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This psychopath finally got caught Strange but true (Pt. 15) - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today we're
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Speaker 1: In October of twenty fourteen, a thirty five year old
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Speaker 1: woman who will call Olivia met her husband for lunch
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Speaker 1: at a restaurant in western New York. The couple had
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Speaker 1: not originally planned to stay at this restaurant for very long,
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Speaker 1: but one thing led to another.
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Speaker 2: They were having a.
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Speaker 1: Nice time, and before long it was six pm and
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Speaker 1: they had been there for six hours, and over those
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Speaker 1: six hours, both of them had had a lot to eat,
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Speaker 1: lots of bread and pasta and cakes and all sorts
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Speaker 1: of stuff, and they had had some alcohol, but not
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Speaker 1: very much. Olivia had been careful to only have four
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Speaker 1: drinks over those six hours because she wanted to be
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Speaker 1: able to drive, and her husband similarly limited his drinking
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Speaker 1: so he'd be saved to drive. And so after they
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Speaker 1: got the check and they paid for their meal, they
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Speaker 1: both hopped in their respective cars and they began driving home.
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Speaker 2: As Olivia was making.
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Speaker 1: Her way home, she unfortunately got a flat tire, and
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Speaker 1: so she pulled off to.
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Speaker 2: The side of the road and she called roadside assistance.
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Speaker 1: As she was waiting for help to show up, another
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Speaker 1: motorist happened to drive by, and they misunderstood what was happening.
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Speaker 2: They saw Olivia standing outside.
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Speaker 1: Of her car with the tire popped off, and they
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Speaker 1: thought she'd been in an accident, and so they called
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Speaker 1: the police and reported it, and so the police show
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Speaker 1: up a few minutes later. They pull up right behind Olivia,
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Speaker 1: and when they get out, they asked her, you know,
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Speaker 1: are you okay?
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Speaker 2: Do you need any help? And she was like, oh no,
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Speaker 2: I just had a flat tire. I'm totally fine.
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Speaker 1: You know, thank you for stopping though, But the police,
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Speaker 1: as they're listening to her speak, they see her eyes
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Speaker 1: look kind of glassy and glazed over.
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Speaker 2: Like she's drunk.
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Speaker 1: And as she was speaking, they could have sworn she
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Speaker 1: was slurring her words, and so they said, hey, ma'am,
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Speaker 1: have you been drinking tonight? And she would tell them that, well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I have had a few drinks, but only four over
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Speaker 1: the last six hours, and I don't feel drunk at all.
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Speaker 1: That has nothing to do with the situation I'm in now.
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Speaker 1: I'm not drunk. But the police were not buying it,
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Speaker 1: and so they put her through a series of field
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Speaker 1: sobriety tests that she managed to get through, but she
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Speaker 1: struggled with enough that it sent up some red flags,
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Speaker 1: and so they made her blow into a breathalyzer. A
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Speaker 1: breathalyzer is a device that uses your breath to register
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Speaker 1: how much alcohol is in your system, also known as
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Speaker 1: your blood alcohol content or BAC for short, BAC is
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Speaker 1: scored as a percentage out of one hundred and While
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Speaker 1: no one should ever get.
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Speaker 2: Behind the wheel of a vehicle if they.
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Speaker 1: Are impaired, it is the case that in America you
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Speaker 1: are allowed legally to operate a vehicle if your BAC
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Speaker 1: is point zero eight percent or lower. For reference, if
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Speaker 1: a one hundred and sixty pound female consumed about three
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Speaker 1: alcoholic drinks maybe a little bit more, in the course
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Speaker 1: of an hour, she would most likely have a point
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Speaker 1: zero eight percent BAC. If that same one hundred and
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Speaker 1: sixty pound female were to consume let's say eight alcoholic
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Speaker 1: drinks over the course of an hour, she would definitely
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Speaker 1: not be allowed to legally operate a vehicle because she
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Speaker 1: would be very, very drunk. Her BAC would have spiked
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Speaker 1: to point two percent, which would put her in the
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Speaker 1: range where she would most likely have alcohol poisoning and
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Speaker 1: eventually she would most likely lose consciousness. If this same
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Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty pound female were to consume thirteen
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Speaker 1: alcoholic drinks over the course of.
