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Speaker 1: One night in March of twenty sixteen, two friends sat
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Speaker 1: on a couch in Lunelle, France, watching a true crime
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Speaker 1: show on TV and the episode really hit close to
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Speaker 1: home literally because it was about a missing person who
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Speaker 1: had vanished just miles away from where they lived. And
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Speaker 1: so they're watching the show and then all of the sudden,
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Speaker 1: in the middle of it, one of the friends suddenly
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Speaker 1: stood up and began pacing around the room muttering to themselves.
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Speaker 1: And when the other friend, who was still sitting on
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Speaker 1: the couch watching this, asked them what was wrong, they
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Speaker 1: were not ready for the answer. But before we get
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Speaker 1: into today's story. At four thirty pm on June twenty third,
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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, forty nine year old Patrik Zwar hurried out
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Speaker 1: the side door of a hospital and set France, buttoning
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Speaker 1: a fresh collared shirt as he ran to the parking lot.
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Speaker 1: He climbed onto a scooter and then quickly checked his watch,
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Speaker 1: and then he lifted the kickstand and sped off into traffic,
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Speaker 1: ignoring hawks from all the other drivers as he swerved
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Speaker 1: between the cars. Patriq did not care who he was
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Speaker 1: annoying right now, because he was running late for a date,
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Speaker 1: and then right after the date, he had to rush
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Speaker 1: over to his daughter's dance recital, and he desperately wanted
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Speaker 1: to make sure he made both of these events because
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Speaker 1: they were some of the only things he'd had to
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Speaker 1: look forward to in ages. So things in Patrik's life
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Speaker 1: had not been good for a really long time. Eight
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Speaker 1: years earlier, he had slipped into a rut of serious binge, drinking,
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Speaker 1: and gambling, and one day, when he was drunk, he
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Speaker 1: had actually struck his wife. Following that his wife had
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Speaker 1: divorced him and he'd lost custody of his daughter, Alabama,
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Speaker 1: who was now twelve years old. After that, Patriq's life
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Speaker 1: really did not get any better. He had moved in
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Speaker 1: with his elderly mother, and his drinking had only gotten worse,
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Speaker 1: and his gambling continued to the point where he basically
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Speaker 1: gambled away most of what he made by working as
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Speaker 1: a hospital janitor. And then after that he'd gotten involved
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Speaker 1: with a married coworker, and then when her husband found
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Speaker 1: out about this affair, she died of an apparent suicide.
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Speaker 1: Her death had been five years earlier, and it had
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Speaker 1: been so dramatic that patric had barely dated since he
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Speaker 1: had just about resigned himself to a life of bachelorhood,
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Speaker 1: when actually a few weeks earlier he had gotten a
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Speaker 1: call from the woman he was now going to meet.
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Speaker 1: But patriqu was now running so late for his date
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Speaker 1: that he worried Audrey might not wait around for him,
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Speaker 1: so he twisted the throttle of a scooter and shot
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Speaker 1: across an intersection, ignoring more hawks from more cars. Patrick
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Speaker 1: had actually met Audrey a long time ago, right after
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Speaker 1: his divorce, and they'd gone out a handful of times
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Speaker 1: before they ultimately lost touch. She was a lot younger
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Speaker 1: than he was, and she'd stood him up more than
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Speaker 1: once in the past, but she was also a lot
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Speaker 1: of fun, and it had been a while since Patrik
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Speaker 1: had been on a date, so when she called him
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Speaker 1: up saying she wanted to go out again, Patrick had
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Speaker 1: said sure. They'd made plans to meet this afternoon at
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Speaker 1: a park near Patrik's work that had this big, rocky
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Speaker 1: hill rising behind it, and the place had some of
