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These SECRET messages led to a HORRIFYING discovery · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today's story is about a church in Memphis that begins
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  Speaker 1: to experience very strange phenomena. Now, at first, church administrators
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  Speaker 1: believe that whatever's happening here is just a series of pranks,
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  Speaker 1: and basically everybody writes it off. But one church staff
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  Speaker 1: decides to look more closely and he discovers something much
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  Speaker 1: darker was going on there. But before we get into
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  Speaker 1: for the next several days, sneak into the like button's
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. One morning in late February
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty two, a forty two year old man
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  Speaker 1: named Sam Drash was standing inside of his office, which
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  Speaker 1: was inside of a United Methodist church building in Memphis, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: and as he stood there, he was frustrated. His arms
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  Speaker 1: were crossed and he was staring down at an empty
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  Speaker 1: bowl on his desk. So Sam was the headmaster of
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  Speaker 1: an elementary school that was inside of this church. This
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  Speaker 1: church building was massive. It not only had you know,
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  Speaker 1: the main chapel and this elementary school, but there were
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  Speaker 1: also dozens of offices. There was a full gymnasium, a
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  Speaker 1: full kitchen, laundry facilities. I mean, this place was massive.
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  Speaker 1: As for Sam, he spent the majority of his time
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  Speaker 1: in his office doing administrative work for the elementary school.
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  Speaker 1: And because he was at his computer all the time,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of doing this busy work, he found himself
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  Speaker 1: wanting to snack a lot, and so he needed like
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  Speaker 1: a healthy snack to binge on. And he found, you know,
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  Speaker 1: mixed nuts were the thing he liked to eat the most,
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  Speaker 1: that were you know, sort of healthy. And so we
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  Speaker 1: always had this big bowl of mixed nuts on his
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  Speaker 1: desk that he always kept full. But this morning, when
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  Speaker 1: he walked into his office, this big bowl of mixed
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  Speaker 1: nuts was inexplicably empty. And he knew the night before
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  Speaker 1: he had filled the bowl up and he didn't come
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  Speaker 1: in between last night. And now, so you know who
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  Speaker 1: ate the mixed nuts, and so feeling pretty annoyed, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's like, all right, somebody must have come in here
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  Speaker 1: and taken them. Okay, fine, And so he left his
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  Speaker 1: office and headed to the kitchen to get some more snacks.
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  Speaker 1: When Sam went inside the kitchen, he saw the church's
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  Speaker 1: cook was at the counter cutting vegetables, and so Sam
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  Speaker 1: said hello to the cook and then walked right over
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  Speaker 1: to the pantry where the snacks were. He opened it up,
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  Speaker 1: and he looked at the shelf where the mixed nuts
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  Speaker 1: always were, and the entire container was gone. And in
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  Speaker 1: addition to that, Sam scanning the other shelves and seeing
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of snacks that he knew were typically
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  Speaker 1: in this pantry were also gone. It was like someone
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  Speaker 1: had raided the entire pantry. And so Sam he turns
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  Speaker 1: to the cook and goes, hey, you know, was there
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  Speaker 1: like an event here last night where they would have
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  Speaker 1: handed out a lot of snacks, because I feel like
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  Speaker 1: all the snacks are gone here. And the cook, who
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  Speaker 1: at that point was still chopping vegetables, he stopped, put
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  Speaker 1: the knife down, and he turned and looked at Sam
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  Speaker 1: and said, you know, I'm glad somebody else has noticed
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  Speaker 1: this because for the last month, food has been going
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  Speaker 1: missing for no reason. I don't understand what's happening here.
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  Speaker 1: The cook told Sam that at first, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: food that was going missing was pretty minor. It was
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  Speaker 1: really just snacks and just here and there, not a
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  Speaker 1: big deal. But he said more and more lately it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just snacks going missing. It was actually stuffed from
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  Speaker 1: the fridge. And he told Sam that, you know, at night,
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  Speaker 1: he put a padlock on the fridge, specifically to keep
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  Speaker 1: people out of it, in particular the kids, you know,
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  Speaker 1: who had come in and like raid the fridge. He's like,
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  Speaker 1: it's locked. But you know, last night he said, he
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  Speaker 1: put a ham in the fridge, this whole ham. He
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  Speaker 1: put it in the fridge, and then he shut and
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  Speaker 1: locked the fridge. And then this morning when he came in,
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  Speaker 1: he opened the fridge up and the ham was gone.
