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Oct 2023
41m 34s

55: Real Life Yandere: Obsessed Fan Went...

Eleanor Neale
About this episode
Today’s case is on Yuka Takaoka - a young woman from Tokyo who had fallen obsessively in love with Phoenix Luna, a popular employee of a Japanese host bar. Just months after they met, she would go viral on social media for brutally stabbing him in his sleep.


Trigger Warning: stalking, obsessive behaviours, child abuse, neglect, mention of suicide, suicidal ideation

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