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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuol_Sleng_Genocide_Museum A high school turned into a dungeon by the Khmer Rouge turned into a genocide museum. Of the ~17k-20k people to pass through it, only 12 survived. Like the Nazis, they killed the remaining prisoners hours before the regime fell.
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http://sharkattackfile.net/spreadsheets/pdf_directory/ Click on random ones for a fun surprise! http://sharkattackfile.net/spreadsheets/pdf_directory/1977.03.13.a-Hayes.pdf quote:The men were on a fishing expedition. On Friday night a 25,000-ton http://sharkattackfile.net/spreadsheets/pdf_directory/1942.11.28-NovaScotia.pdf quote:...“Private Sammy Levine was a soldier mate of mine on the staff of No.4 General Hospital,
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Idilia Dubbquote:In 1860 the ancient tower of Lahneck Castle was to be repaired. The workmen came upon a skeleton inside the top of the ruined tower. Along with the bones, they found pages of a sketchbook owned by Idilia. On the pages, she had recorded the horror of her final days. She wrote that she had managed to climb to the top of the tower on the rotted wooden stairs. When she reached the top of the tower, however, the stairs collapsed and she was trapped. Idilia was confident that people would see her signals for rescue. As she waved from a window, the boatmen waved back. quote:“Father in heaven have mercy on my soul” Her diary was kept by her parents until years later when it was published and may or may not be hogwash. Nazino Affair quote:They were trying to escape. They asked us "Where's the railway?" We'd never seen a railway. They asked "Where's Moscow? Leningrad?" They were asking the wrong people: we'd never heard of those places. We're Ostyaks. People were running away starving. They were given a handful of flour. They mixed it with water and drank it and then they immediately got diarrhea. The things we saw! People were dying everywhere; they were killing each other.... On the island there was a guard named Kostia Venikov, a young fellow. He was courting a pretty girl who had been sent there. He protected her. One day he had to be away for a while, and he told one of his comrades, "Take care of her," but with all the people there the comrade couldn't do much.... People caught the girl, tied her to a poplar tree, cut off her breasts, her muscles, everything they could eat, everything, everything.... They were hungry, they had to eat. When Kostia came back, she was still alive. He tried to save her, but she had lost too much blood. Texarkana Moonlight Murders quote:The Texarkana Moonlight Murders, a term coined by the news media, are the unsolved violent crimes committed in and around Texarkana in the spring of 1946 by an unidentified serial killer known as the Phantom Killer or Phantom Slayer. The killer is credited with attacking eight people within ten weeks, five of whom were killed, usually three weeks apart...The murders sent the town into a state of panic throughout the summer. At dusk, the city was locked down and heavily armed while police patrolled streets and neighborhoods. Although many businesses lost customers at night, stores sold out of guns, ammunition, locks, and many other protective devices. Several rumors began to spread, including that the killer was caught, or that a third and even fourth double-homicide had been committed. Most of the town were hiding in fear inside their houses or hotels, sometimes even leaving town. Some youths were taking matters in their own hands by trying to bait the Phantom so they could kill him. quote:One night, Officer Tillman Johnson was patrolling a lonely road with Arkansas State Trooper Charley Boyd when they came up to a parked car. Johnson got out while Boyd stayed behind. Johnson walked up to the car and noticed a couple. He said, "I am Tillman Johnson with the Miller County Sheriff's Department. Aren't you scared to be parked out here at night?" The girl replied, "You're the one that ought to be scared, Mister. It's a good thing you told me who you are," as she revealed that she had been pointing a .25 pistol at him the whole time. quote:"The newspapers are not printing rumors and have assured us they will not. Any information which the public hears about this case will not be official unless it comes from us through the newspapers." quote:The unofficial theory for a motive amongst the majority of the 47 officers was that of "sex mania", because large amounts of money in the home were not taken, nor was Mrs. Starks' purse which was lying on the bed containing money and jewels, and because nothing was stolen from the home. The title on the front page of the Texarkana Gazette on Sunday, May 5, 1946 read "SEX MANIAC HUNTED IN MURDERS". quote:The height of the town's hysteria snowballed after the murder of Virgil Starks. The Texarkana Gazette stated on Sunday, May 5, that the killer might strike again at any moment, at any place and at any one. Before, it was normal to leave your house unlocked, but soon residents started locking doors, pulling down shades, blocking windows, and arming themselves with guns. Some people would nail sheets over their windows or nail the window down. Some used screened-door braces as window guards. The next day after Starks' death, several residents bought firearms