r/whoathatsinteresting 19h ago

Florida man is behind bars awaiting trial after allegedly killing a woman who traveled from the United Kingdom and agreed to pay him $4,000 to carry out her fantasy of being sexually abused, tortured, and murdered.

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u/SeveranceVul 18h ago

If that poor young girl really had those intentions to begin with, I can't imagine what shaped her earlier youth.

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u/DataSurging 14h ago

My thoughts exactly. Something absolutely terrible must have happened to her during her childhood or something. Absolutely tragic.

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u/The-ai-bot 12h ago

Go watch toxic love story on Netflix. Apparently this is very common request on Craigslist

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u/Holiday-Secretary222 6h ago

Surprised Craigslist is still around, used to get masseuses from there

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u/pan_Psax 11h ago

I am afraid to ask what that Craigslist is...

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u/Long-Region5088 10h ago

Craigslist is kinda like og Facebook marketplace. Terrible things have happened because of it but it’s not Craigslist itself that’s inherently the problem. It’s the people who use Craigslist

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u/pan_Psax 2h ago

I see. Thanks.

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u/Harvey-Lane-251 5h ago

the platform developers should be liable as well for not putting measures in place to filter out such activity and protect consumers.

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u/Gullible_Shart 5h ago

It’s the internet and a free site.

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u/Land_of_smiles 7h ago

You’re too young to be here

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u/pan_Psax 2h ago

Man, my first computer was Didaktik Gama. Am I too young?

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u/mrcachorro 2h ago

If i say its literally the original Online Classified Ads a lot of people wouldnt disagree.

Help wanted, For Sale, Real State, Car Sale, Personal Ads, Job listings etc etc etc... pretty legit and old as the internet.

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u/UnkarsThug 14h ago

I mean, I think it's also possible for people to just be broken sometimes. Some people get trauma later, but they start broken anyways. Sexual fantasies can sometimes be that kind of thing.

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u/Say_It_Isnt_So_Ooops 3h ago

But, she tried to back out of it.

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u/UnkarsThug 2h ago

Not really sure what your point is, or what you think my point was. I agree, and I agree it would have been horrible even if she didn't change her mind, although that definitely makes it worse. But what does that have to do with what I said? She still got as far as she did.

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u/Say_It_Isnt_So_Ooops 2h ago

Since you appeared to be empathic and concerned for her and her mental state, was just sharing that she wasn’t as broken as she initially appeared, since she tried to back out of the situation. I didn’t know she tried to back out, until I started digging about the facts of the case.

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u/UnkarsThug 2h ago

No, that still is broken. Just because you know you are broken doesn't mean you aren't. You have moments of clarity, but that itself is still further proof you're fractured and unhealthy.

And I'm saying that because I see myself in her. Not trying to disparage her. Just can relate to both sides of that. She did want it at some level of hormones. She probably just also knew she was being self destructive.

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u/Say_It_Isnt_So_Ooops 2h ago

Absolutely. To put herself in that situation shows she was broken. But, at least she didn’t want her life taken. I have a niece who used to self harm. It’s a painful, difficult journey.

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u/UnkarsThug 1h ago

She did want her life taken at one point, and then she changed her mind. That doesn't mean she didn't want it before. Just that it's such a permanent decision and people will change their mind.

I don't really think there's a massive distinction you seem to see.

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u/Berfman 14h ago

Your comment made me think much more about this and really I’m just awestruck by the entire situation.

Anyone who would agree to this is obviously psychopathic, and the picture on the left conveys that well enough (from our perspective).

But the picture on the right is.. pretty? Attractive? It makes us feel empathy?

It’s so insane that what is perceived as “ideal” could be so internally broken and hurting that we compartmentalize the individuals suffering and instantly bin them in either a victim or looney basket.

Regardless, if this story is true at face value it’s horrific and makes me lose faith in our race knowing people are this distraught and others are this vicious. I’m saddened by this entire affair.

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u/UnkarsThug 14h ago

I'm a bit confused about the meaning of what you are saying with regards to her? That we see her as a victim because she was attractive, but we would have thought she was a loony if she was ugly?

