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Celebrities Who Were Killed By Their Fans · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: They adored them, worshiped them, framed their faces on bedroom walls,
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  Speaker 1: sang their songs in the dark, and memorized their every
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  Speaker 1: move to the world. They were stars, icons, untouchable to
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  Speaker 1: someone else. They were so much more, something personal, intimate,
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  Speaker 1: and possessive. Some called it admiration and others called it love.
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  Speaker 1: But what happens when obsession crosses the line and when
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  Speaker 1: fantasy fractures, when the person that you idolize becomes the
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  Speaker 1: subject of your rage. These are the stories of fame
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  Speaker 1: turned fatal crime, conspiracy, gults, serial killers, and murder, all
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  Speaker 1: things that I love to consume and I know you
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  Speaker 1: do too. You see twisted, beautiful, intellectually minded, And today
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  Speaker 1: we are talking about just that, celebrities who were killed
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  Speaker 1: by their biggest fans. So, without further ado, let's unbuckle
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  Speaker 1: our sat belts, go mob five down the highway, slam
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  Speaker 1: on the brakes, and bust through this windshield into these
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  Speaker 1: killer fans together. Before we get into the video, I
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  Speaker 1: just want to say thank you. Yesterday, which is probably
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  Speaker 1: a week now, I got number two on the Spotify
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  Speaker 1: for you. Joe knocking on your door. But I know
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  Speaker 1: it'll be short lived or whatever because you guys like
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  Speaker 1: blew up one of my episodes. But I just want
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  Speaker 1: to say thank you so much for listening here and
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  Speaker 1: for listening on Spotify as well, along with all the
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't know, I am on Spotify as well,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to listen there. But I'm just I'm
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  Speaker 1: floored by the love from you guys and this true
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  Speaker 1: crime stuff that means the world to me, and I
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  Speaker 1: truly enjoy doing this content and learning more going through
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  Speaker 1: these case and bringing light to certain cases and everything.
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  Speaker 1: So I just want to say thank you from the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of my heart, thank you so much for listening,
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  Speaker 1: And now we can stop being sappy and get into
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  Speaker 1: the episode. Mark David Chapman was born May tenth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty five, in Fort Worth, Texas, but he was raised
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  Speaker 1: in Dacatur, Georgia, and to those around him, he was
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  Speaker 1: often quiet, withdrawn and deeply imaginative, sounding like me honestly,
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  Speaker 1: and from a young age he created an imaginary world
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  Speaker 1: called the Little People, where he ruled as their king Skuys,
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  Speaker 1: sounding a lot like me right now, and I'm a
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  Speaker 1: little scared. But anyway, this was just a fantasy to
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  Speaker 1: escape the instability and emotional coldness of his life at home,
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  Speaker 1: because his father was reportedly very violent and also very
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  Speaker 1: detached from his son, and his mother was just overwhelmed
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  Speaker 1: as well and kind of in her own world, if
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  Speaker 1: you will. And as Mark grew up and became a teenager,
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  Speaker 1: he just began to spiral. He would use drugs, he
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  Speaker 1: would skip school on a regular basis, and he once
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  Speaker 1: even ran away from home for two weeks, surviving on
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  Speaker 1: the streets of Miami. But in nineteen seventy one, he
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  Speaker 1: became a born again Christian and just threw himself headfirst
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  Speaker 1: into faith, and for a while it seemed like his
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  Speaker 1: life had changed for the better. He would volunteer with children,
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  Speaker 1: and he just won praises at the YMCA where he worked,
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  Speaker 1: And he would also get married to a woman named
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  Speaker 1: Gloria Abe who was a Japanese American travel agent, and
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  Speaker 1: he would eventually move to Hawaii and continue to travel
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  Speaker 1: even internationally with relief organizations. So just turning out to
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  Speaker 1: be an all around good guy. Life is on the up.
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  Speaker 1: But even in these good times, the darkness still lingered,
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  Speaker 1: and after a few years he would fall back into
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  Speaker 1: his depression, and in nineteen seventy seven, after a failed
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  Speaker 1: slewer slide attempt, he'd be hospitalized and diagnosed with clinical depression.
