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Speaker 1: Okay, let's get into today's story. In the early evening
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Speaker 1: of May seventh, two thousand and eight, a sixty five
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Speaker 1: year old woman named Zavannah Temilkowska walked around our inside
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Speaker 1: of her apartment in the little southeastern European city of
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Speaker 1: case Cassevo is a quiet place at the base of
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Speaker 1: this huge mountain in northern Macedonia, and while it's totally beautiful,
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Speaker 1: it's utterly remote and basically nothing really of note happens here.
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Speaker 2: Savannah cleaned houses for a.
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Speaker 1: Living, but on this particular day, she was on a
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Speaker 1: day off, and so she was just kind of hanging
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Speaker 1: out at her apartment waiting for her adult son named
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Speaker 1: Zoron to come home. It was a beautiful, warm evening
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Speaker 1: that night, and so Zavannah had the windows in the
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Speaker 1: kitchen open as she walked around making herself something to eat.
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Speaker 1: And at some point, as she was doing this, she
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Speaker 1: heard her phone ring, and so she grabbed it and answered,
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Speaker 1: and she heard the sound of her friend on the
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Speaker 1: other line, but her friend's voice sounded strange. It was
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Speaker 1: strained and very uncomfortable, and she was asking Zavanna if
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Speaker 1: she was paying attention to the news right now?
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Speaker 2: Did she have the radio on or the TV?
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Speaker 1: And Zavannah was like, no, why And the friend would
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Speaker 1: tell her that all over the news right now there
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Speaker 1: was this huge, terrible traffic accident that had happened in
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Speaker 1: their town, and unfortunately, Zavannah's son, Zoran, who she was
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Speaker 1: waiting for to come home, was apparently involved in this accident.
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Speaker 1: Zavannah let out a strangled cry when she heard this,
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Speaker 1: and then just dropped what she was using to make
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Speaker 1: food and turned and ran out the door, and when
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Speaker 1: she did, her neighbor who was outside saw her emerge
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Speaker 1: and yelled out to her, you know, hey, is everything okay?
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Speaker 1: And Zavannah, as she literally just continued running towards the road,
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Speaker 1: she basically blurted out to the neighbor that her son
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Speaker 1: was hurt and she was going to the hospital. And
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Speaker 1: this neighbor watched as Zavannah just ran down the road,
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Speaker 1: turned the.
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Speaker 2: Corner and disappeared.
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Speaker 1: Savannah did not have a car of her own, and
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Speaker 1: so literally she was going to run to the hospital
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Speaker 1: to make sure her son was okay. A little while later,
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Speaker 1: that same neighbor, who had just watched Savannah disappear around
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Speaker 1: the corner, heard a knock on their door, and so
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Speaker 1: the neighbor went to the door. They opened it up,
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Speaker 1: and they were totally shocked at who they saw standing outside.
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Speaker 1: It was Zavannah's son, Zoran, who did not appear to
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Speaker 1: be hurt in any way. Before the neighbor could ask
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Speaker 1: any questions about this, Zoron, who looked visibly confused, said
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Speaker 1: to the neighbor, you know, hey, have you seen my mom?
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Speaker 1: We were supposed to meet and have dinner together, and
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Speaker 1: it's just totally unlike her to disappear without telling me
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Speaker 1: where she was going. The neighbor just stared at Zoron
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Speaker 1: for a second, having no idea what was going on here.
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Speaker 1: And then the neighbor was like, well, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: you know, Zoron, were you in a car accident? And
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Speaker 1: Zoren's like, no, what are you talking about? And then
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Speaker 1: the neighbor kind of filled Zoron in about how they
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Speaker 1: had seen his mother run outside and she had mentioned
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Speaker 1: how our son had been in this car accident, and
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Speaker 1: she literally ran to the hospital. Zoran was just as
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Speaker 1: mystified by this as the neighbor was, and so Zoron
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Speaker 1: just grabbed his phone and called the hospital to see
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Speaker 1: if his mother was there. But when the hospital picked up,
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Speaker 1: they would tell Zoron that his mother was not there.
