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  Speaker 1: Today, we're going to look at three places you can't
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  Speaker 1: go and people who.
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  Speaker 2: Went there anyways.
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  Speaker 1: On Friday, August twenty first, twenty twenty, fifty eight year
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  Speaker 1: old Rst. Day's Polino was driving back to his home
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  Speaker 1: in Miami, Florida in his police SUV after completing a
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  Speaker 1: midnight shift.
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  Speaker 2: Ourst.
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  Speaker 1: Days was a twenty five year veteran of the Miami
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  Speaker 1: Police Force and over the last two plus decades he
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  Speaker 1: had routinely done midnight shifts, so this was nothing new.
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  Speaker 1: When he got to his house, he parked his SUV
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  Speaker 1: in the driveway, and like always, he went right into
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  Speaker 1: his house.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't talk to his wife, Clara or his son.
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  Speaker 2: He just went straight up to.
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  Speaker 1: His bedroom and immediately fell asleep. About four hours later,
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  Speaker 1: at five pm, Ourstidas woke up and he expected to
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  Speaker 1: hear his wife's voice somewhere in the house. So when
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  Speaker 1: he didn't and the house was just totally silent, something
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  Speaker 1: told him that something was off.
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  Speaker 2: So he climbed out of bed, he put on his clothes,
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  Speaker 2: and he went.
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  Speaker 1: Downstairs to look for his wife. When he got down
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  Speaker 1: to the living room, he saw his son sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the couch, but he didn't see his wife, and so
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  Speaker 1: he asked his son, you know, hey, have you seen
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  Speaker 1: your mom? And he would say, no, I haven't seen her.
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  Speaker 1: But sensing on his dad's face that something was wrong,
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  Speaker 1: he said, hey, I'll help you look for mom. And
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  Speaker 1: so the two men began searching the house yelling out
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  Speaker 1: for Clara, and Arristides began calling his wife, but she
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  Speaker 1: wasn't picking up, and after several minutes, the two men
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  Speaker 1: reconvened in the living room and they started going over
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  Speaker 1: whether or not she had told them about some appointment
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  Speaker 1: that and that would explain why she wasn't in the house,
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  Speaker 1: but after talking about it, they decided that she didn't
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  Speaker 1: have any appointments and she should be home right now.
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  Speaker 1: And so the men decided, you know, maybe she went
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  Speaker 1: outside and she's talking to a neighbor, or you know,
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  Speaker 1: she went for a walk and she's talking to somebody
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  Speaker 1: on the road, and so they decided they would go
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  Speaker 1: outside and search the outside of the property. When they
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  Speaker 1: got outside, aristides went towards the back of the property
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  Speaker 1: and his son went towards the front, down towards the driveway,
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  Speaker 1: and so as Aristidaz is making his way around the
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  Speaker 1: back of the property, he hears his son scream out
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  Speaker 1: for help. Ristidez comes running back around the property and
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  Speaker 1: he sees his son standing in the driveway with the
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  Speaker 1: door of his police suv wide open. Four hours earlier,
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  Speaker 1: after Aristidez came home, he parked his police SUV right
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  Speaker 1: in the driveway like he always did, and for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: he left the car unlocked, and so he goes in
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  Speaker 1: the house and he falls asleep, and while he was sleeping, Clara,
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  Speaker 1: who was home, she exited the house and walked down
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  Speaker 1: the driveway to his suv. She opened up the door
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  Speaker 1: and went inside. It's believed she was looking for something,
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  Speaker 1: although we don't know what she was looking for. And
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  Speaker 1: while she was in the back of his car fishing
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  Speaker 1: around for whatever it was she was looking for, the
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  Speaker 1: door she had entered the vehicle in shut behind her.
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  Speaker 1: And because this is a police suv, the back seat
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  Speaker 1: was designated for suspects, and so the back two doors
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  Speaker 1: did not open from the inside, and there was a
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  Speaker 1: very thick partition separating the back seat from the front seat,
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  Speaker 1: so Clara could not just reach over the seats and
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  Speaker 1: honk the horn to get someone's attention. And Clara did
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  Speaker 1: not have her cell phone, so she couldn't call anyone
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  Speaker 1: for help, and when she screamed out for help to
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  Speaker 1: somebody out on the road to help her, her screams
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  Speaker 1: were severely muffled, and the back windows of this police
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  Speaker 1: car were heavily tinted, making it extremely difficult to see
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  Speaker 1: that there was a person in the back seat.
