Donald Zieben-Hood murders personal trainer influencer husband Jacob Zieben-Hood in NYC
The couple had been fighting for months, who said Donald “demonstrated an escalating pattern of violence toward his husband in defiance of multiple public court orders, culminating in his husband’s death,” prosecutors said, according to the Daily News.
The model was arrested for violating an order of protection issued by a judge in November that barred him from having contact with Jacob, which he immediately confessed to police, according to the report.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 124 | August 7, 2025 2:39 AM
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Crazy hot couple.
Emphasis on the crazy, obviously.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 1 | August 4, 2025 3:47 PM
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I always feel like more is made of this kind of thing and it often has a homophobic twinge to it.
If a man murders his wife, no one ever uses it to talk about the pitfalls of heterosexuality, but if it's a gay couple they sometimes do (albeit with some subtlety).
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 4, 2025 3:50 PM
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I wonder if some people involved were afraid to take more drastic steps because they would be viewed as homophobic. Just a hunch.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 4, 2025 3:52 PM
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This wouldn't have happened if they looked like me.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 4, 2025 3:53 PM
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The killer is the less good-looking of the two. Makes sense.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 4, 2025 3:54 PM
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Poor queen died just like Judy! 😭
by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 4, 2025 3:54 PM
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r4 What would those drastic steps be? He already had multiple court orders out against him, so the court system was doing its job.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 4, 2025 3:55 PM
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I wonder if one of them was a Datalounger?
by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 4, 2025 3:55 PM
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Eh well, this thread is getting more traction than mine, so —
Interesting and sad comment in the NY Post (though I had to wade through a swamp of cretinous homophobic ones to get to it):
“ NOW MORE TO THE STORY: This alleged killer was arrested back in FEBRUARY for charges including strangulation and felony contempt for violating an order of protection. Low bail was set, and he made it. BUT, DA Bragg has STILL not indicted the case, so it is on for potential dismissal on 8/28. AMAZINGLY, while he was out on that case, he was arrested in JUNE for menacing and another order of protection violation, and a mere $5k bail was set and posted and he was released again. Yet the DA STILL didn’t indict the February case. And now we have dead body. The more you know!”
by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 4, 2025 3:56 PM
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You’re right, R2. I feel the same way. It’s a huge double standard.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 4, 2025 3:56 PM
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This is all over the news
by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 4, 2025 3:57 PM
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Definitely a combo of steroids and meth.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 4, 2025 3:57 PM
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Musto has chimed in on Facebook and says he knew one of them
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 4, 2025 3:57 PM
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"I'm the pretty one in this relationship!"
"No, I'M the pretty one!"
by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 4, 2025 4:02 PM
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I love to imagine what kind of naughty imp I would be if I were born hot. Doubt I’d be this bad though.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 4, 2025 4:02 PM
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No, I'm the Mary and YOU'RE the Rhoda!
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 4, 2025 4:04 PM
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[quote] Poor queen died just like Judy! 😭
On the toilet?
by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 4, 2025 4:06 PM
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He called his model husband "Dumbo" one time too often....
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 4, 2025 4:07 PM
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According to the article he was found slumped on his toilet dead from stab wounds
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 4, 2025 4:08 PM
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In the latest chilling episode of “Two Bottoms Don’t Make a Top”…
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 4, 2025 4:08 PM
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R17, yeah surely for those born hot there’s a lot of sweet stuff on offer in the category of “naughty imp” and no need to become a violent and homicidal husband!
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 4, 2025 4:08 PM
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Was he murdered while douching? Horrors!
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 4, 2025 4:08 PM
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The NYPost comments are pretty depressing.
But here we are.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 4, 2025 4:11 PM
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This, gentle readers, is why you fuck Mr Hot n’ Crazy once, but you do not date him and you DO NOT marry him.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 4, 2025 4:18 PM
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R26, I say never EVER stick your dick in crazy. Because even once they could go all “Basic Instinct” on your ass.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 4, 2025 4:25 PM
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Actually, I think the murderer is the better-looking of the two. But there’s no accounting for taste.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 4, 2025 4:26 PM
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So who’s dead- the blond or the brunette?