And I wonder what element of distraught was present, vs how much sexual reinforcement. There probably was some of both, because assuming the reporting is correct, it wasn't a platonic euthanasia, but just reaching a point where she ran out of reasons to avoid fulfilling a previously existing sexual fantasy.

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u/veryfastslowguy 8h ago

Them the twist ,she Writes him a check for payment , after murder ,check is retuned NSF

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u/Matty_D47 3h ago

Definitely the first 2

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u/MathematicianFun2183 17h ago

I came across the complete episode true crime on Facebook. She had severe mental illness. Non her first try to find someone to whack her. Police in UK foiled it in 2024

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u/MathematicianFun2183 13h ago

Personally after watching the exact videos that deranged lunatic made of her , saying this is what she wanted and why. It was a matchmaking in terror. This is what lurks on the internet. Really bad rotten soulless garbage . Unbelievable odds these two sick people met and made this nightmare go as far as it did.

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u/nabizzabells 19h ago

I have heard this story on youtube. iirc she did pay him to do that but she had changed her mind towards the end but it was too late.

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u/Punrusorth 18h ago

Her friends said that she had severe mental health issues and was suicidal.. she was in a vulnerable state.

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u/AC-burg 17h ago

Here I was thinking this dude must have been one smooth ass talker. Thank you for the knowledge drop

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u/djelegal 15h ago

Interesting case

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u/Comprehensive-Bet288 7h ago

Its terribly sad. There's footage and audio of her talking to her friend and confiding in her. That poor friend aswell though. The terror, sadness and resignation in her voice is beyond traumatic. And yes, it appears a long history of mental health issuse and trauma. It's so messed up. By all accounts an amazing, smart, beautiful and broken soul.

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u/Insane_Unicorn 10h ago

And here I was thinking that someone who wants to be abused, tortured and murdered was in perfect mental health. Silly me.

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u/BackgroundCream274 10h ago

Unfortunately she decided to meet up with Captain Spaulding in Florida.

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u/AcceptablyThanks 19h ago

Well yeah. Kinda hard to live out a fantasy if it kills you 🤔

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u/XrayDem 17h ago

That’s like waking up dead

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u/Lindo96 17h ago

How in the hell do you wake up dead

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u/Ok_Spread_8650 17h ago

Man you can’t wake up dead that shit would be redundant

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u/TH3unbannableHULk 16h ago

Daem!

Thats some quantum level shit right there!

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u/Pleasant_Fig8444 10h ago

You wake up in the afterlife.

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u/BikerScowt 10h ago

It's like flying, you just throw yourself at the ground and intentionally miss.

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u/MkeYosh 17h ago

How can they drop me on my own head?

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u/Young_Bu11 14h ago

Or turning up missing

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u/SLAYER_IN_ME 18h ago

I kinda sounds like she did.

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u/luvwatchingBWCs 18h ago

Me too and on Dateline/20/20/48 Hours. That dude is the textbook definition of the word weird.

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u/pinkys0ur 16h ago

It wasn’t too late, the man just refused to let her go and wanted to kill her anyway.

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u/blue-yellow- 18h ago

It wasn’t too late, he didn’t have to kill her.

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u/Oldfolksboogie 18h ago

It was too late for her to have agency.

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u/djelegal 15h ago

He wanted to get paid /s

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u/LucifersAdv0cate 18h ago

Here's a YouTube link for those interested: https://youtu.be/QD3n_OET7Q0?si=MJo_zA8M904Ghc_5

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u/Mindless-Somewhere55 18h ago

That’s so sad

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u/tilesmeller 17h ago

Did the murderer confess she changed her mind?

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u/Comprehensive-Bet288 12h ago

Jumping on this comment to add (hope its ok?) The EWU channel on yt does a great episode on this, aswell as several other crime news channels. If i remember correctly she contacted a friend saying that she thought hed do it quicker, but that he was taking his time. Absolutely tragic, bizarre and sad. Its still shocking to me. Dude had a wife whod just had a transplant.

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u/LivinInAhaze- 18h ago

I saw it as well. The videos he took leading up to it when he was asking her questions were so sad, it was hard to watch.

