This Week’s Darkest Roundup: Murders, Disappearances, and a 1950s Head-Hunting Scandal
BuzzFeed’s weekly dark roundup covers five unsettling stories: the Dec. 2025 murder investigation surrounding Rob Reiner and his wife, with their son Nick charged in connection with the case; Nicole Delien’s Kleine-Levin syndrome, a rare sleep disorder; the ongoing Ireland missing-person case of 15-year-old Amy Fitzpatrick from 2008; a grim account of the 1950s British Malayan headhunting scandal; and Velma Barfield, one of the first women executed in the modern era, highlighting how these cases reveal the darkest corners of history and humanity.