Serialously with Annie Elise
253: What Truly Happened to Sudiksha Konanki, Influencer Murdered on Livestream, Diddy’s Prison Phone Call and Woman Held Stepson Captive 20 Years
Thu, 20 Mar 2025
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Chapter 1: What is happening in the world of true crime this week?
But some of the big dial ups that I want to share with you and so many of these that you guys have been requesting for more information on. I've been able to do these quick little YouTube shorts or things over on my Instagram story and reels where I'm giving you guys updates about these cases as they're breaking. But it's of course, I'm limited to, you know, 90 seconds or three minutes.
So now I'm over here and I want to give you more information on these cases but as a reminder if you want any of like the breaking news information right away and you don't want to wait till a Monday or Thursday episode you can follow me on all platforms at at underscore Annie Elise and you'll be able to keep up to date with all of that.
But let me talk to you about some of these cases that we're going to be reviewing together today. First and foremost, we're going to be talking about a case that is coming out of New York City, where once again, somebody was lit on fire. Now, last time we heard about this, it was in the subway, and it was a woman. This time, it's a man, and it was in the middle of Times Square.
So we're going to talk about all of that. There's also a case that is breaking all the way over in Tokyo, and it's about a female influencer who was live-streaming
and literally as she had her phone in her hand as she was like this doing selfies walking through Tokyo she was attacked and she was stabbed over 30 times and it was all caught on live stream so we're going to be talking about not only what happened in that case but also the motive behind it and what really was found out after they figured out the connection between her and this man
There's also some breaking news in the Kanye West and Diddy of it all, which I wasn't really sure if I was going to talk about that, to be quite honest. But you may have seen that there's been some issues with Kim getting involved now. She had trademarked Northwest's name.
Also, after I had put together what I wanted to talk about with that in regards to, you know, the song that's coming out or came out, I should say, there's also a new phone call between Diddy and Kanye while Diddy's been incarcerated. And I don't know.
The call, I have my thoughts about it, so I'm going to share it with you so you can hear it directly, and then it was just released, so I want you to hear it and then tell me what you think. We're also going to, of course, be talking about the evil stepmom, the one who allegedly kept her son captive, her stepson captive, for over 20 years.
He was found, he's 5'9", 32 years old, and he weighed only 68 pounds. This is one of those cases where I jumped on Instagram and did like some reels about it and tried to get out as much information as possible. But since then, even more information has come to light. Information about what happened when he was at school, when he was then pulled out of school.
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Chapter 2: What happened to the man set on fire in Times Square?
But that was a really long-winded intro. I apologize for that. I'm trying to take things slow. I just had like a massive sneezing attack before I pressed record where it was one of those things where I like ate sneezes in a row. So I'm like trying not to trigger anything in my nostrils here to where I'm going to start sneezing, which sounds so dumb. I know.
But I'm like, if I just take it slow and I don't talk super fast, maybe I won't have another sneezing attack. And... Whatever, I'll shut up now, and let's just get into this first case, okay? So we're gonna start with the New York case, because if you remember, three months ago, a woman was set on fire in a New York City subway.
She was sleeping, and this random sicko just came and lit her on fire. Then he just watched as she burned to death. It was so sad, so morbid, so disgusting, and... Now, another person has been set on fire in New York City. This time, it was in the middle of Times Square, which is like the Mecca. You know where Times Square is, right? It's where the ball drops.
It's where it's so busy, all the lights, all the action, the big tourist spot, which, what is wrong with people, right? Now, it happened on Monday, and it was just before 4 a.m., So police say that they, quote, came across a 45-year-old man who had been lit on fire. The attacker, though, is still unidentified.
But apparently, he lit this guy on fire, fled, and then he managed to, like, duck away into a nightclub somewhere. Now, the man who was attacked and set on fire reportedly ran about 100 feet all while he was on fire. Then someone finally approached him, used a fire extinguisher on him, and put the fire out. Which, can you just imagine that for a moment?
You're a police officer, you're walking your early morning beat through Times Square, just trying to get ready, get started for the day. But then, out of the corner of your eye, you literally see somebody running through Times Square on fire. So this victim was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance, and thankfully, the doctors were able to perform miracles on him, and he's now in stable condition.
And even though the attacker has not been publicly identified, police say that the two of them could have known each other. Because get this, witnesses said that the two of them had spoken at a food cart a little bit before this attack took place. Which you know the food carts in New York, even if you haven't been there, I'm sure you've seen it in the movies.
It's like the little kebab places or the little hot dog carts, they're right all over the sidewalks in the city. Well, something must have gone very wrong during this conversation with them. Because a little while later, that's when the attacker took something off of the food truck, maybe gasoline, lighter fluid, something like that, I don't know.
But that's what he used to set the 45-year-old man on fire. The attack also happened just hours before the New York City half marathon was starting. So what's interesting about that is a lot of people were already out really early that morning. They were enjoying themselves.
