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Speaker 1: morning of Tuesday, July thirteenth, nineteen ninety three, a middle
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Speaker 1: aged nurse named Sharon Empsy hurried down the hallway of
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Speaker 1: the Harry Hubbard Hospital, which was in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: And as she went down the hallway, Sharon checked in
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Speaker 1: every single hospital room because she was searching for a
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Speaker 1: patient that kept disappearing from her room. When Sharon reached
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Speaker 1: the end of the hallway, she looked into the last
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Speaker 1: room and there inside was the woman she was looking for.
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Speaker 1: Her name was Mildred Lancaster. She was sixty nine years old,
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Speaker 1: and she was sweeping the floor of another patient's room
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Speaker 1: with a broom that Sharon knew she had taken from
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Speaker 1: the custodian's cart. Sharon walked in and she politely asked, Mildred,
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Speaker 1: you know, what are you doing here? And Mildred turned
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Speaker 1: to her and just said, oh, she was just doing
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Speaker 1: her job, but she wasn't really doing her job. Mildred
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Speaker 1: had been admitted to the hospital two days earlier because
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Speaker 1: she was having stomach pain, but she was also suffering
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Speaker 1: from extreme bounts of confusion. At this, Sharon, the nurse
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Speaker 1: just sort of sighed and kind of rolled her eyes because,
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Speaker 1: you know, obviously this was not Mildred's job. Mildred was
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Speaker 1: a patient had been admitted to the hospital two days earlier,
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Speaker 1: primarily because she was having stomach pain, but she also
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Speaker 1: suffered from severe bouts of confusion, which is something she
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Speaker 1: was witnessing right here. Her family had told doctors that,
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Speaker 1: you know, Mildred had spent most of her life being
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Speaker 1: a housekeeper, and so when she would get confused, which
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Speaker 1: you know, they saw plenty of times she often would
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Speaker 1: sort of default to thinking that she was back to
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Speaker 1: being a housekeeper, even though you know she was home
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Speaker 1: or clearly not working, she would think she was working.
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Speaker 1: And so when Mildred began demonstrating this kind of bizarre
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Speaker 1: disoriented behavior, there was some consideration to actually just physically
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Speaker 1: restraining Mildred inside of her room to keep her from
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Speaker 1: vanishing and you know, going and thinking she was a
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Speaker 1: housekeeper somewhere, you know, she could get into trouble or
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Speaker 1: get hurt. However, Mildred was this very sweet and gentle
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Speaker 1: woman who you know, it was just hard to forcibly
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Speaker 1: restrain inside of her room. And so instead the medical
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Speaker 1: team decided that we're just going to have to deal
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Speaker 1: with the fact that periodically she's gonna, you know, think
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Speaker 1: she's at work and it might walk out of her
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Speaker 1: room and go start cleaning somewhere, and so we need
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Speaker 1: to keep a close eye on her and keep her
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Speaker 1: safe and just deal with her stomach pain and sort
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Speaker 1: of manage her disorientation. And so in this moment, Sharon,
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Speaker 1: the nurse who's just found Mildred once again cleaning some
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Speaker 1: room she was not supposed to be in. She just
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Speaker 1: you know, followed their protocol and went in and kind
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Speaker 1: of gently told Mildred like, okay, you know, put the
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Speaker 1: broom down, come with me, and you know, Mildred listened,
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Speaker 1: and she led Mildred back to her room and Sharon
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Speaker 1: continued going about her day. A couple of days later,
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Speaker 1: and Sharon was doing her regular rounds through the hospital,
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Speaker 1: and as she did, she went into Mildred's room and
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Speaker 1: once again she saw the room was empty. Now Sharon
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Speaker 1: was actually just kind of annoyed at this point. She
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Speaker 1: wasn't really concerned because by this point Mildred had done this,
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Speaker 1: had you know, become disoriented and left to go clean
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Speaker 1: or something so many times by this point that it
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Speaker 1: was just kind of a hassle. But you know, Sharon
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Speaker 1: just followed protocol and quickly left the room and began
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Speaker 1: walking along the floor looking for Mildred. So she bring
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Speaker 1: her back. But after searching the floor, she didn't find Mildred.
