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Top 3 stories that sound fake but are 100% real Part 9 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to share three stories that demonstrate that. But before
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  Speaker 1: we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of
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  Speaker 1: get into today's stories. So full disclosure, this is not
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  Speaker 1: my personal story. But in order to do this story justice,
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  Speaker 1: it has to be told in the first person, so
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  Speaker 1: I am simply an actor. I was once on a
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  Speaker 1: US military ship in the wardroom, which is the officer's lounge,
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  Speaker 1: when the operations officer came inside. This guy was the
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  Speaker 1: definition of not a morning person. He was bleary eyed,
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  Speaker 1: he kind of stumbled in. He was like a zombie
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  Speaker 1: holding a bagel. He sits down in front of me.
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  Speaker 1: He's barely conscious and he starts gnawing on his bagel,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sitting.
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  Speaker 2: With my back to the outboard side of the.
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  Speaker 1: Ship, so that's the outside of the ship behind me,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a porthole right next to my head where
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  Speaker 1: the sun is coming through, and it's hitting this officer
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  Speaker 1: directly on his face.
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  Speaker 2: And so the officer's looking up at the sun.
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  Speaker 1: He's kind of squinting and blocking the sun from his face,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm looking at him, expecting him to shift left
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  Speaker 1: or right to get out of the path of the sunlight.
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  Speaker 1: But instead, this officer slowly reaches for the phone on
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  Speaker 1: the wall. He brings it up to his head and
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  Speaker 1: he goes, yeah, bridge, Yeah, this is ops.
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  Speaker 2: I need you to adjust our path. Yeah one six,
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's about right, okay, all right, all right.
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  Speaker 1: By after he hangs up with the bridge, I'm watching
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  Speaker 1: him and he hasn't moved. He's still just looking at
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  Speaker 1: the sunlight blazing in on his face. He's just squinting
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  Speaker 1: and looking up at it. And then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: this port of sunlight, just grassy, begins to shift off
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  Speaker 1: of him and winds up on the wall right behind
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  Speaker 1: him where it stops. By ordering the bridge to change
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  Speaker 1: the ship's path just slightly about fifteen degrees. It's enough
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  Speaker 1: of a change to reposition the sun from his face.
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  Speaker 1: He literally redirected thousands of tons of steel and hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of people just because he was too lazy to move
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  Speaker 1: left or right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in awe.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe he's just done this, And for a
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  Speaker 1: second I worry that he won't realize how unbelievably brilliant
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  Speaker 1: this was. And then as I'm looking at him in
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  Speaker 1: between bites, he just looks up at me and smiles
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  Speaker 1: and goes back to eating his bagel. In November of
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and six, Nintendo came out with a brand
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  Speaker 1: new gaming console called the Wii, and it was hugely
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  Speaker 1: popular and sold out almost completely right away. By the
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  Speaker 1: following January, it was still not on shelves in most
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  Speaker 1: places around the world, and so people were going crazy,
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  Speaker 1: spending unbelievable sums of money to try to get their
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  Speaker 1: hands on this system. A Sacramento, California radio station called
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  Speaker 1: KDND got a hold of one of these coveted systems
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  Speaker 1: and decided they would give it away during an on
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  Speaker 1: air contest. The contest was going to be called Hold
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  Speaker 1: Your Wii four, A Wii, and the premise of this
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  Speaker 1: contest was simple. The contestants would be given lots of water,
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  Speaker 1: and the person who held it the longest ie they
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  Speaker 1: didn't urinate, would win the prize. Leading up to this contest,
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  Speaker 1: the radio station began promoting it really aggressively on air,
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  Speaker 1: and lots of people called in with concerns, saying that
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  Speaker 1: drinking too much water can actually be deadly, but the
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  Speaker 1: station brushed these concerns off and said they were aware
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  Speaker 1: of them and that all contestants would be signing a
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  Speaker 1: waiver and so ultimately the station was not responsible for
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  Speaker 1: what happened to them. On the morning of Friday, January twelfth,
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  Speaker 1: eighteen contestants showed up at the KD and D radio
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  Speaker 1: station and they signed their waivers, although one of the
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  Speaker 1: contestants said the waiver only covered publicity issues, not health
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  Speaker 1: and safety concerns. One of the contestants was twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: year old Jennifer Strange, who was a mother of three
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  Speaker 1: and she was trying to win this Wii for her kids. She,
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  Speaker 1: along with the others, after signing their waiver, were ushered
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  Speaker 1: into this room where they were handed eight ounce.
