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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. On the night of January third,
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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, a twenty one year old man
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Speaker 1: named part Engle had just poured himself a beer and
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Speaker 1: sat down on the couch next to his girlfriend to
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Speaker 1: watch some TV when he heard a knock at the
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Speaker 1: front door of his apartment in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. It was late,
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Speaker 1: around eight pm, and part was not expecting any company,
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Speaker 1: and so before he got up, he looked over at
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Speaker 1: his girlfriend to be like, are you expecting anybody? And
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Speaker 1: she looked at him and kind of shrugged, and so
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Speaker 1: Part just put his beer down and stood up and
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Speaker 1: walked over to the front door to see who was there.
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Speaker 1: And when Part opened up the front door, he was
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Speaker 1: very surprised to see his mother standing there carrying a
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Speaker 1: small duffel bag. So Part's mother lived in Middletown Township,
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Speaker 1: which was located about an hour and a half away
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Speaker 1: from parts apartment. And while it was not unusual for
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Speaker 1: Part's mom to stay over at Part's apartment, what was
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Speaker 1: unusual is her just showing up unannounced. She never did that.
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Speaker 1: And on top of that, as Part is looking at
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Speaker 1: his mom, he could see clearly she had been crying
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Speaker 1: because her eyeliner was smudged and her face was all puffy,
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Speaker 1: and so Part knew clearly, you know, there must be
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Speaker 1: a problem here. But when he asked his mother, you know, like,
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Speaker 1: what's going on, mom, she wouldn't tell him. She would
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Speaker 1: just say, I have to stay with you for the night.
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Speaker 1: And then before he or Part's girlfriend could do or
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Speaker 1: say anything, his mom just walked inside, walked down the hallway,
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Speaker 1: went into the guest bedroom, and then shut and locked
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Speaker 1: the door. And so Part and his girlfriend were left
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Speaker 1: looking at each other, like, what's going on here? Three
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Speaker 1: hours later, at eleven pm, Part was in bed next
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Speaker 1: to a sleeping girlfriend, just staring up at the ceiling,
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Speaker 1: unable to sleep. Part was so anxious about whatever was
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Speaker 1: going on with his mom because where he was staying,
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Speaker 1: his bedroom was right next door to the guest bedroom
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Speaker 1: where his mom was staying, and so he already knows
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Speaker 1: there's clearly some issue here with his mom. But all
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Speaker 1: night he's been listening to her next door, just pacing
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Speaker 1: and crying in this guest bedroom, and he has no
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Speaker 1: idea what's going on. But deep down, Part knew that
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Speaker 1: whatever was going on, it very likely had to do
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Speaker 1: with his father, whose name was A rune Kamar. Part's
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Speaker 1: parents had a complicated relationship. They had immigrated from India
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Speaker 1: decades earlier and had settled in Pennsylvania, where they had
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Speaker 1: two kids, Part and Part's sister. Part's father, A rune Kamar,
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Speaker 1: worked as an engineer at Boeing and Part's mother owned
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Speaker 1: a seven to eleven franchise, and basically since arriving in America,
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Speaker 1: the two of them had really come with nothing and
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Speaker 1: had worked their way up to now to where they
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Speaker 1: had a very comfortable life, kind of like the American dream,
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Speaker 1: you know, the house, the white pick events, the kids,
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Speaker 1: you know, the whole thing. And so Part had always
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Speaker 1: believed that, you know, his parents, as a result of
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Speaker 1: getting through so much hardship together, that they must truly
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Speaker 1: love each other. Now, I mean, to have gone through
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Speaker 1: all that together, that would certainly make two people very close.
