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JonBenét Ramsey: Part 1 – The Facts
By: Gabriela Sundquist Content Warning Harm to a child and mentions of SA. Reader discretion is advised. Imagine spending a wonderful Christmas day with your family. You have two beautiful children: a 9-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl. You have spent eating, playing, and spending time with each other. Now imagine that you wake up…
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Athena Strand: Taken Too Soon
By: Gabriela Sundquist Content Warning Harm to and murder of a child. SA. Statutory rape. Reader discretion is advised. “I don’t care if it is five years from now, 10 years from now, 20 years from now – remember Athena Strand.” A heartbreaking plead from Maitlyn Gandy, Athena’s mom, said during a candlelight vigil held…
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Student Stabbing: Still Searching for Answers
The newest tragedy that has taken over the nation’s headlines and news reports is the stabbing of four students at the University of Idaho in Moscow, ID. When such a tragedy strikes, lightning fast isn’t fast enough. People want answers and they want to eliminate the chance of any more harm. This desire for answers…
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Murder on My Street
By: Gabriela Sundquist Read Time: 6 minutes On December 5th, 2018 I drove home from another day of work at the cemetery. It was an especially cold day of trimming and weeding and mowing. And I needed a hot chocolate. The question was, should I go down the road to Kum & Go, or should…
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Amy Bishop: The Ravages of a Broken Mind
By: Gabriela Sundquist Read Time: 8 minutes Content Warning: Gun violence and mass murder. Reader discretion is advised. What does Amy Bishop, a middle-aged unassuming woman with a stable marriage and no criminal record, have in common with Adam Lanza (shooter in Sandy Hook), Eric David Harris, and Dylan Bennet Klebold (shooters in Columbine)? They…
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The Candy Man and Other Halloween Terrors
By: Gabriela Sundquist Read Time: 4 minutes Content Warning: Mention of gun violence and violence to children. Reader discretion is advised. To celebrate this wonderful spooky time of year, I decided to look back at some Halloween-timed true crime cases. Surprise surprise, what a bummer! Halloween Murders Halloween now definitely looks a lot different than…
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Where’s the Justice? Susan, Charlie, and Braden’s Story
December 7th, 2009 Josh Powell and Susan Cox Powell were living in Salt Lake City, Utah in December of 2009. They both worked full-time jobs and sent their boys, Charlie (4) and Braden (2), to daycare. But on the brisk Monday morning of December 7, 2009, none of the Powell family showed up where they…
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Lori Soares Hacking: The Woman Caught in the Web
By: Gabriela Sundquist Read Time: 10 minutes Content Warning: Violence and mention of blood. Reader discretion is advised. Since Lori Soares was young, she had always wanted to have a beautiful family with lots of kids. Lori was adopted by her parents when she was four months old and she grew up in California. When…
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The Why Behind Meditation, Mindfulness, and Murder
At first glance, these three things are not all the same: meditation, mindfulness, and murder? One is not like the other. I’ve been more susceptible to feeling anxious ever since I was a kid. I didn’t have a name for it though. Just the ones others gave me: worrywart, worrier, tense, nervous, shy, paranoid, cautious,…
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Kitty Genovese: The Woman Behind the 38 Witnesses
Possibly one of the most consequential murder cases of all time was consequential because of gross exaggerations and some significant inaccuracies in the media. The name Kitty Genovese is one that is well known. It pops up in news articles, psychology books, and more. But the story of Kitty’s life was much different. It got…
Meditation, Mindfulness and Murder
A Cure for Your Anxiety
Meditation, Mindfulness and Murder 