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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share three progressively more bizarre missing
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Speaker 1: person cases. But before we get into those stories, if
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. On the evening of June
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Speaker 1: twenty eighth, nineteen ninety seven, an eighty three year old
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Speaker 1: woman named Leelah Howard turned up the radio in the
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Speaker 1: living room of her small home in Texas, and then
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Speaker 1: she took a seat next to her husband, Raymond, on
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Speaker 1: the couch. This was a song that both of them loved,
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Speaker 1: and in the past, Leela knew her husband would have
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Speaker 1: swooped her up and begun dancing with her right away,
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Speaker 1: but Raymond was now eighty eight years old. He was
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Speaker 1: also recovering from brain surgery, and they both were planning
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Speaker 1: to go to bed in the next few minutes because
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Speaker 1: they had a big day the next day. They were
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Speaker 1: going to go to the Pioneer Day Music Festival, which
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Speaker 1: is an annual fiddling festival located about fifteen miles away
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Speaker 1: from where Leela and Raymond lived in the town of Salado, Texas.
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Speaker 1: Leela and Raymond attended this festival basically every year, and
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Speaker 1: so even though Raymond right now was a bit fragile
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Speaker 1: from his surgery, in his advanced age, you know, the
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Speaker 1: couple had not even considered missing it. Leela's son Hal
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Speaker 1: had tried to persuade Leela to let him Hal drive
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Speaker 1: the couple to the music festival, but Leela said no
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Speaker 1: because Leela and Raymond were both fiercely independent and wanted
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Speaker 1: to be in control of their lives, which included driving
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Speaker 1: to and from this festival. Also, Leela had talked about
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Speaker 1: maybe going someplace else after the festival ended with Raymond
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Speaker 1: kind of spontaneously just driving out and doing something, and
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Speaker 1: so she really wanted to have her own car in
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Speaker 1: case she did want to do that. And so after
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Speaker 1: a few minutes, Leela and Raymond's favorite song came to
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Speaker 1: an end, and the DJ hopped back on the radio
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Speaker 1: and began talking about the weather and the traffic, and
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Speaker 1: at that point, Raymond and Leela they stood up from
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Speaker 1: the couch.
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Speaker 2: They took each.
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Speaker 1: Other's hands, and they walked upstairs to go to bed.
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Speaker 1: The next morning, so June twenty ninth, Leela and Raymond
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Speaker 1: walked out the front door of their house and they
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Speaker 1: walked down to their driveway where their Oldsmobile car was parked.
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Speaker 1: Leela helped Raymond get into the passenger seat, and then
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Speaker 1: Leela took her spot in the driver's seat, and then
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Speaker 1: a few moments later, after they were all buckled in.
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Speaker 2: And situated, Leela fired up the car, backed out the
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Speaker 2: driveway and began driving.
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Speaker 1: That evening, Leela's son Hal decided to swing by Leela
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Speaker 1: and Raymond's house to check in on them and see
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Speaker 1: how the festival went. And so at about five pm,
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Speaker 1: Hal got to their house and right away when he
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Speaker 1: pulled up, he noticed that Leela and Raymond's car, the Oldsmobile,
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Speaker 1: was not in the driveway, and so Hell thought that
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Speaker 1: was pretty odd because now they should have been back
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Speaker 1: from the festival. In years past, they would always get
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Speaker 1: home by about three pm at the absolute latest, because
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Speaker 1: they didn't like staying out late, and so it just
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Speaker 1: seemed odd that they were not back by now. But
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Speaker 1: at the same time, Hall knew that Leela had been
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Speaker 1: thinking about maybe going out and doing something spontaneous after
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Speaker 1: the event was over, and so he thought, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe his mom and Raymond were out driving around somewhere
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Speaker 1: and they'd be back later. But just for good measure,
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Speaker 1: Hal did park the car and he walked up to
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Speaker 1: the front door of the house and he did knock,
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Speaker 1: But when there was no answer, he thought, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I'll just go home and come back in a few
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Speaker 1: hours and check in on them at that point. And
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Speaker 1: so a few hours later, at eight pm, Hal drove
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Speaker 1: back to Leela and Raymond's house and when he got there,
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Speaker 1: he saw their car was still not back yet. And
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Speaker 1: so now Hall's starting to feel pretty worried, and so
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Speaker 1: he parked the car.
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Speaker 2: He walked up to the front door. He did knock,
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Speaker 2: there was no answer, and so he.
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Speaker 1: Pulled out his set of keys, he opened up the
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Speaker 1: door and he walked inside. Now as soon as he
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Speaker 1: was in the house, nothing looked out of place. It
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Speaker 1: actually looked very organized and clean, like it normally was.
