her and her mind games no longer worked on him. This lack of power made Bianca furious and only grew more angry when Micheal was able to gain visitation of their son, Lucca. But on March 12, 2016, all that would change when Micheal and his girlfriend were at home watching tv and heard a knock at the door. Micheal peeked outside and was met with Glenn at his porch, holding a gun.
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Bart and Krista Halderson were living a quiet life in Windsor, Wisconsin. They had a beautiful home and were the proud parents of two sons. Mitchell, 24, worked in tech and was engaged to be married. Chandler, 23, was attending Madison College studying for an IT degree and had a job lined up at SpaceX. But on July 2, Krista did not show up for work and her coworkers began to worry. They tried calling Krista, but there was no response. On July 7th, Chandler reported his parents missing to the local police telling detectives his mom and dad were picked up and driven to a cabin by a couple he didn't know on July 1st. But police would later find out the parents had never gone to the cabin that weekend. And slowly the world of lies Chandler had been creating for years started to unravel. From creating fake college administration email accounts to email his dad to pretend he was still in college, all the way to faking an apartment in florida and a job at spacex. All this would be brought to the parents attention, the day before they were never seen again. All Chandler's life he was able to lie and cheat to get out of accountability, but how far could his lying and cheating get him when faced with 2 counts of murder?
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High school for most is either the best years of your life or the worst years of your life. High school and teens years are usually a time for self discovery trying to figure out who you are you want to be, and the people you want to surround yourself with. And in 2012 a group of three girls named Skylar, Rachel and Sheila were no different. The three were a trio that everyone wanted to be a part of. They were the party girls that did things like smoked drinked and skip class. But that would all change one day when Rachel and Sheila started hanging out more and more and began excluding Skylar from the friend group. And although Skylar began distancing herself from the girls as well, distancing wasn't enough because Skylar knew secrets about Sheila and Rachel that they knew no one else at school should know. So instead of going their separate ways, sheila and rachel would team up to conspire against skylar and do the unthinking when On july 6th, 2012 skylar neese would go missing in her home in star city west virginia
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Beggs, Oklahoma was described to be a very small and quiet town. With a population of 1300 everyone knew everyone and even the town itself was made up of only a couple gas stations, a couple grocery stores and a high school. But in September of 2019 police would receive a call from a neighbor claiming they believe their neighbor%E2%80%99s house had been broken into after going over to their home and discovering their front door had been kicked in. And when police arrive at the scene they would discover the triple homicide of a family of 3. This murder brought a huge shock to the town, a lot of panic, pointing fingers and distrust among the community. In a town where everyone knew everyone, how WELL did everyone know everyone?
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Daniel Wozniack was a die hard theater kid. He grew up in acting classes, doing theater for school and even going to college and majored in acting. His whole life had been on big performance and in 2010 he was engaged to a fellow actress and was planning to be married soon. But unfortunately Daniel's acting career never took off as he had hoped, he started working as an actor for a local theater but it wasn't enough. Bills were piling, the wedding was approaching and an eviction notice was on his door. That is until 26 year-old Sam Herr moves in next door, an afghanistan veteran with over $62,000 saved up in the bank. Daniel and Sam would become best friends until one day Sam%E2%80%99s girlfriend was found murdered in his apartment and Sam was nowhere to be found. As police search for Sam, they discover thousands of dollars being withdrawn from his account. But when the police pull up CCTV of the atm, they would be shocked to see that the person pulling all this money out, wasn't Sam.
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Have you ever had the feeling like you're being watched? Like when you go to the bathroom at night and you feel like someones behind you so you start speed walking. Or if its dark outside and you look out the window and think “what if I look out there and I see a person staring at me?” Now this may just be me because I watch a lot of true crime but if you’ve ever seen the movie “The Strangers”, its about a family being stalked by a group of masked people that one day break into the home to torture the family. And in Strongsville, Ohio the Pleskovic family was going through the same thing. For an entire year the family had placed police reports and complaints of a group of people terrorizing and harassing the family. Such as stealing from their cars, breaking into the backyard and stare at them from afar, and even stealing their car keys to automatic start their cars and pull their alarms in the middle of the night. And in October of 2017, the mother of the family Melinda Pleskovic was brutally shot and stabbed over 35 times in her own kitchen. Police assumed the masked culprits terrorizing the family had done this. But little did police know, the culprit of all this harassment and the Melindas murder, would be living in their own home.