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  Speaker 1: So eventually he would return back to civilian life and
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  Speaker 1: he would find quiet, solitary work as a janitor in Hawai,
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  Speaker 1: where he lived currently, and from there reality just continued
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  Speaker 1: to distort. And this is when John Lennon would come
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  Speaker 1: into the story because at a time Mark had absolutely
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  Speaker 1: loved the Beatles. Who didn't He just admired Lenin's music
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  Speaker 1: and his kind of rebellious spirit at the time, But
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  Speaker 1: eventually that admiration had twisted into something much more sinister,
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  Speaker 1: and Chapman just couldn't let go of Lenin's infamous in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six, remark that the Beatles were more popular
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  Speaker 1: than Jesus, because, as we know, Chapman was deeply religious,
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  Speaker 1: so as his religion deepened, so did his anger for Lenin.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't just the blasphemy that infuriated him, it
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  Speaker 1: was the hypocrisy, and he became fixated on the specific book,
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  Speaker 1: The Catcher in the Rye and of those of you
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  Speaker 1: who don't know what The Catcher in the Rye is about.
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  Speaker 1: It is a novel written by J. D. Stalinger published
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty one, and the novel details two days
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  Speaker 1: in the life of a sixteen year old Holden Callfield
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  Speaker 1: after he has been expelled from prep school and confused
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  Speaker 1: in disillusion, told in searches for truth and rails against
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  Speaker 1: the phoniness of the adult world, and he ends up
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  Speaker 1: exhausted and emotionally unstable. And the events are related after
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  Speaker 1: the fact. So Mark deeply identified with Holden Callfield's disdain
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  Speaker 1: for phonies and just being an outsider in general, and
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  Speaker 1: Lenin's wealth and activism sparked a toxic contradiction within Chapman's
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  Speaker 1: mind because to him, Lenin was both a cultural icon
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  Speaker 1: and a man living in hypocrisy. So by nineteen eighty,
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  Speaker 1: Mark David Chapman had decided that John Lennon needed to die.
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  Speaker 1: And going back a little bit for those of you
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  Speaker 1: who don't know John Lennon, for whatever reason, he was
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  Speaker 1: more than just one of the Beatles. He was basically
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  Speaker 1: a symbol, a voice that helped define an entire generation.
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  Speaker 1: He was born on October ninth, nineteen forty in Liverpool, England,
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  Speaker 1: and Lenin obviously became a household name with his work
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  Speaker 1: with the Beatles and basically changed the face of modern
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  Speaker 1: music forever. And after the band's breakup in nineteen seventy,
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  Speaker 1: Lenin embarked on a solo career marked both by controversy
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  Speaker 1: and brilliance. His music ranged from imagine to working class hero.
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  Speaker 1: He spoke of peace and revolution and just inner turmoil,
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  Speaker 1: and in his personal life he became a vocal anti
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  Speaker 1: war advocate, which is very popular at the time, and
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  Speaker 1: he would frequently target political surveillance and he was basically
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  Speaker 1: a champion for artists and outsiders. But by nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: John Lennon had kind of retreated from public eye to
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  Speaker 1: focus on raising his son Sean, and after a five
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  Speaker 1: year hiatus from the music industry, he had just released
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  Speaker 1: Double Fantasy, which was a collaboration with Yoko Ono, who
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  Speaker 1: was his wife, very infamous wife. Guy was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit whipped, but the album marked a hopeful new chapter
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  Speaker 1: in his life, one that focused on family, creativity and
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  Speaker 1: just re emergence. In general, and to the public, Lenin
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  Speaker 1: was more than just an artist. He was a philosopher
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  Speaker 1: in pop stars clothing basically, but to Mark David Chapman,
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  Speaker 1: he became a target. So in October of nineteen eighty,
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  Speaker 1: Chapman flew to New York City with a thirty eight
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  Speaker 1: Special Revolver in his suitcase. Different times. Can't even get
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  Speaker 1: onto a plane with nail clippers now, and he was
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  Speaker 1: just waltzing into a plane with a thirty eight Revolver,
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  Speaker 1: my lord. So, like I said, Chapman would land in
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  Speaker 1: New York and then he would realize that he didn't
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  Speaker 1: have ammunition, so he would go visit one of his
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  Speaker 1: friends in Atlanta to get that ammunition before returning in
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  Speaker 1: early November. But while in New York, Chapman would be
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  Speaker 1: inspired by the film Ordinary People and he would stop
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  Speaker 1: his plans altogether. Very impressionable guy. So he would hop
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  Speaker 1: back on a plane and head back to his home
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  Speaker 1: in Hawaii, and he would actually confess all of his
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  Speaker 1: dark thoughts and his plans to his wife, even showing
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  Speaker 1: her his thirty eight Revolver Special that he brought onto
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  Speaker 1: a plane, which I just can't get over. But this
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  Speaker 1: being a different time and her thinking he wasn't actually
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  Speaker 1: ever going to go through with it. She just didn't
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  Speaker 1: report it, and if she did, John Lennon might be
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  Speaker 1: alive today. So a little bit more time would go
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  Speaker 1: by and Mark would just continue to spiral on this
