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Sydney Loofe Murder: Tinder Date, Witch Cult & Hulu Documentary
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Did this land in spam or Promotions? Make sure to move us to your primary inbox and hit reply to say hi. It helps more than you'd think, and we always love hearing from you! This week's case is one a lot of you have been asking about since Hulu's new documentary dropped, so we're getting right to it. This week: Swipe Right on the Devil On November 15, 2017, 24-year-old Sydney Loofe sent her friends a Snapchat: "Ready for my date." She'd met a woman on Tinder named Audrey. Her friends had seen her picture. The next morning, Sydney didn't show up for work. Her car, her purse, and her cat were all still at home. And the woman she'd gone to meet wasn't named Audrey. Sydney's friends and family refused to stop looking. What they helped uncover was bigger than one bad date: fake identities, an older man who claimed supernatural powers, and other young women who'd been told they could join his "coven." We're breaking down Hulu's Swipe Right on the Devil, plus the court-record details the documentary leaves out. Content note: this case involves murder and abuse. We keep the graphic details to a minimum.
Are you in any true crime groups on Facebook?! Or follow Reddit threads on true crime? Make sure to link to This Feels Criminal and invite more friends to join us…because we all know it’s more fun over here! 😘 Are You Afraid of the Dark?After this week's episodes, we need to talk about something lighter. Something like… being terrified by Nickelodeon. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, we call this one The Tale of Why We Slept With the Hall Light On. Every Saturday night, we'd settle in for SNICK. Somehow the same network that gave us Rugrats also thought it was a great idea to show us a group of teenagers telling ghost stories around a campfire. That opening sequence alone had us reconsidering our choices. Then someone would toss the magic dust into the fire, announce the night's tale, and we were locked in. We spent entire episodes peeking out from behind a pillow. We swore we weren't scared when our parents walked in. Then we made a sibling come with us to the kitchen. Looking back, we probably should've seen the true crime thing coming. We grew up gathering around for creepy stories and trying to figure out who the bad guy was. Hit reply and tell us: which episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? still lives rent-free in your head? TL; DRSkipped to the bottom? No judgement. here's the skinny:
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