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Top 3 stories that sound fake but are 100% real Part 5 · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today's top story is so wildly improbable that if there
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Speaker 1: wasn't footage, nobody would believe it happened.
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Speaker 2: Luckily I've included the footage.
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Speaker 1: But before we get into today's stories, if you're a
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. In nineteen seventy four, Jean
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Speaker 1: Claude Romond enrolled in medical school in Leon, France. He
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Speaker 1: was a model student who excelled despite the notoriously brutal
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Speaker 1: course load. In nineteen eighty he married his girlfriend and
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Speaker 1: shortly after that they had two kids.
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Speaker 2: A boy and a girl.
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Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty three, he officially became a doctor and
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Speaker 1: landed a great job as a research at the World
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Speaker 1: Health Organization in Geneva. His focus was on finding new
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Speaker 1: medicines to treat arteriosclerosis, also known as heart disease. His
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Speaker 1: wife would proudly tell her friends that her husband was
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Speaker 1: a superdoctor who worked quietly in a neon lit lab
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Speaker 1: in Geneva to develop all these incredible treatments. From the
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Speaker 1: outside looking in, Jean Claud's life looked perfect, but looks
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Speaker 1: can be deceiving. In the early morning hours of Monday,
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Speaker 1: January eleventh, nineteen ninety three, Jean Claud's best friend Luke
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Speaker 1: received a call informing him there had been a terrible
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Speaker 1: accident in the night. A boiler had caught fire inside
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Speaker 1: of Jean Claud's house, killing his wife.
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Speaker 2: And his children.
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Speaker 1: Jean Claude had barely escaped alive, but when he got
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Speaker 1: to the hospital he had slipped into a coma.
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Speaker 2: The two men had been friends for nearly twenty years.
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Speaker 1: They were both doctors, they both got married at almost
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Speaker 1: the exact same time, their kids had grown up together,
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Speaker 1: and now Jean Claude's family had been completely destroyed. Later
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Speaker 1: that day, when Luke arrived at the hospital to see
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Speaker 1: his friend, he was met with two policemen standing outside
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Speaker 1: of his room, barring anyone from going inside, and when
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Speaker 1: they realized Luke was his best friend. The policeman said, hey,
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Speaker 1: can we actually pull you aside and talk to you
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Speaker 1: about Jean Claude, and so Luke was confused, but he
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Speaker 1: walked over and sat at a table with the two
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Speaker 1: officers and they proceeded to tell him that the fire
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Speaker 1: that had killed Jean Claud's family had not been an
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Speaker 1: accident and.
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Speaker 2: Jean Claude was not a doctor.
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Speaker 1: Jean Claude had enrolled in medical school in Leone back
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Speaker 1: in the nineteen seventies, but he failed to show up
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Speaker 1: for his first year exam, and without passing that exam,
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Speaker 1: you can't advance in medical school, and so the school
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Speaker 1: allowed him to retake the year, and so Jean Claud
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Speaker 1: did that for twelve consecutive years, all the while he
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Speaker 1: told his friends and family that he was following normal
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Speaker 1: medical studies, and eventually he told them he had become
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Speaker 1: a doctor. Instead of going to Geneva to discover new
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Speaker 1: medicines for heart disease, Jean Claud would drive around the
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Speaker 1: border area between France and Switzerland and periodically go to
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Speaker 1: the World Health Organization's Public Information center and would just
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Speaker 1: walk around the lobby and read pamphlets before going home again.
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Speaker 1: When Jean Claud went on overseas business trips, he would
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Speaker 1: actually to just leave his house, hop on the highway
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Speaker 1: and stop at a motel, stay there for a couple
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Speaker 1: of days, and then return with gifts. He lived off
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Speaker 1: money from the sale of his student apartment in Leone
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Speaker 1: that his parents had bought for him. When the money
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Speaker 1: ran out, he asked his friends and family to give
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Speaker 1: him their life savings so he could invest them into
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Speaker 1: these schemes that he knew about. Because he was a
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Speaker 1: un employee and because he's this very successful, reputable doctor,
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Speaker 1: people agreed and gave him their money. But by late
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, some of his victims were asking for
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Speaker 1: their money and he didn't have it. And so some
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Speaker 1: of these people began doing some research on Jean Claude
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Speaker 1: and they found his name was not listed on the
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Speaker 1: World Health Organization's staff list by January of nineteen ninety three.
