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  Speaker 2: Alright, let's get into today's story. On September 15, 2010,
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  Speaker 2: a 55-year-old man named Greg Flanagan checked into the Elegante
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  Speaker 2: Hotel in Beaumont, Texas to start his work week.
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  Speaker 1: As a young man, Greg had worked as a chief
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  Speaker 1: engineer on ocean-going vessels, spending months out at sea. But
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  Speaker 1: in his middle age, he had reinvented himself as a landman.
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  Speaker 1: It was Greg's job to secure leases of mineral rights
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  Speaker 1: and land for drilling. Greg was slender and fit-looking, despite
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he never exercised and he smoked constantly.
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  Speaker 1: He kept a close-cropped white beard and he had the
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  Speaker 1: leathered skin of a lifelong outdoorsman. Every Monday morning, Greg
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  Speaker 1: would make the two-hour commute in his pickup truck from Lafayette, Louisiana,
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  Speaker 1: all the way to Beaumont, Texas, where his company would
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  Speaker 1: always rent him a room. The hotel itself was neither
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  Speaker 1: good nor bad, but to Greg, he didn't care. He
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  Speaker 1: just needed a bed and a TV. Once Greg walked inside,
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  Speaker 1: he had a bathroom immediately to his right, and then
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  Speaker 1: a little bit farther in was the main section of
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  Speaker 1: the hotel room, which was very basic. You know, straight ahead,
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  Speaker 1: there was a window that looked down onto a small
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  Speaker 1: pool that was lined with potted plants, and then in
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  Speaker 1: the main space was a queen-size bed. tucked up against
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  Speaker 1: the right wall, and then on the left wall was
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  Speaker 1: a TV. Greg wheeled his one suitcase into the hotel
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  Speaker 1: room and he put it at the foot of the
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  Speaker 1: bed and he opened it up. He pulled out the
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  Speaker 1: shirts that he wanted to keep wrinkle-free for the week.
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  Speaker 2: And he hung them in his closet.
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  Speaker 1: Then he pulled out his toiletries that were kept in
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  Speaker 1: a cloth bag with a hook and he hooked those
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  Speaker 1: onto a towel rack. Then he took off his very
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  Speaker 1: worn brown boots and his faded blue jeans and he
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  Speaker 1: slipped on some pajama pants. Anytime Greg stayed at the Elegante,
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  Speaker 1: he rarely left his room. There was a bar downstairs,
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  Speaker 1: but He wasn't a big drinker or socializer. He preferred
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  Speaker 1: to just have quiet nights alone in his room watching TV.
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  Speaker 1: So that night, Greg cranked the air conditioning to make
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  Speaker 1: sure it was as cold as it could get.
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  Speaker 2: He liked to sleep in a very cold room.
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  Speaker 1: And then he hopped on his bed and he put
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  Speaker 1: two big pillows behind his head and he rested up
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  Speaker 1: against the headboard. And then he took a towel and
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  Speaker 1: he laid it out next to him. And on the
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  Speaker 1: towel was his ashtray, his cigarettes, his lighter. his phone,
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  Speaker 1: the TV remote, and a candy bar. Then he picked
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  Speaker 1: up the TV remote, turned it on, flicked through the
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  Speaker 1: channels until he landed on one that was playing Iron
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  Speaker 1: Man 2, and he thought, good enough, put the remote down,
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  Speaker 1: picked up his candy bar, opened it up, he ate
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  Speaker 1: a piece of his candy, and then he grabbed a cigarette,
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  Speaker 1: lit up a cigarette, and he began smoking. The following morning, Susie,
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  Speaker 1: Greg's wife, did not get a call from her husband,
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  Speaker 1: and he always called her every morning that he was gone.
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  Speaker 1: That was their routine, and this was a big break
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  Speaker 1: from their routines. And so she tried calling him and
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  Speaker 1: his phone rang and rang and rang and he never
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  Speaker 1: picked up. And so then she called his Beaumont office
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't pick up. But after the second or
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  Speaker 1: third time she called, his coworkers picked up the phone
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  Speaker 1: and they said, hey, you know, Greg's not here. He
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  Speaker 1: hasn't come into work yet. And Susie felt concerned. She
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  Speaker 1: felt like something was wrong. And she said, do you
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  Speaker 1: guys mind just going to his hotel room and knocking
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  Speaker 1: on his door and making sure he's okay? And they said, sure,
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  Speaker 1: we'll go over there. So the two coworkers head over
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  Speaker 1: to the hotel. They knock on Greg's door. He doesn't answer.