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Speaker 1: But as he walked around looking for some sign of
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Speaker 1: where Leela and Raymond were, all he could find was
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Speaker 1: on one of the beds that were all these neat
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Speaker 1: stacks of clothes that were laid out, as if somebody
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Speaker 1: was getting ready to pack but didn't finish packing.
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Speaker 2: And so it just.
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Speaker 1: Seemed like something's off here, something's not right. This doesn't
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Speaker 1: seem like they just went out and did something spontaneous.
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Speaker 1: Something must have happened at the festival. That's why they're
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Speaker 1: not back yet. And so kind of in a panic,
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Speaker 1: Hal ran outside and he called the police, and after
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Speaker 1: reporting Leela and Raymond missing, he actually began calling news
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Speaker 1: stations and telling them, can you please put out my
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Speaker 1: mom and Raymond's picture because.
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Speaker 2: They're older and they're missing. I need your help.
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Speaker 1: And in fact, that night those TV stations did begin
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Speaker 1: putting out all these reports about how Leela and Raymond
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Speaker 1: were missing and for people to be on the lookout
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Speaker 1: for them and their car. At the same time, the
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Speaker 1: police immediately launched an investigation, and they quickly discovered that
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Speaker 1: Leela and Raymond had never even made it to the
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Speaker 1: music festival. They never got there. And then when the
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Speaker 1: police drove the route that Leela would have taken to
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Speaker 1: get to the music festival, they didn't find any car
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Speaker 1: accidents or anything unusual on the route that would indicate
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Speaker 1: that they got into some trouble or something.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: They checked their phone records and Leela and Raymond had
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Speaker 1: called nobody.
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Speaker 2: There was no action on their credit cards, and so
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Speaker 2: they hadn't bought anything.
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Speaker 1: And the police would send out all these missing person
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Speaker 1: reports to police officers all over the state of Texas,
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Speaker 1: and nobody reported seeing anything or hearing anything. That is
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Speaker 1: until three days later on July second. On that night,
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Speaker 1: a police officer in a little town in Arkansas, located
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Speaker 1: five hundred miles away from where Leela and Raymond lived.
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Speaker 1: This police officer was driving down the road when he
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Speaker 1: spotted an Oldsmobile that was driving with its lights off,
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Speaker 1: and so the officer pulled the car over and he
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Speaker 1: ran the license plate and it came back as.
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Speaker 2: Belonging to Leela and Raymond.
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Speaker 1: But you've got to remember that this police officer was
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Speaker 1: in Arkansas, and so he had not received any updates
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Speaker 1: about this missing couple. All those TV broadcasts and all
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Speaker 1: the missing person alerts that were getting sent out all
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Speaker 1: over the place, those were really only happening in the
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Speaker 1: state of Texas. And so this officer has no clue
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Speaker 1: that Leela and Raymond are missing, but he runs the plate.
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Speaker 2: He sees it.
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Speaker 1: Belongs to Leela and Raymond, and he goes up to
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Speaker 1: the driver's side window and he looks inside and he
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Speaker 1: sees Leela and Raymond. Leela's driving, Raymond's in the passenger seat,
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Speaker 1: and they look like a really happy older couple. And
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Speaker 1: the officer would say to Leila, hey, you're driving with
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Speaker 1: your lights off, and Leela would say, oh, my goodness,
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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. You know, we were driving in Texas
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Speaker 1: and we got lost and I just didn't notice.
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Speaker 2: I'm really sorry.
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Speaker 1: The officer believed her and felt like these were good
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Speaker 1: people who just made an honest mistake, and so he
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Speaker 1: just flicked her lights on and said, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: give you a warning, no big deal, no ticket, but
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Speaker 1: be careful with your lights.
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Speaker 2: You got to make sure those are on at night.
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Speaker 2: And Leela said, thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: You know, of course, I'll be very careful with my
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Speaker 1: lights and then actually the officer gave Leela directions on
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Speaker 1: how to get back to Texas from Arkansas, and then
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Speaker 1: he got back in his cruiser and then he watched
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Speaker 1: as Leela and Raymond pulled onto the main road.
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Speaker 2: And then disappeared into the darkness.
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Speaker 1: The police officer in Arkansas who pulled them over would
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Speaker 1: eventually put it together who he had pulled over, and
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Speaker 1: at that point Arkansas would get in.
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Speaker 2: On the search for Leela and Raymond.
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Speaker 1: But for the next two weeks, despite having both states
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Speaker 1: aggressively searching for this couple, nobody could find them. That
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Speaker 1: is until July twelfth, So that's ten days after Leela
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Speaker 1: and Raymond got pulled over by that cop in Arkansas.
