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Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today we're
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Speaker 1: On October twentieth, nineteen eighty six, Captain Alexander Kluyev was
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Speaker 1: piloting a passenger plane that was about to descend down
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Speaker 1: into a Russian airport for a layover. On board this
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Speaker 1: plane were ninety four occupants, including passengers and crew, and
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Speaker 1: as the captain began going over in his mind and
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Speaker 1: the different steps he would need to follow to land
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Speaker 1: this plane, he practically sided with boredom. He had always
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Speaker 1: thought life as a pilot would be exciting and interesting,
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Speaker 1: but all he ever did were these short commercial flights
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Speaker 1: around Russia, and they lacked any sort of thrill. In fact,
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Speaker 1: the captain had flown this particular route so many times
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Speaker 1: he could practically do it in his sleep. And so
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Speaker 1: as the captain was about to begin yet another boring
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Speaker 1: descent to end yet another boring flight, he was suddenly
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Speaker 1: struck with a very unexpected idea. And as he thought
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Speaker 1: about it, he stopped what he was doing, and he
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Speaker 1: just turned to his co pilot, whose name was Gennedy Zernov,
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Speaker 1: and he said, Hey, Kennedy, can I ask you something.
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Speaker 1: At the same time that Captain Alexander and Gennedy were
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Speaker 1: having this conversation up in the cockpit, down on the
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Speaker 1: ground inside of that Russian airport where the captain was
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Speaker 1: supposed to land, an air traffic controller noticed on their
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Speaker 1: radar that Captain Alexander's plane was coming in way too
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Speaker 1: fast and at too steep of an angle to attempt
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Speaker 1: a landing, And so the controller radioed up to the
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Speaker 1: captain and said, hey, you're going too fast. Adjust your speed,
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Speaker 1: adjust your angle, otherwise you're going to need to abort
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Speaker 1: this landing. But the captain did not radio anything back
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Speaker 1: to the controller. Instead, the plane continued its descent at
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Speaker 1: the same angle and the same speed, and to the
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Speaker 1: controller's horror, they looked out the window and literally saw
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Speaker 1: the plane was lowering its landing gear, like, clearly they
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Speaker 1: are going to attempt to land, even though this looks
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Speaker 1: so dangerous. And so the controller, and a bit of
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Speaker 1: a panic, radio's again up to the captain and says, hey,
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Speaker 1: you're still coming in too fast, too steep of an angle.
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Speaker 1: Abort the landing. But again the captain did not respond.
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Speaker 1: What Captain Alexander had said to Gennedy when he said hey,
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Speaker 1: can I ask you something? Was, Hey, do you want
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Speaker 1: to make a bet that I can land this plane blind?
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Speaker 1: And Gennedy, who was also very bored, thought, you know what,
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Speaker 1: that's a great idea. Let's do it. And so the
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Speaker 1: two pilots lowered all the shades inside of the cockpit,
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Speaker 1: blocking all of the windows, so Captain Alexander literally can't
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Speaker 1: see anything except for his instruments. And then Captain Alexander
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Speaker 1: attempted to land the plane, and when the air traffic
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Speaker 1: controller began calling up to Captain Alexander saying you're going
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Speaker 1: too fast, Your angle's wrong, Captain Alexander was sure he
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Speaker 1: could pull it off, and so he totally ignored the
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Speaker 1: controller and went for the runway. And when he hit
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Speaker 1: the runway, he was going too fast at too steep
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Speaker 1: of an angle, and so it broke off the landing gear.
