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Tragic Endings Top 3 photos with DISTURBING backstories Part 5 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share with you three progressively more
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  Speaker 1: disturbing stories, and at the end of each of them,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to share with you the picture that is
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  Speaker 1: famously associated with them. But before I get into today's stories,
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  Speaker 1: today's stories. In nineteen seventy fourteen year old Keith Sapsburg
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  Speaker 1: was living in Sydney, Australia with his parents, and he
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  Speaker 1: was desperate to travel the world. His parents wanted him
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  Speaker 1: to be able to travel, they just lacked the resources
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  Speaker 1: to be able to afford that kind of thing. However,
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  Speaker 1: they were able to pull a little bit of cash
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  Speaker 1: and the three of them did go on a nice
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  Speaker 1: European vacation that.
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  Speaker 2: His parents were hoping would kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of calm down his desires to want to travel all
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  Speaker 1: the time. They thought this would be you know, a
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  Speaker 1: taste before he got older and he could go travel
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  Speaker 1: as much.
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  Speaker 2: As he wanted.
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  Speaker 1: But when he came back from that vacation, it really
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  Speaker 1: had the opposite effect. It was like Keith had experienced
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  Speaker 1: the life that he's so desperately wanted, and now he's home,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like that life has been taken from him.
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  Speaker 1: Following that vacation, Keith began trying to run away from home,
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  Speaker 1: not because he didn't want to be around his parents,
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  Speaker 1: but just because he saw.
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  Speaker 2: It as his only way to you know, see the world.
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  Speaker 1: But every time he would run away, his parents would
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  Speaker 1: quickly find him and bring him back home. Their concern
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  Speaker 1: for their son would only grow, though, because he would
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  Speaker 1: find ways to sneak away and be gone for longer
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  Speaker 1: and longer stretches of time, and they're thinking it's only
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  Speaker 1: a matter of time before he really gets hurt. In
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  Speaker 1: an effort to save their son, they ended up enrolling
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  Speaker 1: him in this very strict boarding school that was for
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  Speaker 1: boys and behavioral problems, and they were hoping that the
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  Speaker 1: staff at the school was going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: kind of calm their son down and keep him from
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  Speaker 1: trying to run away all the time. But unfortunately the
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  Speaker 1: school really had the opposite effect because.
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  Speaker 2: The school in a sense was like a prison. You
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  Speaker 2: weren't allowed to leave.
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  Speaker 1: And so immediately Keith when he gets there, he's looking
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  Speaker 1: for ways to escape this boarding school. In two weeks
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  Speaker 1: after arriving, he would be successful. He would elude the
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  Speaker 1: staff and he would escape. Three days after he had
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  Speaker 1: escaped this boarding school, he found his way to the
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  Speaker 1: Sydney Airport. Now, this is the nineteen seventies and it
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  Speaker 1: was far easier to get into an airport than it
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  Speaker 1: would be today, where there's lots of security. There wasn't
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  Speaker 1: much of that at the time that Keith was at
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  Speaker 1: the airport, and so Keith walked across the tarmac to
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  Speaker 1: a plane that was bound for Tokyo, and he climbed
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  Speaker 1: inside the wheel well. He tucked himself in there and
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  Speaker 1: he waited for takeoff. A photographer named John Gilpin happened
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  Speaker 1: to be at the Sydney Airport on the same day
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  Speaker 1: that Keith is now snuck into that wheel well and
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  Speaker 1: he had a new lens for his camera that he
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  Speaker 1: was testing out, and at one point he was just
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  Speaker 1: taking pictures of the tarmac, and he began taking pictures
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  Speaker 1: of a plane that was taking off, and it was
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  Speaker 1: the same plane that Keith had snuck into. And he
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  Speaker 1: takes pictures of it as it takes off, it goes
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  Speaker 1: up to altitude, and it flies away, and he just
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  Speaker 1: took a series of pictures of it, puts his camera away,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't think twice about it. A week later, John was
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  Speaker 1: looking through his photos and he stopped when he saw
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  Speaker 1: this picture. John had inadvertently captured the final moments of
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  Speaker 1: Keith as he fell nearly two hundred feet to his death.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as the pilot took off, the wheels were retracted,
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  Speaker 1: opening up that wheelwell for a brief second, and there
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  Speaker 1: was nothing for Keith to hold onto, and he slipped out.