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  Speaker 2: Of this car.
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  Speaker 1: So for four hours, Clara desperately screamed and kicked and
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  Speaker 1: punched and did everything she could to try to free
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  Speaker 1: herself from the situation she was in. All the while,
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  Speaker 1: the temperature inside the car continued to go up.
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  Speaker 2: The suv was parked in.
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  Speaker 1: Full sunlight, no shade whatsoever, and the temperatures that day
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  Speaker 1: were over ninety degrees fahrenheit, and so by the time
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  Speaker 1: Clara was ultimately discovered, the inside of that suv had effectively.
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  Speaker 2: Become an oven.
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  Speaker 1: Aristidez ran over to his vehicle and he pulled his
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  Speaker 1: wife out, and he started doing CPR on her, but
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  Speaker 1: it was too late. She had died of heat stroke.
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  Speaker 1: Her death was ultimately ruled an accident. On May twenty second,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, a father and his young son were
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  Speaker 1: out for a walk in their small suburban town just
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  Speaker 1: outside of Barcelona, Spain. When they reached their downtown, they
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  Speaker 1: were going to turn around and walk back home, but
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  Speaker 1: the boy pleaded with his father to make a quick
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  Speaker 1: stop at the old theater. The reason the boy and
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  Speaker 1: many other kids in the town loved going to this
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  Speaker 1: old theater was because out front of it was this
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  Speaker 1: huge paper mache statue of a dinosaur, a stegosaurus to
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  Speaker 1: be exact, And so, after a little bit of convincing,
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  Speaker 1: the father finally agrees and they start heading in that direction.
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  Speaker 2: After they turned the.
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  Speaker 1: Corner and could actually see the dinosaur's statue. The boy
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  Speaker 1: took off running, while the father just stayed back and
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  Speaker 1: walked leisurely, watching his son the whole time. And as
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  Speaker 1: he's watching his son, he can see he gets right
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  Speaker 1: up to the statue, and then the boy just kind
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  Speaker 1: of suddenly stops and stares at something on the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the statue, and so the father notices his son
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  Speaker 1: has seen something peculiar enough to make him stop and stare,
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  Speaker 1: and so he yells to his son, Hey, what do
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  Speaker 1: you see And the son just points at the back
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  Speaker 1: right leg of the statue, and so the father thinks
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  Speaker 1: this is really weird. So he jogs up to his
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  Speaker 1: son and he crouches down right next to him and
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  Speaker 1: looks in the direction his son is pointing. And at
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  Speaker 1: first the father believes all his son is pointing at
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  Speaker 1: is this fairly obvious crack on the outside of the
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  Speaker 1: statue on the back right leg, and he's thinking his
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  Speaker 1: son has just noticed that the statue is kind of
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  Speaker 1: falling apart. But as he's looking at this crack that
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  Speaker 1: his son is pointing at, he realized his son was
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  Speaker 1: not pointing at the crack. He was pointing at what
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  Speaker 1: was behind the crack what was inside the dinosaur statue,
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  Speaker 1: And when the father realized what he was looking at,
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  Speaker 1: he grabbed his son, stood up and ran in the
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  Speaker 1: other direction and called emergency services. A few minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: the police and fire department show up in front of
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  Speaker 1: the Soul Theater. They get out and they go up
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  Speaker 1: to the statue and they confirm what's inside this back
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  Speaker 1: right leg. Afterwards, they go to their trucks and they
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  Speaker 1: get out chainsaws. Eventually they were able to carve a
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  Speaker 1: big enough square on this back right leg that they
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  Speaker 1: were able to remove the thing that the father and
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  Speaker 1: the son had seen originally, and that was a dead
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  Speaker 1: man's spot. Not much as known about this dead man
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  Speaker 1: except that he was a thirty nine year old man
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  Speaker 1: who his family had reported missing a couple of days
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  Speaker 1: before he was actually found. While we don't know this
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  Speaker 1: for sure, it's believed he decided to crawl inside the
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  Speaker 1: statue when he realized the belly of the dinosaur was movable. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's not entirely clear how he figured that out. Either
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  Speaker 1: the belly was already moved and he saw the opening
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  Speaker 1: and so saw the opportunity to crawl inside for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: or he was poking and prodding at the statue and
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  Speaker 1: discovered the belly was movable, moved it aside, and then
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  Speaker 1: again seized the opportunity and crawled inside. Either way, the
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  Speaker 1: man crawled inside the statue, and then once he was
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  Speaker 1: in the dinosaur, his phone slipped out of his hand
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  Speaker 1: or slipped out of his pocket, and then instead of
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  Speaker 1: falling out of the dinosaur onto the ground, it fell
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  Speaker 1: inside the dinosaur and slid down the inside of the
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  Speaker 1: statue until it fell into.
