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Speaker 1: Around seven to twenty pm on the evening of December eleventh,
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Speaker 1: two thousand and two, a police department in a rural
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Speaker 1: English county called Surrey started receiving all these frantic emergency calls. Now,
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Speaker 1: all of these calls were coming from drivers on a
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Speaker 1: heavily trafficked highway called the A three, and they all
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Speaker 1: were saying the same things. They had seen this totally
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Speaker 1: reckless driver with super bright headlights that was weaving in
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Speaker 1: and out of traffic and going at high speeds and
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Speaker 1: nearly crashing into people. And then a couple of the
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Speaker 1: callers said they actually saw this car go down the
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Speaker 1: embankment off the side of the highway, and so it
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Speaker 1: looked like they might have crashed. And so, of course
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Speaker 1: this police department, after getting all these calls, decided to
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Speaker 1: send out a couple of officers to see what was
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Speaker 1: going on. When the two officers got out to the
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Speaker 1: A three and began patrolling the area on the A
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Speaker 1: three where all these calls were saying they had seen
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Speaker 1: this reckless driver, they didn't see the driver, they didn't
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Speaker 1: see a wreck on the side of the road, they
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Speaker 1: didn't see any signs of an accident. I mean, there
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Speaker 1: was nothing there. Now, had only one person called in
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Speaker 1: about this wild reckless driver at this point, the officers
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Speaker 1: would have chalked this up to a mistake or even
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Speaker 1: a prank. But so many people called in about this
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Speaker 1: one particular reckless driver on THEA three that these two
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Speaker 1: officers decided to just keep on looking and really see
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Speaker 1: if they can figure out where this driver went. And
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Speaker 1: so to this point, the two police officers had been
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Speaker 1: just driving on the A three to try to find
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Speaker 1: this driver and so they decided they would park their vehicle,
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Speaker 1: get out and walk on foot on the edge of
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Speaker 1: the highway because there were these huge forests that lined
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Speaker 1: either side of the A three. In fact, Surrey, the
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Speaker 1: county in England where this was, was one of the
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Speaker 1: most heavily forested areas in all of England, and so
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Speaker 1: these forests on either side of the A three were
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Speaker 1: very dense. You could not see very far into them.
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Speaker 1: And so these officers were thinking that it might be
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Speaker 1: possible that this driver, if they were driving as recklessly
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Speaker 1: as all the callers made, it seem like they could
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Speaker 1: have veered off the highway, gone down the embankment, and
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Speaker 1: then because they were going at such a high speed,
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Speaker 1: they could have crashed their way into one of these
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Speaker 1: forests and basically disappeared from view from the road. That
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Speaker 1: in order to see this crash in the forest, you'd
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Speaker 1: have to be basically in the forest. And so these
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Speaker 1: two officers they pulled over, they got out, and they
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Speaker 1: began walking along the edge of the highway, staring into
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Speaker 1: the forest looking for a sign of a car wreck.
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Speaker 1: And then, sure enough, after walking for a while, one
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Speaker 1: of the officers spotted something deep in the woods that
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Speaker 1: looked almost metallic or plastic, whatever it was. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: supposed to be in the forest, and so the officers
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Speaker 1: made their way into the tree line and began walking
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Speaker 1: through all the trees, and as they got closer, they
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Speaker 1: realized very clearly there was a car. There was a
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Speaker 1: wreck in the forest, and so the two officers they
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Speaker 1: begin running towards the wreck. They're calling for back up
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Speaker 1: on the radio. They get to this wreck in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the forest and they're on the driver's side
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Speaker 1: and they look inside the car and there's no driver
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Speaker 1: in the driver's seat, but they looked through the car
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Speaker 1: to the passenger side and they saw the front passenger
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Speaker 1: door was wide open, and on the ground on the
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Speaker 1: other side of the car was very clearly a body.
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Speaker 1: And so the two police officers rushed around the car
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Speaker 1: to get a better look at the body. And when
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Speaker 1: they did, you know, they couldn't believe what they were saying.
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Speaker 1: It didn't make any sense, like what was this. Now.
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Speaker 1: To understand why these police officers were so caught off
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Speaker 1: guard by what they were seeing, we need to go
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Speaker 1: back five months to July sixteenth, two thousand and two.