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  Speaker 1: But even if he had not fallen out, he almost
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  Speaker 1: certainly would have died from freezing temperatures and lack of
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  Speaker 1: oxygen at altitude. On April first, nineteen ninety, a police
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  Speaker 1: officer in Arizona was driving on the highway when he
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  Speaker 1: saw a tractor trailer that was pulled over on the
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  Speaker 1: side of the road with its hazards on, and so.
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  Speaker 2: He pulls over.
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  Speaker 1: He gets out walks out to the driver's side door,
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  Speaker 1: and he looks up at the driver and says, hey,
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  Speaker 1: do you need any help? And the driver is still
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the driver's seat, his hands on the wheel.
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  Speaker 1: He's barely acknowledging the police officer, and he kind of
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  Speaker 1: looks down and shrugs and just says, no, I'm okay.
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  Speaker 1: The police officer doesn't know what it was, but there
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  Speaker 1: was something off about this guy. He wasn't doing anything wrong,
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  Speaker 1: but there was something off about him. He couldn't tell
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  Speaker 1: what it was. So he asked him again, are you
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  Speaker 1: sure that nothing is wrong? And the driver, again very sketchy,
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  Speaker 1: he just says, no, nothing's wrong, and so the police officer,
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  Speaker 1: acting on a gut instinct, says, hey, can you step out?
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  Speaker 1: Do you mind if I talk to you outside of
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  Speaker 1: your vehicle, And so, very reluctantly, the driver kind of
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  Speaker 1: slithers his way out of the vehicle, making sure that
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't fully open the door to kind of let
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  Speaker 1: the officer see what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Inside his cab.
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  Speaker 1: He gets out and shuts the door and the two
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  Speaker 1: start talking. Over the course of their conversation where basically
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  Speaker 1: the officers trying to figure out what you're doing here.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you parked on the side of the road
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  Speaker 1: with your hazards on. Why aren't you telling me what's
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  Speaker 1: going on. Why are you acting so strange. At some point,
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  Speaker 1: the officer just kind of had enough and he said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to need to search your vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: He opens up the door and goes inside, and there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing out of the ordinary in the front two seats.
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  Speaker 1: But when he looks into the back section where there
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  Speaker 1: was a sleeping compartment, because this is a big eighteen wheeler,
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  Speaker 1: and there's like a little area in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the cab where.
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  Speaker 2: These guys doing these long drives can sleep.
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  Speaker 1: When he looks into that section, he sees there's this
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  Speaker 1: woman with her mouth gagged, handcuffed, huddling in the corner
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  Speaker 1: of this sleeping section, looking absolutely terrified. The officer immediately
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  Speaker 1: gets out and he grabs the guy and he puts
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  Speaker 1: him under arrest. As he's arresting him, the driver is saying, no,
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  Speaker 1: she wants to be here, she chose to be here,
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  Speaker 1: but the officer didn't buy it, and he said, you're
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  Speaker 1: under arrest for kidnapping. The officer puts this guy in
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  Speaker 1: his cruiser and shuts the door, and then he calls
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  Speaker 1: for backup. When backup arrived, they were able to take
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  Speaker 1: the woman out.
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  Speaker 2: She was unhurt. She survived, but it would turn out
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  Speaker 2: that she.
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  Speaker 1: Was one of the very, very lucky few, because the
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  Speaker 1: driver was Robert Rhodes, aka the truck Stock Killer, who
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  Speaker 1: over the previous twenty years had killed over fifty women.
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  Speaker 1: He was one of the most prolific serial killers in
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  Speaker 1: American history.
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  Speaker 2: But the crime that.
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  Speaker 1: The truck Stock Killer was actually known for was not
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  Speaker 1: this kidnaping where this woman survived. It was the kidnapping
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  Speaker 1: and murder of a woman named Regina Kay Walters.
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  Speaker 2: Regina was a.
