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They kept seeing a dead woman · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: On the afternoon of August fifteenth, twenty twenty two, a
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Speaker 1: twenty four year old beauty influencer and blogger named schaabon
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Speaker 1: Ka put on her makeup in front of a mirror
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Speaker 1: in her bedroom in Munich, Germany. But this was actually
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Speaker 1: Cherbon's childhood bedroom. She was in the home she grew
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Speaker 1: up in and looking around, I mean it looked basically
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Speaker 1: exactly the way it had when she was a teenager.
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Speaker 1: When she last lived here, there were still pictures of
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Speaker 1: her with her high school friends taped to the walls,
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Speaker 1: and there were brightly colored pillows and furniture like it
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Speaker 1: was a time capsule of when she was.
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Speaker 2: In high school. But now you know, she's twenty four
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Speaker 2: years old.
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Speaker 1: But the reason she was back here and living in
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Speaker 1: this bedroom all over again is because just a few
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Speaker 1: months ago she had separated from her husband.
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Speaker 2: And had to move back in with her parents.
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Speaker 1: And while her parents did accept her home, they were
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Speaker 1: not exactly happy to have her here. So Cherbon's family
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Speaker 1: belonged to a small ethnic religion called Yazidism, and one
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Speaker 1: of the rules of this religion was that you absolutely
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Speaker 1: cannot get divorced. And so this was a problem for
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Speaker 1: Charabon because things were not going well for her in
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Speaker 1: her marriage and she really wanted out, but both her
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Speaker 1: parents and her husband's family refused to allow a divorce,
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Speaker 1: and so she had just left. But in many ways
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Speaker 1: that had not solved the problem because basically everybody involved here,
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Speaker 1: with the exception of Charabon, was totally furious about the separation.
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Speaker 2: I mean Chaabon's own parents.
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Speaker 1: They had agreed to take Cherabon back home, but it
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Speaker 1: was on the condition that she would only be here
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Speaker 1: until she and her husband fixed things, because they had
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Speaker 1: to because they couldn't get divorced. But Chabon had no
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Speaker 1: intention of ever going back with her husband. Really, no
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Speaker 1: matter the pressure anybody applied, it was not going to happen.
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Speaker 1: And this was primarily because Cherabon actually had a secret.
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Speaker 2: And that was a few weeks ago. She had met
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Speaker 2: someone new, a young man named.
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Speaker 1: Shakir, and so when Charabon was out at work, at
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Speaker 1: least that's what she told her parents. In reality, she
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Speaker 1: was actually just visiting with Shakir. And even though you know,
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Speaker 1: Chabon understood that her roma with Shakir was not only
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Speaker 1: sort of forbidden but also brand new, she still felt
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Speaker 1: like there was something very real between them that was
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Speaker 1: worth holding onto. In fact, their relationship was so good
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Speaker 1: in their own eyes that the two of them had
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Speaker 1: been working really hard on this plan that was going
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Speaker 1: to get Schabon out of her current predicament and away
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Speaker 1: from her own family and critically away from her husband
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Speaker 1: and his family. Was going to get her out of
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Speaker 1: this marriage. Now, Chabon's phone buzzed on her makeup table,
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Speaker 1: so she put down her mascara. She picked up her
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Speaker 1: phone and saw she had a notification from her Instagram account,
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Speaker 1: So she opened the phone up, opened up Instagram and
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Speaker 1: saw she had a direct message from the person she
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Speaker 1: was currently getting all made up for, who she planned
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Speaker 1: on meeting that night. And meeting this person was actually
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Speaker 1: the first step in Chaabon and Shakir's plan, So Scharabon
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Speaker 1: felt her nerves buzzing as she read the DM with excitement,
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Speaker 1: and then afterwards she finished putting on her makeup, She
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Speaker 1: brushed her long blacks care and then she grabbed her
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Speaker 1: purse and then she headed out into the living room.
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Speaker 1: Then she told her parents who were out there, that
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Speaker 1: she was heading out. She was going to Inglstadt, a
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Speaker 1: city about an hour away, and that she'd be back
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Speaker 1: in maybe a few hours.
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Speaker 2: And so her.
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Speaker 1: Parents are like, great, we'll see you then, and so
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Speaker 1: Chebon she smiled.
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Speaker 2: She walked out the door, she climbed.
