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  Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety, thirty one year old John O'Brien was
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  Speaker 1: a landscaper in a town just outside of Chicago, Illinois.
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  Speaker 2: In January of that year, he and his.
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  Speaker 1: Friend David decided they wanted to escape the cold Chicago
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  Speaker 1: winter and go on some vacation to somewhere nice and warm,
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  Speaker 1: and so they decided to book a trip to the
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  Speaker 1: very sunny Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
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  Speaker 2: They left for their trip just a couple of.
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  Speaker 1: Days later, which was believed to be January eighth or
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  Speaker 1: January ninth, and the hotel they were staying in was
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  Speaker 1: right near the airport in Trinidad. So they land in Trinidad,
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  Speaker 1: they get off their plane, they make their way out
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  Speaker 1: of the airport, they go to their hotel, they drop
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  Speaker 1: their luggage, and then they headed.
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  Speaker 2: Out to explore the town.
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  Speaker 1: And over the next couple of days they not only
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  Speaker 1: explored Trinidad, but also the island of Tobago, which was
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  Speaker 1: a four hour boat right away, and they had great food,
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  Speaker 1: they saw some really cool attractions, and just overall they
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  Speaker 1: had a chance to relax in the warm weather while
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  Speaker 1: all their friends back home were freezing in Chicago. And so,
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  Speaker 1: by all accounts, their vacation was going exactly to.
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  Speaker 2: Plan until Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: The fourteenth of January. This was the day before they
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  Speaker 1: were supposed to fly back to Chicago. That day, John
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  Speaker 1: began complaining of some unnamed health issue which has not
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  Speaker 1: been made public so we don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And he went to some drug store in town in
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  Speaker 1: Trinidad to look for a specific medication for this unnamed
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  Speaker 1: health issue, but the drug store did not carry this medication.
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  Speaker 1: So John left and he went to another drug store
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  Speaker 1: in another store, but nobody had this medication, and so
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  Speaker 1: by the time John got back to the hotel and
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  Speaker 1: saw David, David would later remark that John was not
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  Speaker 1: only distraught about not having this medication, but John was disoriented,
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  Speaker 1: like whatever this health issue was, it was starting to
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  Speaker 1: manifest itself in this kind of disoriented state that John
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  Speaker 1: was in because it was not being treated. But eventually
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  Speaker 1: David decided that John was okay enough that they did
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  Speaker 1: not need.
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  Speaker 2: To call a hospital or call a doctor, and the two.
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  Speaker 1: Men decided to just go to bed, because, after all,
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  Speaker 1: they had a very early flight the next morning. So
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  Speaker 1: the two men climb into their respective beds, which are
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  Speaker 1: in the same room, two twin sized beds, and they
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  Speaker 1: fall asleep.
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  Speaker 2: But about an.
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  Speaker 1: Hour to maybe an hour and a half after David
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  Speaker 1: had fallen asleep, he wakes.
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  Speaker 2: Up to some man standing next to his bed choking him.
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  Speaker 1: He's grabbing his throat and throt him, and so David
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  Speaker 1: has no time to respond to what's going on. He
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  Speaker 1: just starts grabbing this guy's hands and he manages to
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  Speaker 1: push them off of him, and then this guy who's
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  Speaker 1: standing next to his bed grabs the lamp next to
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  Speaker 1: him and smashes David with it. David from getting hit,
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  Speaker 1: falls out of the bed. He lands on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and this guy, his attacker, jumps on top of him,
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  Speaker 1: and the two men are fighting. But eventually David manages
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  Speaker 1: to overpower this guy and he kicks him off. And
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  Speaker 1: as soon as he does that, he realizes this guy
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  Speaker 1: that's been attacking him is John, and John is completely naked.
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  Speaker 1: He's got no clothes on, and so John just stands
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  Speaker 1: up and David's looking at him like what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: and John just.
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  Speaker 2: Runs out of the hotel room. He ends up running
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  Speaker 2: down the hall.
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  Speaker 1: He goes down the stairs, he runs past the front desk,
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  Speaker 1: out the front doors of the hotel and just takes
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  Speaker 1: off running.
