Chapter 16: The Brutal Murder of Junko Furuta
This Chapter comes with a very big trigger warning. if anyone planning on listening to this chapter is sensitive to or triggered by discussion of SA or graphic details, please skip past this chapter. we don't want anyone to be triggered by our content. In November of 1989 Junko Furuta is on her way home from work when she is knocked off her bicycle by a teenage boy. another boy from her school offers to walk her home, but she never makes it. what would follow would go on to be described as "The 44 days of Hell" That this 17 year old girl would have to live through before, ultimately, succumbing to her torture.
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