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Speaker 1: She had not been there all day and two. Even
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Speaker 1: though they had heard reports about this car accident in town,
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Speaker 1: there had not been any car accident victims brought to
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Speaker 1: the hospital at all that day. And so by the
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Speaker 1: end of that night, when Zoron really had no idea
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Speaker 1: what had happened to his mom, where she was, or
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Speaker 1: what was going on with this car accident thing. He
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Speaker 1: just did the only thing he could think to do,
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Speaker 1: which was go to the police and report his mother missing.
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Speaker 1: Nine days later, on May sixteenth, when still Savannah was
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Speaker 1: missing and the police had no idea what happened to her,
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Speaker 1: there were no new leads, nothing. On this day, a
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Speaker 1: fifty six year old reporter named Flado Teneski, who actually
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Speaker 1: happened to live.
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Speaker 2: Not that far away from where Savannah lived.
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Speaker 1: He got a call from one of his police sources,
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Speaker 1: and the source would tell him that Zavannah had actually
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Speaker 1: just been found, even though this was not public information,
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Speaker 1: and unfortunately Zavanna was dead. Her body, which had been
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Speaker 1: beaten and strangled and stabbed, had been found wrapped up
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Speaker 1: in plastic and dumped in this illegal dumping area not
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Speaker 1: far from the town's football stadium. The source told Vlado
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Speaker 1: that when her body was searched, they discovered she still
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Speaker 1: had valuables on her person, and so that kind of
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Speaker 1: ruled out the possibility that this was a robbery gone wrong,
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Speaker 1: which was the initial theory about what they were seeing. However,
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Speaker 1: when police had done an initial probe into Zavona's life
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Speaker 1: to figure out who this victim was, they discovered that
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Speaker 1: she was just this poor old cleaning lady who had
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Speaker 1: no enemies to speak of, and so it really just
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Speaker 1: made no sense that she was the victim of such
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Speaker 1: an obviously brutal and intimate murder that was not financially motivated,
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Speaker 1: at least not on the surface. Flatto thanked a source
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Speaker 1: for all the information and then high up. Flatto's source
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Speaker 1: had sounded really shocked by this murder as he was
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Speaker 1: telling Flatto, But now as Flatto was sitting here thinking
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Speaker 1: about what he had just been told, he wasn't really
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Speaker 1: shocked as much as he was suspicious. He felt like
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Speaker 1: something just was off about this murder. You know, maybe
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Speaker 1: Zavanna appeared to be this poor old cleaning lady with
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Speaker 1: no enemies, but in reality, maybe that.
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Speaker 2: Wasn't who she was.
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Speaker 1: Maybe she was leading a secret life that got her killed.
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Speaker 1: Or maybe she had stumbled upon something she was not
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Speaker 1: supposed to see and that got her killed. You know,
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Speaker 1: Vladdo had no idea, but he just felt like, you
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Speaker 1: know what, there's something off about this and it needs
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Speaker 1: to be investigated. Now, Vladdo had a reputation in town
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Speaker 1: for being this very aggressive and kind of fearless journalist
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Speaker 1: who had no problem diving headfirst into some of these
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Speaker 1: really murky stories that could involve corruption or misuse of power,
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Speaker 1: and he would get to the bottom of it, and
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Speaker 1: he would publish these articles where he spoke really critically
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Speaker 1: about the government, about police, about anybody really who was
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Speaker 1: in a position of power. But as a result of
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Speaker 1: conducting himself this way over his thirty year career, Vladdo
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Speaker 1: had been threatened with violence many many times for things
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Speaker 1: he had written or things he was about to write.
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Speaker 2: But even though.