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Speaker 1: And so after checking the whole floor again, but this
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Speaker 1: time much more thoroughly, looking in every closet, every supply area,
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Speaker 1: i mean really searching the area and still not finding her.
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Speaker 1: That's when Sharon began to panic. She began going to
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Speaker 1: other nurses and doctors and asking them, have you seen Mildred.
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Speaker 1: And remember, at this point, the whole floor is aware
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Speaker 1: of what's going on with Mildred, but nobody had seen her,
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Speaker 1: so nobody knew where she was. And so Sharon ultimately
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Speaker 1: went and spoke to the higher ups at the hospital
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Speaker 1: and informed them what was going on here, and in turn,
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Speaker 1: they launched this huge search all across the hospital, both
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Speaker 1: inside and outside, to just go find Mildred and get
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Speaker 1: her back. And while the search is ongoing, Sharon was
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Speaker 1: walking around trying to be helpful because she was somebody
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Speaker 1: that worked closely with Mildred and had a sense of
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Speaker 1: where she might go. And she was telling folks to
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Speaker 1: go to messy areas because Mildred, when she would get confused,
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Speaker 1: would basically go clean areas she deemed messy. So go
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Speaker 1: to parts of the hospital that might look messy, and
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Speaker 1: so people were doing that. But this hospital, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it was huge. It was eleven stories tall, and there
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Speaker 1: were lots of areas that appeared messy, and so it
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Speaker 1: just seemed like a kind of overwhelming task to quickly
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Speaker 1: search this massive property for Mildred. And then on top
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Speaker 1: of that, making it even harder to find Mildred was
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Speaker 1: the fact that the hospital didn't have security cameras, so
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Speaker 1: they couldn't just pull up the footage and see if
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Speaker 1: maybe Mildred had walked outside or something. After about an
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Speaker 1: hour of the search going on, when still they had
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Speaker 1: not found Mildred and people were starting to wonder, like,
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Speaker 1: are we even going to find her at all? It
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Speaker 1: was at that point that something new and really concerning happened.
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Speaker 1: Sharon called Mildred's cousin to let her and the rest
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Speaker 1: of Mildred's family know that Mildred was missing and that
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Speaker 1: this time it was actually pretty serious that they hadn't
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Speaker 1: found her. But as Sharon is breaking this news to
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Speaker 1: the cousin, the cousin stops her and says, well, wait
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Speaker 1: a minute, I think I know what's going on here,
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Speaker 1: because apparently a few hours earlier, the cousin had gone
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Speaker 1: to the hospital to visit Mildred, and when they got
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Speaker 1: there and spoke to the receptionist, the receptionist looked up
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Speaker 1: Mildred to see what room she was in, and on
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Speaker 1: their system it showed that Mildred had checked out of
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Speaker 1: the hospital that morning, so she was not there, and
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Speaker 1: so of course this big search for Mildred was not
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Speaker 1: going to find her because she wasn't at the hospital.
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Speaker 1: But this really made no sense to Sharon. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it did logically make sense that if she checked out,
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Speaker 1: that would explain why she wasn't here. But Mildred should
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Speaker 1: not have been allowed to check out of the hospital.
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Speaker 1: She still definitely was not well, not just her confusion
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Speaker 1: but also the stomach pain she was having, like she
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Speaker 1: was still totally sick and should not have been discharged.
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Speaker 1: But you know, the cousin was adamant that they actually
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Speaker 1: left the hospital because they told them, like, you know,
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Speaker 1: Mildred's not here, there's no one to go visit. She's gone.