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  Speaker 1: And he literally walked over to the fridge, opened it
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  Speaker 1: up and showed Sam the shelf where this huge ham
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be, but now it was just gone.
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  Speaker 1: The cook told Sam that he had already spoken to
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  Speaker 1: church administrators about this strange issue. You know, when he
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  Speaker 1: flagged this morning that this ham was now gone, and
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  Speaker 1: while they said they'd look into it, they admitted to
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  Speaker 1: the cook that they really didn't know what to think
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  Speaker 1: of it. It was just very confusing how this was
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  Speaker 1: even happening. At this point, Sam was just totally irritated
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  Speaker 1: because now he knew one he would have to go
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  Speaker 1: do his admin work without any snacks. But two, it
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  Speaker 1: was pretty clear that, you know, some of the kids,
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  Speaker 1: probably from his school, had likely begun sneaking into the
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  Speaker 1: kitchen and taking snacks, and also very likely they must
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  Speaker 1: have gotten a hold of the key to the padlock
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  Speaker 1: on the fridge, and now they're kind of escalating, stealing
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  Speaker 1: whole hams from the fridge. I mean, this whole thing
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  Speaker 1: was just totally annoying and really bad behavior, and so
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  Speaker 1: Sam figured he would likely have to deal with the
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  Speaker 1: kids at some point. But Sam told the cook, look,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for right now, what I'll do is I'll
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  Speaker 1: also talk to administrators and I'll have somebody come in
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  Speaker 1: here and they'll replace the lock on the fridge. A
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  Speaker 1: few days later, on March third, Sam walked into the
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  Speaker 1: church building and began heading down the hallway towards his office.
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  Speaker 1: For the past couple of nights, things had been quiet
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  Speaker 1: at the church. Sam had the lock replaced on the
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  Speaker 1: fridge and it seemed like that had solved the issue
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  Speaker 1: of things going missing in the fridge. And also Sam
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  Speaker 1: had replaced his mixed nuts supply and nobody had taken
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  Speaker 1: any so it seemed like, you know, whatever was going on,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe there was a prankster or something that clearly,
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  Speaker 1: you know, changing the locks and maybe putting some additional
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  Speaker 1: pressure on the church administrators to let people know to
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  Speaker 1: stop doing this had had its effect because things were
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  Speaker 1: back to normal. But as Sam was walking down the hallway,
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  Speaker 1: he passed by the kitchen which was open, and as
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  Speaker 1: he passed by, the cook who was in there saw
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  Speaker 1: Sam and said, hey, come in here, I got to
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  Speaker 1: show you something. So Sam stopped. He goes into the
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  Speaker 1: kitchen and the cook is standing by the fridge and
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  Speaker 1: the fridge is open, and you can kind of see
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  Speaker 1: there's a look on the cook's face like, hey, you
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  Speaker 1: got to see this, and so Sam kind of has
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  Speaker 1: a sense of where this is going. He walks over
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  Speaker 1: to the cook and the cook points to an empty
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  Speaker 1: spot in the fridge and he said, look right there,
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  Speaker 1: there should have been several bottles of soda right there
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  Speaker 1: and they're gone, and so Sam's like, ah, okay, like
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  Speaker 1: that's not good. Clearly this is still happening. But the
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  Speaker 1: cook is like, no, this is after the locks have
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  Speaker 1: been changed. There's only a handful of people that have
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  Speaker 1: access to the keys, and it's like church administrators who
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  Speaker 1: definitely would not be taking this soda. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: understand how this is even happening. And Sam's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're right, Like that does sort of change things, like
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  Speaker 1: how is this happening? But before Sam could ask any
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  Speaker 1: follow up questions, the cook was like, you know, this
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  Speaker 1: isn't all either. This is just one thing I've noticed.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing that's going on now ever since we
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  Speaker 1: changed the locks is someone is also beginning to mess
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  Speaker 1: with my personal stuff. He told Sam that every day
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  Speaker 1: when he was done in the kitchen, when he would leave,
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  Speaker 1: he would always leave his work shoes and his apron
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  Speaker 1: in one spot in the kitchen. He would leave them
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  Speaker 1: right there. He would leave, and then the next morning
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  Speaker 1: when he would come back, his things would be right there.