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Speaker 1: On that night, a twenty one year old man named
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Speaker 1: Christopher Brian Chandler finished up his beer in a pub
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Speaker 1: in West London, and for reference, where this pub was
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Speaker 1: located was about one hour north of that stretch of
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Speaker 1: the A three highway in Surrey where the car was
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Speaker 1: found in the woods. This night, Christopher had gone to
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Speaker 1: this pub with a close friend of his. This was
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Speaker 1: meant to be a fun night out. But you know,
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Speaker 1: as Chris is finishing up this bier, he began to
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Speaker 1: feel really antsy because it turned out Christopher was actually
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Speaker 1: wanted by police in London for robbery, and so he
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Speaker 1: hated staying in one place for too long. And so
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Speaker 1: the only people who even knew where Christopher was was
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Speaker 1: the friend he was with at the bar, and then
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Speaker 1: also Christopher's brother, he knew he was at this particular pub,
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Speaker 1: and so finally Christopher got so anxious about being in
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Speaker 1: this pub for too long that he took the friend
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Speaker 1: he was with that he just wanted to leave, and
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Speaker 1: so he said good night to his friend. The friends
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Speaker 1: stayed at the pub and Christopher left, got in his
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Speaker 1: car and began driving himself. But Christopher never arrived at
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Speaker 1: the place he was trying to go. He just sort
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Speaker 1: of disappeared and nobody heard from him again. Christopher's brother
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Speaker 1: eventually would report Christopher missing, but remember the brother knows
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Speaker 1: Christopher is wanted for robbery, and so Christopher suddenly going
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Speaker 1: on the lamb and just disappearing for a while was
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Speaker 1: kind of par for the course, and so the brother
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Speaker 1: really didn't think this was a big deal. And also
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Speaker 1: the police felt the same way because they know Christopher
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Speaker 1: is trying to elude them and so it makes sense
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Speaker 1: he would be missing. And so as a result, nobody
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Speaker 1: really followed up on Christopher's missing person report. Everybody just
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Speaker 1: kind of moved on. That is until five months later
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Speaker 1: when all those drivers began calling into the police in
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Speaker 1: Surrey about seeing this totally reckless driver careening down the
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Speaker 1: A three who eventually crashed into a ditch. And then
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Speaker 1: those two officers they went out to that stretch of
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Speaker 1: A three and sure enough, it was Christopher's car and
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Speaker 1: the body on the ground was Christopher. However, there was
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Speaker 1: a problem. When the two police officers walked up on
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Speaker 1: Christopher's car and sought for the first time, they were
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Speaker 1: struck by how old it looked, but it didn't really
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Speaker 1: register with them why that would matter. It just stood
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Speaker 1: out to them that this is a really, really old
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Speaker 1: and rusted up car. But when they went around to
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Speaker 1: look at the body on the ground, Christopher's body, they
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Speaker 1: saw that his body was actually mostly a skeleton, which
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Speaker 1: meant Christopher did not crash and die on this night
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Speaker 1: December eleventh, two thousand and two. Very likely he crashed
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Speaker 1: and died five months earlier, right around the time he disappeared. Now,
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Speaker 1: the Surrey police, they say that this was all just
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Speaker 1: one big coincidence that the reckless driver that all these
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Speaker 1: drivers were reporting that night on the A three must
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Speaker 1: have not crashed and actually just kind of got away.
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Speaker 1: And then just by coincidence, when the police were searching
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Speaker 1: that area of the A three for the reckless driver,
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Speaker 1: they happened upon Chris and his car. But remember several
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Speaker 1: of the drivers who called in that night about seeing
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Speaker 1: this reckless driver on the A three. They specifically said
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Speaker 1: they saw the car veer off the embankment and crash
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Speaker 1: down below near the tree line, like this is a
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Speaker 1: serious crash. Someone needs to get out here with an
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Speaker 1: ambulance because probably someone's hurt. And then when the police
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Speaker 1: got out and searched the exact area where this crash
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Speaker 1: supposedly happened. They find Chris's car that had all the
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Speaker 1: hallmarks of a car that was driving recklessly on the
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Speaker 1: A three that veered off and crashed into the woods.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they found Chris and his car because of
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Speaker 1: these calls, but it could not have been Chris. But
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Speaker 1: what other car could it have been? As of today,
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Speaker 1: we do not have a good explanation for how this happened,
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Speaker 1: not even funny. On the morning of August second, twenty seventeen,
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Speaker 1: two men sat together laughing inside of a bar in
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Speaker 1: a tiny village in northern France. The men were named
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Speaker 1: Lucian Pirot and Olivier Boudin, and even though there was
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Speaker 1: a massive age difference between them Lucian was sixty nine
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Speaker 1: years old and Olivier was thirty eight years old, the
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Speaker 1: two were totally inseparable, to the point where the people
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Speaker 1: in the village referred to them as father and son.
