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Their final photos will turn your stomach... · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share four stories that are each
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Speaker 1: associated with a very haunting picture. I'm going to tell
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Speaker 1: each story, and at the end of each of them,
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Speaker 1: On the afternoon of March 13th, 2018, a 38-year-old woman
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Speaker 1: named Zhang Fengxin lugged a very heavy box into her
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Speaker 1: apartment in New Taipei City, Taiwan. She set the box
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Speaker 1: down to catch her breath. Then she looked around and
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Speaker 1: she sighed because the apartment was a total mess. So Zhang,
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Speaker 1: even before carrying this very heavy box, she was already
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Speaker 1: very exhausted from the day because she'd spent basically the
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Speaker 1: entire morning working on this DIY project in the back
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Speaker 1: bedroom of the apartment, where Zhang lived with her husband,
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Speaker 1: her two kids, and her sister-in-law. Now, this project had
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Speaker 1: seemed like a great idea when Zhang had started, but
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Speaker 1: about partway through, it was turning out to be a
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Speaker 1: whole lot more work than she had planned for. But
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Speaker 1: she was committed, and she was going to see this
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Speaker 1: project through. However, before she could get back to it,
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Speaker 1: she had some cleaning to do. Her sister-in-law was training
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Speaker 1: for this out-of-town marathon race that was being held this week,
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Speaker 1: which meant her sister-in-law had basically left her dumbbells lying.
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Speaker 2: All over the place. She had left her laundry all
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Speaker 2: over the place.
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Speaker 1: I mean, she basically treated the place like a pigsty
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Speaker 1: and didn't clean up after herself. And now Zhang's husband
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Speaker 1: and kids, they'd be home soon, and she didn't want
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Speaker 1: them walking into a mess. And so, you know, it
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Speaker 1: turned into her responsibility to clean up after her. So
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Speaker 1: Zhang walked over and began lugging these heavy dumbbells back
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Speaker 1: and putting them back.
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Speaker 2: On the rack.
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Speaker 1: And she picked up laundry and she began, you know,
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Speaker 1: straightening everything up. She's wiping down surfaces. She's scrubbing the chairs.
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Speaker 1: I mean, again, a lot of this is just because
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Speaker 1: of the sister-in-law. But I mean, she was just basically
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Speaker 1: doing a full clean at the apartment in advance of
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Speaker 1: her family coming home. And Zhang, she was literally all
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Speaker 1: done with the cleaning and actually lighting a scented candle,
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Speaker 1: sort of like the exclamation point on on a job
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Speaker 1: well done here nice and clean apartment at this point
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Speaker 1: right as her husband and kids walked inside so it
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Speaker 1: was perfect and then for the rest of the evening
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Speaker 1: zhang was tied up with kids homework with dinner and
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Speaker 1: bedtime routines and that's how it went for the next
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Speaker 1: few days i mean basically between her job and the
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Speaker 1: kids zhang really had no downtime to herself and then
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Speaker 1: when she did she basically spent all of her spare
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Speaker 1: time working on that diy project still wasn't done even
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Speaker 1: after at this point hours and hours of work and
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Speaker 1: three separate trips to the store for more supplies but
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Speaker 1: it was it was a big project and so she
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Speaker 1: was just you know chipping along and even though in
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Speaker 1: some ways zhang by this point was starting to kind
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Speaker 1: of regret biting off such a big project at this
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Speaker 1: point it was just like too late to back out
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Speaker 1: but finally By the evening of March 16th, so after
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Speaker 1: three exhausting days of work on this project and also
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Speaker 1: maintaining her regular life responsibilities, Zhang had finished her project.
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Speaker 1: As such, Zhang was now desperate for a break. But
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Speaker 1: her husband had called to say he'd be home late.
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Speaker 1: So instead of getting to relax, Zhang was stuck taking
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Speaker 1: care of the kids on her own. And she had
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Speaker 1: just called the kids to come in and have their
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Speaker 1: dinner right as the door opened and Zhang's husband walked in.
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Speaker 1: And Zhang, like, immediately felt a surge of relief here,
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Speaker 1: thinking that, you know, finally now she could relax with
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Speaker 1: him home.
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Speaker 2: He was going to help.
