For a lot of 18 year olds, moving away from home and starting college is the first real big adventure in their lives. In the fall semester of 2021, freshman Danny Santulli at the University of Missouri was ready and excited to start this exact journey. He, like many other young coeds, was interested in Greek Life on campus and was quickly recruited to pledge one of the biggest and best fraternities on the Mizzou campus. He would soon learn just how steep the price was to join the elite brotherhood, though. And what started as pretty normal college fun as he joined the Fiji Fall pledge class soon devolved into a living nightmare for both Danny and all his friends and family.

At the turn of the new Millennia, a pair of unlikely "friends" in Southern California came together in order to scam unassuming individuals who were already very much down on their luck who were looking for a hand up in just about any way they could get it. Both Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt had spent most of their adult lives making their money by running different scams over the years, most notably using their looks to their advantage on wealthy men when they were younger. But as time moved on, they had to adapt and come up with different ways to go about obtaining their income which would eventually lead them down an even darker road costing multiple people their lives.

This week’s episode begins in a similar fashion to last week’s. A young girl hitchhiking in the 1970s unfortunately accepts a ride from the wrong “family.” What follows are years of abuse in every form from a cruel “master” who slowly groomed her to be so dedicated to him that she was willing to do anything to keep him happy. Even after she was kept locked away in a tiny space with no light, room, food, or access to basic needs for more than 20 hours a day for years, Colleen Stan fought through it all by compartmentalizing and looking forward to even the smallest of rewards believing she was letting herself be put through this torture in order to save herself and her family.