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Speaker 1: Jean Claud knew it was only a matter of time
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Speaker 1: before he was exposed. And to this point he has
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Speaker 1: been living this lie for almost twenty years. His wife,
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Speaker 1: his kids, his friends, his parents, everybody he has told
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Speaker 1: that he's this successful doctor and that's all about to
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Speaker 1: come crashing down, and the way he handles it is
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Speaker 1: he drives to his parents' house and he kills his
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Speaker 1: parents and their dog, and then drives back to his
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Speaker 1: house and kills his family, takes sleeping pills, and then
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Speaker 1: lights the house on fire. But firefighters were able to
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Speaker 1: get to him and pull him out before he could
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Speaker 1: take his own life, and so after he regained his strength,
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Speaker 1: he was taken into custody and he made a confession.
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Speaker 1: He was convicted of murder in nineteen ninety six and
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Speaker 1: given a life sentence, but in twenty fifteen he became
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Speaker 1: eligible for parole.
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Speaker 2: And in twenty nineteen he was released.
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Speaker 1: On September sixth, two thousand and six, fifty one year
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Speaker 1: old Susan Kuenhausen was returning from her job as an
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Speaker 1: emergency room nurse in Portland, Oregon. On the way, she
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Speaker 1: stopped at a hair salon to get her hair dyed.
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Speaker 1: While she waited her turn, she picked up a magazine
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Speaker 1: and a particular quote stood out to her. It said,
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Speaker 1: I will not live an unlived life. I will not
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Speaker 1: live in fear. At the time, Susan was fighting with
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Speaker 1: her husband, Mike. They had been married for nearly eighteen
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Speaker 1: years and their marriage had become toxic, and Susan had
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Speaker 1: finally gotten the courage up to tell Mike she wanted
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Speaker 1: a divorce and Mike did not want a divorce, and
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Speaker 1: so they had these bitter, awful fights, and Susan was
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Speaker 1: just looking for things to lack onto and this type
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Speaker 1: of quote gave her motivation to follow through with this
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Speaker 1: very difficult decision. About an hour later, with her hair
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Speaker 1: now a slightly different colored brown, she hopped back in
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Speaker 1: her car and drove the last couple of miles home
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Speaker 1: to her quiet little neighborhood. She pulled into the driveway
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Speaker 1: of her one story cape caught home with their gray
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Speaker 1: picket fence around it. She went in the back door
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Speaker 1: into their mudroom, and right away she saw a note
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Speaker 1: next to the microwave that her husband had left because
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Speaker 1: of this time, they were still living together, and the
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Speaker 1: note just said, Sue, I've had trouble sleeping.
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Speaker 2: I've gone to the beach. I'll see you in a
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Speaker 2: couple of days.
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Speaker 1: She put the note down and then unlocked the door
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Speaker 1: that led into the house, which was into the kitchen,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as the door opened up, she heard
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Speaker 1: the beeping sound of their security alarm, and then she
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Speaker 1: walked all the way through the house to the front door.
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Speaker 1: She unlocked it, went outside, and then checked their mail,
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Speaker 1: and then went back.
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Speaker 2: Inside the house.
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Speaker 1: After she got back inside and had shut and locked
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Speaker 1: the front door behind her, she kicked off her shoes
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Speaker 1: and then began walking across the house.
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Speaker 2: Towards the kitchen.