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Speaker 1: She checked out. And so Sharon hung up with the
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Speaker 1: cousin and quickly ran down the hall to go talk
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Speaker 1: to the receptionist to see if it was actually true
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Speaker 1: that Mildred had been discharged, And when the receptionist looked
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Speaker 1: it up, sure enough, it was true Mildred had checked out.
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Speaker 1: And so at this point, Sharon, I mean, she could
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Speaker 1: not believe what she was hearing. This didn't make sense,
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Speaker 1: and so Sharon kind of not knowing what to do next.
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Speaker 1: She walked away from the receptionist and she just walked
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Speaker 1: over to the window that looked out to the front
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Speaker 1: of the hospital, and she was just standing there wondering
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Speaker 1: what she should do. And as she was standing there,
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Speaker 1: she was just looking outside, kind of absent mindedly, and
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Speaker 1: she saw all these cars whizzing by, you know, all
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Speaker 1: these busy streets out there, and she suddenly had this
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Speaker 1: thought like, well, wait a minute, what if Mildred, in
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Speaker 1: her confused state, like went to the front desk and
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Speaker 1: somehow talked her way out and got discharged and is
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Speaker 1: now wandered out into the streets, And what if she's
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Speaker 1: gotten hit by a car or something like This could
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Speaker 1: be an emergency, like I have to do something. And
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Speaker 1: so Sharon's first thought was, I got to call the police.
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Speaker 1: And so not long after this, after Sharon did call
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Speaker 1: the authorities, the police arrived at the hospital and they
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Speaker 1: arrived along with search dogs. One of the search dogs
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Speaker 1: almost immediately picked up Mildred's scent by one of the
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Speaker 1: front doors of the hospital, and the dog led its
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Speaker 1: handler down the street, which seemed to confirm that Mildred
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Speaker 1: really had left the hospital. And so officers would search
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Speaker 1: a full square mile around the hospital, and they even
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Speaker 1: got a helicopter to begin flying overhead. And the search
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Speaker 1: went on for days, but nobody found Mildred. There was
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Speaker 1: no sign of her. She just disappeared until almost two
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Speaker 1: weeks later. On Wednesday, July twenty eighth, so thirteen days
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Speaker 1: after Mildred went missing, a security guard walked into a
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Speaker 1: construction site on his daily patrol, and at the very
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Speaker 1: edge of the site he noticed there was a long,
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Speaker 1: thin hole in the ground that was about five feet
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Speaker 1: deep that had been dug to lay some pipework. But
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Speaker 1: when the security guard just happened to walk over and
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Speaker 1: look down into the hole, he gasped because he saw Mildred.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out. On the day Mildred disappeared, she
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Speaker 1: did become very confused, and she believed she was once
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Speaker 1: again a housekeeper, and she went out, you know, left
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Speaker 1: her room to go do some work. And so Mildred
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Speaker 1: just began wandering around the hospital for quite a while,
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Speaker 1: and surprisingly nobody stopped her, even though she had left
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Speaker 1: the floor that she was supposed to be on. But
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Speaker 1: she was just such a pleasant person and so nice
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Speaker 1: that she just kind of passed by people and nobody
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Speaker 1: said anything. And after wandering around for quite some time
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Speaker 1: and going in and out of different places and up
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Speaker 1: and down flights of stairs, she eventually found this construction site,
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Speaker 1: and to her, it was not a construction site. Instead,
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Speaker 1: it was this horribly messy area that needed to be
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Speaker 1: cleaned because there was pieces of wood and plastic and
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Speaker 1: debris everywhere, and so she just began to clean and
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Speaker 1: after a while she had picked up quite a bit
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Speaker 1: of debris and she had basically straightened the whole area out.
