8: 44 Days in Hell (Junko Furuta's Torture)

Springfield, Tennessee, 2012: 15-year-old Zachary Davis walks into his mother’s bedroom in the middle of the night and attacks her with a sledgehammer. He then sets fire to the family home, leaving his older brother asleep inside.But when Zachary is arrested, investigators are co ...  Show more

Green Bay, Wisconsin, 2023: A woman accused of an unimaginably brutal murder has just attacked her own defence lawyer in the middle of court. By this point, Taylor Schabusiness had already confessed to killing 24 year old Shad Thyrion and dismembering his body inside his mother’s ...  Show more

Junko Furuta was a Japanese high school student who was the unfortunate victim of a random and horrendous crime in the early 1980s. On her way home, she was kidnapped by a few low-ranking members of the infamous Yakuza gang. For the next 44 days, Junko was brutally tortured and r ...  Show more

In November of 1988, 17 year old high school student Junko Furuta was cycling home from her part-time job when she was kicked off by a passing motorcyclist. Shortly thereafter, 18-year old teenage boy Hiroshi Miyano came across Furuta and helped her get back on her feet, even off ...  Show more

She was tortured with bleach till her skin fell off - and then her friends lit her on fire. 

Another girl had her knees crushed by her boyfriend so she could never run away. 



Frequently spoken about alongside Junko Furuta's case... these tw ...

Here is the story of the little girl murderer, Tsutomu Miyazaki. This comes with a disclaimer because child assault and murder are discussed. 

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