Adva Lavie was an IDF veteran and Penthouse Pet who allegedly posed as a companion to wealthy older men on dating apps before burglarizing their homes. Police raided her apartment and found $200K in cash and gold bars. Her billionaire fiancé was later arrested for intimidating her victims.

Adva Lavie was an IDF veteran and Penthouse Pet who allegedly posed as a companion to wealthy older men on dating apps before burglarizing their homes. Police raided her apartment and found $200K in cash and gold bars. Her billionaire fiancé was later arrested for intimidating her victims.

Adva Lavie, an IDF veteran and Penthouse Pet, allegedly used dating apps to pose as a companion to wealthy older men across LA, then burglarized their homes. Police raided her apartment and found $200K in cash, gold bars, and a firearm. She faces 6 felony counts. source

u/Important-Self-1179 — 3 days ago
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Ryker Webb, 3, was flipping rocks in his Montana front yard looking for bugs. His dad stepped inside for a minute. He vanished. 2 days later searchers found him 2 miles away in a stranger’s shed, curled inside a lawnmower bag. The door had been latched shut. Nobody has ever explained how he got in.

Ryker Webb, 3, vanished from his Montana front yard in June 2022 while his dad stepped inside briefly. He survived a thunderstorm and 2 nights in bear country. He was found 2 miles away, curled inside a lawnmower bag in a stranger’s shed. The door had been latched shut. Nobody knows how he got in. source

u/Important-Self-1179 — 6 days ago

Doctors told Harmony Montgomery’s mother she wouldn’t survive her first birthday. She did. Then her drug-addicted father Adam Montgomery bat her to death at age 5 over a bathroom accident, hid her body in a car trunk and a freezer. She wasn’t reported missing for 2 years.

The family was living in a borrowed car in Manchester, NH. Adam had just left a methadone clinic when he killed her. He hid her body in a shelter ceiling vent and a restaurant freezer. Her body has never been found. source

u/Important-Self-1179 — 6 days ago

In 1976, bus driver Ed Ray was hijacked with 26 children on the way home from a swim trip. All 27 were buried alive in an underground quarry. They dug out with their bare hands. The kidnappers had fallen asleep and missed their own ransom call.

In Chowchilla, California, Ed Ray was driving 26 students home from a summer swim trip when three masked men hijacked the bus at gunpoint. All 27 were forced into a buried moving van underground for 16 hours with little air and no way out. They dug free using a metal plate. Outside, the kidnappers had fallen asleep and missed their own ransom call. source

u/Important-Self-1179 — 9 days ago
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Samantha Petersen, high on meth, rear-ended an Amish buggy and kIlled 2 sisters aged 7 & 11. She called her twin to take the blame. Her twin sat in a cop car whispering "no way they'd know the difference between us" a deputy's pocket recorder was running.

The recording was entered into evidence and the switch collapsed immediately. Samantha faced vehicular homicide charges. Her twin faced obstruction. The two girls, ages 7 and 11, were on a routine ride when the impact came. Their community doesn’t litigate. Reportedly, the family forgave Samantha publicly. source

u/Dont_lookbehind — 8 days ago

David Katz won a Madden NFL championship and $10,000 in 2016. In 2018, he shot two players dead after losing a tournament match to a rival he despised with guns he had legally bought two weeks prior.

On antipsychotics since 13, David Katz legally bought two handguns two weeks before Jacksonville. Elijah Clayton the player he shot first had only decided to attend the day before. The laser sight on his chest is visible in the live stream.source

u/Important-Self-1179 — 14 days ago

Travis the Chimp lived like a human for 14 years drinking wine, watching TV, appearing in commercials. Then he att*cked his owner’s friend Charla Nash, removing her hands, nose, lips, and eyes. Charla later became one of the first Americans to receive a full face transplant.

u/Important-Self-1179 — 19 days ago

Grace Millane had been in New Zealand just 11 days when she went on a Tinder date on her 22nd birthday and never came home. Her date spent the next morning watching pornography and swiping for more matches. She was found in a suitcase.

