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His mind games traumatized this high school - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. On March 15th, 2011, just
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  Speaker 1: after 1 p.m., 16-year-old Marcus Freeman sat behind the wheel
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  Speaker 1: of his dad's pickup truck, belting out the lyrics to
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  Speaker 1: one of his favorite songs on the radio, as he
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  Speaker 1: and his girlfriend Carly drove down a highway in Northport, Florida.
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  Speaker 1: The pair had just left the dentist, where Marcus had
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  Speaker 1: just gotten some dental work done, and in fact his
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  Speaker 1: jaw was pretty sore. But he was basically singing right now,
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  Speaker 1: as was Carly, in order to distract himself from the pain.
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  Speaker 1: And for the most part, this worked. But every time
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  Speaker 1: a song ended, it's like all he could think about
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  Speaker 1: was just how sore his jaw was. But Marcus was
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  Speaker 1: not like your typical 16-year-old kid. You know, he was
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  Speaker 1: sort of accustomed to having discomfort in his life, both
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  Speaker 1: physical discomfort and mental discomfort. And he really worked hard
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  Speaker 1: to be someone who was able to push through discomfort,
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  Speaker 1: including things like jaw pain. So he was the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: of his varsity football team at his high school, Northport High.
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  Speaker 1: And over the last year, he'd really begun to focus
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  Speaker 1: on his physical fitness. And so he'd begun doing these
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  Speaker 1: really difficult physical workouts that were sort of like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: vomit inducing. And then also, you know, Marcus, he was
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  Speaker 1: for the most part pretty mentally well adjusted. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: nerves were definitely a thing. He's the quarterback of the
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  Speaker 1: varsity high school team. He's only 16 years old. And
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  Speaker 1: so nerves before games and just generally some level of
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  Speaker 1: anxiety sort of existed in his life. And so he
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  Speaker 1: would work with a counselor at his school to try
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  Speaker 1: to overcome those nerves and try to manage those feelings
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  Speaker 1: when he was about to perform. So a different type
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  Speaker 1: of pain, but nonetheless, it's like this was a kid
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  Speaker 1: who was very forward-leaning when it came to sort of
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  Speaker 1: dealing with pain and discomfort and managing it. And all
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  Speaker 1: this hard work that Marcus was doing to sort of
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  Speaker 1: become the strongest version of himself he could be appeared
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  Speaker 1: to be paying off because, you know, for example, the
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  Speaker 1: football team that he was the quarterback of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: historically for years, they had been sort of terrible. But now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, under Marcus's leadership and, you know, him being
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback, they were now coming off one of their
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  Speaker 1: best seasons ever. And actually, it was not even just
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  Speaker 1: Marcus and the football team that appeared to be on
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  Speaker 1: the upswing these days. The whole school was. Northport High
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  Speaker 1: used to have terrible sports sort of across the board,
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  Speaker 1: and also low graduation rates and bad test scores. Like,
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  Speaker 1: this was not a high-performing school. But now? It had, like,
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  Speaker 1: totally turned a corner. Most of the sports programs beyond
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  Speaker 1: football were all improving... Grades and test scores across the
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  Speaker 1: board were all improving, and also just students at this
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  Speaker 1: school just seemed happier and more well-adjusted. It was not
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  Speaker 1: just Marcus, it was like everybody. But there was a
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  Speaker 1: reason for this, and basically everybody who went to Northport
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  Speaker 1: knew what that reason was. There was one person to
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  Speaker 1: thank for this really positive change. Principal George Kenney. He'd
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  Speaker 1: been Northport's principal for a decade now, but in the
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  Speaker 1: last few years... He'd made some tweaks to the curriculum
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  Speaker 1: and put a ton more focus on individual student support.