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Speaker 1: On that day, these two young boys were walking by
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Speaker 1: a small stream in a town called Hot Springs, Arkansas,
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Speaker 1: when they began to smell a terrible smell. They would
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Speaker 1: end up telling their parents, who would come back to
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Speaker 1: the stream and they'd smell it too, and they would
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Speaker 1: end up alerting the police, and the police would come
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Speaker 1: out and they would search that entire area and they
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Speaker 1: would find Leela and Raymond's Oldsmobile at the base of
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Speaker 1: a twenty five foot cliff. And inside the vehicle were
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Speaker 1: Leela and Raymond, and they were both deceased. It looked
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Speaker 1: very much like Leela and Raymond had driven off this
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Speaker 1: cliff and they had landed down below and that's what
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Speaker 1: killed them. But when investigators went up to the top
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Speaker 1: of that cliff, there were no skid marks on the
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Speaker 1: cliff itself, which meant Leela, who was driving, never hit
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Speaker 1: the brakes as she.
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Speaker 2: Went over the cliff.
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Speaker 1: Nobody knows why Leela and Raymond abruptly left their town
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Speaker 1: and drove hundreds of miles into Arkansas instead of going
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Speaker 1: to their favorite music festival, although their family members have
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Speaker 1: speculated that it could be because Leela and Raymond had
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Speaker 1: declining cognitive function and so they basically didn't know what
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Speaker 1: was going on and that's why it happened. But the
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Speaker 1: reason this story is in this video is because this
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Speaker 1: story about Leela and Raymond is what inspired a very
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Speaker 1: very famous song from the late nineteen nineties.
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Speaker 2: It's called The Way by Fastball.
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Speaker 1: And for copyright reasons, we can't play it for you,
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Speaker 1: but I'll sing your line and see if you can
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Speaker 1: remember this song.
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Speaker 2: Where were they going? Without ever knowing The Way? Anyone
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Speaker 2: can see the road that they walk on is paved
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Speaker 2: in gold.
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Speaker 1: It's always some You'll never get cold, You'll never be
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Speaker 1: hung where you'll never be old and gray.
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Speaker 2: Boom, there you go.
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Speaker 1: the stories. Late one afternoon in April of twenty nineteen,
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Speaker 1: a middle aged woman named Mary was cutting up some
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Speaker 1: vegetables in her kitchen in northern Spain when she heard
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Speaker 1: a knock on her front door, so she put her
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Speaker 1: things down. She went to the door, opened it up,
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Speaker 1: and standing there was her next door neighbor who was
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Speaker 1: all smiles, and she was holding this big box that
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Speaker 1: was wrapped in wrapping paper and had a big bow
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Speaker 1: on it. And then sitting on top of this big
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Speaker 1: gift was a tray of.
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Speaker 2: Deep fried rolls or croquettes.
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Speaker 1: Mary's neighbor was a sixty one year old woman named
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Speaker 1: Carmen Marino, who was an exceptional chef and her specialty
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Speaker 1: were making these croquettes.
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Speaker 2: They were filled with different types.
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Speaker 1: Of meat and other things, and all the time Carmen
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Speaker 1: would come over and give them to Mary. And Mary
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Speaker 1: loved these croquettes, and so as soon as she saw those,
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Speaker 1: she was like, wow, amazing, and she invited Carmen inside,
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Speaker 1: but Carmen didn't come inside. Instead, she took the croquettes
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Speaker 1: and handed them to Mary, and Mary's like, okay, great,
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Speaker 1: thank you. But Carmen was still standing right outside holding
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Speaker 1: this box. And now Mary's looking at her, thinking that
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Speaker 1: Carmen looks kind of uneasy, and so Mary said, you
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Speaker 1: know what's going on here, what's up with this box?
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Speaker 1: Car was silent for a second and just kind of
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Speaker 1: held this box out, at which point Mary realized, okay,
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Speaker 1: so she's trying to give me this gift and so
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Speaker 1: Mary reached out and took this huge present and she
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Speaker 1: was like, thank you, Carmen, Like, what is this?
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Speaker 2: What's going on?
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Speaker 1: And Mary, when she looked at Carmen, she could tell
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Speaker 1: Carmen's face was now bright red. She was very embarrassed
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Speaker 1: about something, maybe whatever she was going to say, and
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Speaker 1: so Mary just waited for Carmen to speak, and so
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Speaker 1: eventually Carmen would she would clear her voice and then
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Speaker 1: she would say, you know, Mary, this is really embarrassing,
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Speaker 1: but I need you to hold onto this box for
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Speaker 1: a little bit. It contains my sex toys and I'm
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Speaker 1: having company over at my house and I'm just worried
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Speaker 1: that somehow they're going to find these things. Mary was
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Speaker 1: so caught off guard by what Carmen was telling her
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Speaker 1: that she.
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Speaker 2: Just started laughing.
