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Martin Allen was a 15-year-old boy living in Kensington, London. He had grown up in a council flat before his father was employed as a chauffeur to the Australian High Commissioner. This new career meant that the young family could move to a cottage in the grounds of the Australian High Commission in the prosperous Kensington area.
It was the 5th of November, 1979, and Martin was travelling home from Central Foundation Grammar School on the London Underground. The last time anybody saw Martin was at King’s Cross station at around 3:50PM when he said goodbye to one of his school friends. Afterwards, he walked into the short tunneled passageway that leads to the west-bound Piccadilly Line train that would take him towards his home. Some reports would later say Martin’s brother saw him at home at around 5PM before he headed straight back out.
What’s known, however, is that Martin disappeared at some point during this day.
Within days of his disappearance, the police launched a major enquiry. A witness came forward to say that they had seen a suspicious man accompanying a boy that looked like Martin at the Gloucester Road underground station at around 4:15PM. The witness said that the man had his arm around the teenage boy who appeared to be distressed.
Afterwards, he saw the two board a West-bound train at the tube station despite the fact this station was the one closest to Martin’s home. He described the strange man as around 6 feet tall, in his 30s, well built and wearing a denim jacket. The witness heard the man tell the boy: “Don’t try to run.” Following the witness coming forward, an investigation found five other witnesses who saw the blonde man and boy.
Despite an exhaustive search, the man was never identified.
Early on in the investigation, Martin’s brother alleged that the detective told his family that there were “high-up people involved” in his disappearance and that they should stop looking for Martin and “not take it further because someone will get hurt.” Over the years, theories have abounded.
In 1998, police found a shrine to Martin in the house of an alleged pedophile who had a headstone engraved “In Memory of Martin Allen.” No evidence could tie him to the disappearance, however. At one point, police questioned serial killer Dennis Nilsen but again, no evidence could link him to the disappearance. There was even some speculation that Martin was abducted and murdered by a local pedophile ring, operating out of a local hotel.
To this date, the whereabouts of Martin Allen remains a mystery. Both his parents have passed away without knowing what happened to their son.
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There are moments in life when individuals find themselves confronting death with unwavering certainty. Such a harrowing event unfolded in 2013 when two engineers became trapped atop a blazing 63-meter wind turbine. Captured in this poignant photograph is their final embrace, moments before one made the fateful decision to leap to their demise, while the other ultimately succumbed to the engulfing flames.
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18-year-old Elaine Nix lived with her family in Gainesville, Georgia. She loved frogs and aspired to be a mother and a nurse one day. Standing at just 5 feet 2 inches tall, those who knew her said she was a spitfire. “She had a very charismatic way about her. She could walk into a room and light it up without saying anything,” recalled her friend, Jennifer Boyd.
At around 11PM the 20th of September, 1999, Elaine pulled on a white t-shirt, khaki pants and blue and white gym shoes and left her suburban home to drive the short distance to Zack’s Food Rack, located at 2052 Candler Road in Gainesville.
Elaine would frequently drive here so that she could she could use the pay phone to talk to her boyfriend, Billy Milwood. Since Billy lived in Cleveland with his mother, Elaine couldn’t use her home phone to call him because long distance in the Nix household was blocked. When one month’s bill totaled $75, Elaine’s mother, Becky, had the phone company to block all long-distance calls. “For 35 cents she could use that pay phone and talk to him for as long as she wanted,” Becky said. “We have to live on a budget.”
So at around 11PM on that fateful night, Elaine drove to the pay phone where she and Billy chatted about going camping. It was routine for her. After around an hour on the phone, Elaine told Billy she loved him and hung up. This phone call was corroborated with phone records.
What happened after she hung up that phone remains a grim mystery.
A couple of hours later, at around 2AM, a deputy on patrol found Elaine’s 1986 Toyota Celica parked next to the pay phone she had been using at Zack’s Food Rack. The car window was rolled down and the key was still in the ignition but there was nobody to be seen. The officer thought nothing of it and continued with his night-time patrol.
