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  Speaker 1: The most famous street inarguably the most famous city in
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  Speaker 1: the world is Fifth Avenue in New York City. Also
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. Just after midnight on March ninth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty seven, a man slipped out the front door
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  Speaker 1: of his four story brownstone mansion on New York City's
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  Speaker 1: iconic Fifth avenue. The man was named Langley Collier. He
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  Speaker 1: was sixty one years old and he was a trained engineer.
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  Speaker 1: He was a very famous concert pianist, and he was
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  Speaker 1: very wealthy, but he didn't dress like he was wealthy.
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  Speaker 1: This night, Langley was going for an eight mile walk
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  Speaker 1: to the south to Brooklyn, New York, where he was
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  Speaker 1: going to pick up a very specific thing that he
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  Speaker 1: needed for his older brother, Homer, who was currently laid
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  Speaker 1: up in bed on the second floor of the mansion.
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  Speaker 1: It was a freezing cold night, and so as Langley
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  Speaker 1: walked along the road, he flipped up his collar of
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  Speaker 1: his very shabby woolf coat that was held together by
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  Speaker 1: safety pins. Nowadays, Langley felt like the only time he
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  Speaker 1: was safe going outside was at night, because at nighttime
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  Speaker 1: he could kind of hide from the prying eyes of
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  Speaker 1: his neighbors or police officers, or really anyone. It was
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  Speaker 1: the one time he could basically be invisible, and so
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  Speaker 1: Langley scurried his way down the dimly lit sidewalk, looking
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  Speaker 1: left and right constantly to make sure he wasn't being followed.
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  Speaker 1: And then finally, at two a m. He arrived at
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  Speaker 1: his destination in Brooklyn, a very particular set of dumpsters,
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  Speaker 1: and right away Langley got to work. He went in
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  Speaker 1: that dumpster and he got the things he was looking
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  Speaker 1: for and then put them in his bag, slung it
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  Speaker 1: over his shoulder, and then began the long, slow walk
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  Speaker 1: back home. Several weeks later, on March twenty first, the
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  Speaker 1: phone rang inside the police station near where the Collier
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  Speaker 1: brothers lived, and so a sergeant picked up the phone
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  Speaker 1: and on the other line was a guy who called
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  Speaker 1: himself Charles Smith, and in a very gruff voice, he
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  Speaker 1: told the sergeant that there was a dead body in
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  Speaker 1: the Collier brother's mansion. Now, while of course this was
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  Speaker 1: a huge tip, the sergeant was skeptical because the police
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  Speaker 1: were aware of the fact that there were lots of
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  Speaker 1: rumors floating around about the Collier brothers. They were very eccentric,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Langley's going out at night with a bag
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  Speaker 1: over his shoulder and going to look at dumpsters in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they were also kind of reclusive, and the
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  Speaker 1: windows outside of their mansion were boarded up with wood
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  Speaker 1: and metal, and so people were kind of on edge
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  Speaker 1: about the Collier brothers, and periodically, when they heard rumors
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  Speaker 1: about them, they would call the police and report it.
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  Speaker 1: And so the police were used to getting these rumor calls,
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  Speaker 1: going and checking it out, only to discover that they
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  Speaker 1: were not true. And so this sergeant said to Charles Smith, well,
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  Speaker 1: how do you know there's a dead body inside the mansion?
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  Speaker 1: But the caller simply didn't answer and hung up. And so,
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  Speaker 1: because the sergeant did not necessarily believe this was a
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  Speaker 1: credible tip, instead of sending an entire investigative team to
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  Speaker 1: the man to check out this dead body, he asked
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  Speaker 1: a single police officer to when he had time, make
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  Speaker 1: his way over and basically do a wellness check on
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  Speaker 1: the Collier brothers. And so later that day, this one
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  Speaker 1: lone police officer showed up to the Collier brother's mansion.
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  Speaker 1: He got out of his cruiser and he just stopped
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  Speaker 1: and looked at the Brownstone mansion. Even though it was
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  Speaker 1: every bit a mansion, it was not in good condition.