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  Speaker 1: And the result of all of this appeared to be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Marcus and all of his classmates thriving. But
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  Speaker 1: right now, the pain in Marcus's jaw was really all
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  Speaker 1: he could think about. And it seemed to be getting
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  Speaker 1: more severe. And it was starting to actually make him
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  Speaker 1: feel sort of dizzy. But Marcus had been, you know,
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  Speaker 1: working on pain management. And he sort of had some
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  Speaker 1: tactics and techniques that he would use when pain got
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  Speaker 1: sort of overwhelming, whether it was physical pain in this
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  Speaker 1: case or mental anguish or whatever it was. He was
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  Speaker 1: going to employ the tactics and techniques that he had
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  Speaker 1: been working on. And so Marcus, as he's driving and
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  Speaker 1: Carly singing next to him, he took a deep breath
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  Speaker 1: and tried to relax and just breathe and just think
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  Speaker 1: of anything else besides the pain. Just put his mind
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else. This was actually literally what he did you know,
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  Speaker 1: during football games when he'd be super exhausted and beat up. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's the leader of the team. He's the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Like he has to find a way to push through
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  Speaker 1: that pain and keep going. And this is what he
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  Speaker 1: would do. He would do this mental exercise where he
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  Speaker 1: basically sort of let his mind drift away from the
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  Speaker 1: physical uncomfortability he was experiencing and just focus on other things.
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  Speaker 1: And it was sort of like meditative and it generally worked.
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  Speaker 1: But this time it just didn't appear to be working.
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  Speaker 1: His jaw pain, you know, kept on throbbing and he
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  Speaker 1: He couldn't stop thinking about it. And then soon it
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  Speaker 1: sort of felt like the pain was growing, like it
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  Speaker 1: was radiating up his cheek into his whole head. And
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  Speaker 1: it was like really becoming overwhelming. But he stayed focused.
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  Speaker 1: He kept trying to allow his mind to sort of
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  Speaker 1: separate from the pain. And all of a sudden, that
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  Speaker 1: throbbing pain in his jaw stopped. Marcus relaxed because truly
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  Speaker 1: the pain was now gone. At the same time Marcus
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  Speaker 1: was sort of going through this mental exercise, in the
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  Speaker 1: passenger seat, Carly was fiddling with the radio trying to
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  Speaker 1: find another good song to sing along to. Carly loved
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  Speaker 1: being with Marcus. So much so that she'd just gone
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  Speaker 1: to the dentist with him just so they could spend
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  Speaker 1: more time together. She felt like Marcus was super kind
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  Speaker 1: and he was funny and when she was with him,
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  Speaker 1: they could just talk and laugh for hours and it
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  Speaker 1: would just feel like a second. Except now, as Carly
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  Speaker 1: was still fiddling with the radio, she realized that Marcus
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  Speaker 1: was acting unusual. He was being really quiet. And actually,
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  Speaker 1: when she looked over at him and stared at him,
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  Speaker 1: she sort of gasped because Marcus appeared to have gone
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  Speaker 1: almost like completely rigid. His arms were sort of stuck
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  Speaker 1: out in front of him, like gripping the steering wheel,
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  Speaker 1: but in this weird, stiff way. And his hands, they
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  Speaker 1: were turning white from gripping the steering wheel as tightly
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  Speaker 1: as he could. And then also his head was sort
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  Speaker 1: of tilted back and as his eyes actually were beginning
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  Speaker 1: to roll back into his head and so when Carly
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  Speaker 1: saw that that like literally his eyes were being taken
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  Speaker 1: off the road she began screaming his name and snapping
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  Speaker 1: and clapping and being like hey what are you doing
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  Speaker 1: but Marcus didn't answer he didn't even react he just
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  Speaker 1: continued blazing along at nearly a hundred miles an hour
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  Speaker 1: in this weird like rigid state and so carly she
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  Speaker 1: really began to panic she's screaming she's grabbing marcus she's
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  Speaker 1: trying to like get him out of this trance he's
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  Speaker 1: in but he just wouldn't move he wouldn't look at
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  Speaker 1: her it was like he was gone and then carly
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  Speaker 1: turned and looked out the windshield and she screamed as
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  Speaker 1: the truck veered off the road and careened into a
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  Speaker 1: tree and for carly as soon as that happened everything
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  Speaker 1: went black A few hours later, Carly opened her eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and her whole body ached, and her head pounded, and
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  Speaker 1: at first she really had no idea where she was.
