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Top 3 photos with DISTURBING backstories Part 7 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share with you three progressively more
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  Speaker 1: disturbing stories, and at the end of each of them,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to show you the picture or pictures that
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  Speaker 1: are famously associated with that story. But before I get
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  Speaker 1: into today's stories, if you're a fan of the strange,
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  Speaker 1: dark and mysterious delivered in story format, and you come
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  Speaker 1: into today's stories. In March of twenty fifteen, twenty two
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  Speaker 1: year old sailor Gilliams and our good friend Brendan Vega,
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  Speaker 1: who's also twenty two, decided they wanted to go hiking. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they were both highly experienced hikers, so when they were
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  Speaker 1: looking in the area for places to go hiking, they
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  Speaker 1: were looking for novice trails, things that they would be
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  Speaker 1: able to manage, and they thought they had found one
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  Speaker 1: in Santa Barbara California, and so they headed off in
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  Speaker 1: that direction, and they took off on this particular trail
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  Speaker 1: a little ways into their hike, and they started to
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  Speaker 1: feel like, man, the terrain here is pretty treacherous. This
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  Speaker 1: is way more difficult than we were expecting when we
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  Speaker 1: looked at the map. And as they continued and they're
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  Speaker 1: climbing over these huge boulders and it just seems totally
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  Speaker 1: like an advanced trail, they start to wonder, you know,
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  Speaker 1: did we veer off the trail? Worried they might be lost,
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  Speaker 1: they turned around and began backtracking, hoping to find the
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  Speaker 1: trail and find some landmark that would allow them to
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  Speaker 1: confirm they were on the right trail. As they're backtracking,
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  Speaker 1: not only do they not find the trail, but they
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  Speaker 1: don't find any trail. They've managed to go completely off
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  Speaker 1: the path and are now in this kind of random
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  Speaker 1: boulder field that they have no idea where it is
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  Speaker 1: on the map. Navigating this terrain in the daytime with
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  Speaker 1: light would have been difficult even for an experienced tiger,
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  Speaker 1: but now it's nighttime. They don't have flashlights, and they're
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  Speaker 1: jumping boulder to boulder and sailor at some point, loses
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  Speaker 1: her footing and falls and fractures her leg. Brendan rushes
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  Speaker 1: over and tries to help Sailor stand up, but she
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  Speaker 1: can't move, and so Brendan tries to put her on
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  Speaker 1: his shoulders and starts walking with her, and that works
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  Speaker 1: for a little while until they're passing by this waterfall
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  Speaker 1: and they fall off of it and they come careening down.
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  Speaker 1: They smash onto the ground. They survive the fall, but
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  Speaker 1: Brendan now has a broken elbow and Sailor now has
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  Speaker 1: a broken ankle on top of her broken leg. Sailor
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  Speaker 1: is an excruciating pain, and because of this fall, there's
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  Speaker 1: just no way Brandon's going to be able to lift
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  Speaker 1: her back up and keep walking. And so the decision
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  Speaker 1: was made that Brendan was going to go try to
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  Speaker 1: find help on his own, and that she would stay
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  Speaker 1: here and continue to yell for help and hopes that
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  Speaker 1: someone might hear her. Before Brendan got back, he takes off,
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  Speaker 1: and as soon as he's around the corner and gone,
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  Speaker 1: Sailor begins screaming for help, and she would continue screaming
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  Speaker 1: for help all through the night well into the next day.
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  Speaker 1: About twenty four hours after Brendan had left, he still
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  Speaker 1: had not returned, and at this point Sailor's in and
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  Speaker 1: out of consciousness. She knows that she's going downhill quickly
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  Speaker 1: unless someone finds her. By the following afternoon, Brendon is
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  Speaker 1: still not back yet, so, laying face down in the
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  Speaker 1: mud with flies buzzing all over her head, she was
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  Speaker 1: helpless and trapped, and there was nothing she could do
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  Speaker 1: but wait until either a miracle occurred and someone found her,
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  Speaker 1: or most likely, she just dies. So at the same
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  Speaker 1: time that Sailor and Brendan are going through this horrible ordeal,
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  Speaker 1: three totally unconnected people decide they want to blow off
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  Speaker 1: work and school and just go escape into nature, and
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  Speaker 1: so they settle on a hike that would bring them
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  Speaker 1: to a waterfall in Santa Barbara, California. Even though this
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  Speaker 1: waterfall was a popular tourist attraction, it was very difficult
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  Speaker 1: to get to it. It basically required forty five minutes
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  Speaker 1: of almost uphill climbing across boulder fields, very dangerous and
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  Speaker 1: it's not something for a novice hiker to be doing.