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Speaker 1: But her husband, he wasn't alone. He was followed by
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Speaker 1: several police officers who immediately fanned out in the apartment
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Speaker 1: and began searching. And before Zhang could ask, like, what
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Speaker 1: is going on here?
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Speaker 2: Like, what are they looking for?
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Speaker 1: The police reached that back bedroom where Zhang had done
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Speaker 1: this big DIY project, and they forced.
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Speaker 2: The door open.
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Speaker 1: Zhang immediately braced for what she knew was coming. A
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Speaker 1: moment later, she heard the sound of one of the
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Speaker 1: officers audibly gasping. Here's the photo of what the police
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Speaker 1: found inside of that back bedroom.
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Speaker 2: It is the project that Zhang had been working on
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Speaker 2: for the last three days.
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Speaker 1: And as you can see, it is what appears to
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Speaker 1: be a block of solid cement sitting in the corner
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Speaker 1: of the room. But it just so happens that this
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Speaker 1: block of cement is the rough size and shape of
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Speaker 1: a person. Because sealed inside of that block was a person.
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Speaker 1: It was Zhang's sister-in-law, Ye Shifeng. Zhang had grown completely
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Speaker 1: fed up with Ye. In particular, she was really upset about,
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Speaker 1: you know, the dumbbells and all the laundry and stuff
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Speaker 1: being left around the house by her sister-in-law. And so eventually,
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Speaker 1: Zhang had simply murdered Ye, her sister-in-law, by striking her
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Speaker 1: with a dumbbell after they got into this big argument,
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Speaker 1: probably over not cleaning up after herself. And then once
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Speaker 1: she was dead, Zhang tried to cover up the murder,
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Speaker 1: first just by cleaning up the blood, and then by
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Speaker 1: covering the body in cement to try to trap the
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Speaker 1: smell and obviously hide the body. It took more than
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Speaker 1: 30 bags of cement, mixed and poured in batches over
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Speaker 1: three days, all while Zhang was still going to work
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Speaker 1: and taking care of her kids in the next room.
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Speaker 1: And Zhang, for the most part, was able to keep
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Speaker 1: her family in the dark about what she was doing.
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Speaker 1: But when her sister-in-law, Ye, didn't show up to work
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Speaker 1: or that out-of-town marathon she'd been training for, Ye's co-workers
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Speaker 1: contacted her brother, who was Zhang's husband. And he reported
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Speaker 1: his sister missing. And that's what ultimately led police back
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Speaker 1: to the apartment and to the DIY tomb in the
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Speaker 1: back bedroom. On the morning of May 2nd, 2026, police
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Speaker 1: captain Johan Potgieta leaned out of a helicopter that was
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Speaker 1: hovering over the Komati River in South Africa. And as
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Speaker 1: he did, he scanned the area for any signs of
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Speaker 1: a threat because this particular stretch of river was enemy territory.
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Speaker 1: So Johan was the commander of a dive team that
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Speaker 1: specialized in rescue operations on this river. Now, normally, they
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Speaker 1: actually avoided this particular stretch, specifically because it was controlled
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Speaker 1: by this ruthless, deadly group that would.
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Speaker 2: Attack law enforcement on site.
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Speaker 1: But today, Johan and his team had come here to
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Speaker 1: look for a 59-year-old man named Gabriel Batista, who had
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Speaker 1: gone missing, at least believed to have gone missing, here
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Speaker 1: a few days earlier. And so as much as Johan
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Speaker 1: and his team really didn't want to be here, they
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Speaker 1: knew they had to go down there and look for Gabriel.
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Speaker 1: And so at this point, their mission was just like,
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Speaker 1: try to figure out where he is, go down, get him,
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Speaker 1: and get out as quickly as possible. And so they'd
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Speaker 1: been circling for a couple of minutes above, looking around
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Speaker 1: for signs of Gabriel, when suddenly the team sniper pointed
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Speaker 1: down at something. Johan, he looked and sort of squinted,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as he saw what the sniper was
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Speaker 1: pointing at, it was like his throat tightened up. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he was too high up to see it clearly, But
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Speaker 1: if he was right about what he thought he was
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Speaker 1: looking at here, then, well, Gabriel was right below them,
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Speaker 1: and Gabriel was dead. But the only way to know
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Speaker 1: for sure would be to go down and check. And
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Speaker 1: they were not about to land these helicopters in such
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Speaker 1: hostile territory, and so Johann attached his harness to the
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Speaker 1: rappel line, and he began, you know, making his way down. However,
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Speaker 1: as Johann was literally mid-rappel, he heard a shot ring out.