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Speaker 1: But Carmen didn't join in on the laughter. She just
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Speaker 1: kind of looked down like she was totally mortified. Mary
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Speaker 1: stopped laughing because she felt bad, and then Carmen kind
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Speaker 1: of elaborated on why she had this huge box full
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Speaker 1: of sex toys. She would tell Mary that, you know,
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Speaker 1: she bought them with the intent of using them with
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Speaker 1: her boyfriend. But a couple of months ago he had
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Speaker 1: broken up with her, but Carmen had held onto these
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Speaker 1: in the hopes that the boyfriend would eventually take her
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Speaker 1: back and they would get back together.
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Speaker 2: Again and get to use these toys.
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Speaker 1: And so, even though this was a totally weird and
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Speaker 1: kind of uncomfortable request, Mary kind of felt bad for
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Speaker 1: Carmen one because she had to make this request of Mary.
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Speaker 1: But also too, you know, it was obvious that Carmen
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Speaker 1: was pretty shaken up about, you know, losing her boyfriend.
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Speaker 1: And so Mary said, you know what, no problem, Carmen,
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Speaker 1: I will look after your sex toys and I will
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Speaker 1: enjoy your croquettes. And Carmen was so relieved and said
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Speaker 1: thank you so much, and then she turned and hustled
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Speaker 1: back to her house. And then Mary shut the door,
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Speaker 1: and she brought the croquettes into the kitchen and she
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Speaker 1: tried one and it was so good. And then she
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Speaker 1: took the big box of sex toys and she went
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Speaker 1: into the hallway. She opened up a closet and she
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Speaker 1: put it on the top shelf and then shut the door.
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Speaker 1: Over the next couple of days, Mary expected Carmen to
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Speaker 1: come back over and reclaim her box of sex toys.
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Speaker 1: But Carmen didn't. And when days turned into weeks and
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Speaker 1: then turned into months and still Carmen had not come
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Speaker 1: over to get the sex toys, Mary was kind of annoyed,
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Speaker 1: but she was just too embarrassed to go over to
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Speaker 1: Carmen and be like, hey, why don't you come over
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Speaker 1: and get your sex toys? And so Mary just decided
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Speaker 1: she would leave it alone and not talk about it,
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Speaker 1: and if ever Carmen wanted them back, she could have them.
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Speaker 2: But if she never asked for them again, Mary didn't care.
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Speaker 2: She would just eventually throw the box away and that
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Speaker 2: would be it.
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Speaker 1: A few months later, on September twenty ninth, twenty nineteen,
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Speaker 1: so we're talking about six months or so from when
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Speaker 1: these sex toys were first brought over to Mary's house.
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Speaker 1: While on this day, Mary was kind of doing chores
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Speaker 1: in her house when she began to smell a really
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Speaker 1: bad smell coming from the hallway closet where the box
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Speaker 1: of sex toys were. And so Mary opened up the
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Speaker 1: closet and for sure she could tell the bad smell
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Speaker 1: was coming from this closet, and so she started by
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Speaker 1: smelling the shoes that were towards the bottom of the
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Speaker 1: closet to see if maybe she had stepped in something gross,
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Speaker 1: but they were all clean. And then eventually she reached
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Speaker 1: the sex toy box. She pulled it down from the
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Speaker 1: top shelf and it had never been opened, you know,
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Speaker 1: it still wrapped.
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Speaker 2: But she just smelled the box and she immediately.
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Speaker 1: Recoiled because that had to be where the terrible smell
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Speaker 1: was coming from. It was coming from this box. And
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Speaker 1: so Mary was totally repulsed at the idea that these
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Speaker 1: sex toys smell horrible. But she carried the box into
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Speaker 1: the kitchen and set it down, and she thought, you know,
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Speaker 1: is this a horrible betrayal of my friend's trust if
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Speaker 1: I open up this box and look at her sex toys.
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Speaker 1: But Mary ultimately was like, you know what, Carmen has
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Speaker 1: not come back for this thing.
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Speaker 2: I'm opening this up because I need to know what's
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Speaker 2: making the smell.
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Speaker 1: And so Mary went over and got a pair of
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Speaker 1: scissors and she cut off the wrapping paper and then
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Speaker 1: she opened up the box and inside was like this
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Speaker 1: big thing that had been wrapped in tinfoil, so all
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Speaker 1: you saw was tinfoil. And so Mary she reached down
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Speaker 1: and kind of began to peel back the tinfoil, and
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Speaker 1: it was kind of sticking to whatever was under it.
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Speaker 2: But eventually, after she.
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Speaker 1: Kind of yanked on it, she pulled the tinfoil off,
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Speaker 1: and when she saw what was in there, she began
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Speaker 1: screaming and ran outside and called the police. It would
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Speaker 1: turn out Mary's neighbor, Carmen, who owned the box of
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Speaker 1: sex toys, well, her boyfriend didn't just break up with
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Speaker 1: her a couple of months before she brought the sex
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Speaker 1: toys over. No, her boyfriend, who was a sixty seven
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Speaker 1: year old man named Jesus Baranda, he went missing around
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Speaker 1: the time that supposedly Carmen and her boyfriend broke up,
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Speaker 1: and so naturally, Jesus's family began looking for Jesus, and
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Speaker 1: when they couldn't find him, they called the police, and
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Speaker 1: eventually the police called Carmen and said, hey, you were
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Speaker 1: dating Jeseus around the time he went missing. We're going
16:27
Speaker 1: to need to come to your house and search it.