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Speaker 1: And for the most part that actually seemed to have
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Speaker 1: been the case. That his parents just got along great
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Speaker 1: and were a great couple. That is until a couple
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Speaker 1: of years earlier, a Runekamar had started an affair and
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Speaker 1: Part's mother had caught him. Now, a run Kamar said that,
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Speaker 1: you know, this affair meant nothing and he would stop
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Speaker 1: right now. And Part's mother had forgiven him, you know,
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Speaker 1: in order to keep the family together. But despite Part's
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Speaker 1: mom forgiving a Runekamar, deep down she just knew she
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Speaker 1: could never actually trust him again, and so she actually
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Speaker 1: wound up enlisting parts help to basically watch a run
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Speaker 1: Kamar's behavior. She had Part set up the software that
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Speaker 1: basically spied on a rune Kamar's computer. The software Part's
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Speaker 1: mom could basically watch a roun Camar's email traffic and
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Speaker 1: all of his Internet activity. Now, Part had not felt
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Speaker 1: good about setting up the spy software on his dad's computer.
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Speaker 1: It just felt totally wrong to be getting in between
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Speaker 1: his parents like this, But he just felt like this
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Speaker 1: was the only way Part's mom was ever going to
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Speaker 1: be able to actually move on, and so Part sort
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Speaker 1: of felt like this was his responsibility. This is the
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Speaker 1: way that the family was going to stay together. His
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Speaker 1: mom really just needed that extra layer of transparency on
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Speaker 1: her husband, otherwise the family was going to fall apart.
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Speaker 1: But now, as Part lay in his bed, unable to sleep,
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Speaker 1: listening to his mom paced back and forth in the
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Speaker 1: room next door, he began to think to himself, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe my mom found something using the software on my
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Speaker 1: dad's computer. Maybe a Runekamar had started another affair, and
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Speaker 1: that was why his mom was now so upset. But
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Speaker 1: just then Part heard a new noise coming out of
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Speaker 1: his mother's room. At first, it kind of sounded like
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Speaker 1: low murmuring, like his mom was saying something to herself,
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Speaker 1: but then he realized his mom was having a real
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Speaker 1: conversation with some on the phone. And since Part couldn't
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Speaker 1: sleep and he was pretty intrigued about what the heck
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Speaker 1: was going on with his mom to begin with, he
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Speaker 1: decided to basically spy on his mom. So he very
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Speaker 1: quietly got out of his bed, and he walked around
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Speaker 1: to the wall that lined up against his mother's room,
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Speaker 1: and he put his ear to the wall and he
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Speaker 1: began to listen, and what he heard was far worse
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Speaker 1: than anything he could have imagined. What he heard his
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Speaker 1: mom saying to whoever she was talking on the phone
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Speaker 1: was that she had discovered that Arun Kamar had taken
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Speaker 1: out three point six million dollars in life insurance policies
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Speaker 1: on Part, on his sister, and on his mother. And
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Speaker 1: now Part's mom was saying to whoever she was talking
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Speaker 1: to on the phone that she wasn't even worried about
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Speaker 1: divorce at this point. She was worried about the physical
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Speaker 1: safety of her and her kids. She was worried that
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Speaker 1: her husband was going to kill her and her kids
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Speaker 1: to get this payout. And so, not long after saying this,
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Speaker 1: Part's mom hung up the phone and went back to
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Speaker 1: pacing and crying in the room. And Part meanwhile, has
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Speaker 1: just heard this horrifying news, and he had no idea
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Speaker 1: what to make of it. I mean, he knew his
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Speaker 1: dad was not a good husband, but the idea that
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Speaker 1: his dad would want to hurt his wife or him
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Speaker 1: or his sister just seemed totally impossible. But then, as
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Speaker 1: Parts standing there just kind of processing what he's heard,
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Speaker 1: he began to think back to these recent behavioral changes
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Speaker 1: he noticed in his father that at the time he
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Speaker 1: had kind of chalked up to, you know, maybe my
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Speaker 1: dad's stressed or something. But now, given the context of
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Speaker 1: what his mom was talking about, Part began to wonder
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Speaker 1: if these behavioral changes were a sign of something being
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Speaker 1: terribly wrong with his father. The first change the Part
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Speaker 1: had noticed happened a few weeks earlier. Now, Part's dad
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Speaker 1: was normally a very mild mannered and calm guy, but
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Speaker 1: a few weeks earlier he had gotten into this vicious
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Speaker 1: dispute with their next door neighbor over the property line
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Speaker 1: that ran between their two properties. It was like he
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Speaker 1: was picking a fight with the neighbor or something. And
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Speaker 1: then a few days after that, one of the bathroom
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Speaker 1: sinks in their house had stopped working, and so Arun
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Speaker 1: Kamar got out his tools and went to go break
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Speaker 1: apart the sink. And put it back together again. And
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Speaker 1: because he was an engineer, this was something he did,
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Speaker 1: This was typical behavior. But after breaking apart the sink,
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Speaker 1: basically ripping it all apart and having all the parts
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Speaker 1: on the ground, Part's dad didn't put it back together.