and locks. Stores sold out of locks, guns, ammunition, and window shades and Venetian blinds. Other items that sold well included window sash locks, screen door hooks, night latches, and other protective devices. quote:On Friday night, May 10, Texarkana, Texas City Police officers chased a car for three miles that had been following a city bus. The police shot out the tires and arrested a high school star athlete named C. J. Lauderdale, Jr. When the officers questioned the teen at the station, he explained that he did not know they were officers because they were driving an unmarked car. He said that he was following the bus because he was suspicious of an occupant who had gotten on from a private car. On Sunday, May 12, Captain Gonzaullas gave a warning to "teen age sleuths" in the Gazette, saying that "it's a good way to get killed." quote:Police arrested a black man in his 30s whose tire tracks were found on the other side of the road from Martin's corpse. After failing a polygraph exam, officers decided to have him hypnotized. I find serial killers not very enthralling and stories about them even less so. Nothing particularly lurid about the case to stand above others. What surrounds the story to make it interesting though? A Texas town under siege by a SEX MANIAC, massive number of phone calls and shotgun shells filling the night, a posse of hardened Texas Rangers, Teen Sleuths. You have the locals slowly being driven mad in a short span of time to set the tempo to the whole thing. Rangers using the, then, latest crime technology of Hypnotism, tree forts, and "pretend" making out with mannequins in secluded spots to lure out the killer/s. There are still quite a few interesting tidbits I didn't quote in the article, including, an escaped German POW, back alley chases, machine-gunner/stuntman coma suspect, and a surprisingly bittersweet adjoined story about a young guy attaching himself to the crime via suicide note.
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RNG posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuol_Sleng_Genocide_Museum Are you KIDDING me? I literally came here to post this, lol. When interviewed right before he died, Pol Pot was asked about Tuol Sleng. He basically said something like, "Tuol Sleng. Tuol Sleng. Tuol Sleng. Why do people keep asking me about this?" in a real whiny voice, much like "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!" Fucker. Henry Kissinger knew how evil Pol Pot was and knew what was happening but did nothing because Pot was anti-Vietnamese.
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DryGoods posted:Texarkana Moonlight Murders I'm with you on the serial killer stuff, but that is one hell of a story. I'm especially taken by how there seems to be one good suspect ... whose fingerprints don't match, so it can't be him.
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outlier posted:I'm with you on the serial killer stuff, but that is one hell of a story. I'm especially taken by how there seems to be one good suspect ... whose fingerprints don't match, so it can't be him. Maybe you'll be unnerved to know that fingerprinting doesn't have a whole lot of actual scientific support.
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DryGoods posted:
How about that one seriously hard-core Lady Rasputin? quote:She rang the wall-crank phone two times before being shot twice in the face from the same window. One bullet entered her right cheek and exited behind her left ear.[30] The other went in her lower jaw just below the lip, breaking it and splintering out several teeth before lodging under her tongue. She dropped to her knees but soon managed to get on her feet.[31] She ran to get a pistol from the living room, but she was blinded by her own blood.[32] She heard the killer tearing loose the rusted screen wire on the back porch. Mrs. Starks thought she was going to be killed, so she stumbled toward her bedroom toward the front of the house to leave a note. Meanwhile, the killer ran to the back of the house and made his way up the steps and into the side-screened porch through the back screen door. She heard the killer coming through the kitchen window, so she turned around and ran through the dining room, through the bedroom, down a hallway, through another bedroom and then into the living room and out the front door, leaving behind a "virtual river of blood" and teeth throughout the house and across the street. Barefooted and still in her nightgown, which was soaked in her blood, she ran across the street to her sister's and brother-in-law's house. Since no one was home, she ran 50 yards more to A. V. Prater's house. Prater answered her call for help. She gasped, "Virgil's dead", then collapsed
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nocal posted:Maybe you'll be unnerved to know that fingerprinting doesn't have a whole lot of actual scientific support. I'll link the archived LF Effortpost Hidingfromgoro wrote about this: https://lfeffortposts.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/fingerprints1/
