This episode discusses both past and modern day home invasion crimes, starting with celebrity home invasions, highlighting cases involving the Beckhams, Sandra Bullock, Kim Kardashian, Harry Styles, and Miranda Cosgrove. It then shifts to the Hinterkaifeck murders, an unsolved 1922 case in rural Germany where six members of a family were brutally killed on their isolated farm, leaving behind chilling clues. This video emphasizes the vulnerability that can come with isolation and public exposure.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction

03:50 Celebrity Home Invasions

30:50 Hinterkaifeck Murders

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This chapter dives into the eerie topic of medical malpractice, including the origins of lobotomies, a controversial procedure once used to treat mental illness by severing connections in the brain’s prefrontal lobe, often leaving patients severely impaired. It delves into the Little Albert experiment, a 1920s study in which a baby was conditioned to fear white rats, raising major ethical concern. Finally, it discusses the wrongful death of Brian Sinclair, an Indigenous man who died in a Canadian hospital waiting room after being ignored for 34 hours, highlighting systemic racism.

This chapter showcases the immense impact of medical malpractice and the importance of accountability in medicine.

TIMESTAMPS

Baby Albert - 5:48

Lobotomies - 19:35

Brian Sinclair - 30:48

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Sanders, Robert (April 2016). “Neurophysiologist and philosopher Walter Freeman dies at 89”. UC Berkeley News. Retrieved from:

https://news.berkeley.edu/2016/04/27/neurophysiologist-and-philosopher-walter-freeman-dies-at-89/

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