There is actually a lawless community in California known as ‘Slab City’ where murderers, drug addicts, and rapists run to escape from the law, and according to a polyamorous couple named Jesse and Peter, they are terrified after relocating to the community to escape from being killed by an ex-boyfriend.
The Daily Mail has details of this California community;
A polyamorous couple have revealed how they were forced to relocate to an alternative community where rapists and murderers go to escape the law in order to escape a jealous ex-boyfriend who tried to kill them.
Jesse and Peter, a married couple, settled camp in the unincorporated community known as Slab City, or The Slabs in California and met Ben Fogle for Channel 5’s Ben Fogle & The Lost City, which is set to air next week.
Since 1961, Slab City has been renounced by the government of California and has become a refuge for drifters, many struggling with addiction or hiding from the law over various crimes, dubbing itself ‘the last free place in America.’
Jesse and Peter came to the Slabs to escape an ex-boyfriend who tried to kill them in 2013. Once they arrived, they entered a throuple arrangement with Ryan, setting camp in what they called ‘Rabbit side.’
Their attacker ended up taking their own life, but the couple have decided to remain at Slab City, in spite of admitting they feel ‘terrified’ of some of the people who inhabit the lawless community.
While they refer to themselves as a community, not all the inhabitants of Slab City talk to each other, and neighbourly dispute can end up in arson, Ben discovered in the new show.
The secretive people who live in Slab City have rejected modern society and set up and named ‘camps’ in the desert where they are free to be who they want to be and run their own justice system. Very few journalists have been able to take a filming crew there.
In the year before Ben visited, 17 people died in the community, several died from heatstroke, some from drug overdoses and one was murdered.
However, Peter, Jesse and Ryan are different from the other people living in the community. Most people in Slab City have shunned modern society, which they called ‘Babylon.’
Life in the Slab City to me can be compared to the Biblical hell. It’s hell out there and Jesse and Peter should be extra careful.
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