16:29
Speaker 1: And when Carmen heard that, she knew she had a
16:31
Speaker 1: big problem because Carmen had murdered Jesus and cut his
16:35
Speaker 1: head off with a chainsaw, and she still had his
16:38
Speaker 1: head in her house, and so what did she do, Well,
16:41
Speaker 1: she boiled his head down, and then she put it
16:43
Speaker 1: in a box, wrapped it in tinfoil, and then she
16:46
Speaker 1: wrapped that box in wrapping paper, put a bow on it,
16:49
Speaker 1: and then went next door to Mary's house and.
16:51
Speaker 2: Said, hey, can you hold my sex toys for me?
16:54
Speaker 1: Because she knew Mary would likely not look in the
16:56
Speaker 1: box if it was sex toys, and so Mary took
16:59
Speaker 1: the box, put it in her closet, and then, of course,
17:02
Speaker 1: you know, the smell began several months later, and she
17:04
Speaker 1: would discover Jesus's head. Carmen was convicted of murdering her boyfriend,
17:08
Speaker 1: and she was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Police
17:12
Speaker 1: were never able to locate the rest of Jesus. All
17:14
Speaker 1: they had was his head. But there's a running theory
17:17
Speaker 1: that Carmen may have used the rest of her boyfriend's
17:20
Speaker 1: body and grounded up and then baked him into her
17:24
Speaker 1: croquettes that she gave out to people like Mary and
17:26
Speaker 1: other people in her neighborhood, But that's just a theory.
17:39
Speaker 1: On the evening of June twenty fourth, nineteen eighty six,
17:42
Speaker 1: a ten year old boy named one Pedro Martinez Gomez
17:46
Speaker 1: bounced around in his seat and smashed his toy cars
17:48
Speaker 1: together in the cab of his father's big red tractor
17:51
Speaker 1: trailer truck. One was so excited he could barely sit still.
17:55
Speaker 1: He always wanted to go for a ride in his
17:57
Speaker 1: dad's big truck. His dad was a long haul trucker,
18:00
Speaker 1: but his dad always said no. But One had just
18:03
Speaker 1: gotten his best report card ever, and so as a
18:06
Speaker 1: reward for doing so well in school, One's father had
18:09
Speaker 1: surprised one and One's mom with this particular trip.
18:12
Speaker 2: Their plan was to drive from their hometown in.
18:15
Speaker 1: Southeastern Spain all the way across the country to the
18:18
Speaker 1: northern coast, and then once they got there, one's dad
18:21
Speaker 1: would offload the cargo that he had driven there. One
18:23
Speaker 1: and his mom and dad would stick around and kind
18:26
Speaker 1: of make a vacation out of it, going to the
18:27
Speaker 1: beaches and checking out the beautiful pastures where all the
18:30
Speaker 1: cows would graze.
18:32
Speaker 2: I mean, one was super excited.
18:34
Speaker 1: One's dad pulled the truck into this big lot with
18:36
Speaker 1: all these other trucks around, and then One's dad turned
18:39
Speaker 1: around and began backing the truck up so it could
18:42
Speaker 1: be paired up with the cargo. He'd be hauling to
18:44
Speaker 1: the north coast. It was this huge twenty five thousand
18:48
Speaker 1: liter tanker that was covered in all these stickers and
18:50
Speaker 1: warning labels. And you know, One's father didn't know what
18:53
Speaker 1: this tanker actually contained, but he could tell you know,
18:56
Speaker 1: whatever it was, it was pretty dangerous and also very important. So,
19:00
Speaker 1: as Wan's dad is backing up skillfully to line up
19:03
Speaker 1: with this tanker Onan is just sitting in the back seat,
19:06
Speaker 1: absolutely transfixed at how cool his dad is. I mean,
19:09
Speaker 1: this is like the most amazing thing one had ever seen.
19:12
Speaker 1: And so finally One's dad successfully hitched the truck to
19:15
Speaker 1: the tanker, and so once they were all hooked up,
19:17
Speaker 1: One's father yelled out the window and said bye to
19:19
Speaker 1: the people he worked with. And then One's father put
19:22
Speaker 1: in one's favorite tape cassette into the stereo and turned
19:25
Speaker 1: the music up, and then he turned onto the road
19:28
Speaker 1: and began making his way toward the highway. Wan's dad
19:30
Speaker 1: would drive basically all night, and one and his mother
19:34
Speaker 1: would basically sleep all night, but they would wake up
19:36
Speaker 1: at about five am when One's father pulled into the
19:39
Speaker 1: parking lot of a diner that was located just north
19:42
Speaker 1: of the city of Madrid, Spain.
