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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you three stories, and at
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Speaker 1: the end of each of them, I'm going to show
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Speaker 1: you the haunting photo or photos that are famously associated
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Speaker 1: with them. But before we get into those stories, if
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Speaker 1: ten pm on January thirty first, twenty twelve, a twenty
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Speaker 1: three year old man named Chen wrong You walked into
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Speaker 1: an internet cafe in New Taipei City, Taiwan. The cafe
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Speaker 1: had a front counter where a cashier would check you
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Speaker 1: in and sell you snacks and drinks. And then from
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Speaker 1: where he was looking behind the cashier were all these tables,
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Speaker 1: these long rows of tables with different computer stations at them,
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Speaker 1: and there was at least about thirty people already sitting
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Speaker 1: behind each of these terminals, fully engrossed in whatever game
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Speaker 1: or whatever they were doing on the internet. And not
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Speaker 1: one of these people even looked up when Chen walked inside.
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Speaker 1: I mean, nobody was interested in Chen. But for Chen
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Speaker 1: that was sort of part of the allure of this cafe.
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Speaker 1: He got to sit down and play his game and
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Speaker 1: be totally left alone. And so Chen walked up to
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Speaker 1: the counter and paid for some time. He also bought
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Speaker 1: a soda, and then he walked around back he found
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Speaker 1: an empty computer, sat down, and immediately fired up his
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Speaker 1: favorite game, League of Legends. League of Legends is a
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Speaker 1: multiplayer online battle arena game that's extremely popular all over
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Speaker 1: the world, and Chen took this game very seriously. He
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Speaker 1: routinely would spend eight hour long marathon sessions at this
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Speaker 1: internet cafe just playing League of Legends to try to
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Speaker 1: level up and move up in the ranking system. And
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Speaker 1: so today that's what Chen was going to do. And
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Speaker 1: so after the game was booted up, he immediately locked
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Speaker 1: in and he was in his first battle, and then
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Speaker 1: before long hours had gone by and he hadn't even
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Speaker 1: gotten up. And then eventually, you know, a couple times
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Speaker 1: he got up to get a soda refill and to
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Speaker 1: get a snack. But I mean he basically just all
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Speaker 1: night gamed just NonStop, periodically stopping to literally put his
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Speaker 1: head down on the table and take a fifteen minute
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Speaker 1: power nap, only to get right back up and get
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Speaker 1: back into the game.
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Speaker 2: And so all night he's just on this game.
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Speaker 1: By a little afternoon on February first, Chen had been
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Speaker 1: gaming nearly NonStop for fourteen hours, which was long even
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Speaker 1: by his standards, but he couldn't stop now. He was exhausted,
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Speaker 1: but he was doing great. This is like one of
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Speaker 1: the best sessions he had ever had. And right at
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Speaker 1: that moment, he was in the middle of this really
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Speaker 1: intense match where his team was about to get knocked
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Speaker 1: out by this really good opponent, and if Chen could
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Speaker 1: just lock in, they could pull out a win. And
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Speaker 1: so Chen was super focused, lean forward, hands flying across
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Speaker 1: his keyboard mouse and he managed to dodge an attack
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Speaker 1: and then he geared up for the big strike. Right
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Speaker 1: as he did, something went wrong. About nine hours later,
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Speaker 1: around nine pm, the cashier at this Internet cafe had
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Speaker 1: just finished giving another soda to one of the customers
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Speaker 1: and then they looked out, and she noticed there was
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Speaker 1: nobody else in line. Now, the job of this cashier
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Speaker 1: was not just to check people in and give them
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Speaker 1: snacks and drinks. It was also to keep the cafe
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Speaker 1: clean and also critically to periodically make rounds and kick
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Speaker 1: people out once their time had expired, because oftentimes a
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Speaker 1: lot of these gamers would get sucked into their games,
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Speaker 1: lose track of time, and basically end up playing for
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Speaker 1: longer than they had actually paid for.
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Speaker 2: So the cashier grabbed her.
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Speaker 1: Clipboard with all the information about each of the customers
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Speaker 1: and how long they had paid for, and then she
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Speaker 1: began making her rounds in the back. And part of
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Speaker 1: it was she needed to speak basically to all the
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Speaker 1: people that were there and firm that they were supposed
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Speaker 1: to be here still. But as she walked into the back,
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Speaker 1: per usual, nobody looked up at her.