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Speaker 1: He just left all the tools and all the parts
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Speaker 1: just scattered across the bathroom floor. And considering that a
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Speaker 1: run Kamar was typically incredibly meticulous and organized and he's
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Speaker 1: this brilliant engineer, to Part, seeing his dad leave this
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Speaker 1: sloppy mess and this unfinished sink, it just it felt
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Speaker 1: totally off. And so standing there in his bedroom, totally
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Speaker 1: horrified about everything he's heard and you know, now kind
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Speaker 1: of second guessing everything he knew about his dad, who
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Speaker 1: suddenly seemed like this combative, kind of disorganized guy, Part
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Speaker 1: suddenly felt like, I have to learn more here. I
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Speaker 1: have to figure out if my dad really is a threat.
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Speaker 1: So Part quietly left his bedroom and made his way
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Speaker 1: to the kitchen where his laptop was, and he loaded
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Speaker 1: up that software that spied on his dad's computer. And
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Speaker 1: as he began logging into this program, Part was thinking,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe I'm going to find something that will
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Speaker 1: show that my mom is clearly just overreacting and misinterpreting
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Speaker 1: what she's seeing that you know, my dad is not,
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Speaker 1: you know, out to kill us for some insurance payout.
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Speaker 1: But after loading up this program and kind of scanning
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Speaker 1: through some recent activity, Part realized that actually the situation
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Speaker 1: with his dad was way worse than his mom had
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Speaker 1: made out on that call he overheard. He not only
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Speaker 1: found all these multimillion dollar insurance policies taken out on him,
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Speaker 1: his sister, and his mom, but also he discovered the
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Speaker 1: stash of fraudulent looking paperwork. There were all these passport
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Speaker 1: photos of his father, but then connected to these photos
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Speaker 1: was a passport application that was using somebody else's name,
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Speaker 1: as if his father was trying to forge paperwork to
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Speaker 1: create a phony passport for himself. And so at this
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Speaker 1: point Part felt like his mother was certainly not overreacting here,
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Speaker 1: that in fact, it really did seem like his father was,
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Speaker 1: you know, preparing to kill his family and collect millions
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Speaker 1: of dollars in insurance money and then using this you know,
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Speaker 1: fake passport he was making, he'd be able to flee
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Speaker 1: the country. For the next several days, Part's moms at
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Speaker 1: Part's apartment but she barely ever left the guest bedroom.
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Speaker 1: And then when she would leave the bedroom, Part would
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Speaker 1: go up to her and try to ask her, you know, hey,
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Speaker 1: what's going on without giving away how much he knew already.
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Speaker 1: But Part's mom was like, nope, I don't want to
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Speaker 1: talk about it, and she would just go right back
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Speaker 1: in the room, shut and lock the door. And so finally,
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Speaker 1: after several days of this, Part just went to his
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Speaker 1: mom's bedroom door. He knocked on the door until she answered,
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Speaker 1: and then before she could kind of show him away,
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Speaker 1: he said, Mom, stop, I know what's going on. I
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Speaker 1: read the emails, and we have to figure out what
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Speaker 1: we're going to do because our lives literally depend on it.