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On the 28th of September, 2016, 14-year-old Jesse Osborne retrieved his father’s gun from a drawer beside his bed. He then shot his father, Jeffrey Osborne, three times before taking his truck and driving it to Townville Elementary School, Townville, South Carolina. Osborne had been a student at the elementary school where he was known to be sociable and intelligent. However, at the time of the shooting, he was being homeschooled after being expelled from his middle school for bringing a hatchet to class.
After arriving at the elementary school, Osborne started to shoot indiscriminately with the .40-caliber pistol he had stolen from his father. During the shooting, he kept shouting: “I hate my life!” After 12 seconds of shooting, the gun jammed and he was apprehended by a volunteer firefighter. One student was shot in the foot, another suffered a superficial wound and a teacher was shot in the shoulder.
Another student, 6-year-old Jacob Hall, suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. The wound led to massive blood loss and then cardiac arrest. Jacob Hall died at hospital several days later.
Following his arrest, Osborne said to officers: “And then it (the gun) jammed. And then I shot again. And it jammed again every time. And I thank god for that. Please say no one died. Did anyone die?” Osborne explained that he was part of an “Instagram group” with other teenagers who “said they were all going to shoot up their schools too.” He explained that he hoped he was going to kill at least 50 or 60 people at the school and that “the kids in the group chat… they were all cheering me on.” He said that following the shooting, he yelled “I’m sorry” and threw his gun on the floor.
Osbourne was tried as an adult and in November of 2019, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of Jacob and 30 years for the attempted murder charges. He appealed his sentence and in 2023, and his sentences were changed to two 75 year sentences.
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In the early morning hours of the 13th of April, 1986, Aurora, Missouri, firefighters were called to a burning home. When the blaze was extinguished, firefighters were met by a gruesome scene: the deceased body of 79-year-old widow, Pauline Martz. The elderly lady was well known in Aurora and could often be seen driving her powder blue Corvette. Before her husband, Charles, died, he built an international reputation as a developer of photo equipment used in newspaper composing rooms.
It was evident that the fire wasn’t a tragic accident. Martz had been beaten, bound and gagged. Afterwards, the killer set the house on fire, killing Martz who was unable to free herself from the duct tape. There were also suspicions that Martz had been sexually assaulted.
Several days later, 20-year-old Johnny Lee Wilson was arrested in relation to the murder after a local man, Gary Wall, told police he was guilty. Wilson was developmentally disabled and worked as a school janitor and lived with his mother and grandmother. Initially, Wilson denied any involvement but after four hours of intense interrogation, he confessed to the grim slaying. Due to his disabilities, he was vulnerable to aggressive interrogation and cracked.
Despite the fact there was no direct evidence to connect Wilson to the murder, he was found guilty and sentenced to life without parole. Over the forthcoming years, Wilson filed his appeals - all of which were rejected at every level of the Missouri court system.
However, in 1988, Chris Brownfield, a career criminal serving a life sentence in a Kansas prison, confessed that he and another man had killed Martz, not Wilson. At the time of the murder, Brownfield was a prison escapee. Following the murder of Martz, he murdered another woman in Pittsburg, Kansas, and was finally apprehended. Brownfield was able to provide details into the Martz slaying that were unknown to the public.
Newspapers soon caught wind of the confession and combined with the lack of evidence against Wilson, the story became hot news. Shorty thereafter, Gary Wall, the witness who claimed Wilson was the killer, came forward and said that police had pressured him into saying Wilson was the killer.
Other than Wilson’s confession, this was the only other thing that tied Wilson to the murder. Nevertheless, Wilson would languish in prison for another seven years. Finally, in 1995, following a one-year investigation of the case, Wilson was pardoned and set free. It was the first time in 31 years that a governor freed an inmate from a Missouri prison.
Chris Brownfield was never tried for the murder of Pauline Martz and her murder still remains unsolved.