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Speaker 1: The plane skidded all the way down the runway and
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Speaker 1: then flipped over and caught on fire. Out of the
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Speaker 1: ninety four people who were on board that plane, seventy
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Speaker 1: would perish, including the copilot Kennedy's Aernoff. As for Captain Alexander,
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Speaker 1: who orchestrated this whole tragedy, well, he actually survived, and
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Speaker 1: he was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. On August
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Speaker 1: twenty third, twenty thirteen, inside of a little home in
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Speaker 1: a Russian suburb, eight year old Maria Cheliasheva was hard
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Speaker 1: at work at her kitchen table drawing a picture of
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Speaker 1: a horse. Maria's parents had recently brought her to a
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Speaker 1: farm where she was able to do some pony riding,
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Speaker 1: and ever since then she had become obsessed with horses
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Speaker 1: and ponies, and so as Maria was hard at work
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Speaker 1: on her drawing, her father, forty two year old Mikyle,
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Speaker 1: was right nearby at the kitchen stove, dicing up onions,
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Speaker 1: and as he did, his eyes were kind of watering
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Speaker 1: from cutting the onions, and so he was making a
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Speaker 1: show of turning around and looking at his daughter, pretending
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Speaker 1: to cry, and Maria thought it was very funny. And
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Speaker 1: then at some point, as Mikyle was doing this, he
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Speaker 1: realized he was missing a key ingredient for the dinner
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Speaker 1: he was preparing, so he kind of threw up his
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Speaker 1: hands in exasperation, and then he yelled out into the
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Speaker 1: house to his wife, you know, hey, do we have
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Speaker 1: any potatoes, And from somewhere in the back of the house,
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Speaker 1: Maria's mother called back, yes, we do. They're down in
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Speaker 1: the cellar, but they're pretty old. And so Mikyle finished
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Speaker 1: chopping his onions. He threw them into a hot pan,
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Speaker 1: and then he walked out of the kitchen, poking Maria
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Speaker 1: playfully as he walked, and she kind of laughed at him.
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Speaker 1: And then Maria watched as her father walked through the
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Speaker 1: living room, past Maria's grandmother and brother, and he walked
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Speaker 1: over to this door that was right at the beginning
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Speaker 1: of this hallway, and that door led down into the cellar,
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Speaker 1: and so Maria she stopped for a moment and just
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Speaker 1: watched as her dad opened the cellar door began walking
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Speaker 1: down the steps, and he shut the door behind him,
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Speaker 1: and then Maria just went back to coloring and her horse.
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Speaker 1: But after a few minutes, Maria started to smell something
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Speaker 1: really bad and she looked up and she saw the
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Speaker 1: onions that were on the burner were starting to burn,
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Speaker 1: and smoke was going up into the ceiling. And then
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Speaker 1: suddenly the smoke alarm went off, and as this commotion
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Speaker 1: is happening, Maria's grandmother runs into the kitchen and begins
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Speaker 1: fanning the smoke. She turns off the burner and moves
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Speaker 1: the onions, and then Maria's mother comes running into the
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Speaker 1: kitchen and she's seeing what's happening, and she's looking around.
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Speaker 1: She doesn't see her husband, and so very frustratedly, she
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Speaker 1: yells out, Mikyele, you burn the onions, come in and
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Speaker 1: deal with this. But Mikaele was not on the first floor.
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Speaker 1: He was still down in the cellar, and so Maria's
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Speaker 1: mother knew that, and she was kind of an that
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Speaker 1: he was taking so long down there, and so after
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Speaker 1: muttering something under her breath, she stormed out of the
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Speaker 1: kitchen walked over to the cellar door, opened it up,
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Speaker 1: went downstairs, shutting the door behind her. Meanwhile, back in
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Speaker 1: the kitchen, Maria's grandmother was now going through the burned onions,
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Speaker 1: looking for any that were salvageable, and Maria had gone
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Speaker 1: back to her horse drawing. But after about five minutes,
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Speaker 1: it dawned on Maria that her parents had still not
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Speaker 1: come out of the cellar yet, and it just felt
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Speaker 1: like too much time had passed. They should be up
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Speaker 1: by now, and so Maria stopped working on her picture
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Speaker 1: and just stared down the hall at the cellar door.