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  Speaker 2: The bottom of the bottom right hand leg.
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  Speaker 1: And so the man decides to go after his phone,
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  Speaker 1: and so on his belly he slides over to the
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  Speaker 1: back right leg and then he begins lowering himself headfirst
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  Speaker 1: into the leg, reaching for his phone. And so as
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of slowly lowering himself down, using his legs
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  Speaker 1: to pin himself inside the statue, he gets closer and closer.
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  Speaker 1: He's almost about to grab his phone when his feet
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  Speaker 1: lose their grip and he slips and falls head first
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  Speaker 1: all the way to the bottom of this back right leg.
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  Speaker 1: The space he was in was so tight he was
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  Speaker 1: not able to turn himself around and climb up and
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  Speaker 1: out again. In fact, it was so tight, he could
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  Speaker 1: barely move. His arms were pinned by his side, and
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  Speaker 1: so he couldn't use them to even push himself back
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  Speaker 1: up and out, And because he could not bend his leg,
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  Speaker 1: he could.
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  Speaker 2: Not use his legs to pull himself back out again.
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  Speaker 1: Either, And so this man most likely began screaming for help,
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  Speaker 1: but for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody heard him, and so after what must have been.
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  Speaker 1: Several agonizing days, the man finally just died. His autopsy
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  Speaker 1: has not been made public, so we don't know for
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  Speaker 1: sure what actually killed him, although one could speculate he
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  Speaker 1: died of either dehydration or perhaps asphyxia from being trapped
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  Speaker 1: in this really tight space, where his chest may not
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  Speaker 1: have been able to expand all the way and so
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  Speaker 1: he would have eventually suffocated. Following the gruesome discovery, the
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  Speaker 1: dinosaur statue was removed from the front of the old
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  Speaker 1: theater in the early nineteen eighties. John Harder was the
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  Speaker 1: classic athletic popular kid at his high school in Delaware, Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: which is a relatively small town just outside of the
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  Speaker 1: state's capital. But unlike most stereotypes that paint high school
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  Speaker 1: jocks as being these total jerks that bully people and
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  Speaker 1: they're kind of stupid.
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  Speaker 2: John was none of those things.
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  Speaker 1: He was incredibly friendly and very warm hearted and seemed
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  Speaker 1: to get along with everyone. John also was known for
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  Speaker 1: having a great sense of humor. In particular, he liked
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  Speaker 1: to play these kind of harmless pranks that would make
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  Speaker 1: people smile, like the time he very enthusiastically joined the
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  Speaker 1: cheerleaders during a high school pep rally, despite not actually
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  Speaker 1: being a cheerleader himself. John was set to graduate from
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  Speaker 1: high school on June fifth, nineteen eighty three, and his
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  Speaker 1: plan was to study accounting at Kent State University the
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  Speaker 1: following year. A few weeks before his graduation, John's high
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  Speaker 1: school began selling these tickets to a grad night at
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  Speaker 1: a huge amusement park.
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  Speaker 2: Called King's Island.
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  Speaker 1: King's Island was located about two hours west of John's
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  Speaker 1: High school, and it was home.
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  Speaker 2: To dozens of roller coasters, water.
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  Speaker 1: Slides, and many other attractions. During their so called grad nights,
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  Speaker 1: this amusement park would shut down their public operations and
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  Speaker 1: not let anybody into the park that did not have
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  Speaker 1: these special student tickets that they gave to local area
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  Speaker 1: high schools. John, who was seventeen years old at the
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  Speaker 1: time was very excited at the idea of going to
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  Speaker 1: this grad night, and so he went and purchased tickets
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  Speaker 1: along with about twenty others students from his high school.