19:43
Speaker 2: They were making great.
19:44
Speaker 1: Time, so Wan's father told his family they could take
19:47
Speaker 1: their time eating. When the family did finish their meals,
19:50
Speaker 1: they got up and began walking out towards the truck,
19:53
Speaker 1: and little Wan he turned around and he waved to
19:55
Speaker 1: the waitresses and they all waved back, and then the
19:57
Speaker 1: family climbed back into one's father's truck, and before long,
20:00
Speaker 1: Juan was curled up in the backseat trying to fall
20:03
Speaker 1: asleep again as his father merged onto the highway and
20:06
Speaker 1: began heading towards this stretch of mountain road called the
20:09
Speaker 1: Soma Sierra Mountain Pass. About forty minutes later, a man
20:13
Speaker 1: who was also driving in the Soma Sierra Mountain Pass
20:16
Speaker 1: was just driving along when suddenly a huge red tractor
20:20
Speaker 1: trailer truck came barreling toward him from behind, shining their
20:23
Speaker 1: lights into his car. And so this man he sees
20:26
Speaker 1: this truck approaching so quickly, and he tried to get
20:29
Speaker 1: out of the way, but there was nowhere to go,
20:30
Speaker 1: and the truck wasn't stopping, it was honking its horn,
20:33
Speaker 1: and the truck smashed into this guy, which sent his
20:35
Speaker 1: car careening off the road, but luckily it did not
20:38
Speaker 1: tumble all the way down the mountain. And so this
20:40
Speaker 1: guy's car comes to a stop on the side of
20:42
Speaker 1: the road, and the guy he kind of comes to
20:44
Speaker 1: and he feels himself.
20:45
Speaker 2: He's worried he's got a serious injury.
20:47
Speaker 1: He did find a little blood on his head, but
20:49
Speaker 1: overall he felt he was okay.
20:51
Speaker 2: And then he managed to get his door open and he.
20:52
Speaker 1: Climbed out of his car, and he looked a little
20:54
Speaker 1: ways down the road and there was the.
20:56
Speaker 2: Truck that it hit him.
20:57
Speaker 1: It was now on its side, and it was hissing steel,
21:00
Speaker 1: and it didn't look like anybody inside the truck was
21:03
Speaker 1: trying to get out. Now, even though this guy was
21:05
Speaker 1: pretty shaken up from the crash he had just gotten into,
21:08
Speaker 1: he felt like he was definitely in better shape than
21:10
Speaker 1: whoever was in this truck, and so he decided he
21:13
Speaker 1: would just go up there and try to help them.
21:15
Speaker 2: But after only taking a few steps, this white.
21:18
Speaker 1: Van came blazing around the corner and came to a
21:21
Speaker 1: screeching stop on the road right next to where this
21:23
Speaker 1: guy was. And then before the guy could do anything,
21:26
Speaker 1: the sliding door to the van flung open, and this
21:29
Speaker 1: woman with blonde hair jumped out and she ran over
21:31
Speaker 1: to him and.
21:32
Speaker 2: She said, I'm a nurse, do you need any help?
21:34
Speaker 1: And so this guy he's looking at this woman and
21:36
Speaker 1: he's kind of sizing her up, and she did not
21:38
Speaker 1: seem like a nurse, and in fact, for some reason,
21:40
Speaker 1: this guy felt like she just made him really uncomfortable.
21:43
Speaker 1: He couldn't quite put his finger on it. And then
21:45
Speaker 1: he looked past this woman at the van and he
21:48
Speaker 1: saw the driver looked oddly similar to the woman, except
21:51
Speaker 1: it was a man who was driving, but he also
21:53
Speaker 1: had very bright blonde hair, and he had these striking
21:56
Speaker 1: blue eyes that really stood out even from a distance.
21:59
Speaker 1: And then in the passing seat of this van was
22:01
Speaker 1: this elderly woman who was just staring daggers at this
22:05
Speaker 1: guy who's now talking to this nurse who's right next
22:07
Speaker 1: to him. And so the guy's looking at the old woman,
22:10
Speaker 1: and the old woman's looking right back, and she really
22:13
Speaker 1: looked mean, like she was not happy to be talking
22:15
Speaker 1: to him. And so the guy finally just said to
22:17
Speaker 1: this woman who was claiming to be a nurse, that
22:20
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't need any help. Go help them.
22:22
Speaker 1: They need help because they haven't gotten out of the truck.
