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Shocking Murder Leads to Rehab Abuse Scandal
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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5 Episodes of Sword and Scale That Will Keep You Up at Night
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 one of the...
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The Hoexter Horror House
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 and Angelika W., she was held captive...
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Skeletons in the Closet
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 so severely that we could...
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Killers Who Wanted Supernatural Powers
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 the act. Many killers liken this...
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The Michigan Craigslist Killer
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 they...
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Home for the Holidays
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 be selling the two story home...
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A Deadly Fantasy
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 be Packer’s own adopted...
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The Girl in the Box
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 of California holding out her...
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Britain’s Most Evil Foster Mother
Eunice Spry, a devout Jehovah’s Witness, had two children living with her in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire when she was approved as a foster carer in 1984. Judith Spry, her biological daughter and...
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A Dear Diary Moment
If you were to ask an 8-year-old girl where she felt safest, she might say it was her diary. It’s difficult to imagine a setting more innocent than a little girl’s diary. Gizzell Ford, 8, of Chicago...
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A Crucifixion in Albuquerque
Anybody who has spent any time in Albuquerque’s Bosque knows how relaxing it can be. Known officially as Rio Grande Valley State Park, the 4,300-acre park is a unique environment that’s a home to...
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The Ripper Crew Carnage
From 1981 to 1982, a group of four men reigned terror on Illinois women. Armed with a van and disturbed thoughts, these men traversed the Illinois area hunting young women to abduct, torture, rape,...
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Arizona’s Girl in the Box Murder
When Phoenix, Arizona Police received word that 10-year-old Ame Deal had died her family told them that she had placed herself into a plastic chest as part of a hide and go seek game gone awry. Ame,...
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Tortured Woman Back from the Dead
On July 2, Brisbane police arrived at a unit in Bulimba, an Australian suburb, to find a 21-year-old woman in a horrific condition. She suffered extensive burns, a broken nose, eye socket and ribs,...
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Indian Girl Used as Voodoo Doll
On July 19, 2017, a 3-year-old Purulia girl was rushed to the SSKM Hospital after having seven long needles stabbed into her body. Showing signs of both sexual and physical trauma, doctors tried...
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Napa Couple Tortures Daughter to Death
Neighbors who knew Kayleigh Slusher have said that in the weeks before learning the 3-year-old was dead they saw a girl who had lost her sparkle. It is believed that the abuse suffered at the hands of...
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Allen Sentenced in ‘Girl in the Box’ Case
Ame Deal, 10, spent her short life being passed around to abusive and neglectful relatives. Reports state that neighbors witnessed some of the harsh and bizarre punishments Deal had suffered at the...
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Child on Child Violence: The Edlington Case
When children show extreme violence against other children, questions are asked about what led them to such behaviour. Many will label these children as simply ‘evil’; others will label them as...
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Girl Swam to Safety After 29 Days of Terror
It was nearly a month ago that a 15-year-old Minnesota girl, who is not being named, climbed into a truck driven by her friend’s father. The girl thought she was going to help out the man, instead,...
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