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  Speaker 1: But then she heard beeping sounds, which were coming from
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  Speaker 1: these machines near her, and she looked around and saw
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  Speaker 1: the room she was in was very white, and she
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  Speaker 1: realized she was definitely in a hospital. And once she
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  Speaker 1: realized that, it was like the whole terrible ordeal came
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  Speaker 1: rushing back to her. She remembered Marcus, and how strange
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  Speaker 1: he had looked, you know, rigid at the wheel, and
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  Speaker 1: then She remembered crashing and hitting that tree. And so
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  Speaker 1: as she's processing this horrible thing, a nurse came into
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  Speaker 1: the room and Carly immediately asked them, like, where is
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  Speaker 1: Marcus and when could she talk to Marcus? But that's
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  Speaker 1: when she found out from the nurse that Marcus was dead.
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  Speaker 1: Almost a month later, on April 8th, Carly was now
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  Speaker 1: out of the hospital, sitting in her Spanish class at
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  Speaker 1: Northport High School. And she was trying her best to
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to what the teacher was saying, but concentration
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  Speaker 1: was not something that came easily to Carly these days. Physically,
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  Speaker 1: she had healed from the accident, but emotionally, she had not.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus's death had truly devastated her, but perhaps the worst
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  Speaker 1: part of his death was there was just no good
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  Speaker 1: explanation for it. Like, why was he acting the way
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  Speaker 1: he was acting before they crashed? What happened to him? Like,
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  Speaker 1: what was going on? And truly, at this point, it
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  Speaker 1: was still just a huge mystery to basically everyone. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the media had come out and said that what happened
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  Speaker 1: was Marcus simply lost control of his vehicle. But Carly
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  Speaker 1: was right there with Marcus, and that did not seem
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  Speaker 1: like what happened. Again, Marcus, like, went into this trance
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  Speaker 1: of sorts, and it was him being sort of locked
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  Speaker 1: in that position that ultimately caused the car to, at
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  Speaker 1: 100 miles an hour, veer off the road and crash.
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  Speaker 1: But like there was no weather, there were no obstacles
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  Speaker 1: in the road. It was like whatever caused Marcus to
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  Speaker 1: freeze up is what caused the crash. But it was
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  Speaker 1: like nobody was talking about it or nobody understood it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there were some theories about maybe what could have caused
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  Speaker 1: Marcus to act that way, in particular at the high
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  Speaker 1: school at Northport High. People believed that, you know, maybe Marcus,
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  Speaker 1: when he was at the dentist, had gotten some kind
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  Speaker 1: of sedation that maybe he had had a bad reaction to,
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  Speaker 1: like a late heartburn. bad reaction while they were driving home,
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  Speaker 1: and that caused him to stiffen up. Or maybe he
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  Speaker 1: had just had a random medical event that caused him
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  Speaker 1: to act that way. However, when his autopsy came out,
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  Speaker 1: it showed there had been no trace of drugs or
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  Speaker 1: any indication that Marcus had had anything like a seizure
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  Speaker 1: or a stroke or an aneurysm. So those theories were
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  Speaker 1: sort of pushed aside. But, you know, this tragedy was
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  Speaker 1: considered an accident, not any sort of foul play. And
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  Speaker 1: so the police were not investigating further. They basically were
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  Speaker 1: there on site. You know, they saw what happened. They
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  Speaker 1: documented it. But there was not like a deeper investigation
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  Speaker 1: happening here. So for Carly, I mean, she knew that
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  Speaker 1: it was very possible that she and everyone else would
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  Speaker 1: really never get the answers that they were looking for here.
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  Speaker 1: That it would just be a mystery what happened to Marcus.