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  Speaker 1: subject of potentially killing John Lennon and our December sixth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty Chapman would return to New York, and being
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  Speaker 1: a super fan, he knew where Lennon resided, which was
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  Speaker 1: at the Dakota, so Mark would check into the Sheridan
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  Speaker 1: Hotel and he would actually leave some of his things behind,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that the cops would find them and hoping that
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  Speaker 1: the cops would find them because he wasn't planning on
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  Speaker 1: getting away after he did this act, and with him
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  Speaker 1: he would carry the catcher in the rye, having signed
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  Speaker 1: it Holden Callfield, and he would then head to the Dakota,
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  Speaker 1: and during these two days he would just kind of
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  Speaker 1: speak erradically to other fans and the dorman, and on
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  Speaker 1: one of the days he would actually see John Lennon's
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  Speaker 1: five year old son, Sean, and Chapman would reach in
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  Speaker 1: front of the housekeeper who Sean was with and call
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  Speaker 1: Sean a beautiful boy, quoting Lennon's song Beautiful Boy, which
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  Speaker 1: is so creepy, and on one of the days as well,
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  Speaker 1: he would even approach very famous artist James Taylor and
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  Speaker 1: kind of brate him, and James was even reported saying
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  Speaker 1: the guy had sort of pinned me to the wall
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  Speaker 1: and was glistening with maniacal sweat and talking some freak
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  Speaker 1: speak about what he was going to do and stuff
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  Speaker 1: with how John was interested and he was going to
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  Speaker 1: get in touch with John Lennon Red Flag, Red Flag,
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  Speaker 1: And he would also reportedly even offer taxi drivers drugs,
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  Speaker 1: which is just so random. It was clearly not well,
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  Speaker 1: but overall people say that he just behaved very disturbingly
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  Speaker 1: and spoke incoherently about Lenin. But on the morning of
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  Speaker 1: December eighth, Chapman would finally see John Lennon and Lennon
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  Speaker 1: would actually exit the building with his wife, Yoko Ono,
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  Speaker 1: and Chapman would approach Lennon with a copy of Double
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  Speaker 1: Fantasy and ask for an autograph and Lennon would sign it.
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  Speaker 1: And we actually have a photograph of this moment where
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  Speaker 1: you can see Chapman in the background smiling, standing just
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  Speaker 1: feet away from the man he was about to kill.
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  Speaker 1: And the person that took that photo was Paul Geresh,
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  Speaker 1: who Mark had actually asked to stick around to hang
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  Speaker 1: out with, and Mark would also ask a woman there
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  Speaker 1: to go out with him as well, but they would
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  Speaker 1: both decline, and Mark would go on to say in
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  Speaker 1: later interviews that if a woman had accepted his invitation,
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  Speaker 1: he probably would not have killed Lenin. But Lenin would
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  Speaker 1: leave at this point with Yoko Ono. But then they
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  Speaker 1: would come back around ten fifty pm to the Dakota,
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  Speaker 1: and as Lenin and Yoko stepped out of the limousine,
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  Speaker 1: Chapman would emerge from the shadows and he would pull
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  Speaker 1: out his revolver from his coat and fire five shots.
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  Speaker 1: Four of them would strike Lenin in the back end,
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  Speaker 1: the shoulder and bleeding heavily, Lenin stumbled up the steps
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  Speaker 1: of the Dakota crying I'm shot, and he would collapse
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  Speaker 1: in the lobby. Meanwhile, Yoko Ono was just screaming for help,
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  Speaker 1: so officers would arrive quickly and rush Lenin to the
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  Speaker 1: Roosevelt Hospital, but he would be pronounced dead at eleven
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  Speaker 1: fifteen pm that night, and John Lennon would be forty
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  Speaker 1: years old at this time. Meanwhile, Chapman didn't even attempt
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  Speaker 1: to flee the scene. He just remained outside the Dakota
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  Speaker 1: reading the Catcher in the Rye and inside the book
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  Speaker 1: he had written this is my statement, and when the
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  Speaker 1: police arrived, he would peacefully surrender. A news of Lenin's
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  Speaker 1: murder just Rick Ash across the globe, visuals would erupt
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  Speaker 1: in major cities, and in Central Park, two hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: mourners gathered in stunned silence. I mean, this is up
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  Speaker 1: there with Princess Diana and Michael Jackson. This was an
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  Speaker 1: incredibly big deal. Radio stations would play Lenin's music on loop,
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  Speaker 1: and for millions it felt like the voice of peace
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  Speaker 1: itself had been silenced. And in later interviews, Chapman would
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  Speaker 1: admit that his motive was completely selfish. He just wanted
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  Speaker 1: fame to become somebody, and killing Lenin, in his warped
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  Speaker 1: to logic, was the only way to do that. So
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  Speaker 1: Mark would be convicted of second degree murder and sentenced
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  Speaker 1: to twenty years to life, and he remains in prison
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  Speaker 1: to this day and has been denied parole repeatedly. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why it did get first degree because
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  Speaker 1: he clearly pre planned all of this, like months and
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  Speaker 1: months before. But that is not my shit and he's
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  Speaker 1: in jail for life. So whatever. John Lennon imagined a
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  Speaker 1: world of peace, free of violence, and full of possibility.
