Jay was just like any other 19-year-old attending the New Rave Generation festival in Tenerife. But a phone call telling his friend he's isolated and dehydrated before his phone died was the last his friends heard from him.

This is everything we know on Jay Slater's mysterious disappearance.

Sources:

Video:https://www.tiktok.com/@dailymirror/video/7403398948779609376?lang=en

Sources:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2g10dkel7ohttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jay-slater-cause-of-death-body-found-uk-mother-b2581028.htmlhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/jay-slater-missing-tenerife-mother-b2565407.htmlhttps://www.lbc.co.uk/news/fake-gofundme-page-brit-teenager-missing-tenerife-jay-slater/https://news.sky.com/story/jay-slater-rescue-workers-searching-for-missing-teen-find-human-remains-reports-13178191https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/10/jay-slater-laid-to-rest-drum-and-bass

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ced19q6egzyohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jay_Slater#cite_ref-50

[Updated as of March 2024]

Sources:

History of Love Hotels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_hotel#:~:text=since%20late%202019.-,Japan,in%20Edo%20and%20in%20Kyoto.

Other sources:

https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/world-crime/japanese-woman-and-her-parents-arrested-after-man-beheaded-in-hotel-room/a2022793969.html

http://www.psychcrime.org/news/index.php?vd=3760&t=Japan+Psychiatrist+Osamu+Tamura+Arrested+in+Decapitation+Murder+

https://nypost.com/2023/07/25/japanese-family-arrested-for-death-of-beheaded-man-at-love-hotel/

https://www.wionews.com/world/beheaded-man-found-inside-japanese-love-hotel-woman-and-her-parents-arrested-619591

https://asianews.network/father-daughter-decapitation-suspects-bought-saw-suitcase-before-hokkaido-incident/

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/severed-head-found-weeks-after-30559329
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/25/national/crime-legal/hokkaido-love-hotel-murder-head-found/

There's a 99% chance you've stumbled across this podcast by accident. Because I don't ever advertise it, and only about 5 people in my life know it exists. So thank you for stumbling into this whirlwind of madness - and here's to more Jesus Crimes.

This cold case from 1999 still remains unsolved today. Netflix has released a documentary this August named "Who Killed Jill Dando?". This is the complicated case of Jill Dando and its conspiracy theories.

Listener discretion advised. Recording contains scenes of murder which may be uncomfortable for some.

Sources:

Jill’s Last Show: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4s_DIxjauY (30:44-32:22) 

Other sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Dando

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/who-killed-jill-dando-real-story-b1106508.html

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv/who-killed-jill-dando-true-27788287

https://collider.com/who-killed-jill-dando-true-story-explained/

Theories:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/who-shot-jill-dando-four-31027327 

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/documentaries/true-crime/who-killed-jill-dando-netflix-true-story-theories/

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/who-killed-jill-dando-the-main-theories-behind-britains-biggest-unsolved-murder/#:~:text=Just%2048%20hours%20after%20Jill,killed%20by%20a%20Serbian%20hitman.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/jill-dando-bbc-netflix-theories-b2416591.html

https://www.nme.com/news/tv/who-killed-jill-dando-key-theories-behind-netflix-series-3505138

https://www.insider.com/who-killed-jill-dando-netflix-theories-details-missed-2023-9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War

Full episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1jBnVGOPj1UEtAmheJmH7t?si=24eadc7279864565

Sources:

https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.amp.asp?newsIdx=363842

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2023-11-24/national/socialAffairs/Killer-given-life-for-grisly-murder-in-Busan/1920833

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67517532

A body was found on Black Friday, hands and feet bounded - she was strangled and beaten to death, tortured in the most gruesome ways before she died. This is the American Eagle Black Friday case of Ashlea Harris in Fort Worth, TX USA.

Sources:

https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/ashlea-harris-killed-by-former-hulen-mall-employees

https://kileystruecrime.squarespace.com/kileystruecrimeaddict-blog/the-murder-of-ashlea-harris

When a civilian broke a doll at a scare ride he didn't expect it to be a real, rotting corpse. Until he looked into the joints.

This is the story of how a real corpse ended up in an amusement park in California.

Sources:

1) Elmer McCurdy's body on display:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_McCurdy#/media/File:Elmer_McCurdy_in_coffin.png

2) Map of Elmer McCurdy's travels (alive and dead)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_McCurdy#/media/File:Elmer_McCurdy_(Odyssey_waymap)_edited.svg

Others:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_McCurdy

https://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/04/11/the_corpse_of_elmer_mccurdy_and_how_it_ended_up_in_a_long_beach_fun_park.html

https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/unbelievable-true-story-of-elmer-mccurdy-16507858.php

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/elmer-mccurdy/

https://www.darkdowneast.com/episodes/elmermccurdy

https://nerdbot.com/2023/01/02/the-story-of-elmer-mccurdy-funhouse-displayed-real-corpse/