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  Speaker 1: So for Carly, it just was really difficult to sort
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  Speaker 1: of just go back to normal life, go back to
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  Speaker 1: school and just be a kid again when there was
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  Speaker 1: this huge hole in her life that just felt like
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  Speaker 1: it was never going to be filled. But Carly was
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  Speaker 1: not the only one grieving here. Marcus had been incredibly
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  Speaker 1: popular at Northport High. And after their principal, Mr. Kenny,
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  Speaker 1: had notified the student body about his death, there had
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  Speaker 1: been a whirlwind of memorial services and student gatherings. And Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Kenny had made sure that counselors were brought into school
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  Speaker 1: to help kids process what had happened. And so now,
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  Speaker 1: as Carly sat there in her Spanish class, trying her
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  Speaker 1: best to concentrate, she suddenly heard the crackle of the
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  Speaker 1: school's announcement system kick on. And then she heard Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Kenny's voice, and he said he had something to tell them.
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  Speaker 1: And Carly could tell pretty much right away that whatever
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  Speaker 1: he was going to tell them was not going to
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  Speaker 1: be good news. Now, normally, Mr. Kenney was a very
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  Speaker 1: enthusiastic and very sort of positive person. But right now,
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  Speaker 1: his voice was very solemn and there was a slight
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  Speaker 1: tremor to it as he began to speak. And then
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  Speaker 1: at some point, he kind of stopped himself and he
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  Speaker 1: cleared his throat. And then he just said, another Northport
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  Speaker 1: student has just died. In the weeks following that announcement,
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  Speaker 1: Carly tried to wrap her head around how it was
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  Speaker 1: possible that two students had died at their school in
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  Speaker 1: two months. Now, the second death was not similar to
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  Speaker 1: Marcus's death in terms of how they died. The second
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  Speaker 1: death was self-inflicted. But still, Northport, which was a small,
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  Speaker 1: tight-knit school, was not a place where young people just
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  Speaker 1: suddenly started dying. Like, this didn't happen. But then, just
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  Speaker 1: weeks later in early May, Carly's confusion turned into outright
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  Speaker 1: disbelief when another Northport student died, also self-inflicted. And this
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  Speaker 1: really sent Carly and the rest of the already very
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  Speaker 1: fragile student body at Northport into a state of shock.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, two students dying so close together was already
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  Speaker 1: so difficult to process, but three was unthinkable. And so
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  Speaker 1: now it was like the entire student body was on edge,
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  Speaker 1: like almost bracing for more or awful news, like more deaths.
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  Speaker 1: It just almost felt inevitable. However, one night soon after
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  Speaker 1: the third death, Carly was at her home in her
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  Speaker 1: room on her computer scrolling around on Facebook when she
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  Speaker 1: saw a post from another classmate. And when she read
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  Speaker 1: what this person had written, which was very short, she
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  Speaker 1: couldn't believe she hadn't thought of this sooner. This person's
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  Speaker 1: post pointed out that all three of these deaths had
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  Speaker 1: one thing in common. So many students and staff and
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  Speaker 1: parents at Northport High believed that the school's overall recent
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  Speaker 1: improvements in athletics and testing and general student satisfaction were
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  Speaker 1: all because of their principal, Mr. Kenney. Mr. Kenney was
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  Speaker 1: very student-focused, and he offered the kids at Northport a
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  Speaker 1: lot of individual attention. But he also had a secret.
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  Speaker 1: So over the last three years, Mr. Kenney had been
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  Speaker 1: meeting with students and staff members to resolve various personal
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  Speaker 1: issues like people's anxiety or pain management or mental health issues,
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  Speaker 1: test scores, being better at concentrating, like he was there
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  Speaker 1: and working with people to try to sort of make
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  Speaker 1: them the best version of themselves. To do this, he
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  Speaker 1: put the students and the staff members under hypnosis. Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Kenney would invite sometimes as many as two students a
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  Speaker 1: day into his office and for these private recorded hypnosis sessions,
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  Speaker 1: and he would do the same thing for teachers. He
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  Speaker 1: even sometimes brought entire school sports teams into his office,
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  Speaker 1: and he would hypnotize them before games to improve performance. But, critically, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Kenny not only performed the hypnotism himself, he also taught
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  Speaker 1: the students how to do it on themselves. Mr. Kenny
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  Speaker 1: had only ever taken a brief course in hypnosis, and
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  Speaker 1: certainly did not have a license to be, you know,
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  Speaker 1: using it to diagnose or resolve actual mental health issues
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  Speaker 1: or even physical issues. Like, he was not licensed to
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  Speaker 1: be doing this. But a lot of kids really responded
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  Speaker 1: to his sessions and reported improvements in their anxiety and
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  Speaker 1: their focus, and some athletes started excelling in their sports.