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Speaker 1: She got about halfway there when she looked over to
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Speaker 1: her left and she noticed the first floor bedroom that
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Speaker 1: they used as a guest room was really dark. And
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Speaker 1: every morning before she left for work, she would open
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Speaker 1: all the curtains around the house, and so in the
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Speaker 1: evening the sun would come into the house and it
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Speaker 1: would be nice and bright. And so she's thinking to
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Speaker 1: herself that I forget to open the curtains in that room,
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Speaker 1: because it shouldn't be that dark. And as she's staring
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Speaker 1: at the room, a man she didn't recognize walked out
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Speaker 1: from behind the bedroom door and started walking towards her.
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Speaker 1: He was medium height, medium build, He had a hat
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Speaker 1: pulled down over his eyes, he had yellow rubber gloves on,
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Speaker 1: and he was holding a hammer, and he began walking
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Speaker 1: right towards her. For many people, the sight of a
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Speaker 1: stranger inside of your home carrying a hammer would be
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Speaker 1: enough to prompt you to turn around and run out
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Speaker 1: of your house, but not Sue. She had been an
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Speaker 1: emergency room nurse for the past thirty years, and in
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Speaker 1: that time she had done things like crack open people's
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Speaker 1: ribs to massage their hearts. She had administered ivs and
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Speaker 1: thrashing patients that were suffering from withdrawals.
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Speaker 2: And she and the other nurses.
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Speaker 1: She worked with trained regularly in self defense because you
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Speaker 1: just never knew what was going to happen in the er.
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Speaker 1: He needed to be ready to slip chokeholds and defend yourself.
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Speaker 1: And so here Sue was staring this intruder in her
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Speaker 1: house with thirty years of preparation for this moment, and
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Speaker 1: so Sue ran at the sky faster than he was
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Speaker 1: coming at her, and it caught him off guard. She
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Speaker 1: figured if she could just get up close to him,
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Speaker 1: the power of the hammer strikes would be less, and
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Speaker 1: so she rams into him. And she's about five to
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Speaker 1: five and significantly outweighed him. He's about five foot nine,
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Speaker 1: maybe two hundred pounds, and so she rams him into
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Speaker 1: the wall. He hits her in the head once with
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Speaker 1: the hammer, but it wasn't enough to subdue her or
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Speaker 1: even knock her down. She barely felt it. And so
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Speaker 1: she's holding onto him and she's.
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Speaker 2: Screaming at him, who are you? What do you want?
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Speaker 2: Because there was a part of her that thought, this
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Speaker 2: is a burglary. I'll just give you what you want.
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Speaker 1: But the guy didn't say anything, and so Susan grabbed
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Speaker 1: him and pushed even harder against the wall, and the
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Speaker 1: man would say two words. It was the only two
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Speaker 1: words he said the entire time, and it was you're strong.
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Speaker 1: And Susan when she heard that, it was like an
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Speaker 1: adrenaline rush. She knew this guy was not trying to
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Speaker 1: rob her. He was just trying to kill her, and
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Speaker 1: she thought, no, I'm gonna live. And she managed to
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Speaker 1: wrestle the hammer away from him while pinning him against
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Speaker 1: the wa and then smashed him in the head three
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Speaker 1: times with this hammer before he managed to get it back.
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Speaker 1: But when he reached the hammer, she grabbed his throat
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Speaker 1: and began choking the life out of him. The man
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Speaker 1: immediately went for his throat to get her hand off
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Speaker 1: of him, so he was not trying to attack her
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Speaker 1: and Susan realized that she had him on the defensive,
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Speaker 1: and she grabbed tighter and tighter around his throat.
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Speaker 2: She moved her other hand up and really.
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Speaker 1: Started crushing his windpipe, and then she screamed at him,
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Speaker 1: I'll call an ambulance if you tell me who sent you.
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Speaker 1: And the man looked at her and just grunted at her,
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Speaker 1: and so she continued to squeeze harder and harder until
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Speaker 1: his face turned purple and his eyes rolled back. And
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Speaker 1: she knew as an emergency room nurse, if she continued,
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Speaker 1: she would kill him, and she wasn't really prepared to
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Speaker 1: do that, and so she threw him to the ground.