22:24
Speaker 1: Yet the woman just nodded, and then she ran back
22:26
Speaker 1: to the van, hopped inside, and the van sped, you know,
22:29
Speaker 1: the hundred feet down the road to where the crashed
22:32
Speaker 1: big red tractor trailer truck was. And again the woman
22:35
Speaker 1: hopped out, and she rushed over to the truck, and
22:37
Speaker 1: she climbed on top of it, and she reached down
22:39
Speaker 1: and she took something out of the truck. But from
22:42
Speaker 1: his perspective, you know, one hundred feet back the guy
22:44
Speaker 1: who had also crashed, he couldn't tell what she had
22:47
Speaker 1: taken out of the cab. But after she took whatever
22:50
Speaker 1: she took, she climbed off the cab. She did not
22:52
Speaker 1: attempt to help anybody inside at the truck.
22:55
Speaker 2: She jumped back in the white.
22:56
Speaker 1: Van, and the white fan sped off down the road,
22:59
Speaker 1: and they were gone. The guy barely had time to
23:01
Speaker 1: process what had just happened before he began to smell
23:04
Speaker 1: this unbelievably powerful rotten egg smell. When help arrived, emergency
23:09
Speaker 1: responders immediately realized they had an environmental disaster on their hands.
23:14
Speaker 1: The big red tractor trailer truck, which was Swan's father's truck,
23:18
Speaker 1: was hauling twenty five thousand liters of sulfuric acid, and
23:22
Speaker 1: that rotten egg smell they were smelling in the area
23:25
Speaker 1: meant the air was now becoming toxic as the sulfuric
23:29
Speaker 1: acid leaked out and began interacting with the ground and
23:32
Speaker 1: making its way into the nearby river. So before anybody
23:35
Speaker 1: could even go inside of this truck to see if
23:38
Speaker 1: there were survivors, they had to basically cover it and
23:41
Speaker 1: the surrounding areas with hundreds and hundreds of pounds of
23:44
Speaker 1: sand and lime to try to counteract the acid. It
23:48
Speaker 1: would take hours to do this, and in that time
23:51
Speaker 1: nobody came out of the truck's cap. And then finally
23:54
Speaker 1: when emergency crews were able to go up to the
23:56
Speaker 1: truck and look inside, they discovered that the vehicles of
23:59
Speaker 1: Keats were all dead. However, there were only two bodies.
24:03
Speaker 1: It was one's mother and father. One was nowhere to
24:06
Speaker 1: be found.
24:07
Speaker 2: Now, one of the.
24:08
Speaker 1: Theories was, well, when this crashed, maybe the sulfuric acid
24:12
Speaker 1: landed on One's body somehow and literally dissolved him, and
24:16
Speaker 1: so that's why he was not found. But that's not
24:19
Speaker 1: possible because it would take much much longer for sulfuric
24:22
Speaker 1: acid to totally eat away someone's body, and the body
24:26
Speaker 1: would have to be fully submerged in the acid the
24:29
Speaker 1: entire time, so that could not have happened. Rescuers would
24:32
Speaker 1: search the entire area, deep into the woods in all
24:34
Speaker 1: directions looking for signs of this child, but there were none.
24:38
Speaker 1: And when investigators attempted to recreate this accident to try
24:42
Speaker 1: to figure out what actually caused it and why it happened,
24:45
Speaker 1: what they would learn would only confuse them more. One's
24:48
Speaker 1: father's truck had nothing wrong with it mechanically, meaning the
24:51
Speaker 1: brakes weren't messed up, you know, the accelerator wasn't messed up.
24:54
Speaker 1: There really was no reason why this truck should have
24:58
Speaker 1: crashed unless it was in intentional. That's the only way
25:01
Speaker 1: this could have happened. Also, the truck contained something called
25:04
Speaker 1: a techometer, which registers every time the truck slows down
25:08
Speaker 1: or stops, and when investigators looked at the record from
25:11
Speaker 1: this techometer, they discovered that Wan's father had slowed down
25:15
Speaker 1: or stopped twelve different times between leaving the diner and crashing.
25:20
Speaker 1: But the route from the diner to the crash site
25:24
Speaker 1: was a straight shot with no traffic lights or stop signs. Basically,
25:27
Speaker 1: there had been no reason from the diner to the
25:30
Speaker 1: crash site to ever slow down or stop. But again
25:33
Speaker 1: Wan's father did twelve separate times. And then also there
25:37
Speaker 1: were traces of heroin that were found in a hidden
25:39
Speaker 1: compartment in one's father's truck. Now, Wan's parents had no
25:43
Speaker 1: criminal record and absolutely no connection to drugs or the cartel,
25:47
Speaker 1: but investigators did consider a theory that, you know, perhaps
25:51
Speaker 1: a drug cartel ambushed one.
25:53
Speaker 2: In his family and ultimately one was kidnapped.
