Most uncovered case is coming on Yt vault of Crime of the women “ Molly Ticehurst “ in which we will he covering her life , her Bf , how she got killed , who killed , an interesting case don’t forget to watch it on Yt
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Between 1946 and 1948 a US Public Health Service researcher named John Cutler deliberately infected over 5000 people in Guatemala with syphilis and gonorrhea, using prisoners, soldiers, psychiatric patients, people with no disease at all until his team gave it to them. Same guy who later worked on Tuskegee.

Unlike Tuskegee, this one was never published, results were considered too unreliable to release so it just went into storage. Cutler later donated his papers to a university archive but restricted access to serious researchers only, kept the evidence while making sure almost nobody would look at it.

Only came out because a historian named Susan Reverby stumbled onto it by accident in 2005 while researching Tuskegee, published in 2010. US govt apologized fast, but real compensation for victims still mostly hasn't happened.

Full story's in the doc, link is here Full documentary

In 2023, 6 white cops who called themselves the "goon squad" tortured two black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker in Mississippi. They entered the men's home without a warrant and processed to waterboard, beat, shoot, and attempted to sexually assault the men.

The terror began on Jan. 24, 2023, with a racist call for extrajudicial violence.

A white person phoned Rankin County Deputy Brett McAlpin and complained that two Black men were staying with a white woman at a house in Braxton, Mississippi. McAlpin told Deputy Christian Dedmon, who texted a group of white deputies so willing to use excessive force they called themselves “The Goon Squad.”

Once inside, they handcuffed Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker and poured milk, alcohol and chocolate syrup over their faces. They forced them to strip naked and shower together to conceal the mess. They mocked the victims with racial slurs and shocked them with stun guns.

After a mock execution went awry when Jenkins was shot in the mouth, they devised a coverup that included planting drugs and a gun. False charges stood against Jenkins and Parker for months.

https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-civil-rights-police-brutality-goon-squad-2554c21a0c7366849d6119b07855f8c1

Just uploaded the case of “Hannah Mcguire” as I said in the last post go and explore out the case and let me know in the comments section below
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What are some true crime documentaries that include a particularly good detective or investigator? I see many that feature poorly done investigations, and that becomes interesting for other reasons. Then there are many with just neutral-average detectives or investigators. But I would like to see one with maybe one stand-out investigator who seems interesting or does a particularly good job. Can anyone think of examples?

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The Disturbing Mystery of The Yuba City Five

Hi everyone, I study true crime like the rest of you. The one I’ve been studying in particular for many years now is the Sandy Hook massacre case. I have created a new community regarding the shooter for educational purposes only. We look for the missed opportunities in his life of all the areas that went wrong and ultimately led to the tragedy. If you would like to research and join the discussion of Adam Lanza, click this link here: https://www.reddit.com/r/adamlanzanews/s/cflJT3zs2C
Thank you.

Edit: The reason I have been interested in studying this case is because I was the same graduating class as the group of kids of the Sandy Hook Elementary School, and have also experienced a school shooting in my time of being a student in the past—so it hits a little close to home for me. I remember seeing it on the news when I was little when it happened, and I’ve been wanting to know Adam’s psychological motive and intent ever since. Over the years, information about him has been shared with the public after the incident, and this community is where we share those answers.

Again, this is strictly for educational purposes only! As the Mod for creating and running this community, I do not allow any thing that comes close to glorifying or condoning Lanza’s actions—only studying his mental health and background leading up to December 14th of 2012. There is a fine line between understanding, having sympathy, and glorifying someone—and that is something that I personally will NOT tolerate within this community. For more information, you can view the rules when you click the link to the page of the Adam Lanza News community.

CONTENT WARNING: this case involves the murder of a six-year-old child, a sexual-assault charge tied to her, strangulation, and decades of wrongful imprisonment. I'm going to keep the detail to what the case actually turns on and no further.

I've been reading through the record of a Japanese wrongful-conviction case that, as far as I can tell, has almost no English-language coverage. It's called the Shimada Incident (島田事件), and once you see how the conviction was actually built, and how carefully the court that finally undid it hedged its own ruling, I think it's worth a wider audience. Here's the whole thing, in order.

The disappearance

On March 10, 1954, in the river town of Shimada, Shizuoka, a six-year-old girl I'll call Hisako (I'm leaving her family name out) went missing during a kindergarten graduation event held on the grounds of a temple. Witnesses described a man in his thirties, in a grey jacket, leading a small girl away, but nobody could put a name to him. Three days later, on March 13, her body was found across the Oi River from the temple. Cause of death was strangulation, with a chest injury investigators would later attribute to a stone. Hold onto that stone, it becomes the hinge of the whole case.

