The True Story of the Van Oosten Bunker Kidnapping
For years, Chad Schipper was a trusted, familiar face in his small Illinois church — a man Larry and Connie Van Oosten had known since he was a boy in their Sunday school class. But behind closed doors, Schipper was drowning in secret debt and had been quietly stealing from the people who trusted him most. When the Van Oostens turned down his request for money, something in him shifted — and he began a meticulous, 18-month plan that would end with the elderly couple bound, blindfolded, and locked inside a hidden room he'd built specifically to hold them.
In this episode, we trace how a…
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