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American soldiers, captured by North Korean's, are periodically brainwashed into giving up their capitalist ways to join the communist movement.
A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a maidservant for Johann Jakob Tschudi, a physician. Tschudi reported her for having put needles in the bread and milk of one of his daughters, apparently through supernatural means. Göldi at first escaped arrest, but the authorities of the Canton of Glarus advertised a reward for her capture in the Zürcher Zeitung on February 9, 1782. Göldi was arrested and under torture, admitted to entering in a pact with the Devil, who had appeared to her as a black dog. She withdrew her confession after the torture ended, but was sentenced on June 18, 1782 to execution by decapitation. The charges were officially of "poisoning" rather than witchcraft, even though the law at the time did not impose the death penalty for non-lethal poisoning.
En dag får SVT:s reporter Hannes Råstam ett märkligt samtal som kastar helt nytt ljus över den våg av mordbränder som drabbade Falun i mitten av 1970-talet. Bränderna utraderade delar av den äldre stadsbebyggelsen, satte skräck i befolkningen och föranledde en aldrig tidigare skådad polisinsats. Enligt polisutredningen var det två ungdomsligor som låg bakom bränderna. En trettonårig flicka låstes in i häkte och fick inte ringa sin mamma om hon inte erkände. Andra berättar för reportern Hannes Råstam att de skulle hållas inlåsta ”tills de ruttnade”. Polisutredningen slutade med att åtta barn och ungdomar erkände att de anlagt mer än femtio bränder. De placerades på barnhem eller dömdes till rättspsykiatrisk vård. Idag säger samtliga att de var oskyldiga och tvingades erkänna. En man hävdar nu att han ensam anlade bränderna och vill att rättsskandalen avslöjas.