Grace was a British backpacker from Essex on a gap year. Her father flew from the UK to appeal for information. Her date, Jesse Kempson, claimed her death was an accident. source

u/Important-Self-1179 — 19 days ago
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In 1989, John Glennie set sail for a 3-week trip to Tonga. A 60-foot wave flipped his boat upside down. He and 3 men survived 119 days inside the hull on 3oz of soft drink a day. His country declared them drowned, then called them liars when they came home. A barnacle cleared his name.

u/Important-Self-1179 — 20 days ago
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65-year-old millionaire Steven Beard was shot with a shotgun while he slept. He spent four months dying. His wife Celeste, a gold digger 29 years his junior, held his hand at the hospital every day. She had arranged the whole thing. The shooter was her secret girlfriend.

Celeste married Steven in 1995. She was spending his fortune and hiding a girlfriend named Tracey Tarlton. On October 2, 1999, Tarlton shot him while he slept. Steven survived four months before dying. Celeste was convicted of murder in 2003. Source

u/Important-Self-1179 — 21 days ago
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Terry Thompson spent decades hoarding 56 lions, tigers and bears on his Ohio farm. In 2011, broke, weeks out of federal prison, and abandoned by his wife, he cut open every cage he owned, then shot himself. Deputies shot 48 of the animals. Ohio had no law against owning a lion until that day.

u/Important-Self-1179 — 23 days ago

In 1968, 20-year-old Florida heiress Barbara Jane Mackle was kidnapped from a motel room, buried alive underground for 83 hours, and recovered after her father paid $500,000 for her location.

Gary Steven Krist and accomplice Ruth Eisemann-Schier posed as detectives to get into the motel room, chloroformed Barbara’s mother, and drove Barbara to a remote Gwinnett County pine stand.

They buried her in a fiberglass box rigged with an air pump, a lamp, food and sedated water, then demanded the ransom from her father, Robert Mackle, a Florida land developer.

FBI agents traced the payoff, dug her out alive but dehydrated, and caught Krist days later. He served just 10 years before parole. source

u/Important-Self-1179 — 23 days ago
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Gary Steven Krist buried 20-year-old Barbara Jane Mackle alive in a Georgia pine forest with an air pump and two days of water, then drove home to listen to the radio for news of the search. She survived 83 hours underground. He served 10 years and was later licensed to practice medicine.

u/Important-Self-1179 — 24 days ago

A freight train stalled inside an Italian tunnel in 1944 with 650 stowaways aboard. Over 500 were killed by toxic fumes from bad coal. Italy hid it for seven years, and no one was ever punished for it.

u/Important-Self-1179 — 24 days ago

Stephanie Mayorga and Paige Escalera got engaged in March 2020, then vanished together weeks later. Their delivery food sat untouched outside their apartment door for days. Why it took police 19 days to find their car, hidden in the woods just miles from home, has never been fully explained.

u/Important-Self-1179 — 26 days ago
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José Salvador Alvarenga set out on a fishing trip in November 2012 and didn’t reach land for 438 days, sheltering under an upturned icebox on an open boat. His companion died along the way. The dead man’s family sued him for $1 million, claiming he ate the body.

u/Illustrious-Noise123 — 24 days ago
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Elisa Lam was last seen alive on a Cecil Hotel elevator in Los Angeles in January 2013. Weeks passed. Guests drank and bathed in water from the tank where her b*dy was decomposing. How she got in there has never been explained.

u/Important-Self-1179 — 27 days ago

Stalin funded Soviet scientist Ilya Ivanov to breed a human-ape hybrid supersoldier. The USSR’s top artificial insemination expert spent years attempting to impregnate chimpanzees with human sperm. Not one pregnancy resulted. Stalin had him arrested anyway.

u/Important-Self-1179 — 27 days ago

Michael Chidgey murdered 17yo Heather Tell in 2000 with 10 prior sex convictions. He wasn't on the Sex Offenders Register because his crimes predated the 1997 law. He was caught because his own daughter reported him & his alibi died when an expert confirmed Heather's bra was too old.

Heather Tell, 17, left home on 25 August 2000 to meet a friend. She took a shortcut through Kettlebrook Linear Park. She never arrived.

Her body was found the next morning. Str*ngled with her own shoelace. Her phone was snapped in half nearby.

Chidgey had 10 prior sex convictions but wasn't on the register. His own daughter and wife reported him. His alibi collapsed when a bra expert proved the garment was too worn to have been touched recently in a shop. source

u/Important-Self-1179 — 30 days ago
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Eliyahu Weinstein ran a $200M Ponzi on his own Orthodox community, got 24 years, served 8, and was freed by Trump. He renamed himself Michael Konig and defrauded them again.

u/Anwallen — 27 days ago