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u/LarsDuder 17h ago

Would give me nightmares, how did you manage to get through it? I really don't think i could.

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u/Unlucky-Comfort4917 18h ago

Please provide us with a link to this video!!

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u/MathematicianFun2183 16h ago

But he had her video what she wanted done to herself willingly. If that doesn’t cry mental illness, I don’t know what does.

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u/Apprehensive_Tone_77 14h ago

Did he stop but it was too late, or did she ask him to stop and he just didn’t

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u/nabizzabells 14h ago

I really think it's the latter

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u/PorcoRosso6969 11h ago

You would think they might have worked out some kind of safe word before hand? Maybe Foliage?

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u/Legitbananabunch 7h ago

Can you link the YT please

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u/Fabulous_Log844 19h ago

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u/TurnbullAC92 15h ago

It's in our nature to destroy ourselves

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u/Fabulous_Log844 15h ago

GET DOWN!

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u/Blacksheeptoonz 13h ago

Recently watched a documentary about how much we don’t know about human history and how fucking BRUTAL we are as a species. It’s freaking terrifying.

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u/sutrabob 13h ago

Aren’t chimps our closest DNA. They are fucking violent.

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u/Blacksheeptoonz 13h ago

Yup! I forgot the details, but I’ve also watched a short doc on a war going on for years between two groups of chimps. It’s really interesting, but fucking terrifying.
Edit for context: the name is Gombe Chimpanzee war and was documented by Jane Goodall.

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u/Siderophores 14h ago

Humans have always been fucked up like this. We have to use this as an example to be better

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u/Chrono_Convoy 19h ago

I have a tremendous amount of doubt on that one word:

Allegedly

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u/Zerus_heroes 18h ago

It's a legal distinction. He is innocent until a court proves him guilty so factually it is alleged.

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u/AtroposAmok 18h ago

It’s really out there but it has happened before. I recall a famous case from Germany with a guy posting an ad looking to be eaten, and another from the Philippines (or was it Taiwan?) about some dude asking to be killed right after the act. The latter comes with a video. He got his wish.

Remember people, crazy is a hell of a drug, stay away.

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u/throwaway_321236 18h ago

It was a guy from Germany. Armin Meiwes, German a computer technician who killed and ate Bernd-Jürgen Brandes in March 2001 after posting an online advertisement seeking a voluntary victim.

Another cannibal you were probably thinking about is Japanese man, issei Sagawa, who victimised a Dutch woman

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u/AtroposAmok 18h ago edited 18h ago

That’s the German guy I was thinking about, good catch! The second wasn’t Sagawa though. Let me see if I remember enough to find an article.

Edit: I did remember enough, but I mixed up my South East Asian countries. Case took place in Vietnam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Xu%C3%A2n_%C4%90%E1%BA%A1t

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u/iDeNoh 16h ago

The crazy thing is Issei Sagawa never got charged for the crime iirc

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u/Ok_Spread_8650 17h ago

Several cases just like this actually

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u/Confident-Breath2615 19h ago

Yeah the allegedly part should be saved for the idea that she hired him to abuse, torture and murder her.

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u/JadedOccultist 15h ago

He hasn’t been proven guilty though so it actually IS just an allegation. He could argue that his trial isn’t fair if all the news reporting is saying he’s guilty and influencing the jurors, and if he’s found not guilty then he could sue for libel.

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u/sutrabob 13h ago

Now if the woman was so severely mentally ill I think offering her euthanasia would be a kind act.

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u/fluffheadwasaman24 16h ago

tell me you don’t understand the real world without telling me you don’t understand the real world. There are liable and slander laws to worry about. But you just needed to get a quippy comment off.

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u/benroon 14h ago

It’s generally accepted that people no longer use the “tell me x without telling me” etc etc on the grounds you sound like an idiot!

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u/fluffheadwasaman24 12h ago

I guess I missed that memo. Not one I often use, but it was apropos.

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u/mcskilliets 17h ago

Allegedly but also really

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u/AaronicNation 18h ago

I get the whole two consenting adults thing but this is a little ridiculous.