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Speaker 2: An hour, her BAC would jump all the.
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Speaker 1: Way up to point four percent, where she's not just
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Speaker 1: and unable to operate a vehicle. At that level, you're
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Speaker 1: talking about potentially dying from consuming that much alcohol. When
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Speaker 1: Olivia blew into this breathalyzer, she fully expected that she
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Speaker 1: would be below the point zero eight percent legal limit, because,
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Speaker 1: after all, she'd only had four alcoholic drinks over a
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Speaker 1: six hour period, and so that would put her well.
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Speaker 2: Below that legal limit. But that was not the case.
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Speaker 1: She blew a staggering point three three percent. The cops
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Speaker 1: couldn't believe what they were looking at because they're looking
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Speaker 1: at Olivia and they're thinking, at that level, she should
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Speaker 1: be somewhere between losing consciousness and dying. But here she
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Speaker 1: is just standing there talking to us, acting a little
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Speaker 1: bit buzzed, and so they assumed their breathalyzer must have
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Speaker 1: made a mistake. So they went back into their car,
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Speaker 1: got another breathalyzer, did it again, and again Olivia blue
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Speaker 1: a point three to three percent BAC. The officers couldn't
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Speaker 1: understand how this woman had such an extreme alcohol tolerance,
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Speaker 1: but regardless, they charged her with driving well intoxicated and
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Speaker 1: then brought her to the hospital for medical intervention. There,
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Speaker 1: her BAC remained high, even after a full day had
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Speaker 1: passed without her consuming any more alcohol. This is around
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Speaker 1: the time that it was discovered that Olivia had a
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Speaker 1: very very rare medical.
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Speaker 2: Condition called auto brewery syndrome.
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Speaker 1: Which in a nutshell, meant her body transformed glucose from foods,
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Speaker 1: specifically carbs like bread, pasta that kind of.
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Speaker 2: Thing into alcohol.
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Speaker 1: Olivia, who was totally unaware of this condition, had developed
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Speaker 1: this wicked alcohol tolerance because she was basically drunk all
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Speaker 1: the time, not because she was a heavy drinker, but
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Speaker 1: because she ate carbs. This condition, if left untreated, can
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Speaker 1: do the same damage alcoholism and binge drinking can do
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Speaker 1: to the body. The only way you can treat it
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Speaker 1: is by drastically changing your diet. When Olivia's condition was
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Speaker 1: discovered and made public, the charges against her were dropped
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Speaker 1: and she would go on to just stop eating carbs altogether.
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Speaker 2: In eighteen eighty.
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Speaker 1: Seven, thirty five year old Robert Ledrux was a very
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Speaker 1: talented detective working in Paris, France. He was so talented
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Speaker 1: that periodically he would get called upon by other police
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Speaker 1: departments around the country to help them solve their.
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Speaker 2: Most difficult cases.
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Speaker 1: And so that year there was this coastal town in
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Speaker 1: northern France that had the string of sailors that went missing,
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Speaker 1: and nobody had the slightest idea what had happened to them,
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Speaker 1: and so naturally Robert was called in to investigate. The
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Speaker 1: night Robert arrived in this town, it was very late
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Speaker 1: and Robert was tired, so he went straight to his
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Speaker 1: hotel and he went to bed. The following morning, he
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Speaker 1: got up and he went straight to the local police
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Speaker 1: department to meet the local officers that he would be
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Speaker 1: working with on this investigation. But when he got there,
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Speaker 1: he was told that the missing sailor's case had been
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Speaker 1: lowered in priority because during the night a murder had
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Speaker 1: been committed down on their beach.
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Speaker 2: And so that was now their main focus.
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Speaker 1: And so they apologized to Robert and said, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry you came all this way for nothing, But
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Speaker 1: since you're here, do you want to help us in
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Speaker 1: this beach murder investigation?
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Speaker 2: And Robert said sure.
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Speaker 1: The victim was a middle aged man named Andre Monet
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Speaker 1: who owned a dress.
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Speaker 2: Shop in Paris, France.