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Speaker 1: I agree with you. It looks like dad is going
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Speaker 1: to kill us and then flee the country. And so
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Speaker 1: Part and his mom would talk through all the details
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Speaker 1: of what was found on his computer, and ultimately they
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Speaker 1: would decide that Part would be the one to go
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Speaker 1: to police and tell them what was going on with
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Speaker 1: a Runekamar. And so the next day Part went to
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Speaker 1: the police station, you know, with a stack of evidence
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Speaker 1: that he believed would implicate his father, and you know,
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Speaker 1: Part was so nervous about this, he was shaking. But
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Speaker 1: when he talked to an actual police officer, they looked
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Speaker 1: over as evidence and they heard the whole story. But
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Speaker 1: they told him like, look, we really can't do anything
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Speaker 1: about this. They told part that, you know, it's not
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Speaker 1: illegal to take out life insurance policies on your family.
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Speaker 1: And then also the police officer pointed out that in
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Speaker 1: addition to a Runekamar taking out those policies on his
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Speaker 1: kids and his wife, he had also taken out a
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Speaker 1: policy on himself and made his wife and his kids
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Speaker 1: the beneficiaries of that policy. And so the police officer said, look,
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Speaker 1: this does not look like a murder plot to me.
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Speaker 1: It just looks like your dad is doing something fairly responsible.
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Speaker 1: And then as for the passport application paperwork where his
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Speaker 1: dad had used a phony name, the police officer said, look,
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Speaker 1: he has not filed this paperwork, and so it's not
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Speaker 1: illegal what he's doing. Anybody can get some paperwork out
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Speaker 1: and fill it in with whatever they want. It becomes
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Speaker 1: illegal if they attempt to actually pass it off and
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Speaker 1: submit the paperwork, and as far as we know, he
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Speaker 1: hasn't done that. So that's weird, but it's not illegal.
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Speaker 1: And so part had to leave the police station, and
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Speaker 1: he went back to the apartment and he told his
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Speaker 1: mom what happened, and ultimately they decided that all they
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Speaker 1: could do now was just wait and continue to watch
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Speaker 1: hope a rune Kamar would do something that was incriminating
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Speaker 1: Over the next few days, that part In and his
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Speaker 1: mother every day just constantly checked this software and watch
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Speaker 1: what a rune Kamar was doing on his computer. All
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Speaker 1: they saw was a rune Kamar was using his computer
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Speaker 1: to do work, emails and really basic stuff, absolutely nothing incriminating,
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Speaker 1: And in fact, over these few days, a run Kamar
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Speaker 1: would actually call Part's mom to ask her when she
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Speaker 1: was coming back home again, and she would tell him
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Speaker 1: that basically she was going to stay at parts Place indefinitely.
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Speaker 1: And a Runekamar did not seem upset or annoyed by
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Speaker 1: this at all. If anything, it just seemed like he
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Speaker 1: was really distracted and wasn't actually listening to Part's mom
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Speaker 1: as she was speaking. And while this did seem kind
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Speaker 1: of suspicious to Part and his mom that basically a
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Speaker 1: roun Camar didn't care that his wife wasn't coming home
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Speaker 1: anytime soon, it still wasn't incriminating, and so Part and
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Speaker 1: his mom decided to just continue looking deeper and deeper
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Speaker 1: into a. Rune Kamar's computer to see if there was
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Speaker 1: anything that could begin to explain what was really going
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Speaker 1: on here. And sure enough, Part dug deeper and deeper
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Speaker 1: into a rune Camar's computer, and he did discover something.
