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The Junko Furuta Case: Japan’s Most Disturbing Tragedy of Torture and Injustice. Content Warning.
On 25th November 1988 in Japan, 17-year-old Junko Furuta was kidnapped. She was brutally gang-raped and tortured for 40 days and then murdered on 4th January 1989. The monsters who did this were Hiroshi Miyano, Shinji Minato, Jo Ogura, and Yasushi Watanabe, who were all aged between 16 and 18 years old. Hiroshi and Shinji, despite being teenagers, were already serial rapists. On 25th November 1988, they were out looking for a victim and spotted Junko who was returning home from her part-time job. All of them went to the same high school. Previously, Hiroshi had confessed his feelings to Junko and she had rejected him politely. That night, he decided that their victim would be Junko as a way to take revenge for rejecting him. Hiroshi told Shinji to run away after kicking her off her bicycle and then he would swoop in to help her. Shinji did as he was told. As planned, Hiroshi then went up to her and helped her to her feet. He offered to walk her home and she accepted, not knowing what she was getting herself into. She got off her bicycle, and they started walking and talking. After some time, Hiroshi stopped following her directions and tried to take her into an abandoned warehouse that allegedly had ties with the Yakuza.
By Dharrsheena Raja Segarran10 months ago in Criminal
South Korean Plastic Surgery By Ghost Doctor Resulted In Death (Case of Kwon Dae-Hee). Content Warning.
On 8th September 2016, in Seoul, South Korea, 24-year-old Kwon Dae-Hee underwent plastic surgery. It cost him both 6.5 million won ($5,766) and his life because his surgery was performed by a Ghost Doctor.
By Dharrsheena Raja Segarran2 years ago in Criminal
in good time
…in light of my own changing values – the expansion of my family and the recent deaths from improperly using the technique – I have decided to discontinue the practice. My last piece, a beautiful frame I spent many hours on for someone very special, will be the last of my work to display fractal burning.
By Katie Kelly Koppenhofer2 years ago in Criminal
Something In the Water. Runner-Up in the Whodunit Challenge. Content Warning.
Sascha was the first to find the fish. At least, she thought she must be. The sky outside was still a bruised purple, light gradually seeping through the horizon. No other patients had been in line at the nursing station when Sascha went for her morning meds. She did not know what time it was, only that she had been lying awake in the interminable darkness of her room for longer than she could stand it. Deciding to wander the halls instead, it was by coincidence rather than intention that Sascha was the first to arrive for her medication. The morning nurse had chirped merrily at her, some praise for being an early bird, and did not ask her to wag her tongue when she lifted it after swallowing.
By Elle Marie2 years ago in Criminal
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The Family Annihilator Next Door
Chris Watts seemed like the perfect husband and father, posting loving photos with his pregnant wife and daughters on social media, until the morning he reported them missing and investigators discovered he had strangled them all and hidden their bodies at his workplace, and he is not an aberration but rather represents a specific type of family killer that criminologists are only beginning to understand.
By The Curious Writerabout 2 hours ago in Criminal
The Serial Killer Next Door . Content Warning.
The most terrifying truth about serial killers and psychopaths is not that they exist in dramatic fictional forms like Hannibal Lecter or Dexter Morgan, but that they walk among us completely undetected, holding jobs, raising families, attending church services, coaching Little League, and presenting such convincing masks of normalcy that even trained psychologists often fail to identify them until after they have committed horrific crimes. Ted Bundy was described by those who knew him as charming, intelligent, and trustworthy, working at a suicide hotline where he talked people back from the edge while simultaneously planning his next abduction and murder, and Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer, was a church council president and Cub Scout leader who installed security systems for elderly clients while privately fantasizing about binding, torturing, and killing them, and these are not exceptions but rather the rule because successful serial predators are precisely those who have mastered the art of appearing normal, trustworthy, and even admirable to the people around them.
By The Curious Writerabout 2 hours ago in Criminal
True Crime
True Crime Of a Girl In Car & Disappeared.. The Vanishing Hitchhiker She Got in the Car and Disappeared Into Thin Air On a foggy October evening in 1982, truck driver Mike Patterson picked up a young woman on Interstate 40 outside Nashville, and what happened in the next fifteen minutes would haunt him for the rest of his life. The girl looked about nineteen, wearing a white dress that seemed too thin for the chilly autumn night, and she was standing on the shoulder waving frantically. Mike pulled over because leaving someone stranded wasn't in his nature, especially not a young woman alone on a dark highway, and when she climbed into the cab, she gave him an address in East Nashville and said nothing else, just stared straight ahead with an expression he later described as "not quite right, like she was looking at something I couldn't see."
By The Curious Writerabout 3 hours ago in Criminal
Jeffrey Epstein Lookalike Caught Cruising South Florida?
The internet has been buzzing with excitement and speculation after a mysterious sighting in South Florida sparked a wave of viral videos and heated debates online. Everything began when a man who looked strikingly similar to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein was spotted driving along a busy street. Witnesses say the resemblance was so uncanny that several people nearby immediately pulled out their phones to record the moment as the vehicle passed by.
By Shirley Oyiadomabout 20 hours ago in Criminal
The Stolen Phone That Exposed a Killer: The Brian Steven Smith Murders
In September 2019 a pivotal act of theft in Anchorage, Alaska, unraveled the horrific crimes of Brian Steven Smith, leading to the exposure of the brutal murders of two Alaska Native women and highlighting broader issues surrounding missing and murdered Indigenous people (MMIP).Valerie Casler a Native Alaskan woman facing her own hardships stole a phone from the truck of a man who had given her a ride. While examining the device she discovered something shocking: dozens of graphic photos and videos depicting a woman being severely tortured and ultimately killed. Horrified by the content, Casler chose to turn the phone over to the police rather than ignore or exploit it. Her decision proved crucial in breaking open a case that might otherwise have remained hidden.
By Kure Garbaabout 23 hours ago in Criminal
OMB Bloodbath Indicted Again As Feds Seek Conviction In Gang Related Murder
If the street life isn’t enough for some people, it may be too much for others. For OMB Bloodbath, an indictment might be an example of the latter. The prosecution is seeking to see her put behind bars for a gang-related murder of an innocent bystander.
By Skyler Saundersa day ago in Criminal
Inside the Mind of a Psychopath.
Most monsters don’t look like monsters. They don’t lurk in dark forests or hide behind masks. Sometimes they sit in classrooms, shake hands politely, and smile like everyone else. Sometimes they are the last person anyone would suspect.
By Aarsh Malika day ago in Criminal
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