Rotten Mango Stephanie Soo & Ramble

A man is laying face first, unconscious in his living room. Alyssa and Vanessa are standing over him. Alyssa reaches for the zip ties and binds his ankles together, three zip ties thick. Vanessa on the other hand is terrified. She’s screaming in her head to ‘STOP! This needs to stop! It’s taking things too far!’ But the words won’t come out; the only thing she can do is wait for a moment when Alyssa looks away—then Vanessa dives for the scissors. She cuts the zip ties off his ankles.
“NO!” Alyssa forces Vanessa aside and reties his ankles and his wrists. Vanessa lost her chance. She can only watch helplessly as Alyssa yields a massive hunting knife and sends it plunging into the man’s neck. Then she begins sawing—back and forth. They watch the blood soak into the carpet.
Police would later find the victim, Harold Sasko, and announce that his suspected killer was a 19 year old girl named Sarah.
However this episode is NOT Harold’s story. Neither Alyssa’s, nor Vanessa’s. This is the case of Sarah McLinn, diagnosed with DID, and the many, many people who believe she should be free.

RAINN Resources
Website link to CHAT w/ a trained staff member who can provide you confidential crisis support: https://hotline.rainn.org/online 

Call the National SA Hotline anytime at: 800.656.4673

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Orchards are not fun at 3am. The rustling of the leaves feels no longer feels like a nice sunny, breezy day, it sounds like someone is hiding behind a tree somewhere watching you. Standing in the middle of an orchard is a group of high schoolers and young 20 something year olds just huddled in a circle. 
“What did kim say about the—? “HURRY just start pouring it!” 
They kick their shovels aside, start pouring the concrete into the hole, and watch as it covers first the hand, then the torso, and now the face. 

The face of the 15-year-old girl that they held captive for a month and tortured. 

When they’re done, they head back to their cars with their shovels… And honestly? They think they did it; that they’re getting away with it. But don’t they know? History always repeats itself. 

A very, very similar case took place 26 years ago in Japan: The case of Junko Furuta. 

This episode is about a case that everyone in South Korea has been calling: The Korean Junko Furuta case.


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“I’m going to use the restroom real quick.”
Jia’s husband opens his eyes and looks at his phone. It’s 1AM. The two of them are on an overnight train heading home. He blinks before ripping his blanket off to escort his wife - 
“No, it’s okay. I have my phone with me. Just stay here. I’ll be back quick.”
She leaves for the restroom - careful to not wake up any of the other passengers in the sleeper carriage. She climbs down the bunk bed steps and balances through the aisle to the restroom. 
BAM. Jia’s husband eye’s fly open and he checks the time. 1:30AM. It’s been thirty minutes and his wife is not back from the restroom. Strange… 
He searches the entire carriage before alerting the train conductor… 
“Please you have to help my wife is missing!”
The train conductor smiles at him.
“Don’t be ridiculous. Nobody goes missing on a moving train.”


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The to do list for the party mainly consists of purchasing groceries, cleaning the upstairs rooms, and airing out the pungent smell in the bathrooms. 
17 year old Cassandra grabs the bottle of bleach and pours it out onto the bathroom floors. There. That should do. 
Her boyfriend, Johnny, helps her glue the bathroom door shut. Sealing it with a caulk gun. There. Now nobody can get in and nobody can get out. 
But more importantly - the smell won’t get downstairs and ruin the vibes. 
“It’s a sewage issue.” That’s what they tell the party guests. 
19 year old Johnny had used the restroom and because the sewer lines were blocked up he couldn’t flush. Excuse the smell. 
They did not tell them that they were getting high right under 2 dead bodies that were decomposing upstairs. 

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The police office ran through the apartment complex - only stopping to investigate a suspicious looking Korean girl in a blue mustang. 
“What unit?”
“656” she said. 
The exact unit he was called to for a potential home invasion and hostage situation. 
“What’s your name?”
“My name is Sunny Han.”
He tried to memorize her face before running to the unit. They found in the apartment 2 college girls had been tied up by gunmen. They were trying to kill the girls. 
As the officer is interviewing the two female victims he can’t help but shake the feeling of deja vu. 
“Wait, I’m sorry what did you say your name was?”
“Sunny. Sunny Han.”
But that’s not possible. How can someone be two places at once? 


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It was supposed to be a cute little road trip. 
12-year-old Isabella, her best friend Asunta, and Isabella’s mom were in the car heading towards the beach. 
Isabella’s mom tried to keep the spirits high for the girls - 
“Okay, why don’t we all share a story! Get our creative juices flowing!”
12-year-old Asunta offers to start. Her voice suddenly shaky - 
“There once was a girl who laid in her bed to sleep. She awoke to a man in a mask dragging her body off her bed, covering her mouth, and then choking her with his big strong hands. The girl could not breathe. She could not scream. She was going to die.”
Isabella’s mom pulls the car over to the side of the road because Asunta is bawling her eyes out.
“Sweetie, are you alright?”
Asunta was not alright. This was a true story, and it happened to Asunta - a man broke into their home and tried to kill her. 
But when Isabella’s mom talks to Asunta’s parents about it - she’s even more confused. Why are they not freaked out? Why didn’t they report this to the police? Who is this masked man, and is he still out there?
Why would he want to kill Asunta?
And did the man come back? Because 2 months later, Asunta would be murdered. 
Soon - everyone in Asunta’s life would become a prime suspect. Including her wealthy adoptive parents. 


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