PART 2 OF 2.

When a young British woman vanishes in Tokyo, her family is heartbroken and terrified. They are soon shocked to discover the mysterious life Lucie was leading in her few short months abroad. During the search for Lucie, loved ones and investigators travel down a twisted path through Japan’s seedy underbelly uncovering multiple disappearances and deaths, conniving con-artists, and an alarming amount of evidence. Although an arrest is made many questions remain.

SOURCES

People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry

Netflix Documentary - MISSING: The Lucie Blackman Case

http://www.ractive-roppongi.com/e/history/index.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Adelstein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_and_hostess_clubs

https://www.moviemaker.com/carita-ridgway-missing-the-lucie-blackman-case/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joji_Obara

https://oag.ca.gov/missing/stats

https://www.reddit.com/r/japanese/comments/1b412q9/what_exactly_are_japanese_hostess_clubbar/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_five#:~:text=Conventional%20wisdom%20holds%20that%20the,tatchi%20or%20%22high%20touch%22.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya_Crossing#:~:text=Shibuya%20Crossing%20is%20the%20world's,people%20crossing%20at%20a%20time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lloyd_Parry

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Jessie and Andie cover updates in three cases:

• Hannah Kobayashi has resurfaced, alive and well (but maybe part of an immigration scam)
• Ryan Borgwardt, the Wisconsin dad who faked his own death has returned to America
• Margaret Rudin, the so-called "Las Vegas Black Widow," has been freed after 20 years in jail

Current Affairs is Love Murder's show about the stories of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.

Sources

https://people.com/prosecutors-reveal-moment-runaway-dad-ryan-borgwardt-allegedly-knew-made-mistake-8760580

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14183731/Hannah-Kobayashi-vanished-New-York-Green-Card-Mexico.html

https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/las-vegas-judge-dismisses-infamous-black-widow-murder-case-after-27-years/

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When a young British woman vanishes in Tokyo, her family is heartbroken and terrified. They are soon shocked to discover the mysterious life Lucie was leading in her few short months abroad. During the search for Lucie, loved ones and investigators travel down a twisted path through Japan’s seedy underbelly uncovering multiple disappearances and deaths, conniving con-artists, and an alarming amount of evidence. Although an arrest is madw, many questions remain.

SOURCES

People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry

Net Flix Documentary - MISSING: The Lucie Blackman Case

http://www.ractive-roppongi.com/e/history/index.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Adelstein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_and_hostess_clubs

https://www.moviemaker.com/carita-ridgway-missing-the-lucie-blackman-case/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joji_Obara

https://oag.ca.gov/missing/stats

https://www.reddit.com/r/japanese/comments/1b412q9/what_exactly_are_japanese_hostess_clubbar/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_five#:~:text=Conventional%20wisdom%20holds%20that%20the,tatchi%20or%20%22high%20touch%22.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya_Crossing#:~:text=Shibuya%20Crossing%20is%20the%20world's,people%20crossing%20at%20a%20time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lloyd_Parry

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Traveler Hannah Kobayashi went missing in Los Angeles while traveling back to see her family. The tragedy didn't end there as her father died in an apparent suicide.

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ORIGINALLY RECORDED 11.28.24

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When a famous French actress and singer meets a handsome Olympic skier in 1970's Aspen, Colorado sparks fly. The duo becomes the IT couple of the party scene - that is until one of them ends up dead. Was it an accident or something more sinister?

Sources:

1. Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13681642/spider_sabich

2. Snow Industry News: https://www.snowindustrynews.com/articles/2023/august/spider-sabichs-killler-claudine-longet-lists-aspen-mansion-for-595-million/

3. Stowe Reporter: https://www.vtcng.com/stowe_reporter/on_snow/revisiting-the-scandalous-spider-sabich-shooting-story/article_0fba6b4e-bb80-11ee-99d6-171d5dfd6456.html#:~:text=At%20a%20celebrity%20ski%20race,children%20into%20his%20Aspen%20home.

4. Birmingham Post-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/795107393/?match=1&terms=dr%20mary%20frances%20sabich

5. The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/11/archives/miss-longet-weeps-at-an-autopsy-report-on-sabich.html#:~:text=Sabich%20had%20been%20expected%20to,in%20her%20hand%20while%20Mr.

6. Greeley Daily Tribune: https://www.newspapers.com/image/25122163/?match=1&terms=spider%20sabich

7. Greeley Daily Tribune: https://www.newspapers.com/image/25131335/?match=1&terms=claudine%20longet

8. The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/01/archives/miss-longed-given-30-days.html

9. Greeley Daily Tribune: https://www.newspapers.com/image/25125612/?match=1&terms=%22claudine%20longet%22

10. Greeley Daily Tribune: https://www.newspapers.com/image/25130517/?match=1&terms=%22claudine%20longet%22

11. Aspen Dreams: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22559121-aspen-dreams

12. Aspen Times: https://www.aspentimes.com/news/spider-sabich-lives-on-in-film-and-party/

13. Ski Racing: https://skiracing.com/on-spider-sabich-day-in-snowmass-the-ski-racing-icon-was-honored-for-his-imprint-and-legacy/

14. GQ: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/claudine-longet-aspens-femme-fatale

15. Power, Privilege, and Justice: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWBCOS8473s

16. The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/13/archives/miss-longet-on-stand-describes-shooting-her-lover.html

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A horrific shooting takes place at a family's Thanksgiving dinner in 2009, fracturing lives and hearts forever.