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Speaker 2: I mean, all these.
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Speaker 1: People at all their terminals were heads down, fully focused
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Speaker 1: on their game, I mean, completely immersed. And so she
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Speaker 1: began going, you know, one person to the next, being like, hey,
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Speaker 1: you know, are you good?
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Speaker 2: Did you pay for your time? You're gonna be here
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Speaker 2: any bit longer. And a lot of these guys they
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Speaker 2: you know, they'd.
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Speaker 1: Finally look up and be totally shocked she's even standing
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Speaker 1: next to them, because they weren't paying attention at all.
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Speaker 1: But you know, one by one she checked each of
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Speaker 1: the monitors, and eventually she got to Chen. And when
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Speaker 1: she got to Chen, Chen was focused on this game entirely,
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Speaker 1: to the point where when she said, hey, you know
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Speaker 1: your time is up. You've been here for twenty four hours,
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Speaker 1: you paid for you know, eight or nine or whatever
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Speaker 1: it was, Chen didn't even look up at her. I mean,
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Speaker 1: nothing she could do could get Chen to even acknowledge her.
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Speaker 1: He was so focused on the game. And so eventually
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Speaker 1: the cashier, at of frustration, was like, hey, and she
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Speaker 1: kind of tapped his shoulder and Chen leaned back, and
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Speaker 1: when he did and the cashier got a good look
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Speaker 1: at him.
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Speaker 2: She screamed.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out until this very moment, Chen had
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Speaker 1: gotten his wish. He had come to this cafe twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours earlier and been totally left alone. He got
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Speaker 1: to exclusively just play his game in.
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Speaker 2: His own world.
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Speaker 1: In fact, the whole time he was here, no one
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Speaker 1: had even looked at him, because if they had, they
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Speaker 1: would have seen something was horribly wrong. It was the
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Speaker 1: cashier who walked over to him and tapped on his
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Speaker 1: shoulder who noticed what was wrong. Here's what the cashier saw.
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Speaker 1: This is a picture of Chen and Chen is in
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Speaker 1: full rigor mortis because nine hours earlier, when he was
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Speaker 1: in the middle of that really intense fight with that
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Speaker 1: opponent who was about to beat Chen and his team. Chen,
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Speaker 1: you know, he got really excited and he was about
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Speaker 1: to land that big strike that potentially could have been
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Speaker 1: the blow that would have won the match. Well, he
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Speaker 1: was so amped up that Chen had a heart attack
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Speaker 1: and died. And for the nine hours after he died,
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Speaker 1: when he was still in the same position he was
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Speaker 1: in playing the game, nobody noticed. He just sat there
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Speaker 1: appearing to be fully alive, walked into the game like
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Speaker 1: everybody else, but he was actually dead. And so it
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Speaker 1: wasn't until the cashier Tapchin on the shoulder and he
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Speaker 1: rocked backwards, still in his gaming position, but because he's
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Speaker 1: in rigor mortis, his hands kind of jutted out in
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Speaker 1: front of him up into the air, that she realized
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Speaker 1: he was actually dead. Chen's family would later say that
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Speaker 1: On the afternoon of October eleventh, twenty twenty three, a
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Speaker 1: forty eight year old man named Samuel Gomez stood in
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Speaker 1: the lobby of the Moxie Hotel in Portland, Oregon, talking
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Speaker 1: to the concierge. Samuel had flown in from Phoenix earlier
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Speaker 1: that morning because he was speaking at a conference in
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Speaker 1: Portland later that week, but for now, he was just
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Speaker 1: going to go out and enjoy the sites, and so
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Speaker 1: he had asked the concierge to give him some local recommendations.
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Speaker 1: The concierge named a few cool local places Samuel thanked him,
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Speaker 1: and then he headed out the front door onto the road,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as Samuel was outside, he immediately heard
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Speaker 1: this loud commotion happening right down the street, and he
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Speaker 1: turned and looked in the direction, and he saw this
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Speaker 1: kind of gaggle of people in cars sort of standing
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Speaker 1: in what looked like a big circle around whatever was
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Speaker 1: happening over there. Samuel couldn't tell what it was, but
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Speaker 1: people were honking, and people had their phones out filming
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Speaker 1: sort of whatever was in the middle of the circle.
