The media can be desperate for stories sometimes and they don't care about journalistic integrity anymore. It reminds me of an urban legend that the media fixated upon for a few months back it the 90s. Supposedly a drug was being smuggled in to the us that would make the victim into a zombie who could be completely controlled then have no knowledge of it. Their bank accounts were emptied, their personal belongings stolen, and they were raped. The dosage, allegedly, was so small it could be surreptitiously dripped on exposed skin