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Speaker 1: And so he looked up and he saw the sniper's
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Speaker 1: rifle being pulled back into the helicopter. And the sniper
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Speaker 1: sort of leaned out and gave Johan a thumbs up,
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Speaker 1: at which point Johan understood what had just happened. And
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Speaker 1: he figured, you know, now the coast was clear and
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Speaker 1: it was sort of now or never.
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Speaker 2: Johan knew he had to get down there and just
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Speaker 2: go check.
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Speaker 1: And so Johan, he continued rappelling all the way, almost
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Speaker 1: to the end of the line. And then he stopped
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Speaker 1: himself and he secured himself so that he would not
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Speaker 1: slip any lower on this line.
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Speaker 2: So you got a picture that the helicopter is hovering.
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Speaker 1: The line is just kind of dangling out the side
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Speaker 1: of the helicopter. And here's Johan secured at the end,
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Speaker 1: sort of dangling down below, except where he was positioned
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Speaker 1: was effectively right over the river at this point. And
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Speaker 1: then below him was what he believed was Gabriel's dead body.
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Speaker 1: Now what Johan knew he was about to do next
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Speaker 1: was it was quite risky. I mean, if, If the
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Speaker 1: sniper was wrong, and even though they gave the thumbs up,
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Speaker 1: said the coast was clear, if they were wrong, what
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Speaker 1: Johan was going to do next would almost certainly get
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Speaker 1: him killed.
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Speaker 2: But he had to trust his team. He had to
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Speaker 2: follow procedure.
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Speaker 1: And so when he was ready, Johan signaled up to
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Speaker 1: the crew up in the helicopter being like, okay, I'm
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Speaker 1: in position. I'm ready to do the next step here.
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Speaker 1: At which point, again, you got to picture him. He's
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Speaker 1: dangling on the end of this rope. The helicopter lowered
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Speaker 1: just enough to where Johan, still on the rope, was
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Speaker 1: touching the surface of the water. And so at this point, Johan,
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Speaker 1: he signals to the helicopter like, stop.
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Speaker 2: And they did. And But then, you know, as Johan
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Speaker 2: is getting ready to do this.
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Speaker 1: Procedure, the helicopter's rotors were kicking up so much spray
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Speaker 1: off the water that he could barely see. And so
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Speaker 1: he just began sort of blindly fumbling around until he
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Speaker 1: found the object that he was looking for. Try not
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Speaker 1: to think too hard about what he was actually touching here.
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Speaker 1: And he just kept moving his hands until he had
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Speaker 1: the cable that he had brought with him.
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Speaker 2: Wrapped around this object and secured.
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Speaker 1: Then once Johan felt like, okay, I've done my part,
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Speaker 1: he signaled to the helicopter again saying he was ready.
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Speaker 1: And then a few seconds later, Johan was lifted up
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Speaker 1: off the water because the helicopter was rising higher.
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Speaker 2: Into the sky.
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Speaker 1: And then that cable that Johan had wrapped around this object,
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Speaker 1: like there was some slack to it. And so that
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Speaker 1: was connected to him. And so this object is basically
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Speaker 1: going to come up with him at some point. And
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Speaker 1: so Johan's rising into the air. The line below him,
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Speaker 1: this cable is getting tighter. And then the object began
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Speaker 1: being pulled out of the water as well. And as
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Speaker 1: soon as that happened, as Johan looked at this object,
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Speaker 1: he finally got like an unobstructed clear view of what
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Speaker 1: this thing actually was. And at this point, he truly
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Speaker 1: understood just how dangerous this mission really had been. I mean, honestly,
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Speaker 1: he could barely believe they had just pulled this off.
