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Look Into My Eyes Part 1

September 2, 2025·1 hr 9 min·5 clips

The principal rolled students' heads in his crotch during hypnosis sessions, footage shows.

True Crime Obsessed is hosted by Patrick Hines and Jillian Benzavalli. This episode covers Look Into My Eyes, a true crime documentary series that chronicles events in Northport, Florida. Three students at a school died within a three-month period. The common thread was their involvement with a school counsellor named Dr. Kenny, who used hypnosis as a therapeutic and educational tool for students who needed extra help with test-taking and academic performance. The documentary includes testimony from individuals who felt the counsellor meant well — the phrase his intentions were always good is featured in audio from the documentary — alongside those who say he ruined their life. The episode sets up the documentary's moral complexity: whether a practitioner acting in good faith, using a technique that has some legitimate clinical applications, is culpable when that technique is administered without proper safeguards and leads to harm. The hosts note that Northport, Florida, is identifiable by signage warning of alligator and snake habitats. Hines shares a recent positive experience in Orlando and its unusual lightning storms. Benzavalli's notes are described as a 29-million-page document which she has split into sections corresponding to the four documentary episodes. The episode covers approximately the first two documentary episodes, with part two of their coverage available on Patreon immediately and as a standard episode the following week.

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