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  Speaker 1: All the windows were boarded up with wood and metal,
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  Speaker 1: and the glass behind them was all shattered. There was
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  Speaker 1: newspapers coming out of the broken windows like they had
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  Speaker 1: been jammed up against the inside of the windows. There
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  Speaker 1: was all this furniture and wooden crates and just junk
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  Speaker 1: piled up outside the front of the property. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the place looked kind of dilapidated, and he was shocked
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  Speaker 1: that anybody lived in here to begin with. But the
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  Speaker 1: Collier family were not normal people. Langley and Homer's dad
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  Speaker 1: was a doctor, and he would take home pieces of
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  Speaker 1: real people, like parts and organ and that kind of thing,
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  Speaker 1: and he would put them in glass jars and put
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  Speaker 1: them on display all over the house. Their dad also
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  Speaker 1: always canoed to work, which meant walking out of the
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  Speaker 1: mansion with a canoe on his shoulder, walking to East River,
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  Speaker 1: canoeing his way in his fancy doctor clothes all the
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  Speaker 1: way until he got off, and then carrying the canoe
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  Speaker 1: to his office building. As for Langley and Homer's mother,
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  Speaker 1: she was the first cousin of their dad, and she
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  Speaker 1: also kicked their dad out of the house when he
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  Speaker 1: tried to convert their entire house into a sanatorium, which
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  Speaker 1: is kind of like a cross between a hospital and
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  Speaker 1: a resort for people who are recovering from tuberculosis. And
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  Speaker 1: so the brothers had grown up in this very odd family,
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  Speaker 1: and while they were totally brilliant, they were also very eccentric. Homer,
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  Speaker 1: the older brother was a literal genius who was accepted
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  Speaker 1: to study law at the highly prestigious Ivy League University
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  Speaker 1: Columbia at the age of fourteen. Langley, who was five
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  Speaker 1: years younger than Homer, also graduated from Columbia, where he
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  Speaker 1: got two degrees, one in engineering and one in chemistry.
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  Speaker 1: But Langley wasn't just an accomplished scientist. He was also
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  Speaker 1: this incredible musician. In fact, he was such a talented
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  Speaker 1: pianist that he actually performed shows at New York's legendary
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  Speaker 1: Carnegie Hall. But despite their incredible achievements and their huge wealth,
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  Speaker 1: Homer and Langley never got married, and over time, after
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  Speaker 1: the death of their parents, Homer and Langley became more
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  Speaker 1: and more reclusive inside of this mansion. And then, in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen thirty three, so fourteen years before this, lone police
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  Speaker 1: officer had arrived at the Collier brothers mansion to investigate
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  Speaker 1: a dead body. Homer Collier had had a stroke and
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  Speaker 1: went completely blind. He was only fifty five at the
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  Speaker 1: time and really he was at the height of his career,
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  Speaker 1: but he was forced to quit his law practice. As
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  Speaker 1: for Langley, even though he was very success essfully selling
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  Speaker 1: pianos and playing these incredible shows at Carnegie Hall. He
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  Speaker 1: too had to give up what he was doing and
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  Speaker 1: stay home and take care of his brother. And once
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  Speaker 1: this happened, the two brothers basically stayed in the mansion
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  Speaker 1: all the time. They basically never left, and they also
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  Speaker 1: stopped paying any of their bills, so their water, their phone,
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  Speaker 1: their electricity all got cut off. But instead of the
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  Speaker 1: brothers paying the bills to get the power back, Langley
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  Speaker 1: just went out and bought a model T car and
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  Speaker 1: he pulled the engine out of the car and built
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  Speaker 1: his own generator. And then when they stopped paying their mortgage,
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  Speaker 1: eventually the police came to the mansion to evict them.
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  Speaker 1: And when Langley came to the door to speak to
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  Speaker 1: the officer, he just wrote a check for the entire
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  Speaker 1: amount of the mansion, basically paying for it on the spot.