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Speaker 1: And also, he was positive that... he had Gabriel. Here
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Speaker 1: is a photo that was taken at this moment of
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Speaker 1: the mission. Johan is seen dangling from the helicopter's rope
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Speaker 1: that he rappelled down on with the object that he
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Speaker 1: pulled out of the river dangling below him. And the object,
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Speaker 1: as you can see, is a 15-foot-long Nile crocodile. And
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Speaker 1: as you can also see, the Nile crocodile is kind
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Speaker 1: of swollen and lumpy. That's because inside of it, just
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Speaker 1: as Johan and his team suspected, was the body of
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Speaker 1: Gabriel Batista. So Gabriel had been caught in a flood
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Speaker 1: and swept into this part of the river that was
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Speaker 1: full of Nile crocodiles. Those were the deadly group that
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Speaker 1: Johan and his team all feared. That's why they avoided
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Speaker 1: this area, because of the crocodiles. And it was this
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Speaker 1: crocodile in this photo that the sniper in the helicopter
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Speaker 1: had shot at right before Johan rappelled down and, you know,
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Speaker 1: lassoed it up and hoisted it out of the water.
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Speaker 1: When Johan and his team got the crocodile back to
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Speaker 1: dry land, they cut it open. And inside of its stomach,
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Speaker 1: they not only found Gabrielle's remains, but they also found
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Speaker 1: the shoes of six other people. On June 20th, 2026,
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Speaker 1: a 20-year-old woman named Frisha Gall hiked up a rocky
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Speaker 1: trail with a couple of friends at Yosemite National Park
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Speaker 1: in California. It was a very warm day, so Frisha
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Speaker 1: was very sweaty and she was out of breath.
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Speaker 2: But when she reached the top and.
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Speaker 1: Stepped out, I mean, it was like one of the
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Speaker 1: most beautiful viewpoints in the entire park.
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Speaker 2: I mean, really staggering.
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Speaker 1: So Frisha and her friends had been hiking all morning
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Speaker 1: to get to this spot, which was the top of
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Speaker 1: Nevada Falls. And now they stood beside this rushing waterfall
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Speaker 1: that dropped 600 feet into a canyon below. From the
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Speaker 1: metal railing, Frisha could see the entire valley and the
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Speaker 1: Sierra Nevada mountain range up in the distance. And so naturally,
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Speaker 1: Frisha grabbed her camera around her neck and she snapped
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Speaker 1: a few pictures. Frisha loved the outdoors and was exactly
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Speaker 1: the kind of person that this kind of hike was
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Speaker 1: made for. And so Frisha at some point told all
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Speaker 1: her friends to to gather around the railing, and then
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Speaker 1: she took a few more photos to commemorate this glorious hike.
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Speaker 1: After that, they decided they would actually head a little
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Speaker 1: ways back of the edge of this waterfall. They were
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Speaker 1: going to go like 200 yards back up the river
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Speaker 1: to where the water was a little bit calmer, to
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Speaker 1: a shadier spot. It was sort of like a good
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Speaker 1: area that they had seen on the way here to
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Speaker 1: maybe have a picnic. And so they packed up their
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Speaker 1: stuff and walked away from the edge of this waterfall
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Speaker 1: to this calmer area. When they got there, they set
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Speaker 1: up their picnic spot right next to a whole bunch
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Speaker 1: of other hiking groups who were also sitting along the
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Speaker 1: riverbank and a few people were.
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Speaker 2: Wading up to their ankles in the water.
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Speaker 1: Frisha, after getting situated, unpacked her food and then spent
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Speaker 1: the next half hour or so eating and chatting with
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Speaker 1: her friends. And as they did, they took in the
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Speaker 1: view and Frisha, of course, grabbed her camera and took
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Speaker 1: a few more pictures. And then at some point after
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Speaker 1: she was done eating, Frisha was just scrolling through the
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Speaker 1: photos that she had taken on this trip so far,
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Speaker 1: just looking for anything that might make a good Instagram post.
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Speaker 1: When at some point, one of the pictures, or specifically
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Speaker 1: something in one.
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Speaker 2: Of the pictures, caught her eye.
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Speaker 1: She stared at it for a second on the viewfinder,
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Speaker 1: and then she zoomed in and looked closer. And when
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Speaker 1: she realized what she was seeing, she gasped and dropped
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Speaker 1: the camera. A few seconds later, one of Freisha's friends
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Speaker 1: who was packing up their lunch heard a splashing sound.