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  Speaker 2: And so John runs for several minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Until he reaches the airport, but instead of going through
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  Speaker 1: the front gates, he goes to the side of the
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  Speaker 1: front gates where there are these huge chain link fences.
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  Speaker 2: With barbed wire at the top.
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  Speaker 1: When John, again wearing no clothes, climbs up the chain
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  Speaker 1: link fence and then manages to navigate the barbs at
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  Speaker 1: the top and drops over onto the other side. But
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  Speaker 1: where he landed, although it was on airport property, it
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  Speaker 1: was kind of like a trap because this airport had
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  Speaker 1: two fences around its perimeter back to back, and so
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  Speaker 1: where John landed was like this grassy no man's land
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  Speaker 1: between these two fences.
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  Speaker 2: But John was on this kind of deranged mission, so
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  Speaker 2: he stands.
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  Speaker 1: Up and instead of trying to get back out again,
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  Speaker 1: he turns and climbs the next fence, the one that
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  Speaker 1: is closer to the airport, and so he climbs up
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  Speaker 1: this fence. He manages to get past all the barbed
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  Speaker 1: wire at the top, and he drops into the parking
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  Speaker 1: lot on the other side. He stands up and just
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  Speaker 1: continues running towards the main building of the airport. But
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  Speaker 1: between him and the main building of this airport is
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  Speaker 1: this huge concrete wall that doesn't look like it has
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  Speaker 1: any place to grab onto to climb over it. But
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  Speaker 1: John runs up to this wall and manages to climb
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  Speaker 1: up and over the wall. Where he landed on the
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  Speaker 1: other side was right next to this security guard shack,
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  Speaker 1: and so he comes crashing down and the four security
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  Speaker 1: guards that are.
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  Speaker 2: In this shack, they see him come over the wall.
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  Speaker 1: They see this naked guy just suddenly appear, and so
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  Speaker 1: they charge out to apprehend him and figure out what's
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  Speaker 1: going on. But John apparently attacked them. We don't know
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  Speaker 1: exactly what he did, but he managed to overpower all
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  Speaker 1: four of them, and he stole their four wheel drive vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: And so John just bombs away from the security guard
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  Speaker 1: shack with the four security guards chasing him on foot,
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  Speaker 1: and John he weaves around the outside of the main
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  Speaker 1: airport building and he heads out onto the tarmac. Out
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  Speaker 1: on the tarmac, there were several planes that were moving
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  Speaker 1: into position for takeoff.
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  Speaker 2: One of those planes was this.
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  Speaker 1: Huge British Airways Jet Airliner passenger plane that was actually
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  Speaker 1: the next to take off. They'd already fired up their
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  Speaker 1: engines and they were sitting at the top of the
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  Speaker 1: runway just waiting for clearance. And John just drives directly
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  Speaker 1: into this plane. But the vehicle he was driving, this
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  Speaker 1: little four wheel drive vehicle, it was not tall enough
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  Speaker 1: to actually strike the main body of this plane.
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  Speaker 2: So instead, when he hit this plane.
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  Speaker 1: He basically got wedged underneath one of the winks. At
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  Speaker 1: this point, the four security guards that had been attacked
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  Speaker 1: and had their vehicle stolen from them. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 1: running towards the tarmac, but they've also alerted other security
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  Speaker 1: personnel in the airport who are all streaming out onto
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  Speaker 1: the tarmac towards this British Airways plane and this vehicle
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  Speaker 1: and John, and so as they are descending on this scene,
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  Speaker 1: the security guards would see John from the passenger seat
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  Speaker 1: of this four wheel drive vehicle. He stands up and
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  Speaker 1: they can see he's got a pretty nasty cut on
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  Speaker 1: his shoulder. And John reaches up and starts rubbing his
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  Speaker 1: hand on the underside of the plane, which had been
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  Speaker 1: damaged from running into it. And there was oil leaking
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  Speaker 1: off the underside of this plane, and John began rubbing
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  Speaker 1: this oil around and then dabbing it into his big
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  Speaker 1: wound on his shoulder, and then after packing it with
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  Speaker 1: this oil, John leaped out of the wrecked four wheel
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  Speaker 1: drive vehicle and then just took off, running.