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  Speaker 1: He handed the check to the police officer and then
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  Speaker 1: told the officer to leave them alone. And so fast
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  Speaker 1: forward back to March twenty first, nineteen forty seven, and
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  Speaker 1: this lone police officer, after staring up at this dilapidated mansion,
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  Speaker 1: finally walked forward and climbed over all the furniture and
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  Speaker 1: junk that was all out front, and he literally climbed
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  Speaker 1: his way up the front steps to the front door,
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  Speaker 1: where he began pounding on it. But after a while,
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  Speaker 1: no one came to the door, and the officer couldn't
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  Speaker 1: hear anything inside. Now, because this officer was here to
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  Speaker 1: investigate a dead body, no matter how uncredible the claim,
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  Speaker 1: the officer knew he really needed to get inside and
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  Speaker 1: have a look around, and so he decided he would
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  Speaker 1: try to break in the front door. And so, after
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  Speaker 1: knocking a few more times just to make sure really
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  Speaker 1: no one was there, the officer called out and said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming in, and then began pounding with his shoulder
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  Speaker 1: against the door, and pretty quickly the door gave way,
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  Speaker 1: but it only opened a few inches, and so the
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  Speaker 1: officer tried to fit through it, but he was too big.
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  Speaker 1: He couldn't fit. But he was able to look into
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  Speaker 1: the crack and he saw there was this huge man
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  Speaker 1: made wall that was basically positioned right inside of the mansion,
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  Speaker 1: blocking the front door from opening more than a couple
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  Speaker 1: of inches. And so as the officer was thinking about
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  Speaker 1: why there would be this wall here, he began to
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  Speaker 1: smell this terrible smell coming out of the mansion, and
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  Speaker 1: at that point the officer thought, Okay, there could be
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  Speaker 1: a dead body in here. I don't know what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: and so he called for backup. When backup arrived, the
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  Speaker 1: group of officers attempted to smash the front door in together,
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  Speaker 1: all seven of them are ramming against this door, but
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  Speaker 1: they could not break down the man made wall inside,
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  Speaker 1: and so ultimately the police got a ladder and they
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  Speaker 1: lined it up on the side of the property and
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  Speaker 1: one of the officers was able to climb up to
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  Speaker 1: the second floor, break a window and climb in that way.
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  Speaker 1: And once the police all made their way into the
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  Speaker 1: second floor of this mansion, they realized very quickly that
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  Speaker 1: the tip Charles Smith had given had been correct. There
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  Speaker 1: was a dead body inside of this mansion. It was
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  Speaker 1: Homer Collier, the older brother. He was seated in a
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  Speaker 1: chair in this alcove on the second floor. He only
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  Speaker 1: had on this ragged bathrobe, and he was kind of
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  Speaker 1: slouched forward with his head resting on his knee, with
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  Speaker 1: all these orange peels all around him. The coroner would
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  Speaker 1: ultimately determine that Homer likely had been dead for about
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  Speaker 1: ten hours. As for Langley Collier, despite looking around the
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  Speaker 1: mansion for him, they couldn't find him. It was like
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  Speaker 1: he had just vanished into thin air. And so pretty
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  Speaker 1: quickly the police became suspicious of Langley because I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: find him, and they began to think, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: he had something to do with his brother's death, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why he's not here now. In fact, maybe it
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  Speaker 1: was Langley who called in the tip as Charles Smith
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  Speaker 1: out on the road somewhere after he'd run away. So
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  Speaker 1: the police posted an officer at the Collier brothers mansion.
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  Speaker 1: Basically his job was to stay there in case Langley
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  Speaker 1: came back at any time he could be detained. And
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  Speaker 1: then also the police put out a nine state alarm.