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Speaker 1: She turned and began to run towards the front door,
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Speaker 1: but this guy jumped up and leapt after her, grabbed
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Speaker 1: her by the ankle, and tripped her to the ground.
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Speaker 1: When she landed, she rolled over onto her back, and
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Speaker 1: right on top of her is this guy wielding the hammer.
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Speaker 1: He's about to bring it down on her, and so
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Speaker 1: she instinctively just shot up. She sat up as fast
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Speaker 1: as she could, and she bit down as hard as
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Speaker 1: she could on the inner part of his upper leg.
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Speaker 1: She bits so hard she tore through the fabric, and
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Speaker 1: the guy screamed out in pain. He couldn't even hit
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Speaker 1: her with the hammer. He began staggering back, at which
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Speaker 1: point she released the bite, got up onto a knee,
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Speaker 1: and then bit him again on the side of his
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Speaker 1: rib cage as hard as she could, once again tearing
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Speaker 1: through the fabric. And so now this guy is howling
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Speaker 1: at the top of his lungs, at which point Sue
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Speaker 1: grabs him and throws him to the ground, but she
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Speaker 1: falls with him, and she lands directly behind his back,
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Speaker 1: and he's still trying to grab her, and he's got
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Speaker 1: the hammer, and he's trying to hit her, and so
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Speaker 1: she reaches out and puts her arm over his throat
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Speaker 1: and puts him in a wicked choke hold, one that
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Speaker 1: he was not getting out of. And so the guy
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Speaker 1: is trying to fight and get his neck out of
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Speaker 1: the choke hold. But Susan decided that this guy he's
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Speaker 1: not gonna talk, he's not gonna tell me what he wants.
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Speaker 2: He's here to kill me.
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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna kill him first, and she proceeded to
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Speaker 1: choke him to death, and once he stopped moving, she
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Speaker 1: calmly stood up, looked down knew he was dead. She
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Speaker 1: grabbed his hammer and then calmly walked out the front door,
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Speaker 1: walked to her neighbor's house, knocked on the door, and
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Speaker 1: then her neighbor comes up up and sees Sue just
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Speaker 1: standing there with her clothes tattern, and she's all bruised
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Speaker 1: and bloodied, but she looks like she's totally okay.
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Speaker 2: And the neighbor asked, Sue, you know what are you doing?
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Speaker 2: What's going on? Why do you have that hammer?
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Speaker 1: And Sue would tell her that well, I hadn't intruder
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Speaker 1: and he tried to kill me, so I killed.
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Speaker 2: Him, and I need to use your phone to call
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Speaker 2: the police.
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Speaker 1: And so her neighbor's like, okay, come on in and
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Speaker 1: use my phone, and so Sue walks in with her
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Speaker 1: hammer in hand and calmly.
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Speaker 2: Calls the police and tells them what happened.
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Speaker 1: Police and paramedics show up and they go inside of
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Speaker 1: Sue's house and they confirmed that her attacker was in
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Speaker 1: fact dead, and her attacker turned out to be fifty
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Speaker 1: nine year old Ed Hafey, who.
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Speaker 2: Was a Vietnam veteran.
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Speaker 1: With a long rap sheet, they discovered Ed's backpack inside
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Speaker 1: of Susan's house, and in it was a notebook that
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Speaker 1: contained instructions for what to do after he killed Susan,
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Speaker 1: and one of those instructions was to call Mike. It
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Speaker 1: turns out this Mike was Susan's husband. He had paid
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Speaker 1: ed fifty thousand dollars to kill his wife, and Mike
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Speaker 1: earlier in the day had gone to the house and
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Speaker 1: allowed it in and told him where to go and
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Speaker 1: where to wait, and then on his way out, he
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Speaker 1: had written that note saying osteen in a couple of days.
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Speaker 1: When police brought Mike in, he initially denied all charges
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Speaker 1: and said he had nothing to do with this, but
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Speaker 1: he would eventually confess and then would be sentenced to
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Speaker 1: seven years in prison for soliciting to murder his wife.