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Speaker 1: the best views in the whole city, with the ocean
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Speaker 1: on one side and dramatic cliffs dotted with all these
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Speaker 1: old caves on the other. Now, they were not going
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Speaker 1: to have a whole lot of time together, probably just
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Speaker 1: enough for a short walk before Patriq would have to
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Speaker 1: rush off for his daughter's dance recital later that night,
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Speaker 1: but he hoped that the romantic setting might help sparked
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Speaker 1: something between them again. A few minutes later, Patriqu pulled
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Speaker 1: up to the park entrance, and to his relief, Audrey
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Speaker 1: was still there waiting for him. So he parked his
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Speaker 1: scooter and locked his cell phone in the scooter's underseat compartment,
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Speaker 1: and he walked over to her, and from her nervous smile,
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Speaker 1: he got the sense that she was almost as excited
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Speaker 1: about the date as he was, which gave him a
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Speaker 1: nice boost of confidence. So He took her hand and
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Speaker 1: they started down the path. Around eight am the next morning,
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Speaker 1: ten miles up the coastline from where Patric and Audrey
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Speaker 1: had been walking at that park, Patriiq's older brother, Mark Ezwar,
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Speaker 1: stood on the deck of his boat pulling a big
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Speaker 1: oyster trap out of the water. As he was doing this,
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Speaker 1: his phone rang, so he stopped and he answered it,
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Speaker 1: But before he could even say hello, his mother's very
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Speaker 1: worried voice came across the line, asking if he knew
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Speaker 1: where Patrique was. Mark frowned because Patriq lived with their mother,
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Speaker 1: so she should know better than he would, But his
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Speaker 1: mother explained that Patriqu hadn't come home last night. He
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Speaker 1: also wasn't answering his phone, he hadn't shown up to
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Speaker 1: work that morning, and perhaps most concerning of all, he'd
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Speaker 1: missed his daughter's dance recital the previous evening. And it
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Speaker 1: was this last fact that made Mark think that something
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Speaker 1: might actually be wrong here, because he knew how much
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Speaker 1: Patriq loved his daughter and how much he was looking
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Speaker 1: forward to that recital. So he promised his mother he
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Speaker 1: would get to the bottom of it. Then he hung
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Speaker 1: up and began calling Patrick's friends. However, with each conversation
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Speaker 1: he had, Mark got more worried because nobody had heard
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Speaker 1: from Patriq since yesterday afternoon. He'd apparently left work around
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Speaker 1: four pm, but he hadn't told anybody where he was going. Now,
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Speaker 1: for Mark, he felt like this was at least somewhere
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Speaker 1: to start Patriq's work, so he steered his boat to
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Speaker 1: the dock, tied it off, and then jumped in his
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Speaker 1: car and started heading that direction. Four hours later, Mark
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Speaker 1: stood on a rocky lookout point, scanning the city below.
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Speaker 1: Patrick's hospital stood in the middle of Set's business district,
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Speaker 1: which was packed with canals and cafes and torre a
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Speaker 1: spot us and Mark and a handful of Patrick's friends
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Speaker 1: had spent all morning checking them one by one looking
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Speaker 1: for Patrique, but they hadn't found him or any sign
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Speaker 1: of him, and so now Mark had turned his focus
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Speaker 1: to some of the more remote areas around the city,
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Speaker 1: like the hill behind the park where he now stood.
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Speaker 1: But there was still no sign of Patriq anywhere, and
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Speaker 1: so Mark was trying to think of anywhere else his
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Speaker 1: brother might have gone. When his phone rang. It was
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Speaker 1: one of Patrik's friends from the search party, and he
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Speaker 1: just found Patrik's scooter outside the park at the bottom
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Speaker 1: of the hill, just a short drive from where Mark was.