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  Speaker 1: At about three thirty pm on Friday, May thirteenth, John
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  Speaker 1: and the other students who had bought grad Night tickets
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  Speaker 1: met up outside of their high school. While this was
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  Speaker 1: a school sponsored trip, these students were responsible for driving
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  Speaker 1: themselves to the park, and so after all the students
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  Speaker 1: were accounted for, they all piled into a couple of
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  Speaker 1: their cars and they began their journey to the park.
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  Speaker 2: After a few stops along the.
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  Speaker 1: Way to get food and go to the bathroom, these
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  Speaker 1: students finally arrived at the park at about seven pm
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  Speaker 1: and on the drive, John, who had been a passenger,
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  Speaker 1: had drank half a bottle of rum and about three
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  Speaker 1: to six beers, and so when he got out he
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  Speaker 1: could barely stand he was so drunk. And so the
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  Speaker 1: students made their way over to the front gate. They
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  Speaker 1: showed the attendant their grad Night ticket and they were
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  Speaker 1: allowed inside. And surprisingly, despite it being this special night
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  Speaker 1: where only people with these tickets were allowed in, it
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  Speaker 1: was still pretty crowded. There were lots of students that
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  Speaker 1: apparently wanted to come to this event. Once John and
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the students from the Delaware High School
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  Speaker 1: had come inside the park, there was no rule that
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  Speaker 1: they had to stick together for the duration of their
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  Speaker 1: time there, and so they all kind of broke into
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  Speaker 1: their groups and went their separate ways. In John's particular
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  Speaker 1: group was his girlfriend Pam, and for the first hour
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  Speaker 1: they were in the park together, all they did was
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  Speaker 1: bicker and fight. Onlookers would say John looked visibly upset
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  Speaker 1: and very emotional and very drunk. By eight thirty pm,
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  Speaker 1: when John's group had gotten in line for this roller coaster,
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  Speaker 1: John was now openly saying I don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: here anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to go home.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty obvious he was still just mad at Pam,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why he was saying all this was just
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  Speaker 1: trying to make Pam feel bad. And so some of
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  Speaker 1: the group members told John just hey, man, calm down,
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  Speaker 1: you're overreacting. Just try to enjoy this ride and then afterwards.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get some food. It'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: But it was pretty clear that John was really worked
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  Speaker 1: up and seemed incapable of having a good time at
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  Speaker 1: this point. But regardless, John and the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: group they got on this ride at about nine pm,
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  Speaker 1: and then after the ride was over, they disembarked and
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  Speaker 1: they walked away from the ride to regroup and figure
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  Speaker 1: out what was next. And they're looking around and John
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  Speaker 1: is nowhere to be found. And so after waiting for
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes and actually walking around looking for him,
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  Speaker 1: they decided that, you know, but he was really upset
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  Speaker 1: before he got on this ride. He probably just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to walk away and be by himself for a bit.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll see him later in the night.
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  Speaker 1: So John's group, without John, just continued going around the park,
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  Speaker 1: going on different rides, and for the next few hours
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  Speaker 1: they kind of forgot about John. It wasn't until the
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  Speaker 1: end of the night went over the loudspeaker the park
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  Speaker 1: officials said, okay, we're closing the park now. That they
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  Speaker 1: started walking out and wondering where John was, and they
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  Speaker 1: were convinced, you know what, I'm sure he's back at
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  Speaker 1: the cars. He's probably waiting for us because he just
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  Speaker 1: wants to go home.
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  Speaker 2: So they leave the park.
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  Speaker 1: They get out to their cars in the lot, and
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  Speaker 1: John's not there. And so at this point, the group
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  Speaker 1: started to get a little bit concerned because no one
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  Speaker 1: knows where he is. They're meeting up with the other
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  Speaker 1: groups from their high school. No one's seen John, and
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  Speaker 1: so they're all just kind of staring at the front
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  Speaker 1: gate waiting for John to come out, but he doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: And then eventually the lights in the park starts shutting down,
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  Speaker 1: and the security guard comes out front and locks the
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  Speaker 1: front gate, and that's when the group knew they had
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  Speaker 1: a problem. After an extensive investigation by police, this is
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  Speaker 1: their best.
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  Speaker 2: Guess as to what happened to John.
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  Speaker 1: After John and his small group rode that roller coaster
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  Speaker 1: around nine pm, John very quickly disembarked the ride before
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  Speaker 1: anybody else in his group could see him, and then
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  Speaker 1: John stumbled his way towards the replica Eiffel.