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Speaker 1: Into her Mercedes and she drove off. But Cheribon that
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Speaker 1: night didn't come back. A few hours after she left
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Speaker 1: her house, her mom began texting her asking where she was,
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Speaker 1: but Cherbon didn't answer. So Eventually her mom began calling her,
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Speaker 1: but her phone just rang and went straight to voicemail,
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Speaker 1: and she.
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Speaker 2: Didn't call back.
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Speaker 1: And by about eleven pm that night, when still Cheribon
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Speaker 1: had not come home and nobody had seen or heard
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Speaker 1: from her, Cherabon's.
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Speaker 2: Mom was getting really worried. So the city where Cherabon.
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Speaker 1: Had said she was going to, Inglishtadt was actually where
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Speaker 1: her husband lived, and so Cherabon's parents had actually been
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Speaker 1: secretly kind of excited that maybe they were patching things
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Speaker 1: up tonight and they might be getting back to.
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Speaker 2: Go other soon.
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Speaker 1: But for Chebon to just disappear like this late at
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Speaker 1: night and tell nobody was just so out of character
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Speaker 1: that Cherebon's mom now couldn't help but think like, well,
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Speaker 1: what if Cherabon and her husband did see each other,
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Speaker 1: and what if they got into a big fight, Like
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Speaker 1: what if something bad happened? She didn't know, And so
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Speaker 1: for her mom, she just couldn't stand to just waite
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Speaker 1: around and hope her daughter turned up or hope her
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Speaker 1: daughter got in touch, and so instead she told her
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Speaker 1: husband to grab the car keys because they were going
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Speaker 1: to Inglstadt to find their daughter. By about midnight Chebon's
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Speaker 1: mother and father were in the car. Cherebon's Davi was driving,
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Speaker 1: and they were speeding through Inglstadt. They were getting close
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Speaker 1: to Charabon's husband's flat, and their plan was to go
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Speaker 1: knock on his door, didn't matter how late it was,
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Speaker 1: and just see if Cherabon was in there, or if
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Speaker 1: the husband knew where she was, just anything to help
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Speaker 1: them find their daughter. However, as they turned onto a
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Speaker 1: quiet street that ran alongside a river, the mom suddenly
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Speaker 1: yelled out to her husband stop the car. Stop, And
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Speaker 1: so the day he hits the brakes. He pulls over
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Speaker 1: and stops, and the mom leaps out and she's pointing
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Speaker 1: at something, and it's.
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Speaker 2: Their daughter's car.
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Speaker 1: It was parked right off the road, the Mercedes, right
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Speaker 1: near the bank of this river. And so as the
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Speaker 1: mom is running up to the car, she's telling herself that, like,
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Speaker 1: here's the explanation. My daughter must have just had car troubles.
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Speaker 1: That's why she's delayed, that's why she hasn't been in touch.
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Speaker 1: Like here, it is like no big deal. She's gonna
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Speaker 1: be in here, everything's gonna be fine. But she runs
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Speaker 1: up to the driver's side of that car and she
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Speaker 1: looks in and at first she doesn't see anything. There's
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Speaker 1: nobody in the front two seats of the car. It
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Speaker 1: looks like no one's in there. But then she looks
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Speaker 1: into the backseat of the car and she sees Chaabon
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Speaker 1: and she clearly is dead. Just minutes later, this street
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Speaker 1: was absolutely crawling with police officers and emergency vehicles. And
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Speaker 1: not long after that, Chaabon's parents were standing not far
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Speaker 1: from their daughter's car had to watch as police officers
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Speaker 1: Pride opened the locked back door of their daughter's car,
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Speaker 1: and then they reached in and they pulled out Charabon's
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Speaker 1: lifeless body, and she was covered in blood and her
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Speaker 1: body was also showing signs of rigor mortis, so it
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Speaker 1: was sort of stiff, and to the parents it was
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Speaker 1: just horrible. The discovery of Charabon's body immediately launched a
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Speaker 1: full scale police investigation. The city of Inglishtadt was relatively small,
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Speaker 1: with a population of just about eighty thousand people, and
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Speaker 1: most years there actually were no murders there at all,
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Speaker 1: so this was like a really big deal. When the
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Speaker 1: homicide detectives showed up on the scene right away, just
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Speaker 1: from looking at the body, they could tell that whoever
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Speaker 1: killed Charabon had done so in sort of like a
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Speaker 1: wild frenzy, because Cherabon had been stabbed more than fifty.
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Speaker 2: Times in the torso and the face, and.