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Ronnie Antonio Paris was born in Tampa, Florida, on the 9th of December, 2001, to Nysheera and Ronnie Paris Sr. Two months after his birth, somebody reported to the state’s abuse hotline that his mother was not seeking medical help for him despite the fact he had been vomiting for more than 24 hours. Ronnie was admitted to hospital, where staff said his vomiting was most likely caused by his mother overfeeding him.
In April 2002, Ronnie was vomiting again and was suffering from dehydration. Caseworkers removed Ronnie from his mother because of her “failure to follow medical advice” which included failing to seek medical help and not giving him a recommended drink called Pedialyte. Ronnie was placed into the care of his grandparents, where his father, Ronnie Sr., was also living.
Just the following month, Ronnie was back in the hospital because he had lost a substantial amount of weight. While in the hospital, doctors discovered that Ronnie had fractures in one arm and one leg that were around three weeks old. Ronnie was removed from his family but the Florida Department of Children and Family Services. As per the police report: “The injuries are clearly nonaccidental.”
Ronnie was sent to live with Faye Bing, his foster mother, and she welcomed him as part of the family. He was just like a brother to her two daughters, and she taught him to walk. She described Ronnie as a playful and happy child who always laughed. Nysheera and Ronnie Sr. were allowed to visit their son at his home; Nysheera reportedly followed him around the house while Ronnie Sr. sat on the couch paying him no attention.
For the next two years, Ronnie remained with Faye, and she had expressed her desire to adopt him. However, on 14 December, Ronnie was returned to his parents after they completed parenting courses. The family lived in an apartment on Humphrey Street, and according to neighbours, they often heard blazing rows. Teia Davenport, who lived in the apartment above them, recalled how she frequently heard shouting, fists banging on doors and objects being thrown against walls.
This was only the beginning of the end for Ronnie...
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The families of Oliver Northup and Claudia Maupin were becoming increasingly more worried for their welfare as the day wore on. It was the 14th of April, 2013, when an officer was called out to their tree-lined neighbourhood of Cowell Boulevard, Davis, California.
When Officer Mark Hermann pulled up outside, he observed that the elderly couple's car was still parked in the driveway, and the newspaper hadn't been collected. He scanned the perimeter of the home, only to find that a window screen had been sliced open....
This week’s episode of Morbidology takes a look at the tragic story of Oliver Northup and Claudia Maupin. You can listen to episode 247 of Morbidology across all podcast platforms:
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On a brisk morning of February 11th, 1987, a man pedaling along South Landings Drive in Fort Collins, Colorado stumbled upon a scene straight out of a nightmare. Initially mistaking the figure for a discarded mannequin in the vast expanse of an undeveloped area, his closer inspection revealed that it was a woman's body.
The victim was identified as Peggy Hettrick, a 37-year-old woman employed at Fashion Bar. She had sustained a single stab wound in her upper left back. Yet, the horror didn't end there. Hettrick had been subjected to gruesome sexual mutilation, with her left nipple, areola, and parts of her genitalia cruelly removed with surgical precision.
At the time, Tim Masters, a 15-year-old high school student living in a mobile home overlooking the field where Hettrick was discovered, became the focal point of the police investigation. When he was interviewed, he told detectives he had seen the body that morning on the way to school, but thought it was a mannequin so never called police.
Detectives weren't buying his story so they obtained a search warrant for his bedroom and school locker where they came across a number of violent drawings, sexually explicit photographs and a collection of knives. Interrogated relentlessly for hours without parental presence, Tim staunchly denied any involvement in the murder.
Years passed with Tim looming under the shadow of suspicion until 1997, when Dr. J. Reid Meloy, a forensic psychologist, interpreted Tim's violent drawings as vivid recollections of the crime. By now, Tim was an adult, and had served in the Navy, but he was arrested and ultimately convicted of Peggy's murder on circumstantial evidence.
A breakthrough came in 2004, when an investigation by Tim's defense team uncovered deliberately concealed evidence, including mismatched hairs and fingerprints, crucial for his defense. Consequently, in 2008, Tim's conviction was overturned, and he was released.