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  Speaker 1: And so they go down and get the manager who
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  Speaker 1: comes up and opens Greg's door and right away they
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  Speaker 1: find Greg lying dead in the middle of his hotel room.
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  Speaker 1: The way Greg was positioned when they found him, it
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  Speaker 1: looked like he had fallen to his knees and then
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  Speaker 1: fallen again onto his face and his left arm got
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  Speaker 1: kind of tucked underneath his body and still in his
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  Speaker 1: two left fingers was a cigarette that had not fallen
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  Speaker 1: from his hand. that had burned down to the wick.
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  Speaker 1: The room was exceptionally warm, and Greg's skin was grayish blue.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately after seeing Greg, the two coworkers called 911.
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  Speaker 2: Shortly after the ambulance.
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  Speaker 1: Arrived at the hotel, Detective Scott Apple arrived in his cruiser.
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  Speaker 1: Apple was a short guy, very, very fit. He had
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  Speaker 1: silver hair that he spiked up. He looked 100% cop,
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  Speaker 1: and he worked basically 24-7.
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  Speaker 2: When he got up.
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  Speaker 1: To room 348, there was no sign of a break-in.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing had been disturbed inside of the room. And there
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  Speaker 1: was no blood or obvious wound on Greg, with the
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  Speaker 1: exception of a slight abrasion on his cheek when he
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  Speaker 1: came down and hit his face on the rug. He
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  Speaker 1: looked around the room and he found Greg's wallet that
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  Speaker 1: was sitting in the back pocket of his jeans. And
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  Speaker 1: there was hundreds of dollars in his wallet that had
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  Speaker 1: not been taken. So he ruled out robbery. He went
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  Speaker 1: out into the hall and he began interviewing the other
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  Speaker 1: occupants of the surrounding rooms. And no one had heard
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  Speaker 1: anything and no one had seen anything. He went back
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  Speaker 1: into the hotel room and he began looking around for
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  Speaker 1: drugs of any kind. or any substance that Greg might
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  Speaker 1: have taken that could have contributed to his death, and
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  Speaker 1: there was nothing. No prescription pills, no alcohol, nothing. Later
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  Speaker 1: that day, after the family had been notified of Greg's passing,
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  Speaker 1: his grief-stricken wife, Susie, called Detective Apple, and she said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my husband did not take good care of himself,
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  Speaker 1: he had a terrible diet, he's been smoking like a
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  Speaker 1: chimney since he was a young teenager, and he never
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  Speaker 1: saw a doctor, and I always told him that if
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't careful, something like this.
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  Speaker 2: Was going to happen. I always worried that he might
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  Speaker 2: have a heart attack or something.
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  Speaker 1: So at this point, not only does Greg's family think
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  Speaker 1: he died of natural causes, Detective Apple also thinks the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. He's thinking about what he saw in the
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  Speaker 1: hotel room and there's no sign of any foul play.
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  Speaker 1: It just looks like a guy whose lifestyle caught up
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  Speaker 1: to him.
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  Speaker 2: Greg's body was sent to Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Tommy Brown, who in Beaumont, Texas, he was like the
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  Speaker 1: medical examiner. He'd been doing this for years and years.
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Brown had read ahead that they believed Greg had died
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  Speaker 1: of a heart attack or something like that, and when
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  Speaker 1: his body was wheeled in in front of him, there
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  Speaker 1: was nothing he saw right away that contradicted that theory.
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  Speaker 1: The only two marks that the doctor noted on the
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  Speaker 1: outside of Greg's body was the small abrasion on his
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  Speaker 1: face from where he landed on the rug, and then
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  Speaker 1: he also had another small abrasion on his crotch. But
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  Speaker 1: beyond that, the rest of his body was completely unblemished.
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  Speaker 1: When he looked inside of his body, it looked like
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  Speaker 1: someone had literally just crushed his insides. His torso was
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  Speaker 1: full of blood, food from his intestines had been ripped outside,
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  Speaker 1: he had ribs broken, internal organs were lacerated, and there
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  Speaker 1: was a hole in his heart.