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  Speaker 1: Young woman who came from a broken home, and at
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  Speaker 1: the age of fourteen, she ran away and began hitchhiking
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  Speaker 1: across Texas with her boyfriend. In February of nineteen ninety,
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  Speaker 1: Rhodes picked up Regina and her boyfriend who were looking
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  Speaker 1: for a ride. Rhodes almost immediately kills Regina's boyfriend and
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  Speaker 1: takes Regina captive, and he keeps her chained up in
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  Speaker 1: his traveling torture chamber for several years before ultimately killing
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  Speaker 1: her as well. After Rhodes was finally arrested by this
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  Speaker 1: Arizona police officer on the side of the highway. The
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  Speaker 1: investigations searched rhodes house and they found some pictures. This
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  Speaker 1: is a picture of Regina Kay Walters in the abandoned
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  Speaker 1: barn where her body was ultimately found. Immediately after Rhodes
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  Speaker 1: took this picture, he ended Regina's life. On September sixth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, two moose hunters that were hunting just
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  Speaker 1: outside of the Nali National Park in Alaska were walking
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  Speaker 1: up to a well known landmark amongst hunters in the area.
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  Speaker 2: It was this old school bus that was parked in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of nowhere. It was all rusted over.
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  Speaker 1: And nature had practically overgrown it, and hunters, trappers, and
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  Speaker 1: travelers would use this bus as kind of like a
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  Speaker 1: center point that you would reference where you were going
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  Speaker 1: relative to this particular bus. But when they walked up
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  Speaker 1: to it, they saw on the outside of the door
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  Speaker 1: that there was a note attention possible visitors.
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  Speaker 2: Soos I need your help. I am injured, near death
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  Speaker 2: in two week to hike out of here. I am
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  Speaker 2: all alone. This is not a joke. In the name
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  Speaker 2: of God. Please remain to save me.
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  Speaker 1: I am out collecting berries close by and shall return
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  Speaker 1: this evening.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Chris McCandless, dated August question mark five months earlier. In
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  Speaker 1: April of nineteen ninety two, Chris McCandless, the one who
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  Speaker 1: wrote that note, had hitchhiked from Carthage, South Dakota to Fairbanks, Alaska.
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  Speaker 1: Once there, he hitchhiked again with an electrician named Jim
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  Speaker 1: Gallion who was making his way out of Fairbanks. Chris
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  Speaker 1: introduced himself as Alex and asked Jim if he would
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  Speaker 1: take him to Denali National Park, which was about two
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  Speaker 1: hours away to the southwest.
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  Speaker 2: On the drive, Jim asked Chris what.
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  Speaker 1: He was going to be doing at the park, because
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  Speaker 1: this is like wild Alaska country, and frankly, Chris did
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  Speaker 1: not look like a rugged Alaskan outdoorsman. Chris told Jim
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  Speaker 1: that he was going to be living off the land
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  Speaker 1: for a few months. Jim would later say that he
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  Speaker 1: had serious doubts about Chris's ability to survive in the
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  Speaker 1: Alaskan bush. As it was, Chris only had a light backpack.
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  Speaker 1: He'd have a rifle, but he really didn't have warm
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  Speaker 1: clothes on. He only had ten pounds of rice. That
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  Speaker 1: was the only thing he brought for food. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a compass, he didn't have a map, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a watch. He just seemed totally ill equipped for
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  Speaker 1: what he was saying he was going to go do.
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  Speaker 1: At some point, Jim tried to convince Chris not to go,
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  Speaker 1: or to at least postpone, and he even offered, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'll drive you up to anchorage and I'll buy you equipment.
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  Speaker 1: You need the right equipment for what you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be doing.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go there first.
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  Speaker 1: But Chris was stubborn, and so Jim ultimately relented and
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  Speaker 1: said okay.
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  Speaker 2: He drove him to the park.
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  Speaker 1: Before Chris left, Jim actually gave him a pair of
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  Speaker 1: warm boots that he had in his truck. He said, here,
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  Speaker 1: you can use these more than I can, and Chris
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  Speaker 1: thanked him, took his boots, and he was on his way.