25:56
Speaker 1: But there was one more really strange element to one's disappearance,
26:01
Speaker 1: and that was that white van that that guy saw
26:04
Speaker 1: right after the crash. Multiple people in the area around
26:07
Speaker 1: the Soma Sierra Mountain Pass said they saw that exact
26:11
Speaker 1: white van because they all remembered the woman and the
26:14
Speaker 1: man who had that same really bright blonde hair.
26:17
Speaker 2: It just was something that was kind of unique and
26:19
Speaker 2: stood out.
26:20
Speaker 1: But the police tried to track down this van and
26:22
Speaker 1: the man and the woman and the elderly woman who
26:24
Speaker 1: was also claimed to have been seen inside the van,
26:27
Speaker 1: but no trace of that van was ever found. And
26:30
Speaker 1: also police were never able to figure out what that
26:33
Speaker 1: woman actually took from inside of One's father's cab before
26:37
Speaker 1: they sped off and disappeared. Missing person Posters of one
26:40
Speaker 1: went up all over Spain and almost immediately loads of
26:44
Speaker 1: sightings were reported of one, but every time the police
26:48
Speaker 1: followed up on these sightings, they.
26:49
Speaker 2: Never panned out.
26:50
Speaker 1: Interpol, which is a major international police organization, called One's
26:55
Speaker 1: disappearance one of the strangest disappearances in all of Europe.
26:59
Speaker 1: One year after the crash, so in nineteen eighty seven,
27:02
Speaker 1: a driving instructor in Madrid, Spain, was filling out some
27:05
Speaker 1: paperwork in his office when he heard.
27:07
Speaker 2: A knock on the door.
27:08
Speaker 1: When he answered the door, he found there was this
27:10
Speaker 1: elderly woman who appeared to be blind, and with her
27:13
Speaker 1: was a young boy who appeared to be about eleven
27:15
Speaker 1: years old. The driving instructor asked them, you know, how
27:18
Speaker 1: can I help you, and he watched as the elderly
27:20
Speaker 1: woman turned and whispered something into the little boy's ear,
27:24
Speaker 1: and the driving instructor he could hear her whispering, but
27:26
Speaker 1: he couldn't understand what she was saying. It sounded like
27:29
Speaker 1: a foreign language, and in fact, it would turn out
27:31
Speaker 1: they figured out she was speaking Farsi, which is the
27:34
Speaker 1: language spoken in Iran. The little boy listened to the
27:36
Speaker 1: elderly woman, and then after hearing what she had to say,
27:39
Speaker 1: he turned to the driving instructor and he asked, in
27:42
Speaker 1: perfect Spanish, where's the US embassy. The instructor gave them directions,
27:46
Speaker 1: and then the little boy nodded, and then he and
27:49
Speaker 1: the elderly woman they turned around. They grabbed each other's
27:51
Speaker 1: hands and they began walking away. And as they walked away,
27:55
Speaker 1: the driving instructor he just couldn't help but feel like
27:57
Speaker 1: there was something oddly familiar about these two people, and
28:01
Speaker 1: so he flagged them down and he said, come back
28:02
Speaker 1: for a second. And so the boy and the woman
28:04
Speaker 1: they came back, and the driving instructor he asked the boy,
28:07
Speaker 1: He said, you know, do you live in Spain?
28:09
Speaker 2: And if you do, how long have you lived here for?
28:11
Speaker 2: And when he asked the boy this, the.
28:13
Speaker 1: Boy immediately looked really afraid and just didn't say anything
28:16
Speaker 1: and kind of just stepped back like this like he wasn't.
28:18
Speaker 2: Going to answer.
28:19
Speaker 1: And then the elderly woman she turned and she whispered
28:22
Speaker 1: something else into the boy's ear, and then after she
28:24
Speaker 1: was done talking, the boy kind of settled down and
28:27
Speaker 1: he looked at the driving instructor and he said six months.
28:30
Speaker 1: And for some reason, at this exact moment, the driving
28:33
Speaker 1: instructor realized why this boy seemed so familiar. He remembered
28:37
Speaker 1: seeing him on all those missing person posters all over
28:40
Speaker 1: the place, and so the driving instructor he couldn't remember
28:43
Speaker 1: the boy's name, and he goes, hold on a minute.
28:45
Speaker 1: He turns and he runs inside of his office and
28:47
Speaker 1: he finds one of the posters that Saidjan Pedro Martinez Gomez.
28:51
Speaker 1: He grabbed it and he ran back out to show
28:53
Speaker 1: it to them and be like, hey, they're looking for you.
28:56
Speaker 1: But when the driving instructor came back to the front door,
28:59
Speaker 1: the boy and the blind old woman were gone. And
29:02
Speaker 1: so the driving instructor he stepped out, he's looking around,
29:04
Speaker 1: he's yelling out for them.
29:06
Speaker 2: They were gone.
29:07
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29:10
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29:13
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29:16
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