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  Speaker 1: So they reached the parking lot, they take off on
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  Speaker 1: this hike, and when they're just at the base of
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  Speaker 1: the waterfall. Instead of taking the main trail up to
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  Speaker 1: the top, the three hikers decide let's actually go around
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  Speaker 1: off the trail to this pocket of boulders over here
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  Speaker 1: where there's a couple freshwater pools that have formed underneath
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  Speaker 1: the base of the waterfall. So they leave the main
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  Speaker 1: trail and they're climbing over these huge boulders. It's very dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: and at some point one of the hikers starts taking
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  Speaker 1: pictures as they're kind of going across these boulders through
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  Speaker 1: the viewfinder. As they're taking pictures, they noticed something out
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  Speaker 1: of the corner of their eye that's in frame. It
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  Speaker 1: was like this red flash of something, and so the
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  Speaker 1: hiker puts their camera down and she looks down where
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  Speaker 1: she sees this red and she can tell right away
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  Speaker 1: that it's someone's hair. It's a girl's dyed red hair,
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  Speaker 1: and it was Sailor. The hikers went down the sailor
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  Speaker 1: and they called nine to one one and they came in.
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  Speaker 1: They airlifted her out of there, and Sailor would actually
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  Speaker 1: make a full recovery. Unfortunately, Sailor's friend, Brendan did not
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  Speaker 1: make it. They found his body about one hundred meters
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  Speaker 1: away from where she had been laying. After the ordeal,
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  Speaker 1: the woman who was taking those pictures and had spotted
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  Speaker 1: Sailor out of the corner of her eye. She went
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  Speaker 1: to her camera and was flicking through some of the
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  Speaker 1: pictures she had taken during the hike. She had inadvertently
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  Speaker 1: taken a picture of Sailor before they had found her.
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  Speaker 1: So had it not been for these hikers being where
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  Speaker 1: they were and taking those pictures and noticing her red hair,
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  Speaker 1: this picture almost certainly would have become the last picture
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  Speaker 1: of Sailor Gilliams alive. Jolie Callen was this little four
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  Speaker 1: foot ten eighteen year old girl from Alabama who, despite
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  Speaker 1: her tiny stature, had a huge personality and was incredibly popular.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody seemed to love this girl. In twenty fifteen, Jolie
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  Speaker 1: had just graduated high school and was planning to move
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  Speaker 1: away from her town and go to college outside of Alabama,
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  Speaker 1: and she was really excited about it. But she had
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a problem because she had this boyfriend
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  Speaker 1: named Lauren Brunner, who she had repeatedly tried to end
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  Speaker 1: the relationship ship with because he was so possessive. But
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  Speaker 1: she hadn't been able to successfully break up with him,
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  Speaker 1: yet every time she tried to, he would threaten that
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  Speaker 1: he was going to hurt himself or that he was
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  Speaker 1: going to hurt her if she ever left him, and
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  Speaker 1: so she never quite followed through. But with college on
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  Speaker 1: the horizon and to her what felt like this fresh
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  Speaker 1: start once she left Alabama, she finally pulled the plug
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  Speaker 1: on her relationship with Lauren and made it very clear
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  Speaker 1: that they are done and she was firm on that decision,
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  Speaker 1: even when Lauren did start lashing out and yelling at
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  Speaker 1: her and pleading with her and doing everything he could
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  Speaker 1: to win back her affection, but it just wasn't going
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  Speaker 1: to work because she had moved on. For weeks, Lauren
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  Speaker 1: was trying to convince Jolie to change her mind, but again,
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  Speaker 1: Jolie just stayed firm on her decision, and after quite
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  Speaker 1: some time, it seemed like Lauren had finally got the
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  Speaker 1: message because his messages and cries for her to change
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  Speaker 1: her mind had stopped and there was finally a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of distance between the two of them. On August
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninth, twenty fifteen, Lauren would break that silence and
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  Speaker 1: would reach out to Jolie and ask her if she
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go for a hike with him simply as friends.
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  Speaker 1: Jolie was naturally hesitant about this, worrying that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: this hike as friends could very quickly turn into something
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  Speaker 1: more that she didn't want. But she did want to
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  Speaker 1: remain friends with Lauren. He was very important to her,
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  Speaker 1: and so she reluctantly agrees to go on this hike.