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  Speaker 2: Away from all these security guards and away from this plane.
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  Speaker 1: And in the chaos of this moment, all these security
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  Speaker 1: guards and all the airport personnel that were descending on
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  Speaker 1: this scene, they managed to lose sight of John. He
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  Speaker 1: disappeared on the backside of this plane, and so all
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  Speaker 1: these security guards and airport personnel, they come to a
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  Speaker 1: stop about one hundred feet away from this plane and
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  Speaker 1: this wrecked vehicle, and they're just kind of staring at it, wondering,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what are we going to do next. They're
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  Speaker 1: calling other agencies to come in and assist with this situation.
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  Speaker 1: When all of a sudden, somebody notices John about three
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  Speaker 1: hundred feet away on the.
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  Speaker 2: Other side of the plane.
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  Speaker 1: He comes out from behind a building, and so he's
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  Speaker 1: running towards the plane. He's running towards this wall of
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  Speaker 1: security guards and other airport staff, and John he manages
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  Speaker 1: to get all the way up to the plane before
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  Speaker 1: anybody can come up and apprehend him. And when he
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  Speaker 1: reaches the plane, he stops for a second, looks up
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  Speaker 1: at the.
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  Speaker 2: Engine of this airplane that's still spinning.
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  Speaker 1: It's been turned on, and John jumps into the engine
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  Speaker 1: and instantaneously.
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  Speaker 2: John ceases to exist. He is completely decimated.
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  Speaker 1: No one knows for sure what actually caused John's rampage,
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  Speaker 1: although it's assumed it had to do with whatever this.
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  Speaker 2: Unnamed health issue was.
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  Speaker 1: Ultimately, his death was ruled a suicide. One of the
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  Speaker 1: most dangerous Olympic sports is called luge. In a nutshell,
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  Speaker 1: one or two people who are called lusures will ride
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  Speaker 1: a sled down a hill as fast as they can.
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  Speaker 1: But this hill is this narrow, winding, banked ice track,
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  Speaker 1: and these lusures will ride a sled that will go
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  Speaker 1: as fast as eighty miles per hour or faster. While
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  Speaker 1: accidents in lusing are actually quite uncommon, when they do.
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  Speaker 2: Occur, they can be catastrophic.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty six, a luge track was built on
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  Speaker 1: a ski hill in Alberta, Canada, for the luge.
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  Speaker 2: Event of the nineteen eighty eight Winter Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: This track and the surrounding ski area was called Canada
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  Speaker 1: Olympic Park. After the Olympics were over, this park was
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  Speaker 1: opened to the public for recreational purposes.
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  Speaker 2: Nearly thirty years later.
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  Speaker 1: On January twenty ninth, twenty sixteen, three teenage boys snuck
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  Speaker 1: into Canada Olympic Park after hours. They made their way
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  Speaker 1: up the hill until they reached this blue, six foot
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  Speaker 1: tall fence that was covered with warnings telling people to
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  Speaker 1: stay back and don't go past this fence unless you
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  Speaker 1: are authorized personnel. And these three teenage boys were not
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  Speaker 1: authorized personnel. Inside of this six foot tall blue fence
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  Speaker 1: was what looked like this tall flight of stairs that
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  Speaker 1: led up to what looked almost like a log cabin,
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  Speaker 1: and that cabin was the starting house of the louge track.
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  Speaker 1: The track literally came out of the cabin and fed
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  Speaker 1: down below the three boys, one of which had actually
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  Speaker 1: worked at this park the winter before selling tickets. They
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  Speaker 1: looked at each other and grinned, and then chucked their
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  Speaker 1: plastic sleds over this blue.
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  Speaker 2: Fence, and then they climbed up and over themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Once on the other side, they each picked up their
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  Speaker 1: sled and then made their way up stairs into the
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  Speaker 1: starting house. Once they were inside, they kind of arranged
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  Speaker 1: themselves to see who would go first, second, and third.
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  Speaker 2: They put their helmets on because they all brought helmets.