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Speaker 1: And at the same time, Maria's grandmother had stopped with
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Speaker 1: the onions, and she too had come over and was
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Speaker 1: watching from right next to Maria down the hall at
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Speaker 1: the cellar door, both of them just expecting the parents
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Speaker 1: to emerge any second. But as the seconds ticked by,
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Speaker 1: nobody emerged from the cellar, and so finally Maria's grandmother said, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go see what's going on, and so Maria
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Speaker 1: watched as her grandmother walked through the living room, passed
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Speaker 1: Maria's brother who was playing a video game, and then
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Speaker 1: Maria's grandmother right in front of the closed cellar door
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Speaker 1: just yelled out, hey, are you guys okay down there?
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Speaker 1: But there was no response from the cellar, And so
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Speaker 1: with this, Maria's grandmother turned around and told Maria's brother
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Speaker 1: to turn off his video game because it was so noisy.
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Speaker 1: You know, maybe they were calling from the cellar and
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Speaker 1: they couldn't hear them. And so the brother, who was
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Speaker 1: just totally frustrated by this whole situation, he paused his game,
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Speaker 1: and then Maria's grandmother called out again, you know, hey,
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Speaker 1: are you guys okay down there? And this time, when
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Speaker 1: there was still silence, Maria's brother he just stood up
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Speaker 1: and said, okay, why don't we just go downstairs and
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Speaker 1: make sure they're okay? Why aren't we doing that? And so,
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Speaker 1: without waiting for a response from his grandmother, Maria's brother
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Speaker 1: just walked right over to the cellar door. He opened
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Speaker 1: it up, and he looked down and he goes, look,
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Speaker 1: they're right there. And then the brother began walking down
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Speaker 1: the steps yelling to his parents, Hey, come on, win's dinner,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? And as he did, he shut the
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Speaker 1: door behind him. And so after this, Maria's grandmother walked
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Speaker 1: back into the kitchen and sat with Maria as the
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Speaker 1: two of them stared at the cellar door, expecting their
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Speaker 1: family to return any second now. But they didn't, and
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Speaker 1: so at this point both Maria and her grandmother were
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Speaker 1: really starting to panic. They could tell something was wrong,
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Speaker 1: and so Maria's grandmother grabbed her phone and called a
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Speaker 1: neighbor and just said, hey, can you come over. I
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Speaker 1: think something's wrong. I don't know what it is. And
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Speaker 1: then after Maria's grandmother hung up the phone, instead of
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Speaker 1: waiting for the neighbor to come over, Maria's grandmother just
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Speaker 1: got up and walked right over to the cellar door,
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Speaker 1: then opened the door and began walking down the stairs.
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Speaker 1: But this time the grandmother left the door open, and
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Speaker 1: so Maria was able to listen from her seat in
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Speaker 1: the kitchen to the sound of her grandmother's footsteps making
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Speaker 1: their way down the stairs, and then at some point
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Speaker 1: Maria heard what sounded like a distinct thud and then silence. Now,
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Speaker 1: at this point, Maria is terrified the neighbor has not
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Speaker 1: come over yet, and so without knowing what else to do,
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Speaker 1: she just got up and walked over to the open
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Speaker 1: cellar door and just stared down into the darkness down below.
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Speaker 1: She couldn't see anything, but she was too scared to
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Speaker 1: even call out to her family, and then finally she
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Speaker 1: just began descending the stairs herself. Ten minutes later, the
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Speaker 1: neighbor whom Maria's grandmother had called finally arrived over at
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Speaker 1: their house. He knocked on the front door, but there
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Speaker 1: was no answer, and so he tried the doorknob found
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Speaker 1: it unlocked, so he opened it up and he stepped inside,
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Speaker 1: and right away, you know, he looked around and it
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Speaker 1: was totally quiet. There was nobody on the first floor
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Speaker 1: of the house. But the neighbor immediately heard crying, and
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Speaker 1: he walked around the first floor listening for where it
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Speaker 1: was coming from, and he realized when he got to
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Speaker 1: the top of the open door leading down into the
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Speaker 1: cellar that the crying was coming from down there, and
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Speaker 1: so without a thought, the neighbor just ran down the
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Speaker 1: stairs and he couldn't believe what he found. He found Maria,
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Speaker 1: the eight year old, just crying on the ground, and
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Speaker 1: all around her was her entire family, just laying on
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Speaker 1: the ground. Now, the neighbor had no idea what was
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Speaker 1: going on, but sensing clearly there was some sort of emergency.