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Speaker 1: But as she walked around towards the back of the site,
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Speaker 1: she did not see a hole in the ground, and
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Speaker 1: she fell inside. And because Mildred was just very disoriented,
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Speaker 1: she likely didn't understand that she had fallen into a
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Speaker 1: hole and needs to climb out again. And so in
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Speaker 1: this dark space, this dark, confined space, she would have
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Speaker 1: just continued to feel more and more disoriented and maybe
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Speaker 1: didn't even attempt to climb out. But however it happened,
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Speaker 1: she just stayed in that hole and remained undetected for
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Speaker 1: days until she just eventually died. But perhaps the most
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Speaker 1: tragic aspect of this case is that Mildred actually never
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Speaker 1: left the hospital. That construction site was on the tenth
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Speaker 1: floor of the hospital. Mildred had just kind of meandered
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Speaker 1: her way up to that floor, and that floor was
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Speaker 1: being renovated. That was the construction site, and she had
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Speaker 1: fallen in that hole. Then you have all these people
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Speaker 1: that are searching the hospital looking for her, and they
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Speaker 1: searched that construction site, but they didn't look down into
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Speaker 1: this little hole, and Mildred, assuming she was alive when
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Speaker 1: they were up there, didn't have the wherewithal to call
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Speaker 1: out for help. She was confused and just stayed quiet
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Speaker 1: in that hole, and so she was never found. Today,
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Speaker 1: it's still not known why Mildred was listed as having
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Speaker 1: been discharged on the day she went missing, because she
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Speaker 1: was not discharged. Some people say maybe it was added
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Speaker 1: into the system by mistake, or perhaps it was just
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Speaker 1: a glitch in the system, but however it happened, it
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Speaker 1: was just an anomaly. And then also the police dog
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Speaker 1: that found Mildred's scent that took the authorities away from
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Speaker 1: the hospital, that's also anomalists. We don't know how or
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Speaker 1: why that happened. Ultimately, Mildred's family would sue the hospital
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Speaker 1: for thirteen million dollars in damages, but eventually they dropped
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Speaker 1: of January twelfth, nineteen sixty four, a police sergeant named
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Speaker 1: Neil Johnson entered a small apartment in Los Angeles County, California,
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Speaker 1: along with a team of other officers, and basically as
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Speaker 1: soon as they walked inside this apartment, they were hit
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Speaker 1: with this blast of hot air and also a just
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Speaker 1: terrible smell, And very quickly Sergeant Johnson and the others
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Speaker 1: recognized where the smell was coming from because on the
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Speaker 1: couch was a man who was clearly dead and decomposing.
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Speaker 1: So Sergeant Johnson and the rest of the police officers
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Speaker 1: had been called here by this building's landlord. The landlord
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Speaker 1: had gotten planes from some other tenants about this awful
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Speaker 1: smell coming from this specific apartment, so they'd come to
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Speaker 1: check it out, and you know, mystery solved. There was
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Speaker 1: a dead person in here, and based on the information
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Speaker 1: they'd already gotten from the landlord about who was renting
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Speaker 1: this apartment, the police already suspected that they knew exactly
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Speaker 1: who this man was. The tenant of this apartment, the
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Speaker 1: sole tenant was a thirty eight year old man named
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Speaker 1: Eugene Meadows, and he'd actually just moved into this apartment
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Speaker 1: only six days ago. And on top of you know,
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Speaker 1: living in this new apartment, Eugene also was just kind
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Speaker 1: of new to the area. He'd moved here from about
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Speaker 1: eight hours away for a new job, so realistically, there
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Speaker 1: was a good chance he didn't really know anybody in
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Speaker 1: the area. Sergeant Johnson and a few other officers walked
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Speaker 1: over to the couch to take a closer look at
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Speaker 1: Eugene's body, and pretty much right away they could tell
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Speaker 1: two things. One, it was pretty clear Eugene had not
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Speaker 1: died recently. He had died maybe at least a couple
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Speaker 1: of days ago, so we'd been sitting here for some time.
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Speaker 1: And the other thing they noticed was very clearly there
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Speaker 1: was a bullet hole in the back of his head.