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  Speaker 1: He'd put them back on and he'd get to work.
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  Speaker 1: But ever since changing the locks, when he had come
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  Speaker 1: into the kitchen, his stuff would be moved. His shoes
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  Speaker 1: at one point were on the counter when he came in,
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  Speaker 1: and his apron was put somewhere else. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: nobody was stealing from him. It was like they were
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  Speaker 1: just mess with him. And the cook said to Sam, like,
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  Speaker 1: I just don't get it, Like, why are they doing
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  Speaker 1: this this, This can't be satisfying. They don't even see
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  Speaker 1: my reaction to this stuff, Like what are they doing
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  Speaker 1: just messing with my stuff? Sam was equally baffled by this,
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  Speaker 1: and he just told the cook, look, you know, I'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to administrators again and see if there's anything we
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  Speaker 1: can do, you know, change the locks again. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll see if anybody can help us here, because
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  Speaker 1: I really don't understand what's happening. And so Sam left
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen and headed down the hallway towards his office
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  Speaker 1: with the intent to go in there and write up
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  Speaker 1: a report about what had just happened and hand it
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  Speaker 1: over to the administrators. But when Sam walked into his office,
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  Speaker 1: he noticed there was something sitting right in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of his desk that had not been there the night before.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like a paper towel, and so Samy walks
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  Speaker 1: up and he sees it is a paper towel, but
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  Speaker 1: there's a note scrawled on this paper towel, sort of
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  Speaker 1: like hectic, chaotic handwriting, like somebody was in a rush
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  Speaker 1: writing this note. And clearly they've left this note for him,
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  Speaker 1: And so he sits down at his desk and he
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  Speaker 1: begins to read the note and it's totally upsetting. The
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  Speaker 1: note referenced the recent murder of this fifteen year old
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  Speaker 1: girl named Leslie Gaddis, who had been killed not far
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  Speaker 1: from the church in Memphis, Tennessee. This case was all
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  Speaker 1: over the news, and so Sam and basically everybody at
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  Speaker 1: the church had heard about it. And so he's seeing
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  Speaker 1: that the note is referencing this girl. But more than that,
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  Speaker 1: the note insinuated that there was something in the church's
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  Speaker 1: attic that would change everybody's understanding of this murder case.
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  Speaker 1: And so Sam's like, is this a prank? Like an
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  Speaker 1: awful prank? I mean, are the kids who are stealing
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  Speaker 1: food and messing with the cook's stuff are they also
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  Speaker 1: responsible for this? Sam's thinking, you know, this murder case
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  Speaker 1: was all over the news. I mean, everybody, including the
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  Speaker 1: kids in this church had heard about it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this girl had been abducted from her bedroom in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the night. I mean, it was horrible. And
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  Speaker 1: he's thinking, you know, maybe this really is a prank.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, Sam's thinking that
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  Speaker 1: if this note is true, that there is some horrible
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  Speaker 1: thing or some clue or evidence up in the attic
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  Speaker 1: that might be useful to police about this case, like
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  Speaker 1: he had a response ability to share it with the authorities.
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  Speaker 1: And so, even though he knew he might be overreacting
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  Speaker 1: a little bit to this, he called the police and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you got to come down here and look at this.
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  Speaker 1: And so, sure enough, later that day police showed up
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  Speaker 1: to the church. They met with Sam, they read the note,
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  Speaker 1: and they went into the attic and they searched it extensively,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't find anything connected to the Leslie Gaddis
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  Speaker 1: murder case. They didn't really find anything of note up
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  Speaker 1: there at all. They also searched the entire building, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just in case, but there was nothing of note. And
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  Speaker 1: so the police told Sam that, look, you know, your
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  Speaker 1: first instinct was probably right here, that this was likely
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  Speaker 1: a prank. You know, whoever was maybe messing with your
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  Speaker 1: kitchen food and the cook very likely did this too.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but you know, if anything serious happens,
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  Speaker 1: you know, about this case or anything else, don't hesitate
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  Speaker 1: to reach out. But this does not seem like a
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  Speaker 1: big deal. And so the police left and Sam is
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  Speaker 1: just left in his office thinking like what do I
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  Speaker 1: do here? I mean, like he didn't know who was
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  Speaker 1: messing with the stuff in the kitchen or the cook,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't know who had written this note. It really
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  Speaker 1: Over the next couple of weeks, food continued to go
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  Speaker 1: missing from the kitchen, despite locks being changed several more times.
