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  Yes, The Dating App Killer: The Monica White Story is based on real events, and the woman in the title lived through them. Monica White is a real person. In late 2020 she matched with a man named Anthony Robinson on a dating app, dated him for a few months, and ended it in early 2021 after his behavior turned frightening. Months later, Robinson began killing women he met the same way. He is now known as the "Shopping Cart Killer," and he is serving life in prison. The Lifetime film, directed by former Law and Order actress Elisabeth Rohm, premiered in February and has since climbed the Netflix charts, telling the story of the one who walked away before the murders started. That framing is worth pausing on. Most true crime is built around the victims or the killer. This film gives its title, and its point of view, to the person who got out in time. Lela Rochon plays Monica, and Jarod Joseph plays Robinson. What Really Happened to Monica White Monica White met Robinson on the...

  When Amy Robertson buries her father, she expects to inherit a charity and a family name worth being proud of. Instead she inherits a key to a storage locker she never knew he rented, and inside it, wrapped and hidden, is the decomposing body of a woman. The Body in the Locker, a 2025 Lifetime thriller now climbing the Netflix charts, spends most of its runtime nudging you toward the obvious conclusion: that her respectable father was a killer. The real answer is quieter, sadder, and closer to home. Here is who actually killed Heidi Jones, who set the fire, and whether any of it happened. A Locker No One Knew About Amy is the CEO of the charitable foundation her late father, Reginald Leigh, spent his life building into a respected institution. His death should have been the end of his story. Then a key turns up among his belongings, tied to a storage unit rented under a name the family does not recognize. When Amy opens it, she finds the remains of Heidi Jones, a woman whose name...