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Speaker 1: But as Sergeant Johnson began looking around the apartment for
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Speaker 1: more clues, he realized that the bullet hole really didn't
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Speaker 1: make any sense because, first of all, the whole apartment
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Speaker 1: was very neat and very clean. There was no sign
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Speaker 1: of a robbery or a struggle or a break in. Plus,
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Speaker 1: the landlord had told Sergeant Johnson that when he had
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Speaker 1: first come to check on Eugene after the initial reports
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Speaker 1: of a bad smell coming from his apartment, the landlord
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Speaker 1: had found that the apartment door was locked from the inside,
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Speaker 1: and also he found that all the windows were closed
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Speaker 1: and locked as well, which meant if Eugene was murdered,
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Speaker 1: the only way that was possible would be if the killer,
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Speaker 1: after shooting Eugene, left and then locked the door behind them,
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Speaker 1: which meant they would have had a key, which sort
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Speaker 1: of suggested that, you know, maybe they knew Eugene, or
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Speaker 1: maybe they just took the key off of him. But
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Speaker 1: you know, Eugenie's new to the area, and so it
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Speaker 1: just seems sort of like a difficult theory to come
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Speaker 1: up with of who would have killed him and left
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Speaker 1: the scene looking this way. But the alternative to murder,
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Speaker 1: you know, perhaps that Eugene took his own life, also
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Speaker 1: didn't really seem possible because, number one, they couldn't find
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Speaker 1: a gun. There was no gun in the apartment, certainly
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Speaker 1: not a gun that was near Eugene. You know, if
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Speaker 1: he would have taken his own life, the gun should
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Speaker 1: have been nearby, and it wasn't, and they searched the
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Speaker 1: whole apartment there was no gun. So Sergeant Johnson and
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Speaker 1: the entire team were pretty much baffled at this point.
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Speaker 1: You know, it just didn't seem to make sense how
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Speaker 1: this guy could have died, and so instead of trying to,
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Speaker 1: you know, piece it all together now, they just transferred
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Speaker 1: Eugene's body to the local corner for an autopsy, hoping
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Speaker 1: that the autopsy would give them more answers and allow
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Speaker 1: them to understand what happened here. However, when the coroner
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Speaker 1: examined Eugene's body, things actually only got more strange because
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Speaker 1: the coroner could not find a bullet inside of Eugene's
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Speaker 1: head or anywhere in his body, and there wasn't an
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Speaker 1: exit wound. So imagine, if you get shot, the bullet
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Speaker 1: goes into you. Unless there's an exit wound where that
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Speaker 1: bullet can exit you, the bullet will remain inside your body.
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Speaker 1: And so Eugene has one hole in his head, a
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Speaker 1: hole in the back of his head, a bullet hole,
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Speaker 1: no second hole, no exit wound, and no bullet inside
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Speaker 1: of his body. And in addition to this one big
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Speaker 1: anomaly that you know there is no bullet, the corner
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Speaker 1: also noticed two other things that were strange. The first
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Speaker 1: was that Eugene had something known as a calcium ridge
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Speaker 1: on the back of his head near the area where
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Speaker 1: there was this hole, And it's a genetic thing. Basically,
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Speaker 1: there's a section of his skull that was harder but
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Speaker 1: also more brittle. This would have been something he was
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Speaker 1: born with and likely basically didn't affect him in any way,
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Speaker 1: but considering it was near the area where there's this
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Speaker 1: hole in his head, the corner flagged it. And then
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Speaker 1: the other thing the coroner noticed is that when he
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Speaker 1: looked at Eugene's internal organs, like in his abdomen, they
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Speaker 1: were a very bright cherry red color. Now, first glance,
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Speaker 1: the coroner actually didn't necessarily think that the color of
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Speaker 1: his organs really mattered that much. But as the coroner
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Speaker 1: really just could not make sense of how Eugene actually died,
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Speaker 1: he began to go back to the color of the organs,
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Speaker 1: and he thought of something, and so he went to
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Speaker 1: the police and he asked Sergeant Johnson to, you know,
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Speaker 1: just in case, go back to Eugene's apartment and check