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Brown was really confused at what he was looking at
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  Speaker 1: because the severity of Greg's internal injuries were more consistent
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  Speaker 1: with someone who had been in a severe car crash
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  Speaker 1: or who had had a really heavy object land on them,
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  Speaker 1: but Greg didn't have any significant external injuries that would
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  Speaker 1: support either of those two things happening to him. And
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  Speaker 1: he was found in the middle of a hotel room
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  Speaker 1: where there was nothing disturbed and no one had apparently
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  Speaker 1: seen or heard anything.
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  Speaker 2: And so Dr. Brown says, look, I don't have all
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  Speaker 2: the answers here, but this was not natural. This is
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  Speaker 2: a homicide. And my best guess is he was beaten
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  Speaker 2: to death.
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  Speaker 1: I know it doesn't really make sense because there's not
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  Speaker 1: any external injuries, but he suffered some significant trauma from
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  Speaker 1: somebody else.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what killed him.
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  Speaker 1: When Detective Apple got this report from the medical examiner,
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  Speaker 1: he was just as confused as Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Brown was.
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  Speaker 1: But his attention turned to, okay, well, if he's been murdered,
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  Speaker 1: who would want to murder him? And he began digging
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  Speaker 1: into Greg's background and he found that he was universally liked.
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  Speaker 2: He was known for being incredibly.
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  Speaker 1: Courteous and polite. He kept to himself. He was in
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  Speaker 1: love with his wife and his wife loved him back.
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  Speaker 1: There was no evidence of some scandal in the background.
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  Speaker 2: He was just this.
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  Speaker 1: Really nice, normal guy, and it didn't make any sense
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  Speaker 1: why anybody would wanna kill him. After a few months
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  Speaker 1: of getting nowhere, and in reality, he hadn't really even
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  Speaker 1: gotten started because there wasn't any good starting point. The
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  Speaker 1: only thing he could find that was odd about the
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  Speaker 1: crime scene was that the room was particularly warm when
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  Speaker 1: they walked inside, which was not in keeping with how
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  Speaker 1: Greg would have kept the room. But that doesn't explain
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  Speaker 1: why his insides were crushed. And so he's gotten nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: and then he makes a discovery. He found in the
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  Speaker 1: hotel's maintenance logs on the night Greg died, he had
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  Speaker 1: been making popcorn in his microwave and managed.
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  Speaker 2: To blow a fuse. And it wasn't just his power.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Greg didn't know this, but he cut the power
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  Speaker 1: to both the room next to him on his right
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  Speaker 1: and on his.
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  Speaker 2: Left and below him.
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  Speaker 1: And so he calls down to the front desk and
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  Speaker 1: a maintenance guy came up and he reset the breaker.
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  Speaker 1: This opened the door to two theories. The first theory
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  Speaker 1: is the maintenance guy who did have a criminal record,
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  Speaker 1: when he came up to fix the breaker, he attacked Greg.
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  Speaker 1: But that was wildly speculative and there was no evidence
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  Speaker 1: to suggest that the maintenance guy would do that.
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  Speaker 2: And so that was quickly ruled out.
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  Speaker 1: The other theory was Greg's neighbors in room 349 were
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  Speaker 1: these two electricians who were big partiers and drinkers.
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  Speaker 2: And so Detective Apple.
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  Speaker 1: Suggested that Maybe when Greg accidentally cut the power to
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  Speaker 1: their room, they were really annoyed and they went outside
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  Speaker 1: in the hall and they saw Greg and they somehow
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  Speaker 1: realized he was to blame for this and in a
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  Speaker 1: drunken rage, they attacked him and killed him and that's
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  Speaker 1: what killed Greg. And even though it was a stretch,
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  Speaker 1: it was the closest thing to a motive Detective Apple
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  Speaker 1: had found in anyone.
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  Speaker 2: And so Detective Apple put on a hidden.
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  Speaker 1: Camera and he went and interviewed these two electricians that
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  Speaker 1: were still staying in room 349 And he said when
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  Speaker 1: he spoke to them, they were very forthcoming. They seemed
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  Speaker 1: very honest. They were appropriately curious about what happened to Greg.
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  Speaker 1: And all they said was, look, we had no interaction
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  Speaker 1: with him. We did hear him coughing when we came
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  Speaker 1: back from the bar. We were at the bar that night.
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  Speaker 1: But honestly, that's the extent of our interaction with him.
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  Speaker 1: The electricians offered up their cell phone numbers, their email addresses,
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  Speaker 1: and said, anything.