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  Speaker 1: And in the end he was just brought down by
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  Speaker 1: a man who missed, took obsession for righteousness, and found
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  Speaker 1: his place in history through an act of irreversible tragedy.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin James Loibel was a twenty seven year old from
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  Speaker 1: Saint Petersburg, Florida, and he was known to be pretty quiet,
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  Speaker 1: withdrawn and for many accounts, deeply isolated. Sounds like somebody
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  Speaker 1: else we know from the last story, So Kevin kind
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  Speaker 1: of kept to himself. But he had a job at
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  Speaker 1: Best Buy and his coworkers would describe him as strange
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  Speaker 1: and emotionally distant, and every single time he spoke, he
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  Speaker 1: would speak about the same person. And that person was
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  Speaker 1: Christina Grimy, and what began as a fan's admiration evolved
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  Speaker 1: into something much darker. Kevin was known to watch her
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  Speaker 1: videos obsessively. He believed he knew her. The parasocial relationship
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  Speaker 1: was strong with this one, and Kevin even thought that
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  Speaker 1: they were spiritually connected, and he would even go as
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  Speaker 1: far as to tell coworkers that they had actually played
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  Speaker 1: video games together him in Christina when they actually had
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  Speaker 1: never spoken at all, or even met for that fact.
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  Speaker 1: So he was determined to make himself more presentable for
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  Speaker 1: her when he did finally get to meet her. So
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  Speaker 1: he would undergo Lasik eye surgery, he had his teeth whitened,
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  Speaker 1: he started a vegan diet, and he even got hair implants.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a full transformation, not just rooted in
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  Speaker 1: self care, but in pure delusion. And since he spent
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  Speaker 1: most of his time with his coworkers, they began to
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  Speaker 1: notice his aggression whenever someone questioned his claims about Christina,
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  Speaker 1: because he believed in his soul that they were soulmates.
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  Speaker 1: So when images surfaced online of Christina and another man,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin did not take it well at all, and in
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  Speaker 1: June of twenty sixteen, he decided if he couldn't be
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  Speaker 1: with her, then no one could. Now. For those of
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  Speaker 1: you who do not know Christina Grimmy, she was born
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  Speaker 1: on March twelfth, nineteen ninety four, in Marlton, New Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: and her rise to fame began in her bedroom, where
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  Speaker 1: she uploaded cut of popular songs to YouTube. I was
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  Speaker 1: actually a big fan when she was on YouTube she
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  Speaker 1: was so so talented, and she quickly stood out to
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  Speaker 1: the masses, not just for her incredible vocal range, but
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  Speaker 1: for her authenticity, and her fans didn't just admire her voice,
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  Speaker 1: they actually felt connected to her. And in twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: Christina Grimy actually competed in season six of The Voice
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  Speaker 1: and she would place third under the guidance of Adam Levine,
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  Speaker 1: which she should have won in my humble opinion. But
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  Speaker 1: her influence extended way beyond the show. During the show
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  Speaker 1: and during her YouTube career, she would build a following
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  Speaker 1: that followed her through live streams, concerts, and fan meetups,
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  Speaker 1: and her music spanned pop, acoustic, and even rock, and
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  Speaker 1: she often cited artists like Christina Aguilera and Celine Dion
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  Speaker 1: as inspirations to her and off stage, she was known
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  Speaker 1: as warm and approachable and deeply connected to her fan base,
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  Speaker 1: and she never saw herself as above them like a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people in the industry unfortunately do, and that
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  Speaker 1: humility that she had would ultimately be what brought her
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  Speaker 1: face to face with her killer. But in the months
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  Speaker 1: leading up to her murder, Kevin became increasingly fixated on
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  Speaker 1: Christina and he would start to make a plan, so
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  Speaker 1: he would legally purchase two handguns and multiple rounds of
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  Speaker 1: ammunition and a large hunting knife. And he would even
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  Speaker 1: encrypt his phone and remove the hard drive from his
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  Speaker 1: computer before leaving for Orlando, tiding evidence. Basically an intentional
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  Speaker 1: effort to just leave no trace of his plans. So
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  Speaker 1: he would go to Orlando and book a hotel room
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  Speaker 1: near the Plaza Live, traveling with absolutely no luggage, and
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  Speaker 1: that alone caught the attention of the front desk clerk
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  Speaker 1: at the hotel, but no action was taken because although
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  Speaker 1: it rings alarm bells, what are you going to do?