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Speaker 1: for this one very specific thing. If it's there, it
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Speaker 1: explains this whole thing. And sure enough, Sergeant Johnson and
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Speaker 1: the police they went back to Eugene's apartment and they
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Speaker 1: found the thing that the coroner suspected would be there,
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Speaker 1: and it did explain the whole mystery. And it turned
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Speaker 1: out what happened to Eugene was not even close to
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Speaker 1: what Sergeant Johnson originally suspected. Eugene was not murdered, He
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Speaker 1: was not shot in the head, nor did he take
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Speaker 1: his own life. In fact, there was no shooting. He
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Speaker 1: was not shot to death, either by himself or by
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Speaker 1: somebody else. Instead, what the coroner suspected from seeing those
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Speaker 1: bright red organs is that maybe Eugene died from carbon
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Speaker 1: monoxide poisoning, which can cause your organs to turn bright
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Speaker 1: cherry red. And so when they went to his apartment,
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Speaker 1: they discovered his heater was leaking and it was emitting
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Speaker 1: poisonous carbon monoxide gas. And so the mystery of how
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Speaker 1: Eugene died was salved. He died from carbon monoxide poisoning,
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Speaker 1: but how he got this hole in his head is
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Speaker 1: a whole other story. After Eugene passed out on his
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Speaker 1: couch from this poisoning, the gas caused his brain to swell,
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Speaker 1: and because he had that calcium ridge on the back
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Speaker 1: of his head that he was born with, that's that
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Speaker 1: harder but more brittle part of his skull. While as
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Speaker 1: his brain continued to swell, it eventually broke through that
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Speaker 1: calcium ridge and basically his head exploded. His brain blew
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Speaker 1: out the back of his head, giving the impression that
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Speaker 1: he had been shot. One afternoon in the spring of
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, a sixty four year old man named
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Speaker 1: Klaus Schmidt walked through the international terminal of the Dublin
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Speaker 1: Airport in Ireland, and for some reason, as he was walking,
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Speaker 1: he just felt really, really nervous, like the idea of
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Speaker 1: getting on his plane today just felt like a really
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Speaker 1: bad idea. When Klaus finally spotted his gait at the
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Speaker 1: end of the terminal, that feeling of almost dread really
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Speaker 1: just totally washed over him. Now, Klaus generally was kind
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Speaker 1: of a nervous flyer, but he never had this sort
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Speaker 1: of existential dread before boarding a flight. This was new,
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Speaker 1: This felt different, and so finally when he got to
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Speaker 1: the end of his terminal and actually saw his gate
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Speaker 1: and saw people boarding his flight, he almost had like
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Speaker 1: a panic attack, and he thought, you know, maybe I
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Speaker 1: should just listen to my gut feeling here and not
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Speaker 1: board this plane and just you know, fly out tomorrow
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Speaker 1: or something. But as he's standing there looking at the
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Speaker 1: people getting on this flight, you know, his his logical
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Speaker 1: side of his brain began taking over, and he just
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Speaker 1: told himself that he was just being really nervous here,
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Speaker 1: that there was nothing to be worried about, that he
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Speaker 1: should just get on the flight, that it'll be over soon.
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Speaker 1: And you know, he was just overreacting. And so even
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Speaker 1: though he really could not fully get rid of this
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Speaker 1: feeling he had this this dread that was like in
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Speaker 1: his stomach, at this point he kind of overrode how
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Speaker 1: he was feeling walked up to the gate, scanned his ticket,
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Speaker 1: and boarded the flight about an hour later, and Klaus,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's in the aircraft. They've taken off by
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Speaker 1: this point and they're they're flying over the Irish Sea
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Speaker 1: and Klaus, he was by the window. He raised up
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Speaker 1: the blind on his window and he looked out and
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Speaker 1: it was, you know, smooth sailing out there. You know,
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Speaker 1: the water's beautiful and calm down below. And he looked
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Speaker 1: around through their passengers and saw people were you know, relaxed,
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Speaker 1: they were reading and relaxing and chatting, like there was
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Speaker 1: no reason to think anything was going wrong on this flight.