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 4, 2025 4:28 PM
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Turning 40 is apparently quite taxing on elite social media starlet gays.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 4, 2025 4:28 PM
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They look different in every photo.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 4, 2025 4:28 PM
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R30 Remember when the line used to be 25?
by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 4, 2025 4:29 PM
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Seems like they did everything possible to be better looking but neither one is actually good looking when you take a good look at them.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 4, 2025 4:30 PM
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The killer’s prolific and beyond-narcissistic Instagram..
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 34 | August 4, 2025 4:41 PM
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I only read the California Post. 0/10
by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 4, 2025 4:47 PM
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So many instagrams. There is something off about the both of them. Which one is/was in med school? The younger one? The killer might have been vaguely a model at 20 but that was a long time ago. What fight for months. At least one of them needed to break it off permanently. And how did the Killer keep getting back in the apartment if the dead guy had an order of protection? Whose apartment is it anyway? Questions.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 4, 2025 4:58 PM
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Is his name Donald, or Jason?
I’m confused —Rose
by Anonymous | reply 37 | August 4, 2025 5:00 PM
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I think he watched American Psycho one too many times.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 4, 2025 5:02 PM
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In Med School at age 34"? Or was he a resident?
Sad in any case.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 4, 2025 5:04 PM
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Stabbed to death on the terlet-what a way to go!
by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 4, 2025 5:10 PM
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Donald and the Zieben Hoods? Wasnt that a movie with Frank and Bing?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 42 | August 4, 2025 5:11 PM
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C’mon DL sleuths, where are the dick pics?
by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 4, 2025 5:16 PM
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R10 that's to the "the justice system was doing it's job!" ...
by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 4, 2025 5:31 PM
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R13 calls it - that's exactly what I was thinking.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 4, 2025 5:37 PM
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[quote]According to the article he was found slumped on his toilet dead from stab wounds
Maybe Donald thought it was a burglar hiding out in there?
by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 4, 2025 5:56 PM
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You brought home cilantro instead of parsley… for the LAST TIME!
by Anonymous | reply 49 | August 4, 2025 6:19 PM
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The shorter, pale one is the murderer?
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 4, 2025 6:47 PM
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Which inmate will be the first to murder his asshole?
by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 4, 2025 6:51 PM
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This is why we lock the bathroom door when we do our #2's.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 4, 2025 7:26 PM
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[quote] Turning 40 is apparently quite taxing on elite social media starlet gays.
Who was that guy who was a therapist in NYC and committed suicide after he turned 40? there was a story about it in the NYTimes. When he was in his 20s, he literally had older gay strangers kneeling before him in Mykonos just because of his beauty, but when he aged he freaked out and offed himself.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 4, 2025 7:29 PM
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That describes so many from 10011
by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 4, 2025 7:47 PM
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R52, you made me do a spit take!
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 4, 2025 7:52 PM
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R54, wasn’t it when he turned 50?
by Anonymous | reply 57 | August 4, 2025 7:55 PM
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Ah yes the tragic tale of Bob Bergeron who tried to write a self help book for ex-twunks-in-denial as they confront their own midlife crises.
Bob killed himself in despair when he realized he didn’t actually believe any of the hollow self help pablum he’d written, rather, he believed at his core that there was no point at all to gay male existence if you have gotten old.
The full length NYT piece on him was quite good.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 4, 2025 8:06 PM
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Torta, you are a treasure to this site. Thank you for all your links and information, regardless of topic.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | August 4, 2025 8:09 PM
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Well, it's more than most posters offer, R60, so I'll take it and say thank you.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | August 4, 2025 8:21 PM
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Ughhh, another victim of “Dancer of the Dance”.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 62 | August 4, 2025 8:33 PM
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Poor Bob Bergeron was another shallow scenester gay who wasn't bright enough to take the counsel he enjoyed doling out.