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  Speaker 1: The guy just traveled light. But on the night of
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  Speaker 1: June tenth, twenty sixteen, Christina performed at the Live Plaza
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  Speaker 1: in Orlando as part of a small tour, and after
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  Speaker 1: the show, like many others, she held a meet and greet,
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  Speaker 1: and Kevin would be at this concert and at the
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  Speaker 1: meet and greet, and he would just quietly wait in
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  Speaker 1: the of the crowd. So, like any other meet and greet,
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  Speaker 1: Christina would meet with her fans with hugs and smiles
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  Speaker 1: and autographs and photos. But in amongst the line of
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  Speaker 1: the meet and greet, one fan would note that Kevin
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  Speaker 1: seemed a little bit off just looking around a lot
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  Speaker 1: before he met Christina. But Kevin would finally get to
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  Speaker 1: the front of the line and Christina would open her
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  Speaker 1: arms for a hug, and that's when Kevin would pull
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  Speaker 1: out his glock pistol and shoot her three times at
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  Speaker 1: point blank range, and Christina's brother, Marcus Grimmy would tackle
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  Speaker 1: Kevin immediately, but Kevin would struggle and break free and
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  Speaker 1: then back up into a wall and shoot himself in
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  Speaker 1: the head, killing him instantly. Meanwhile, Christina would be rushed
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  Speaker 1: to the Orlando Regional Medical Center, but despite efforts to
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  Speaker 1: save her, she was pronounced dead at ten fifty nine PM,
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  Speaker 1: and the autopsy revealed the obvious truth, which was gunshot
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  Speaker 1: wounds to the head and chest, and she would die
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  Speaker 1: at only twenty two years old, and obviously the music
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  Speaker 1: world and just the world in general was stunned. Fans, friends,
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  Speaker 1: and fellow artists flooded social media with tributes to her.
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  Speaker 1: Even Selena Gomez cried on stage because they were actually
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  Speaker 1: pretty good friends, and Adam Levine, who was her mentor
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  Speaker 1: on The Voice, actually paid for her entire funeral, and
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  Speaker 1: the hashtag rip Christina trended for days, and all of
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  Speaker 1: this occurred just one day before the infamous Pulse night
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  Speaker 1: club shooting as well, and it was later discovered that
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  Speaker 1: while bags were generally checked at venues, there were no
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  Speaker 1: metal detectors, so no one was frisked at all, and
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  Speaker 1: Kevin was able to enter completely armed. So the Grimmy
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  Speaker 1: family would naturally file a wrongful death suit against several
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  Speaker 1: entities in Florida, as they should, but it ultimately was dismissed,
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  Speaker 1: and her family would establish the Christina Grinny Foundation, supporting
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  Speaker 1: families that have been affected by gun violence and breast cancer.
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  Speaker 1: And her death also led to many asking for increased
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  Speaker 1: security at performance art venues, so many venues that did
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  Speaker 1: not have metal detectors beforehand added them, and Billboard published
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  Speaker 1: an open letter to Congress fighting for more gun control,
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  Speaker 1: demanding universal background checks, which is crazy to think that
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't a thing before this. And Christina's music she
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  Speaker 1: finished before her passing, including the EP Side B and
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: the album All Is Vanity, was released the following year,
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  Speaker 1: But even with her voice preserved in music, the question lingered,
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  Speaker 1: how could such kindness end in violence? Because Christina Grimy
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  Speaker 1: was someone who gave everything to her fans, and in
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  Speaker 1: the end, it was that very act of giving that
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  Speaker 1: placed her within reach of someone who mistook obsession for affection,
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  Speaker 1: someone who didn't want to love her but possess her.
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  Speaker 1: And it's extremely, extremely unfortunate. But I will also be
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: linking that foundation down below and also giving a contribution
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  Speaker 1: to it as well, so you can donate to that
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: if you want. But that brings us to our next story.