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Speaker 1: And so Mark told him not to touch anything, and
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Speaker 1: he sprinted back to his car, and he sped down
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Speaker 1: the hill and he left the park, and he stopped
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Speaker 1: in the parking lot right outside, and sure enough, there
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Speaker 1: in the lot was Patrick's scooter. And as Mark looked
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Speaker 1: at the scooter and at the quiet park all around him,
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Speaker 1: he felt a cold weight settle in his stomach because
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Speaker 1: he really couldn't think of any reason why Patriq would
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Speaker 1: leave his scooter here overnight. In the back of his
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Speaker 1: mind all day, Mark had been worried that something bad
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Speaker 1: could have happened to his little brother, but now, after
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Speaker 1: seeing the scooter, he felt sure of it. Almost two
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Speaker 1: weeks later, at eight am on July fifth, twenty fourteen,
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Speaker 1: Detective Boris Ferrier took the exit ramp toward the French
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Speaker 1: town of set and as the sunlight hit his windshield,
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Speaker 1: he had to squint as he looked out at the
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Speaker 1: long stretch of beaches and canals framed by these beautiful
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Speaker 1: rocky cliffs in a small, dense urban center. Verrier was
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Speaker 1: a senior investigator from the nearby city of Montpellier, but
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Speaker 1: he had just been called in to take over a
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Speaker 1: missing person's case that had stumped the local police and
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Speaker 1: set About two weeks earlier, forty nine year old patriqu
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Speaker 1: Eswar had disappeared after going on a date with a
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Speaker 1: woman whose name was Audrey Luvey. The local police had
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Speaker 1: already spoken to Audrey, who said she didn't know what
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Speaker 1: had happened to Patric. She said they had gone for
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Speaker 1: a walk and then he had escorted her to her bus,
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Speaker 1: and then after that, she'd assumed that Patriq just sort
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Speaker 1: of went back to his scooter and carried on with
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Speaker 1: his knight. But the scooter had been found the next day,
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Speaker 1: still parked where he and Audrey had met up for
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Speaker 1: their date, with no sign of Patriqu anywhere nearby, and
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Speaker 1: now almost two weeks later, Patrique had still not turned up.
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Speaker 1: Since then, Patrick's brother Mark had been helping the investigation.
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Speaker 1: Verrier had spoken to Mark on the phone, and Mark
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Speaker 1: had talked about Patric like he was a saint, a
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Speaker 1: guy who would drop everything to help out somebody in
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Speaker 1: a jam, who never got into fights and had really
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Speaker 1: no enemies. But Verrier didn't necessarily believe this, because in
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Speaker 1: his experience, people who inexplicably vanished oftentimes were kidnapped or murdered.
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Speaker 1: Now he had no reason to actually suspect that around
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Speaker 1: patric You know, he could have just as easily gotten
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Speaker 1: into an accident, you know, fallen off a cliff, or
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Speaker 1: maybe he chose to vanish. But at this point, what
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Speaker 1: A few minutes later, Verier followed Patrick's ex wife, whose
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Speaker 1: name was Claude O's Eyes, into her living room and
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Speaker 1: they both sat down. Verrier switched on his recording device
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Speaker 1: and he asked Claude where she was on the day
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Speaker 1: Patriq went missing. Claude said it was just an ordinary
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Speaker 1: Monday for her and that after work she had picked
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Speaker 1: up their daughter, Alabama from school and driven her to
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Speaker 1: her dance recital. She had expected to meet Patriq there
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Speaker 1: at the recital, and it really surprised her when he
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Speaker 1: didn't show up, because even though Patrick had plenty of flaws,
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Speaker 1: he was a good debt. And at that Verrier sort
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Speaker 1: of leaned forward because Patrick's flaws were actually what he
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Speaker 1: wanted to know about now. He didn't think Claude was
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Speaker 1: guilty of anything here, since she had a pretty strong
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Speaker 1: alibi and didn't really stand to benefit from Patrick's disappearance,
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Speaker 1: but he hoped she could maybe tell him about any
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Speaker 1: old habits or current habits that could have gotten patriqu
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Speaker 1: into trouble. And so when he asked her about this,
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Speaker 1: Claude hesitated before saying she really didn't want a bad
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Speaker 1: mouth Patrique, but he drank and gambled a lot more
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Speaker 1: than he should. At this point, Verier pressed her for
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Speaker 1: more details, but Claude just insisted that Patrica had really
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Speaker 1: always kept that part of his life away from her.
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Speaker 1: But after she thought about it for a moment, she
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Speaker 1: said there was someone who might be able to tell
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Speaker 1: veryear more, and then she called their twelve year old daughter,
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Speaker 1: Alabama into the room. Alabama appeared very visibly nervous and
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Speaker 1: shaken up by everything going on with her dad, but
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Speaker 1: her mother Claude, took her hand and encouraged her to
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Speaker 1: share her story, and slowly the girl began to speak.