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Speaker 1: Although Mike never gave his exact motivations for why he
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Speaker 1: actually did this. He would have been ruined financially during
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Speaker 1: this divorce, but if Susan were to die, he would
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Speaker 1: inherit the house. Immediately after his sentencing, Susan sued Mike
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Speaker 1: for a million dollars, claiming she wanted to make sure
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Speaker 1: he didn't have any more money so that he couldn't
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Speaker 1: go hire another hitman to finish the job. Susan didn't
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Speaker 1: have to worry for very long, though, because Mike would
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Speaker 1: die shortly thereafter in prison. As for Susan, she never
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Speaker 1: faced any criminal charges, and in fact was hailed as
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Speaker 1: a hero in the wake of the attack. Richard Russell,
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Speaker 1: better known as Bibo by his friends and family, was
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Speaker 1: born in nineteen eighty nine in Key West, Florida, but
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Speaker 1: at the age of seven he moved to Wasilla, Alaska.
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Speaker 1: He was a standout athlete at Wassilla High School, competing
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Speaker 1: in football and in tack and field. After graduating in
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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, he moved to Coos Bay, Oregon,
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Speaker 1: where he briefly attended a community college. While he was there,
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Speaker 1: he met a woman named Hannah Streisner, and in twenty
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Speaker 1: eleven they got married, and shortly after that they opened
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Speaker 1: a bakery that they would run together for three years.
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Speaker 2: Hannah, who had gone to culinary school, was very detail
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Speaker 2: oriented and ran the show at the bakery.
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Speaker 1: Bibo, on the other hand, was not professionally trained and
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Speaker 1: was much more laid back and interested in experimenting with
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Speaker 1: new and wild recipes. In twenty fifteen, with heavy hearts,
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Speaker 1: they decided to sell the bakery so they could move
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Speaker 1: to Seattle and be closer to Hannah's family. Once they
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Speaker 1: arrived there, Bibo got a job at the SeaTac Airport
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Speaker 1: as a ground service agent for Horizons Airline. It was
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Speaker 1: not a job he necessarily wanted, but they needed the cash.
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Speaker 1: After working at Horizons air for four years as a ramper,
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Speaker 1: someone that moved the luggage in and out of the aircraft,
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Speaker 1: Bibo was given some additional responsibility. They asked him to
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Speaker 1: be on a two person tow team. A tow team
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Speaker 1: is in charge of moving airplanes around in between their flights,
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Speaker 1: and so the way this works is one person goes
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Speaker 1: down and drives the actual tow vehicle and hooks that
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Speaker 1: up to the airplane and begins moving it around, and
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Speaker 1: the other person would go up into the cockpit, turn
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Speaker 1: the plane on, and then work a couple of very
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Speaker 1: basic systems to help get the plane to go where
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Speaker 1: it needs to go. The members of a tow team
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Speaker 1: are one of the very few number of people that
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Speaker 1: are allowed to go into the cockpit of an aircraft
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Speaker 1: by themselves, and so Bibo really relished this opportunity, and
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Speaker 1: when he was up there, he found himself fascinated with
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Speaker 1: all the controls, and any chance he got, he would
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Speaker 1: ask a pilot if they were inside of the aircraft
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Speaker 1: to teach him what some of these controls were. But
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Speaker 1: one time, Bibo was flipping some of the switches in
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Speaker 1: the cockpit that he was not supposed to touch that other
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Speaker 1: pilots had told him about, and the pilot of this
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Speaker 1: particular plane caught him doing it, took exception to it
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Speaker 1: and reported him, but surprisingly there were no repercussions.
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Speaker 2: It was just really embarrassing for Bibo.
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Speaker 1: Like many of the other ground service agents working at
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Speaker 1: Horizon Airlines, Bibo was generally.
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Speaker 2: Unhappy with his job.
