The Menacing Case of the Monster with 21 Faces
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Published 2021-07-02
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i saw a comment that said “sometimes i feel like shane is a demon sent to kill ryan but just became attached” and now i cant get that out of my head
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Shane Madej really said “eat the rich” and has stuck by it since 2016.
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For clarification: the reason the Japanese police force has such a high percentage is because they often torture suspects into confession, and they arrest people who aren’t the actual criminals.
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ghosts don't scare shane because they're older than 23
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The reason Japanese police had such a high “success” rate when it came to solving crimes is that it also had one of the highest rates of wrongful convictions, and even to this day has a 99% conviction rate; which means that if you are on trial in Japan, you are almost definitely going to be convicted.
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For postmortem: Why didnt you mention that the police captain set himself on fire because he was so ashamed that he couldn't solve the case? That event led to the monster with 21 faces to stop because they respected that so much. Such a important part of the case so I'm surprised yall left it out.
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The part about humiliating the police...the fact is with such a high conviction rate, there will always be innocent people and people with minor demeanors put in jail. A lot of Japanese media that involve the law are written with this in mind. To me, it's difficult to overlook the idea that perhaps they just wanted to show the police they couldn't force solve everything as a kind of revenge.
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Fun fact: The writer of that kids book, Edogawa Ranpo, isn't bis real name. It is a pen name that is literally the Japanese pronunciation of Edgar Allan Poe. Edogawa was a big fan of him, and was inspired to write because of him.
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For post mortem: Japanese police is notorious for closing cases any way possible to keep up appearances, beating the confessions out of the suspects and convicting innocent people. This was definitely done to humiliate them publicly. Maybe someone with a grudge? Someone whose friend or relative was a victim of the police brutality and incompetence? This feels personal
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can’t believe Shane went from looking like a regular white dude to looking like a maths professor to looking like a crazy archeologist
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I love this one because it really just sounds like one of those riddles that are near-impossible to figure out, but if it is cracked, it's going to suddenly seem all-too obvious. Also, I personally think that this was definitely the work of a group, rather than a individual.
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24:36 They actually did figure out who the Somerton Man was!! He wasn't a secret spy or anything, he was just a dude that was really sad and lonely who wrote a lot of poems about death and was violent with his wife :/
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ngl, if the monster with 21 faces were victims of arsenic poisoning.. that'd be a hell of a backstory
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Shane looks like the smart character from every 90s cartoon and 2000s DS game
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Yes, as people have previously mentioned, the Japanese police forces runs on a "guilty until proven innocent" mindset as opposed to the general "innocent until proven guilty". While Japan has the highest solved crime rate, it also has one of the highest wrongful conviction rates.
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side note: 11:25 is prob one of my fav moments of this show, hearing the pure excitement in shane’s “we’re gonna talk about our favorite candy aren’t we?” to just utter disappointment in his “oh ok” when him n ryan weren’t on the same page😭😭 so cu
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List of things Shane is afraid of: -Heroin -Avocado pits -Anyone under the age of 23
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I'd like to think the child on the phone was actually at the center of it all and it was just a criminal ring of children that wanted free candy.
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I knew an ex special forces guy that claimed to keep a ceramic knife in a shower because you never know when you might have to defend your home and anything else would have rusted in the shower. I remember thinking he was crazy until these two gave their explanation of how they would defend themselves in the bath. I guess I'll be buying a ceramic knife now.