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Speaker 1: She said that about a week before her dad disappeared,
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Speaker 1: he'd brought her along on a very strange errand they'd
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Speaker 1: parked outside of a tunnel, and he'd told her to
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Speaker 1: wait in the car, and then he got out and
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Speaker 1: walked into this tunnel to meet with someone. It was
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Speaker 1: a man, but it was too dark in the tunnel
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Speaker 1: for Alabama to make out the man's features, but she
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Speaker 1: definitely saw her father, Patriq, hand this man some kind
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Speaker 1: of package before he quickly turned and ran back to
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Speaker 1: the car. And then afterwards, her father wouldn't tell her
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Speaker 1: who who this man was. He just said that he'd
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Speaker 1: done something really stupid and because of it, he now
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Speaker 1: owed some people a lot of money. After Alabama finished
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Speaker 1: talking her mother, Claude thanked her and sent her back
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Speaker 1: out of the room. And then once she was gone,
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Speaker 1: Verier asked Claude if she knew who the span in
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Speaker 1: the tunnel might be, but Claude said she had no idea,
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Speaker 1: but she said she did have one name that was
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Speaker 1: worth looking into. Now, this was not someone who would
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Speaker 1: have lent patric any money, but instead it was a
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Speaker 1: man who held a personal grudge against him. His name
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Speaker 1: was Remy Shen and he was a local hairstylist. An
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Speaker 1: hour later, Verier sat in a cramped cubicle of the
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Speaker 1: set police station. Scrolling through a file on his laptop.
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Speaker 1: Based on Claude's tip, he looked up the hairstylist's name
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Speaker 1: in the police database and had immediately found a connection
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Speaker 1: to Patric. Back in two thousand and nine, so a
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Speaker 1: few years after Patriq's divorce, Patrique had been questioned as
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Speaker 1: a witness in the suicide of Remischen's wife, a woman
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Speaker 1: named Nadezhen, who worked with Patriq at the hospital. Apparently,
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Speaker 1: Nadej should come home after a work party and confessed
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Speaker 1: to Remy that she'd been having this affair with Patric.
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Speaker 1: The couple argued for hours about it, and Nadej ended
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Speaker 1: up sleeping on the couch while Remy went upstairs to
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Speaker 1: their bedroom, and then the next day, Remy found Nadej
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Speaker 1: in their garage, hanging by the neck. As soon as
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Speaker 1: Verrier was done reading this, he knew he finally had
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Speaker 1: a suspect, and so he looked up Remy's last known
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Speaker 1: address and contact information. At around ten am the next day,
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Speaker 1: so July seventh, Verrier followed Remi schn into an interrogation
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Speaker 1: room at the Set police station and shut the door
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Speaker 1: behind them. Remy was a short, wiry man with a
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Speaker 1: very obvious scowl on his face that made it clear
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Speaker 1: he thought he was being very inconvenienced here. Verrier immediately
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Speaker 1: got the feeling that Remy would likely only crack under
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Speaker 1: intense pressure, so right away he tried to shake Remy
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Speaker 1: by saying they knew he was involved in the kidnapping
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Speaker 1: of patriqu Zwar. Now this was a total bluff because
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Speaker 1: Verrier did not actually have any evidence, but he wanted
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Speaker 1: to see how Remy would react, and to his surprise
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Speaker 1: and irritation, Remy just laughed. Remy acted like he literally
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Speaker 1: had no idea who Verrier was even talking about. And
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Speaker 1: when Verrier brought up his late wife and sort of
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Speaker 1: insinuated that obviously Patrique had had an affair and was
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Speaker 1: a witness when she had died, Remy just scoffed and
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Speaker 1: reminded him that it had been five years since her passing.
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Speaker 1: He said he had moved on and begun dating other people.
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Speaker 1: In anyways, it was sort of absurd to think that
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Speaker 1: he would hold a grudge for five years without doing anything,
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Speaker 1: but then suddenly now decide to take some sort of
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Speaker 1: revenge out of the blue. It just didn't add up,
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Speaker 1: but Verrier didn't really know what to make of this.