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Speaker 1: So to detectives, this kind of overkills suggested that whoever
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Speaker 1: killed Cherabon had to have had some really personal reason
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Speaker 1: to go after her.
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Speaker 2: And it didn't take the lead detectives very long.
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Speaker 1: To learn from Chaabon's very distraught parents that Charabon's marriage
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Speaker 1: was in trouble and her estranged husband actually lived nearby,
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Speaker 1: and they believed the parents that perhaps Cheribon had come
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Speaker 1: here to Ingolstadt to visit with him, and so he
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Speaker 1: lives nearby there in the process of potentially getting divorce,
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Speaker 1: and so the detectives are thinking, seems an awful lot
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Speaker 1: like the husband could be involved here. Within a couple
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Speaker 1: of hours, Charbon's body had been shipped off to the
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Speaker 1: medical examiner for an official autopsy, and at the same time,
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Speaker 1: the lead detective on the case had gone to Chabon's
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Speaker 1: estranged husband's home and hauled him down to the police
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Speaker 1: station to be interviewed. Now, the detective had figured this
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Speaker 1: would be a pretty open and shutcase. He fully expected
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Speaker 1: the husband to have visible injuries on him and to
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Speaker 1: be acting very wired and nervous because he's the one
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Speaker 1: who must have killed Cheribon. However, when the detective actually
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Speaker 1: met the husband, the husband turned out to be a
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Speaker 1: very weak suspect. He had cooperated immediately and fully with
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Speaker 1: investigators and even offered to let them search his home
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Speaker 1: and take his DNA, and he had an alibi for
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Speaker 1: most of the evening before he'd gone to bed, And
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Speaker 1: even though technically he didn't have anyone who could vouch
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Speaker 1: for him while he had been sleeping, at least according
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Speaker 1: to him, the detective doubted that just based on time,
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Speaker 1: he would have been able to get up, leave his place,
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Speaker 1: go kill her, dispose of the body, clean up, and
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Speaker 1: then get back home again. Just it didn't seem possible.
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Speaker 1: As for Scherabon's own family, beyond the husband, they really
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Speaker 1: had no other idea about who might have wanted to
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Speaker 1: hurt her to their knowledge. You know, schera Bon didn't
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Speaker 1: have any other romantic partners other than her estranged husband,
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Speaker 1: and she didn't socialize much outside of work. They said
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Speaker 1: that really the only place where she met new people
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Speaker 1: was on social media because she was a beauty influencer
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Speaker 1: and she posted photos and videos and gave advice on fashion.
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Speaker 1: So eight hours after Sharabon's body was discovered, so this
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Speaker 1: is the morning of August sixteenth, the lead detective put
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Speaker 1: out a release to the media asking for help from
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Speaker 1: the public to identify suspects, and then he started digging
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Speaker 1: into Sharabon's social media accounts. Just twenty four hours later,
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Speaker 1: on the morning of August seventeenth, twenty twenty two. So
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Speaker 1: now just a day and a half after Charabon was
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Speaker 1: found dead inside of her car, her murder was solved,
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Speaker 1: but the people involved in this murder truly shocked everyone.
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Speaker 1: So Cherabon, she meets this new guy, Shakir, and she's
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Speaker 1: madly in love with him, and the two of them
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Speaker 1: they just want to run off and be together. But
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Speaker 1: Cheabon's you know, she's married and she can't get out
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Speaker 1: of that marriage very easily. And so the two of them,
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Speaker 1: Cheabon and Shakir, they're trying to think of, you know,
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Speaker 1: how can we get Cheabon out of this marriage, how
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Speaker 1: can we free her? And at first it was like
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Speaker 1: dead end after dead end, there was like no way out.
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Speaker 1: But then they thought of something and it was very clever,
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Speaker 1: but it was something that they needed help doing. It
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Speaker 1: was not just in their power to pull this plan off.
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Speaker 1: They needed a third person. Specifically, they needed to find
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Speaker 1: another influencer, another beauty influencer, and so on the night
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Speaker 1: of August fifteenth, so this is the night that ultimately
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Speaker 1: Chabon is found dead inside of her car, she found
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Speaker 1: an influencer that was going to be perfect for this plan.
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Speaker 1: Her name was Khadija and she was also a beauty influencer.