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Chapter 3: What are the latest developments in the Diddy and Kanye West saga?
And I know a lot of you guys might be sick of the Diddy rabbit hole, but this new update does have kind of a weird twist, so I just want to touch on it very quickly. So Kanye West released a new song over the weekend, and it's actually turning into a little bit of a scandal, because here's why.
The new song is called Lonely Roads Still Go to Sunshine, and the song features not only Diddy, but also Kanye and Kim Kardashian's daughter, North West. Now, North is only 11 years old, so Kim kind of sprung into action and told Kanye she didn't want North to be dragged into any of this mess, which, what kind of mother would, right?
She even had previously tried to trademark North's name and sent a cease and desist letter to halt this entire song's release. She's like, I don't want my daughter in this. I've trademarked her name. You can't use her name either. Whether you're going to agree with me as a parent or not about having her involved in this,
legally you can't do it because i trademarked her name and then it got messy because as you know anything pretty much with kanye west these days gets super toxic and super messy so along with the release of the song on x or twitter kanye also posted screenshots of text messages between him and kim the screenshots basically say that kim was trademarking north's name so that he couldn't release the song but then kanye was telling her that if she didn't get rid of the trademark
He would, quote, go to war. Now, the biggest thing in all of this that Kim wants is for North to just be separated and not involved with all of Kanye's, you know, questionable behavior over the last few months. I mean, for example, when he went on that anti-Semitic rant, then sold t-shirts with swastikas on them.
Also showing up to the Oscars red carpet, uninvited, and then making his wife strip down naked in front of the cameras. Just some weird, odd behavior. Kanye also went on a social media rant about how Diddy should be released. So I can definitely imagine, mother to mother, just human being to human being, why Kim wouldn't want their 11-year-old daughter associated with all of this, right?
Now, in other news, sidestepping that, which this is what I wanted to add in, The Shade Room also just dropped some newly obtained audio of Diddy talking to Kanye West, pushing him to get back on the stage and quote, tear down the stadiums.
Diddy says to Kanye quote, When I get out and I get that fucking freedom, I'm not caring about anything but motherfucking being happy, and I want you to feel that. Now, as we know, he's facing a minimum of 15 years in prison, but he doesn't hold back as he's talking to Kanye. This call goes on for about five minutes. He even says, "...they're definitely trying to end us.
I'm gonna beat this shit and get next to you." He also talks about what his time has been like since being behind bars, saying, "...it's like being left for dead, and only one person coming to do anything to get you. That's the level of appreciation that I have for you." So I'm going to play the full phone call here for you so that you can get the context, the tone of voice, all of those things.
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Chapter 4: Why is Kim Kardashian involved in Kanye's new song controversy?
Yeah, I understand. Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, man. I love you, man. I appreciate
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
I love you once again, man.
I'm going to let y'all go and get back to some fun, man.
I'm going to bring your vibration down.
You keep doing everything you're doing, man.
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Chapter 5: What is the story behind the influencer murdered on livestream?
she was stabbed to death last wednesday and like i said the whole attack happened while she was on live stream so ari was 22 years old and she has a couple thousand followers so she was on live stream around 9 50 a.m while just walking through a neighborhood in tokyo documenting what she was doing the errands she was running the thing she was grabbing but then all of a sudden people heard her yelling she was yelling help help and then the phone screen went dark
so people who were watching her live stream of course got scared got super worried so then people started commenting things like somebody help where'd she go is she okay the next thing they knew police and ambulance sirens were heard on the live stream like the whole crime the reaction everything was just happening live which i can't imagine literally hearing somebody's death on your screen when you're just trying to watch something in the morning casually and like
watch somebody running errands or grabbing coffee or whatever and then you literally hear and witness a murder it is so chilling so her live stream finally went completely dark and at that point ari was also rushed to the hospital she had suffered more than 30 stab wounds she had been stabbed in the head the neck and the torso after she got to the hospital doctors tried to do everything that they could but unfortunately the damage was too extensive
Ari was unable to make it. Then, after the attack, photos were posted online from people who were there and witnessed the attack. These photos showed Ari lying on the ground, dead, and covered in blood. Now, at the scene, the police arrested a 42-year-old man named Kenji Takono, and that's when the investigators learned that this attack was, in fact, not a random one.
Kenji and Ari actually had some history. Now, at first, it looked like Aerie was just killed by some crazy fan who was stalking her. But it turns out there was a little bit more to this story. Kenji told the police that he had first met Aerie through her live streams online. He had also met her a few times in person. Then, in 2022, he started loaning her money.
And I'm not really sure the entire story behind it, but apparently they had some sort of understanding, some sort of financial agreement, where Kenji was going to loan her money, and then eventually she would pay him back. So Kenji said that Eri had told him she was in financial trouble, and because of that, he agreed to help her out.