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  Speaker 2: Water bottles every fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 1: They would be expected to finish that water bottle and
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  Speaker 1: then refill it and do it every fifteen minutes, and
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  Speaker 1: if at any point they didn't completely finish their water
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  Speaker 1: bottle in time, or if they got.
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  Speaker 2: Up to use the bathroom, they would lose the contest.
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  Speaker 1: The contest started at six forty five am, and by
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  Speaker 1: eight am, after five bottles had been drank, a number
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  Speaker 1: of the contestants began pulling themselves out to use the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: But the radio staff felt like this contest was going
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  Speaker 1: to take a really long time, and so they gave
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  Speaker 1: the remaining contestants that included Jennifer, a larger bottle of
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  Speaker 1: water to drink from. Over the next several hours, all
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  Speaker 1: of the contestants except for Jennifer and one other had
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  Speaker 1: dropped out because it was just too painful they had
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  Speaker 1: to go to the bathroom. Jennifer was heard on air
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  Speaker 1: saying it hurt so much, and one of the hosts
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  Speaker 1: laughed and said, well, do you need to lay down?
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  Speaker 2: And then somebody piped up and said.
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  Speaker 1: She can't even walk, and so everybody just kind of
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  Speaker 1: laughed and did nothing about it. Around this time, a
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  Speaker 1: nurse called into the radio station and very emphatically said
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  Speaker 1: what they were doing this contest was a really bad idea.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna get someone killed from water intoxication. Water intoxication
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  Speaker 1: is also known as water poisoning, and in a nutshell,
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  Speaker 1: what happens is when you drink too much water, the
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  Speaker 1: water dilutes your bloodstream, It can cause swelling in your brain,
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  Speaker 1: and it can lead to coma and or death. The host,
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  Speaker 1: after hearing this concern, turned and yelled to the remaining contestants, hey,
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  Speaker 1: is anybody dying out there? And then the host just
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  Speaker 1: kind of laughed and hung up on the nurse. A
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  Speaker 1: little while later, you can hear one of the hosts
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  Speaker 1: on air comment on how Jennifer's belly looked really strange
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  Speaker 1: and it had become totally distended and bloated, and.
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  Speaker 2: They said it looked like she was pregnant.
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  Speaker 1: At some point, Jennifer and the other remaining contestant began vomiting,
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  Speaker 1: but instead of dropping out, they just continued.
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  Speaker 2: To drink more water and did not go to the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: But finally it became too much for Jennifer to bear,
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  Speaker 1: and she dropped out of the contest and she relieved
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  Speaker 1: herself for coming in second place, she received tickets to
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  Speaker 1: a Justin Timberlake concert. On her drive home, Jennifer began
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  Speaker 1: experiencing this horrific headache to the point where she was
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  Speaker 1: just sobbing uncontrollably through tears. She called one of her
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  Speaker 1: coworkers and said she just was not going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to come into work that day.
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  Speaker 2: Her head hurt too much, and so.
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  Speaker 1: After she hung up, her coworker she had just spoken
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  Speaker 1: to was really concerned about her and called Jennifer's mother
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  Speaker 1: to let her know what was going on. And about
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  Speaker 1: an hour later, Jennifer's mother headed over to Jennifer's house
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  Speaker 1: to check on her, and she found Jennifer dead in
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  Speaker 1: her bathroom from water poisoning. The station was ultimately sued
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  Speaker 1: by Jennifer's family and they were ordered to pay over
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  Speaker 1: sixteen million dollars in damages. In two thousand and five,
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  Speaker 1: fifty seven year old Stephen Slevin was a physically healthy man,
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  Speaker 1: but mentally he was struggling. He was depressed and felt
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  Speaker 1: like his life didn't have any purpose anymore, and so
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  Speaker 1: in August of that year, he decided to just.