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Speaker 1: And on the night of the fifteenth, that's the person
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Speaker 1: that Cheabon was going out to meet. That was the
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Speaker 1: person she was messaging with on Instagram. And so Cheribon
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Speaker 1: and also Shakir they go into Englishtadt and they meet
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Speaker 1: up with Kadija. But they didn't fully inform Khadija about
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Speaker 1: what exactly this plan entailed. In fact, really all they
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Speaker 1: told Khadija was that once we meet up with you,
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Speaker 1: you know, we're beauty influencers, we have some really cool
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Speaker 1: beauty products that will just give you.
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Speaker 2: And Kadija's like great.
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Speaker 1: And so Cherabon and Shakir they drive up alongside the
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Speaker 1: curb and there's Khadija and she sees them and she's
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Speaker 1: all excited. She gets inside the car, inside of Chabon's Mercedes,
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Speaker 1: and once she's inside, she doesn't.
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Speaker 2: Receive beauty products.
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Speaker 1: Instead, Scharabon and Shakir pull out knives and they proceed
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Speaker 1: to stab Kadija to death right there inside of the car.
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Speaker 2: And then once she was.
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Speaker 1: Dead, Charaban and Shakir drove the Mercedes right outside of
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Speaker 1: Cherabon's estranged husband's apartment complex. They left the car there
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Speaker 1: with the body inside, and then Chaabon and Shakir fled.
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Speaker 2: It was all part of the plan. I mean, Kadija
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Speaker 2: didn't know the plan, but it was all part of
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Speaker 2: Cheraban and Shakir's plan.
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Speaker 1: However, there's one detail that I've left out to this
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Speaker 1: point that is effectively the actual reason Charabon and Shakir
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Speaker 1: were so convinced their big plan was going to work.
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Speaker 1: So Cheribon didn't just need some random beauty influencer for
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Speaker 1: their their plan to work out. Now, their plan was
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Speaker 1: that Cherabon would find another beauty influencer that looked a
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Speaker 1: lot like her, hopefully that they would kill. They'd plant
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Speaker 1: their body and then Cheraban would like take their identity.
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Speaker 1: Then she and Shakir would run off under this new
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Speaker 1: false identity and live their lives, you know, free of
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Speaker 1: the marriage that Chaaban was trapped inside of.
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Speaker 2: That was their plan. So they start looking for.
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Speaker 1: An influencer and they find Khadija and she is like
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Speaker 1: an exact replica of Chaaban. They look identical, so much
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Speaker 1: so that after they murdered her and planted her body
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Speaker 1: inside of Chabon's car and left her there to be discovered.
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Speaker 1: They had everybody fooled, including Chabon's own parents. They saw
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Speaker 1: the body and they're like, oh, that's my daughter. They
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Speaker 1: believed fully it was their daughter. The plan worked, and
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Speaker 1: the husband's implicated for killing Cheabon.
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Speaker 2: Everything's working out.
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Speaker 1: But the one person that was not fooled was ultimately
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Speaker 1: the Corner because when he began doing the autopsy, the
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Speaker 1: body looked exactly like Chaabon's, except their teeth were different,
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Speaker 1: they had different dental records, and that is the thing
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Speaker 1: that showed this is not Cheribon, this is somebody else.
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Speaker 2: And so at the same.
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Speaker 1: Time that the Corner made this discovery, also all these
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Speaker 1: people in ENGLISHTADT were calling the police saying, I think
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Speaker 1: I just saw Cherabon.
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Speaker 2: I don't think she's dead at all.
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Speaker 1: I think she's at this cafe or I think she's
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Speaker 1: walking down the road over here.
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Speaker 2: She seems just fine.
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Speaker 1: And initially police sort of dismissed these tips as being
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Speaker 1: just bad tips. But when they put it all together
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Speaker 1: and they looked at chebons social media and her messages
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Speaker 1: back and forth with Khadija, and when they saw a
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Speaker 1: picture of Khadija, they put it all together and they
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Speaker 1: figured it out. And so after putting all these things together,
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Speaker 1: they actually went and found Cherabon, who had been spotted
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Speaker 1: on security footage. They arrested her, they arrested Shakir, and
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Speaker 1: then after you know, speaking to them and putting all
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Speaker 1: the evidence together, they figured out that this had been
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Speaker 1: their plan all along, and so both Cherabon and Shakir
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Speaker 1: were ultimately found guilty of murder and sentenced to life
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Speaker 1: in prison. One morning in August of nineteen eighty seven,
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Speaker 1: a fifty seven year old woman named Claudia Sessi walked
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Speaker 1: down the aisle of a historic church in Leon, France.