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One of my favorite things to search on youtube are ring doorbell footage videos. Like creepy footage of ring doorbell cameras or like creepy things caught on baby monitors. Now most of these videos always end up being harmless, just a bit scary. But in 2007 when a man named Edward in the Czech republic was setting up his baby monitor for his newborn son, he would find something horrific. When flipping through the signal channels trying to connect his baby monitor screen to the camera he accidentally connected to another baby monitor nearby. Only this footage showed a little boy sitting in the middle of a dark basement with his hands bound and kicking around a roll of tape.
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In the past few years, self-care and mental health have become a big focal point of discussion. We’ve become so comfortable discussing personal things going on and also stressing the importance of taking care of your mental health. And especially on social media there are many corners of the internet where you can find influencers that discuss those very topics. One of those people was a 30-year-old named Kat Torres. Kat started out speaking on mental health and self-care until later, her beliefs started to become a bit twisted. She claimed to have a gift she called “the voice,” which was an all-knowing voice that could predict the future that only she could hear. This attracted many people, including many women coming from broken situations, and many years into Kats practice, she would actually ask her top followers to come out to the States and live with her. But what these women didn't know is that they wouldn’t be walking into a self-improvement retreat but instead a human trafficking ring.
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Mahek Bukhari was a a 24 year-old tin-top influencer from the UK. On Mahek’s tin Tok she would often post just normal content like dancing trends, grwms, lip syncing and even the occasional video with her mom. The videos with her mom went the most viral because her mother 44 year-old Ansreen looked good for her age. The comments would be flooded with things like “Can your dad fight” and “yall look like sisters omg”. This far led Ansreen to start her own instagram and gain thousands of followers, being invited to events, parties, being sent PR. And over instagram is when Ansreen would later meet and have a 2 year affair with 18 y/o, Sakib Hussain. Sakib would come over to Ansreens home when he husband wasn’t there and engage in sexual acts. Until December of 2021 when Ansreen decided to put her foot down and say goodbye to Sakib. She said she wanted nothing to do with him and how this whole thing was a huge mistake. Things went quiet after this text and it gave Ansreen a sigh of relief. But Sakib would reply with multiple photos and videos of him and Ansreen engaging in sexual acts in her home and threatened to release all of it to her family and tik Tok fans if she left him. Ansreen loved all of the luxuries she was getting on her social media, but how far would Ansreen go to keep it from all crumbling?
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In July of 2023, 29 year old Runa Tamura would be having a fun night out at the club. She was dancing and feeling the music while she talked and was kissing with a man she met there, 62 year-old Hitoshi Ura. At the end of the night, the two decided to get a love motel room not too far away. Runas father, 60 year old Osamu Tamura, had actually tagged along with Runa at the club where he’s seen on security footage the whole time, watching Runa as she danced and kissed on Hitoshi. Osamu would later drive and drop off Runa and Hitoshi at the love motel where they booked a room for a couple hours at 10:50pm. At 2am, Runa is seen leaving the motel but in unusual clothing. At first she was wearing jeans and a turtleneck with her natural black hair and glasses. But as she left, she was seen wearing all black with a blonde wig and a black fedora while rolling a suitcase beside her. And although the footage caught Runa leaving the motel in her odd choice of clothing. What the camera didn’t see, was what was inside of the suitcase. And inside, was the decapitated head of Hitoshi, and back in the motel, staff would later find Hitoshi’s body in the motel room’s bathtub naked. headless, and stabbed to death. This story follows the dark and twisted minds of the Tamura family and how Runa was able to manipulate her parents in helping her commit a brutal and ruthless crime
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Sam Greenberg grew up in a wealthy family. But although the was very well off himself, he was able to work hard for himself and had secured a job with NBC for 7 years and worked as a journalist for golf.com. And in college is when Sam would meet his future girlfriend and soon to be wife Ellen Greenberg. Ellen was described as the light of every room. She had a contagious smile and would make anyone feel warm and loved in her presence. But unfortunately that light would be cut short when on January 26th, 2011 when Ellen would be found dead with 20 stab wounds in the apartment she shared with Sam. Money can buy a lot of things, but could money buy sams way out of murder?