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Speaker 1: It seemed like Remy was really confident, almost too confident,
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Speaker 1: and so he pivoted and just asked Remy where he
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Speaker 1: was on June twenty third, the day patriqu went missing,
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Speaker 1: and after thinking for a moment, Remy just said that
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Speaker 1: he had spent the whole afternoon alone cleaning out a
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Speaker 1: storage unit that he had rent. This was obviously not
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Speaker 1: a great alibi at all, but at this point Verrier
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Speaker 1: had no choice but to let Remy go. As Verrier
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Speaker 1: watched Remy leave, he knew he was running out of
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Speaker 1: time here, I mean, two weeks had already passed since
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Speaker 1: Patrik's disappearance, and every day the odds of finding him
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Speaker 1: alive got worse. So out of desperation, Verrier decided to
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Speaker 1: circle back to the very start and speak again to
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Speaker 1: Audrey Louvet I mean, being the last person to see
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Speaker 1: Patrique before he went missing. Audrey was an obvious person
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Speaker 1: of interest, but Verrier wasn't sure what more he could
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Speaker 1: learn from her. The local police had already questioned her
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Speaker 1: at the very beginning of the investigation, and Verrier had
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Speaker 1: already watched that interview tape a number of times, but
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Speaker 1: Verrier knew he just had to take a shot, so
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Speaker 1: he picked up the phone and he called Audrey into
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Speaker 1: the station. Later that same afternoon, around two pm, Verrier
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Speaker 1: sat across from Audrey in the same room where he
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Speaker 1: just interviewed Remy. He said hello to her and he
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Speaker 1: started the recorder, and then he asked her to explain
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Speaker 1: her history with Patric again, and at first her answers
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Speaker 1: were all just like they'd been on the tape. She
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Speaker 1: said they had met eight years ago in two thousand
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Speaker 1: and six, and they dated casually for a while before
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Speaker 1: losing contact, and then just a few weeks ago, she
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Speaker 1: happened to pass the bar where they first met and
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Speaker 1: it made her think of Patric, so she'd called him
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Speaker 1: up out of the blue to ask how he was doing,
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Speaker 1: and they'd ultimately made plans to see each other again.
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Speaker 1: She described their date as being a short walk around
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Speaker 1: the park, after which Patrick had walked her to the
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Speaker 1: bus stop and then headed off, presumably to go back
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Speaker 1: to a scooter and to head off to his daughter's
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Speaker 1: dance recital. And that's when Verrier interrupted and he asked
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Speaker 1: Audrey to tell him specifically which direction patric had headed
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Speaker 1: off after dropping her off at the bus stop, and
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Speaker 1: Audrey sat there for a minute and then she said,
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Speaker 1: you know, I can't remember. And this really bothered Verrier
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Speaker 1: because here was this person who should be able to
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Speaker 1: tell him the most about Patrick's last moves, and she
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Speaker 1: had basically nothing useful to offer the investigation. Yere just
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Speaker 1: sort of dropped the polite tone and really went after her.
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Speaker 1: He told her he wasn't buying her act and that
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Speaker 1: she needed to tell him everything she knew right now
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Speaker 1: or this was all going to get much, much worse
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Speaker 1: for her. Audrey's eyes went wide and her voice began
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Speaker 1: to shake as she insisted that she'd already told them everything,
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Speaker 1: but Verrier didn't let up. He kept demanding that she
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Speaker 1: just admit what she'd done until he was practically shouting
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Speaker 1: at her, and Audrey was in tears, and she was
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Speaker 1: repeating over and over that Patrik had been fine when
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Speaker 1: she left him, she just didn't remember all the details,
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Speaker 1: and finally Verier backed off. He'd run countless interrogations throughout
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Speaker 1: his career, and his gut was starting to tell him
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Speaker 1: that Audrey's fragility was not really an act. Here he'd
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Speaker 1: pushed her as hard as he could, and he had
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Speaker 1: to admit that maybe she was just telling the truth.
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Speaker 1: A little while later, after Audrey was gone, Verrier sat
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Speaker 1: alone inside the interrogation room thinking about the case. He
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Speaker 1: hadn't managed to rule out any suspects yet, and he
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Speaker 1: still had no idea who that mysterious man in the
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Speaker 1: tunnel might be. And on top of all that, there
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Speaker 1: was still the possibility that no crime had been committed
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Speaker 1: here since they had no body. I mean, who knows
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Speaker 1: what really happened to Patric at this point, and Verier
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Speaker 1: knew that there were just too many unknowns. And Verier
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Speaker 1: knew that if the case was ever going to gain
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Speaker 1: real traction, they needed to find Patric dead or alive.