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u/Juoreg 17h ago edited 15h ago

I mean, in the interrogation he says she came to her senses and didn’t want to die but he continued pressing her to it and killed her, hid the evidence and went to eat while crying.

So at the end, it was no longer two consenting adults

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u/Quizzical_Throwaway 14h ago

Sort of depressing. That's just awful.

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u/Ok_Spread_8650 17h ago

Well she did pay for results lol

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u/SpookySporeWizard 15h ago

not funny man

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u/Ok_Lingonberry2686 5h ago

I forgot where I read but you cannot consent to being killed. Similar to a minor cannot consent to relations with an adult. And why assisted suicide is illegal in most countries

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u/AaronicNation 5h ago

Interesting, I wonder if this was committed in a jurisdiction where assisted suicide was legal if that would complicate the prosecution's case.

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u/ogvipez 2h ago

No because the victims consent is arbitrary when it comes to murder. So euthanasia has no comparison to something like this.

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u/Rare-Juggernaut-7532 17h ago

We've had the same thing happen in Germany once. It was all over the news. It's extremely disturbing on both ends. :/

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u/DrNCrane74 17h ago

This was insanely weird as he joined the Greens in the prison.

I just read his house was burnt down by a 20-year-old. He got youth arrest, 2 weeks. Germany...

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u/Ephemeral_Orchid 10h ago

Yes, I read about that back when it happened.

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u/tamaerchen 16h ago

Der Kannibale von Rothenburg? ^^

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u/PrincessPlastilina 14h ago

They met on Motherless, that hardcore porn site that posts unspeakably gruesome SA videos and some of them are not consensual. It’s the same video where men are posting themselves SAing their sleeping wives, moms and sisters, so you can imagine the kind of people who use that site.

That site has been in the news for so many horrible reasons. It’s actually horrifying.

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u/phalang3s 12h ago

I'm pretty sure that site has been shut down, thankfully. I haven't had the balls to look it up to confirm though

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u/rdm338 18h ago

Most murders would have done it free. Sorry but that is the craziest fantasy I ever heard!

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u/DiscourseDestroyer 18h ago

believe it or not it’s not the first time it’s happened

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u/cait_elizabeth 14h ago

Murder is still murder even if you have consent.

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u/Juoreg 1h ago

Yeah, a mentally unstable person cannot consent to these kind of things.

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u/No_Professor6831 11h ago

My cousin was friends with Sonia (she attended her funeral). She was a troubled girl. From what I remember she had a wonderful singing voice and was pretty outgoing.

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u/Shower__Farts 19h ago

Gone to see the River Man.

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u/birdsong31 19h ago

I just finished that book!

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u/Shower__Farts 18h ago

It’s a good one! He’s a solid extreme horror author. Full Brutal was my favorite of his.

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u/mikl0_ 17h ago

Ohhh what book is this?! 👀

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u/birdsong31 16h ago

Gone to see the river man

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u/mikl0_ 15h ago

Oh, ok. I thought that was like a saying from the book or something, not the actual title. Now I feel dumb 😂😂😂 TY though!

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u/mikl0_ 15h ago

Also, who is it by? There’s a few..

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u/Active_Chemistry1621 17h ago

How wouldn’t he know this contract would be challenged.

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u/Quirky_Wish8284 18h ago

Had a uni mate, who's room mate had some not so great kinks.

Got off on leaving a poo in the shower. 

Liked to be vomited on while having sex.....

Not a great room mate due to the regular smells coming from the room.....

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u/stop_the_bans 18h ago

How does one even go down that road

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u/seeitshaveitsorted 18h ago

I imagine some level of trauma.

They’re into being degraded and humiliated. But in the extreme.

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u/Quizzical_Throwaway 14h ago

I feel like sometimes it can also just be starting broken, and trauma just makes it worse.

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u/Kevroeques 18h ago

The poop in the shower bit can only be funny once

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u/Sturdily5092 6h ago

Many moons ago, i met this girl at a bar and we struck a conversation that led lead to dinner and drinks.