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Speaker 1: He felt like it was boring, that there wasn't much
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Speaker 1: upward mobility, and that he was criminally underpaid. But there
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Speaker 1: was one redeeming quality of his job, and that was
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Speaker 1: in virtue of working for an airline, he got all
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Speaker 1: sorts of free airfare, and so not only did he
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Speaker 1: get to fly for free all over the world, he
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Speaker 1: got to fly basically anytime he wanted up to Alaska
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Speaker 1: to visit his hometown and see his family, something that was.
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Speaker 2: Very important to him.
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Speaker 1: The people that knew Bibo said he had a great
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Speaker 1: sense of humor. He was extremely friendly and you could
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Speaker 1: always catch him with his head buried in a book,
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Speaker 1: and his co workers would say he had aspirations to
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Speaker 1: be an officer in the military. And when all those
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Speaker 1: people that knew Bibo the best were asked, why do
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Speaker 1: you think he did what he did on August tenth,
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen.
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Speaker 2: None of them have an answer.
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Speaker 1: On that fateful day, at one thirty five pm local time,
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Speaker 1: a passenger airplane owned by Horizon Airlines flew into Sea
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Speaker 1: Tech Airport, where Bibo worked, and so this plane was
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Speaker 1: not scheduled to fly for the rest of the day,
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Speaker 1: so it was taxied to the far north section of
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Speaker 1: the airport to a parking spot called Cargo one. At
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Speaker 1: seven fifteen pm that evening, Bibo arrived at Cargo one
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Speaker 1: and he climbed inside the empty aircraft and made his
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Speaker 1: way into the cockpit. He followed the startup procedure until
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Speaker 1: the plane was on and the propellers were starting to turn.
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Speaker 1: He hopped out of the plane, got in his tow
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Speaker 1: vehicle and used it to turn the plane around so
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Speaker 1: its nose was pointed towards the airfield. He moved the
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Speaker 1: toe vehicle out of the way and then climbed back
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Speaker 1: inside the aircraft, shut it behind him, and got in
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Speaker 1: the cockpit and began taxing out towards the runway. For
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Speaker 1: the next few minutes, air traffic control bombarded Bibo over
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Speaker 1: the radio.
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Speaker 2: Asking him, what are you doing. This is unauthorized movement.
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Speaker 1: You should not be heading towards the runway right now,
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Speaker 1: but Bibo never responded. Instead, he just continued on until
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Speaker 1: he reached the beginning of the runway, at which point,
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Speaker 1: despite having no flight experience minus some video games and
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Speaker 1: fiddling with some switches in the cockpit while he was
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Speaker 1: in the tow team, he managed to go full throttle
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Speaker 1: and get this plane careening down the runway and successfully
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Speaker 1: took off.
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Speaker 2: But that was nothing compared to what he did next.
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Speaker 1: Open the course of his one hour long flight, he
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Speaker 1: expertly performed backflips and barrel rolls in his huge loops
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Speaker 1: in the sky, dangerous manus that even expert pilots might
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Speaker 1: risk stalling the plane and crashing, but he didn't. It
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Speaker 1: was like he'd been doing this his whole life. Onlookers
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Speaker 1: in the ground were shocked to see this passenger airline
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Speaker 1: performing these ridiculous stunts so low to the ground that
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Speaker 1: all over Seattle you had people filming this plane and
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Speaker 1: posting it to social media. So in real time, it
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Speaker 1: was like the world was made aware of Bibo up
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Speaker 1: in the sky, and so people went outside and just
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Speaker 1: watched as he flew around. But the real story is
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Speaker 1: not the aerial stunts that Bibo was pulling in the sky.
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Speaker 1: It was the strange, calm conversation that Bibo had with
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Speaker 1: the air traffic controller the whole time he was up
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Speaker 1: in the sky. The extremely professional, very calm air traffic
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Speaker 1: controller tries to convince Bibo that he really needs to
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Speaker 1: come down and land this aircraft, and he begins telling
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Speaker 1: him where he can go, different airfields and if he
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Speaker 1: needs to, he can land out in the Puget Sound.
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Speaker 2: But Bibo kind of laughs it off.