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  Speaker 1: They strapped on headlamps so they could see the course
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  Speaker 1: because there were no lights on on the course, and
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  Speaker 1: then one by one they began going down this louge track.
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  Speaker 1: But surprisingly it wasn't that fast. As they went down,
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  Speaker 1: they would actually stop and have to use their feet
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  Speaker 1: to get going again, but that was because they had
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  Speaker 1: these cheap plastic sleds that were not designed.
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  Speaker 2: For this louge course.
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  Speaker 1: What you needed were these specialty sleds with blades on
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  Speaker 1: the sides that got you up to full speed. And
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  Speaker 1: so after the three boys eventually slowly, painfully made their
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  Speaker 1: way all the way down to the bottom of this
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  Speaker 1: louse track, they were pretty disappointed. But they thought, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's just all get in one sled and we'll go
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  Speaker 1: down again. And with the added weight we should go faster.
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  Speaker 1: And so they marched their way back up all the
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  Speaker 1: way up to the top of the starting house and
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  Speaker 1: all three of them sat in one sled and they
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  Speaker 1: pushed off, and sure enough, they went way faster. They
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  Speaker 1: bombed all the way down this track. It was so
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  Speaker 1: much fun. They were totally exhilarated, and after doing it
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  Speaker 1: a couple more times, they decided, okay, you know, our
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  Speaker 1: luck's gonna run out. We're gonna get caught, and so
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  Speaker 1: they climbed back over that blue fence and snuck out
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  Speaker 1: of the park without getting caught. The following weekend, those
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  Speaker 1: three same boys, along with five of their friends they
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  Speaker 1: had recruited, returned to Canada Olympic Park after hours, and
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  Speaker 1: so the three boys that had been there the weekend before.
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  Speaker 1: They led the group up the hill. They got to
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  Speaker 1: that blue fence that surrounded the Louge starting house, and
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  Speaker 1: one by one, each of these teenage boys climbed up
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  Speaker 1: and over this fence and they made their way up
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  Speaker 1: the stairs into the starting house. Once they were inside,
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  Speaker 1: they began figuring out who was going to go in
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  Speaker 1: each of the three sleds they had brought along, and
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  Speaker 1: they determined they would put three boys in the first sled,
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  Speaker 1: three boys in the second sled, and two boys in
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  Speaker 1: the final sled. Because of how successful the previous weekend's
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  Speaker 1: tripped down the Louse track had been. According to the
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  Speaker 1: three boys that had gone this time, the group decided
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  Speaker 1: they did not need helmets because this was relatively safe.
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  Speaker 1: They also decided not to bring headlamps because they figured
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  Speaker 1: it would be more exhilarating to go flying down this
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  Speaker 1: track in the darkness, and so a little after midnight
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  Speaker 1: on February sixth, the first three boys climbed into the
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  Speaker 1: first sled and pushed off.
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  Speaker 2: At first, it was going exactly to plan.
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  Speaker 1: It was fun, they were going fast, it was exhilarating,
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  Speaker 1: But then disaster struck unlike the previous weekend, this night,
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, there was a metal chain that had been
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  Speaker 1: strung across one of these sections towards the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the looge track. It was there to keep a particular
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  Speaker 1: section of the track in place.
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  Speaker 2: And so these boys, as they.
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  Speaker 1: Come flying around the corner, they don't see it, and
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  Speaker 1: they strike this chain at full speed. Now, this chain
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  Speaker 1: was at neck height, and so when it hit them,
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  Speaker 1: it instantly decapitated and killed one of the boys. It
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  Speaker 1: was a seventeen year old named Evan Caldwell, and so
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  Speaker 1: he dies immediately, and the other two are thrown from
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  Speaker 1: the sled and landed unconscious. Now back up at the
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  Speaker 1: starting house, they have no way of knowing this has
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  Speaker 1: happened to the first sled, not only because they can't
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  Speaker 1: see it, but also because the boys in the first
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  Speaker 1: sled are not making any sound. They're either unconscious or deceased.
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  Speaker 1: And so at some point this second group of boys
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  Speaker 1: thinks they've waited.
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  Speaker 2: Long enough to account for the first sled to get down.
