Lou Pearlman was convicted of running one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history and potentially stealing over $300 million from banks and people alike. He also has some VERY close ties to boy bands in the 90’s including Backstreet Boys AND *NSYNC.

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• Documentary - The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story (free on youtube) from 2019

• Documentary - American Greed in the 2009 episode "Boy Band Mogul"

• Documentary - 20/20 episode "The Hitman: From Pop to Prison" from December 13, 2019

• Book - The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History by Tyler Gray (available on ebay, walmart website, and kindle)

In this one we talk about the happiest careers in the world (they might surprise you), a planned prison in the Florida everglades, and a man who set a brush fire just to open fire on firefighters as they arrived.

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Famous TikTok stars Rylee Goodrich and Anthony Barajas were murdered in 2021 while on their first date at a movie theatre. They were there to see "The Forever Purge".

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Sources: http://foxla.com/news/corona-movie-theater-shooting-anthony-barajas-rylee-goodrich-sentencing

• https://www.instagram.com/ryleegoodrich/?hl=en

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joseph-jimenez-insanity-plea-murders-anthony-barajas-rylee-goodrich-movie-theater/

• https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/sentence-corona-movie-theater-shooting-anthony-barajas-rylee-goodrich/3348322/

• https://people.com/crime/anthony-barajas-dead-tiktok-movie-theater-shooting-the-forever-purge/

• https://abc7.com/rylee-goodrich-corona-movie-theater-shooting-memorial-service-anthony-barajas/11015315/

Four students hatched a plan to steal some very rare books and it became known as the Transylvania University heist in 2004, or Transy Book Heist. The plan was to break into the school's Special Collection in the Rare Books Room, swipe the books and sell them for millions of dollars….easy peasy. But of course things didn't quite go all Oceans 11, but the heist did inspire its own docu-movie!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csnx6likOPg. <<<<< American Animals Movie!

• Book - American Animals: A True Crime Memoir Paperback by Eric Borsuk

• Book - Mr. Pink The Inside Story of The Transylvania Book Heist by Chas Allen

• https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/15/inside-the-2004-6-million-transy-book-heist-and-how-they-got-caught.html

• https://www.transy.edu/1780/2020/09/transylvania-special-collections-librarian-retires-after-26-years-of-connecting-researchers-with-historical-treasures/

• https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article212180224.html

• https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/02/transy-book-heist?srsltid=AfmBOoq7CCVxnBFhXtGw5xoWvCgeiaFK4NGOgcgm2i39Rj7rbkAHHrLu

Today we’re talkin’ the story of Andrew Carter Thornton II and his drug smuggling shenanigans. How exactly this cop turned into a drug smuggler in the first place, and how the hell we’re gonna end up on “cocaine bear”, I have no idea. Let’s head back to the 80’s! Also this was made into a movie in 2023, just fyi.

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Sources:

• Newspaper - The Knoxville News Sentinel

• Newspaper - The New York Times

• Documents - Georgia Bureau of Investigation Reports

• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/cocaine-bear-true-story-dangers-animal-drugs

• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/arts/cocaine-bear-true-story.html

• https://www.fieldandstream.com/stories/survival/survival-stories/cocaine-bear-true-story

A South Carolina man goes toe to toe with a kangaroo, it ends badly. Then we got a road rage pooper, a CIA website that was compromised, and man who was arrested for meth....A LOT!

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A mail carrier in trouble with his supervisors opened fire in a crowded post office on August 21st 1986, killing 14 workers and injuring 7 others before killing himself with a bullet in the head. The police said the carrier, Patrick Henry Sherrill, of Oklahoma City, burst into post office around 6:45 A.M., pulled at least three pistols from a mail pouch and, without a word, started shooting at his fellow employees.

It was the nation's worst shooting since July 18, 1984, when 21 people, including the gunman, died at a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, California, and it helped coin the term "going postal".

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https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/21/us/mail-carrier-kills-14-in-post-office-then-himself.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/masskillers/comments/f3yuwh/one_mans_massacre_an_extremely_thorough/

Lauren Agee was a 21 year old from Tennessee who was found dead in a cove at Centre Hill Lake in Nashville. It was Wakefest (wakeboarding festival centered around beer and partying) on the weekend of July 25th to 27th, 2015. The official file reads: that, after consuming a large quantity of alcohol, Lauren fell off the cliffside where she was camping with friends and into the water below. Her cause of death was blunt force trauma with possible drowning.” There ya go, case closed, don't worry about the weird bruising, strong possibility of rape, and the fact that her friends seemed completely unfazed by her death….Nope, the authorities have listed her case as "death due to misadventure", stating they do not believe any foul play was involved….we strongly disagree.

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https://www.dailycrime.com/lauren-agee-inside-the-mysterious-lake-death-of-a-college-student/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/8s10if/the_mysterious_death_of_lauren_agee_did_she_fall/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V-Xv0GLACg

https://youtu.be/MBwl8BIGePE?si=uPVz5TrCJ3G0Xe9o