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  Speaker 1: But along with these good developments, there were some alarming
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  Speaker 1: side effects. Some Northport parents reported that their children... began
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  Speaker 1: experiencing these strange personality changes and they would have these
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  Speaker 1: blank stares on their faces after they had begun hypnosis
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  Speaker 1: with Mr. Kenney. Others said that after these sessions, their
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  Speaker 1: child became disoriented or started doing things they wouldn't normally
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  Speaker 1: do or began thinking about hurting themselves. And so after
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  Speaker 1: the third student death, that Facebook post that Carly found
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  Speaker 1: had revealed that all three of those students had been
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly hypnotized by Mr. Kenney. Now, Mr. Kenney swore he
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  Speaker 1: was not the one responsible for these deaths, but he
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  Speaker 1: was charged with practicing therapeutic hypnosis without a license, and
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  Speaker 1: he did receive a year of probation. In addition, the
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  Speaker 1: Sarasota County School Board paid a total of $ 600, 000 to
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  Speaker 1: the three victims' families, and as for Mr. Kenney, he
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  Speaker 1: has since retired from teaching. Shortly after 8 p.m. on
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  Speaker 1: October 9th, 1996, 31-year-old Anthony Irvin walked down a dark
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  Speaker 1: sidewalk in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania towards a local grocery store. It
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  Speaker 1: was not that cold outside, but, you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: kind of windy and it was dark. And, you know, Anthony,
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  Speaker 1: he only had a light jacket on, and so he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't feeling that comfortable. And so he pulled his jacket
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  Speaker 1: tight around him as he walked. And as he was walking,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all he wanted to do was just go
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  Speaker 1: home where it was warm. But he couldn't. you really
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  Speaker 1: needed money first. Once he had money, then he could
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  Speaker 1: go home. So Anthony had a pretty tough life, and
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, he really was just a career criminal.
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  Speaker 1: He had not had a regular job in a very
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  Speaker 1: long time, and instead, when he needed money, like tonight,
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  Speaker 1: he would steal from local businesses or he would mug people.
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  Speaker 1: In the past nine years, he'd been arrested eight times
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  Speaker 1: for things like robbery and assault. And so for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, he was just a huge nuisance to the
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  Speaker 1: people in this neighborhood. Even if they felt bad for him,
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  Speaker 1: he was just a problem. But, you know, despite how
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  Speaker 1: often he committed crimes, his crimes were always relatively petty.
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  Speaker 1: And so he really didn't serve much time at all
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  Speaker 1: in prison. He always ended up back out on the
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  Speaker 1: street and he always ended up continuing to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: be a problem. But tonight though, as Anthony walked down
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  Speaker 1: the road, He was not thinking about how his behavior
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  Speaker 1: impacted his neighbors. He was thinking about finding some place
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  Speaker 1: or someone to rob. And tonight in particular, he thought,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to look for a person. I need a target.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's walking down the road and he actually
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  Speaker 1: began to get kind of worried because it seemed like
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  Speaker 1: it was quieter than usual out on the street. Like
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  Speaker 1: there was nobody out here. And he started to worry
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  Speaker 1: that if he didn't find somebody soon, like, he was
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  Speaker 1: going to be out of luck. No money. But just then,
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  Speaker 1: right up ahead, a young man turned the corner and
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  Speaker 1: began walking up the sidewalk in Anthony's direction. He was
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  Speaker 1: sort of a smaller, younger-looking guy. He appeared to be
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  Speaker 1: all alone. And right away, Anthony's like, oh, my goodness, perfect.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I have my mark. I'm going to rob this guy.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: And so Anthony, he begins walking towards, you know, this
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: unsuspecting young man. And as he got closer, Anthony realized...