So he ended up loaning her a total of 2.2 million yen, which equates to almost $15,000. But then Eri never paid him back. Now Kenji wanted his money back. He apparently even tried to sue her, and she received a court order to pay him back. But even so, she never ended up paying him back. So this, for one reason or another, obviously drove Kenji to some sort of breaking point.
So when Eri announced that she was going to go live, she was going to go on her livestream, he drove over 60 miles, 6-0, to get to the same neighborhood that she was in. He ended up being able to track her down by recognizing the buildings that were showing in the back of her livestream, like literally tracking her in real time.
Then when he attacked her, he used a survival knife, which is very similar to a K-bar knife, which is kind of one that Brian Koberger allegedly used in the Idaho 4 case. So you can imagine it is like a massive weapon. And he used that and he stabbed her to death.
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Chapter 6: Who is the evil stepmother that held her stepson captive for 20 years?
I know, come on. I'm coming. You've seen it. That one victim right here. Where are you going?
I need to stay over here.
The stepson immediately told the responding officers that he had started this fire on purpose, and he said that the reason he did that is because he wanted, quote, his freedom. Then, once he was loaded into the ambulance, he began to tell them everything. He told them about the abuse, the lack of food and water, and then he told them about how he started the fire.
The Waterbury police chief said, quote, this is the worst treatment of humanity that I have ever witnessed. The man was immediately taken to the hospital where he was treated for his injuries along with smoke inhalation. He was also diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.
Once the police learned about how he had been living, they decided they needed to start an investigation into Kimberly. I mean, obviously. And one of the craziest parts about this whole thing, and the main thing that had the police just completely baffled, is how did this go on for so long without anybody noticing? Well, back when the stepson was enrolled in grade school...
people actually had been really concerned about him. Kids were telling their parents about how skinny he was, how hungry he was, all of those things. So a welfare check was actually performed in 2005. But apparently, nothing came out of that welfare check.
Then, after that, in what I would imagine is a panic, his family claimed that the welfare check was harassment, and that the authorities had no right to report them to the state welfare office. So the welfare officers said that they then went to the home, they talked to everybody there, and they said that there was no cause for concern.
After that, the family never spoke to the police, they never had any run-ins with child welfare, nothing happened ever again. Family members also said that Kimberly had isolated her family from everybody else, and they remember thinking that her stepson was very, very skinny, but they didn't see him or the family ever often enough to realize the extent of what was truly going on.
The boy's biological mother was also said to never be a part of his life. His biological father, who allegedly also was involved in this abuse, he died last year. And after he passed away, the abuse from Kimberly and the confinement allegedly only got worse. So after roughly a month of investigating, Kimberly was finally arrested on March 12th.
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Chapter 7: What happened to the missing student from the University of Pittsburgh?
If you've ever been caught under a wave, you probably know what that feels like, right? It's like you're trying to catch your breath, you catch water in because you're not prepared, and you're trying to, like, get your footing. Now, Joshua was a former pool lifeguard, so he said he did his best to get himself and Sudiksha back to safety, back to land, back to the shore.
And he said that once he got back to knee-high water, that's when he put her down and he started throwing up all of that water that he had swallowed. He told the police, then he just passed out on the beach. And when he woke up, he was actually shocked to see that she was no longer there. He said, "...the last time I saw her, I asked if she was okay. I didn't hear her answer."
I looked around and I didn't see anyone. I thought that she grabbed her things and left. So he finally went back to the hotel, alone, at around 10 a.m. And at first, police listed Joshua as a witness, then as a person of interest, but never as a suspect.
And even though he's not being called a suspect and there are no charges of anything against him, he was confined to his hotel room and his passport was confiscated for the investigation. His parents also said that he is fully cooperating with the police, and they want to do everything that they can do to help her family, to help the police get answers, to figure out what happened.
Now, the other students that were with her before she went missing have also all been questioned, but the investigators have maintained that they believe that none of them are suspects and that no foul play was truly involved. Later on, police found her clothing hanging on a beach chair, but there was still no sign of her.
Now, as you can imagine, the rumor mill is running wild, and it's totally possible that foul play wasn't involved. And that's what I thought at first. I thought maybe they were drunk, she drowned, maybe he couldn't bring her back to the shore, but said he did because he didn't want to be implicated in that and thought that it would be easier for his story. I don't really know.
It could just be that this Joshua guy was the last person to have seen her alive before a tragic accident took place. But also, when you have a case like this, you know there are always going to be rumors and theories, and a lot of people online have been accusing Joshua of knowing more than he has shared.
There also are some different versions of the story that he was telling the investigators, like how at first he told them he went back to the hotel by himself, but then he told them that he passed out on the beach. It was also reported in a Daily Mail article that he does have a girlfriend back at school.
But I mean, that's Daily Mail, so take it with a grain of salt and do your own research before jumping to conclusions. But he's also 22 years old, so if it was an accidental drowning involving alcohol, this must be traumatic for him too. And there's bound to be some shock and play. And again, maybe they were drinking, they were...
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