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On the 23rd of May, 1996, a man was walking along a wooded canal bank on old U.S. 27 in Clewiston, Palm Beach County, Florida. As he was scouring the area for scrap metal and cans, he came across a seemingly discarded maroon and white Indian or Mexican style blanket and a woman’s black and white sweater.
As he got closer to the blanket and sweater, it became apparent that there was a deceased baby girl wrapped up inside of it. She was estimated to be around 3 to 5-weeks-old and was either white or Hispanic. She had black or dark brown hair but due to decomposition, it couldn’t be determined what colour her eyes were. An autopsy concluded that the baby girl had a fractured mandible and maxilla and that she had either died of accidental or intentional injuries.
It was announced that the death was being investigated as a murder, as forensic experts attempted to identify the baby since. However, since the body was so decomposed, fingerprints couldn’t be lifted. Footprints could be lifted and investigators compared the footprints to hundreds of footprints of missing children that were available at hospitals. Unfortunately, none were a match.
The identity of "Baby Belle" still remains a mystery today.
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It was the 4th of August, 2014, when 12-year-old Jamarion Lawhorn took some “little red pills” that he had found in his family’s home in Kentwood, Michigan. He then picked up a knife, put it in his pocket and walked to Pinebrook Village, which was a mobile home community. Here, he entered the playpark.
Over the course of the next several minutes, Jamarion played with nine-year-old Connor Verkerke and his seven-year-old brother, Kameron. As they played together, Connor attempted to climb up a slide but slipped back down and fell to the ground. While on the ground, Jamarion came up behind him and stabbed him several times in the back and arm.
Connor and his younger brother ran back to their home which was located nearby. Connor collapsed on the front porch and neighbours could hear his mother’s screams emanating in the air. His father, Jared, frantically put pressure on his son’s wounds in a bid to stop the bleeding. Connor was rushed to hospital where he was tragically pronounced dead.
Following the stabbing, Jamarion walked to the home of a man who lived near the playpark, 34-year-old Glen Stacy. He asked if he could use his phone to call 911 and calmly stated to the operator: “Hi, I just stabbed somebody. Please pick me up. I want to die. I don’t want to be on this earth anymore. Please pick me up.”
As he waited for police to arrive, Jamarion had told Glen that nobody loved him and that he wanted to die. According to Glen, Jamarion was extremely cavalier and the only time he raised his voice was when police arrived at the scene and walked over towards the playground. Jamarion had shouted over to them: “Hello. I’m right here. You’re going the wrong way!”
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Keith Dardeen and his wife, Elaine, lived in a mobile home just outside Ina, Illinois, with their 2-year-old son, Peter. At the time, Elaine was also pregnant with their second child, a daughter. Keith worked as a treatment plant operator while Elaine worked in an office supply store. In their free time, they played in the musical ensemble at a local Baptist church.
The area the young family lived in had been becoming increasingly violent and the couple wanted to move somewhere safer for their children. Keith was very protective of his family and only wanted what was best for them. On one occasion, he refused entry to the home to a young woman who asked to use their phone.
On the 18th of November, 1987, Keith didn’t show up to work for his shift nor had he called in sick, something which was very out of character for the reliable worker. When Keith's supervisor called his home, there was no answer. He decided to call up Keith's parents, but they too were unable to get a hold of him.
Keith's parents called police and arranged to meet them at Keith's home with the spare key. They slowly opened up the front door and were met by a scene that traumatized even the most seasoned detectives. Elaine, Peter and a newborn baby girl lay deceased on one of the beds. Elaine and Peter had been bound and gagged and then beaten to death with Peter's own baseball bat which had been a gift from his father. During the senseless attack, Elaine had given birth to a baby girl, but instead of giving her mercy, the killer beat her to death too.
Keith was nowhere to be seen, and detectives surmised that he had killed his family and then fled. They noticed that his car was missing from the driveway, only adding more to to heir suspicions. However, the following day, Keith’s body was discovered in a field approximately a mile from the trailer. Keith had been shot three times and his penis had been chopped off.