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Speaker 1: Around eleven am on July seventeenth, so three and a
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Speaker 1: half weeks after patriqu Estward disappeared, Detective Boris Ferrier parked
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Speaker 1: along the shoulder of a winding roadside in the French
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Speaker 1: town of Set. He get out of his car. He
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Speaker 1: stooped beneath a strip of yellow police tape, and he
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Speaker 1: headed across the long strip of dry grass leading up
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Speaker 1: to a sheer cliff wall a dozen yards ahead of him,
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Speaker 1: Barely visible in the rock face was the dark round
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Speaker 1: opening of a cave. A few hours earlier, a group
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Speaker 1: of teenagers had shown up at the police station seeming
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Speaker 1: very frazzled, saying they had found a human body inside
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Speaker 1: of that cave. And as soon as Verrier had heard
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Speaker 1: about this, he had rushed to the scene because the
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Speaker 1: cave was less than a half a mile away from
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Speaker 1: where Patrik's scooter had been abandoned, and so now Verrier
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Speaker 1: turned on his flashlight and he stepped into the cave,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as he did, a forensics team fell
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Speaker 1: into step right behind him, and together they began making
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Speaker 1: their way into the darkness. Thanks to his flashlight, Verrier
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Speaker 1: could see that the walls were covered in graffiti and
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Speaker 1: that there were empty bottles and other garbage everywhere, so
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Speaker 1: it seemed like this was probably a popular party spot
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Speaker 1: for young people. As they moved deeper, the cave split
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Speaker 1: off into a maze of all these different narrow tunnels,
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Speaker 1: and just as Verrier was about to direct his team
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Speaker 1: to spread out and begin searching all of them, he
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Speaker 1: passed by one of these tunnels that absolutely reeked, and
19:47
Speaker 1: so Verrier stopped what he was doing, and just aimed
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Speaker 1: his flashlight down this particular tunnel and he saw there
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Speaker 1: was a shallow pit dug into the floor, and lying
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Speaker 1: at the bottom of this pit was what looked like
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Speaker 1: a ragged lump of black fat. Until Verier stepped closer.
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Speaker 1: The smell was overpowering now and Verrier knew he was
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Speaker 1: standing over the charred remains of a human body. Verrier
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Speaker 1: bent down to examine it, and he saw right away
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Speaker 1: there was what appeared to be a bullet hole in
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Speaker 1: the skull and a bullet hole to the torso, and
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Speaker 1: those details one to the head, one to the stomach,
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Speaker 1: and then you know, the body being burnt afterwards, likely
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Speaker 1: to get rid of evidence. Felt very familiar to Verrier.
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Speaker 1: It felt like this could have been a mob hit.
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Speaker 1: A year and a half later, so, just before Christmas
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Speaker 1: of twenty fifteen, Detective Verrier was in his office in
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Speaker 1: Montpellier when his phone rang. It was Patrik's older brother
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Speaker 1: Mark calling to ask for updates on his brother's case again,
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Speaker 1: and Verier sighed because the truth was he had nothing
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Speaker 1: new to report. The body in the cave had been
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Speaker 1: confirmed to be Patriarch, and so Verier had hoped that
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Speaker 1: that discovery would lead to all these new leads. But
21:04
Speaker 1: after scouring the cave for clues and testing the cigarettes
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Speaker 1: from the scene for DNA, and speaking to the teenagers
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Speaker 1: who reported the body, the case just hit a dead end. Now,
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Speaker 1: the mob like execution style did line up with a
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Speaker 1: theory that Verrier had that, you know, maybe Patrique had
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Speaker 1: been killed over a gambling debt, you know, by the
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Speaker 1: mob basically, or someone who was affiliated with organized crime.