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Speaker 1: In the back of the church, a musician was playing
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Speaker 1: a very solemn hymn on a pipe organ, and right
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Speaker 1: behind Claudia, four of her sons and nephews were carrying
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Speaker 1: her husband's coffin. So Claudia's husband had died suddenly just
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Speaker 1: a few days ago, and she still really couldn't believe
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Speaker 1: he was gone. A part of her kept thinking that,
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Speaker 1: like any day now, she was going to get a
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Speaker 1: call from the morgue telling her there'd been a mistake
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Speaker 1: and her husband had just been asleep this whole time.
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Speaker 1: But as she took her seat in the front row
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Speaker 1: and looked around at all the friends and the family
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Speaker 1: that were gathered there, wearing black and dabbing at their
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Speaker 1: eyes with handkerchiefs, she finally began to accept the truth. Eventually,
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Speaker 1: the organ music dies out and the church goes totally quiet,
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Speaker 1: and the priest makes his way up to the pulpit
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Speaker 1: to begin the funeral mass.
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Speaker 2: However, right as.
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Speaker 1: He began speaking, there was this sort of muffled sound
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Speaker 1: that at first it was really hard to tell what
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Speaker 1: it was, but it was loud enough that it stopped
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Speaker 1: the priest from speaking. He stopped what he was doing
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Speaker 1: and sort of looked around, and then people began to
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Speaker 1: gasp in the church because the sound, this muffled sound,
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Speaker 1: it was coming from inside the casket. And so Claudia
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Speaker 1: and she realized that She's shot up to her feet
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Speaker 1: and she's she's staring at the casket, and everyone's like,
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Speaker 1: what's going on. And then people began to scream because
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Speaker 1: suddenly they realize what the sound was.
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Speaker 2: It was a voice.
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Speaker 1: Then it was muffled because it was coming from inside
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Speaker 1: the casket, and the voice, which was a man's voice,
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Speaker 1: was saying, let me out of here. And so the priest,
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Speaker 1: he's overlooking this scene of absolute chaos. He's seeing everybody's
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Speaker 1: screaming and running around. Nobody knows what to make of this.
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Speaker 1: He's terrified. He's presided over hundreds of funerals before, he's
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Speaker 1: never ever heard of somebody waking up in the middle
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Speaker 1: of their funeral. And he's looking over at Claudia, the widow,
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Speaker 1: and at first she seems so happy, like scared, terrified,
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Speaker 1: but happy like her husband is back. And she begins
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Speaker 1: to run towards the coffin, but she only makes it
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Speaker 1: a few steps before she grabs at her chest and
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Speaker 1: she collapses to the ground. And this seemed to snap
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Speaker 1: the priest out of his sort of his shocked days here,
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Speaker 1: and he ran down to Claudia, and other people were
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Speaker 1: running over to Claudia, and the priest began yelling for
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Speaker 1: someone to call an ambulance, and then he rushed over
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Speaker 1: to the coffin, expecting to find that Claudia's husband was
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Speaker 1: somehow still alive, you know, when he was going to
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Speaker 1: open it up and free him. But when he opened
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Speaker 1: up the coffin, the husband was obviously dead.
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Speaker 2: There's no way he just yelled, let me out of here.
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Speaker 2: Not possible. He was definitely dead.
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Speaker 1: So at first this was just like a terrifying scandal
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Speaker 1: that was sort of localized. But after police investigated and
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Speaker 1: figured out what actually happened inside of that church, this
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Speaker 1: story blew up and ricocheted all around the world, because
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Speaker 1: truly it is unbelievable what happened inside of the church
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Speaker 1: on that day. It would turn out there was a
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Speaker 1: man in attendance that day at the funeral who was
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Speaker 1: both one of Claudia's husband's friends, so he was there,
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Speaker 1: you know, grieving the loss of his friend, and he
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Speaker 1: was also a ventriloquist, somebody who's able to throw their voice,
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Speaker 1: and he thought it would cheer everyone up if he
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Speaker 1: threw his voice and made it sound like the dead man.