His car would later be found parked outside the local police station. The inside was spattered with blood, indicating that Keith had been killed or mutilated there. As news of the murders circulated around the area, residents were left even more fearful than they already had been. There was a rise in gun and security system sales as people sought to protect themselves.
Detectives were stumped to find a motivation. Nothing in the home had been stolen, and there were no extramarital affairs or enemies that could hint at a revenge motivated killing. The murders were so brutal that some detectives even theorized that the crime was the was work of a cult trying to appease the devil.
The most promising lead came when serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells claimed he had carried out the killings along with around 70 other unsolved murders. While he was linked to a number of these murders, detectives could never definitively link him to the Dardeen murders. He often gave statements which didn’t match with the evidence.
Sells claimed he met Keith at a gas station and was invited back to the home for a threesome with himself and Elaine, something which his family and friends completely refuted. They said that Keith was a family man, and rarely even opened the door to strangers never mind invite them inside.
To this date, nobody has ever been charged with the murders of the Dardeen family.
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On the 27th of January, 2008, Penny Boudreau and her 12-year-old daughter, Karissa, went to a local grocery store in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada. As Karissa sat in the car, Penny called her boyfriend, Vernon Macumber, and told him that Karissa was missing.
Following the call, Penny climbed back into the car and drove Karissa to a quiet roadside and ordered her out of the car. Penny pushed her only child to the ground and wrapped a piece of twine around her hands and neck and began to pull as tightly as possible. “Mommy, don’t,” were Karissa’s last words but Penny ignored her and continued to strangle her.
When Karissa’s heaving gasps stopped, Penny loaded her lifeless body in the trunk of the car. She then drove to Tim Hortons to throw out the incriminating twine before dumping Karissa’s body by the LaHarte River. Penny then reported Karissa reported missing as a snowstorm swept into the region. She claimed Karissa vanished while she was in the grocery store.
On two separate occasions, Penny appealed to the public for help in finding her daughter as search crews scoured the area. “I just want you to come home,” she pleaded. “We all love you, Karissa. I love you.”
On the 9th of February, a passerby stumbled across Karissa’s body. The autopsy showed that Karissa had been murdered and investigators soon announced that the murder was an isolated incident, meaning it wasn't the work of a stranger.
In June of the same year, Penny was finally arrested after confessing to the murder to an undercover officer. “Investigators feel there was only one person responsible for this homicide,” said Chief Brent Cowhurst.
Following her arrest, Penny finally offered up a chilling motive for the murder of her only child. She said that her boyfriend, Vernon Macumber, had given her an ultimatum for their relationship to survive. He said that she had to pick between him or her daughter. Penny told an officer that she “would do anything for Vernon and the thought of losing him was harder than the thought of losing her daughter.”
Penny Bordreau pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of second degree murder and received a life sentence. She must serve 20 years before applying for parole. In 2018, she was granted four escorted leaves to attend church services.
Vernon was found to not be involved in the murder and maintained he hadn’t offered an ultimatum and instead had suggested that something needed to be done about the constant arguing between Penny and Karissa.
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Daryl Davis, an R&B and blues musician and activist, has shared stages with legendary musicians like Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis. Disturbed by the persistence of racism and driven to foster racial reconciliation, Davis embraced an unconventional approach. He actively sought out leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, engaging them in dialogue, sharing meals, and forming unexpected friendships. In his own unique way, Davis became an ambassador for racial healing.
Despite the atrocities committed by such organizations against people of his race, Davis keeps a "KKK Member in Good Standing" medallion in his wallet. He explained, "I’m completely aware of what those organizations have done to people of my race. But I try to extend my hand in friendships…"
Through his interactions, Davis discovered that many Klansmen harbored misconceptions about people of color, often rooted in indoctrination during their youth. His efforts have led to the departure of 20 to 60 individuals directly from the Klan, and indirectly influenced over 200 others to renounce their affiliations.
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Siphamandla Madikane was a ten-year-old boy from the Ramaphosa informal settlement in South Africa. On Sunday 3 November, 2013, there was a power cut in the area, so Siphamandla and his mother went to the nearby store to buy some paraffin.