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Nckdictator posted:http://sharkattackfile.net/spreadsheets/pdf_directory/ Good find. ACTIVITY: Bathing CASE: GSAF 1700.00.00.a DATE: “The latter end of Queen Anne’s reign” (Queen Anne reigned from 1702 to 1714.) LOCATION: The accident took place in the Caribbean Sea at Barbadoes. NAME: Unknown DESCRIPTION: He was a seaman from the York, a West Indiaman. NARRATIVE: The man was bathing when he “was bitten in twain by a ravenous shark and the lower part was swallowed. The severed trunk was snatched away by some of the people and place on the deck; at the sight of which, the horror and emotion of his attached messmates were beyond description. During this affecting scene, the insatiable fish was seen traversing the bloody surface of the water in search of the remainder of his quarry. Fired at the sight, a faithful friend vowed that he would make the devourer disgorge, or die in the attempt; and seizing a large pointed knife, he plunged into the deep. The shark no sooner perceived the man, than he made furiously towards him; and both seemed eager — the one for his prey, the other for revenge. The moment the monster opened his rapacious jaws, his adversary, dexterously diving, gave him repeated stabs in the belly. The combat was anxiously viewed from the decks of the adjacent vessels, and the spectators were uncertain from which of the combatants the blood issued, but at length, they saw the struggling and enraged shark making towards the beach, where he was stranded. He was quickly dragged high and dry; when the victor ripped him open, recovered the remains of his lamented friend, and procured them a proper sepulchre.” INJURY: Fatal SPECIES: Not identified SOURCE: The Tioga Eagle, Wednesday, October 26, 1842
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visuvius posted:Fired at the sight, a faithful friend vowed that he would make the devourer disgorge, or die poo poo, I don't even have friends that will help me move a couch.
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http://sharkattackfile.net/spreadsheets/pdf_directory/1820.00.00-AmphibiousJack.pdfquote:DATE: Can't say I ever imagined attacking a shark with a pickaxe. Also, there's a surprisingly large amount of shark attacks in rivers and lakes. Rivers I can understand (Bull Sharks and all that) but lakes?
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bean_shadow posted:Are you KIDDING me? I literally came here to post this, lol. Yeah, the history of American involvement in the third world during the Cold War is basically propping up one dictator after another. Came across this from the acid attacks Wikipedia page; it's not any worse than any other acid attack, but it seems a lot more senseless when he was trying to hand her a check for 4 million austrobux. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Leopold_Clement_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha
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Teenager Marie Robards murdered her 38-year-old father by putting barium she got from her school's science lab into his refried beans. The poisoning symptoms resembled a heart attack closely enough that no one suspected foul play for a minute. If she hadn't broken down and confessed to her friend during an assigned reading of Hamlet, no one would have found out. I saw a Forensic Files episode on it with a really corny setup of the Hamlet scene. Here's a recounting of the case from Texas Monthly.
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angelfisher posted:Teenager Marie Robards murdered her 38-year-old father by putting barium she got from her school's science lab into his refried beans. The poisoning symptoms resembled a heart attack closely enough that no one suspected foul play for a minute. This has got to be bullshit. The "to catch the conscience of the King" thing fits way too well for it to be real.
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Ague Proof posted:This has got to be bullshit. The "to catch the conscience of the King" thing fits way too well for it to be real. I know, imagine how hard it must be to trigger a breakdown in a mentally unstable teenager?
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angelfisher posted:Teenager Marie Robards murdered her 38-year-old father by putting barium she got from her school's science lab into his refried beans. The poisoning symptoms resembled a heart attack closely enough that no one suspected foul play for a minute. http://www.examiner.com/article/dorothy-marie-robards-steven-robards-murder-timeline quote:Marie Robards was released in 2003. According to public records she is married and goes by a new identity. I do have to wonder if her new family knows.
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Nckdictator posted:http://sharkattackfile.net/spreadsheets/pdf_directory/1820.00.00-AmphibiousJack.pdf I like how one shark went for the dude and got a pickaxe to the head for its troubles, while the smart one just took the oysters and got the hell out of dodge.
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angelfisher posted:Teenager Marie Robards murdered her 38-year-old father by putting barium she got from her school's science lab into his refried beans. The poisoning symptoms resembled a heart attack closely enough that no one suspected foul play for a minute. This is why I never want children.
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Ague Proof posted:This has got to be bullshit. The "to catch the conscience of the King" thing fits way too well for it to be real. I don't see how? Hamlet is an incredibly common play for high school kids to read and also happens to include a murder by poisoning.