Links:

Blessed to Survive

The Bear's Castle

Sources:

Makayla's Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45013004/makayla-joy-sitton

NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34227244

Homicide for the Holidays: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6463374/

Courthouse News: https://www.courthousenews.com/parents-cleared-on-sons-thanksgiving-murders/

The Santa Fe New Mexican: https://www.newspapers.com/image/207853414/?match=1&terms=paul%20merhige

Tampa Bay Times: https://www.newspapers.com/image/331898534/?match=1&terms=paul%20merhige

The Palm Beach Post: https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2010/09/26/thanksgiving-massacre-survivor-patrick-knight/7309933007/

NBC Miami: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/thanksgiving-killers-parents-sued-by-former-son-in-law/2057465/

Local 10: https://www.local10.com/news/2013/11/21/survivor-recalls-2009-thanksgiving-day-massacre/

The Palm Beach Post: https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2011/10/29/schultz-in-merhige-case-day/7283477007/

TC Palm: https://archive.tcpalm.com/news/parents-of-girl-6-slain-in-jupiter-thanksgiving-massacre-suing-accused-murderers-parents--videos-ep--344154672.html

Yahoo News: https://www.yahoo.com/news/thanksgiving-massacre-2009-highlights-todays-130038254.html

The Bradenton Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/669186816/?match=1&terms=paul%20merhige

The Miami Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/658412842/?match=1&terms=paul%20merhige

South Florida Sun Sentinel: https://www.newspapers.com/image/286411629/?match=1&terms=paul%20merhige

The Palm Beach Post: https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2011/11/29/merhige-s-parents-fire-back/7196442007/

Knight v. Merhige: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/fl-district-court-of-appeal/1657743.html

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Over the summer, Wisconsin father and husband Ryan Borgwardt died tragically in a kayaking accident. Unless he actually didn't?

Current Affairs is Love Murder's show about the stories of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.

Sources

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/22/nx-s1-5202736/wisconsin-missing-kayaker-faked-death-europe-uzbekistan

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14116109/Wisconsin-husband-faked-kayak-death-talks-cops-day-ryan-borgwardt.html

https://www.wect.com/2024/11/09/authorities-believe-missing-father-3-faked-his-disappearance-fled-country/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3p6GDFPvMdejKlNPeUKUt6jfQSDDQWubDM-7hNu5OdzXA6wu-WBt92Fs0_aem_syUO3nvUf-0Vm47t_65-9A#m3athyqrxlpznm28v6

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When a fixture of a small community is found shot to death in their home, police rush to find the surviving spouse. That suspicious spouse, however, goes on the lam, gambling and generally having a good time until a body matching "their" description is found 1600 miles away less than three weeks later.

Sources:

1. I'm Not A Monster: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33481557/
2. Inside Edition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0XWd6I1ZUY
3. ABC 6 News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FblFFsoGE9s
4. Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189021538/pamela-diane-hutchinson
5. David's Obituary: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/david-riess-obituary?id=10575009
6. David's Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194402384/david-leonard-riess
7. Pamela's Obituary: https://www.peacockfuneralhome.net/obituary/PamelaSellers-Hutchinson
8. Fox 9: https://www.fox9.com/news/lois-riess-pleads-guilty-to-husbands-2018-murder-accepts-life-sentence-without-parole
9. Atavist: https://magazine.atavist.com/the-pretender-lois-reiss-minnesota-florida-gambling-murder/
10. 13 News Now: https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/mycity/virginia-beach/woman-murdered-for-her-id-in-florida-recently-moved-from-va-beach/291-542740080
11. News-Press: https://www.news-press.com/story/news/crime/2018/06/15/fugitive-grandma-lois-riess-alleged-cross-country-gambling-spree-left-death-heartbreak-questions/641907002/

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Jessie and Andie provide an update in the murder case of Ana Knezevich Henao. In their main story, a polyamorous relationship leads to someone getting shot in the neck.

Current Affairs is Love Murder's show about the stories of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.

Sources:

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/david-ana-knezevich-murder-kidnap-spain-b2647516.html

https://people.com/polyamorous-relationship-led-shooting-florida-woman-8745568

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Three sets of exiles populate a remote Galapagos island at the dawn of World War II. All three groups are searching for different things, but all they found was strife, violence and heartbreak. Drama and terror abound when some islanders mysteriously disappear, another is found dead, and one appears to have died from poisoning.

Sources:

Eden Undone by Abbott Kahler

The Galapagos Affair by John Treherne

The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden

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59-year old Melody Farris showed no emotion as the verdict was read. Also, an update in the Karen Read case where Read is pushing to dismiss the charges in advance of a new trial scheduled for January.

Current Affairs is Love Murder's show about the stories of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.

Sources:

https://people.com/wife-of-prominent-ga-attorney-found-guilty-of-murder-and-burning-his-body-8739642

https://www.courttv.com/news/ga-v-melody-walker-farris-burn-pile-murder-trial/

https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/cherokee-county-woman-who-killed-husband-burned-body-convicted-of-murder/Z34YNPOEJRBIDJLKLUNGBMUDKQ/

https://people.com/karen-read-appeal-double-jeopardy-accused-killing-boyfriend-8740324

https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2024/11/06/livestream-karen-read-lawyers-dismissal-arguments-sjc/

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