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  Speaker 1: Although Chris was planning for this extensive hike through Denali
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  Speaker 1: National Park all the way to the Baring Sea, but
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  Speaker 1: Chris would only make it about twenty miles into his
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  Speaker 1: journey before stopping at an old rusted bus just outside
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  Speaker 1: of the park. Chris would live in this bus for
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  Speaker 1: sixteen weeks, and according to his diary, that first week
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  Speaker 1: he was there was particularly rough. He was snowed in,
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't catch anything to eat, so he's hungry and cold.
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  Speaker 1: But shortly thereafter he developed a routine. He was able
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  Speaker 1: to hunt successfully for some small game, he found some
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  Speaker 1: plants that were good to eat, and by and large,
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  Speaker 1: his entries made it seem.
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  Speaker 2: Like he was very happy.
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  Speaker 1: However, the last month of diary entries really painted a
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  Speaker 1: very different picture. After living in this bus for nearly
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  Speaker 1: three months, he indicated in his diary that he was
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  Speaker 1: kind of sick and tired of living off the land,
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  Speaker 1: and he was ready to return back to society. So
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  Speaker 1: on July third, he packs up his camp and he
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  Speaker 1: starts walking back the miles towards where he came into
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  Speaker 1: the park in the first place. But when he came
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  Speaker 1: into the park three months earlier, the river that he
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  Speaker 1: was going to need to cross was frozen, and now
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  Speaker 1: that he's returning in the summer, it had thought and
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  Speaker 1: now it's the seventy five foot wide raging river that
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  Speaker 1: was basically impossible to cross, and so he's trapped on
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  Speaker 1: the wrong side of this river. What he didn't know
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  Speaker 1: because he didn't have a compass, he didn't have a map,
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  Speaker 1: He didn't know the area well was there was actually
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  Speaker 1: a hand operated tram that would take you across the
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  Speaker 1: river in the summer. It was only a mile away
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  Speaker 1: from his camp that was labeled on almost every map.
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  Speaker 1: In addition, there was a hunting cabin not far from
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  Speaker 1: that tram that's also on just about every map of
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  Speaker 1: this particular area that had food, it had clothes, it
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  Speaker 1: had bedding, and he could have stayed in this hunting
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  Speaker 1: cabin until conditions were okay again to make the journey
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  Speaker 1: back home. But again he doesn't have a map, so
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't know these things exist. So at some point
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  Speaker 1: he turns around and goes back to the bus, feeling
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  Speaker 1: totally dejected. That night, his journal entry just said rained
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  Speaker 1: in river looks impossible, lonely scared.
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  Speaker 2: All of Chris's.
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  Speaker 1: Diary entries following his return to the bus after not
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  Speaker 1: being able to cross this river got shorter and bleaker
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  Speaker 1: and really painted a picture.
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  Speaker 2: Of a guy that was going downhill.
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  Speaker 1: The final entry in Chris's diary just says beautiful blueberries
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  Speaker 1: and the nineteen days after his final entry is when
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  Speaker 1: those two moose hunters find this bus and see the note,
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  Speaker 1: the SOS note pinned to the outside.
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  Speaker 2: The hunters go inside the bus.
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  Speaker 1: And there, laying in a sleeping bag, is the body
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  Speaker 1: of Christopher McCandless. Although it's not entirely clear how Christopher
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  Speaker 1: actually died, the two most common theories are either starvation
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  Speaker 1: or perhaps he ingested a poisonous plant seed. The hunters
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  Speaker 1: alerted authorities who came out and they launched an investigation,
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  Speaker 1: and during this investigation they found Chris's camera. Chris was
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  Speaker 1: an avid photographer. He had taken loads of pictures over
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  Speaker 1: the course of his stay out in the wild. This
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  Speaker 1: is the final picture that he took on his camera.
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  Speaker 1: It's evident from Chris's soa note on his door that
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  Speaker 1: he did want to escape.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted to leave the wild.
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  Speaker 1: But what's also clear is that at the end he
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  Speaker 1: realized he wasn't going to The note he's holding in
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  Speaker 1: his hand says I have had a happy life and
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  Speaker 1: thank the Lord, goodbye and may God bless all. And
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  Speaker 1: so he took one last dignified picture of himself before
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  Speaker 1: curling up in a sleeping bag and passing away. Let
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