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It was the early 90s, and Pepsi needed to make a name for itself in the Philippines. So they came up with a brilliant idea. They dubbed it Number Fever. Under the bottle cap of each Pepsi product, consumers would find a number. If they were lucky, that number would earn them extra cash. The typical reward was roughly 100 pesos. But if a Pepsi drinker was especially lucky, they could win one million pesos. People all over the country played the game. They were eager for a shot at the life changing money. Then, Pepsi announced that night\u2019s winning number 349. There was just one problem. For some strange reason, a lot of people had that number.\xa0\n
\n\nThen Kristin tells us about the murder of Skylar Neese. In the summer of 2012, Skylar was sixteen years old. She\u2019d just gotten home from a shift at Wendy\u2019s when her friends Rachel Shoaf and Sheila Eddy asked her to come hang out. Skylar wasn\u2019t so sure. It was late. She\u2019d have to sneak out of her family\u2019s apartment. Plus, she and Rachel and Sheila had been on the outs lately. She wasn\u2019t eager to hang out with them. But they kept pressing her. Eventually, Skylar gave in.\xa0\n
\n\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.\n
\n\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:\n\u201cTrial by Twitter\u201d by Holly Millea for Elle magazine\n\u201cUnfriended\u201d episode of 20/20\n
\n\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cPepsi\u2019s \u201cNumber Fever\u201d in the Philippines caused street riots, deaths, and 14 years of lawsuit\u201d by Tijana Radeska, The Vintage News\n\u201cThe Computer Error That Led to a Country Declaring War on Pepsi\u201d by Jake Rossen, Mental Floss\n\u201cThat Time Pepsi Accidentally Promised Hundreds of Thousands of People $40,000 Each\u201d by Karl Smallwood, TodayIFoundOut.com\n\n\u201cPhilippines: Court clears Pepsi on promo fiasco\u201d just-drinks.com\n\n\u201cSC decides in finality on 'Pepsi 349' case\u201d by Rene U. Borromeo, The Philippine Star