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Speaker 1: Vladdo knew this Zavanna murder case had the potential to
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Speaker 1: once again put him in hot water with the powers
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Speaker 1: that be, he still felt like it was his responsibility
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Speaker 1: to dive into this thing and get to the truth. So,
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Speaker 1: feeling determined, Vlado grabbed his notebook and pen and he
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Speaker 1: walked out the front door of his house and he
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Speaker 1: made the several minute long walk over to Savanna's house,
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Speaker 1: and when he got there, her son Zoran opened the
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Speaker 1: door and a few minutes later, Vlado and Zoron were
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Speaker 1: sitting in the kitchen talking about what had happened. Zoran
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Speaker 1: told Flatto all about how he came home and discovered
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Speaker 1: his mom wasn't there, And then he went to the
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Speaker 1: neighbor's house and they explained how, you know, they had
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Speaker 1: seen Savannah running off to the hospital to go look
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Speaker 1: for Zoron. But Zoren's like, I'm not hurt. I didn't
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Speaker 1: get into a car accident. What's going on here? And
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Speaker 1: as Zorn spoke, Flado took lots of notes and asked
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Speaker 1: lots of follow up questions, and by the end of
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Speaker 1: this interview, when Vlado felt like he knew everything there
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Speaker 1: was to know about Zavannah, he felt like he actually
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Speaker 1: had a pretty good working theory as to what actually
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Speaker 1: happened to Savannah. And the reason he felt like his
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Speaker 1: theory could be accurate had to do with what Zoron
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Speaker 1: told Flatdo his mother did for a living, that she
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Speaker 1: was a cleaning lady. Now, it took Flatto a couple
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Speaker 1: of days to put together his story. He had to
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Speaker 1: go out and interview dozens more people in the neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: But finally on May nineteenth, so just three days after
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Speaker 1: Savannah was found murdered, Vlado published a story in the newspaper,
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Speaker 1: and the story's explosive headline read a serial killer stocks
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Speaker 1: In the story Vlado says that Zivanna's murder was very
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Speaker 1: likely not in isolated killing. Instead, her murder was likely
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Speaker 1: linked to two other murders of two other women. And
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Speaker 1: these two other victims looked an awful lot like Zavanna. Literally,
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Speaker 1: they were poor, older women who were also cleaning ladies.
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Speaker 2: And so that was why when Vlado was.
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Speaker 1: Talking to Soron and Zoron described how his mother was,
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Speaker 1: what she did for work, what she looked like, that
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Speaker 1: Vlado started to remember these other victims and he put
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Speaker 1: it all together. The other two victims were sixty four
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Speaker 1: year old Mitra Simjanoska, who was murdered in two thousand
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Speaker 1: and five, and the other victim was fifty six year
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Speaker 1: old Lubitza Lukoska, who was murdered in two thousand and seven. Now,
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Speaker 1: Vlado's story was totally explosive because what he's saying is
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Speaker 1: that there is a serial killer that is on the
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Speaker 1: loose in this town. But this story was also highly
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Speaker 1: explosive because Vladdo spoke very critically about the police who
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Speaker 1: were involved.
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Speaker 2: In this investigation.
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Speaker 1: Specifically, he pointed out that the five and seven murders
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Speaker 1: of those two other women, those had been totally mishandled
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Speaker 1: because arrests had been made in at least one of
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Speaker 1: those cases, and clearly whoever they arrested was innocent here,
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Speaker 1: and so the police just totally.
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Speaker 2: Dropped the ball, at least in Vlado's opinion.
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Speaker 1: And when the police read Vladdo's story, they were very
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Speaker 1: upset at him because he was so critical of them. However,
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Speaker 1: the police also did see that Vladdo had managed to
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Speaker 1: uncover a lot of new details from all of his
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Speaker 1: interviews with witnesses and people in the neighborhood that did
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Speaker 1: seem to paint a picture of this potentially really being
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Speaker 1: a serial killer, not individual isolated killings. And so the police,
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Speaker 1: based on Vladdo's story, would actually begin investigating a serial killer.
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Speaker 1: In their midst they linked all three murders and they
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Speaker 1: began basically a new investigation. However, at the same time
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Speaker 1: they began this new investigation, Vlado began to notice.
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Speaker 2: That he was being tailed all the time by police.
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Speaker 1: He would be out in town doing his job, you know,
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Speaker 1: reporting and interviewing people, and there'd just be a police
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Speaker 1: officer standing somewhere in the distance watching him. But Vladdo
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Speaker 1: had anticipated that no matter what, he was likely going
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Speaker 1: to face some sort of blowback from the police, and
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Speaker 1: so he just kind of accepted that they were going
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Speaker 1: to watch him and maybe try to intimidate him, but
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Speaker 1: it wasn't going to bother him because he had done
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Speaker 1: his job. He had reported the story the best that
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Speaker 1: he could, and if they wanted to watch him from
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Speaker 1: a distance, they could do that. By early June, so
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Speaker 1: about two weeks after Zavana had been found murdered, the
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Speaker 1: police in this new serial killer investigation they were doing,
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Speaker 1: had narrowed down their suspect pool, which was in the hundreds,
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Speaker 1: down to just three people, and they felt like they
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Speaker 1: were very close to making an arrest about a month later,
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Speaker 1: on June twentieth, So by this point Vladdo is still
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Speaker 1: being trailed by police all the time, but the police
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Speaker 1: have not come out publicly and said anything about the
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Speaker 1: serial killer case. They're just continuing their investigation. But on
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Speaker 1: the stay June twentieth, Vladdo's editor at the newspaper got
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Speaker 1: a call from a police officer telling the editor they
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Speaker 1: were about to make an arrest in the serial killer case,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as their conversation ended, the editor called
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Speaker 1: Vlado to tell him the news. But when he called Vladdo,
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Speaker 1: Vladdo didn't pick up, which was very unusual. Vladdo always
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Speaker 1: answered his calls, and the editor was also thinking to
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Speaker 1: himself how strange it was that this officer had contacted
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Speaker 1: him and not Vlado, Like, why aren't you going to
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Speaker 1: the guy writing the stories and telling him about this
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Speaker 1: new development?
