Bolivian Ghost Rape

     From 2005 to 2009, 130+ Mennonite women woke up to blood stains on their sheets with no recollection of the previous night, thinking demons were raging throughout the colony of Manitoba.

     A group of nine Mennonite men eventually confessed that, after getting gas from a neighboring community, they knocked out the entire family with the gas and raped the women.

     Every now and then, the women would wake up the one of the men on top of her, but was frozen from paralysis and couldn’t move to fight back.

     However, the men just chalked it up to either imagination, or a curse from God until the trial in 2011. After the horrific retellings of the rape and the men’s conviction, only those who were under 18 got counseling due to Bolivian law.

      Despite other communities’ offers, women older than the legal age got no counseling due to the men’s rejection.

Casey Anthony

     On July 15, 2008, Cindy Anthony reported her granddaughter, Caylee Anthony, missing after she learned that Caylee had been gone for around a month. The next day, the mother Casey Anthony was arrested for child neglect.

     In the bond hearing, it was revealed that they found Caylee’s hair in the trunk of Anthony’s cars that was abandoned. Dogs also picked up the scent of human decomposition.

      A month later, Casey Anthony was charged with murder along with child abuse, manslaughter and providing false information to law enforcement. Two months after that, Caylee Anthony was confirmed dead.

     June 19, 2009, almost a year after Caylee was reported missing, she was confirmed to be dead. Her remains were found with duct tape surrounding her face from her chin to her nose that were said to be put on pre-decomp, and glittery cloth letters that may have spelt out “big trouble” near her remains.

      On July 5, Casey Anthony was determined “not guilty” of manslaughter and murder by the jury after an eleven hour decision. This saved her from facing the death penalty, but is currently facing four years behind bars for providing false information.

Burnie Madoff

     Burnard L. Madoff Investment Securities was founded in 1960, a small trading firm. By 1989, it owned over 5 percent of the trading volume of the New York Stock Exchange.

     On December 11, 2008, Madoff was arrested for allegedly operating a multi-million ponzi scheme. A ponzi scheme is where a corporation or an individual convinces many people to invest in them, but most don’t get their money and very little leaves the corporation’s hands creating a huge profit.

     On March 12, Madoff pled guilty for eleven counts of fraud, money laundering, and false filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission. By March 25, 2014, $9.8 billion were recovered and hundreds of millions were sent to the victims of fraud.