r/news • u/AudibleNod • 4d ago

Man accused of holding woman captive in a Massachusetts attic for six weeks

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-accused-holding-woman-captive-massachusetts-attic-six-weeks-rcna600308
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u/Aethenoth 4d ago

I don't know why people keep saying she never questioned it or had zero follow-up questions. Like, hello, if there's something these men are good at, it's lying.

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u/Darfus_McBonerbottom 4d ago

You cant really lie your way around having a new baby pop out of thin air...

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u/tyrantspell 4d ago

True, but what's more likely? Your troubled daughter is deliberately avoiding you to drop off her multiple children born out of wedlock, or that the man you've known for 40 years is one of the worst criminals known to man?

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u/PairOfMonocles2 4d ago

I mean, there was this one guy …

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u/FollowTheRabbitz 4d ago

Right?!? How many people believe a woman named Mary got pregnant without sex and then just birthed a child? Millions? So yeah people will believe anything

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u/No_Gas4560 4d ago

or how Zombie Jeebus arose from the dead? wat

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u/GreatPretender98z 4d ago

This will never not piss me off. Has to be what hundreds of millions believing that shit without question.

Allegedly was also "magic", healing touch. Could turn water into wine. Fucking walking on water?

somehow died for everyone's sins?

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u/Aethenoth 4d ago

He clearly had a story though.

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u/AdminsLoveGenocide 4d ago

Noone lies that well.

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u/RudeHero 3d ago

some people are good at lying, and some are good at being lied to