Torture

20-year-old Colleen Stan wanted to go to attend a friend’s birthday party in Oregon, so she did what many young people did in the 1970s and walked along the highways …
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For over a year, Sara Packer and her boyfriend Jacob Sullivan had been planning to live out a rape and murder fantasy the couple had shared together. Their target would …
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No one felt anything was amiss when the Guy family gathered around the dinner table to enjoy one last holiday meal together. Mary and Joel Guy, Sr. were reported to …
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When soon-to-be parents Brooke Ann Slocum and Charles Oppenneer found themselves in financial straits they turned to Craigslist in hopes that a generous stranger would answer their ad, but what …
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People kill for many different reasons, but people who kill for the thrill of it usually have one thing in common; they all like the power they feel after committing …
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Parents are supposed to protect their children, but as we learned in Sword and Scale episode 78, there are some parents out there who failed this basic tenet of parenthood …
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When a German woman answered a newspaper dating ad she had no idea that she was being lured to her doom. After meeting with a couple, identified only as Wilfried …
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It’s almost Halloween and the staff here at Sword and Scale have been celebrating the season by bringing you spooktacular content all month long, coming to a frightening conclusion with …
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In 2008, Chinese health officials declared that internet addiction will officially be classified as a clinical disorder and claimed that it was among the leading health threats plaguing the nation’s …
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On the evening of November 13, 1992, three teenage girls – Miriam García Iborra, Antonia “Toñi” Gómez Rodríguez and Desirée Hernández Folch – decided to attend a high school party …
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