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Speaker 1: Based on the call he got and what he was
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Speaker 1: seeing now, he just scooped up. Maria ran upstairs and
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Speaker 1: ran out of the house and began screaming for help.
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Speaker 1: When help arrived, they would search the house and make
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Speaker 1: their way down into the cellar, and they would discover
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Speaker 1: that Maria's entire family, her grandmother, her brother, her parents,
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Speaker 1: they were all dead and what had killed them were
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Speaker 1: the very potatoes that Mikaele had gone down to get.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out Maria's mother was right when she
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Speaker 1: warned Mikyle that the potatoes they had downstairs were very old.
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Speaker 1: In fact, they were sold. They had begun to rot,
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Speaker 1: and as they rotted, they produced this toxic fume that
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Speaker 1: did not ventilate out of the cellar. The cellar was
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Speaker 1: totally enclosed, there was no windows, and the family had
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Speaker 1: this habit of always shutting the door whenever they went
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Speaker 1: down into the cellar, and so over time this fume
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Speaker 1: had totally filled the entire cellar, and one by one,
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Speaker 1: as family members went down into the cellar, sealing the
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Speaker 1: door behind them, they passed out from these fumes and
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Speaker 1: then died. Maria was the only one who survived going
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Speaker 1: down into the cellar because her grandmother, who had gone
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Speaker 1: down right before her, had left the door open, and
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Speaker 1: so by the time Maria had gone down, a lot
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Speaker 1: of the toxic fumes had found their way up the
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Speaker 1: stairs and escaped into the rest of the house, and
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Speaker 1: so when Maria went down there, it was not nearly
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Speaker 1: listen and help. On December seventh, nineteen ninety three, a
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Speaker 1: pregnant woman named Diane Shapp sat inside of a hospital
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Speaker 1: at the nurse who was doing her blood pressure. When
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Speaker 1: blood pressure was still too high, and so Diane she sighed,
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Speaker 1: and she was pretty upset by this, but at the
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Speaker 1: same time, she wasn't all that shocked. After all, Diane
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Speaker 1: had come to the hospital because she thought something was
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Speaker 1: wrong with her. Diane was an American who lived on
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Speaker 1: the nearby Sickles Army Airfield base along with her husband,
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Speaker 1: Sergeant Stephen Shapp, and that morning, Diane had begun to bleed,
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Speaker 1: and because she had a history of miscarriages, she panicked
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Speaker 1: and just rushed to the hospital to get checked out. Now, ultimately,
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Speaker 1: the doctors would tell her that it seemed like she
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Speaker 1: was going to be okay and that the bleeding was
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Speaker 1: not a big issue, but as a precaution, they wanted
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Speaker 1: her to stay in the hospital for a week, just
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Speaker 1: doing bed rest where they could watch her and make
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Speaker 1: sure she was really okay. And so far she was,
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Speaker 1: but her blood pressure was still too high. The nurse
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Speaker 1: who had taken Diane's blood pressure finished doing the rest
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Speaker 1: of Diane's vitals and then afterwards she left the room,
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Speaker 1: leaving Diane alone. And Diane, now, it's the first time
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Speaker 1: she's been alone inside of her hospital room since she arrived,
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Speaker 1: and suddenly she just felt so anxious about the whole situation.
