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Sasebo, southwest Japan...At 12:20 p.m., in an empty classroom, a drama unfolds behind closed doors. A 12-year-old girl lies on the floor, her throat cut, bathed in a pool of blood. She doesn't know it yet, but the killer is still on the scene. And it's an 11-year-old girl! It's one of the most baffling crimes in contemporary Japan. A case that has shaken an entire country and sparked a national debate on juvenile violence. What you're about to hear may well make your blood run cold!

In 1988, in Sacramento, California, authorities received a report of the disappearance of a homeless man, Alvaro Montoya. The police discovered that the missing man was staying in a foster home run by an adorable granny: Dorothea Puente.The investigation that follows, however, will lift the veil on one of the most terrifying criminal cases in the United States. One thing's for sure: appearances are deceiving.What if the answer lies at the bottom of Madame Puente's garden?

Instead of caring for his patients, nurse and serial killer Charles Edmund Cullen chose to kill many of the people he cared for. He is a convicted serial murder angel, stalker and poisoner of the dead type and the most prolific serial killer in New Jersey history.

In the summer of 1968, the city of Newcastle is tormented by a terrible event: two little boys, Martin Brown and Brian Howe, are found strangled to death in a vacant lot a few weeks apart. When the identity of the murderer, or rather the murderess, is finally revealed, a wave of shock sweeps through the nation. The killer's name is Mary Bell, she is just eleven years old and has the face of an angel.

Masumi Hayashi is an ordinary Japanese mother who killed four people and poisoned 63 with arsenic curry served at a local festival in 1998 in Wakayama, Japan. Yet, as they follow her story, the investigators will be neither surprised nor frightened.Masumi Hayashi is an ordinary Japanese mother who killed four people and poisoned 63 with arsenic curry served at a local festival in 1998 in Wakayama, Japan. Yet, as they follow her story, the investigators will be neither surprised nor frightened.

The Chundawat family is a multi-generational Indian family of eleven who live together in a two-storey house in Delhi. But on July 1, 2018, the family was killed when they were all found dead, hanging next to each other from the ceiling of their living room. When the police discover strange notes in a drawer, it marks the beginning of one of the most complex, strange and frightening investigations India has ever seen.

In 1971, Maria Cámara Gómez saw a black spot on her kitchen floor. It looked like a face. Despite all her efforts, not only does the stain not go away, but shadows suddenly appear on the floor and others on the walls. From that day on, there is no respite for the Pereira family. This is the beginning of the disturbing case of "La Casa de las caras", the house of faces, which will upset the peace of this simple village in deepest Spain.