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Speaker 1: He had recently moved to this coastal town to enjoy
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Speaker 1: the beautiful scenery. When his body was discovered early that morning,
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Speaker 1: it was quickly determined he had been killed by a
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Speaker 1: single gunshot wound to the chest where the bullet actually
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Speaker 1: went clear through him out the other side, but they
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Speaker 1: hadn't found the bullet. There were no suspects, there were
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Speaker 1: no leads, there was no clear motive. However, they were
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Speaker 1: able to rule out robbery because there was still money
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Speaker 1: in Andre's pockets, and so Robert and the other local
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Speaker 1: officers left the police station and made their way down
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Speaker 1: to the beach, where they began examining the area where
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Speaker 1: Andre had been found. The local officers focused on looking
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Speaker 1: for the bullet, while Robert decided to walk a little
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Speaker 1: ways down the beach to see if there was any
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Speaker 1: evidence that had been overlooked in the initial search. And
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Speaker 1: after only walking a very short distance, Robert noticed some
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Speaker 1: barely visible footprints that appeared to pass right by where
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Speaker 1: Andre's body had been found, and these footprints they continued
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Speaker 1: past that area and then up a flight of stairs
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Speaker 1: up onto the road where they disappeared. Robert called over
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Speaker 1: the other officers and told them to make plaster casts
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Speaker 1: of these footprints so he could analyze them. What that
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Speaker 1: meant is the officers would literally just pour liquid plaster
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Speaker 1: inside of these prints, and then when they dried, they
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Speaker 1: would pull that plaster out and it would literally be
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Speaker 1: a three D model of the foot that had made
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Speaker 1: the prince. And so, as the officers are working on
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Speaker 1: these casts, Robert says to one of the officers that
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Speaker 1: these prints looked really odd to him, like they were
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Speaker 1: familiar in some way, but he just couldn't place where
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Speaker 1: he had seen them before. Less than an hour later,
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Speaker 1: when the plaster had dried, the officers pulled them out
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Speaker 1: and they handed them to Robert, and as soon as
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Speaker 1: Robert looked at them, he physically reacted to what he
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Speaker 1: was seeing.
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Speaker 2: It was like he was disappointed.
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Speaker 1: And then, without saying anything, he just walked down the
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Speaker 1: beach with these plaster casts until he got to the
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Speaker 1: secluded area where he sat down. And he sat there
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Speaker 1: for hours and hours, just stare at the plaster casts,
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Speaker 1: seemingly unaffected by the sun that was blazing down on
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Speaker 1: him the whole time and the tide that was very
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Speaker 1: quickly creeping up on him. The local officers who were
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Speaker 1: watching this, they didn't know anything about Robert. All they
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Speaker 1: knew is his reputation, which is he is this totally
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Speaker 1: legendary detective, and so they didn't dare question his methods.
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Speaker 2: Even though this seemed really odd what he was doing.
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Speaker 1: Finally, by mid afternoon, Robert would put the cast down,
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Speaker 1: he would stand up, and he would walk back over
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Speaker 1: to the mystified local officers, and when he walked up
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Speaker 1: to them, he would say, there's no reason to stay
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Speaker 1: at the beach any longer or interview any more witnesses.
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Speaker 2: I think I've solved the case.
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Speaker 1: But then instead of elaborating, he just turned around and
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Speaker 1: walked up off the beach and headed back for his hotel.
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Speaker 1: The local officers just looked at each other and shrugged,
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Speaker 1: and they left too early.
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Speaker 2: The next day, the bullet that had killed.
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Speaker 1: Andre Monette was found on the beach, and so when
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Speaker 1: Robert showed up to the beach, the chief of police
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Speaker 1: handed him this bullet in an effort to help him
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Speaker 1: continue the investigation, and as soon as Robert looked at it,
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Speaker 1: he sighed and said, Okay, now I know for sure
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Speaker 1: what happened. And then Robert proceeded to break down the murder.
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Speaker 1: He said, the killer woke up in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the night on the night that Andre was killed, and
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Speaker 1: he got out of this bed. He put on his clothes,
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Speaker 1: and then he headed down to the beach. There he
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Speaker 1: encountered Andrea Monette, a man he didn't know who was
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Speaker 1: most likely out for a midnight's stroll as well. The
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Speaker 1: two men struck up a friendly conversation, but at some
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Speaker 1: point it turned into some sort of quarrel, at which
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Speaker 1: point the killer drew his pistol, shot Andre in the chest,
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Speaker 1: and then fled the scene. Robert told the local police
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Speaker 1: chief that the reason he knew all these details is
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Speaker 1: because he had been the killer.