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Speaker 2: Why are you coming to me?
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Speaker 1: The editor would continue to try calling Vladdo several more times,
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Speaker 1: but Vladdo never answered, and so ultimately the editor just
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Speaker 1: kind of assumed that Vladdo must be busy, you know,
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Speaker 1: interviewing someone, or maybe more likely, he had already learned
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Speaker 1: about this imminent arrest and he was on scene ready
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Speaker 1: to capture in real time this arrest that was about
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Speaker 1: to take place. Meanwhile, on a quiet street in Cassevo,
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Speaker 1: the police had surrounded this very modest, two story home
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Speaker 1: that was very overgrown up front. It was surrounded by
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Speaker 1: tall fir trees and all the windows had heavy drapes
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Speaker 1: covering them up. And then, once the police felt like
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Speaker 1: they had totally surrounded this building, a team of officers
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Speaker 1: walked up onto the porch and knocked on the door
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Speaker 1: and yelled out that they were police, and whoever was
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Speaker 1: inside to come out with their hands up, and for
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Speaker 1: a moment it was just totally silent and tense, and
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Speaker 1: then the police on the porch heard footsteps inside the house.
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Speaker 1: You know, they had their guns ready to go, and
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Speaker 1: then the door slowly opened up and this man, who
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Speaker 1: seemed very unthreatening and kind of confused, stepped out onto
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Speaker 1: the porch, and the police immediately arrested.
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Speaker 2: Him and took him away.
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Speaker 1: A few minutes later, back at the newspaper headquarters, Flatto's
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Speaker 1: editor got another phone call, and when he answered, it
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Speaker 1: was the same police officer who had called before to
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Speaker 1: warn him about this upcoming arrest, except this time the
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Speaker 1: officer was calling to say the arrest had been made.
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Speaker 1: They had caught their serial killer. And then he told
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Speaker 1: the editor the name of the person they arrested, and
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Speaker 1: when the editor heard the name, he dropped the phone
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Speaker 1: and shock the serial killer was Vlado. It would turn
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Speaker 1: out that Vlado appeared very professional and calm on the outside,
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Speaker 1: but inside he was full of rage, specifically at his mother,
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Speaker 1: who he viewed as this terrible, cruel person. And after
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Speaker 1: she died in two thousand and two, Vlado became obsessed
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Speaker 1: with this idea of getting revenge on his deceased mother,
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Speaker 1: and the way he decided he would do that would
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Speaker 1: be by killing random women who just kind of looked
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Speaker 1: and seemed an awful lot like his mother, i e.
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Speaker 1: They were poor, older and cleaning ladies. His three victims
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Speaker 1: Mitra in two thousand and five, Lubitza in two thousand
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Speaker 1: and seven, and Zivanna in two thousand and eight, had
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Speaker 1: all personally known Vlado's mother, and so Vlado had actually
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Speaker 1: used that connection to gain each of his victims trust,
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Speaker 1: and then once he had their trust, he would lure
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Speaker 1: them away.
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Speaker 2: To strangle, stab, and beat them to death. In Vlado's
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Speaker 2: explosive newspaper.
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Speaker 1: Story, he lied about a whole bunch of things just
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Speaker 1: to throw the police off. Like, for example, he made
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Speaker 1: up that he spoke to a witness who claimed to
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Speaker 1: have seen Zavanna get into a car with two men
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Speaker 1: right before she vanished. Vlado did not see that that
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Speaker 1: was just a total lie designed to.