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Speaker 1: And says, you know, I wasn't really ever trying to
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Speaker 1: land this plane.
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Speaker 2: I just wanted to do a couple maneuvers before I
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Speaker 2: put it down.
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Speaker 1: So as Bibo's soared through the sky, this controller tries
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Speaker 1: in vain to convince Bibo to stop what he's doing,
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Speaker 1: and Bibo's just completely ignoring him and cracking jokes with
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Speaker 1: him and telling him how he just loves the scenery
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Speaker 1: up there and how.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful it is.
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Speaker 1: And then at one point Bibo becomes remorseful and he
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Speaker 1: says to the controller that he really hopes he hasn't
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Speaker 1: ruined his day, and he feels really bad for the
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Speaker 1: people that he's inevitably going to hurt.
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Speaker 2: And then, in Bibo's most poignant moment.
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Speaker 1: He tells the controller that he's just a broken guy,
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Speaker 1: and he's got a couple of screws loose, and he
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Speaker 1: didn't know it until now. Towards the end of the flight,
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Speaker 1: Bibo tells the controller that he's going to try for
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Speaker 1: one more barrel roll and if it goes well, he's
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Speaker 1: going to go nose down and call it a night.
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Speaker 1: The controller tries to convince him that it's still possible
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Speaker 1: to try to land, but at this.
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Speaker 2: Point Bibo's not listening.
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Speaker 1: At eight forty five pm, the nose of the plane
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Speaker 1: was seen pointed straight down at the Earth. One minute later,
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Speaker 1: at eight forty six pm, Bibo intentionally crashed into a
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Speaker 1: small island off the coast of Seattle.
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Speaker 2: He was the only fatality in the crash. Here is a.
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Speaker 1: Condensed version of some of the commentary between Bibo and
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Speaker 1: air traffic controller, along.
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Speaker 2: With some of the real footage of him flying the plane.
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Speaker 2: I just kind of want to do a couple of maneuvers,
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Speaker 2: see what it can do before I put it down.
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Speaker 1: You know, Pro twelve complaining runway one six rest. Well, man,
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Speaker 1: I'm a ground service agent.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what that is.
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Speaker 1: There is the uh the runway just off your right
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Speaker 1: side and about a mile do you see that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't know how to land it. I wasn't
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Speaker 2: really planning on landing it. I got a lot of
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Speaker 2: people that care about me, and uh, it's gonna disappoint
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Speaker 2: them to you that I did this. I would like
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Speaker 2: to apologize to each and every one of them. It's
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Speaker 2: just that broken guy got a few screws loose. I
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Speaker 2: guess never really knew it until now. I think them,
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Speaker 2: uh pretty much. I do a barrel roll and if
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Speaker 2: that goes good, down, just go nose down and it's
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Speaker 2: all the night.
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Speaker 1: How Bibo was able to take off and fly around
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Speaker 1: and pull these stunts without any training remains a mystery.
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Speaker 2: Some people believe he was planning.
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Speaker 1: This for a long time, which is why whenever he
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Speaker 1: was in the cockpit when he was in the tow team,
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Speaker 1: he would ask pilots to explain the different switches and
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Speaker 1: toggles and how to use them, and he would feign
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Speaker 1: that he was just curious, when in reality, he was actually.
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Speaker 2: Trying to learn how to fly the plane.
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Speaker 1: As for the incredible stunts he was doing, it's believed
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Speaker 1: he did learn those in a video game.
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Speaker 2: But even if this is true that he learned.
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Speaker 1: How to fly a plane by asking a couple questions
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Speaker 1: and playing video games, the chances of it working out
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Speaker 1: and actually successfully taking off and doing what he did
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Speaker 1: are astronomically low.
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Speaker 2: Normal people can't.
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Speaker 1: Do that, and that's why the Internet gave Bebo a
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Speaker 1: new nickname to commemorate the fact that basically no one
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Speaker 1: could have done this but him, and so they named
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Speaker 1: him the Sky King.
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