“He’s keeping me”

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March 20th, 1984: 19-year-old Linda Grober walks into a Tallahassee, Florida mall to buy a gift for her and her boyfriend's anniversary, but doesn't come home. She is victim #4. April 4, 1984: 16-year-old Tina Risico vanishes from a mall in Southern California, last being seen getting into the car of a strange man. She is victim #9. April 10th, 1984, Merrillville, Indiana: 16-year-old Dawn Wilt meets a friendly photographer at her local mall... and steps into a nightmare that could change everything. She is victim #10.

The FBI is continually one step behind this serial killer —better known as the Beauty Queen Killer— whose deadly spree across the country will force three women to fight to escape, stop one of the wildest manhunts in U.S. history, and see justice served for all the other victims.

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Co-directed, edited & written by Maxime Desrochers

Co-directed, written & researched by Manon Lafosse

Voiceover by William Akana

Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader

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Sources:

Documentaries

“A Model Killer” - The FBI Files: New Dominion Pictures, 1999

(Production in association with Discovery Channel)

“Spring break nightmare” - Disappeared: Discovery Communication LLC, 2011 (Production: Peacock Production for Investigation Discovery / Distribution: Sky Crime)

Mini-series

“9 Days of Terror“ - The Beauty Queen Killer: ABC News Inc., 2024

(Production Company AMPLE/Distribution Disney+/101 Studios/ ®Hulu)

News segment

The Snapshot Killer: Inside the Wanda Beach murders

7NEWS Spotlight, originally aired 10 June 2018

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Books

Connelly, Michael. Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers. Little, Brown and Company, 2006.

Byrne, Andrew. The Pretty Girl Killer: The Complete True Story of One of the World’s Most Horrifying Serial Killers Who Terrorised Both Australia and America. Penguin Random House Australia, 2019.

"Driven to Kill." Most Wanted, edited by the Editors of Time-Life Books, Time-Life Books, 2005.

“There’s a pyramid in the cow pasture”

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In 1986, Niki Lopez lives with her family at 717 Bushwick Avenue, home to a secretive group called the Nuwaubian Nation in the heart of Brooklyn–alarmingly, in 1993, the whole community vanishes without a trace. Nearly ten years later, on May 8th, 2002, over 200 federal agents prepare to storm a seemingly “ancient Egyptian” compound in rural Putnam County, Georgia. Inside, nearly 200 families live under the control of Nuwaubian Nation leader, Dwight “Malachi” York. In order to get justice for all the victims before it’s too late, it’s up to Niki to escape, confront her past, and expose the truth behind one of the darkest cases in American history.

Niki founded her organization “What’s Your Elephant”, which aims to empower individuals from all walks of life to use the arts to tell their stories: https://whatsyourelephant.org/

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Written, directed & edited by Matthew Rice

Researched by Bianca Yzabelle Tan

Voiceover by William Akana

Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader

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Sources

The Nuwaubian Nation, How I Escaped My Cult: Freeform, 2025

United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, People Magazine Investigates: Cults: MMXVIII Discovery Communications LLC, 2018

Nuwaubian Nation, FOX5 Eyewitness News, 1998

Waco: The Inside Story, Frontline PBS, 2018

Mysteries Behind Closed Doors: The Dr. Malachi Z. York Case (The Untold Story), ImperialSevens, 2012

Open House visits to the Nuwaubian compound Tama-Re, Jay Humphrey, 2024

Getty Images

Instagram, Niki Lopez

The Waco Massacre: 30 Years On | DARK SIDE OF THE 90'S, VICE TV, 2023

Local Artist Shares Her “Elephant” to Help Empower Women, NBC 6 South Florida, 2019