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Speaker 1: Part began finding all these emails with people back in
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Speaker 1: India that kind of vaguely indicated that a Arun Kamar
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Speaker 1: was involved in a very sketchy deal, a business deal. Now, again,
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Speaker 1: the emails were incredibly vague, but what was clear in
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Speaker 1: these back and forth in these emails was that it
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Speaker 1: seemed like a Arun Camar had gotten wrapped up with
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Speaker 1: some really shady people and they were having these really
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Speaker 1: nasty exchanges in these emails about this you know, deal
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Speaker 1: that a Roun Camar seemed to be involved in. And
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Speaker 1: so part began to wonder if maybe he and his
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Speaker 1: mom had this all backwards, that he, his mom, and
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Speaker 1: his sister were not the ones actually in danger here,
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Speaker 1: that in fact it was a Roune Camar who was
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Speaker 1: in danger, maybe because this deal you know, went south,
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Speaker 1: and these people that he was doing this deal with
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Speaker 1: maybe they were mad at him. And so perhaps all
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Speaker 1: these life insurance policies and this new fake identity were
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Speaker 1: some sort of move by a Rune Camar to kind
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Speaker 1: of flee the danger he was in. And so obviously,
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Speaker 1: if this was true, this was still a horrible situation
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Speaker 1: for their whole family, but it was markedly better than
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Speaker 1: what part and his mom had been operating on before,
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Speaker 1: which was you know, that a room camara was going
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Speaker 1: to kill his whole family. And so pretty quickly, as
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Speaker 1: a result of kind of thinking about this in a
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Speaker 1: new way, Part's mother started feeling a lot better about
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Speaker 1: the whole situation and actually left Part's apartment and went
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Speaker 1: back to the house to go live with a rune Kamar.
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Speaker 1: And Part himself began to think that, you know, maybe
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Speaker 1: this is not as big of a deal as we
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Speaker 1: thought it was. You know, I'm sure my dad will
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Speaker 1: figure out whatever he needs to figure out here to
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Speaker 1: get out whatever mess he's in. And over the coming days,
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Speaker 1: you know, Part checked in with his mom every single
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Speaker 1: day because now she's living with a rune Kamar, and
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Speaker 1: she said everything was fine, and Part, you know, he
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Speaker 1: continued to check his dad's computer activity, and nothing else
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Speaker 1: really popped up. It was still just the same stuff
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Speaker 1: they had originally found, and so it just kind of
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Speaker 1: seemed like, you know, maybe this really is not as
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Speaker 1: big of a deal as we thought it was. But
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Speaker 1: on the morning of January twentieth, two thousand and eight,
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Speaker 1: so about two and a half weeks after Part's mom
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Speaker 1: showed up at his apartment, everything changed. On that morning,
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Speaker 1: Part logged into his computer to check on his dad's
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Speaker 1: computer using that software because he was still checking it
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Speaker 1: every single day, and the first thing he saw was
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Speaker 1: his dad had sent this email to this woman who
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Speaker 1: Part didn't know, and this woman was certainly not his mother.
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Speaker 1: And in this email, his dad told this person that
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Speaker 1: he had a big contract coming up and he was
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Speaker 1: going to make a ton of money from it. And
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Speaker 1: then also at the end of this email, he told
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Speaker 1: this woman that he loved her. And so right away,
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Speaker 1: Part's thinking, Okay, my dad is obviously having another affair
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Speaker 1: because this is not my mom and he's saying he
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Speaker 1: loves her. And also, what's my dad talking about with
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Speaker 1: this big contract coming up? Is he talking about the
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Speaker 1: insurance policies? Does he expect those to pay out soon?
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Speaker 1: Indicating that I my sister or my mom might be dead.
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Speaker 1: And then also the other thing that Part noticed that
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Speaker 1: morning as he's checking through his dad's computer activity is
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Speaker 1: he found another message his dad had sent out recently
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Speaker 1: where he communicated to somebody that his father had died.
16:46
Speaker 1: So Part's grandfather had died. And also in this message,
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Speaker 1: Arun Kamara is telling this person that he's going to
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Speaker 1: go to his dad's funeral alone, that his wife and
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Speaker 1: two kids were not invited to this funeral. And so
16:58
Speaker 1: Part's reading this and he's totally devastated by the fact
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Speaker 1: that his grandfather's dead and the fact that what he's
17:03
Speaker 1: not being invited to the funeral. But again he's thinking, Oh,
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Speaker 1: my gosh, is that because my dad thinks I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to be alive? Is this all connected, you know,
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Speaker 1: between the big contract and the fact that we're not
17:13
Speaker 1: going to be at the funeral? Is this my dad
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Speaker 1: thinking he's going to enact this murder plot soon. Part
17:18
Speaker 1: didn't know, but he felt like he and his mom
17:21
Speaker 1: and his sister were running at a time and he
17:23
Speaker 1: needed to act right now, and so Part got off
17:26
Speaker 1: his computer. He called his mom, and they made a plan.
