So the Jewish American hostage killed by Hamas was related to Vicki Polin, the "Rachel" on Oprah who said her family engaged in ritual sacrifice of babies. Weird.
(blogs.timesofisrael.com)
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I grew up near Vicki Polin's neighborhood and was sort of obsessed with this story way back when. Here she is on Oprah, at the time incognito and calling herself "Rachel"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5YrZt1LoRg
I suspected that she might be connected to this family who once lived in Skokie Illinois because she said she was mentioned on Oprah that her mother Leah Polin was on the "Human Rights commission" in their town. Skokie is the only town that has one that I could find. Here is the obituary of Stanton Polin:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/chicagotribune/name/stanton-polin-obituary?id=2737696
I knew her family disowned her for calling them devil worshippers (LOL), and there was a huge gap in the age of the adult children listed in the father's obituary so I figured they left her out.
Side note: Stanton Polin was indicted for Medicare/Medicaid fraud:
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-7th-circuit/1201659.html
Turns out the dead hostage guy is Jonathon Polin's (listed in Stanton obituary) son:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_and_killing_of_Hersh_Goldberg-Polin
This Israeli Times article by Vicki Polin seals the connection:
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-a-family-member-has-been-abducted-by-hamas/
What does it mean beside that I am autistic and didn't know it? I have no idea. I just thought it was really, really weird.
From the last link:
Vicki served as a board member of several different not-for-profit organizations, which included VOICES in Action, Inc and Alternative Behavior Treatment Centers: For Juvenile Sex Offenders and Sexually Reactive Youth).