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In January 2016, 21 year-old Narumi Kurosaki, ex-girlfriend of 26 year-old Nicholas Zepta was exchanging messages discussing their relationship. The couple had recently had a messy break up because Narumi Narumi had just gotten accepted into an elite college in France on a scholarship and had to leave Tokyo Japan, where her and Nicholas were living. Narumi wanted to go out there and see what else life had to offer and tried to break it off with Nicholas. But unfortunately, Nicholas didn’t take no for an answer. Nicholas would go on to send over 1000 messages to Narumi telling her she must obey his “conditions” in the relationship or else he's gonna break up with her, although they were already broken up and Narumi was currently moved on and in another relationship. Nicholas would even go on his daily motion account to post a video of him saying how Narumi had recently done some bad things to him that she was pay for. And gave her 2 weeks to obey his “conditions” before she would feel the “effects”. Narumi ignored all of Nik’s messages until one day as she was walking home from her school in France, she noticed in the distance, Nicholas was getting out of a car and walking right towards her.
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Alexee Trevizo was an 19 y/o girl from New Mexico and lived with her mom, step dad and sister. Alexee was a senior in HS and was described as sort of an it girl. She was pretty, she was skinny, she was on the schools cheer team and was dating a man name Deyvn that played on the schools football team. Alexee also had tons of friends and seemed well-liked. And on Jan. 26th 2023, Alexee would wake up her mom at 11:30pm complaining of back problems. This wasn’t unusual because Alexee has had back problems since she was a kid, but on this night the back pain was so severe she asked her mom to drive her to the ER. At the hospital, Alexee would be asked if she was pregnant to which she said no because she was a virgin. But doctors took a test anyway to be safe and later on that night, Alexee’s test came back positive. And before doctors could tell her, Alexee was no where to be found. Alexee had spent 17 minutes in the hospital bathroom and upon coming out, nurses would be traumatized when they saw blood smeared and splattered all over the walls, the floors and the toilet. And in the trash bin, nurses would find a full term 9 month baby, lying cold and blue wrapped in a trash bag. This story is about the evil and selfish nature of Alexee Trevizo and her even more selfish and evil mother. And how Alexee may have even gotten away with it.
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The children's book “Are you with me” was a book published on March 7th 2023, written by Kouri Richins. The 42-page book talks to specifically children who have lost loved ones and how to cope with it.
Now at first glance, this book looks perfect for children struggling with grief. Kids who experience death should learn how to cope with the pain in healthy ways and a book like this would be a perfect way to help. But the backstory on how and why this book was created is way darker than what meets the surface. The author, Kouri Richins, had murdered her husband Eric, whom she shared 3 young boys with a year prior. And shortly after murdering her husband she decided to write a book about grief for her kids to cope with their dead father, that she murdered. This story is about an evil woman named Kouri Richins who nearly got away with her crimes for a whole year before being caught. And police would later find that not only was the motive for her crimes narsscistic and selfish, but this hadn’t even been the first, nor the second time, Kouri tried murdering Eric.