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Speaker 1: But Verrier had never been able to actually uncover any
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Speaker 1: trace of Patriq having any sort of debt that would
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Speaker 1: get him killed. Also, he still had not been able
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Speaker 1: to identify that mysterious man in the tunnel that Patriek's
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Speaker 1: daughter had mentioned, and so that left Remy and also
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Speaker 1: Audrey as his only suspects, and Verrier had placed both
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Speaker 1: of them under surveillance, but so far neither of them
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Speaker 1: had done anything suspicious. So the investigation was now stuck,
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Speaker 1: and Verrier understood that Patrick's family was really out of
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Speaker 1: patience here, so he was not surprised that when he
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Speaker 1: admitted he still was not ready to make an arrest,
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Speaker 1: Mark snapped. He told Verrier that if the police weren't
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Speaker 1: capable of solving this. He was going to take matters
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Speaker 1: into his own hands. Three months later, on a night
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Speaker 1: in March of twenty sixteen, Detective Verrier sat down on
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Speaker 1: his couch in his living room to watch something that
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Speaker 1: he'd been warned was coming. Mark had convinced the producers
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Speaker 1: of a national true crime TV show to do an
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Speaker 1: episode on his brother's case, and the episode was airing tonight,
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Speaker 1: and as the show started, Verrier felt a nod of
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Speaker 1: anxiety because Mark knew details about the investigation that were
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Speaker 1: not meant for the public, and if he shared them
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Speaker 1: on this show, it could seriously compromise the case. But
22:42
Speaker 1: obviously Verrier was also just curious to see how the
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Speaker 1: episode had turned out, and part of him hoped that
22:48
Speaker 1: maybe renewed public attention might actually help the case. And
22:52
Speaker 1: as Verrier watched the show, he was relieved to see
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Speaker 1: that Mark wasn't there to talk about case specifics. He
22:58
Speaker 1: was there to talk about Patrick. Mark described his brother
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Speaker 1: as this hard working father who never seemed to catch
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Speaker 1: a break in life and who at the very least
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Speaker 1: deserved justice, and at the end he put out a
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Speaker 1: simple plea for anyone with information to please come forward
23:13
Speaker 1: when the show ended, Verrier did not really feel worried
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Speaker 1: anymore that anything that had been revealed on the show
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Speaker 1: was sensitive or that it could negatively impact the actual investigation.
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Speaker 1: But he also knew that the impact the show was
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Speaker 1: going to have was probably going to be pretty small,
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Speaker 1: Like he didn't expect anything to come of this plea
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Speaker 1: for help from the public. However, he would be wrong,
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Speaker 1: because the next morning, Verrier's phone would ring, and an
23:39
Speaker 1: hour after that call came in, Verrier was ringing the
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Speaker 1: doorbell of an apartment building in Lunel, which is a
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Speaker 1: town close to set. A woman would answer the door,
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Speaker 1: and when Verrier flashed his badge, she invited him inside.
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Speaker 1: The woman, whose name was Sophie, had reached out to
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Speaker 1: the police after watching Mark's interview on TV, saying she
23:58
Speaker 1: did have information about patriex Kse, and so Verrier followed
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Speaker 1: her into her kitchen and he sat down across the
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Speaker 1: table from her, and he turned on his recorder and
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Speaker 1: he told her to just start from the beginning, and
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Speaker 1: the moment the story began to spell out, Verier knew
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Speaker 1: he'd solved the case based on the evidence collected at
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Speaker 1: the crime scene and witness testimony. The following is a
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Speaker 1: reconstruction of what police belief happened to patriq Eswar on
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Speaker 1: the afternoon of Monday, June twenty third, twenty fourteen, at
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Speaker 1: four thirty pm, the killer stood on a rocky hill
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Speaker 1: overlooking a park and sat watching through a pair of
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Speaker 1: binoculars while patric and Audrey walked hand in hand down
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Speaker 1: a paved path below. The couple was taking their time,
24:48
Speaker 1: clearly enjoying the scenery and each other's company, and then
24:52
Speaker 1: at some point Audrey stopped and pointed across the road
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Speaker 1: at a cave in the nearby cliffs, the entrance to
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Speaker 1: a cave, and when the killer saw them, their heart
25:00
Speaker 1: began to race, and they watched intently as the couple
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Speaker 1: actually crossed the road and went into the cave and vanished.
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Speaker 1: At this point, the killer lowered their binoculars and put
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Speaker 1: them inside of the large duffel bag they had brought
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Speaker 1: with them. Then, after slinging this bag, they hustled down
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Speaker 1: the hill and went right to the entrance of the cave.
25:20
Speaker 1: When they reached the entrance to the cave, they stopped
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Speaker 1: and they put that bag on the ground. They unzipped
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Speaker 1: it and out of it, They pulled a large rifle,
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Speaker 1: a roll of duct tape, and also a white mask.