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  Speaker 1: Robert John Bardo was born January second, nineteen seventy was
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  Speaker 1: actually born at the Edwards Air Force Base in California
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  Speaker 1: and was the youngest of seven children that's too many, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and his father was a non commissioned Air Force officer,
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  Speaker 1: so the family would move around pretty frequently until settling
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  Speaker 1: in Tucson, Arizona, and Bartow's early years were marked by instability,
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  Speaker 1: emotional trauma, and a lot of mental illness because he
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  Speaker 1: was actually taken advantage of by one of his siblings,
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  Speaker 1: and he would even be placed into foster care for
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  Speaker 1: a period after a slewer slide threat and by his
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  Speaker 1: teenage years, Barto had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: he would be institutionalized at the age of fifteen, but
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  Speaker 1: despite his emotional issues and being institutionalized, little was done
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  Speaker 1: to monitor or manage his deteriorating mental health different times,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: so while being in the institution, he was continuing to
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  Speaker 1: do school, but he would drop out of high school
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  Speaker 1: and work odd jobs after getting out of the institution,
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  Speaker 1: including a brief stint as a janitor, and over the
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  Speaker 1: years he would just become increasingly reclusive, and he would
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  Speaker 1: become very withdrawn with reality and become obsessed with fame
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  Speaker 1: and celebrity. And before fixating on this particular celebrity, Bartow
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  Speaker 1: had attempted to contact and stalk several other public figures,
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  Speaker 1: including child peace activist Samantha Smith and pop singer Debbie
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  Speaker 1: Gibson and Tiffany, but his obsession with Rebecca Schaeffer would
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  Speaker 1: be all consuming because Bardo just saw her as the
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  Speaker 1: embodiment of innocence and purity, which is echy coming from
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  Speaker 1: just a man who doesn't know her at all, it
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: is very iggy. And when he watched her in the
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: sitcom My Sister Sam, he believed she was speaking directly
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  Speaker 1: to him, so the delusion was real. So he began
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: sending letters on letters on letters one of which was
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  Speaker 1: actually received and had a polite reply which was basically
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: a gesture of kindness that would later be twisted in
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: a delusion of connection. And for those of you who
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: don't know who Rebecca Shaeffer is, she was born on
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  Speaker 1: November sixth, nineteen sixty seven in Eugene, Oregon, and she
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  Speaker 1: became a model as a teenager and transitioned into acting,
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  Speaker 1: landing commercial and minor television roles. But her big break
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  Speaker 1: came in nineteen eighty six when she was cast as
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  Speaker 1: Patti Russell, the sweet, bubbly young sister in the CBS
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  Speaker 1: sitcom My Sister Sam. And the show was a modest hit,
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  Speaker 1: and Schaefer became a rising star in the eyes of
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  Speaker 1: the public, known for her girl next door charm and
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  Speaker 1: wholesome appeal. She was carefully crafting a future in both
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: television and film, and unlike many of her peers, Rebecca
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: remained very grounded, friendly and very professional, so her future
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  Speaker 1: just looked very bright in Hollywood. And she was only
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  Speaker 1: twenty one years old when she auditioned for a part
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  Speaker 1: in The Godfather Part three, a role that, had she lived,
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  Speaker 1: might have taken her career to new heights. Now, Bardo's
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  Speaker 1: obsession with Rebecca would intensify when he saw her in
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  Speaker 1: a provocative bed scene in scenes from The Class Struggle
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  Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills, because in his deluded, delusional, stupid mind,
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  Speaker 1: this was some sort of betrayal against him. Even though
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  Speaker 1: it was just tb she was acting, this scene just
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  Speaker 1: made her no longer pure in his eyes, so he
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  Speaker 1: was just convinced that she sold herself out. So Bardow's
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  Speaker 1: adoration just curdled into hatred, and he would even go
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  Speaker 1: as far as to hire a private investigator for two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars to obtain Rebecca's home address through
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  Speaker 1: California DMV records, which, like, how the fuck is that legal?