While at the store, Siphamandla bumped into some of his friends and asked his mother if he could play with them. His mother agreed. However, when he hadn’t returned home by 7PM that evening, his parents reported him missing and began conducting their own search, assisted by other members of the community.
According to Siphamandla’s friends, there was a man who had been watching them play for quite some time and then approached them. He asked the group of boys to go and call his girlfriend for him and offered whoever agreed R5. Three of the boys refused but Siphamandla agreed and walked off with the anonymous man, never to return.1
The following morning, a missing person report was filed at Reiger police station. At around 2PM, Nathaniel Maleho, who lived a few kilometres away from the Madikane family, went to relieve himself in a bush since there was no water in the toilets. Hidden among the bushes, he saw small legs. Terrified, he ran to get two local men who returned to the scene to investigate.
What they found would traumatise them....
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At Spanaway Junior High School in 1985, 14-year-old Heather Smith's threats to "get" her ex-boyfriend, Gordon Pickett, and his friends were dismissed as mere jests by many of her classmates. Despite hearing her ominous words, they never imagined she would act upon them. "We didn’t really think she’d do anything," recalled one student, reflecting on Smith's reputation as a straight-A student and practical joker.
However, Smith's intentions were deadly serious. Two days before Thanksgiving, she retrieved a .22-caliber semiautomatic rifle from her home and returned to school. Waiting for Gordon to exit the gym after wrestling practice, she confronted him alongside his best friend, Chris Ricco, 15. When Chris attempted to shield Gordon , Smith opened fire. Tragically, both boys were struck by gunfire before Smith fled the scene.
Moments later, surrounded by officers, Smith refused to surrender the weapon, before turning the gun on herself. The devastating outcome left Gordon dead at the scene, while Chris succumbed to his injuries the following day at Madigan Army Medical Center. Hours later, Smith also passed away at the same hospital.
A subsequent investigation into the shooting revealed that Gordon had ended his relationship with Smith, expressing his desire to remain friends—a rejection that ultimately led to the tragic loss of three young lives.
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Todd Cameron Smith, 14, was a student at W.R. Myers High School in Taber, Alberta, Canada. During his years at the school, he was bullied tremendously. He was ridiculed for his appearance and mocked for being “pudgey.” One beating left him with a hole in his lip so large he could poke his tongue through it. “When he was truant, he’d be hiding behind the sofa. He was scared to go to school,” said Dr. Clive Chamberlain. On one occasion, he was doused with lighter fluid and threatened to be set on fire.
In mid-1999, Smith’s friend moved away from Taber and Smith’s loneliness and anger exasperated. And then, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold perpetrated the Columbine massacre. Smith became fixated. Eight days later, Smith unlocked his stepfather’s gun cabinet, lifted out a .2-calibre rifle and went to his school. He had 350 rounds of live ammunition in his coat pocket and 25 rounds loaded into the gun. Once inside, Smith began to open fire. He shot and killed 16-year-old Jason Lang and seriously wounded another student. He was wrestled to the ground by gym coach, Cheyno Finnie, before he could fire any more rounds.
Following his arrest, the prosecution argued that Smith was obsessed with violence and that he couldn’t generate true remorse for his actions. In a search of the Brookside Youth Centre where he was being held, several pieces of paper were found where smith had wrote: “I’ll rip your arm off and beat you with the wet end, then I’ll feed it to your dog and rape your girlfriend.” A forensic psychiatrist refuted that a pre-existing medical condition - high blood pressure on the brain - may have led to the violent outburst.
Smith was sentenced to three years after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in 2000. Smith wasn’t publicly identified until 2005 after he escaped from a halfway house in Toronto. Police had to apply to the Ontario provincial youth court with an affidavit in order for the request to be granted. Following the shooting, the father of Jason Lang, Reverend Dale Lang, forgave Smith for his actions. Following the murder of his son, he became a staunch advocate for anti-bullying.
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What is your all time favorite book?
Oh this is a tough question!! I’m gonna have to go for 1984 by George Orwell.
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