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Here's some more that all sound like scenes from bad movies. http://sharkattackfile.net/spreadsheets/pdf_directory/1853.00.00.a-Hanscheldt.pdf quote:DATE: http://sharkattackfile.net/spreadsheets/pdf_directory/1923.06.16-Rigby.pdf quote:DATE: http://sharkattackfile.net/spreadsheets/pdf_directory/1951.09.02-Joske.pdf quote:DATE:
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Although this has been raised on this thread before, it is worth suggesting you catch this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vyDpH3PON8 All about the Nicholas Barclay/Frederic Bourdin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bourdin Starts out weird and hits creepy about 1 hour in. Catch it before it gets taken. Great film.
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Well this seems just about the worst way to kill yourself ever: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4264282.stm quote:Artist died 'handcuffed to tree'
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That drat Satyr posted:Perhaps, but one of the points that's made is that they were all mostly, if not completely in some cases, naked or in underwear. Though... I suppose the best garment to sew something in to keep them dry might be underwear, but that seems like they could still get damp from sweat and so on. Dyatlov Pass has always fascinated me. I assume the podcast you listened to was Skeptoid? (It hasn't been the same since Brian Dunning sold it ) I've always thought it was avalanche, possibly caused by jet or weapons testing. There are some odd features about it. I'll also check out the book. You might want to take a look at this 17min documentary with lots of photos (incl. a few NWS b&w not detailed gore pics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVHFHIP9eWk /\ /\ /\ Thanks for that post about the artist and tree. I know that forest. Remind me not to read this thread just before going to bed. Dyatlov Pass and nightmares - yes, this is exactly like the previous thread.... Josef K. Sourdust has a new favorite as of 01:23 on Feb 22, 2015 |
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Although this has been raised on this thread before, it is worth suggesting you catch this documentary: Holy crap; this was one of the most interesting documentaries I've ever seen. Frederic Bourdin seems like a mastermind. I would like to know more about the military condoned rape buffet that the FBI lady seemed to think was actually about Frederic's background. The video picks up the thread then drops it immediately after. That's both interesting and unnerving. Edit - Along the same lines: Laurel Rose Wilson who claimed to be a satanic cult child abuse survivor, as well as claiming two of her children were killed to produce snuff films. She also pretended to be Laura Grabowski, a Holocaust survivor, so she might just be crazy. Back of the Bus has a new favorite as of 03:01 on Feb 22, 2015 |
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visuvius posted:Good find. And that shark? Albert Einstein.
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Dyatlov Pass has always fascinated me. I assume the podcast you listened to was Skeptoid? (It hasn't been the same since Brian Dunning sold it ) I've always thought it was avalanche, possibly caused by jet or weapons testing. There are some odd features about it. I'll also check out the book. Brian Dunning didn't sell Skeptoid. He just can't host it right now because he's in federal prison for massive fraud: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Dunning_%28author%29#Wire_fraud_case He bilked amazon out of millions with malware he hid in banner ads.
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Jack Gladney posted:Brian Dunning didn't sell Skeptoid. He just can't host it right now because he's in federal prison for massive fraud: thats weird in and of itself
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:thats weird in and of itself Yeah, nobody donate to Skeptoid because its donation system is very likely at least partially a scam. And Dunning currently has like a million-plus dollars he scammed amazon out of. They only prosecuted him for the first $300,000 because that was all they needed. He still has the rest waiting for him when he gets out. Brian Dunning is criminal poo poo, is what I'm saying.
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Literally Kermit posted:I know, imagine how hard it must be to trigger a breakdown in a mentally unstable teenager? Well I know step one is to murder their father and step two is to marry their mother...
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Jack Gladney posted:Brian Dunning didn't sell Skeptoid. He just can't host it right now because he's in federal prison for massive fraud: Wow! That's pretty depressing. I just assumed he'd sold it because he had too much work for one person. The podcasts were slightly inconsistent (how could they not be, running weekly and appeared over 300 consecutive weeks) but even when I disagreed (and he was on uncertain ground with some of the medical pieces and was disastrously off target on the Tibet issue) he was thought provoking. Farewell, Brian Dunning! E: By coincidence it was the "Dyatlov Pass" version of this thread recommending Skeptoid (episode on Dyatlov Pass) that introduced me to Skeptoid. Josef K. Sourdust has a new favorite as of 11:05 on Feb 22, 2015 |
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Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:They always came back fine, but Jesus Christ did I always panic the gently caress out whenever they did that. The last time it happened, my pug came extremely close to dying of heat stroke; it was only through a series of VERY lucky and VERY unlikely events that his life was saved and we were able to find him. your pug wants to die because it knows it's an abominable mutant
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i thought it was because he's dr gitmo moneyson
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Kimmalah posted:I don't see how? Hamlet is an incredibly common play for high school kids to read and also happens to include a murder by poisoning. I just felt it fit too closely with the events of the play to be real. I mean, I know the fact that they were similar is why there was an outburst at all but I just felt it was too convenient, like something you'd read in a story rather than something that would actually happen.