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  Speaker 1: And out of the way, and so they load up
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  Speaker 1: their sled and they push off, and so they go
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  Speaker 1: flying down. It's going great, but just like the first sled.
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  Speaker 1: At some point they turned that corner and they hit
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  Speaker 1: that chain. But miraculously, the second group of three boys,
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  Speaker 1: they hit the chain in such a way that they
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  Speaker 1: kind of slipped under it, and so they were all
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  Speaker 1: thrown from their sled and kind of smashed into the track.
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  Speaker 2: But the worst.
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  Speaker 1: Injury of the second sled was just a broken ankle.
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  Speaker 1: And so this group they stand up and they're totally disoriented.
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  Speaker 2: It's dark, they don't know what they just ran into.
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  Speaker 2: And before they had.
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  Speaker 1: A chance to kind of collect their thoughts and yell
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  Speaker 1: up to the starting house to try to warn the
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  Speaker 1: third and final group not to go, it was already
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  Speaker 1: too late. All the boys could do in the second
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  Speaker 1: sled group was to just get out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: The third and final sled carrying the final two boys,
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  Speaker 1: came bombing down and they two struck that chain at
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  Speaker 1: full speed. One of the two boys on board this
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  Speaker 1: third and final sled was a seventeen year old named
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Caldwell, and he too, unfortunately, would be decapitated by
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  Speaker 1: the chain and would die instantly. And he was actually
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  Speaker 1: the twin brother of Evan Caldwell, the boy on the
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  Speaker 1: first sled who had also died. The other boy on
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  Speaker 1: the third sled would be thrown from the sled and
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  Speaker 1: would suffer grievous injuries as well. One of the survivors
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  Speaker 1: of the crash who was actually on the first sled.
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  Speaker 1: His name was Caleb, and he was knocked unconscious from
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  Speaker 1: being thrown. When he came to, he was laying in
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  Speaker 1: a section of the track that was covered by a tarp,
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  Speaker 1: and at first he couldn't see anything, he couldn't hear anything,
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  Speaker 1: but he just felt like there was something lodged in
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  Speaker 1: his throat and it was making it very hard to
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  Speaker 1: breathe most likely that was just from his throat being
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  Speaker 1: crushed in from hitting that chain, and so as he's
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  Speaker 1: struggling to breathe, his senses began to come back to
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  Speaker 1: him and his sight came back and he noticed he
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  Speaker 1: was laying down and one of the boys who had been.
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  Speaker 2: On the second sled was kneeling next to him.
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  Speaker 1: This was one of the boys that had not been
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  Speaker 1: badly hurt, and he had his hand on Caleb's shoulder
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  Speaker 1: and he was praying for Caleb to survive. And so
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  Speaker 1: as Caleb is taking in that someone is praying over him,
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  Speaker 1: he notices somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: His hearing is starting to pick up. He can hear
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  Speaker 2: someone else.
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  Speaker 1: And it would turn out to be a boy named
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  Speaker 1: Mark who was on the first sled, who had been
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  Speaker 1: very badly injured. His face was very badly beaten up.