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Speaker 1: They turned around, and they saw Frisha wading all the
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Speaker 1: way into the river, still wearing her clothes. Which made
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Speaker 1: no sense, because even though the water looked calm, swimming
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Speaker 1: this close to the top of the waterfall was really dangerous.
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Speaker 1: And also, this friend was thinking, like, Frisha, of all people,
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Speaker 1: should really know, like, this is not the thing to
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Speaker 1: be doing right now. Because Frisha had spent years working
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Speaker 1: as a lifeguard, like, safety around the water was sort
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Speaker 1: of her thing. And so the friend just shouted out
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Speaker 1: to Frisha to be like, what are you doing?
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Speaker 2: But Frisha appeared to be.
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Speaker 1: On some sort of mission here because she completely ignored
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Speaker 1: the friend and just kept splashing further from the bank,
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Speaker 1: basically out towards the rapids. And then the friend, like
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Speaker 1: in horror, watched as Frisha's head got pulled down under
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Speaker 1: the water, out in the river. The current spun Frisha
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Speaker 1: upside down and then dragged her over the rocks at
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Speaker 1: the bottom. She scrambled to fight the current, but it
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Speaker 1: was useless. And soon she knew she was literally going
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Speaker 1: to be swept over the edge of the Nevada Fall,
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Speaker 1: the 600-foot waterfall. And so as this is happening, Frisha
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Speaker 1: is realizing she has made a terrible mistake. And so
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Speaker 1: now she's fully panicking, and she fought her way up
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Speaker 1: to the surface as best as she could using all
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Speaker 1: her energy, and she manages to get a quick breath,
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Speaker 1: and as her head is above the surface of the water,
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Speaker 1: she sees the waterfall looming now just a couple hundred
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Speaker 1: feet away from her. And also, in this split second,
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Speaker 1: she sees there are all these people on the riverbank
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Speaker 1: that clearly know she's in the water, she's in trouble,
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Speaker 1: and they're shouting for her, swim to them, like as
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Speaker 1: if that's going to happen. Like she knows she can't
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Speaker 1: get out of this current. She can barely keep her
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Speaker 1: head above the surface of the water. And so as
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Speaker 1: she was pulled back under and she's getting tossed around
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Speaker 1: in the current, all she's thinking about is like, she
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Speaker 1: remembered that when she was a lifeguard, her instructors had
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Speaker 1: drilled one rule about water safety into her and the
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Speaker 1: other lifeguards. And it was a rule that they said
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Speaker 1: mattered more than anything else they would ever teach them.
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Speaker 1: But today, Frisha had knowingly ignored that rule. And now,
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Speaker 1: very likely, she was about to die because of it.
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Speaker 1: But then a moment later, sort of miraculously, the current
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Speaker 1: sort of shifted. And suddenly her head had bobbed up
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Speaker 1: above the surface of the water. She caught her breath.
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Speaker 1: And she was looking in the direction she was going.
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Speaker 1: And she saw there was someone holding a walking stick
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Speaker 1: out over the river. And Frisha knew this is like
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Speaker 1: literally her last shot at surviving this. So she lunged
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Speaker 1: for the stick, but missed and the river pulled her
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Speaker 1: back under again. And so now it's like, it's over.
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Speaker 1: The waterfall is seconds away. And so with a little
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Speaker 1: bit of strength she had left, she's, you know, she's
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Speaker 1: totally out of breath. She's totally panicked. She fought to
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Speaker 1: get one more breath, one more time, get to the surface.
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Speaker 1: Maybe she can grab something. And she, she punches her
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Speaker 1: head up out of the water. And there is that
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Speaker 1: person with the stick. They've moved farther down again. They're
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Speaker 1: holding it out. It's closer to her. And she lunges again.
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Speaker 2: This is all she's got. It's all of her energy.
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Speaker 1: And she grabs onto the stick. And as Frisha felt
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Speaker 1: herself being reeled back into the bank, she looked over
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Speaker 1: her shoulder just in time to see the thing that
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Speaker 1: had caught her attention in that photo that prompted her
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Speaker 1: to rush into the water. She watched it as it
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Speaker 1: disappeared over the edge of the waterfall. Here's the photo
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Speaker 1: that Frisha took that ultimately prompted her to run into
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Speaker 1: the river. It's a shot of that river. And in
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Speaker 1: the foreground, there's this shallow area with calm water. But
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Speaker 1: in the background, there are very choppy rapids. You can
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Speaker 1: see the white water, the churn of the water there.