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  Speaker 1: The church's cook continued to have his stuff messed with,
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  Speaker 1: and more and more notes handwritten notes on various pieces
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  Speaker 1: of paper and paper towels began popping up not just
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  Speaker 1: on Sam's desk, but also on other church officials desks,
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  Speaker 1: and these other church officials when they got them, they
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  Speaker 1: were totally convinced that this had to be a prank.
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  Speaker 1: But for Sam, he just felt like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a prank. It's not
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  Speaker 1: really funny. It isn't like the person doing it is
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  Speaker 1: really getting any big reaction. It's just kind of creepy
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  Speaker 1: and unsettling that somebody is launching this bizarre campaign against
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  Speaker 1: the church, like it didn't add up. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: even though this is all happening for weeks at this point,
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  Speaker 1: the final straw, at least in Sam's mind, happened the
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  Speaker 1: previous Sunday when he and his family were at church
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  Speaker 1: and his son was sitting in one of the front
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  Speaker 1: pews and he grabbed a Bible and he opened it
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  Speaker 1: up and sure enough, a note tumbled out of the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of those handwritten notes on a paper towel,
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  Speaker 1: and again it referenced the murder of Leslie Gaddis, and
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  Speaker 1: Sam's looking at his young child as young boy reading
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  Speaker 1: this note being like what's going on here? And Sam's like,
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  Speaker 1: this is totally unacceptable. It's one thing to be leaving
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  Speaker 1: these note notes for adults to find, but now like
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  Speaker 1: children are going to be reading these notes like that's
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  Speaker 1: not okay. And so on March seventeenth, so roughly about
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  Speaker 1: a month and a half after all the strange stuff
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  Speaker 1: had begun happening in the church, Sam went to the
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  Speaker 1: maintenance crew of the church building and told them he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to set up a stakeout because by this point
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  Speaker 1: Sam was starting to think like, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: just you know, some kid or kids from the elementary
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  Speaker 1: school are pranking the church. I mean, this has been
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  Speaker 1: going on for weeks now. It's sort of like dark
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  Speaker 1: at this point with these notes that are being left
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  Speaker 1: all over the place, Like this doesn't really feel like
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  Speaker 1: just some kid. This actually feels like maybe an adult,
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  Speaker 1: maybe an outsider who's coming in to do this. Like
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  Speaker 1: for what reason, Sam didn't know, but he just felt
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  Speaker 1: like something's off here. And so his plan was basically
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  Speaker 1: he and the maintenance crew would stay in the church
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  Speaker 1: at night and literally hide and try to catch whoever
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  Speaker 1: this was, you know, breaking in doing this stuff. In
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  Speaker 1: the act. By about ten pm on March seventeenth, it
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  Speaker 1: was just Sam and the maintenance crew in their various
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  Speaker 1: highiding spots in the church, sort of centrally located so
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  Speaker 1: they could see the hallway that led to the kitchen
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  Speaker 1: that led to Sam's office. They're all just kind of
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  Speaker 1: positioned waiting, and so far nothing had happened. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the church was totally quiet. Everybody else had left for
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  Speaker 1: the night. It was just Sam and the maintenance crew.