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Speaker 1: And from the looks of it, it appeared there was
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Speaker 1: at least one police officer in his car sort of
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Speaker 1: beginning to marshal the scene and block traffic. But you know,
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Speaker 1: there was just this chaotic scene happening, and Samuel really
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Speaker 1: had no idea what it was, but naturally, being a human.
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Speaker 2: He was interested. He wanted to see what was going on, and.
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Speaker 1: So Samuel began walking down the road, and as he did,
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Speaker 1: he pulled out his phone, opened up his camera and
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Speaker 1: began filming and taking pictures. And as he got closer
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Speaker 1: to whatever was going on here, the cacophony of horns
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Speaker 1: and people yelling and all the chaos just got louder
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Speaker 1: and louder, and it still wasn't clear at all to
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Speaker 1: Samuel what the heck this even was, and so he
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Speaker 1: just continued to take photos and just kind of be
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Speaker 1: an onlooker. And at some point, when Samuel got right
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Speaker 1: up close and actually was standing right near that police
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Speaker 1: officer blocking traffic, he happened to turn his phone and
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Speaker 1: aim his camera at the police officer, and when he did,
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Speaker 1: he took a photo. Here's the photo he took. As
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Speaker 1: you can see, the police officer is aiming his gun
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Speaker 1: directly at Samuel, and that's because this is not a
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Speaker 1: police officer. Samuel just thought he was a police officer
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Speaker 1: when he looked down the road at this crazy scene,
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Speaker 1: he saw this guy in a car who sort of
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Speaker 1: appeared to be, you know, maybe an undercover cop sort
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Speaker 1: of you know, in the right place at the right time,
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Speaker 1: taking charge and handling whatever this was. When in reality,
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Speaker 1: this man who's in this photo is a guy named
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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Hammond who had just been involved in a road
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Speaker 1: rage incident and he shot and killed a forty seven
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Speaker 1: year old man named Ryan Martin. That was the scene
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Speaker 1: that Samuel had walked out to. Jeffrey Hammond shooting and
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Speaker 1: killing Ryan Martin. That's what everybody was reacting to. And
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Speaker 1: so as Samuel walked down the road, not knowing that
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Speaker 1: he inadvertently stood right in front of the shooter, who
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Speaker 1: was still sort of crazed, aimed his camera at him,
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Speaker 1: right as Jeffrey Hammond swung his gun around and shot Samuel.
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Speaker 1: So like, literally seconds after this photo was taken, Samuel
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Speaker 1: got shot.
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Speaker 2: Luckily, though Samuel would survive the shooting.
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Speaker 1: As for Jeffrey Hammond, he was arrested and charged with murder,
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Speaker 1: and as far as we know, he is currently in
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Speaker 1: jail awaiting trial. On April fifth, twenty eighteen, a young
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Speaker 1: man named Luis Hernandez sat inside of a small stone
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Speaker 1: shack with a metal roof on a rural property in
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Speaker 1: northern Venezuela. Luis was a painter, and for the last
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Speaker 1: year or so, this shack had doubled as both his
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Speaker 1: home and his art studio, and it was.
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Speaker 2: Basically always a mess.
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Speaker 1: There was dirty dishes and food everywhere, and all his
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Speaker 1: paint supplies were scattered all over the ground, but the
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Speaker 1: walls were all adorned with all of his beautiful and
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Speaker 1: most prize possessions. His artwork, he mainly painted really dramatic
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Speaker 1: looking portraits in very bold colors. In fact, when he
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Speaker 1: was actually doing his painting, when he was in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the floor, right in the center of a shack,
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Speaker 1: on one wall, there was this face of.
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Speaker 2: A man he had done all in red, and then on.
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Speaker 1: The left, on the other wall was this woman's face
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Speaker 1: all in blue but with bright red lips. And these
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Speaker 1: paintings were both so intense that at times as he
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Speaker 1: was doing his work, it sort of felt like they
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Speaker 1: were both looking at him. But on this particular day,
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Speaker 1: as Louise sat in the middle of a shack working
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Speaker 1: on his latest project, he put that weird thought out
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Speaker 1: of his mind that, you know, his paintings were watching him,
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Speaker 1: and just focused instead on getting this done. You know,
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Speaker 1: he had one more beautiful portrait he was working on,
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Speaker 1: and he took his paint brush and he dipped it
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Speaker 1: in the black ink, and he put the finishing touches
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Speaker 1: on it. And when this portrait was done, Luis kind
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Speaker 1: of sat back and took it all in and he
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Speaker 1: couldn't help but feel a bit emotional because this project,
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Speaker 1: you know, it was different than any other he had
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Speaker 1: ever done. He wasn't doing it for fun, he wasn't
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Speaker 1: doing it for pay. He was doing it as a
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Speaker 1: way to cope with a big crisis in his life.