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  Speaker 2: You need from us, we'd be happy to help. We're
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  Speaker 2: really sorry this happened.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, Detective Apple is back to square one.
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  Speaker 1: No one knows what happened to this guy. The one
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  Speaker 1: big lead he had the maintenance records proved to be
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  Speaker 1: a total dead end, and so unfortunately, this case went cold.
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  Speaker 1: Seven months after Greg's death, where there had been absolutely
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  Speaker 1: no traction on figuring out what happened to him, Susie,
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  Speaker 1: Greg's wife, decided she wanted to hire a private investigator,
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  Speaker 1: and her friend suggested she call Ken Brennan, who was
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  Speaker 1: a famous private detective who was well known for being
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  Speaker 1: able to solve really complex cases. And so on a whim,
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  Speaker 1: Susie calls Ken Brennan, not expecting to get through to him,
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  Speaker 1: thinking he's probably super busy and has other cases because
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  Speaker 1: he's on TV and he's this really famous guy. But
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  Speaker 1: he picked up the phone and he was like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: how can I help you? and Susie couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: She had a chance to tell him about what happened
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  Speaker 1: to her husband and Ken said he was really interested
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  Speaker 1: and that he would take on the case. Ken was
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  Speaker 1: a former Long Island cop and he was a DEA
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  Speaker 1: special agent. He spoke with a really thick New York
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  Speaker 1: City accent and he wore t-shirts that were a little
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  Speaker 1: bit too small to show off his muscles and he
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  Speaker 1: usually had a big gaudy gold chain on. Once Ken
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  Speaker 1: agreed to take on this case, he flew right to Lafayette,
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana where Susie lived and he sat down and he
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  Speaker 1: asked her a lot of really difficult questions about their
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  Speaker 1: marriage about whether she thought he might be cheating on her,
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  Speaker 1: if he had like a secret life she didn't know about.
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  Speaker 1: And after feeling satisfied that all those avenues had been
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  Speaker 1: explored and were not going to lead to the answer,
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  Speaker 1: he said, okay, well, can you tell me anything about
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  Speaker 1: the crime scene that stood out to you? Is there
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  Speaker 1: anything about it that seems off? And Susie said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Greg always kept the air conditioning on very cold at night.
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  Speaker 1: He never slept in a room that wasn't freezing cold.
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  Speaker 1: And so I thought it was really odd when his
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  Speaker 1: coworkers discovered him that the air conditioning was off and
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  Speaker 1: it was really hot inside of the room. That's incredibly
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  Speaker 1: unlike Greg for his air conditioning to be off. Ken
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  Speaker 1: made a note of this and then he left Lafayette
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  Speaker 1: and he went to Beaumont, Texas to meet up with
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  Speaker 1: Detective Apple.
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  Speaker 2: And Detective Apple and he actually got along really well.
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  Speaker 1: They agreed to work together on this case because Detective
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  Speaker 1: Apple feels like he's reached a dead end anyways. Apple
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  Speaker 1: brought Ken to the crime scene. He showed him the
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  Speaker 1: hotel room. And then afterwards, he turned over all of
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  Speaker 1: the documents he had on the case from the autopsy
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  Speaker 1: report to the photographs, to anything he'd collected over the
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  Speaker 1: seven months he'd been working on it. So that night,
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  Speaker 1: Ken diligently looks through all of the documentation, all of
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  Speaker 1: the photos. And the next day, when he goes into
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  Speaker 1: Apple's office, he says to him, I think I figured
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  Speaker 1: it out. And Apple's like, oh, really? You figured it
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  Speaker 1: out one day after being here? And Ken's like, no, seriously,
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  Speaker 1: I think I figured it out. I have to confirm
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  Speaker 1: something with his wife, but I think I have a theory.
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  Speaker 1: And so Ken calls Susie right in front of Apple.
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  Speaker 1: And when Susie picks up, Ken's like, hey, did your
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  Speaker 1: husband ever smoke with his left hand or did he
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  Speaker 1: smoke with his right hand? And Susie said, oh no,
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  Speaker 1: he only smoked with his right hand. Then Ken goes,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much. He hangs up and he goes, Apple,
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  Speaker 1: I got it. And so Apple's like, okay, what's your theory?