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  Speaker 2: Go on a road trip.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't know where he was going, he just felt like,
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  Speaker 1: if I get out on the road and just go
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  Speaker 1: driving somewhere, I will feel better.
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  Speaker 2: And on this road.
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  Speaker 1: Trip, he eventually began drinking alcohol and before long he
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  Speaker 1: was swerving along the New Mexico Highway and a police
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  Speaker 1: officer saw his erratic driving and pulled him over. Once
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  Speaker 1: Stephen failed his sobriety test, the police officer arrested him.
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  Speaker 2: Stephen was brought to a local.
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  Speaker 1: Detention center, where during his booking process, it was discovered
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  Speaker 1: that he had a history of mental illness, and so
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  Speaker 1: the officers, following that county's policy, segregated him from the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the general population. In an effort to protect
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  Speaker 1: Stephen from himself, they moved him into a padded cell on.
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  Speaker 2: The first floor.
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  Speaker 1: They removed all of his clothing, and they put him
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  Speaker 1: in what's called a suicide smock, which looks like a
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  Speaker 1: big blanket wrapped around your upper body. And what it
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  Speaker 1: does is it keeps inmates warm and modest, but it
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  Speaker 1: also prevents them from bawling up their clothes and creating.
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  Speaker 2: A noose that could hurt themselves with.
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  Speaker 1: After a few days in this padded cell, Stephen was
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  Speaker 1: moved to another better cell that had a window, it
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  Speaker 1: had a shower, it had a toilet, and he was
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  Speaker 1: there for two weeks under strict medical observation. But at
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  Speaker 1: the end of those two weeks, for reasons that are
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  Speaker 1: not entirely clear, Stephen, this mentally unstable man, was moved
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  Speaker 1: into solitary confinement to await trial for his DWI. Solitary
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  Speaker 1: confinement is a type of imprisonment where the inmate is
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  Speaker 1: shifted into a single person cell and they are kept
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  Speaker 1: there nearly around the clock without any significant interaction with
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  Speaker 1: other people or other inmates. These psychological effects of solitary
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  Speaker 1: confinement are well documented and terrifying. Just fifteen days into
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  Speaker 1: solitary can be enough to cause permanent psychological damage. Stephen's
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  Speaker 1: first few weeks in solitary were actually okay. He was
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  Speaker 1: allowed to write to his family, he was able to
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  Speaker 1: detox and reflect on his life.
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  Speaker 2: During those first few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: It was noted that Stephen was very polite in his
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  Speaker 1: very limited interaction with the officers that were dropping food
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  Speaker 1: off through the slot in his door. Also, when Stephen
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  Speaker 1: had a few minor medical issues, instead of throwing a fit,
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  Speaker 1: he just knocked on the inside of his door and
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  Speaker 1: waited patiently for someone to acknowledge him, which took a
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  Speaker 1: long time, but he never got frustrated or mad. But
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  Speaker 1: by January of two thousand and six, so roughly three
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  Speaker 1: months into his solitary stint, Steve had not had any
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  Speaker 1: updates on when his case was going to go to trial,
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  Speaker 1: and Stephen was starting to lose his grip on reality.
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  Speaker 1: He was having these severe panic attacks and he was
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  Speaker 1: suffering from intense hallucinations. He desperately wanted to find out
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  Speaker 1: how much longer he was going to be kept in
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  Speaker 1: the cell.
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  Speaker 2: But nobody would tell him.
