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Eight Must-Read Stories About Facebook Justice, Cocaine and Thatcher’s Pedophiles

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The Beast’s best from this past week.

How Long Can a ‘Terrifying Psycho’ Outrun All of Facebook?

By Nina Strochlic

Dakota Bond is on the lam after he allegedly beat his girlfriend until she was unrecognizable. Now that his face and her story have gone viral, will he be caught?

‘Cocaine Came First. Then the Whores’: Kevin Sessums on Surviving Drugs and Loving the Devil

By Tim Teeman

One of Vanity Fair’s best known celebrity interviewers reveals how crystal meth brought him face to face with Lucifer—and talks for the first time about being raped by a prostitute.

New Player in the ISIS War: Christian Gazillionaire Foster Friess

By Tim Mak

He’s best known for bankrolling Republicans Rick Santorum and Scott Walker afloat, but Foster Friess has a new cause a long way from D.C.

Everyone Hated ‘The Sound of Music’

By Kevin Fallon

The Sound of Music premiered to horrific reviews in 1965. Now it’s the most beloved and popular movie musical ever. On its 50th anniversary, how did it climb that mountain?

The Pickup Artist Too Sleazy for Pickup Artists

By Brandy Zadrozny

John Mulvehill allegedly masturbated on a woman and was kicked out of his community for it. Now he's back with a new name and a new company.

South Africa’s Madeleine McCann Is Found After 17 Years

By Barbie Latza Nadeau

As a 3-day-old infant, Zephany Nurse was snatched from a Cape Town hospital. Now she has been reunited with her family—after befriending her biological sister at school.

By Russell Saunders

You don’t have cancer. You don’t have radiation sickness. You have a cold and you need to step away from the Internet.

How Thatcher’s Government Covered Up a VIP Pedophile Ring

By Nico Hines

Now that most of the major figures are dead, the truth is emerging about the systematic sexual abuse of children by members of the British government.

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