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Speaker 1: And so as she's laying in her bed wondering if
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Speaker 1: her pregnancy was really okay, she heard footsteps out in
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Speaker 1: the hallway and then suddenly her door busted open and
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Speaker 1: it was her husband, Stephen. And Stephen, you know, his
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Speaker 1: skin was pale, his eyes were red, he looked really upset,
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Speaker 1: and he rushed into the room and he kneeled down
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Speaker 1: next to Diane's bed and he took her hand and
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Speaker 1: he just said, you know, how are you doing. It
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Speaker 1: had been a really hard stretch lately for Diane and Stephen.
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Speaker 1: Just a few months earlier, Diane had actually asked Steven
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Speaker 1: for a divorce because she felt like Steven had grown
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Speaker 1: distant and the love was just not there anymore in
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Speaker 1: their relationship. As for Steven, he didn't want the divorce.
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Speaker 1: He felt like their relationship was still good, they still
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Speaker 1: loved each other, but he understood Diane was clearly unhappy,
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Speaker 1: and so he was very gentlemanly about this whole situation
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Speaker 1: and even went with Diane to the Bass Cleric where
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Speaker 1: they arranged for Diane to be sent back to the
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Speaker 1: United States while Stephen stayed in Germany. But before Diane
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Speaker 1: was able to make that move back home, she had
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Speaker 1: discovered that she was pregnant. Now Dianne knew Stephen really
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Speaker 1: wanted to reconcile and get back together, and especially now
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Speaker 1: that he had found out she was pregnant, he really
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Speaker 1: wanted them to get back together so he could be
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Speaker 1: the dad. But Diane knew that just was not possible.
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Speaker 1: Their relationship just didn't work, and so she needed to
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Speaker 1: be firm, and so she actually squeezed Steven's hand as
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Speaker 1: he's sitting there right next to her, and she just
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Speaker 1: said to him even so he hadn't brought it up.
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Speaker 1: She said, you know, we can't get back together even
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Speaker 1: though I'm pregnant. It can't happen. But Stephen just kind
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Speaker 1: of shook his head at her like he was not
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Speaker 1: here for that reason, and he said, look, I just
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Speaker 1: want to be your friend. Let me go back to
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Speaker 1: your house. I'll gather up your things and bring them
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Speaker 1: here to make your stay a little bit more comfortable.
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Speaker 1: And so Diane, who wanted to tell Steven, you know, no,
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Speaker 1: don't do that. I'm fine, she could just tell that
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Speaker 1: he really wanted to help her, and so, kind of
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Speaker 1: against her better judgment, Diane said, okay, Stephen, if you
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Speaker 1: want to go back and get my stuff, I would
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Speaker 1: really appreciate it. And at that Stephen stood up and
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Speaker 1: he gave Diane a long hug and said, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'll be right back, and then he turned and then
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Speaker 1: left the room. A few hours later, at around five
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Speaker 1: pm that evening, the phone inside of Diane's room began
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Speaker 1: to ring, and so Diane answered it and it was
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Speaker 1: her husband's best friend, Gregory Glover, and he was calling
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Speaker 1: just to check in on Diane because he had heard
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Speaker 1: she was in the hospital about some bleeding and he
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Speaker 1: wanted to make sure the baby was okay, and Diane
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Speaker 1: would tell him that, you know, it seems like everything's fine.
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Speaker 1: And then after that, Gregory would tell Diane that he
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Speaker 1: was really worried about Stephen. He said, you know, this morning,
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Speaker 1: I had driven him to work and all he did
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Speaker 1: was pour his heart out to me about how he
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Speaker 1: wanted to get back together with you, and I just
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Speaker 1: want you to know that, you know, he's really worked
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Speaker 1: up about this. But before Diane could even respond to Gregory,
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Speaker 1: the phone just suddenly went dead, and so Diane she
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Speaker 1: held the phone out kind of staring at it, like
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Speaker 1: what's going on here? She put it back to her ear.
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Speaker 1: She said Greg's name a few more times, but the
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Speaker 1: line was just totally dead, and so Diane she hung
17:26
Speaker 1: up the phone and figured Gregory would just call back.
