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Episode 16: Aum Matsumoto Sarin Incident
Matsumoto, Japan. A quiet residential neighborhood. It is 10:40 at night on June 27, 1994, and most of the people on this street are asleep. A van rolls slowly past a low-rise apartment building and parks. Nothing about this looks unusual. Nothing about the night gives any warning of what is about to happen. The van is pumping invisible death into the air. By morning, seven people in the Kaichi Heights neighborhood are dead. More than five hundred are sick, some in comas. And the police are about to spend nine months blaming the wrong man — a grieving neighbor who nearly died himself, while…
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