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Speaker 1: And if you zoom in, you can see very clearly
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Speaker 1: there is a man's head bobbing, basically in those rapids
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Speaker 1: or about to be pulled into those rapids. And his
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Speaker 1: head is is very low in the water because he
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Speaker 1: was actually drowning. That man was 22-year-old Josue Bares Alfaro.
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Speaker 1: Frisha noticed him while she was taking pictures. Basically, she
19:31
Speaker 1: had just taken her last photo, she turned her camera around,
19:34
Speaker 1: she was looking through her pictures and she sees his
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Speaker 1: head and she knows, you know, being a lifeguard and frankly,
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Speaker 1: if you just look at the photo, it doesn't look right.
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Speaker 1: She knows he's struggling, like he's going to drown. And so,
19:48
Speaker 1: operating on instinct, she went in after him. Forgetting the
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Speaker 1: one water safety rule her lifeguard instructors had drilled into
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Speaker 1: her above everything else. Not even forgetting it. She just
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Speaker 1: threw it out the window. She was operating on, again,
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Speaker 1: just pure instinct. And that rule was to never go
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Speaker 1: in after a drowning person if... it has the high
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Speaker 1: potential to turn one victim into two. Basically, if you're
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Speaker 1: going to go in there and they're going to pull
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Speaker 1: you down and there's no support system around you and
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Speaker 1: it's just you two out there, very likely two people
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Speaker 1: are going to drown.
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Speaker 2: And so the rule was you just avoid it.
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Speaker 1: Frisha got to within arm's reach of Josue before the
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Speaker 1: current dragged her under. The people on the bank did
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Speaker 1: manage to pull her out seconds before she would have
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Speaker 1: been swept over the waterfall, but nobody could get to Josue.
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Speaker 2: And so Josue fell over the edge and died. A
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Speaker 2: little after 8 p.m.
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Speaker 1: On the night of January 20th, 2008, a 37-year-old woman
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Speaker 1: named Lou drove her scooter through the streets of Yuanlin,
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Speaker 1: which is a small city in Taiwan.
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Speaker 2: Lou's four-year-old daughter rode.
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Speaker 1: In front of her on the scooter, sort of between
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Speaker 1: the handlebars and Lou, so that she wouldn't slip off.
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Speaker 1: So Lou was not just out for a ride. She
21:09
Speaker 1: was running away from a very bad marriage. Things with
21:12
Speaker 1: her husband had been very ugly for years, and that night...
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Speaker 1: It had boiled over into a huge, huge fight. Lou
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Speaker 1: had finally just had enough, so when her husband was
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Speaker 1: out of the room, she grabbed her coat and her
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Speaker 1: daughter and left. Now, Lou had no intention of really
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Speaker 1: ever going back, but it was also January and it
21:32
Speaker 1: was very cold and her daughter was starting to fall
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Speaker 1: asleep against her chest, and so Lou knew that she
21:38
Speaker 1: couldn't just, you know, keep driving all night.
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Speaker 2: She needed to stop somewhere soon.
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Speaker 1: A few minutes later, Lou pulled up in front of
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Speaker 1: a high-rise in the city's financial district. She turned off
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Speaker 1: the scooter, she scooped up her daughter, and she carried
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Speaker 1: her over to the front door and rang the buzzer.
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Speaker 1: When the door opened, the building manager looked out at
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Speaker 1: her inquisitively, like, what's going on? But before he could
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Speaker 1: ask her any questions, Lou very confidently told him that
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Speaker 1: she was just here to visit a friend who lived
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Speaker 1: on the 11th floor, and then before he could protest,
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Speaker 1: she just slipped past him into the lobby. Now, the
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Speaker 1: building manager did not seem particularly happy about this, but
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Speaker 1: he didn't stop her. So Lou just walked across the
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Speaker 1: lobby over to the elevator and hit the call button.
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Speaker 1: When the door opened, she got on, still holding her daughter.