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Speaker 2: He killed Andre Monette.
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Speaker 1: But he didn't do it on purpose, and he didn't
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Speaker 1: remember because he killed andre Monette while he was sleepwalking,
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Speaker 1: he told the chief. When he was given those plaster
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Speaker 1: casts of those footprints, he knew immediately why he thought
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Speaker 1: those prince looked so familiar, because as soon as he
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Speaker 1: looked at the casts, he could tell whoever had made
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Speaker 1: the prince was missing a tow, and as it happened,
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Speaker 1: Robert was missing a tow. So those princes looked exactly
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Speaker 1: like his footprints. And that morning, when he had woken
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Speaker 1: up in his hotel room, before even going down to
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Speaker 1: the beach, he had noticed that his shoes and his
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Speaker 1: socks which were next to his bed were sandy and damp,
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Speaker 1: and he thought that was so strange because he couldn't
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Speaker 1: remember how they got that way, but he was too
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Speaker 1: busy to investigate. And that night, after he had sat
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Speaker 1: all day looking at the casts and then left the beach,
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Speaker 1: leaving the local police officers totally mystified.
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Speaker 2: He had gone back to his room and the.
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Speaker 1: First thing he did was get his revolver out from
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Speaker 1: under his pillow, and he discovered that one bullet was missing,
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Speaker 1: and he always kept his revolver fully loaded, and so
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Speaker 1: he spent the rest of the night trying to convince
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Speaker 1: himself that this was just one big coincidence. But the
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Speaker 1: following morning, when he was given that bullet, he knew
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Speaker 1: immediately that this was not a coincidence. The bullet that
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Speaker 1: had killed Andre Monet was the same type of ammunition
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Speaker 1: that he loaded his revolver with, and so he had
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Speaker 1: to be the killer. He had effectively caught himself. The
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Speaker 1: police were totally shocked and did not believe this at first.
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Speaker 1: More specifically, they didn't want to believe that Robert, their
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Speaker 1: star detective, was behind this horrible homicide, but eventually, after
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Speaker 1: examining all the evidence.
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Speaker 2: They agreed he had to be the killer. But to
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Speaker 2: test whether this.
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Speaker 1: Really was sleepwalking and not some elaborate cover up by Robert,
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Speaker 1: they decided to conduct an experiment. Robert, who was fully
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Speaker 1: cooperative with the investigation, was told to sleep in this
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Speaker 1: jail cell where he would be monitored twenty four to
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Speaker 1: seven by armed guards. And in this cell with him
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Speaker 1: would be a revolver loaded with blank rounds, and he
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Speaker 1: was told to keep it under his pillow. For the
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Speaker 1: first couple of days, nothing happened. Robert never touched the
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Speaker 1: revolver during the day or when he was asleep. But
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Speaker 1: about a week into this experiment, Robert suddenly woke up
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the night in this trance like state.
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Speaker 2: He reached under his.
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Speaker 1: Pillow, pulled out the revolver and began firing at the
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Speaker 1: guards right outside of the cell. And so this convinced
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Speaker 1: the police that Robert had been telling the truth about
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Speaker 1: what happened to Andre Monet.
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Speaker 2: He really had killed him while he was sleepwalking.
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Speaker 1: A decision was made not to prosecute Robert for the murder. Instead,
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Speaker 1: they decided to basically exile him for everybody's protection, and
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Speaker 1: so from then until nineteen thirty seven, when Robert died,
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Speaker 1: he was forced to live alone on this secluded farm
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Speaker 1: outside of Paris, where the only visitors he ever got
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Speaker 1: were doctors who would only show up during the day and.
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Speaker 2: With armed bodyguards. On December eighteenth, nineteen fifty six, a
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Speaker 2: brand new.
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Speaker 1: Game show called to Tell the Truth aired on a
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Speaker 1: major American television network.
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Speaker 2: The premise of the show was relatively simple.
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Speaker 1: Four celebrity judges would be presented with three people called contestants,
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Speaker 1: who all claimed to be the same person. And this person,
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Speaker 1: who they claimed to be, was always remarkable in some way.
