The man in the photo is Andrei Chikatilo (aka the Forest Strip Killer, and Rostov Ripper). He was a serial killer from the Soviet Union that targeted young boys and girls aged between 7 and 18. Chikatilo would find his victims in places that weren’t too busy. He would then lure them to desolate places, rape them, and kill them. He would hide their bodies in places that took ages to find. Chikatilo’s killing spree ran from 1978 until his arrest in 1990. He was convicted of the murder of around 52 people, although he claimed to have killed more than 56. In 1992, Chikatilo would be sentenced to death by firing squad, with the execution happening two years later.

Believe it or not, the police once tried Chikatilo in 1984, but because of a lack of checking DNA samples, he was free to kill more. (Feel free to correct anything I might have missed).

In 2010, two young siblings, three-year-old Sakurako Hagi and her younger brother Kaede, were left alone in an apartment in Osaka, Japan, by their mother, Sanae Shimomura.
Before their deaths, neighbors had repeatedly reported hearing children crying from the apartment. Child welfare workers visited the building five times, but none of those visits resulted in anyone confirming the children’s safety.
On July 30, 2010, both children were found dead. Their mother was later convicted of murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
What makes this case especially troubling is that the warnings came before the tragedy. People had raised concerns, yet the children remained unseen.
An official review later identified serious weaknesses in how the authorities responded to those warnings.
This documentary examines the full case, from the early warning signs to the investigation, trial, and child welfare failures.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/S7TUJL9Avfg

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On July 24, 2016, 23-year-old Kaylee Sawyer disappeared after a night out in Bend, Oregon. What began as a desperate search for a missing young woman quickly uncovered a chilling reality: her attacker was Edwin Lara, an armed campus security guard at Central Oregon Community College (COCC) who was supposed to keep students safe.

Most people watch true crime to understand what happened and why. But there is a small, violent fringe of the online true crime world, usually called the TCC, that treats school attackers as idols: fan edits, copying their clothes and poses, and celebrating each new attack.

Between October 7 and 19, seven attacks hit schools in Poland, France, South Africa, the US and Romania. Four of the attackers had clear ties to that fringe. A 13-year-old in Romania left a manifesto addressed to "the TCC," crediting the community's support for a Swedish school attacker in August with restoring his "hopes." In France, prosecutors are now treating one attack as terrorism because of the shooter's TCC links, a first.

I wrote up the cases and the evidence for each link here: https://redpillreversal.substack.com/p/a-wave-of-school-attacks-and-the

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In 2010, a cult-like story began at Sarah Lawrence College in New York City. A group of students shared a dormitory until the father of one of the young women secretly moved in. His name was Larry Ray, and he gradually began to gain everyone's trust.

Isabella Pollok, Santos Rosario, Claudia Drury, and Dan Levin were some of the young people who fell under his influence. In 2011, several ended up moving in with Larry to an apartment in Manhattan, where he began to control their lives, isolating them from their families and subjecting them to long sessions of pseudo-therapeutic interrogation that were, in essence, complete brainwashing.

Recordings made by the group itself show how Ray alternated moments of apparent calm with insults, accusations, and threats. He kept them awake until dawn, implanted false memories, and pressured them into accepting absurd conspiracy theories, alleged poisonings, and injuries he himself attributed to them. Santos Rosario ended up accepting responsibility for supposed damages to the apartment, and Larry demanded more than $47,000 from him. Along with his sisters Yalitza and Felicia, Santos would become a significant source of income for Ray, who managed to extract approximately $300,000 from them through extortion and manipulation.

One of the most disturbing episodes involved Claudia Drury, who ended up selling her body at Larry's instigation to pay him the sums he demanded as compensation for alleged economic and physical damages. In 2019, an investigation published by New York Magazine publicly exposed the brutality perpetrated by Ray over several years. Finally, the FBI arrested him in February 2020, and he was sentenced to 60 years in prison.

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In May 1933, Soviet authorities transported more than 6,000 people to a remote island in the Ob River in Siberia.

Many were ordinary citizens arrested for not carrying the proper documents. They were sent there without adequate food, shelter, or supplies.

Within weeks, thousands had died or gone missing.

The place became known as Nazino Island, or Cannibal Island, because of the desperate conditions and disturbing events reported by survivors and witnesses.

What makes this tragedy even more troubling is that Soviet officials documented what happened, but the full story remained largely hidden from the public for decades.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/ZuOhU0HtQao