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: He knew who this guy was. This was Harry, his neighbor.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: And he's like, oh my gosh, perfect, because I know
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Harry is super soft-spoken and gentle, like he's so calm.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: He's not going to do anything. Like, he's going to
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: be so easy to rob. Yeah, it's horrible to rob
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: your neighbor. He's going to know I did it, but
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: what's he going to do? So Anthony marches right up
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: to Harry, and he stops right in front of him,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: blocking his path. And then Anthony delivers, you know, his
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: classic mugging threat. A few minutes later, a detective with
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Police Department named Perry Kelly drove his cruiser
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: fast down a city street. He'd been called to the
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: area about a mugging and he was hopeful he would
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: get there in time to potentially catch the mugger or
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: at least see who they were or see where they
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: went so that maybe he could catch them. And so Kelly,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: he turns the corner and he pulls up in front
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: of the address where he's been told to go. As
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: he's pulling up, he sees there are two men out
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: on the sidewalk. One is lying motionless on the ground
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and the other is sitting on top of him. And
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Kelly's thinking, perfect. I have caught the mugger. Like he's
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the one on top of the other. I've caught him
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: in the act. Great. I'm going to jump out of
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the car and arrest this guy. But no, when Kelly
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: got out of the car and learned what actually happened here,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: this became easily the strangest thing he had ever come
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: across in his 25-year career. So when Anthony mugged people,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: what he would do is he would put his hand
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: into his coat pocket, and he would press his fingers
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: forward like he had a gun in his pocket. And
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: he would sort of aim his hand inside of his
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: jacket towards the person he was mugging, and he would
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: say to them, as soon as he walked up to them, like, hey,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I got a gun, give me all your money or
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I'm going to shoot you. And they would often look down,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: they'd see what they thought was a gun in his jacket,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: although they couldn't be sure. And, you know, instead of
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: questioning whether really Anthony had a gun or not, they
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: would just hand over their money. Like it wasn't worth
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: it here. Take my money. And Anthony would take their
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: money and run off. Right. So this worked most of
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: the time. And he's thinking, Harry, here's my easy mark.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: This young, meek kid, I'm going to use the same
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: thing on him. It's going to be so easy. And
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: so he walks up to Harry and literally stands in
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: front of him and blocks his way. And Harry actually
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: kind of walks into him and is like, what's going on?
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: And Anthony, he delivers the line. He's got his hand
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: in the pocket, pretending he's got his gun. And he's like,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: hand over all your money or I'm going to shoot.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: But Harry, you know, whether or not he believed that
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Anthony had a gun or not, He actually had virtually
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: no way of confirming it one way or another because
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Harry was actually blind. And Anthony knew Harry was blind
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: because they were neighbors. And that was a big reason
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: why he thought this was going to be so easy.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I'm going to rob the slight blind kid. That's what
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do. But what Anthony didn't realize is
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: that in addition to being blind... Harry also happened to
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: be a karate master and a master wrestler as well.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: And so when Harry was suddenly being told, you know,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: you're going to get shot if you don't hand over
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: your money, his instincts kicked in and he grabbed Anthony,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: flipped him over his shoulder and slammed him into the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: ground and broke his neck and killed him. And then
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: he sat on top of his body until police arrived.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Harry was never charged in connection with Anthony's death since
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: it was determined he acted in self-defense. And even though
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: the media called him a hero for defending himself, Harry
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: actually felt terrible that he had killed Anthony. He didn't
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: mean to. He was just protecting himself. And so he
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: called the whole thing a tragedy. So go ahead and
• 22:32
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• 22:47
  Speaker 1: next time, see ya.