And the kicker of course is that on his best day, he wasn't all that in the looks department.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 4, 2025 8:33 PM
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This is why they hate us.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | August 4, 2025 8:41 PM
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R58 I looked up Bob Bergeron and he was rather plain even when young. He must have had deep seated psychological issues.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 4, 2025 8:47 PM
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The killer Donald was a bartender at Splash for a while
by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 4, 2025 8:55 PM
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Can't find any nudes. Shame.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | August 4, 2025 9:06 PM
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[quote]The killer Donald was a bartender at Splash for a while
As long as it wasn't Larry!
by Anonymous | reply 68 | August 4, 2025 9:29 PM
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I loved him in Splash! He and Darryl Hannah had great chemistry.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 4, 2025 9:44 PM
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R67, did you scroll through all 6564 pages of instagram?
by Anonymous | reply 70 | August 4, 2025 9:51 PM
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Why couldn't the killer have gotten obsessed with Peter Thiel?
by Anonymous | reply 72 | August 4, 2025 10:25 PM
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What?! Not true at all, R71. Try harder.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | August 4, 2025 10:39 PM
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Was the victim using PFAS-free asswipe in the moments before he was bludgeoned to death?
by Anonymous | reply 74 | August 4, 2025 10:41 PM
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[Quote] If a man murders his wife, no one ever uses it to talk about the pitfalls of heterosexuality,
But certainly, they do on DL
by Anonymous | reply 75 | August 4, 2025 10:46 PM
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Based on the pictures neither one of them is particularly hot
by Anonymous | reply 76 | August 4, 2025 10:47 PM
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"I was a great beauty, once."
Oh hun, whatever you need to tell yourself.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | August 5, 2025 12:11 AM
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R73 mok, lol. R71 busted us. To compliment is to reveal that one is also the complimented. The secret’s out!
by Anonymous | reply 78 | August 5, 2025 1:26 AM
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R2 I feel you. This is absolutely a thing.
As a black man I feel exactly the same thing happens with high profile cases involving black men. There’s this weird undertone of guilt by association with the Bill Cosbys and P-Diddys or OJ Simpsons. That I’m a part of some inherent violence that’s being played out.
When does it even occur to WHITE men that they should be associated in any way with the crimes of Harvey Weinstein, Charles Manson or Ted Bundy? They get labeled as bad men, not bad white men.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | August 5, 2025 1:39 AM
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CourtTV needs to cover this Gavel to Gavel....
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 80 | August 5, 2025 3:00 AM
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I've known a couple of people who have been murdered. One friend was murdered by his boyfriend (who strangled him to death). Another guy I knew picked up the wrong guy who killed him.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | August 5, 2025 3:04 AM
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I can't keep track of all the gay murderers lately. There seem to be more and more.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | August 5, 2025 3:13 AM
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They both look so different in almost every photo shown of each other.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | August 5, 2025 4:24 AM
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Donald Zieben-Hood is in more trouble than George Santos.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | August 5, 2025 4:25 AM
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No big loss where both are concerned.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | August 5, 2025 4:36 AM
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This is why we never should have had gay marriage. Makes you nuts.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | August 5, 2025 4:41 AM
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Will Rosie love this murderer?
by Anonymous | reply 88 | August 5, 2025 5:27 AM
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^^^ Only if he talks about being abused as a child
by Anonymous | reply 89 | August 5, 2025 6:49 AM
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This really reminds me of the Nick Gruber case, which didn’t end in a murder but could have.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | August 5, 2025 10:25 AM
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Did Gruber try to murder Klein?
I think Geffen was at much higher risk.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | August 5, 2025 11:00 AM
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This is not what I meant when I asked him to murder my ass.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | August 5, 2025 11:29 AM
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I thought the same thing about his looks, r63. I assume he had other psychological issues.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | August 5, 2025 11:29 AM
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[quote] Will Rosie love this murderer?
