The victim described the rapist as a man of medium build with brown hair.
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Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
28 Oct. 2025
In the wake of the white community demanding more punishment, the Kentucky General Assembly amended the death penalty statute to allow juries to sentence a rapist to hang in the county seat where the crime was committed.
Half mentor, half tormentor, Alex ruled her empire from a four-poster bed — brash, brilliant, and impossible to cross.
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Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
31 Oct. 2025
The mind could wander briefly about the Giants riding a two-game winning streak into a Thursday Night Football matchup with the Eagles, equipped to knock off their tormentors who suddenly look vulnerable.
Dek is the weakest link in his warrior family, and the arrival of their father cements that fact; there is no sentimentality here as the elder predator orders Kwei to kill his brother and be done with him.
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Damon Wise,
Deadline,
4 Nov. 2025
Things kick off with a bit of inter-family strife, involving a young predator named Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi).
Initially, the Kruegers complained to police, but were told there was nothing the authorities could do unless the harasser tried to harm them physically.
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Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
3 Nov. 2025
The documentary tells the true story of a teenage couple relentlessly bullied via text by an anonymous harasser.
The overwhelming majority of experts dispute that torture actually works as an interrogation technique, arguing that any information that comes out of it is unreliable as people under duress will say anything needed to convince their torturers to stop.
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Ellen Mitchell,
The Hill,
5 Nov. 2025
It might have been produced, and not merely set, in a torturer’s basement.
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