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Speaker 1: And then once she was in the elevator car, she
22:27
Speaker 1: turned and looked up at the security camera that was
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Speaker 1: anchored in the upper corner of the elevator car. And
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Speaker 1: then a moment later, the elevator doors closed. Eight days later,
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Speaker 1: on January 28th, That same building manager who had opened
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Speaker 1: the door for Lou and her daughter hurried across the
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Speaker 1: lobby of that same high-rise building because, once again, someone
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Speaker 1: was buzzing to be let in. But this time, when
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Speaker 1: he opened the door, instead of finding a resident or
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Speaker 1: a visitor, he found two police officers waiting outside. And
22:57
Speaker 1: they looked very serious, and they showed him a couple
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Speaker 1: of photos of a woman and a young girl who
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Speaker 1: the building manager immediately recognized as that mother and daughter
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Speaker 1: that he had let into the building on the night
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Speaker 1: of January 20th. The officers told him that the woman's
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Speaker 1: name was Lou and that they'd been looking for her
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Speaker 1: and her daughter ever since Lou's husband had reported them.
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Speaker 2: Missing about a week ago.
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Speaker 1: And now they just found Lou's scooter parked in front
23:22
Speaker 1: of this building, which made them think that Lou and
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Speaker 1: her daughter could be inside. And this information kind of
23:28
Speaker 1: spooked the building manager. Because ever since his encounter with
23:32
Speaker 1: the woman and the girl, he'd been feeling really freaked out.
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Speaker 1: Now he had tried to tell himself that, you know,
23:38
Speaker 1: this sort of visceral reaction he was having to like,
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Speaker 1: what the heck's going on with these two, that it
23:43
Speaker 1: was nothing, you know, that his concerns were nothing more
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Speaker 1: than the result of some kind of a very strange misunderstanding.
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Speaker 1: But now, being confronted by two police officers saying these
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Speaker 1: two are missing and we think they're here, it sort
23:58
Speaker 1: of reinvigorated his fears that something was off here, that
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Speaker 1: something was wrong with this woman and the child. And
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Speaker 1: so the building manager told the officers that they better
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Speaker 1: come inside because there was something that they definitely wanted
24:10
Speaker 1: to see. The building manager took the officers back to
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Speaker 1: his office, and when they got there, he quickly pulled
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Speaker 1: up the security camera footage from the night when Lou
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Speaker 1: and her daughter arrived. And the building manager angled the
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Speaker 1: monitor so the officers could watch, and then he fast-forwarded
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Speaker 1: the footage to the moment where.
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Speaker 2: Lou and her daughter got onto the elevator.
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Speaker 1: The footage shows the inside of the elevator, because the
24:33
Speaker 1: camera is anchored in the top corner of the car.
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Speaker 1: And Lou is standing in the center and she's holding
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Speaker 1: her daughter. And she begins to look around, first in
24:42
Speaker 1: the direction of the control panel, and then directly up
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Speaker 1: toward the camera. After that, she puts her daughter down
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Speaker 1: and very calmly, she takes off her jacket and places
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Speaker 1: it in the corner of the elevator. And then she
24:55
Speaker 1: takes off her shoes and sets them next to her jacket.
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Speaker 1: Then she bends down and helps her daughter out of
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Speaker 1: her coat and her shoes and adds those to the pile.
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Speaker 1: And now that they're both barefoot, Lou picks her daughter back.
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Speaker 2: Up and just appears to wait.
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Speaker 1: And then when the elevator stops and the doors slide open,
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Speaker 1: the video shows Lou hurrying out into the hallway with
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Speaker 1: her daughter, leaving their coats and their shoes behind. At
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Speaker 1: this point, the building manager stopped the video footage. The
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Speaker 1: officers immediately looked at him expectantly, asking to see what
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Speaker 1: happened next. But the building manager told them that There
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Speaker 1: was nothing else. Because after this moment, when they run
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Speaker 1: off into the hallway, Lou and her daughter seem to
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Speaker 1: have just ceased to exist. The surveillance cameras recorded them
25:45
Speaker 1: getting off on the 11th floor and then walking away
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Speaker 1: from the elevator, barefoot, no jackets. But after that, they
25:52
Speaker 1: just disappear. They never took the elevator back down again
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Speaker 1: or passed through any of the other cameras posted all
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Speaker 1: around the building and all over the exits outside. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there was literally no exit door or elevator without a
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Speaker 1: camera watching, which meant they literally could not have left.
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Speaker 2: Without being caught on video.
