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21 year-old Cody Lot was described by others as dysfunctional and disturbed. Cody at this point had dropped out of school, got fired from all his jobs and spent most of his day doing hard drugs with his friends. At 20, Cody was diagnosed with a psychoactive disorder and around this time is when he set his eyes on 13- year old Lauren Landavazo. Lauren would walk past Cody's home everyday, her usual route home from school and from the time Cody saw her, he fell in love. He began learning Lauren routine, when she walked home from school, what school she went to, her friends, her family, her social media and interests. Cody had been stalking Lauren for a year with no contact and kept his obsession a secret but felt that she belonged to him. But all this love would turn into rage when one day Cody sees Lauren walking home from school holding hands with another teenage boy. Cody then started dedicating all his time to “work and talk with the devil” to create a plan on how to kill Lauren and “Save her”. Cody believed if he murdered Lauren he would be able to save her from the evil in this world if she were to grow up and felt Lauren was also his sacrifice to the devil, and he would be given an amazing afterlife in return.
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The Sills family was described as a power unit family. Dr. Scott Sills was a fertility doctor that dedicated his life to help women have children and offer them treatments to aid in the process. He was passionate about his work and even wrote successful medical papers and appeared on the show “The Dr.s” for his incredible research into fertility. Scott shared his life with his beautiful wife Susan and their 2 children and together the family was a picture perfect happy family. Susan herself was a successful business woman and worked hard to help others get their small businesses off the ground. But in November 2016, police would show up to the family home to find Susan dead at the bottom of the steps with a strangulation mark around her neck. Scotts explanation of what happened? The dogs had tied a scarf around her neck, strangled her, then killed her. The police weren’t buying it and it wasn't until they went into the daughters bedroom, where they would uncover the bloody scene of what actually happened to Susan Sills.
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Michelle Hughs grew up being the prettiest woman in the room. She had a charm that made people feel special and when you spoke to her she could make you feel heard and like you were the only one in the room. And while working at a nightclub, Michelle would use this charm to manipulate 3 men, Kent Leppink, John Carlin and Scott Hilky into giving her money, expensive gifts and proposing to her. Michelle juggled 3 fiancés but as time went on her lies caught up to her and specifically Kent Leppink was no longer falling for it. Her fake stories, manipulation tactics and most of all, Kent refused to make Michelle his main beneficiary before they got married. Kents family wouldn't see the terror of his relationship until they would receive a cryptic package from Kent with a note claiming that if they are reading this, then he was murdered by either Michelle, Scott or John. And when Kents family tried to call him multiple times, they were met with no response. Because Kent was found dead 90 miles away from his home. Michelle would always wiggle out of her mistakes with her looks and charm. But how far could her looks and charm take her when it comes to manipulating one of her fiances, to murder her other fiance for her.
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On Thursday, July 19, 2007, police arrived at the San Diego home of Tim MacNeil. It was here where police found Tim’s body lying in his game room lying in a pool of blood. The back door was wide open, there was a gun on the back porch and Tim's daughter, 17 year-old Bray was tied up with zip ties, hysterically crying. Bray told police that a masked man had broke into the home, tied her and her father up then shot and killed her father. Just a mile away from the home police would find a black ski mask in the trees and when tested, there was DNA belonging to Bray's 19 year-old brother, Nathan Mcneil. When Nathan was questioned, he claimed it was Bray's idea and she forced him into it. But ironically, when Bray was questioned, she said it was Nathan's idea and HE had forced HER. But when the police looked through the teen’s phone they would find that not only were both of them equally involved, but they also had been planning this murder for months.
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Logan Clegg was a man of mystery. A man that had seven-thousand dollars in the bank but lived in a tent covered with Mountain Dew code red cans in the woods. He was a con artist that also went by the name Arthur Kelley and while some people described him and funny, quiet and easy to get along with, never made problems. Others would describe a totally different person. He was always yelling, always complaining, getting mad over small things. Logan spent most of his life traveling around the world with only his backpack and his tent, living a nomad lifestyle. Traveling from Paris, to Chicago to New York to Berlin. But how could a man with no job, living out of a tent have luxury items like a Macbook, Iphone and 7K dollars in the bank? Logan Clegg spent most of his life being on the run, and getting away with crimes he committed from around the world. But no matter how long you run for, you're bound to trip at least once.
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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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