Just A Dollop Of Horrible, Terrrible, No-Good Things I Learned This Week

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Here's what the newsletter is covering this week:

Warning: Graphic contented ahead, including stories of murder.

1. The mystifying and bone-chilling communicative of Jared Negrete.

Jared Negrete was a 12-year-old lad who disappeared during a camping travel successful California’s San Bernardino Mountains successful July 1991. He was hiking with his Boy Scout unit connected Mount San Gorgonio erstwhile helium lagged down the group, telling them helium felt tired. Reports indicated Jared was either told to hold for the radical connected their mode down oregon simply lagged behind. He was past seen astir 6 p.m. by different hiker earlier disappearing.

A monolithic hunt followed, involving hundreds of volunteers, helicopters, hunt dogs, and the National Guard, but Jared was ne'er found. Several days later, though, his disposable camera was found. When the movie was developed, it revealed the past known photograph of Jared taken aft his disappearance — a chilling representation showing conscionable portion of his face, including his eyes and nose. By August, the hunt was officially called off, and Jared was presumed dead.

2. The beingness of "creepy US town" Colorado City, Arizona.

“I utilized to person to thrust done Colorado City to get to my grandma's assisted surviving center; it is truthful creepy, and it is simply a LDS Poly Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints blistery spot. Very creepy feeling driving through."

Colorado City sits connected the Arizona–Utah borderline and was, for decades, efficaciously controlled by the FLDS, a polygamist sect led by convicted cult person Warren Jeffs. The municipality operated successful adjacent isolation, with religion leaders exerting utmost power implicit residents’ lives, including forced marriages, intersexual abuse, and the expulsion of young men. Though Jeffs is present serving a beingness condemnation and the sect’s powerfulness has weakened, the bequest of secrecy, trauma, and systemic maltreatment inactive hangs heavy implicit the town.

In 1995, a 6-year-old lad named Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was officially recognized by the Dalai Lama arsenic the 11th Panchen Lama, 1 of the astir almighty figures successful Tibetan Buddhism. Just 3 days later, helium and his household were taken into custody by Chinese authorities and person ne'er been seen publically again.

China aboriginal installed a antithetic kid successful his place, portion insisting Nyima is live and “living a mean life,” though nary autarkic impervious has ever been provided. More than 30 years later, his whereabouts stay unknown, making him 1 of the astir chilling enforced disappearances successful modern history.

4. This horrifying representation of a “decorative” operation that's afloat of jawbones.

While this representation whitethorn look similar an abstract creation installation, it’s really a “decorative” operation astatine a South Korean integrative country clinic, made from the jawbones of patients who underwent jawline simplification surgery. The representation primitively circulated online respective years ago, and since then, the session has been fined and ordered to region the operation for “violating aesculapian discarded disposal regulations.” So, hopefully, that quality lets you remainder a small easier tonight.

5. Finally, the communicative of serial slayer Jack Harold Jones Jr.

Jones was a serial slayer who murdered astatine slightest 3 women successful Florida and Arkansas betwixt 1983 and 1995. He was arrested successful 1995 aft investigators connected him to the brutal rape and execution of Mary Phillips — whose 11-year-old girl survived and helped place him — and was aboriginal linked by DNA to different execution that had earlier gone unsolved. Jones was convicted, sentenced to death, and executed by lethal injection astatine the Cummins Unit successful Arkansas connected April 24, 2017.

His past meal: fried chicken, fried murphy logs with tartar sauce, beef jerky bites, 3 candy bars, a cocoa milkshake, and effect punch.