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Invisible Choir

Consensual Non-Monogamy

Invisible Choir

Reach Freaks

True Crime

4.7 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We’re all familiar with the term “open relationship.” Some more than others. While this kind of romance doesn't always work out, it’s very rare that someone winds up dead as a result. Back in 2015, 22-year-old Ryan Zimmerman of Corbin, KY was struggling with his identity. He was looking to discover who he was as a person by connecting with like-minded people on the internet. That’s when he met a man who excitedly welcomed him into polyamorous relationship. The only problem with the arrangement was that Ryan Zimmerman soon went missing…

Written by Michael Dunphy Jr., Executive Produced by Michael Ojibway.

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0:00.0

Reachre

0:04.0

Freaks.

0:10.0

Invisible choir explores detailed depictions of violence and murder and is not appropriate for all audiences.

0:13.3

Listener discretion is advised.

0:15.4

We can show that the head was actually cut off at his final column.

0:20.3

We have the soul marks that indicate that.

0:24.2

We never did find a skull, and at least at this point,

0:28.1

we believe that that was discarded in some other location. Open relationships. By now we've all heard of the concept. It's 2023 after all

0:49.6

and if you haven't perhaps you should consider getting with the Times.

0:54.8

Some of you may have even engaged in this brand of progressive yet undoubtedly complex romance

0:59.8

yourselves, involving more than one partner in an intimate or romantic relationship.

1:06.4

While everyone should be entitled to do as they please when it comes to their personal life,

1:11.4

there's no denying that becoming romantically involved with multiple people

1:16.1

might prove difficult or complex to say the least. Jealousy, feelings of inadequacy, these are just a few of the emotions one might experience in an open relationship.

1:27.0

And even if you know what you were signing up for, that's only natural.

1:31.0

We're not saying it can't work out, just that most times, perhaps 9 out of 10, it probably

1:38.3

doesn't. In Columbus, Ohio, back in 2015, a group of young individuals decided to give this sort of arrangement

1:46.1

a shot.

1:47.1

But the end result was anything but positive.

1:50.3

In fact, it produced the worst possible outcome regarding what can happen when four people decide

1:56.9

to date each other simultaneously. Mercer County, Ohio, January 3rd, 2016.

2:02.6

That's Sunday afternoon, just after 2,000.

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