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Or was legal? So he would get that information, and
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  Speaker 1: then he would ask his brother to help him get
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  Speaker 1: a gun, since his mental illness disqualified from buying his own,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: but he would ultimately secure a three fifty seven magnum Revolver,
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  Speaker 1: and on July eighteenth, nineteen eighty nine, Bardew flew from
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  Speaker 1: Tucson to Los Angeles and tracked down Rebecca's apartment and
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  Speaker 1: that morning he would ring her doorbell, carrying an autograph
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  Speaker 1: she had once sent him the one letter that he
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  Speaker 1: received back, and Rebecca, who unfortunately was just expecting a
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  Speaker 1: script to be delivered at that time, just answered the
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  Speaker 1: door with no question. So she would open the door
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  Speaker 1: and she would see him and actually speak very kindly
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  Speaker 1: to him, but ask him just not to return. So
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: he left, but less than two hours later he would
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  Speaker 1: come back. So at approximately ten a m. Bardeaux would
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  Speaker 1: return to Rebecca's doorstep, and this time, when she unfortunately answered,
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  Speaker 1: he would pull out his revolver and he would shoot
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  Speaker 1: her once in the chest at point blank range, and
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: she would immediately collapse inside the doorway of her apartment,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: and he would later recount after being caught that she
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: asked why, and paramedics arrived very quickly and rushed her
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  Speaker 1: to Cedars Sinai Medical Center, but despite resuscitation efforts, she
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: was pronounced dead thirty minutes later. And Rebecca Shaeffer was
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: only twenty one years old at the time of her death.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: And the murder of Rebecca Schaeffer just sent shockwaves through
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood and the nation. Visuals were held in Los Angeles
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  Speaker 1: and across the country, and for many it was the
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: first they truly saw the dangerous power of unchecked obsession
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  Speaker 1: in the celebrity fan relationship, and Bardow would be arrested
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  Speaker 1: the next day in Tucson after wandering the streets because
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  Speaker 1: he was actually found weaving in and out of traffic,
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  Speaker 1: reportedly shouting I killed Rebecca Schaeffer. Subtle but thankfully, he
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  Speaker 1: would be charged with first degree murder, and in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety one, he was sentenced to life in prison without
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the possibility of parole. And Rebecca's death led to sweeping
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: changes in privacy laws. California actually passed the first anti
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: stocking law in the United States, and the Driver's Privacy
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Protection Act was signed in federal law in nineteen ninety four, which, like,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: why the fuck was that ever open to public? It
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: just doesn't make any sense to me, but it basically
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: made it illegal for DMV records to be disclosed without
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  Speaker 1: a person's consent. And her murder also prompted the creation
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  Speaker 1: of the LAPD's Threat Management Unit dedicated to handling cases
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  Speaker 1: involving celebrity stocking. And though her life was incredibly short,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Rebecca Schaeffer's legacy has protected thousands. She wanted to live quietly,
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  Speaker 1: work hard, and build a meaningful life through her craft,
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  Speaker 1: but instead she became a symbol of how celebrity, when
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  Speaker 1: distorted through obsession, can turn fatal. Yolanda Salvador was born
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  Speaker 1: September nineteenth, nineteen sixty in San Antonio, Texas, and she
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: was raised in a very conservative American Mexican household. She
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: was known by many to be very studious and soft spoken,
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  Speaker 1: and Yolanda even earned a degree in nursing and worked
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  Speaker 1: in various hospitals throughout the nineteen eighties, but eventually she
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  Speaker 1: would settle in Corpus Christie. But outwardly she was unremarkable,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a dedicated nurse who was a devoted fan of Tejano music.
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  Speaker 1: But in nineteen ninety one she became more than just
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: a fan because Yolanda would begin calling Selena's father, Abraham
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  Speaker 1: Quintania Junior just repeatedly begging to start an official Selena
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  Speaker 1: fan club, and with persistence and a polished image, she
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  Speaker 1: eventually convinced him, and as president of this fan club,
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  Speaker 1: Yolanda quickly gained Selena's trust and access to her inner circle,
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  Speaker 1: and over time she was even promoted to manage Selena's
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: growing fashion empire Selena, etcetera. Boutiques, but behind the polish surface,
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  Speaker 1: Yolanda's behavior turned increasingly possessive, and employees would report that
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: she was very controlling, manipulative, and increasingly unhinged when challenged,
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  Speaker 1: And in early nineteen ninety five, financial discrepancies began to surface.
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  Speaker 1: Complaints would start to roll in from fans and customers
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  Speaker 1: about missing merchandise and unreturned phone calls, so not doing
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  Speaker 1: a really good job at managing and Abraham, Selena's father,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: would launch an investigation and what he found would set
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  Speaker 1: the stage for betrayal. But who is Selena? Selena was
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  Speaker 1: born April sixteenth, nineteen seventy one, in Lake Jackson, Texas,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: and she would be the youngest of three children. And
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Selena's talent was evident from a very early age. Her father, Abraham,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: who was a former musician, actually formed to the family
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: band Selena Ilostinos, and by the age of ten, Selena
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: was performing at weddings, fairs, and festivals across Texas, and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: though she spoke English at home, she sang in Spanish.