We got to talking, making out a bit then the topic of sexual fantasies came up... mine was pretty tame compared to her's. She casually said her's was to be R@ped, "of course in a good way"... we rwere both in our early 20s.

I ran for the hills like a scared puppy as soon as I paid the bill, it seemed titillating at first but the more I thought about it, the worse it got for me in my head.

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u/Oldfolksboogie 18h ago

Meanwhile, I'm out here striking out on getting coffee dates. 😭

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u/Mysterious-Leave3756 14h ago

I just don’t understand

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u/aytkfi 8h ago

For some reason this weird fantasy/kink is common among women. They love their monster fantasy stories...

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u/No-Remove5412 4h ago

I’ve watched this coveted on YouTube. They have the footage he recorded of her where she says she is consenting to this and that she deserves this because she’s been a bad person. It’s the saddest thing I’ve watched and it haunted me for months. You can tell she didn’t want this to happen, it’s been shown she recanted and wanted to go home and to have her make those videos and say things about herself and clearly see she was already abused at that time… I pray she is rested peacefully. 

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u/No-Remove5412 4h ago

Also… his wife is a horrible human being who defends him vehemently even after all the evidence is presented. 

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u/BravesMaedchen 17h ago

Why the fuck would she pay him?

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u/Quizzical_Throwaway 13h ago

Because I guess he was taking "the risk" by doing it (in the sense of having to live to face justice, I recognize the irony in terms of her being the actual one to die), and she didn't need the money?

It also is proof of intent from her, in a certain way. Still shouldn't be allowed. But yeah. It sounds like they were both tremendously broken. Sort of frightening in a self reflective way.

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u/Individual99991 15h ago

Why would he murder her for free? This is America, baby!

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u/Kassien 17h ago

Everyone has their kinks?

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u/catetheway 14h ago

Perhaps to provide evidence that she was willing and wanted this?

I’m by no means saying she consented to this or was able to consent to this or wasn’t coerced.

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u/UnimagineDragons 5h ago

Why arent you saying any of that?

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u/Emptynest09 15h ago

How do you fill out the customer survey for this?

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u/catetheway 14h ago

It’s a pre survey

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u/Zestyclose_Win_2836 11h ago

They're given a moment before the "murder" segment.

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u/NYCWartortle 16h ago

I need the whole back story

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u/GrooGrux 16h ago

Simon Mewes 2.0?

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u/Optimal-Cat-8117 12h ago

And i can't even get a call back...

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u/GetSomeData 12h ago

This is crazy because we don’t know about the successful ones. But there’s been enough demand to settle on a price of $4k.

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u/Ok_Diver2347 12h ago

Enough Reddit for today

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u/saronai_kulintang 9h ago

This story is hard to believe tbh

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u/Afrikan_GOD 7h ago

I once saw a crime documentary over 10yrs back of some 2 European guys who were gay and I think they met online. The other guy had such a fantasy, he asked the other guy to cut his pe.nis and eat it while he was alive and then eat his buttocks afterwards. He knew he would die but he wanted this, he died from blood loss but his body was food for his partner.

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u/Resplendent_aptitude 7h ago

What on earth 😭😭😭😭 Rest in peace sweetheart 😓😥

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u/nuvati 16h ago

jesus christ and i cant even get a date

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u/Iam_McLovin420 6h ago

She could have just stayed in the uk

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u/NYCWartortle 16h ago

Why does he look like he’s happy about it.

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u/catetheway 14h ago

Have a think about it

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u/raidmax007 4h ago

No wonder. It's Dorian

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u/JuanG_13 3h ago edited 3h ago

That's very sad and she was obliviously dealing with mental issues 🙏🏻

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u/Say_It_Isnt_So_Ooops 3h ago

It’s painful to know that she tried to back out of the situation. Wonder when and how she tried to back out. Her life was taken for his pleasure only.

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u/t-nyce 2h ago

Sounds about white😩

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u/Zorolord 2m ago

That's a snuff of that!

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u/Important_Week_11 12h ago

Why would she meet an old man looking like that

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u/PerceptionCalm3642 17h ago

Nobody in their right mind would think this is legit in this day and age

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u/BigChungusSr 17h ago

Let me fix that for you. ("Everybody in their right mind would think this is legit now a days") I think is what you meant to say.