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Speaker 1: They had some incredible talent or some crazy job, or
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Speaker 1: they had accomplished something extraordinary. One of these three contestants
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Speaker 1: was the real person they were claiming to be. The
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Speaker 1: other two people were doing their best to pretend to
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Speaker 1: be that person, and it was the job of these
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Speaker 1: celebrity judges to try to figure out who was telling
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Speaker 1: the truth.
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Speaker 2: So for a set amount of time on the show, the.
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Speaker 1: Celebrity judges would ask the contestants questions about their background
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Speaker 1: and try to figure out, you know, who was who,
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Speaker 1: And then at the end of the time, the celebrities
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Speaker 1: would cast a vote about who they thought was the
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Speaker 1: real remarkable person. After the votes were tallied up, the
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Speaker 1: host would have the real remarkable persons stand up to
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Speaker 1: reveal themselves and the entire audience would go crazy, and
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Speaker 1: that was the show, and the show became quite popular,
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Speaker 1: so popular in fact, that today, nearly seventy years later,
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Speaker 1: it's still on the air. And over this show's very
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Speaker 1: long history, virtually all the episodes are pretty similar. It's
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Speaker 1: a pretty redundant show, but there is one episode that
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Speaker 1: will forever go down as the most unique. In October
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Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy two, three contestants walked out onto the
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Speaker 1: stage in front of the four celebrity judges and they
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Speaker 1: all introduced themselves as Ed Edwards. Then the host of
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Speaker 1: the show read aloud the biography of the real Ed Edwards,
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Speaker 1: and he would say that Ed at one point was
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Speaker 1: on the FBI's list of the top ten most wanted
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Speaker 1: criminals in America for crimes like armed robbery and impersonating
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Speaker 1: a federal officer.
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Speaker 2: And then after he.
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Speaker 1: Was finally caught by law enforcement and went to prison,
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Speaker 1: a prison guard helped him turn his life around, and
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Speaker 1: then upon release from prison fourteen years later, Ed remained
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Speaker 1: this reformed criminal and became a successful author and motivational
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Speaker 1: speaker who specialized in telling people how to identify con
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Speaker 1: men and criminals and how to protect themselves from these people.
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Speaker 1: After the real Ed Edwards biography was read aloud. The
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Speaker 1: three contestants sat down and the celebrity judges began asking
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Speaker 1: them questions about their past, and then after the time
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Speaker 1: was up, the celebrities cast their votes, and then the
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Speaker 1: real Ed Edwards was revealed, and even though two of
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Speaker 1: the four celebrity judges had correctly identified the right Ed Edwards,
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Speaker 1: the crowd was totally astonished at who this guy actually
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Speaker 1: was because he did not look like this ex convict.
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Speaker 1: He looked like this kind of all American middle aged
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Speaker 1: father who was totally harmless and wouldn't hurt a fly.
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Speaker 1: But either way, the show ended and then the world
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Speaker 1: forgot about Ed Edwards until two thousand and nine. That year,
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Speaker 1: Ed's a strange daughter, forty year old April Bolacio, finally
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Speaker 1: decided to investigate something that had plagued her for her
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Speaker 1: whole childhood. Despite her father's claims that he was this
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Speaker 1: reformed criminal and the stand up law abiding guy, she
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Speaker 1: didn't believe it. She never believed it. She thought he
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Speaker 1: had never been reformed and just was a criminal and
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Speaker 1: always had been. Behind closed doors, Ed was violent and abusive,
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Speaker 1: and he was a compulsive liar, she remembered in the
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventies and eighties. When she was a young kid,
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Speaker 1: Ed would make their family pack up and move, sometimes
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the night, and April always assumed
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Speaker 1: it was because her dad was wrapped up in something criminal.
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Speaker 2: But every time she asked him.
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Speaker 1: He would say, oh, well, you know, I was an
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Speaker 1: informant when I was in jail, and I snitched on
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Speaker 1: some people, and some of those people have figured out
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Speaker 1: where we live, and so we got to move. April
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Speaker 1: knew he was lying, but there was nothing she could do,
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Speaker 1: and so they just kept.
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Speaker 2: On moving around. But she always thought something else was
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Speaker 2: going on.