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  Speaker 2: Tower that this park was famous for.
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  Speaker 1: This tower stood at about three hundred feet tall and
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  Speaker 1: was built to be an exact replica of the Eiffel
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  Speaker 1: Tower in Paris, France, but this one at King's Island
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  Speaker 1: was only a third the size. It had three elevators
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  Speaker 1: that went up the center of the structure, and the
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  Speaker 1: elevators would stop at a fifty foot platform and a
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy five foot platform where guests could
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  Speaker 1: look out.
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  Speaker 2: And have a great view of the park.
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  Speaker 1: While today the only way to access these two viewing
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  Speaker 1: platforms is through these elevators, at the time John was
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  Speaker 1: at the park in nineteen eighty three, the park actually
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  Speaker 1: had a flight of stairs that went from the ground
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  Speaker 1: all the way to the very top of the tower,
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  Speaker 1: that went right up the middle of the structure, and
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  Speaker 1: the public was allowed to take these stairs all the
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  Speaker 1: way up to the first platform, that fifty foot platform,
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  Speaker 1: And while the stairs did actually continue beyond that up
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  Speaker 1: to the two hundred and seventy five foot platform, the
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  Speaker 1: public was not allowed to go any higher on the
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  Speaker 1: stairs than that first platform. And so if you took
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  Speaker 1: these stairs once you got to the fifty foot platform,
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  Speaker 1: there would be a big fence right on the stairwell
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  Speaker 1: preventing you from going any farther, and it says authorized personnel.
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  Speaker 2: Only, don't go any farther.
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  Speaker 1: And so the only people that would walk up those
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  Speaker 1: additional flights of stairs were staff that had a special key.
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  Speaker 1: When John stumbled his way over to the base of
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  Speaker 1: this replica tower, he did not get on an elevator instead,
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  Speaker 1: he took the stairs. So he made his way up
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  Speaker 1: to the fifty foot platform, and then when he got
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  Speaker 1: to the six foot tall gate preventing him from going
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  Speaker 1: any farther, he just climbed up and over it and
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  Speaker 1: continued walking up the stairs and nobody stopped him. He
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  Speaker 1: finally came to a stop just below the two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy five foot mark, and so he's on the
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  Speaker 1: stairwell and at this point he turns and faces the
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  Speaker 1: inside of the tower. It's all these metal beams all
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  Speaker 1: over the place, and he climbs over the railing of
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  Speaker 1: the stairs he's on, and he climbs onto this narrow
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  Speaker 1: beam that's actually a part of the support structure of
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  Speaker 1: this tower, rabs onto the beam above him, and just
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  Speaker 1: begins walking along this beam towards the center of the tower,
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  Speaker 1: where the three elevator shafts are. Now there's no safety
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  Speaker 1: net on either side of John, so he slips and falls.
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  Speaker 2: He's falling hundreds of feet to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: And if he keeps walking and actually gets into the
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  Speaker 1: elevator shaft, there's nothing protecting him from being struck by
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  Speaker 1: one of the elevators. Because the people who built this tower.
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  Speaker 1: Were not thinking about people walking on these exposed beams
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of feet up into the air.
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  Speaker 2: This is a.
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  Speaker 1: Totally dangerous and unauthorized area. But John just continues shimmying
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  Speaker 1: across this beam until he does get to the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the tower and now he's literally standing looking down
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  Speaker 1: into the elevator shafts, and as he's most likely looking
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  Speaker 1: around admiring where he was, one of the elevator cars
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  Speaker 1: below him began to start moving. To understand what happens next,
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  Speaker 1: you need to have a rudimentary understanding of how this
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  Speaker 1: elevator worked. A large metal rope was attached to the
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  Speaker 1: top of the elevator car, and from there it was
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  Speaker 1: thread up the elevator shaping all the way to the
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  Speaker 1: top where it was fed through a pulley that was
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  Speaker 1: anchored to the ceiling. And then that rope was fed
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  Speaker 1: right back down the shaft to the bottom where it
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  Speaker 1: was attached to a counterweight. A counterweight is just a
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  Speaker 1: large heavy weight that's designed to balance this elevator car
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  Speaker 1: on this pulley system. Without the weight, the elevator car
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  Speaker 1: would just slip off of that pulley, and so anytime
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  Speaker 1: the elevator car moved up, the counterweight would move down,
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  Speaker 1: and vice versa, making sure that car.