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Speaker 1: Lucian had spent his whole life working in manufacturing in
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Speaker 1: a nearby city, but just four years earlier he had
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Speaker 1: finally retired and he had moved into a small home
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Speaker 1: inside of this northern French village. But when he had
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Speaker 1: first moved into this new home, he had been very
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Speaker 1: lonely and sad. You know, Lucian was divorced, he struggled
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Speaker 1: with alcohol, and he had had a really tough life
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Speaker 1: and he just wasn't doing well. But when he met Olivier,
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Speaker 1: his whole life turned around. When the two met, Olivier
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Speaker 1: also was kind of like a down on his luck guy.
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Speaker 1: He was struggling with some health issues that made it
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Speaker 1: hard to work, and so for years he had been
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Speaker 1: bouncing between the nearby city and this village in northern
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Speaker 1: France looking for work, somewhat unsuccessfully. And so when these
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Speaker 1: two happened to connect, it's like they bonded over having
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Speaker 1: kind of difficult lives, and for Lucian, what really mattered
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Speaker 1: to him was Olivier, despite being so much younger than him,
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Speaker 1: did not treat him, did not treat Lucian like he
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Speaker 1: was this dried up, worthless old man. He treated Lucian like.
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Speaker 1: And so together these two very unlikely best friends began
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Speaker 1: kind of orchestrating their lives around the other. And before
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Speaker 1: long it was like their lives had all this new
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Speaker 1: structure and routine and meaning to them, because again, the
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Speaker 1: two men got to be together basically all day long.
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Speaker 1: So on this particular morning, as Olivier and Lucian were
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Speaker 1: together at this bar, they began talking about what they
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Speaker 1: wanted to do that night, and they settled on having
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Speaker 1: a barbecue at Lucian's house. Lucian would cook up some
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Speaker 1: beef and they would sit out on his back garden
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Speaker 1: patio and just spend the night together. It sounded like
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Speaker 1: a wonderful plan, and in fact, the bartender would say
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Speaker 1: that when Olivier and Lucian finally left the bar that day,
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Speaker 1: that he recalled overhearing them being so excited about this
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Speaker 1: particular barbecue, and so that evening Olivier and Lucian arrived
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Speaker 1: at Lucian's house, and they went out to the back patio,
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Speaker 1: where Lucian had already draped a nice tablecloth over this
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Speaker 1: small round table. It was a red and white checkered
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Speaker 1: patterned tablecloth, and on this table was an open bottle
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Speaker 1: of wine, some cheese, and a baguette, and so Olivier
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Speaker 1: he sat down and began enjoying some wine and bread,
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Speaker 1: and Lucian walked over to the grill and began cooking
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Speaker 1: out the beef. Lucian had a neighbor. We're gonna call
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Speaker 1: her Marie because we don't actually know her real name,
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Speaker 1: and Marie's second floor window overlooked Lucian's garden patio where
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Speaker 1: the two men were having this cookout. And so that
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Speaker 1: night Marie did glance out and saw the two men
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Speaker 1: kind of listening to music and goofing around. And she
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Speaker 1: was used to them spending lots of time together, and
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Speaker 1: she was also used to them staying up late at night,
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Speaker 1: and so she figured, you know, tonight's going to be
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Speaker 1: another one of those nights where these guys are up late,
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Speaker 1: having wine, celebrating whatever. You know, she was just gonna
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Speaker 1: shut the window and try to ignore the noise coming
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Speaker 1: in and just let them do their thing. And so
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Speaker 1: eventually Marie would do that. She would go to bed
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Speaker 1: to the sound of music coming from next door and
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Speaker 1: the sound of men talking. And then the next morning,
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Speaker 1: when Marie got up around six am, she looked out
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Speaker 1: that window again and frankly, was not that shocked at
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Speaker 1: what she saw. Lucian was still just sitting at the table,
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Speaker 1: looking like he could be eating some bread or still
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Speaker 1: drinking wine, and Olivier had clearly passed out on the ground.