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Speaker 1: So this shack where Luis worked and lived, and also
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Speaker 1: the rural property that it sat on, belonged to Luis's boyfriend,
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Speaker 1: Lisandro Rosales Garcia. Lysandro and Luis had met about a
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Speaker 1: year earlier when Luis was really down on his luck
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Speaker 1: and was actually homeless living out on the streets. But
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Speaker 1: Lisandro had seen Louise and offered to let him come
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Speaker 1: live in this shack on his property, which was out
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Speaker 1: in the middle of nowhere, and Luis, who's got no
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Speaker 1: other options, is like, awesome, Yes, I'd love to do that,
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Speaker 1: And so he moves out into the shack and pretty
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Speaker 1: quickly after moving in, Luis and Lissandro they formed a
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Speaker 1: more romantic relationship, and Luis was so happy. He felt
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Speaker 1: like Lisandro was the one person who really understood him
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Speaker 1: and truly supported his art. But then, about two months ago,
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Speaker 1: Lisandro had just gone missing.
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Speaker 2: The police were looking into it, but.
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Speaker 1: So far Luise had not gotten any updates, and so
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Speaker 1: Luis was handling this huge gap in his life. Now
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Speaker 1: you know the only way he knew how to, which
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Speaker 1: was with his art, and so this latest project he
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Speaker 1: had just finished was sort of like a tribute to
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Speaker 1: his missing boyfriend. But as Louise put his brush down
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Speaker 1: and stood up to admire his work, he suddenly heard
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Speaker 1: voices from outside. Now this was highly unusual because this
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Speaker 1: property really was very remote. I mean, the only time
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Speaker 1: Luis or Lissandro would see people here was if they
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Speaker 1: invited them, and Louise had not invited anyone.
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Speaker 2: But before Louise could.
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Speaker 1: Even react to, you know, these strangers on his property,
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Speaker 1: those people outside began pounding on Luise's front door, and
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Speaker 1: so Louise he opened up the door and standing there
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Speaker 1: were all these police officers, and Louise's first reaction was, oh,
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Speaker 1: they must be here to give me some updates about
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Speaker 1: Lissandro's disappearance. But these police officers, they didn't give an update. Instead,
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Speaker 1: they just pushed past Louise into the art studio and
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Speaker 1: began scooping up all his paints and paint brushes. And
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Speaker 1: then at some point one of the officers actually looked
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Speaker 1: down and saw the final project that Luis had been
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Speaker 1: working on, his tribute to his missing boyfriend, and when
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Speaker 1: the officer saw that painting, he turned around, ran outside
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Speaker 1: and vomited. Here is a picture of that tribute. Now,
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Speaker 1: at first glance, this piece of art is totally unremarkable.
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Speaker 1: You know, it appears to be some sort of stained
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Speaker 1: glass with green leaves and some blue and red flowers.
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Speaker 1: But when you consider the types of supplies that Luis
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Speaker 1: used to make this particular piece of art, you'll realize
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Speaker 1: how horrifying this image actually is, and it's what caused
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Speaker 1: that officer to vomit. It would turn out Luis was
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Speaker 1: not just a painter. He was also a serial killer,
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Speaker 1: and what he would do is after he killed his victims,
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Speaker 1: he would use their blood, their ashes, and their other
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Speaker 1: body parts to paint all of his paintings. Now, at first,
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Speaker 1: Luis and Lessandro were actually a happy couple. However, at
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Speaker 1: some point in February of twenty eighteen, they got in
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Speaker 1: some kind of fight and Luis killed Lessandro and quickly
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Speaker 1: began using his body parts to create this tribute to
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Speaker 1: his boyfriend. If you look again at the tribute painting,
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Speaker 1: all the red that is used Islessandro's blood, and all
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Speaker 1: the black that's used is Lessandro's ashes all told police
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Speaker 1: would find the remains of at least six people on
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Speaker 1: that property. They also found evidence that Luis was not
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Speaker 1: just using their body parts to make art, he was
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Speaker 1: also cannibalizing his victims. Luis was arrested and made a
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