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  Speaker 2: Was always balanced.
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  Speaker 1: And so John is standing right on the edge of
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  Speaker 1: this elevator shaft, presumably just kind of looking around admiring
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  Speaker 1: where he was, when down below him, that elevator car
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  Speaker 1: starts to move and it starts to actually descend away
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  Speaker 1: from John, and so the car itself is not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: a threat to John. However, its counterweight is because if
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  Speaker 1: the car is going down, its counterweight is going up
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  Speaker 1: and it's right in the path of John. And so
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  Speaker 1: as John is leaning out over the shaft looking around,
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  Speaker 1: this counterweight comes screaming up and picks him off of
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  Speaker 1: the beam he's on and carries him up into the shaft.
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  Speaker 1: The impact on John was so strong that it's believed
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  Speaker 1: he was actually impaled on some of the exposed metal
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  Speaker 1: wiring on top of this counterweight, and he got totally
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: tangled up in all of the cables on top of there.
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  Speaker 2: And so as John is desperately trying to.
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  Speaker 1: Free himself, the elevator operator there was always a staff
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: member inside of these elevator cars. He actually noticed when
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  Speaker 1: John got stuck on the counterweight. But of course this
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  Speaker 1: worker would have no idea that's what it was. They
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: would later recall, It just felt like the car suddenly jumped.
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  Speaker 1: And so this worker, fearing that something had gone wrong
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  Speaker 1: with the elevator car itself, he decided he would ride
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  Speaker 1: it all the way to the bottom, let everybody get out,
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  Speaker 1: and then ride back up to the top totally empty,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: to make sure that the car actually worked before allowing
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  Speaker 1: people back on. And so the worker went to the ground,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: everybody got out, he closed the doors, he began his ascent.
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  Speaker 1: He got to that first platform at fifty feet, no issues.
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  Speaker 1: He got about ten feet above that first platform, so
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  Speaker 1: at about sixty feet, when all of a sudden, he
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: hears an unbelievably loud thud on the roof of his
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  Speaker 1: elevator car, causing his car to imediately come to a stop,
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  Speaker 1: and then blood began pouring over the sides of the car,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: over the windows. After getting stuck on the counterweight, John
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: probably did everything he could to try to free himself,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: but he just couldn't do it. However, when that elevator
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  Speaker 1: worker decided to go back up again to test the
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: capacity of the elevator car, it reversed the direction of
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: the counterweight that John was stuck on, and so as
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: that car was going up, John began going down. And
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: it was on this descent that parts of John's body
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  Speaker 1: must have been dangling off of this counterweight, and they
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: must have struck one of the beams as he was
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  Speaker 1: going down, and that beam effectively pried him off of
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: whatever he was stuck on and threw him over the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: edge into the center of the shaft, and so John
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: would fall two hundred feet and he would land on
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: top of that elevator car, dying instantly. The park was
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: very quick to block off the ride and the whole
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: scene and got police involved very quickly, so only a
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: very small number of guests and employees were aware an
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: accident had even happened, and very few of them were
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: aware that it had been a fatal accent. As for
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: the police, they knew they had a dead body, but
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: they had no way to identify the body. There was
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: no ID cards on John, and so they had no
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: way to let his friends know that were in the
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: park or to tell his family. So it wasn't until
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: that night, when John's friends are out in the parking
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: lot waiting for John to come out again, that they
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: got really worried, and they went up and spoke to
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: a security guard at the front of the park, and
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: that security guard, after hearing their story, would tell them
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: that actually, there had been an accident in the park
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: and there was a body and the police are still
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: trying to identify this body, and so maybe you guys
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: want to go over to the hospital and see if
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: it's your friend. So sure enough, the friends went to
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the hospital and they would confirm that the body was
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: John Carder. To this day, no one knows for sure
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: why John did what he did. Some say he was
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: just drunk and it was a dumb decision that led
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: to his death. Others say he was suicidal, but many
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: of the people that were close to him say, no way,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: he was not suicidal. And other people say, you know John,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: he loved at tension and so perhaps this was a
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: dangerous stunt gone too far. But regardless of his reasons,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: John had clearly intentionally entered an air that was off
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: limits and it got him killed.
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