Rosie only loves straight male murderers. She's old-school.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | August 5, 2025 11:57 AM
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I don't understand these good looking Dudes who murder each other. They could probably have 1,000 other men if the relationship was not working out. Not like some fat, slob living in a basement.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | August 5, 2025 12:57 PM
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R96 it’s not that complicated. Randomness. Some people are good looking. Some people are extremely psychologically unhealthy. And some people are both.
This particular guy (the killer) was a longtime violent domestic abuser. He wasn’t wanting to simply dump the spouse and find new love.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | August 5, 2025 1:02 PM
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with a judge's order already executed, it's impossible to not suspect there are fight videos -- if not from the fateful night -- and sent to friends-family as well as stored
let alone a healthy stash of on-camera sex
that endless insta account is impressive and wildly exhausting
by Anonymous | reply 98 | August 5, 2025 1:32 PM
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98 Entries in and the most pressing question has not been asked:
Who has had them?
by Anonymous | reply 99 | August 5, 2025 2:53 PM
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[quote] I don't understand these good looking Dudes who murder each other. They could probably have 1,000 other men if the relationship was not working out. Not like some fat, slob living in a basement.
So deep!
by Anonymous | reply 101 | August 5, 2025 3:05 PM
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Sounds like these two homos were upset at not having actual jobs, and murder was the result.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | August 5, 2025 3:06 PM
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[quote]So who’s dead- the blond or the brunette?
I’m curious too. Why hasnt anyone answered this??
by Anonymous | reply 104 | August 5, 2025 4:17 PM
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[quote] Based on the pictures neither one of them is particularly hot
But who alive can equal your beauty?
by Anonymous | reply 105 | August 5, 2025 4:24 PM
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This is what passes as a "hot" couple in NY?
by Anonymous | reply 107 | August 5, 2025 8:09 PM
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r107, since you look down your nose at them, let's see your photos.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | August 5, 2025 10:02 PM
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I gotta say, the killer is pretty fucking hot. His husband, not so much. Passable, maybe.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | August 5, 2025 10:30 PM
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Blond kills Brunette. Hope that helps clarify
by Anonymous | reply 110 | August 5, 2025 11:03 PM
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The taller cute one is the murderer?
by Anonymous | reply 111 | August 5, 2025 11:07 PM
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Yes, the murderer is the hotter one.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | August 5, 2025 11:08 PM
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r110 It doesn't, since neither is blond.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 113 | August 5, 2025 11:09 PM
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I know this is confusing. for the purposes of our reference please use OP photo. If you need further help, the guy on the left side of the photo is blond.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | August 5, 2025 11:17 PM
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They’re influencers, or Jacob was — the hair color on each of them shifted around from blond to brunet and back again several times over the years.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | August 5, 2025 11:33 PM
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What products did the push? Hair gel? Wife beaters? Protein shakes? I don't think they were doing a book of the month club or reviews of classic movies.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | August 6, 2025 3:28 AM
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[quote] Yes, the murderer is the hotter one.
This is too confusing. R6 said the murderer is the ugly one. Which is it?!?
by Anonymous | reply 118 | August 6, 2025 4:57 AM
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Hey, Vera. We got another stiff in the john.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 119 | August 6, 2025 7:17 AM
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[Quote] What products did the push? Hair gel? Wife beaters?
Husband killer.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | August 6, 2025 8:10 AM
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Did they find traces of feces on the knife?
by Anonymous | reply 121 | August 6, 2025 8:29 AM
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This thread died faster than Zieben-Hood.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | August 6, 2025 12:58 PM
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Can you imagine the stench of cologne in that apartment?
Too bad the dead one, who seemed at least smart and certainly good looking enough, couldn't break free of his abuser. The lesson to be learned is to RUN at the very first sign of physical abuse. And never look back, no matter how tasty that cock might be.
And the murderer is really going to have an awful time adjusting to life in prison. No protein shakes. No spray tans. No hair coloring... and worst of all, no cologne.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | August 6, 2025 1:44 PM
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