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  Speaker 1: But Selena had just captivated audiences with her vocal range,
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  Speaker 1: infectious charisma, and magnetic stage presence, and she quickly just
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  Speaker 1: became this sensation in a male dominated to Hanno music scene,
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  Speaker 1: and Selena would actually go on to win the Female
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  Speaker 1: Vocalist of the Year at the Tejano Music Awards at
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  Speaker 1: just the age of fifteen, and then she would just
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: go on to dominate the charts, and in nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: four she would win a Grammy Award for Best Mexican
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  Speaker 1: American Album and she was the first female to Hano
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  Speaker 1: music artist to do so. So just a pioneer in
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the Teujano music industry. But beyond music, she was a
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: cultural icon. She was a fashion designer, an entrepreneur, a
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: role model. Her Britiques, a clothing line, showcased her creativity
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and business savvy, and she was working on her crossover
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: English language album Dreaming of You. I wasn't just on
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: the break of superstardom, she was already there. By early
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, Abraham, Selena's father confronted Yolanda about the
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  Speaker 1: missing funds, which at this point were totaling over thirty
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars from both a fan club and boutique sales,
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  Speaker 1: and Yolanda would be dismissed shortly after our tense meeting
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  Speaker 1: with Selena and her family on March ninth, but Selena,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: known for her compassion, continued communicating with Yolanda in hopes
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: of recovering important financial documents needed for tax purposes, and
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: on March thirtieth, Selena would actually meet Yolanda at the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: days in motel in Corpus Christi, and Yolanda would turn
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  Speaker 1: over some documents but claimed others were in Mexico and
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: she had also alleged she had been sayed during her trip,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: but it was just a claim and it has not
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: been proven. So the next morning, Selena would pick her
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: up again and take her to the hospital, but doctors
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: found no evidence of the assault. So she would dribe
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Yolanda back to the hotel and she would ask where
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: are the missing records, and Yolanda would just try to stall,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: so Selena, thinking that she wasn't going to give her anything,
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  Speaker 1: just began to leave and that's when Yolanda would pull
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  Speaker 1: out a revolver. So on the morning of March thirty first,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, at approximately eleven forty eight am, Selena
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  Speaker 1: would be shot once in the lower right shoulder with
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: a thirty eight caliber Taurus revolver and the bullet would
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: unfortunately sever an artery, causing massive internal bleeding and wounded,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: but still conscious, Selena would flee the room and she
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  Speaker 1: would leave a three hundred and ninety two foot long
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  Speaker 1: trail of blood through the motel and eventually she couldn't
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: go any further and she would collapse in the motel
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: lobby and she would just be screaming, but she would
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: identify Yolanda as the shooter before losing complete consciousness, and
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: she would also even manage to identify the room number
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Yolanda was in, so she would soon after be rushed
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: to Corpus Christian Memorial Hospital where a doctors would attempt
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: emergency surgery on her, but the injury was unfortunately too
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: severe and at one five pm Selena was pronounced dead.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: And at the time of death, she was only twenty
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: three years old, and news of Selena dying just stunned
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the world. Memorials were held across the United States and
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Latin America, and over sixty thousand fans attended her public
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: viewing in Corpus Christy, and her death was likened to
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the death of John Lennon or even Elvis Presley, just
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: sudden and senseless and seismic. Meanwhile, after the shooting, Yolanda
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: would enter a nine hour stand up with police from
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the parking lot at the Day's Inn motel before surrendering,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: and she would naturally be charged with first degree murder
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: parole after thirty years, which like why why give this
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: psycho a chance to get out? But luckily she was
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: denied parole on March twenty seventh of twenty twenty five,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: and she will be eligible again in twenty thirty and
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Selena's album, released post Death, Dreaming of You, debuted at
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: number one on the Billboard two hundred, which was a
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: historic first for Latin artists. And in nineteen ninety seven,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: her life was immortalized in the biopic Selena, starring Jennifer Lopez. Datues,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: street names, festivals, and museums have dedicated to preserving her memory,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and in twenty twenty four, she was awarded the National
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Medal of Arts, reaffirming her lasting influence. And Selena was
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: more than just a singer. She was a cultural bridge
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: and a beacon of representation and basically just a dream
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: realized and her life was filled with love and light
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: and limitless potential, and that potential was unfortunately ended by
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: a fan that she let get too close. So these
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: tragedies just remind us that fame isn't just a spotlight.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it can unfortunately be a target. And when fantasy
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: curdles into resentment, when devotion distorts into delusion, the very
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: thing that lifts a star into the sky can be
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: the same thing that brings them down. So if you
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: found yourself unsettled by these stories, good because you're meant
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: to be. We all are meant to be. Because while
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: these lives were cut short, their legacies serve as a warning.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Fame can certainly make you a legend, but it can
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: also make you a victim. At the end of the day,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: we're just all people, So let's treat each other with
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: kindness and respect. And my heart goes out to the
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: families and millions of people that were affected by these deaths.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: But that is it for this video. If you want
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: me to go over any other cases, let me know
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: down below. I just want to say to my audience,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you so so much. I have had nothing
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: but positive interactions with you guys, and I feel so
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: blessed every day to have this platform. So just know
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: that I appreciate you, and I hope that you stay
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: safe and I will see you a beautiful face in
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  Speaker 1: the next video. Okay bye,