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  Speaker 1: He was laying somewhere nearby, and he was just singing
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  Speaker 1: this religious song. He was trying to keep spirits high,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: and he was trying to will people to hold on
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: and to survive as long as they possibly could. And
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: then Caleb remembered hearing someone calling nine to one one,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: and then he doesn't remember what happened next. When the
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: paramedics ultimately arrived within the hour, they got to the
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: track and they found all of these boys spread out
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: all over the track because when they hit the chain,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: they got sent flying. But they discovered the twins were
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: actually laying right next to each other, and none of
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: these surviving boys had moved their bodies. And so even
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: though the grief was just unfathomable amongst this family that
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: had lost their two sons, there was some solace in
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: the fact that, despite having come down in different sleds,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: that the twins Evan and.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Jordan, were together in their final moments.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: The six survivors of this accident would walk away from
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: it with life changing head injuries and other medical issues,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: and they would walk away with an indescribable sense of
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: guilt and regret, but they consider themselves lucky because at
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: least they survived. IQ, which stands for intelligence quotient, is
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: a measure of someone's intelligence. To find your IQ, you
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: need to take an official IQ test, which gives you
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: an IQ score. The vast majority of people will score
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: about one hundred as their IQ, and so that's considered
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: to be the average intelligence for any given person.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: But a very small number.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Of people will score somewhere between one hundred and thirty
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: and one hundred and sixty, and so that's considered to be.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: A very high IQ. Those are very very gifted people.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: And then there is an even smaller group of people
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: that score above one hundred and sixty.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: And so that is the genius class.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Anybody who scores above one hundred and sixty is literally
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: a genius. To give you a sense of just how
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: rare that is. Albert Einstein, who is largely considered to
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: be one of the smartest people who have ever lived,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: he was not even considered a genius, at least not
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: by his IQ. He was about one hundred and sixty,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: so right on the cusp of geniusness. But as we
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: will learn from this story, having an exceptionally high IQ
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: does not make you immune to making unfathomably bad choices.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety one, thirty one year old Jackie Katarik,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: who had a genius IQ of one hundred and seventy,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: so she was smarter than Albert Einstein. She graduated from
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: UCLA Medical School with honors. She completed her medical residency,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: which is like a multi year apprenticeship for new doctors,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, which is one
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: of the very best hospitals in America. After that, she
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: opened her very own practice just north of la in
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: a town called Bakersfield, California, and she also became a
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: part time professor at her alma mater, UCLA. By all accounts,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Jackie was brilliant. She was successful, and she loved what
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: she did, and her patients and her students loved her.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Right back fast forward to twenty ten, Jackie was forty
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: nine years old and she was still running her very
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: successful practice, and she was still teaching at UCLA, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: she was in an on again, off again relationship with
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: a fifty eight year old man named William Moody. While
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the details of their relationship are not really publicly known,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: it's fairly easy to deduce from the reporting that came
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: from this case that Jackie and William fought a lot.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: On Wednesday, August twenty fifth of that year, Jackie was
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: spotted by herself at a Mediterranean restaurant in Bakersfield, California,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: having some drinks, and then at some point during the night,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: she called a ride service to pick her up and
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: take her home again. Even though we don't know this
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: for sure, it's assumed she was too intoxicated to drive,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: and that's why she called the ride service. The following morning,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Jackie did not show up for work. Her assistant at
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: her medical practice is the one who noticed Jackie had
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: not shown up, and so when she didn't, she called
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: her boss, but her boss didn't pick up, and so
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: after a couple of failed attempts at getting in touch
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: with Jackie, this assistant called Jackie's boyfriend, William, and so
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: William he picks up the phone and when the assistant
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: asked him, hey, have you seen Jackie. She has not
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: come into work today. William actually says, yes, I saw
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: her last night. William would explain to the assistant that
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the night before he was in his house by himself
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: in Bakersfield, California, not far from this restaurant where Jackie
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: was last seen, and he said that at some point, unannounced,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: he saw Jackie pull up in front of his house,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: and so he could tell from her general demeanor and
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: her look and her pace that she was upset about something,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: or he just sensed there was going to be some
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: conflict if he went to the door, and so he
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: decided to actually slip out the back door and kind
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: of run away from his property before Jackie could see him.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: And so he actually left the property and went to
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: a friend's house who was nearby and spent the night
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: with this friend. And so when the assistant called William,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: William was actually still at this friend's house. He had
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: not been back to his actual property, and so he
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: would tell the assistant that, you know, the last I
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: saw of Jackie.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: It was late at night. She had pulled up in
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: front of my house. But then I split, so I
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: don't know what she did.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I assume she left, but William would tell the assistant that,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: you know what, I'll go back over to my house
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: and I'll see if she's still there or if there's
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: some indication of where she might have gone. And so
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: William hangs up the phone. He leaves his friend's house
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and walks the couple of blocks back to his own property,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: and when he gets there, sure enough, right out front
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: of his house is Jackie's car. Now William knew his
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: house was locked and Jackie didn't have a key, and
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: so Jackie must just be sitting in.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Her car waiting for him to return.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: And so William walks up to the car, expecting to
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: see Jackie and expecting probably to fight about something. But
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: when he gets up to the car, Jackie's not in
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: there but her purse, her cell phone, her wallet that's
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: all over the inside of the car. And so William
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: turns and looks at his house.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Thinking is she in the house? Did she somehow get in?