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  Speaker 1: After Jolie responded to Lauren that she was willing to go,
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  Speaker 1: Lauren was really excited, and so he posted on Instagram
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  Speaker 1: this picture of himself looking I guess excited. It's hard
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  Speaker 1: to tell from the image, but the caption basically said
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  Speaker 1: that he was excited about going on this hike with
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  Speaker 1: her and that things were quote looking up. At the
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  Speaker 1: same time, after Jolie had given that answer to Lauren,
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  Speaker 1: after she had agreed yes, I'll go hiking with you,
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  Speaker 1: she texted her friend jokingly, if something happens to me,
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  Speaker 1: you'll know who I was with. The Next day, on
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  Speaker 1: August thirtieth, Lauren picks up Jolie and he begins documenting
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  Speaker 1: their trip on his Instagram pitche Jolie gets in the
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  Speaker 1: car and he takes a picture of her, and he
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  Speaker 1: captions it on our way to go hiking. The second
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  Speaker 1: image that he uploads is of Jolie walking her dog
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  Speaker 1: Keiba in a parking lot. It appears that this lot
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  Speaker 1: is at the base of the hike they're about to
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  Speaker 1: go on. The third image shows Jolie standing on a
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  Speaker 1: rock overlooking this forest and she's holding her dog Kiba,
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  Speaker 1: and it's clear based on this picture that now they've
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  Speaker 1: actually begun the ascent of this trail. The fourth and
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  Speaker 1: final picture that was uploaded to his Instagram page shows
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  Speaker 1: Jolie standing on a rocky cliff and she's holding her
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  Speaker 1: own camera up and she's taking pictures out over this valley,
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  Speaker 1: and the picture was captioned Jolie the photographer. Immediately after
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  Speaker 1: this picture was taken, Lauren would shoot joly twice and
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  Speaker 1: push her off of that cliff. He was sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: fifty two years in jail and bragged to the inmates
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  Speaker 1: he was with that if he couldn't have her, no
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  Speaker 1: one could. In November of nineteen sixty one, a wealthy
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  Speaker 1: doctor named Arthur Duperalt chartered a luxury yacht called the
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  Speaker 1: Bluebell to take he and his family from four Lauderdale, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: to the Bahamas, along with his family, which was Jean,
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  Speaker 1: his wife, his oldest son, Brian who was fourteen, Terry
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  Speaker 1: Joe who was eleven, and Renee who was seven. Arthur
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  Speaker 1: also brought along Julian Harvey, who was a close friend
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  Speaker 1: of his that he had hired to be the captain
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  Speaker 1: of the ship, and Julian was going to bring along
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  Speaker 1: his wife, who was named Mary Dean. And so on
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  Speaker 1: November eighth, nineteen sixty one, the Duperraults and the Harvey's
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  Speaker 1: set sail on the Blue Bell, and by all accounts,
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  Speaker 1: their trip was going extremely well. But on the fifth
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  Speaker 1: night of the cruise, Terry Joe was down in the
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  Speaker 1: sleeping quarters of the Bluebell when she woke up to
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  Speaker 1: the sound of stamping sounds and screaming coming from above.
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  Speaker 1: She was so scared about what could be going on
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  Speaker 1: up there that at first she didn't do anything, but
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  Speaker 1: eventually she summoned the courage, got out of her bunk,
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  Speaker 1: and she kind of slowly made her way up the
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  Speaker 1: stairs and poked her head out onto the deck, and
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  Speaker 1: immediately she sees that her family is lying on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: They're all deceased, As Terry Joe is frozen in terror,
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  Speaker 1: Julian Harvey comes running up to her tells her to
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  Speaker 1: go back down into the sleeping quarters, and so, not
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  Speaker 1: knowing any better, she just turns around and runs back
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  Speaker 1: down to her bunk. But as she's sitting there, she
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  Speaker 1: sees that water is flooding into the Bluebell. She can't
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  Speaker 1: stay down here or she's gonna drown, So Terry Joe
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  Speaker 1: goes back up the steps. She goes onto the main
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  Speaker 1: deck and she sees Julian Harvey who's standing over the
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  Speaker 1: edge of the boat, and she yells to him and says,
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  Speaker 1: are we sinking? And he looks at her and he
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  Speaker 1: just says yes, And then he promptly jumps over the
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  Speaker 1: railing and swims to the lifeboat that had detached from
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  Speaker 1: the Bluebell and was drifting away. He climbs onto it
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  Speaker 1: and takes off, abandoning her on the sinking ship. Unbeknownst
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  Speaker 1: to Terry Joe, was the reason the Blue Bell was
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  Speaker 1: sinking in the first place was because of Julian Harvey.
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  Speaker 1: When he was hired to be the captain of the ship.