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Speaker 1: Now Marie didn't judge. She knew these two liked to
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Speaker 1: stay up late and drink and do stuff like this,
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Speaker 1: and so she thought, you know what, none of my business. Then,
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Speaker 1: at nine am, so three hours after Marie had first
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Speaker 1: woken up, she left her house to go to another
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Speaker 1: neighbor's house to feed their chickens while they were away
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Speaker 1: for the day. As she passed by Lucian's house, she
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Speaker 1: glanced into his backgarden patio and she saw Lucian was
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Speaker 1: still just sitting at the table and Olivier was still
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Speaker 1: passed out on the ground. It was like they hadn't
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Speaker 1: moved for three hours. But again Marie's thinking, none of
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Speaker 1: my business, and so she just kept on going, went
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Speaker 1: to her neighbor's house and fed the chickens. But when
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Speaker 1: Marie came back to her house three hours later, around noon,
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Speaker 1: she looked again into Lucian's backyard and she saw the
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Speaker 1: two men still had not moved. Lucian is sitting at
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Speaker 1: the table and Olivier is laying on the ground. And
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Speaker 1: suddenly Marie's thinking, wait a minute. You know, the sun
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Speaker 1: is high in the sky right now. These guys aren't moving.
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Speaker 1: They're going to get heatstroke. You know, we got to
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Speaker 1: do something about this, And so she yelled out to
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Speaker 1: Olivier and Lucian, but she got no response, and so
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Speaker 1: Marie just walked into Lucian's backyard, and as she got
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Speaker 1: closer and closer to the two men, she realized that
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Speaker 1: they were not moving at all, like they were not breathing.
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Speaker 1: Something was horribly wrong here, and so Marie she just
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Speaker 1: turned and ran to another neighbor's house. She told them
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Speaker 1: what was going on, and they got these big pots
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Speaker 1: of water and they ran back and doused Olivier and
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Speaker 1: Lootionian with water, trying to get them to snap out
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Speaker 1: of their drunken stupor, but the two men did not
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Speaker 1: move at all when the water hit them. Clearly they
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Speaker 1: were dead. The next day, the local prosecutor announced there
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Speaker 1: was going to be an investigation into the two men's deaths,
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Speaker 1: which were being classified as criminal acts, and the prosecutor
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Speaker 1: also said that it seemed like Lucian and Olivier died
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Speaker 1: at the same time and so most likely this was
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Speaker 1: either a double homicide or a murder suicide. And the
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Speaker 1: primary theory as to what killed the two men was
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Speaker 1: poison put in their food, and so police sent off
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Speaker 1: the canned beans the two men were eating to this
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Speaker 1: institution in Paris to test it for something called botulism,
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Speaker 1: which is a deadly toxin that will grow inside of
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Speaker 1: canned foods, but it came back negative. And then also
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Speaker 1: police sent off the rest of the food the two
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Speaker 1: men were eating to various other laboratories to be tested
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Speaker 1: for poisons, and again all of it came back negative.
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Speaker 1: There was nothing that the police could detect in any
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Speaker 1: of the food they ate, and so police were kind
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Speaker 1: of confused for a minute, but then the autopsies came
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Speaker 1: back for Olivier and Lucian and everything changed. Lucian and
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Speaker 1: Olivier were not murdered. This was not a murder suicide.
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Speaker 1: They didn't die from botulism or from some poison in
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Speaker 1: their food. They died because of a set of very
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Speaker 1: particular circumstances. Both Lucian and Olivier suffered from non fatal
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Speaker 1: minor medical issues. Lucian had bad dental health health and
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Speaker 1: so was missing a couple of teeth, and Olivier was
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Speaker 1: suffering from a heart condition called cardiomegaly, which means his
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Speaker 1: heart was slightly enlarged and somewhat fragile. However, his condition
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Speaker 1: was totally being monitored by doctors and was under control.