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  Speaker 1: Basically all the states around New York were told to
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  Speaker 1: keep an eye out for Langley because he was wanted
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  Speaker 1: for questioning in connection to his brother's death. And so
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  Speaker 1: as police agencies all across the East Coast searched for Lane,
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  Speaker 1: largely in vain, detectives in New York continued to search
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  Speaker 1: the Collier brother's mansion to find clues that might shed
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  Speaker 1: some light about where Langley went and what role he
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  Speaker 1: might have played in Homer's death and on April eighth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty seven, so eighteen days after Homer was first discovered,
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  Speaker 1: the police would finally find that big clue that would
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  Speaker 1: break the case wide open back on March twenty first,
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  Speaker 1: when that lone police officer first responded to the Collier
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  Speaker 1: brother's house because of this call about the dead body,
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  Speaker 1: and then the officer broke the door in and discovered
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  Speaker 1: that man made wall right behind the door. Well, that
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  Speaker 1: man made wall was not constructed out of normal building
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  Speaker 1: materials like brick or wood or anything else you might
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  Speaker 1: expect a wall to be built out of. Instead, it
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  Speaker 1: was built out of things like chairs and beds and
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  Speaker 1: a sewing machine and all sorts of just junk. It
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  Speaker 1: was trash. And this trash wall started right in front
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  Speaker 1: of the inside of the front door, and it extended
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  Speaker 1: back towards the interior living space of that floor. Except
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  Speaker 1: there really wasn't any living space at all anywhere inside
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  Speaker 1: of this mansion, not the second floor, first, third, fourth, nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: because every surface inside of this mansion was covered wall
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  Speaker 1: to wall, floor to ceiling in trash, things like fourteen
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  Speaker 1: broken pianos and X ray machine. There was a horse's
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  Speaker 1: job on. There were twenty five thousand books, and of
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  Speaker 1: course they had all of their father's glass jars that
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  Speaker 1: contained all of these human body parts. And over the years,
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  Speaker 1: the Collier brothers had apparently begun to think that their
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  Speaker 1: neighbors and random passerbys out on the street would someday
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  Speaker 1: break into their mansion and steal these treasures from their home.
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  Speaker 1: For reference, the Collier brothers did have real treasure in
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  Speaker 1: their house. They had tons of cash, they had jewelry,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they had real valuables. But to them that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the real treasure. Real treasure were the things they
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  Speaker 1: pulled out of the dumpsters all around the city, and
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  Speaker 1: so that was the stuff they were worried about getting
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  Speaker 1: stolen from random people outside. And so they had begun
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  Speaker 1: fortifying the inside of this mansion to protect themselves when
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  Speaker 1: inevitably these people began breaking in, And so basically the
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  Speaker 1: inside of their mansion had not just been turned into
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  Speaker 1: a big trash pile, but instead they had created all
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  Speaker 1: these sophisticated tunnels through all the trash that was everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: and lining these tunnels and all these special alleyways they
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  Speaker 1: had built were real booby traps. And it was when
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  Speaker 1: the police were inspecting one of these tunnels with booby
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  Speaker 1: traps in it that they discovered the big clue that
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  Speaker 1: broke the case wide open. Based on that big clue,
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  Speaker 1: here is the leading theory about what happened to Homer
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  Speaker 1: and Langley Collier back on March ninth, nineteen forty seven.
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  Speaker 1: So the night that Langley had snuck out the front
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  Speaker 1: door in the middle of the night with a shabby
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  Speaker 1: clothes on and headed to Brooklyn where he went dumpster diving. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't just dumpster diving to find new treasures to
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  Speaker 1: bring back to the mansion to stuff inside. Instead, he
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  Speaker 1: was actually looking for something really specific for his brother.