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  Speaker 1: And Ken says, okay. So I spoke to Susie and
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  Speaker 1: she told me it was very strange that his room
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  Speaker 1: was not air conditioned when they discovered his body because
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  Speaker 1: Greg was known for always turning on the air conditioning
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  Speaker 1: to as cold as it can get, especially at night
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  Speaker 1: when he went to bed. And so when his power
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  Speaker 1: went out the night before, his air conditioning would have
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  Speaker 1: gone out. And so the maintenance guy comes up, turns
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  Speaker 1: the power back on, but it doesn't trigger the air
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  Speaker 1: conditioning to turn back on. The room is still cold
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  Speaker 1: from having been air conditioned all evening to that point.
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  Speaker 1: And so the TV is back on. And so perhaps
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  Speaker 1: Greg turns and just starts watching TV because the room
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  Speaker 1: feels air conditioned. He hasn't realized that he hasn't turned
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  Speaker 1: the air conditioning back on again. Now this is Beaumont
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  Speaker 1: in the summer. So it's going to get really hot
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  Speaker 1: in his room really quickly. And as soon as it
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  Speaker 1: starts to warm up in there, he's gonna realize, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't turn the AC back on and he would
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  Speaker 1: go over and turn it on again. And so because
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  Speaker 1: the air conditioning wasn't on and we know that the
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  Speaker 1: power was restored at 8.30, then he must have died
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  Speaker 1: after the power was on, but before it got warm
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  Speaker 1: enough in the room for him to recognize he did
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  Speaker 1: not turn the AC on, which means he would have
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  Speaker 1: died somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Between 8.30 and 9 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: At night. And so Apple's like, wow, that's pretty impressive,
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  Speaker 1: except that doesn't really help us figure out how he died,
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  Speaker 1: or who killed him. And Ken puts his hand up
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  Speaker 1: and he says, I know, I'm just building the whole
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  Speaker 1: picture here. Okay, so we have him dying between 8.30
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  Speaker 1: and 9, and I don't think he was beaten to death.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people want that to be
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  Speaker 1: what killed him, because it's kind of the only thing
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  Speaker 1: that might make sense, but I say it definitely doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make sense because of the cigarette. Now, we found that
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  Speaker 1: cigarette in his left hand, and I talked to his wife,
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  Speaker 1: and she said he only smokes in his right hand.
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  Speaker 1: And so what I think happened is the power came
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  Speaker 1: back on at about 8.30, which is what the report says.
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  Speaker 1: The TV turns back on. Greg doesn't turn the air
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  Speaker 1: conditioning back on. He sits on his bed. He's watching TV.
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  Speaker 1: He lights up a cigarette and he's smoking with his
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  Speaker 1: right hand. And then something happens to him, which I'll
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: get into my theories on that. And he jumps off
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: the bed and he starts making his way to the
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: door to get help. And he transfers the cigarette from
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: his right hand to his left hand so he can
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: use his right hand to turn the doorknob and open
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  Speaker 1: the door to safety. But he doesn't make it. He
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: falls to his knees. and he falls to the ground,
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: and his cigarette's still in his fingers, and he dies.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: And Apple's like, you know what, that's pretty good, it
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense, but the crucial missing piece
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: here is, well, what was the trauma he suffered that
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: caused him to jump from his bed and run to
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  Speaker 1: the door and then ultimately die? Ken's like, I got
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: a theory on that too, but I gotta be in
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: the hotel room to see if it's true. So Apple
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: and Ken go back to the hotel room. When they
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: get there, Ken goes inside and he starts walking around,
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: looking at the ceiling, the wall, the ground, and then
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: finally he stops when he's looking back towards the front
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: door leading back into the hall. And he points at
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  Speaker 1: the wall and he says, there. And Apple looks at
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: what he's pointing at. And it looks like there had
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  Speaker 1: been some patchwork on the wall in the same spot
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  Speaker 1: where the doorknob, when it swings open, would hit the wall.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: And so Apple's looking at it and he's like, that's
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: just from the doorknob. And so Ken takes the door
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: and he opens it all the way to where the
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: doorknob is pressed against the wall. And it's to the
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: right of this patchwork, meaning this patchwork is not connected
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: to the doorknob. Apple was confused and was about to
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: ask questions and Ken was like on a roll.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: And he said, hold on.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: And he goes outside. He goes next door to room
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: 349 to go inside. And Apple walks in the room
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: and he's watching Ken do his work. And Ken's rubbing
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: his hands all over the wall. And eventually he stops
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: and he looks up at Apple and he takes his
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: finger and he pushes on one spot in the wall
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: as Apple is watching and his finger goes right in.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: What he pushed on was this.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Little chunk of toothpaste that had been wedged in this
