I’m getting kind of personal here. This is a story I’ve wanted to share for a while, because it’s one that I’ve experienced myself and because it’s almost too wild to be true. I figured what better place to share it than with some of my favorite people — you guys! I’m going really deep here and talking about things I only talk to my therapist about. Yep, what will be discussed in this episode has left me in therapy many years later, for reasons you’re probably going to roll your eyes at.

Do you believe in vigilante justice, particularly when the one receiving the justice is a child predator? Is murder more acceptable when the victim has violated and hurt other people? I ask this because we’re going to be talking about Jason Vukovich, who goes by the nickname, “the Alaskan avenger”. This man would use the sex offender registry to hunt down sex offenders and enact revenge. Revenge for the victims, revenge for his own personal experience as a child. Or — was this simply an excuse for violence?

Honestly, I don’t know what I’m going to do when I have to go back to Canada or end up in another country — and I can’t find a vending machine within 30 seconds of wanting one. It sounds silly and over dramatic, but it’s true. There is a vending…

Sherry Marler disappeared back in 1984, two years before I was born — and it’s crazy to me that a child could go missing so long ago, with no answers still 37 years later. So let’s go through the day this happened and walk through the timeline of events. It’s June 6th, 1984 in Greenville, Alabama, which is a very family-friendly, safe and small town with a population of around 7,600. 12-year-old Sherry Marler had woken up that morning on the couch. Her stepfather’s sister was actually visiting from out of town, and this little darling had offered up…

We all have those friends we’ve had for what feels like forever. The ones who come in and out of your life as you each forge your own paths, but when you re-unite, it feels as if no time has passed. You know the friendships I’m talking about right? In…

20 years ago I could have never imagined getting into a car with a complete stranger who just so happened to own a vehicle and wanted to make cash on the side but wasn’t regulated or licensed or anything. And yes — I’m talking about Uber. Because this is the story of the brutal murder of 21-year-old Samantha Josephson, who made the mistake of getting into the wrong car after she had called an uber — and she paid dearly for this mistake with her life. The horrifying part of this story is that there doesn’t appear to be any motive behind her murder. Out of pure bad luck, Samantha, unfortunately, got in the vehicle of an absolute psychopath. You’ll never believe what he did to this young woman and what he says now about the killing.

Shortly after 8 p.m. on Sept. 24, 2021, the San Jose Police Department received a call about a 3-year-old little girl named Arely Naomi Proctor, who was unresponsive, not breathing and likely deceased. The call was made by her mother, Claudia Hernandez-Santos. Emergency medical workers arrived and took Arely to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead less than an hour after the call. It was then that police would learn little Arley died after her mother, grandfather, and uncle attempted to perform an exorcism on her, believing that she was possessed by a demon.

British teacher Lindsay Hawker was killed in Tokyo, Japan, in March of 2007. Her body was later found buried in a bathtub full of sand on the balcony of an apartment. Her killer would avoid police for two years as a master of disguise. This is the story of a young foreign woman living in Japan, whose kindness and trust in strangers would lead her to meet an absolute monster and an untimely demise in Tokyo, Japan. When I first started looking into this case, I couldn’t believe this was real life.

Harold “Fred” Shipman was an English doctor who is believed to be the most prolific serial killer in modern history. This is one of those cases where you kind of wonder if it was nature or nurture. Was he simply born this way or was it the way he was brought up? Let me know what you think when you’re done reading through this case. Harold Shipman was born on…