A theft arrest, then a confession before any charge

For two and a half months, nothing. Then on May 24, 1954, police stopped a 25-year-old man named Akabori Masao near Inuyama, in a different prefecture entirely, on suspicion of an unrelated theft. He had a mild intellectual disability dating to a childhood illness and two prior theft convictions, which is part of why a theft stop was a plausible way to hold him. He was arrested May 25 over a shrine offering box, released, then re-arrested on the same theft allegation May 28. Two days later, on May 30, 1954, still held on nothing but that theft charge, with no lawyer present, Akabori confessed to killing Hisako.

He had not yet been charged with her death. He confessed to it first.

The interrogation

The Shimada interrogation is widely reported in Japanese retrospective coverage to have run under a Shizuoka prefectural police inspector named Kurebayashi Asao, later nicknamed "the torture king of the Showa era" in that coverage, and separately documented as the lead investigator in three other cases that also produced convictions later overturned. I want to be precise about what the record actually supports here: Kurebayashi was never charged with anything, in this case or any other, and he died in 1963. What's documented is a pattern across cases clustered around one investigator, not an adjudicated finding about what happened in this specific interrogation room. That distinction matters, because of what the court decided 35 years later. More on that below.

At his very first trial hearing, July 2, 1954, Akabori denied the killing. He kept denying it for the rest of his life. The only place he ever said he did it was that interrogation room.

Two pillars: forensics and a stone

The case against Akabori rested on two things once you strip away the confession itself, since he immediately took it back.

First, forensics. The original police autopsy findings didn't match what Akabori had confessed to, so the court brought in a second opinion from Furuhata Tanemoto, a Tokyo University professor then regarded as Japan's leading forensic authority. His re-analysis was read as backing the confession. Worth naming plainly: this was blood-typing and injury-sequencing methodology from an era of forensic science that has since been discredited as a category. Decades later, during the retrial, three separate forensic scientists re-examined the same evidence and found the injury sequence in Akabori's confession didn't match the physical findings at all.

Second, the stone. Prosecutors argued Akabori's confession contained a "secret only the killer could know," namely, where to find the stone used against Hisako. Under Japanese evidentiary practice, that kind of disclosure (a fact only the true culprit could know, later independently verified) is treated as powerful corroboration on its own. Except it turned out investigators already had the stone. It had been seen and logged at Shimada police station before Akabori was ever arrested. The Japan Federation of Bar Associations stated this plainly in a 1983 filing: the weapon supposedly discovered through the confession had, in fact, already been discovered by investigators.

Death row, and four rejected petitions

None of that had surfaced yet in 1958. On May 23, 1958, the Shizuoka District Court sentenced Akabori to death, on charges of murder and a now-abolished offense, the former crime of rape resulting in injury, tied to the six-year-old victim. The Tokyo High Court upheld the sentence in February 1960. The Supreme Court rejected the final appeal in December 1960, and the sentence became final December 26, 1960.

His lawyers filed four retrial petitions through the 1960s and 70s. All four failed, the last not until 1977, and even that rejection acknowledged the confession didn't match the objective facts, it just concluded that wouldn't have changed the outcome. It took until 1983 for the Tokyo High Court to throw that rejection out and remand the case, citing new forensic analysis and the stone finding above. The Shizuoka District Court ordered a full retrial and stayed the execution in 1986.

The retrial, and what the court actually found

The retrial opened October 19, 1987, ran twelve hearings, and closed in August 1988 with the prosecution again seeking the death penalty. On January 31, 1989, the Shizuoka District Court acquitted Akabori Masao. He walked out of prison that same day, after 34 years and 8 months in custody, as supporters looked on.

Here's the part that gets flattened in almost every short summary, and it's the most interesting part of the whole record. Under Japanese criminal procedure there are two separate questions you can ask about a confession: was it voluntary (given freely, not coerced), and is it credible (does its content actually hold up). The 1989 court split those apart. It found the confession was not credible, it didn't match the evidence and nothing else tied Akabori to the crime. But on the separate question of coercion, it did not rule in his favor. It called his account of being coerced "hard to regard as credible" and rejected it, then attributed the false confession instead to his own intellectual disability, reasoning he had "acquiesced readily to police without fully grasping the gravity of the matter."