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: little tiny hole in the wall.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: And he pushed it through.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Apple brought in a crime scene investigations unit who carefully
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: excavated both sides of this wall. And they shined a
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: laser from 349 into Greg's room. And the trajectory of
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: the laser going through this hole lined up perfectly with
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: where Greg would have been sitting on the bed, smoking cigarettes,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: eating candy.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Watching a movie.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: So Ken and Apple go back to the medical examiner, Dr. Brown,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: and they say, look, you missed something because Greg got shot.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, Greg's body had already been cremated, but they
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: did have the pictures to look at from the autopsy.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: And sure enough, they find that little tiny laceration in
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: his crotch was actually an entrance wound.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: And then when Dr.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Brown pointed out there was a hole in the heart
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: and it kind of lined up with the trajectory that
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: bullet would have been traveling through his body, Dr. Brown
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: realized he had made a mistake and he changed the
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: autopsy report to reflect a gunshot wound. Ken and Detective
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Apple re-interviewed one of the electricians that had been in
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: room 349 that was in the room where the gunshot
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: had originated from.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: His name was Lance.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: And when they brought him in, they said, this is
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: totally routine. You know, it's been seven plus months since
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Greg's death. And what we're doing is any of our witnesses,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: we want them to sign a statement, basically attesting that
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: this is what I saw or didn't see. And so
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: they had prepared a statement that basically lined up with
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: the first thing he had told police, which was, I
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: didn't hear anything.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: I didn't see anything.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: And they said, is there anything you want to change
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: about your story? Or is this exactly what you saw
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: and heard? And Lance said, yeah, that's exactly, I don't
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: know anything. I wish I knew more, I'm sorry. I'm like,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: all right, well, then can you sign this document saying
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: that you don't know anything and you didn't see anything?
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: And he said, yeah.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: He signs the document and then Ken's like, all right, gotcha.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Because we know a gunshot was fired from your room
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: and that's what killed Greg. And so you need to
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: tell me who shot the gun. Otherwise, I'm taking you
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: to jail for submitting a false police report. At this point,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Lance crumbles and the truth comes out. And he said
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: that he and the other electrician in the room with him,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: whose name was Muller, they were goofing around and drinking
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: that night. And Muller went out and got his pistol
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: from his car. And he brought it in. And he
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: was goofing around with it. And Lance was saying that
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: he was trying to get him to stop doing that.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: But he kept goofing around with the gun. And at
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: one point, he aimed the gun at Lance. And Lance
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: kind of batted it away from him. He dropped the gun.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: It landed. And it went off.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: And they saw where the bullet hole was. They saw
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: it was into Greg's room. And they both froze and
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: they listened to see if anybody had reacted to this gunshot.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: And he said they didn't hear anything for a long time.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: And that made them believe that no one was in
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the other room, that no one was in Greg's room
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: and that they were in the clear. And so they
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: left and went to the bar. They didn't even think
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: to check on whoever was in that room. And when
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: they came back, they said they heard Greg coughing in
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: his room. And that further confirmed that he must not
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: have been in there when they fired the shot and
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: He's totally fine and they are totally in the clear.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: The next day, Lance said when they saw his body
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: being taken out, at first they did think, oh my goodness,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: this is us.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: We did this.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: But they overheard Detective Apple walking around interviewing people saying
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: out loud.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: That, yeah, we think this is natural causes. Yep, looks
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: like a heart attack.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: This is probably nothing. I'm sure it's nothing. And they
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: were like, oh, phew, it's not us. And so they
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: actually believed it was just a coincidence that on the
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: same day they're firing a rogue bullet into Greg's room
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: that Greg had a heart attack and died separately. But
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Lance would say that somewhere in the back of both
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: of their minds, they knew they probably had something to
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: do with it, and so they covered their tracks, and
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: they put toothpaste in the wall to cover up the hole,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and they hid the gun, and they intentionally kept information
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: from the police. And so ultimately, Muller, the owner of
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: the gun, the one who really instigated that night waving
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the gun around, and the one who actually dropped the gun,
• 19:33
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• 19:36
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