25:31
Speaker 1: The killer put the mask on, and with the rifle
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Speaker 1: and tape in hand, they entered the cave and they
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Speaker 1: could hear the sound of Patreek and Audrey inside. They
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Speaker 1: had not gone far and they clearly had not clocked
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Speaker 1: the killer coming in. They were sort of wrapped up
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Speaker 1: in their date. However, when the killer got close enough,
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Speaker 1: the couple heard their footsteps and they turned around. When
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Speaker 1: Audrey saw the killer and their mask with the gun,
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Speaker 1: she began to scream, and Patrik he just went white
25:57
Speaker 1: as a ghost. Before the couple could even react, the
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Speaker 1: killer threw the duct tape at Audrey and told her
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Speaker 1: that if she wanted to live, she would do exactly
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Speaker 1: as instructed. Then, the killer told Audrey to use this
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Speaker 1: tape and bind Patrik's wrists and ankles, And at first
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Speaker 1: Audrey just stood there and stunned silence. But eventually she
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Speaker 1: composed herself and she obeyed. And as she was binding
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Speaker 1: patric Patriq just also stood there in stunned silence, not
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Speaker 1: really sure what to even do. When Audrey was done,
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Speaker 1: the killer told her to leave the cave and to
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Speaker 1: not say anything about what had happened to here. She
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Speaker 1: hesitated just long enough to glance back at Patriqu, but
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Speaker 1: then she turned and she ran. Once her footsteps had faded,
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Speaker 1: and it was just the killer and Patriqu inside of
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Speaker 1: this cave. Patriq just stared wondering what was going to
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Speaker 1: happen to him, and the killer, after making really intense
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Speaker 1: eye contact with Patric, raised his rifle and shot Patriqu
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Speaker 1: in the head and also once in the chest, and
26:51
Speaker 1: Patriqu crumpled to the ground. At that point, the killer
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Speaker 1: slung his rifle and then he grabbed Patrique by the
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Speaker 1: ankles and he dragged his body down a nearby tunnel
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Speaker 1: and dumped him in that shallow pit. Then the killer
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Speaker 1: doused the body with lighter fluid from a canister they'd
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Speaker 1: brought in that bag. They lit a match and tossed
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Speaker 1: it in. As Patrik's body began to burn, the killer
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Speaker 1: walked out of the cave and pulled off their mask
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Speaker 1: as soon as they stepped into the light. They now
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Speaker 1: had only one thing left to do, go find Audrey
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Speaker 1: and explain everything and convince her not to go to
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Speaker 1: the police. Because the killer was Remy Schen, the hairstylist
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Speaker 1: who hated Patrik for having an affair with his late wife,
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Speaker 1: and he had just successfully tricked Audrey into helping him
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Speaker 1: pull this murder off. It would turn out Audrey was
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Speaker 1: actually Remy's ex girlfriend. They had met and begun dating
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine, shortly after the death of
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Speaker 1: Remy's wife, and Remy had realized that because of Audrey's
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Speaker 1: history with Patric because they had also dated, he could
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Speaker 1: use her to lure Patriq into a trap and finally
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Speaker 1: take his revenge. But even though Audrey was clearly a
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Speaker 1: key part of this place, she didn't actually know that
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Speaker 1: Remy was going to kill patric Remy had told her
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Speaker 1: a sob story about Patric oweing him a lot of money,
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Speaker 1: and she thought they were just going to scare him
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Speaker 1: into paying up. It was not until she got into
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Speaker 1: the cave and Remy showed up with a mask on
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Speaker 1: and a rifle that she realized he had something way
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Speaker 1: more sinister in his mind. After the murder, Remy convinced
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Speaker 1: Audrey to stay silent by threatening to kill her and
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Speaker 1: her children, and for over a year she kept his secret,
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Speaker 1: lying to the police the whole time, but when she
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Speaker 1: watched that true crime episode about the case and saw
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Speaker 1: Mark's plea for information, she finally just cracked and confessed
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Speaker 1: to her friend Sophie, who was watching the show with her,
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Speaker 1: who then went on to call the police the very
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Speaker 1: next day. On March thirty first, twenty sixteen, Remy Schen
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Speaker 1: and Audrey Luvet were arrested for their roles in Patriik's death.
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Speaker 1: Remy received thirty years in prison for murder and Audrey
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Speaker 1: was sentenced to twelve years for acting as an accessory
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