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Speaker 1: That evening, at around nine to fifteen pm, Part got
17:32
Speaker 1: in his car and began driving towards his parents' house
17:35
Speaker 1: to go confront his dad. This was the plan he
17:37
Speaker 1: and his mom had come up with. Basically, his mom
17:39
Speaker 1: would stay at Part's apartment, then Part would go and
17:42
Speaker 1: tell his dad, you know, we know about what you're doing,
17:45
Speaker 1: and you got to stop. And even though Part was
17:47
Speaker 1: totally jacked up on adrenaline as he drove towards the house.
17:50
Speaker 1: He felt like he really had the upper hand going
17:52
Speaker 1: into whatever this confrontation was going to be because number
17:55
Speaker 1: one Part was showing up totally unannounced at night to
17:58
Speaker 1: his dad's place. I mean, his dad's going to be
18:01
Speaker 1: caught off guard when he sees him. And also Part
18:03
Speaker 1: knew he was much physically bigger than his father. Part
18:06
Speaker 1: was over six feet tall and over two hundred pounds,
18:08
Speaker 1: and so he had the physical angle as well, and
18:11
Speaker 1: so Part really felt confident driving towards the house that
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Speaker 1: he was going to come out the victor in whatever ensued.
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Speaker 1: At around ten forty five pm, Part finally arrived in
18:19
Speaker 1: front of his parents' house. He parked the car, he
18:22
Speaker 1: got out, he walked up the front steps, and he
18:24
Speaker 1: knocked on the front door, and a couple of seconds later,
18:27
Speaker 1: a Rune Camar came to the door. He opened it up,
18:29
Speaker 1: and he's totally confused to see his son standing there.
18:32
Speaker 1: And then before Rune Camar could do anything, Part, in
18:35
Speaker 1: his deepest and most authoritative voice, looked at his dad
18:38
Speaker 1: and said, we need to talk, and then he intentionally
18:41
Speaker 1: bumped into his dad with his shoulder as he walked
18:43
Speaker 1: into the house. And so his dad is like standing
18:46
Speaker 1: at the front door, not really sure what's going on,
18:48
Speaker 1: and Part, after taking a few steps in, he abruptly
18:51
Speaker 1: turns around, and so now he's looking back at his dad,
18:54
Speaker 1: and he takes a step forward and gets right in
18:56
Speaker 1: his dad's face and says, I know. I know what
18:59
Speaker 1: you're up to. I know what you've done, and you
19:01
Speaker 1: have a simple choice to make. You can either stop
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Speaker 1: what you're doing and become the family man you're supposed
19:06
Speaker 1: to be faithful to mom, or I'm gonna go to
19:09
Speaker 1: the police and tell them what you're up to and
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Speaker 1: you're gonna go to jail. Either way, whatever you're doing
19:14
Speaker 1: stops right now. And for a moment, Part and a
19:17
Speaker 1: rune Kamar are basically staring at each other in silence,
19:20
Speaker 1: and then a rune Kamar, before Part could stop him,
19:23
Speaker 1: basically ran past Part, passed him down the hallway, and
19:27
Speaker 1: he ran into the master bedroom, disappearing from Part's view.