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Dyatlov Pass has always fascinated me. I assume the podcast you listened to was Skeptoid? (It hasn't been the same since Brian Dunning sold it ) I've always thought it was avalanche, possibly caused by jet or weapons testing. There are some odd features about it. I'll also check out the book. Anyone else find it kind of silly that it literally starts out with the ki-ki-ki ma-ma-ma sound from Friday the 13th?
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Back of the Bus posted:Holy crap; this was one of the most interesting documentaries I've ever seen. Frederic Bourdin seems like a mastermind. I would like to know more about the military condoned rape buffet that the FBI lady seemed to think was actually about Frederic's background. The video picks up the thread then drops it immediately after. That's both interesting and unnerving. Keep in mind that before anything else, the documentary is about an unreliable narrator, it's literally titled 'The Imposter' because you can't truly believe a word it's central character says. The only thing you can really establish about him is that he is a pathological liar.
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kanonvandekempen posted:Keep in mind that before anything else, the documentary is about an unreliable narrator, it's literally titled 'The Imposter' because you can't truly believe a word it's central character says. The only thing you can really establish about him is that he is a pathological liar. Just because Bourdin is a pathological liar and quite possibly lied about [spolier] the mother confessing to murdering Nicholas doesn't mean that isn't true. The claim of the mother's private confession probably is a lie but I think there is every reason to think the family killed Nicholas. Or at least that looks very likely, considering the family's weird reactions throughout the case.[/spoiler] Josef K. Sourdust has a new favorite as of 19:26 on Feb 22, 2015 |
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What reason would they have for killing their kid? They act crazy in the documentary because they're insane from grief and a crazy thing is happening to them. If they really killed their kid, the last thing they would want to do is invite an obvious imposter into their family, because he will reinvigorate curiosity about the disappearance and because they will have to keep their guards up 24/7 with a stranger in the house who they know is not their son. They'd be signing up to live a lie for every waking moment of their lives.
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What "reason" does any family have? But it happens. A fight goes too far, someone makes a mistake, punishment beating goes too far. Who knows? Happens all the time, especially if it is a violent family with drugs in the mix (as the family apparently was). A 100% cast-iron way of never having a murder investigated is if the victim appears alive. Habeas corpus, right? They didn't organise the Bourdin aspect but they sure knew how to exploit it. E: It may just be that they covered up for a friend or disposed of the body or would have had to reveal something nasty in an investigation. They may not have had to kill the kid (on purpose or - more likely - by accident) to have reasons to prefer a missing person situation than a murder investigation. Josef K. Sourdust has a new favorite as of 19:32 on Feb 22, 2015 |
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Phobophilia posted:He was posted to this site in the context of Karla Homolka. What the gently caress does this even mean?
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:What "reason" does any family have? But it happens. A fight goes too far, someone makes a mistake, punishment beating goes too far. Who knows? Happens all the time, especially if it is a violent family with drugs in the mix (as the family apparently was). This was sort of my thought too, mainly because: - Older brother Jason comes to live with his mom and Nicholas. This seems to be around the time Nicholas starts having problems (running away, aggression, etc.) - Brothers don't appear to get along very well, especially based on the reaction Jason had when Nicholas is "found" - Jason never woke their mom up when Nicholas called to get a ride home, and told him he'd have to walk home instead - Jason dies of a drug overdose when a P.I. starts investigating possible family involvement, conveniently leaving no way to find the truth - Possibility that the mother was also involved with drugs along with Jason So...maybe Nicholas was tired of the drug use and/or was being abused by both his mom and older brother? Maybe he threatened to call the police on his mom and brother and they freaked and beat him to death, or whomever was dealing them drugs did it? Mom had no involvement, but older brother killed Nicholas and had his dealer/friend/someone else help dispose of the body? Nobody really knows, and unless Nicholas either shows up alive or his remains are found, it'll stay a mystery.
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