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Speaker 1: But the building manager, after seeing them go inside and
26:17
Speaker 1: seeing this weird procession of removing their clothes and their shoes,
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Speaker 1: you know, he was already sort of suspicious that did
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Speaker 1: they really know somebody on the 11th floor?
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Speaker 2: He didn't really know.
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Speaker 1: He had checked the footage, saw them get off on
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Speaker 1: the 11th floor, and checked the other footage and found
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Speaker 1: there was no more of them.
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Speaker 2: Like, they never left. They just, again, vanish.
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Speaker 1: Now, logically, what that meant, you know, if you're just
26:39
Speaker 1: sort of looking at this objectively, is that, okay, well,
26:43
Speaker 1: Lou and her daughter... must still be somewhere on the
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Speaker 1: 11th floor. They don't need to pass by security cameras
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Speaker 1: to confirm that. They went up there and they stayed there.
26:52
Speaker 1: But the building manager went up to the 11th floor
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Speaker 1: and extensively searched the entire floor on multiple days, and
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Speaker 1: they were never found. The cops, after seeing this footage,
27:05
Speaker 1: speaking to the building manager, they themselves would launch a
27:09
Speaker 1: pretty significant search of the entire building as well, actually
27:12
Speaker 1: for weeks. checking inside the apartments, the stairwells, the roof,
27:16
Speaker 1: the surrounding streets, reviewing all the footage again and again.
27:20
Speaker 1: They would also make sure there was no way that
27:22
Speaker 1: they could have maybe jumped, maybe from the 11th floor
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Speaker 1: out a window to a neighboring building, or maybe escaped
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Speaker 1: through a secret passage to the basement or something.
27:31
Speaker 2: Like they checked everywhere. They even went inside.
27:34
Speaker 1: The water tower on top of the building thinking, you know,
27:37
Speaker 1: maybe they somehow got up there.
27:38
Speaker 2: But they were not found.
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Speaker 1: It really was like they literally just vanished. In the
27:44
Speaker 1: years since their disappearance, people on the internet have come
27:48
Speaker 1: up with all sorts of theories, like the possibility that
27:51
Speaker 1: Lou took her own life along with her daughters, or
27:54
Speaker 1: maybe that her.
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Speaker 2: Husband followed them there and killed them.
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Speaker 1: But no bodies were ever found, despite, again, hundreds or
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Speaker 1: maybe even thousands of hours of searches being done in
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Speaker 1: and around the area of that building. However, because of that,
28:07
Speaker 1: because of this just unbelievable anomaly that somehow these two
28:11
Speaker 1: people vanished the way they did, That's led other people
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Speaker 1: online to speculate that, you know, maybe Lou and her
28:18
Speaker 1: daughter actually escaped a very toxic life back at home
28:23
Speaker 1: with Lou's husband. This theory says that Lou knew her
28:26
Speaker 1: husband would call the police once she and her daughter
28:29
Speaker 1: took off, and that the police would search for her
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Speaker 1: and ultimately bring her back. And so somehow, you know,
28:36
Speaker 1: maybe she did some deep planning in advance or something,
28:39
Speaker 1: she figured out how to evade all the security measures
28:43
Speaker 1: and all the cameras at this particular building, and then
28:46
Speaker 1: ultimately fled the city. What seems to give additional credit
28:50
Speaker 1: to this theory is that when police searched this building,
28:54
Speaker 1: they asked everybody who lived there if they knew Lou.
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Speaker 2: Because remember, when she showed up.
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Speaker 1: She's like, my friends are on the 11th floor. She
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Speaker 1: knew she was going to the 11th floor. But nobody
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Speaker 1: in the whole building, including anybody on the 11th floor,
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Speaker 1: had ever heard.
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Speaker 2: Of Lou or her daughter. So why the 11th floor?
29:13
Speaker 1: Why did she take her clothes off in the elevator? Like,
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Speaker 1: it's all weird, but maybe, maybe she had a plan.
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Speaker 1: But regardless of what you believe, today, that high-rise building
29:24
Speaker 1: is considered to be haunted, basically because of this story.
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Speaker 1: Here is the photo of Lou and her daughter. It
29:30
Speaker 1: is the last photo anyone has of them alive. Thank
29:40
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29:42
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