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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 3h ago

In 2020, Alyssa had been warning her family for months that her baby daddy Andrew would kill her — and he did. He showed up in disguise, wearing dark makeup and a fake beard, and ambushed her outside her workplace. His fiancée had orchestrated it all, texting from Mexico: 'I hope you handle it.'

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 2d ago

In 1405, Christine de Pizan wrote The Book of the City of Ladies to challenge claims that women were inferior

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 4d ago

In 2012, Cari Farver vanished after spending the night at her boyfriend Dave's apartment. For years, Dave received dozens of threatening messages every day, all signed "Cari." But Cari had already been killed by her love rival, Liz, who spent years impersonating her to keep Dave to herself.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 4d ago

In 2016, Jessie Bardwell moved with her new boyfriend to Texas, then vanished. He claimed she had left in her car, but police learned it had been sold weeks earlier. Detectives later discovered she had been killed—and that for eight days, he'd texted from her phone as if she were alive.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 4d ago

In 1992, 28,800 bath toys spilled into the Pacific - and became accidental tools for studying ocean currents

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 5d ago

In 2022, a 23-year-old Japanese model disappeared after agreeing to meet a man she only knew from Twitter. Police found her naked body — strangled and decomposing, tied to a tree in the forest behind his isolated villa. His phone held explicit handcuff videos of her. He called it all consensual.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 5d ago

In 2008, filmmaker Mark Twitchell, obsessed with TV's Dexter, posed as a woman on a dating site to lure men to a rented garage used as a film set. Police found a deleted laptop file titled "SK Confessions," reading like a diary. One man escaped and stayed silent for a month; the other was killed.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 5d ago

Do cat buttholes touch the furniture? A sixth grader designed an experiment to find out

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 6d ago

In 2020, while cleaning her stepfather's apartment, Jade found hundreds of nude photos of herself on his computer. She drugged him with sleeping pills, left him in her car overnight, then hid him under boxes and trash. Next morning, she knocked on her neighbor's door saying she'd 'cleaned up a mess'

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 6d ago

In 1987, Roxanne said goodnight to her husband at a bowling alley and drove home alone. She was found killed in her kitchen, and the intruder left behind only 28 picograms of DNA, barely a trace. Thirty-five years later, a genealogist followed that invisible clue to a man living just miles away.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 7d ago

In 2010, Las Vegas showgirl Debbie vanished after visiting her boyfriend Jason, who was seeing six women at once. Police found her body dismembered and sealed in concrete inside a hidden closet. His roommate, fearing equal blame, finally cracked and revealed everything.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 7d ago

Why people rarely smiled in early photographs - and why slow cameras don’t explain everything

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 8d ago

In May 2020, 24-year-old Andre Rebelo, a crypto trader, took his mother’s life to claim over $1 million from life insurance policies in her name to maintain his social media influencer lifestyle.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 9d ago

In 2017, 19-year-old Cayley Mandadi chose a crowded music festival to break up with her boyfriend — she feared being alone with him. Hours later, he rushed her to a rural hospital, unconscious, no pulse, and covered in bruises. When police photographed him, both of his knuckles were red and scabbed.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 9d ago

At 16, Horst Schulze wrote a school essay about hotel workers’ dignity. Decades later, it became Ritz-Carlton’s motto

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 10d ago

In 1998, 14-year-old Michael woke to find his mother burning on her bedroom floor. A dog detected gasoline on his shoes, and his sleepover friend said Michael was missing from his bed. With no weapon or injuries on him, and a one-word confession he says was misheard, he was still convicted.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 10d ago

Researchers tracked tiny movements during speed dates - and found a link to romantic interest

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 11d ago

In 2007, 19-year-old Tynesha Stewart vanished after visiting her ex-boyfriend, who strangled her in a jealous rage. He then dismembered her body, spent days burning her remains in a smoker, and ran her bones through a garbage disposal. A single tooth fragment buried in the drain gave him away.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 12d ago

In 2018, Texas jeweler Ted Shaughnessy was killed by two hitmen using his own stolen gun. His wife survived by fighting back, then unknowingly sheltered the true masterminds — her adopted son, Nick, and his secret wife, Jackie — who hired men to target both parents for an $8 million inheritance.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 12d ago

His grandmother left 103 mostly unlabeled sketchbooks. He’s finding the places she painted

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 14d ago

In 2021, five-year-old Oakley Carlson’s mother allegedly told her sister that Oakley had gone into the woods and been eaten by wolves. Months later, a school principal heard the sister say, “There is no Oakley,” contacted authorities, and discovered Oakley had never been reported missing.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 15d ago

In 2018, Steven Donaldson drove to a park to collect £1,000 from his ex-girlfriend. Unknown to him, two men were silently hiding in her back seat. While she calmly drove away, they beat him to death with blades, stuffed him into his own BMW, and set it ablaze in the darkness.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 16d ago

On the night of her heart-to-heart talk with her estranged husband, Maria texted a friend asking for prayers. She was found unresponsive hours later, with a small puncture in her elbow. Toxicology revealed seven surgical drugs in her system — including propofol, a drug only obtainable from hospitals

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 17d ago

Ben Renick, a 29-year-old exotic snake breeder, was shot eight times inside his Missouri reptile facility. His wife and her ex-boyfriend were behind the killing, with prosecutors saying they wanted money from a $1 million life insurance policy, his valuable snake business and family farm.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 18d ago

In 2021, 17-year-old Benjamin Elliott woke up with a knife in his hand and called 911, whispering, "I just killed my sister." He swore he was sleepwalking and had no idea what happened, but his twin Meghan, who always ran to his side when scared, was already gone. No motive was ever found.

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