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Speaker 1: But just for a second. On the night of August second,
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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, when Lucian and Olivier were having that cookout
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Speaker 1: in Lucian's backyard, their non fatal minor medical issues suddenly
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Speaker 1: became a really, really big deal. Lucian cooked up a
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Speaker 1: big plate of beef rib. Now, beef rib can be
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Speaker 1: difficult to chew, even when you have all your teeth
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Speaker 1: and take your time, but Lucian was missing teeth, and
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Speaker 1: he loved this beef rib so much he was wolfing
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Speaker 1: it down really quickly, and so he wasn't chewing it enough,
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Speaker 1: and at some point he swallowed a particularly big unchewed
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Speaker 1: bite and he began to choke. And when that happened,
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Speaker 1: his best buddy Olivier, sitting across from him, he stood
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Speaker 1: up to try to help his friend, who basically dying
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Speaker 1: right in front of him, and the stress of this
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Speaker 1: moment caused his heart to seize up, his heart which
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Speaker 1: is already enlarged and fragile, and he had a heart
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Speaker 1: attack and died. And then Lucian, who now has no
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Speaker 1: one to help him, continued to sit at the table
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Speaker 1: trying to get this beef out of his throat, but
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Speaker 1: he couldn't, and he eventually asphyxiated and died as well,
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Speaker 1: hunched over at the table. A little after seven a m.
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Speaker 1: On the morning of April fifteenth, two thousand and seven,
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Speaker 1: three men launched a thirty five foot white catamaran called
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Speaker 1: the cas TiO from a marina in northeastern Australia, kicking
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Speaker 1: off what was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime.
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Speaker 1: The captain of the cas TiO was fifty six year
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Speaker 1: old des Batten, and for months he had been training
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Speaker 1: for this trip and the two friends that Dez was
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Speaker 1: bringing with him on this trip, or Jim Tunstead who
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Speaker 1: was sixty three years old, and Jim's brother, Peter Tunstead,
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Speaker 1: who was sixty nine years old. All three of the
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Speaker 1: men had spent a lot of time plotting their actual
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Speaker 1: course they'd be going on, which was from this marina
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Speaker 1: on the northeastern side of Australia, up and around the
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Speaker 1: north side and then down the western coast to Perth,
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Speaker 1: which was their final destination and where all three men lived.
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Speaker 1: In total, this trip was supposed to take eight weeks,
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Speaker 1: and all three men were absolutely giddy with excitement at
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Speaker 1: the prospect of spending an entire two months basically just
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Speaker 1: drinking beers and fishing. Now, des Jim and Peter were
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Speaker 1: not the types to blow off responsibility to go party.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they were devoted family men. All of them
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Speaker 1: had been married for thirty plus years. Dez had two kids,
18:46
Speaker 1: Jim had four kids, and Peter had five kids. But
18:49
Speaker 1: they were all either retired or nearing retirement, and this
18:53
Speaker 1: trip was going to be kind of a way to
18:55
Speaker 1: celebrate the end of an era. And while all three
18:58
Speaker 1: of them had gone on other big sailing trips, this
19:01
Speaker 1: one easily was the biggest one in terms of the
19:04
Speaker 1: distance they were covering and how much prep went into it,
19:07
Speaker 1: and how expensive it was. I mean, this was like
19:10
Speaker 1: ten x the scope and scale of any other sailing
19:13
Speaker 1: trip they had done. And so on April fifteenth, two
19:16
Speaker 1: thousand and seven, shortly after the three men had launched
19:19
Speaker 1: their boat and kicked off this big trip, Peter's wife
19:23
Speaker 1: would call him just to see how it was going.
19:25
Speaker 1: And she would say, you know, Peter was in great spirits,
19:27
Speaker 1: and she could hear the other two men laughing in
19:29
Speaker 1: the background, and it sounded like they were about to
19:32
Speaker 1: start fishing and maybe have a couple of beers. And
19:34
Speaker 1: so it seemed very much to Peter's wife like this
19:38
Speaker 1: trip was going as well as it could be so far.
