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On the surface, Herb Baumeister looked to have a 'normal' life. He was married with three children and the founder of a successful thrift store chain...But behind the scenes there was a very troubled individual. He had been committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in his youth and his wife could count on one hand the number of times they had sex over the course of their twenty-five year marriage. Baumeister was a closeted homosexual...and...
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Andrew Fluegelman was a corporate attorney who made a name for himself in the world of computing, specifically in the shareware business model for software. He suffered from colitis and was on medication for it when he was diagnosed with cancer. On July 6, 1985, Fluegelman left his office in Tiburon, California, and was never seen again. A week later, police officers found his car abandoned at the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge near San Francisco....
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While he was still in his school uniform, Peter Dupas walked over to his neighbor's house and knocked. The 27-year-old mother was breastfeeding her five-week-old baby when she heard the knock. She answered the door, and was surprised to see the young boy at her door. She welcomed him into the house and asked why he had come over. He asked to borrow a sharp knife. He was supposed to be peeling potatoes, and they did not have a knife that was sharp...
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On February 17, 1977, after spending eight days at the facility, Helen left the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and planned to head home to Glenview. She had gone to the clinic for her routine physical examination, which was always intensive and thorough. The physician who examined her, Dr. Carl Anderson, recorded her height and weight, logging five-foot-five and 138 pounds on her chart. He told her that she was in good health for someone her...
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Over two decades, four women disappeared and one was raped along the same stretch of road in rural Oregon. Their stories have another connection: John Arthur Ackroyd...A highway mechanic who targeted women on the long stretch of highway that he know so well from endless trips...Calm and collected on the exterior, his personality hid the predator that raged within.
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