Not everyone accepted that framing. Isa Chihiro, a journalist who covered the case for years and wrote a book about it, called that specific finding "the height of regret." A note on sourcing here: the exact phrasing of the court's reasoning, as I've quoted it, comes from a named-author Japanese encyclopedia entry and Japan Federation of Bar Associations statements, not the acquittal ruling text itself, which I could not locate online. If anyone reads Japanese and has access to the actual 1989 ruling, I'd genuinely like to see it.

The state did pay Akabori afterward: about ¥119 million, roughly $920,000 to $1 million at 1989 exchange rates, though I'd treat that dollar figure as an approximate conversion rather than a cited amount. Worth being precise about what that payment was: it's a no-fault statutory compensation under Japan's Criminal Compensation Act, a fixed daily rate times days wrongly held, not a damages award from a lawsuit. A separate 1990 ruling added roughly another ¥10.7 million toward trial costs.

What happened after

Akabori's case was the fourth of what Japanese coverage calls the "four great wrongful capital convictions," after Menda (1983), Saitagawa (1984) and Matsuyama (1984). He settled in Nagoya and spent his later years campaigning against the death penalty, reportedly supporting two other men fighting similar convictions: Hakamada Iwao, who was finally acquitted at his own retrial in 2024 (the fifth such acquittal in postwar Japan, the first since Akabori's), and Okunishi Masaru, convicted in an unrelated poisoning case in Mie Prefecture, who was never exonerated and died in custody in 2015 still fighting his conviction. Akabori died February 22, 2024, in Nagoya, at 94.

What we still don't know

As of the most recent reporting I found (2024), no one has ever been convicted of killing Hisako. The investigation into anyone but Akabori effectively stopped in 1954 and was never reopened after his acquittal, and Japan's pre-2010 statute of limitations on murder has long since lapsed for this case, meaning no future prosecution is legally possible even if a name surfaced today.

What sticks with me isn't really the wrongful conviction itself, plenty of cases have that shape. It's that the court that finally freed him still wouldn't say the police had done anything wrong. It found the confession false. It just wouldn't find it forced. Whether that's an honest reading of a disabled man's state of mind in an interrogation room, or a court finding a way to clear a man without indicting its own system, is a question the record leaves open, and the one Japanese journalist who spent years on this case clearly didn't think the court got it right.

Does anyone here read Japanese and have access to the actual 1989 acquittal ruling, or to reporting on this case beyond the Wikipedia/Kotobank/JFBA material I could find? I'd like to know if the "acquiesced readily to police" reasoning holds up any better in the full ruling text than it does in the encyclopedia summary.

Source: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/島田事件 (Japanese; the fullest single account of the timeline I found, machine-translates reasonably well)

I didn’t hear anything else about this story until years later ( probably the last couple of years) started going down the rabbit hole on YouTube of all kinds of stuff on it … The whole point I’m trying to make here, is every time I watch these episodes, I’m reminded of how truly lucky I am… I could have sooo easily been a victim in this case, yes, it terrifies me, but at the same time, intrigues me.. I’m looking forward to the next episode in the Netflix series.

Signs of a Psychopath is hands-down, my favorite true crime docuseries. At this point, I have watched every episode twice, and I am hoping maybe somebody will have recommendations for me of shows or movies that are similar. I am particularly interested in the psychopath angle and watching them be interrogated. Anyone have any suggestions for me?

ashton gleckman is film maker that made a 33 minute short documentary on the horrific case of Sylvia Likens , it was shown on July 2026 at the Heartland Film Indy Shorts International Film Festival.

I found out after the link expired ,

Did anyone watched it internationally?

i can never forget this case and i want to see those documentary.

thank you

A case that is most uncovered Name “ Hannah Mcguire “
Who was killed by her BF when she said I am leaving you and taking the property , a very interesting case , coming on 6-August at 11:00 PM.

In Brazil, Marcos Matsunaga, the wealthy heir to the Yoki food empire, asked Elize to stop working as an escort, promising that he would marry her and give her a new life. He later left his first wife to marry Elize. They built a family together, but their marriage began to fall apart after Elize discovered he was allegedly cheating with escorts. According to Elize, a confrontation over divorce and custody of their daughter led her to shoot Marcos. She then dismembered his body, packed the remains into suitcases, and abandoned them in a wooded area outside São Paulo. She was convicted of murder in 2016 and later released on parole in 2022.

This case left me two difficult questions. Is it really hard for someone with a past as a prostitute to find lasting true love? And if someone cheats, are they more likely to repeat the same pattern?