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  Speaker 1: He was looking for oranges, like the fruit, and this
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  Speaker 1: particular dumpster in Brooklyn was right behind a store that
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  Speaker 1: sold fruit, and so there were always lots of oranges
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  Speaker 1: in this dumpster. Langley was actually trying his very best
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  Speaker 1: to take care of his older brother Homer. He had
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  Speaker 1: actually begun doing research using his father's old medical textbooks
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  Speaker 1: to try to find a cure for Homer's blindness caused
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  Speaker 1: by his stroke, and at some point Langley believed he
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  Speaker 1: really had come across the cure and the cure was
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  Speaker 1: basically for Homer to eat oranges, lots and lots of oranges,
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  Speaker 1: And in fact, over the last several weeks before this night,
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  Speaker 1: Langley had already made this change in Homer's diet. He
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  Speaker 1: only fed him oranges for every single meal. He got
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  Speaker 1: them from this dumpster and ed him to Homer. And
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  Speaker 1: Homer he too, believed this cure was going to work,
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  Speaker 1: and so he ate the oranges without question. And so
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  Speaker 1: back on March ninth, after Langley had gathered up the
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  Speaker 1: oranges from inside the stumpster, slung it on his shoulder,
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  Speaker 1: and walked back to his mansion, he maneuvered his way
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  Speaker 1: through the crack in the front door. Because he was
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  Speaker 1: super skinny, he was able to barely get through, and
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  Speaker 1: then once he was inside the mansion and shut the
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  Speaker 1: door behind him, he maneuvered his way up to the
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  Speaker 1: second door, and then he began the most dangerous part
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  Speaker 1: of his journey. From one side of the second floor
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  Speaker 1: to the other where Homer was. Basically, Langley needed to
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  Speaker 1: crawl through a two foot wide tunnel he had built
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  Speaker 1: through all the junkin trash, but it was lined with
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  Speaker 1: booby traps. In particular, there was a nasty trap at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the tunnel where there was the stack
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  Speaker 1: of metal boxes filled with all these newspapers. They were
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  Speaker 1: really heavy and they were positioned so if you even
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  Speaker 1: so much as barely touched the lowest box, they would
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  Speaker 1: come crashing down on you. Now Langley had made this
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  Speaker 1: journey countless times. This is how he went to see
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  Speaker 1: his brother every single day as he went through this tunnel.
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  Speaker 1: But on this day, as he low crawled his way
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  Speaker 1: through the tight tunnel in the trash, he accidentally knocked
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  Speaker 1: the lowest metal box. The boxes tumbled down on him
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  Speaker 1: and pinned him to the ground. Now these boxes were
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  Speaker 1: very heavy, but they were not heavy enough to kill someone.
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  Speaker 1: It would just pin them down. It would be impossible
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  Speaker 1: to get out from under them, and so Langley, very
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  Speaker 1: likely after getting trapped, called out for his brother Homer,
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  Speaker 1: who was actually only ten feet away from him. But
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  Speaker 1: Homer was blind, he was sick, he had absolutely no
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  Speaker 1: energy because all he ate was oranges and it was
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  Speaker 1: basically killing him, and so he couldn't even get out
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  Speaker 1: of his chair, let alone go save his brother. And
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  Speaker 1: so for several agonizing hours, Langley likely yelled for his
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  Speaker 1: brother until the weight of all these boxes did crush
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  Speaker 1: him to death, and then Homer was left all alone
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  Speaker 1: in this house where no one knew he needed help.
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  Speaker 1: No one could even get to him if they wanted to,
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  Speaker 1: and so he was doomed. And so for two weeks
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  Speaker 1: Homer just sat in this chair, starving to death while
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  Speaker 1: he likely listened to the sound of rats eating his
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  Speaker 1: brother's body. The big clue that the police found that
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  Speaker 1: broke this case wide open is they actually spotted Langley's
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  Speaker 1: white footbone that had been picked clean by the rats,
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  Speaker 1: jutting up out of this trash tunnel ten feet away
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  Speaker 1: from Homer. When the police had first searched the mansion,
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  Speaker 1: it was so full of stuff that they never saw
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  Speaker 1: this bone. It just kind of blended in. But eighteen
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  Speaker 1: days after finding Homer, they realized Langley was right there.
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  Speaker 1: There was a skeleton. As for the Charles Smith tipster
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  Speaker 1: that police thought had to be Langley calling in after
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  Speaker 1: he had murdered his brother, well it wasn't Langley because
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  Speaker 1: Langley was dead at the time this tip came in,
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  Speaker 1: and so Charles Smith was a real person who very
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  Speaker 1: likely just walked past the mansion and he probably caught
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  Speaker 1: a whiff of the smell of rotting dead bodies, and
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  Speaker 1: so he called it in. Four months after Homer and
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