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Speaker 1: His buddy was crying, you know, let me out of
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Speaker 1: here from inside the coffin. It was meant to lighten
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Speaker 1: the mood, but the prank worked so well that people
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Speaker 1: thought it was real, and Claudia literally thought it was
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Speaker 1: her husband coming back to life, and she was so
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Speaker 1: overwhelmed as she ran to her husband that she had
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Speaker 1: a heart attack and died. Now the friend the ventriloquist
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Speaker 1: immediately took responsibility and felt horrible. He felt like he
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Speaker 1: basically killed Claudia, but despite that, police never charged him
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Speaker 1: with any crime because ventriloquism is not illegal. On the
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Speaker 1: morning of March eighteenth, nineteen sixty three, a sixteen year
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Speaker 1: old girl named Eileen Welch was chatting with her friends
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Speaker 1: outside of her high school in Yorkshire, England. It was
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Speaker 1: a few minutes before first period and there were dozens
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Speaker 1: of other students smelling around outside the school waiting for the.
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Speaker 2: Bell to ring.
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Speaker 1: Eileen was holding an armful of books and telling her
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Speaker 1: friends about what she had done over the weekend when
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Speaker 1: suddenly she began to scream. At that same exact moment,
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Speaker 1: Eileen's friend, who had been standing with her just a
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Speaker 1: moment ago, watched as Eileen just began to rise into
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Speaker 1: the air. There was nothing around her lifting her up.
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Speaker 1: She just began inexplicably raising into the air, like thirty
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Speaker 1: feet into the air, and she's screaming, and like this friend,
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Speaker 1: she's looking up at her, and all around her, all
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Speaker 1: the other students, they're looking up at Eileen just being
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Speaker 1: suspended in air by some phantom force. And Eileen, she's screaming,
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Speaker 1: she's screaming, and then suddenly she comes careening down and
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Speaker 1: slams into the ground so hard. Then everybody's just screaming
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Speaker 1: like mad, and someone began running towards the school, yelling
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Speaker 1: for someone to call an ambulance. Eileen was rushed to
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Speaker 1: the hospital, clearly in agonizing pain with multiple broken bones,
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Speaker 1: severe internal injuries, and the first responders and the doctors
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Speaker 1: at the hospital and the medical staff, I mean, they
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Speaker 1: did everything they could to save her. But just two
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Speaker 1: hours after she smashed into the ground from you know,
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Speaker 1: falling from thirty feet in the air, somehow she died.
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Speaker 1: When police went back to the school to begin their
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Speaker 1: investigation into what happened, I mean, detectives literally could not
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Speaker 1: believe the dozens of eyewitness accounts. The detectives questioned thirty
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Speaker 1: seven students and teachers who were all outside that day
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Speaker 1: that watched what happened to Eileen, and all of them
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Speaker 1: told the same story that Eileen, out of nowhere, just
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Speaker 1: suddenly rose into the air like thirty feet and she
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Speaker 1: held up there for a second and.
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Speaker 2: Then came smashing down.
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Speaker 1: Now, at first, the police just didn't believe the stories
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Speaker 1: they were being told. They're thinking, there's there's got to
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Speaker 1: be more to this story. People don't just raise into
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Speaker 1: the air and smash back down again, that doesn't happen.
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Speaker 1: But when all these accounts were the same, and they
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Speaker 1: all had the same amount of conviction behind them that
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Speaker 1: these people they saw this, the police realized, like, this
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Speaker 1: is apparently what happened, And so they began to assume
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Speaker 1: that the only way this could have happened is that
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Speaker 1: this was some product of a bizarre weather.
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Speaker 2: Phenomenon or something like a mini tornado, like lifted or
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Speaker 2: into the air or something.
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Speaker 1: So they actually brought in several meteorologists into this investigation.
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Speaker 1: But the meteorologists concluded that what everyone claimed to have
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Speaker 1: witnessed was basically scientifically impossible because in order for the
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Speaker 1: wind to pick someone up the way they described Eileen
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Speaker 1: being picked up, the winds would need to be blowing
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Speaker 1: at at least one hundred and ten.
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Speaker 2: Miles per hour, and there were no winds.
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Speaker 1: Of anywhere near that speed reported anywhere in England that morning.
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Speaker 1: And even if there had been like a sudden gust
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Speaker 1: of wind that was able to lift Eileen up, the
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Speaker 1: reason that still couldn't have happened the way it was
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Speaker 1: described is Eileen was near other people in those proximity.
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Speaker 1: There's no way that she would be the only one affected.
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Speaker 1: Other people would have been blown into the sky, but
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Speaker 1: nobody was. It was just Eileen. To this day, none
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Speaker 1: of the thirty seven witnesses have changed their stories, and
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Speaker 1: there has never been a scientific explanation for what happened
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Speaker 1: to Eileen, and so the cause of her death to
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Speaker 1: this day remains a mystery.
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