Here’s a very unsettling and bizarre criminal case you almost certainly haven’t heard of — even though it should’ve been national news at the time.
In 2021, an 18-year-old named Cora Vides was a senior at Laguna Blanca School in Santa Barbara. On Valentine’s Day, Cora invited a longtime friend over to her family’s house. Everything was normal, right up until Cora declared out of nowhere that she was bisexual. Then Cora told her friend to close her eyes, supposedly so that she could demonstrate a new technique for meditation. But it was all a ruse. After counting to three, Cora suddenly began stabbing her friend in the neck. The victim managed to escape, although she nearly bled to death in the hospital. Her lung had collapsed. She needed surgery to reconstruct her larynx. At no point did she have any idea why her friend had just tried to kill her. All she knew was that Cora had snapped, entered some kind of dissociative state, and violently ambushed her.


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