19:29
Speaker 1: And so Parts turned around, and he wasn't expecting this,
19:32
Speaker 1: and suddenly all that confidence he had going into this
19:35
Speaker 1: confrontation was gone, because he's thinking, oh, my goodness, my dad,
19:39
Speaker 1: maybe he's got a weapon in there. I need to
19:40
Speaker 1: get in there and stop him. And so Part he
19:43
Speaker 1: turns and runs down the hallway. He darts into the bedroom,
19:46
Speaker 1: having no idea what he's gonna see inside, but what
19:48
Speaker 1: he sees does catch him off guard. A run Kamar
19:52
Speaker 1: is just sitting on the bed doing nothing. He's just
19:54
Speaker 1: staring what looks like at the wall, and Part just
19:57
Speaker 1: stops in the doorway, looks at his dad and then realize,
20:00
Speaker 1: is his dad's not just absentuely staring at the wall,
20:03
Speaker 1: he's staring into the open bathroom. And in the open bathroom,
20:07
Speaker 1: on the ground are all those tools left over from
20:10
Speaker 1: where his dad had been working on the sink and
20:12
Speaker 1: then never finished. Like all these tools are scattered on
20:15
Speaker 1: the ground, including one tool that now Part is realizing
20:19
Speaker 1: his dad is looking directly at. It was a big,
20:22
Speaker 1: heavy metal pipe wrench. And suddenly Part realized, my dad
20:26
Speaker 1: is looking at a weapon, and he's considering whether or
20:29
Speaker 1: not to get that weapon and attack me with it.
20:32
Speaker 1: The next morning, Part's mother pulled up in front of
20:35
Speaker 1: the house that she shared with the Runekamar, and she
20:37
Speaker 1: walked up the steps, went to the front door. She
20:39
Speaker 1: opened it up, and as soon as she stepped inside,
20:41
Speaker 1: she yelled out, you know, hello, who's here? But there
20:44
Speaker 1: was silence, and immediately she got a bad feeling. But
20:48
Speaker 1: she knew she had to investigate, and so Part's mom
20:51
Speaker 1: began slowly walking down the hallway, the same hallway that
20:53
Speaker 1: Part and his dad had been fighting in the night before.
20:56
Speaker 1: And she went down the hallway and she turned and
20:58
Speaker 1: looked into the master bedroom, and she couldn't believe what
21:00
Speaker 1: she saw. There was blood on the carpets, on the walls.
21:03
Speaker 1: It was a blood bath, and in the middle of
21:05
Speaker 1: the room was an obvious dead body that was so
21:08
Speaker 1: mutilated and destroyed she couldn't even identify it. And so
21:12
Speaker 1: seconds later she had run outside and dialed nine to
21:15
Speaker 1: onet one. It would take police almost four years to
21:18
Speaker 1: finally untangle a Roun Kamar's insane web of flies and
21:22
Speaker 1: also make an arrest for the murder that took place
21:25
Speaker 1: inside of that house. And the reason it took nearly
21:27
Speaker 1: four years is because nothing in this case was what
21:31
Speaker 1: it looked like now. Part and his mother had been
21:33
Speaker 1: correct about a number of things about a Roun Kamar.
21:36
Speaker 1: For example, a Arun Kamar was having another affair. He
21:40
Speaker 1: had taken out life insurance policies on his whole family,
21:42
Speaker 1: and he was looking to obtain a fake identity. They
21:45
Speaker 1: were also right that a room Kamar had become embroiled
21:48
Speaker 1: in a very shady deal back in India, but the specifics
21:51
Speaker 1: of that deal were not what Part and parts Mom
21:54
Speaker 1: thought it was. And when a Roun Kamar announced in
21:56
Speaker 1: that message that you know, his father had died and
21:59
Speaker 1: he'd be traveling to in India all alone, that his
22:01
Speaker 1: wife and his kids weren't coming, they weren't invited, well,
22:04
Speaker 1: Part and his mom had been correct that this was
22:06
Speaker 1: a cover. This was an excuse for a run Kamar
22:09
Speaker 1: to put his big plan into action. And a Arun
22:11
Speaker 1: Kamar's big plan did involve murder, and so Part and
22:15
Speaker 1: his mom were right about that aspect of his plan. However,
22:19
Speaker 1: a run Kamar's target for this murder was not who
22:23
Speaker 1: Part and his mom thought it was. They were not
22:26
Speaker 1: the target. A run Kamar was going to murder himself,
22:30
Speaker 1: or more specifically, he was going to pretend to kill himself.
