I figured this was the best place to put this.
I sometimes read ladies gossip type magazines, usually my mothers but I often buy them from the newsagents. One I recently read had the cover story 'Tortured for my Facebook password'.
Upon reading, the woman in the story was in an abusive relationship. She gave her partner her facebook password, and he used her account to make posts with 'Have I slept with anyone recently, I can't remember lol' because he thought she was unfaithful. She left him, but as is sadly too often the case, she took him back. He tried he facebook again but she had changed her password and she wouldn't give it to him.
He tied her to a radiator, squirted shampoo in her eyes and hit her over the head with a ceramic ash tray until she gave it to him. He left her there all night, but in the morning she convinced him to untie her to use the toilet and she escaped.
Another one I read was about the case of Skylar DeLeon. I understand this story got some press coverage at the time. Not only was his crime horrible, but he was a child actor, his most notable role as a random child in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
He was friends with an older couple and their family. The couple enjoyed boating, but were ready to sell the boat. Skylar showed interest and wanted to taken on a small cruise with his 'accountant' before they finalised the deal. Once they were at sea, the couple were handcuffed and gagged and blindfolded with tape. Several hours later, the tape was peeled from one eye, they were told to sign the contract to hand over the boat to Skylar and they would then be dropped off at a port in Mexico. They signed. Then a rope was tied around their waists, a rope tied to an anchor which was thrown overboard.
Skylar wanted the boat for use in money laundering, I understand he was sentenced to death for the double murder. I do not know if this sentence is correct or if it has been fully carried out.
The point I want to make is, when I read these stories, it might as well be erotic literature for the effect it has. The same when I hear on the news about kidnappings or tied up dead bodies being found.
What can be made of that?