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  Speaker 1: He used this as an opportunity to bring his new
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  Speaker 1: wife out with him and then kill her and collect
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  Speaker 1: on her insurance policy, because in her life insurance policy
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  Speaker 1: there was a clause where he would get double the
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  Speaker 1: amount of money if she died in the case of
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  Speaker 1: a freak accident. But it speculated that while he was
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  Speaker 1: attacking her, one of the Duperolts had seen him doing it,
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  Speaker 1: and so in order to cover his tracks, he had
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  Speaker 1: turned on the Duperolt family. And so, while it's not
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  Speaker 1: entirely clear why he didn't just finish the job with
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  Speaker 1: Terry Joe, it seems like when he jumped over the
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  Speaker 1: railing and took off with the lifeboat, he must have
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  Speaker 1: assumed that Terry Joe was going to sink with the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the family and then there would be no
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  Speaker 1: more evidence, no more witnesses. So eleven year old Terry Joe,
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  Speaker 1: as she's standing on this sinking ship, she snaps into action.
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  Speaker 1: She remembers seeing a cork float that was pinned up
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  Speaker 1: against one of the walls of the ship, and she
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  Speaker 1: runs over and she undoes it. She puts it on
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  Speaker 1: the water. She climbs on top of it just as
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  Speaker 1: the bluebell sinks under the surface of the water and disappears.
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  Speaker 1: And so now she's just stranded out in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the ocean. She's got no food, no water, no
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  Speaker 1: shelter from the sun on this little, dinky cork float.
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  Speaker 1: Over the next couple of days, as she drifted along
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  Speaker 1: aimlessly in the ocean, her cork float would begin to
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  Speaker 1: disintegrate and she would have to start positioning her body
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  Speaker 1: on the float so there wasn't much weight on it
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  Speaker 1: because it was basically beginning to sink, And the only
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  Speaker 1: position she could find that worked was by dangling her
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  Speaker 1: feet in the water. So she's half on this cork float,
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  Speaker 1: half of her body is in the water. And so
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  Speaker 1: what began happening is parrotfish began swimming up and biting
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  Speaker 1: her toes, her feet, and her legs, but she couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do anything about it. She couldn't put her legs on
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  Speaker 1: the corkboard or it would sink. After two days of
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  Speaker 1: balancing precariously on this cork float, the parrotfish disappeared and
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of dolphins surrounded her, And later she would
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  Speaker 1: go on to say that this was the only part
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  Speaker 1: of this horrible ordeal where she felt some sort of comfort.
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  Speaker 1: These dolphins just swam around her and almost formed a
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  Speaker 1: protective barrier around her that kept the parrotfish away and
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  Speaker 1: kept other predators away from her. On November sixteenth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty one, eighty four hours after the Bluebell had sunk,
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  Speaker 1: a Greek freighter actually spotted Terry Joe amidst all the
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  Speaker 1: white caps. They were able to see this little girl
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  Speaker 1: on a float and they drove over and there she was.
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  Speaker 1: And initially when they went down to try to get her,
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  Speaker 1: there was so many sharks swimming around her that they
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  Speaker 1: had to be very careful that they didn't accidentally knock
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  Speaker 1: her into the water where she might be eaten by sharks.
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  Speaker 1: But eventually they were able to get Terry Joe into
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  Speaker 1: their basket and pulled her up onto the ship and
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  Speaker 1: she would make a full recovery. As for Julian Harvey,
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  Speaker 1: he had made it back to shore and had told
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  Speaker 1: authorities that the Bluebell had caught on fire and that
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  Speaker 1: everyone had drowned except for him. You know, he had
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  Speaker 1: done his best to save them, but he was the
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  Speaker 1: only one who could get out, and as luck would
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  Speaker 1: have it, he was literally in a police station giving
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  Speaker 1: information about what happened. When the police were informed that
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  Speaker 1: Terry Joe had survived, and the police they turned to
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  Speaker 1: Julian and they say, Terry Joe survived, she's in the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: She's going to make a recovery. And Julian was said
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  Speaker 1: to have gone totally ashen in the face and then
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  Speaker 1: kind of composed himself and said, why, that's wonderful. Julian
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  Speaker 1: quickly excused himself and fled to a Miami hotel, and
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  Speaker 1: the next day he was found dead in his hotel room.
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  Speaker 1: This is the picture of Terry Joe that was taken
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  Speaker 1: by one of the Greek sailors right when they pulled
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  Speaker 1: up alongside her before they pulled her onto their ship.
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  Speaker 1: This image would soon appear in publications all over the world.
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  Speaker 1: Despite Terry Joe's horrifying ordeal, she would go on to
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  Speaker 1: live a very normal life and would have six children
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  Speaker 1: of her own. So that's going to do it. Guys.
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