19:41
Speaker 1: And so eventually Peter told his wife that he had
19:43
Speaker 1: to go. He told her he loved her, and then
19:45
Speaker 1: they hung up. Now, des who was the captain of
19:48
Speaker 1: the CAS two, was adamant about safety being the top
19:52
Speaker 1: concern for this trip, even though all three men were
19:56
Speaker 1: relatively healthy and had a lot of sailing experience, and
19:59
Speaker 1: even though Dez was a member of a volunteer marine
20:02
Speaker 1: rescue group and so literally could be called on to
20:05
Speaker 1: go perform rescues at sea. Despite all this experience and
20:08
Speaker 1: know how, before they kicked off this trip, Dez made
20:12
Speaker 1: Jim and Peter go through all these man overboard drills
20:16
Speaker 1: on the cas too, to make sure they knew how
20:18
Speaker 1: to do it if for some reason an emergency arose
20:21
Speaker 1: out at sea. And so the men got really comfortable
20:24
Speaker 1: using all the life saving equipment and going over all
20:26
Speaker 1: the procedures. And then also when they charted their course,
20:30
Speaker 1: Dez stressed that at no point should they be sailing
20:33
Speaker 1: into open water. They needed to stay close to shore
20:36
Speaker 1: the whole time, just because it was safer. And so
20:39
Speaker 1: when Jim began filming a video around ten am on
20:42
Speaker 1: the day they set sail for this trip, you can
20:45
Speaker 1: clearly see the shore in the background of this video,
20:48
Speaker 1: so they're following the course they had planned. But a
20:50
Speaker 1: couple of hours after Jim had shot that video, on
20:53
Speaker 1: the day they left, a woman named Isabelle Wheeler who
20:57
Speaker 1: did not know Dez, Jim or Peter and had never
20:59
Speaker 1: seen the cat before. She was fishing in an area
21:02
Speaker 1: called Champagne Bay. When she looked out into the water
21:06
Speaker 1: and she saw the Cas Too, a white thirty five
21:08
Speaker 1: foot catamaran, sailing east to west across the horizon. And
21:12
Speaker 1: then at some point, as isabel was watching this boat,
21:15
Speaker 1: which really meant nothing to her, she just happened to
21:17
Speaker 1: be watching it, she saw it make a quick ninety
21:20
Speaker 1: degree turn and began sailing out towards the open ocean,
21:23
Speaker 1: away from the coastline. Now, remember, Isabelle knows nothing of
21:27
Speaker 1: this boat or its occupants, and so has no idea
21:31
Speaker 1: that dez Peter and Jim had been so clear about
21:34
Speaker 1: at no point will we sail into the open ocean.
21:37
Speaker 1: It's too dangerous, stay close to shore. She didn't know that,
21:40
Speaker 1: and so she just saw a ship turning and sailing
21:42
Speaker 1: out to the open water, and she thought, okay, whatever
21:45
Speaker 1: you know. So she didn't go and report what she saw.
21:48
Speaker 1: It was only later on when details emerged about what
21:52
Speaker 1: happened on the Cas Too, that she would later come
21:55
Speaker 1: forward and say, hey, I saw that boat and this
21:57
Speaker 1: is what they did. The next day, April sixteen, two
22:00
Speaker 1: more people would spot the Cas two. These were two
22:04
Speaker 1: men who also did not know des Peter Jim. They
22:07
Speaker 1: didn't know Cas two, They didn't know Isabel In fact,
22:10
Speaker 1: these two men didn't know each other, but independently on
22:13
Speaker 1: this day they looked out near Champagne Bay and they
22:16
Speaker 1: saw the Cas Too sailing east to west in the
22:20
Speaker 1: exact same spot that isabel had seen it the day before. Now,
22:24
Speaker 1: remember the cas TiO was traveling from that marina on
22:28
Speaker 1: the northeast side of Australia all the way around to Perth.
22:31
Speaker 1: It was a point A to point B trip. There
22:34
Speaker 1: was no reason the cas two would ever double back
22:37
Speaker 1: and be in the same place twenty four hours later.
22:40
Speaker 1: But here we were twenty four hours later, and two
22:43
Speaker 1: more people are seeing the Cas Ti in the same
22:46
Speaker 1: place that isabel had seen it, and so that made
22:49
Speaker 1: no sense. But again, these two men who saw the
22:52
Speaker 1: Cas Ti, they just saw it and thought nothing of
22:55
Speaker 1: it because they don't know anything about this boat. It
22:57
Speaker 1: wasn't until later that they eventually came forward with what
23:00
Speaker 1: they saw. Then one more day after that, on April seventeenth,
23:04
Speaker 1: there were these fishermen that were out in their boats
23:07
Speaker 1: a little farther north of Champagne Bay where Isabelle and
23:10
Speaker 1: the two other men had seen the Castwo on consecutive days.