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  Speaker 1: He tried writing his letters to his family asking for
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  Speaker 1: help or asking them to try to get an update
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  Speaker 1: on his case, but when he went to literally write
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  Speaker 1: the letter, his hand shook so severely from the stress
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  Speaker 1: and anxiety that he literally couldn't write these letters. Starting
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  Speaker 1: that January, Stephen began spending the bulk of his day
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  Speaker 1: in the corner of his cell, with his knees tucked
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  Speaker 1: up to his chest, rocking back and forth. He was
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  Speaker 1: allowed out of a cell a few times a month,
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  Speaker 1: but in April of that year that stopped, and he
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  Speaker 1: almost never left his cell again, and without leaving his cell,
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  Speaker 1: Stephen was unable to bathe, and so his skin began
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  Speaker 1: developing fungus and began falling off, and his teeth began
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  Speaker 1: to rot. Finally, on May eighth, two thousand and seven,
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  Speaker 1: so one year and e eight months of being in
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  Speaker 1: solitary confinement, Steven was transferred out of his cell to
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  Speaker 1: a behavioral institute.
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  Speaker 2: In Las Vegas, Nevada.
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  Speaker 1: After bathing and shaving and cutting his hair and receiving
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  Speaker 1: proper medical treatment, he was back to his normal self
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  Speaker 1: within a couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: And while he was there, he.
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  Speaker 1: Had a chance to speak to a lawyer, and the
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  Speaker 1: lawyer would say the entire meeting, Stephen was just saying.
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  Speaker 2: Where have I been?
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  Speaker 1: And the lawyer said, you know, you've been in solitary
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  Speaker 1: confinement awaiting trial. You've been there for almost two years,
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  Speaker 1: And to that Stephen was shocked and literally didn't believe him.
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  Speaker 1: He actually couldn't remember that time in his life. It
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  Speaker 1: was like it had driven him crazy and he had
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  Speaker 1: completely repressed it from his memory. But when the lawyer
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  Speaker 1: told him about it, it began to come back into
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  Speaker 1: his mind and he begged the lawyer to not let
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  Speaker 1: them send him back to solitary confinement, and his lawyer said, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: if that's where they're going to keep you, that's where
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  Speaker 1: they're going to keep you until you have your trial
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  Speaker 1: for this DWI. And unfortunately, we have no idea when
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  Speaker 1: that trial's going to be, but stay strong because it's
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  Speaker 1: bound to be soon if they've already transferred you to
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  Speaker 1: this institute. Steven stayed at this institute for two weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and during that time he asked constantly about when his
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  Speaker 1: trial was going to happen, but nobody knew. And at
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  Speaker 1: the end of those two weeks, Stephen was abruptly taken
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  Speaker 1: out of his room, put in a van, driven back
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  Speaker 1: to New Mexico, and put back into his solitary confinement cell.
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  Speaker 1: And immediately Stephen began to deteriorate, and then he begged
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  Speaker 1: the guards to not put him in the cell, but
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  Speaker 1: nobody was listening, and before long the door had shut
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  Speaker 1: and he was all alone again. Within a couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: Stephen developed an absess in one of his teeth, and
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  Speaker 1: he tried to get medical attention, but he didn't get it,
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  Speaker 1: and so he sat in the corner of a cell
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  Speaker 1: and for eight hours one day he rocked back and
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  Speaker 1: forth and violently twisted and yanked and pulled on that
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  Speaker 1: tooth until he was able to rip it out of
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  Speaker 1: his head.
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  Speaker 2: Almost two months.
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  Speaker 1: Later, on June twenty second, two thousand and seven, Steven's
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  Speaker 1: case was finally put before a judge, and the judge
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  Speaker 1: dismissed all of the charges. It's believed the judge found
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  Speaker 1: out about this horrible mistreatment of Stephen and took pity
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  Speaker 1: on him, but we'll never know. Three days later, Stephen
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  Speaker 1: was released from jail and reunited with his family. He
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  Speaker 1: had been in solitary confinement for two years without so
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  Speaker 1: much as a hearing to tell him what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: He had essentially been forgotten about. He would go on
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  Speaker 1: to sue the county and win fifteen point five million
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  Speaker 1: dollars in damages. However, at the same time he's winning
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  Speaker 1: this case, he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and
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  Speaker 1: given less than a year to live.
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  Speaker 2: It's unclear if he is alive today. So that's going
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