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Speaker 2: Confuse the police.
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Speaker 1: Vlado had also been the one to plant that story
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Speaker 1: on the radio about Zavannah's son Zoron, being in this
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Speaker 1: terrible accident you know that had caused Zavanna to run
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Speaker 1: out of her house and be vulnerable to be scooped
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Speaker 1: up and killed, which is exactly what Vlado wanted. He
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Speaker 1: had called the radio station and told them about this accident,
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Speaker 1: and because he had previously worked for that radio station,
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Speaker 1: they believed him without doing any.
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Speaker 2: Fact checking and broadcast the story.
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Speaker 1: And so really that whole radio broadcast was just a
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Speaker 1: very intentional trap by Vlado to kill Savanna. But what
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Speaker 1: ultimately got Vlado caught was in the article he wrote,
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Speaker 1: he left in some really specific details that the police
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Speaker 1: had not revealed to the public, and so basically by
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Speaker 1: including these in the story, it meant Vladdo had an
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Speaker 1: inside scoop into what was really going on. Like, for example,
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Speaker 1: Vlado said that all three of these women who had
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Speaker 1: been killed by the serial killer had been strangled to
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Speaker 1: death by telephone cords that were left at the scene.
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Speaker 1: But again the police had not revealed that to the public,
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Speaker 1: and so when they read the story, they actually became
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Speaker 1: very suspicious of Vladdo and thought he could be involved
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Speaker 1: in these murders. And so when Vlado felt like the
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Speaker 1: police were trailing him to intimidate him, in reality, the
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Speaker 1: police were trailing Vlado because they thought he could be
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Speaker 1: the murderer, and eventually, when they got a DNA sample
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Speaker 1: from Vlado, it was confirmed that their suspicions were right.
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Speaker 2: He was the killer.
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Speaker 1: After Vlado's arrest, he was immediately charged with two of
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Speaker 1: the three murders, and the police were getting ready to
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Speaker 1: charge him with the third, and they were even looking
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Speaker 1: at a fourth victim potentially that maybe Vlado had killed
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Speaker 1: as well, but they weren't entirely sure yet. But on
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Speaker 1: June twenty third, so just three days after Vlado's arrest,
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Speaker 1: he died in jail in a way that really didn't
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Speaker 1: make any sense. Vlado had drowned in a small bucket
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Speaker 1: of water inside of his jail cell, while there were
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Speaker 1: three other people inside of that jail cell with him,
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Speaker 1: who all said they didn't notice it happening. Officially, Vladdo's
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Speaker 1: death was ruled a suicide, and after his death, all
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Speaker 1: of the murder investigations were closed. It's no secret that
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Speaker 1: many of the stories I cover involve people attacking other
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Speaker 1: people or even killing other people, and I just need
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Speaker 1: you to know that I do not take that lightly.
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Speaker 1: The people in these stories are real, They had real families,
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Speaker 1: and friends. They had jobs, careers, ambitions, goals, good days,
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Speaker 1: bad days.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they were just like us.
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Speaker 1: But unfortunately, the way the media often portrays violent crime
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Speaker 1: is the focus of the news coverage is on the
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Speaker 1: perpetrator or perpetrators and not on the actual victim or
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Speaker 1: victims or their families. When the news coverage fades about
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Speaker 1: the crime, the victim and their families are just kind
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Speaker 1: of forgotten about until now. The Mister Ballin Foundation, which
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Speaker 1: was founded in twenty twenty two, exists solely to honor
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Speaker 1: And because the operational expenses of the Mister Ballin Foundation
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Speaker 1: are funded entirely by Ballin Studios, it means charitable donations
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Speaker 1: that come into the foundation go one hundred percent to
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent. Your money that comes in, it goes
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Speaker 1: right out the door to the cost. And this year
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three alone, with your help, we raised
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Speaker 1: seven hundred and sixty three thousand, four hundred and twenty
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Speaker 1: dollars and that money was given directly to victims of
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Speaker 1: violent crime as well as their families, and also portions
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Speaker 1: of that money were also given to reputable, established charitable
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Speaker 2: Most people join.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so so much to all of.
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Speaker 2: Without all of you, none of this would be possible.
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Speaker 2: So that's going to do it.
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