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  Speaker 1: They were just kind of twiddling their thumbs waiting to
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  Speaker 1: see what would happen. And at some point, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the maintenance crew, they got really bored because there really
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  Speaker 1: was nothing happening. I mean, Sam was super motivated, but
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  Speaker 1: the maintenance crew is like, I don't know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: really care about any of this stuff. And so one
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  Speaker 1: of them decided to just you know, stretch his legs
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  Speaker 1: and just walk around the church, you know, just to
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  Speaker 1: do anything other than sit here with nothing happening. And
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  Speaker 1: so he got up and he walked down the hallway
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  Speaker 1: and he's like kind of looking in each room and
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing going on. And as he was walking towards
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  Speaker 1: the nursery at the end of the hallway, he heard
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  Speaker 1: some movement coming from behind him. He turned around and
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  Speaker 1: he thought it was, you know, one of the other
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  Speaker 1: maintenance workers or Sam, but no, he saw a light
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  Speaker 1: come on in the kitchen, and so, thinking oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I've caught this person in the act, he charges
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  Speaker 1: down the hallway. He goes into the kitchen and he
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  Speaker 1: can't believe what he sees. It would turn out everybody
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  Speaker 1: had it wrong about what happened to fifteen year old
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  Speaker 1: Leslie Gaddis. She really was several months earlier, literally taken
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  Speaker 1: from her bedroom in the middle of the night, taken
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  Speaker 1: out of her house, but she wasn't murdered. Everybody thought
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  Speaker 1: she had been, and the news acted like she had been,
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: but she hadn't been. Instead, her kidnapper, forty two year
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: old Ernest Stubblefield, had taken her in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night and brought her to this church and had
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: been holding her in the church's attic for the last
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and nineteen days. And during that time, Ernest
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: had her at knife point and basically watched her near
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  Speaker 1: twenty four to seven to make sure she wouldn't escape.
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  Speaker 1: And the whole time he's telling her, don't worry. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna get ransom for you, and as soon as I do,
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  Speaker 1: you'll be allowed to leave. But Leslie began to realize
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: that ransom was not materializing and it didn't really seem
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  Speaker 1: like Ernest had much of a plan, and eventually he
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: would just have to get rid of her. And so
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: she knew like if she didn't save herself, she was
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: likely going to get killed. And so in the rare
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  Speaker 1: moments where Leslie was not being watched by Ernest, like
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  Speaker 1: for example, when they were down in the kitchen and
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: getting food after hours, they critically had been listening the
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  Speaker 1: whole time, and they would hear when the locks had
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: been changed on the fridge, and they would see where
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  Speaker 1: the keys were being hit, and they would just sneak
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: down and get the keys, open the fridge up, and
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  Speaker 1: they would eat well. When they were doing that, Leslie
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: made a point of not just taking a little food
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  Speaker 1: for she and Earnest, but she would take a ton
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  Speaker 1: of food, like way more than two people would need.
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  Speaker 1: And she would tell Ernest, oh, it's just because you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's more for us. But really what she was doing
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  Speaker 1: was trying her best to signal to the people in
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  Speaker 1: the church. That's something weird's going on here. Huge portions
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: of food are going missing. And then also she would
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: you know, move around the cook's stuff, his shoes, in
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: his apron. And then in the very rare moments where
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: she truly wasn't being watched, she would run off, grab
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: a paper towel and scrawl things like my name is Leslie,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the attic and leave them on people's desks,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: hoping that that would finally get somebody's attention. But unfortunately,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: pretty much everybody in the church thought it was a joke,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: except for Sam. However, when he contacted the police and
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: told them like, hey, I got this note that sort
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: of suggests that maybe Leslie is being held in the attic. Well,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: they went up there and they searched the attic, and
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: they didn't find her because Ernest had found a special
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: crawl space in the attic that nobody knew about, and
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: so she was just feet away from police, but they
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: didn't know she was up there. But luckily, Sam did
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: not stop. He continued to question what was happening, continued
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: to think all this stuff was super weird, and so
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: eventually he has this stakeout and that maintenance worker, after
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: being so bored, was doing his loop, saw the light
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: come on in the kitchen, goes in the kitchen and
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: what does he see but Leslie gaddis alive in the flesh,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: standing right there. She saw him. Ernest is right behind her,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: and she just made a run for it and literally
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: dove into the maintenance worker's hands, just praying that he
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: would not run away, because Ernest was sure to grab
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: her and do something to her. But the maintenance worker
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: he grabbed Leslie, Ernest took off running and he would
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: eventually be caught. Ernest was convicted of kidnapping and sentenced
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  Speaker 1: to twenty years in prison. As for Leslie, she was
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: hailed as a hero for saving herself and she would
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  Speaker 1: go on to become a successful lawyer who would serve
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  Speaker 1: on the board of the Commission on Missing and Exploited Children.
• 18:19
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• 18:21
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• 18:24
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• 18:28
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