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What are all these types of reactions to Jon Rothstein supposed to mean? I feel very out of the loop.

I had the TV The Movie DVD back in the day, and I very clearly remember in the special features/bonus section of the DVD, there were 3 or 4 episodes of a series called Roommates (at least I think that's what it was called).

They were like 15 minutes each and starred Preston Lacy, Sam Macaroni, and another guy who all lived together. What always stuck with me was how unexpectedly dark the episodes were. They had some comedy mixed in, but they were also really creepy and unsettling.

The two episodes I remember most are one where Preston Lacy kills his roommates and cooks/eats them, and another where one of the roommates brings a friend home who turns out to be a complete psychopath. I want to say that episode even involved one of the roommates being sexually assaulted.

I've tried searching online, but I can't find these episodes anywhere. It almost seems like they were never uploaded and only exist as bonus features on the DVD.

Does anyone else remember these?

I don't know why, but the Bobby Joe Blythe dojo incident is one of those cases that has always stuck with me.

For anyone unfamiliar, in 1984 a man walked into a karate dojo in Dumfries, Virginia claiming that Jesus had taught him martial arts. What followed was captured on video: the man was brutally beaten by members of the dojo, stomped while on the ground, left bleeding and unconscious, and then dragged out the back door. The victim was never publicly identified, and to this day people still refer to him as "Kung Fu Guy."

The video resurfaced online in 2009 and caused a huge stir. There were investigations, news articles, martial arts forums trying to identify the victim, and countless debates over whether he survived. Police later stated they believed the victim survived and had been spoken to after the incident, but no definitive public identification was ever made.

What has always fascinated me is how the story seemed to just... disappear.

Back in 2009, there were entire websites dedicated to identifying the victim. People were analyzing the footage frame by frame. Some were convinced it was an unsolved homicide, while others believed the victim survived but was never located publicly.

Yet here we are nearly 20 years later, and there seems to be virtually no new information.

No confirmed identity.
No public statement from the victim.
No family members coming forward.
No documentary.
No major update.

In an era where decades-old mysteries are being solved through DNA and internet sleuthing, it's amazing that a case involving an actual video recording, known participants, a known location, and a specific date has produced so few answers.

Maybe there are answers out there that I've missed. Maybe the victim was identified privately and wanted nothing to do with the attention. Maybe the police really did verify that he survived and that was the end of it.

But every few years I find myself going back down the rabbit hole and wondering the same thing:

Who was that man, what ultimately happened to him, and how has there been essentially no meaningful update in all these years?

https://kmph.com/archive/gallery/caught-on-tape-karate-student-brutally-attacks-mentally-challenged-man?photo=1

The front of the jersey looks fine but the back letters/number outlining has a blueish tint instead of gray?? Oh well, $30 is $30

Stupid Ammon McNeff.