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Speaker 1: But still Klaus just could not get rid of this feeling,
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Speaker 1: and he just desperately wanted the plane to land and
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Speaker 1: be done with this thing. But Klaus knew he couldn't
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Speaker 1: speed the plane up, and so instead he just kind
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Speaker 1: of did some breathing exercises and tried to calm himself down,
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Speaker 1: and at first it was working, but over the next
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Speaker 1: ten or fifteen minutes or so, Klaus started to feel
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Speaker 1: like he was having a hard time breathing, and he
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Speaker 1: began looking around to see if other passengers were also
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Speaker 1: struggling to breathe, like maybe there's something wrong with the
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Speaker 1: cabin pressure, maybe there's something wrong with the air inside
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Speaker 1: of the plane. But you know, he'd look around and
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Speaker 1: everybody still seems completely fine. It's just Klaus, who, by
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Speaker 1: this point is you know, he's sweating, he's rocking back
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Speaker 1: and forth. He's so anxious. He just desperately wants this
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Speaker 1: flight to be over. But again it was like this,
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Speaker 1: this inability to breathe continued to get worse and worse,
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Speaker 1: and then he started to feel this really intense tightness
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Speaker 1: in his chest and he was telling himself like, I'm
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Speaker 1: having a panic attack, that's what's happening here. It's like
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Speaker 1: my anxiety has fully taken over. I can't control it.
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Speaker 1: And so he took off his jacket and he kind
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Speaker 1: of unbuttoned his shirt and he's like dripping sweat. And
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Speaker 1: the other passengers now are starting to take notice of Klaus,
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Speaker 1: like something's going on with this guy, but no one
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Speaker 1: said anything yet. And Klaus, you know, he's trying to
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Speaker 1: stay calm, but he keeps looking around and everybody else
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Speaker 1: seems fine, and something's going on with him, and then
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Speaker 1: that tightness in his chest it got so bad that
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Speaker 1: Klaus realized that this likely was not anxiety. He could
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Speaker 1: be having heart attack. And then as soon as he
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Speaker 1: realized that that likely was what was happening to him,
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Speaker 1: it was like all of his symptoms got ten times worse,
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Speaker 1: and before long he felt himself kind of fading out
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Speaker 1: of consciousness. He heard other passengers near him yelling out
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Speaker 1: for help, clearly about him, and then a flight attendant
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Speaker 1: ran over and began yelling out to the rest of
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Speaker 1: the plane, are there any doctors on board? And so
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Speaker 1: as Klaus is drifting further and further into unconsciousness, all
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Speaker 1: he could think to himself was his intuition was right.
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Speaker 1: Something bad was going to happen on this plane. But
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Speaker 1: before he could think much more about it, his vision
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Speaker 1: went blurry and he faded into darkness. But it would
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Speaker 1: turn out that Klaus's intuition was actually only half right,
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Speaker 1: because while it was true that something terrible did happen
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Speaker 1: to him on that flight, he really did have an
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Speaker 1: heart attack. It actually was his decision to get on
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Speaker 1: the flight that saved his life. Because this particular flight
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Speaker 1: was carrying forty heart specialists home from an international cardiology conference,
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Speaker 1: and they had samples with them of a brand new
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Speaker 1: heart drug that was not yet available to the public.
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Speaker 1: So when Klaus had his heart attack and the flight
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Speaker 1: attendant began calling out for a doctor, well the forty
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Speaker 1: doctors all shot their hands up in the air, and
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Speaker 1: one of them rushed over and literally just gave Klaus
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Speaker 1: this new medication that saved his life. Thank you so
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