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On January 14th 2014, Nathan Maddox and his wife Crystal Maddox were walking into a Saturday service with Nathans 5 year-old daughter Maddie, at the Mt. Caramel baptist church. This specific day was going to be Nathans last supervised visitation visit with his daughter Maddie. For the past few years there had been a brutal and messy custody battle between Nathan and his ex-wife Kristen Westfall. Kristen had tried taking Maddie away from Nathan multiple times even though Kristen was proven time and time again to not be mentally fit to be a mother. Kristen enjoyed being in control of Nathan and so when Nathan and Crystal had raised enough money for good lawyers and won visitation rights, this sent Kristen into a rage. And on January 14th, 2014 as Nathan and Crystal were walking out of church service, both were shot dead in the parking lot. Police’s main suspect was Kristen, but during her interrogation, police would realize, that Kristen didn’t work alone.
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Oujia boards over the years have been very controversial. Some people think its a method to speak to the devil while others feel its a way to connect with ancestors. Back in 1100 AD Oujia board were used in healing practices and rituals until scammers got ahold of the ouija board and started lying to people about what the board was saying. After the scammers were exposed people said the board was “Demonic” and no one should use the board. But despite the 50/50 opinions about the ouija board today, people still use it and some even on a daily basis. And 49 year-old Donald Hartung was one of those people. Donald claimed to be a Wiccan and had been practicing witchcraft for 3 years. He also claimed to have a close relationship with his family and visited the family home where his mother and 2 brothers lived, every Tuesday to make them dinner. But on July 28th, 2015 police would be called to the family home after one of the brothers, Richard Hartung, hadn’t showed up to work and his co-workers couldn’t get ahold of him. When the police entered the home that’s when they would find the horrific and bloody scene of the murdered family lying underneath a pile of clothes. Donald was the only family member alive and was brought into questioning. And it wasn’t until then, that the police started to slowly uncover Donalds real relationship with the family and the greedy motive for the murders.
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Over time, the discussion of nature vs nurture has always been a hefty debate. Nature are things that you are born with, your genes, hereditary. While nurture is your environment and how that shapes you into he person you become. But as for Sean Vincent Gilles, he believes he was born to be a murderer. Ever since he was a young toddler he had urges and a fascination with death. As a kids, he enjoyed seeing others crying and felt happy when he was getting yelled at the bad things he did. And at 12 years old he would make an unsuccessful attempt at murdering his cousin just because “I wanted to feel up on her breasts”. Sean would then go on to discover the internet and people who were just like him. Dark web videos of people interested in necrophilia, blood, snuff films, etc. And it wasn’t until he was 37 years-old when Sean would claim his first victim, and that would mark the start of his killing spree of 8 more innocent woman. Murdering them in the most brutal and sickening of ways.
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On Febuary 11th, 2023, two teens were seen waiting at a bus stop in the town Birchwood, northwest of England waiting for their friend to get off the next bus. Awhile later, a teenage girl gets off the bus and joins the two teen and the three of them starting heading off to a hiking trial at a nearby park. An hour later emergency services would be called to the same park saying they had found a dead body of a young teenage girl. This teenage girl would be identified at 16 year-old Brianna Ghey. The last Brianna was ever heard from, was by her mom that day whom Brianna texted saying she was going to hang out with her new friend, 15 year-old Scarlett Jenkinson. When Scarlett was arrested and brought into questioning, she openly told police that her motive for the murder was because Brianna was a transgender woman. And Scarlett would say Brianna wasn’t the only person she planned on killing, and neither did she work alone to commit the murder.
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Dumpster diving over the years has gained more and more popularity, and for those who dont know, Dumpster diving is when after hours, people will go into the dumpsters of large corporations and stores to try and get items that the store had thrown away. And a lot of people will find, apple electronics, thousands of dollars worth of clothes, unused makeup, etc. and people resell these items for profit. So on January 7th 2022, April Meadows, Hector Jazz and Micheal Green were dumpster diving in the dumpster of a JC Penny before coming across a black trash bag that seemed to be moving. Upon opening the bag, the group would then find a living, breathing, newborn baby boy with the umbilical cord still attached. He was grey and barely breathing but was taken to the hospital. Police would later find out 18 year-old Alexis Avila was the mother of this baby boy and had thrown him in the dumpster just hours before. But when Alexis was brought into questioning about her evil actions, she denies it all and laughs through it all, thinking she’s smarter than police.
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