22:34
Speaker 1: That was actually the shady deal he was involved in
22:36
Speaker 1: back in India. He was working with people who could
22:38
Speaker 1: help him fake his own death, and so what he
22:40
Speaker 1: was going to do is go to India fake his
22:43
Speaker 1: death and then once he was dead on paper, that
22:45
Speaker 1: would trigger an insurance payout of his own life insurance
22:48
Speaker 1: policy and that money would go to his wife and
22:51
Speaker 1: his kids, and then a run Kamar would disappear using
22:54
Speaker 1: his fake identity he would have along with his mistress,
22:57
Speaker 1: the woman he was having an affair with. That was
22:59
Speaker 1: the person he had sent that email to talking about
23:01
Speaker 1: the big payout. But Part and Part's mom did not
23:05
Speaker 1: know this last critical piece of a run Kamar's plan.
23:08
Speaker 1: They really believed they were the target of this big
23:11
Speaker 1: plot that they were going to get killed, and so
23:13
Speaker 1: that's why they felt like they had to act first.
23:15
Speaker 1: So on January twentieth, two thousand and eight, Part and
23:18
Speaker 1: his mother worked out an alibi for themselves. What they
23:21
Speaker 1: were going to tell people is that at around eight pm,
23:24
Speaker 1: Part went and picked up his mother from the house
23:26
Speaker 1: that she shared with A. Rune Kamar, and the two
23:29
Speaker 1: of them just went back to Part's apartment and that
23:31
Speaker 1: was it. But in reality, Part never went over and
23:34
Speaker 1: picked his mom up and brought her back to the apartment. Instead,
23:37
Speaker 1: she was at the house with a rune Kamar when
23:40
Speaker 1: Part showed up at ten forty five pm to confront
23:43
Speaker 1: a Runekamar. So it was him and his mom at
23:46
Speaker 1: the house as Part is demanding a rune Camar come
23:49
Speaker 1: clean and stop what he's doing. And then at some
23:51
Speaker 1: point during this heated argument in the hallway, a Runekamar
23:55
Speaker 1: turned and ran into the bedroom and Part chased after him,
23:58
Speaker 1: and Part he sees a Runekamar sitting on the edge
24:01
Speaker 1: of the bed, and he thinks his dad is looking
24:04
Speaker 1: at the pipe wrench on the floor in the bathroom,
24:07
Speaker 1: and Part thinks, my dad is about to get that
24:09
Speaker 1: wrench and attack me with it, and so Part just
24:12
Speaker 1: acted first, and he ran and grabbed that wrench and
24:15
Speaker 1: he beat his father to death with it. And then
24:18
Speaker 1: after leaving, his father's unrecognizable, mutilated body just lumped in
24:23
Speaker 1: the middle of the bedroom floor, blood all over the walls.
24:26
Speaker 1: He and his mother just left the house and went
24:28
Speaker 1: back to Part's apartment. And then the next day Part's
24:31
Speaker 1: mom went back to the house and she pretended to
24:34
Speaker 1: find a rune Kamar's body, even though she already knew
24:36
Speaker 1: he was in there. And then she called nine one
24:38
Speaker 1: one and acted totally beside herself when they showed up,
24:41
Speaker 1: as if she had just happened upon her husband's dead body.
24:44
Speaker 1: But almost four years later, when the truth finally came
24:47
Speaker 1: out about this horrible situation, Part and his mother were arrested.
24:52
Speaker 1: Now both of them absolutely maintained that they genuinely believed
24:56
Speaker 1: their lives were in danger because of a Runekamar, and
24:59
Speaker 1: they said during that confrontation in the house, Part was
25:02
Speaker 1: only acting in self defense. He really believed his dad
25:06
Speaker 1: was going to grab that pipe wrench first, and so
25:07
Speaker 1: he had to do it before him, and that's why
25:10
Speaker 1: he killed his dad. But ultimately Part would plead guilty
25:13
Speaker 1: to manslaughter and he would be sentenced to thirty three
25:15
Speaker 1: months in prison, And Part's mother would plead guilty to
25:18
Speaker 1: conspiracy and she would be sentenced to ten months in prison.
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