17:29
Speaker 1: But thirty minutes went by and Gregory did not call back.
17:33
Speaker 1: And then out in the hallway, Diane began to hear running,
17:36
Speaker 1: and that running continued all the way up the hall
17:38
Speaker 1: and it stopped right outside of her door, and so
17:41
Speaker 1: she turned to face her door. The door flung open,
17:44
Speaker 1: and what she saw caused Diane to just freeze in
17:47
Speaker 1: total shock. A few hours earlier, after Stephen had left
17:50
Speaker 1: Diane's hospital room, he had gone straight to her house
17:53
Speaker 1: to begin gathering things up for her. And so when
17:55
Speaker 1: he got there, he had a gym bag which was
17:57
Speaker 1: made by a sports and athletic company called Hey, and
18:00
Speaker 1: he had gone inside of her house and begun going
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Speaker 1: around the rooms gathering things she would want and putting
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Speaker 1: them in this bag. And at some point Stephen made
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Speaker 1: his way into Diane's bedroom, and suddenly he was just
18:11
Speaker 1: kind of overcome with sadness because he looked around the
18:13
Speaker 1: room and he saw there were still pictures up from
18:16
Speaker 1: their wedding day, and there was a card that was
18:18
Speaker 1: face down on the bedside table that he recognized, and
18:21
Speaker 1: just all of these different things he was seeing just
18:23
Speaker 1: suddenly made him feel so depressed about losing his marriage.
18:27
Speaker 1: And so Stephen, instead of continuing to gather up things
18:30
Speaker 1: for Diane, he just began pacing back and forth inside
18:34
Speaker 1: of her bedroom, thinking about ways he could potentially win
18:37
Speaker 1: Diane back. You know, maybe there was a gift he
18:39
Speaker 1: could give her, or some sort of offering or gesture
18:42
Speaker 1: that would show her that he still loved her very much.
18:45
Speaker 1: And so as Stephen was thinking about this, he happened
18:47
Speaker 1: to glance down at his gym bag, and suddenly he
18:50
Speaker 1: felt totally inspired, like he knew exactly what he needed
18:54
Speaker 1: to do. And so, without another thought, Stephen grabbed something
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Speaker 1: off of the mantelpiece. Instead of Diane's bedroom, he threw
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Speaker 1: it inside of his gym bag. Then he grabbed the
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Speaker 1: bag and walked out of her house. Once Stephen was outside,
19:05
Speaker 1: he had a big smile on his face. He was
19:07
Speaker 1: even whistling as he walked. And he went down and
19:10
Speaker 1: he got into his car and he drove off. But
19:12
Speaker 1: instead of going to the hospital where Diane was, Stephen
19:15
Speaker 1: began driving in these weird loops all around Sickle's Army
19:19
Speaker 1: Airfield base, almost like he was going on a joy ride.
19:22
Speaker 1: But as he was driving, Stephen was constantly scanning left
19:26
Speaker 1: and right like he was looking for something. And then
19:28
Speaker 1: at some point, as he did one of his many loops,
19:30
Speaker 1: Stephen passed by the mess hall the cafeteria, and he
19:33
Speaker 1: saw all the soldiers going in and out of this
19:35
Speaker 1: mess hall, and he thought, oh, that's where it will be.