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Is she on the back of the house.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: And so William just starts yelling out for Jackie as
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: he begins to walk around his house. And so as
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: he goes around towards the back of the house, he's
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: yelling out for Jackie. No one's calling back, and then
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: he reaches the back of the house and there's no
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: sign of Jackie, but he sees there's a shovel on
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the ground near his back door, and then he looks
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: at his back door and it looks very obviously like
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: someone probably Jackie, had been using the shovel to try
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: to pry open the back door, like they were trying
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: to break in, but it hadn't worked, and so William
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: just kind of sees that and then continues walking around
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: the other side of the house, so he's completely walked
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: around the entire property. There's no sign of Jackie, and
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: so he's thinking, Okay, I guess she must have gotten
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: in somehow. She's in the house somewhere, and so William
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: goes to the front door. He unlocks his front door,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: he goes inside, and even though he knows all of
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: his doors have been locked, all the windows are locked,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: he's kind of on edge because he's thinking she's got
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: to be in here. But he walks through his house
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: and there's no sign of Jackie and there's no sign
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: that anybody else had been in there since he was
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: last in there, and so he's totally puzzled because it
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: doesn't really make any sense that Jackie's car.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Is out front. But he's thinking, okay, you know, maybe
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: she got here and then she called a ride service
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: and went somewhere else. You know, I'm sure she's fine.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: So William calls the medical assistant and says, look, you know,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: her car's here, stuff's here, but she's not here.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know what she's doing. I'll let you know
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: if anything comes of it.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: The assistant said, I really feel like something's off here,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: and we really do need to call the police. And
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: so William would say, you know what, I think that's
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: a good idea too. Let's just get them involved and
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: make sure she's okay. And so they call the police,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and the police start by going to Jackie's residence, but Jackie's.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Not there and there's no sign of her. The neighbors haven't.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Seen her, and so the police go to William's household
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: and they searched Jackie's car, and they searched William's house
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: and the surrounding area right outside, but there's really no
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: clues as to what actually happened to Jackie. And so
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: after the police talked to a bunch of neighbors and
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: friends and family.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: They just told.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: William and this medical assistant that at this point they
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: just need to wait and that hopefully Jackie will just
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: come out of wherever it is she's hiding or wherever
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: she's gone. Maybe she's upset, maybe she was fighting with
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: William and she's run off somewhere, but we just got
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: to wait and see what happens. Two days later, Jackie
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: was still unaccounted for. No one knew where she was,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: no one had heard from her, no one had seen her.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: When William's friend went over to his house. William the
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: day before, so twenty four hours after Jackie had been
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: reported missing, he had left the country on a pre
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: arranged trip.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: But he was not being looked.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: At as a potential suspect or having anything to do
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: with Jackie's disappearance, and so he.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Was allowed to go.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: And so this friend had been asked to go to
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: his property to feed his fish, and so he shows
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: up on Saturday, that's forty eight hours after Jackie has
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: been reported missing. He goes inside the house and immediately
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: he's hit with this terrible smell inside of William's house,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and so he's covering his face. He's walking around the
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: house trying to figure out where the smell is coming from.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: He thinks it could be the fridge.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Maybe something's rotting that's fallen out, or the door's open
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: or something. But it's not the fridge. He goes to
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the trash, it's not the trash. He goes to the fish,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: it's not the fish. He makes his way over to
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the fireplace, and he realizes that's where the smell is
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: coming from, and so kind of reluctantly he gets down,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: and he kind of smells inside the fireplace, but it's
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: not really coming from the area where the logs would be.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: It's coming from up in the chimney flu.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: And so he puts his head down and kind of
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: turns and looks up the chimney, and about two feet
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: up the flu, dangling down are two human legs, and
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: they would be Jackie's legs, it would turn out a
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: few days earlier, when Jackie was at that restaurant drinking
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: by herself, she did call that ride service to come
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: give her a ride home, presumably because she was too
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: intoxicated to drive, But before they showed up, Jackie just
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: got into her car anyways and drove to her estranged
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: boyfriend's house, and so she gets there. William, meanwhile is
