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TIL About Rachel Hoffman, a college student who was told the only way she’d get out of drug charges was to become a informant. She was ordered to buy 1,500 ecstasy pill, 2 oz of cocaine and two firearms. She was subsequently killed by one of those firearms and her body was found two days later.

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