19:38
Speaker 1: The thing I need is inside of there, and so
19:40
Speaker 1: Stephen he parked his car. He got out and he
19:42
Speaker 1: rushed inside of the mess hall, but after looking all around,
19:46
Speaker 1: he couldn't find the thing he wanted, and so, frustrated,
19:49
Speaker 1: he turned and walked out of the mess hall. But
19:51
Speaker 1: when he went back outside, as he was walking back
19:54
Speaker 1: to his car, something out of the corner of his
19:56
Speaker 1: eye caught his attention, and he looked over and it
19:59
Speaker 1: was this phone right on the sidewalk up against the road,
20:02
Speaker 1: and he couldn't believe it, but there it was. There
20:04
Speaker 1: was the thing right near this phone booth that Stephen
20:07
Speaker 1: desperately wanted. And so Stephen, instead of going to his car,
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Speaker 1: just began walking in a straight, very determined line towards
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Speaker 1: this phone booth. Thirty minutes later, Diane heard those running
20:18
Speaker 1: footsteps out in the hallway, and then her door flung open,
20:21
Speaker 1: and she froze in shock at what she saw, because
20:24
Speaker 1: what she saw was her husband, and he had this
20:26
Speaker 1: totally crazed look on his face, like he was smiling
20:29
Speaker 1: but kind of deranged, and he was holding that head
20:32
Speaker 1: Jim bag and he walked in holding the bag and
20:35
Speaker 1: just stared directly at Diane, and then he opened it up.
20:38
Speaker 1: He reached inside and he pulled out his special gift,
20:41
Speaker 1: the thing he had been driving all around Base for
20:44
Speaker 1: that he had found inside of that phone booth, and
20:46
Speaker 1: he walked up to Diane and he put it right
20:48
Speaker 1: in her face and said, look, look what I brought you. Look,
20:51
Speaker 1: And by this point Diane was screaming bloody murder. It
20:54
Speaker 1: would turn out. When Stephen first arrived at Diane's hospital
20:57
Speaker 1: room that morning and he had knelt down and taken
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Speaker 1: her hand and asked if she was okay, Diane had
21:03
Speaker 1: been very firm with him that they could still not
21:06
Speaker 1: get back together even though she was pregnant. Now, this
21:09
Speaker 1: was crushing news for Stephen because he did secretly hope
21:12
Speaker 1: that this baby would bring them back together. But what
21:15
Speaker 1: Diane told Stephen next was infinitely more crushing. She would
21:19
Speaker 1: say to Stephen that the real reason they could not
21:22
Speaker 1: get back together was because this baby was not his. Now,
21:26
Speaker 1: Stephen had initially taken this news pretty well and said
21:29
Speaker 1: to Diane, you know, okay, I understand. You know, at
21:31
Speaker 1: least let me go to your house and gather up
21:33
Speaker 1: some things for you and bring them back here so
21:35
Speaker 1: you stay at the hospital is a little bit more comfortable.
21:37
Speaker 1: And Diane had maybe been a little bit surprised at
21:40
Speaker 1: how well Stephen had taken this, and she said, okay, yeah,
21:43
Speaker 1: that would be great. And so Stephen had left the
21:45
Speaker 1: hospital gone to Diane's house. He went into her room
21:47
Speaker 1: and he began putting her things into that gym bag,
21:50
Speaker 1: when suddenly he stopped because he noticed those pictures on
21:53
Speaker 1: the mantelpiece of their wedding day, and it was just
21:55
Speaker 1: kind of crushing to realize that his marriage really was over.
21:59
Speaker 1: And then before he went back to packing, he happened
22:01
Speaker 1: to glance over at the bedside table and he noticed
22:04
Speaker 1: a card face down on that table. Now, at first,
22:08
Speaker 1: Stephen actually didn't really react to this card because he
22:11
Speaker 1: knew who had given it to Diane. It was just
22:13
Speaker 1: a friend of hers, and the card was kind of meaningless.
22:15
Speaker 1: It was just a card to celebrate their friendship. But
22:18
Speaker 1: then Stephen suddenly thinking to himself, wait a minute, this person,
22:21
Speaker 1: this friend of Diane's, gives her cards all the time,
22:25
Speaker 1: and this person is always coming over to say hi
22:27
Speaker 1: to Diane, and this person's always complimenting Diane and telling
22:31
Speaker 1: me how great Diane is. And it was like suddenly
22:34
Speaker 1: everything just kind of fell into place for Stephen, and
22:37
Speaker 1: he realized this so called friend of Diane's was much
22:40
Speaker 1: more than that. This friend was Diane's lover and very
22:44
Speaker 1: likely the father of her unborn child. And who was
22:47
Speaker 1: this friend of Diane's well none other than Steven's very
22:51
Speaker 1: best friend, Gregory Glover, the same Gregory Glover that Stephen
22:55
Speaker 1: just that morning had poured his heart out to on
22:58
Speaker 1: the ride to work, telling Gregory how much he missed
23:01
Speaker 1: his wife and how much he wanted to reconcile, and
23:04
Speaker 1: Gregory's advice to Steven had been, well, you know, I
23:06
Speaker 1: know you're hurting, but you really need to let this go.