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: sneaking out the back and running off to his friend's house.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Jackie does not see him. She makes her way up
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: to the front door and presumably tries to knock and
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: get William's attention, but when no attention is given to
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: her and it seems like no one's inside, she decides
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: she's going to try to get into the house. And
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: so the front door was locked, the windows were all locked.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: She got to the back door and that was locked.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: So she tried the shovel and tried to pry it open,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: but it didn't work, and so eventually Jackie climbed up
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the permanent.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Ladder that's on the back of the house.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: There isn't much online describing this permanent ladder. It could
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: be a fire escape or it could be some sort
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: of lawn decoration, but there was something on the back
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: of the house that you could climb up if you
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: wanted to. And so Jackie climbed up this permanent ladder
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: and actually got onto the roof. And then when she
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: was on the roof, she walked to the center where
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the chimney was and there was this over the top
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: of the chimney to prevent things from going into the chimney.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: She removed the cap and then lowered herself feet first
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: into this chimney.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Now it's unclear how quickly.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: She descended this chimney, but eventually she got stuck because
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: the width of this chimney was not uniform. It started
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: fairly wide at the top and then narrowed as it
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: went down, and so at some point, as she went
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: down feet first, she would have gotten completely wedged. It
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have mattered if her hands were above her head
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: or by her side, because either way they were useless.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: She couldn't bend her arms and there was nothing to
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: grab onto, so her arms couldn't do anything.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: And then below her there was nothing for her feet
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: to push onto, and so she was totally stuck.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: And since William was not in his house he had left,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: there was no one there to help her, and so
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Jackie probably started screaming for help. But as soon as
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: she did that and she exhaled that huge scream, her
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: chest would have constricted from exhaling, and that would have
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: shrunk her chest, making her thinner, and she would have
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: dropped a little bit farther into the chimney, and then
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: when she breathed back in again, her chest would not
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: be able to expand back to its original position because
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the chimney would be restricting her. It's like this brace
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: that's around her chest that as she gets lower and
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: lower and lower, it gets tighter and tighter and tighter,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: and so her lung capacity is shrinking second by second,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and as her lung capacity shrinks, she would not have
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: had the lung strength to emit a loud enough sound
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: to get anybody's attention.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Basically, she couldn't scream.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: She couldn't take in a big enough breath to scream out,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: and so she was just stuck in this totally compromised position,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: in this claustrophobic little chimney, where she could do nothing
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: but wait and hope maybe William or someone took notice
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: of the fact that she was in here, even though
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: again she couldn't get anyone's attention, and so most likely
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: she would have begun rationing her breaths because again, every
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: time she breathes out too much, she goes farther and farther,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: making it harder and harder to breathe, and at some
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: point starting on Thursday night, she would have heard William
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: in the house. He would have been only a few
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: feet away from her, but she can't make a sound
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: loud enough to get his attention. And we know she
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: was alive by Thursday night because neighbors heard someone faintly
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: yelling help on Friday night, so nearly forty eight hours
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: after she got stuck in the.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Chimney, it's believed she was still alive.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: And those neighbors, when they heard that faint call for help,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: they assumed it was kids in a nearby pool, and
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: so they didn't do anything about it. When they found
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: out what had happened, they thought, you know what, it
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: was coming from that chimney.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: That's where we heard it coming from.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Jackie would die shortly after the neighbors heard her calling
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: for help, because she was dead by the time the
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: friend found her in the chimney the following day, on Saturday,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Jackie would die from mechanical asphyxia, which is basically suffocation,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: but it's caused by some physical obstruction, and in this
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: case it was the chimney. The chimney literally crushed her
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: chest to the.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Point where she could no longer inflate her lungs.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: It would take firefighters approximately five hours to break this
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: chimney down to finally retrieve Jackie's body. No charges were
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: filed against anyone for Jackie's death. It was ruled to
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: be an accident, an accident caused by an unbelievable error
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: in judgment by an unbelievably brilliant woman.
• 29:20
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• 29:21
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