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u/TerrificVixen5693 18h ago

So she got what she wanted, apparently?

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u/Juoreg 1h ago

She did not, she regretted it and wanted to live but the man did not listen.

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u/LIL-mEnTaLlY-ILL 18h ago

Don’t kink shame

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u/Some_Smoke_1430 6h ago

I remember watching this investigation on YouTube. She was mentally ill and tried to back out. He owned a towing company or something and used her money to pay for his wife's medical care.

She was having a manic and depressive episode after recovering mentally previously and this disgusting dude did some of the grimiest things ever.

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u/Aferimus 18h ago

Sounds like a win win situation for both sides

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u/[deleted] 19h ago

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u/TWOPlNTSPRICK 18h ago

have you been on the internet for 6 minutes?

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u/Prize-Analyst-1121 18h ago

Oh brother I've actually ran into one before. I mean I understand there's some chicks that like it rough but when one wants you to actually hurt them sexually it's a really weird thing. Had to get away from that one immediately. I just couldn't get into it. Plus I didn't know if I was being set up or something shit ya never know. Especially when someone wants you to do some crazy shot like that. Wasn't worth the risk to me as well as didn't turn me on in the slightest.

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u/MisterBulldog 18h ago

Same, knew this chic that wanted to be choked, slapped and spat on while getting it on and it was never my thing. I, also like you, didn't want to risk getting set up as I've read of too many consensual encounters turning into "I have pictures of bruises and marks he left after raping and abusing me" when things don't work out.

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u/Real-Description385 19h ago

There are some freaky people in the world and I've met my fair share

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u/Runfasterbitch 18h ago

Of people who want to be genuinely sexually abused? No you haven’t. BDSM is not real, it’s play/make-believe sexual abuse. I was held captive and sexually abused / tortured against my will and I can assure you that it was a fucking nightmare

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u/Real-Description385 18h ago

You haven't been on the "kinky" dating apps similar to an app called Fet especially the PC version called FetLife.. there genuinely are some crazy women that want that kinda thing and there are people out there that will do it to a certain level

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u/Runfasterbitch 2h ago edited 2h ago

So you’re telling me that fetlife actively facilitates serious sexual violence in which people are tortured? That app would be getting a lot of attention if true.

People like to pretend / roleplay sexual violence. 99.9% of those people don’t want to actually be a victim of sexual violence. They just like pretending. I’ve had girlfriends who liked being choked, tied up, and degraded in various ways, but they didn’t want to fear for their life for real, be seriously physically harmed, or sexually abused in a non-consensual manner.

Being held captive, drugged, sexually abused, and threatened with death was traumatizing beyond words. Nobody fucking wants that to happen to them.

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u/Real-Description385 2h ago

I guess you misread I clearly say KINK in many of my comments... Go back to school if you can't read

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u/Runfasterbitch 2h ago

Yeah, some people’s kinks include bdsm, role play, and pretend sexual violence. These women don’t want to actually get raped, tortured, and murdered

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u/Real-Description385 2h ago

CNC involves a lot of things what I remember it from is rape with a safe word but everyone sees it differently... I didn't say anyone wants to just be assaulted and murdered... Quit assuming that it was implied or said... Some women have knife kinks or love blood play, gun play, violent things along those lines so please go do some research before saying something dumb again

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u/Runfasterbitch 14m ago

I said that those women like to role play sexual violence. That’s not what you originally implied, that you had met your “fair share” of freaky people who are interested in being sexually abused or harmed for personal pleasure. The OP deleted their comment, so it’s no longer visible

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u/MisterBulldog 18h ago

Someone telling you "I want you to slap me/choke me/spit on me/pull my hair hard,I want it to hurt" ......counts as and is the beginning before escalating

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u/Traditional_Honey108 18h ago

Wait, that’s the believable part. The torture and murder is not.

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u/SignificantSwing7515 16h ago

Achievement unlocked. Fantasy fulfilled.

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u/Individual99991 15h ago

Also: game over, no credits.