23:09
Speaker 1: You need to let the divorce happen and just move
23:11
Speaker 1: on with your life. And now Stephen realized that Gregory
23:14
Speaker 1: wanted Steven to end his relationship with his wife so
23:18
Speaker 1: Gregory could have a relationship with Diane. And so Stephen
23:21
Speaker 1: felt unbelievably betrayed. And that was when he decided to
23:25
Speaker 1: get a gift for Diane. And so he grabbed a
23:28
Speaker 1: knife that was on the mantelpiece inside of Diane's bedroom.
23:31
Speaker 1: He threw it inside of his gym bag. He got
23:33
Speaker 1: in his car, and he began driving around the base
23:36
Speaker 1: looking for Gregory, and after Steven had gone into the
23:39
Speaker 1: mess hall and then come back out again, he had
23:41
Speaker 1: spotted Gregory on the phone inside of that phone booth,
23:45
Speaker 1: and Steven had immediately run over, opened it up, grabbed Gregory,
23:49
Speaker 1: pulled him out, and begun stabbing him. Now Steven didn't
23:52
Speaker 1: know this, but at the time he attacked greg greg
23:56
Speaker 1: was literally on the phone with Diane, and so when
23:59
Speaker 1: that call suddenly dropped and Diane expected Gregory to call
24:02
Speaker 1: her back, well, their call really hadn't dropped, It was
24:05
Speaker 1: just that Gregory had been pulled away and was being attacked. Gregory,
24:09
Speaker 1: who was totally caught off guard, tried his best to
24:12
Speaker 1: defend himself against Stephen, but Steven was just crazed and
24:15
Speaker 1: he kept hacking away until finally Gregory had stopped moving.
24:20
Speaker 1: And then at some point Stephen stood up and kind
24:22
Speaker 1: of caught his breath, and he's looking around at all
24:24
Speaker 1: these onlookers who can't believe what they're seeing, and Stephen said,
24:27
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. He grabs some things off the ground, put
24:30
Speaker 1: them inside of his head bag, and then he took
24:32
Speaker 1: the bag. He ran to his car, drove to the hospital,
24:34
Speaker 1: ran through the hospital to Diane's room. He flung the
24:37
Speaker 1: door open, and Diane is shocked to see him. And
24:40
Speaker 1: Stephen walks in with his crazed look in his face,
24:43
Speaker 1: and he holds up the bag. He unzips it and
24:46
Speaker 1: pulls out Gregory's severed head, and he holds it right
24:49
Speaker 1: in front of Diane and says, look, look what I
24:51
Speaker 1: brought you. Look, And he placed it down right on
24:54
Speaker 1: the bedside table, looking directly at Diane. And so Diane
24:58
Speaker 1: began screaming and people began rushing into the room. Meanwhile,
25:01
Speaker 1: Stephen just sat in the corner, calmly, waiting to be arrested. Ultimately,
25:05
Speaker 1: Stephen would be tried by a military court and he
25:08
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25:19
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25:22
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25:25
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25:27
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25:30
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25:32
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25:35
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25:37
Speaker 1: to feel concerned, knocked again on the door, but there
25:39
Speaker 1: was still no answer, and so they got the police.
25:41
Speaker 1: And when the police showed up, they went inside that
25:44
Speaker 1: house and they discovered an absolute massacre. The more family
25:48
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25:51
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25:53
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25:57
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