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Speaker 1: So in two thousand and nine, when April is now
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Speaker 1: this forty year old woman, she's laying in bed one
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Speaker 1: night and finally says, you know what, I'm just going to.
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Speaker 2: Start googling some stuff.
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Speaker 1: So she hops in her laptop and she starts typing
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Speaker 1: in the different names of towns that she and her
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Speaker 1: family lived in as a kid, and then after she'd
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Speaker 1: write the name of the town, she'd write unsolved mystery
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Speaker 1: or unsolved crime, and she would see if anything popped up,
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Speaker 1: and so as she began looking, she found one in
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty It was an unsolved murder in a town
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Speaker 1: called Watertown, Wisconsin that happened right around the time that
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Speaker 1: her family very briefly lived in this town. There was
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Speaker 1: this young teenage couple that had left this wedding and
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Speaker 1: they had driven down this dead end road and they
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Speaker 1: were just kind of enjoying each other's company when an
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Speaker 1: unknown assailant who matched the description of Ed Edwards walked
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Speaker 1: up to their car, broke in, shot them both to death,
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Speaker 1: and then disappeared. And so on a hunch, called the
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Speaker 1: Watertown police department the following day and told them that
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Speaker 1: I think my father might have been responsible for this
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Speaker 1: double homicide.
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Speaker 2: It's just a hunch, but he matches the description.
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Speaker 1: We were there in this very small window of time
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Speaker 1: when it happened, and so the police said, okay, we'll
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Speaker 1: go have a look. And so the Watertown police they
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Speaker 1: tracked down ed Edwards, who was living in Kentucky at
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Speaker 1: the time, and they got him to give them a
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Speaker 1: DNA sample, and when they tested the DNA sample, it
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Speaker 1: matched these samples that were taken at the crime scene
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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty and so Ed Edwards he was arrested
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Speaker 1: and brought back to Wisconsin and as soon as he
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Speaker 1: was in custody, he confessed to the murder and then
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Speaker 1: he requested the death penalty, but he was told the
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Speaker 1: maximum punishment for this crime was life in prison. Ed
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Speaker 1: didn't like this, and so he confessed to another double
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Speaker 1: homicide from nineteen seventy seven in Ohio, where he killed
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Speaker 1: another teenage couple, thinking that would give him the death penalty,
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Speaker 1: but through a loophole, they said, well, actually, that still
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Speaker 1: won't get you the death penalty. You're still facing life
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Speaker 1: in prison. And so, frustrated, ed revealed a third murder
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Speaker 1: he had perpetrated in nineteen ninety six. He had killed
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Speaker 1: his own foster son for the insurance money, and so
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Speaker 1: for this crime he was eligible for capital punishment, and
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Speaker 1: so he was sentenced to death, but he would die
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Speaker 1: of natural causes two years later in twenty eleven before
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Speaker 1: the state could execute him. Since his death, cold case
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Speaker 1: investigators and members of his own family have theorized that
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Speaker 1: ed Edwards is almost certainly responsible for more killings beyond
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Speaker 1: just the five he happened to confess to. In fact,
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Speaker 1: many people believe ed Edwards could actually be the infamous
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Speaker 1: Zodiac killer, who's one of the nation's most notorious uncaught
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Speaker 1: serial killers that killed thirty seven people in northern California
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Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies. If this is true,
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Speaker 1: then Ed Edwards did not become a killer after he
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Speaker 1: was on.
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Speaker 2: That game show in nineteen seventy two.
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Speaker 1: Now, when he showed up for that game show and
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Speaker 1: stood in front of the audience and smiled and answered
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Speaker 1: questions to the celebrity panelists, at that time, as you're
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Speaker 1: watching him on TV, he would have already been a
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Speaker 1: seasoned serial killer with dozens and dozens of victims. But
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Speaker 1: Ed stopped confessing to murders after that third confession because
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Speaker 1: he was just kind of using those murders as bargaining
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Speaker 1: chips to get what he wanted, the death penalty, and
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Speaker 1: once he got it, he went silent. And now that
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Speaker 1: he's dead, we're never going to get another confession out
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Speaker 1: of him, and there's no proof connecting him to any
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Speaker 1: unsolved murder cases, and so unfortunately, it's unlikely we'll ever
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