23:14
Speaker 1: And these fishermen they spotted the Casto. And again, these
23:17
Speaker 1: fishermen do not know the cas Too, they don't know
23:20
Speaker 1: its occupants. They're just seeing the ship. Except this time
23:24
Speaker 1: the fishermen when they saw the cast they thought something
23:27
Speaker 1: was wrong because they saw the cast Too from a distance,
23:30
Speaker 1: navigating its way fairly close to shore in an area
23:33
Speaker 1: that these fishermen knew was full of coral reefs. It's
23:37
Speaker 1: a very dangerous area to be piloting any ship. In addition,
23:41
Speaker 1: the sale of the Casto was totally ripped to shreds,
23:45
Speaker 1: and so the fishermen they're looking at the ship wondering
23:47
Speaker 1: what they're doing. But the pilot of the ship looked
23:51
Speaker 1: so in control as he's navigating his way through the
23:54
Speaker 1: coral reefs that the fishermen thought, Okay, he knows what
23:57
Speaker 1: he's doing, so, you know, leave him alone. But again,
24:00
Speaker 1: later on they would report what they saw. It wasn't
24:03
Speaker 1: until the next day, April eighteenth, so three days after
24:07
Speaker 1: Dez Peter and Jim had set sail, that anybody realized
24:10
Speaker 1: there was an issue with the crew of the cas Too.
24:13
Speaker 1: Because on April eighteenth, a Coastwatch surveillance helicopter was flying
24:18
Speaker 1: over the Great barrier reef, and they looked down and
24:21
Speaker 1: they saw the CAS two with its badly damaged sails,
24:24
Speaker 1: piloting all around this very dangerous part of the water
24:27
Speaker 1: to be piloting. And so the crew on board the
24:29
Speaker 1: helicopter attempted to radio down to the CAS two to
24:33
Speaker 1: see if they were okay, but no one from the
24:35
Speaker 1: CAS two called back to the helicopter, and so as
24:38
Speaker 1: they're waiting for a response from the CAS two, the
24:41
Speaker 1: helicopter crew is watching the pilot of the CAS two clearly,
24:46
Speaker 1: you know, navigating the boat in between coral reefs, and
24:49
Speaker 1: it seemed like, you know, despite the damage to the sales,
24:53
Speaker 1: he knew what he was doing. And so to the
24:54
Speaker 1: crew on the helicopter, this didn't really look like an emergency,
24:58
Speaker 1: but it seemed like something worth flagging. And so they
25:00
Speaker 1: called the marine police and said, hey, we have the
25:03
Speaker 1: ship here that's not responding. We think they're okay, but
25:05
Speaker 1: you might want to come take a look. And so
25:07
Speaker 1: the marine police they would come out to the area
25:09
Speaker 1: where the helicopter had said they had seen the CAS two,
25:12
Speaker 1: and when they got there, the Cast two was gone.
25:15
Speaker 1: At this point, the marine police got some information about
25:18
Speaker 1: the boat CAS two and discovered who owned the boat
25:21
Speaker 1: and who was on this trip, so it des Peter
25:23
Speaker 1: and Jim, and the police would get in touch with
25:26
Speaker 1: all of their families and they would all tell police
25:29
Speaker 1: that besides Peter's wife, who talked to Peter on that
25:32
Speaker 1: morning they left, no one had heard from any of
25:35
Speaker 1: the men. They had gone totally silent since that first day.
25:38
Speaker 1: And so when police heard this, they knew this had
25:40
Speaker 1: to be some kind of emergency, and so a search
25:43
Speaker 1: was launched to find the Cas Too and forty eight
25:46
Speaker 1: hours later, a rescue helicopter that was part of the
25:49
Speaker 1: search was about eighty or so miles off the northeastern
25:52
Speaker 1: coast of Australia when they looked down and they spotted
25:55
Speaker 1: the Cas Too and it still had all torn up
25:58
Speaker 1: sales and it was kind of spinning listlessly in the water.
26:01
Speaker 1: And from the helicopter they couldn't see anybody on board
26:04
Speaker 1: the ship. It was totally vacant on the deck. Now
26:07
Speaker 1: at this point, authorities really have no idea what's going
26:10
Speaker 1: on with this boat or its occupants. It was possible
26:13
Speaker 1: that maybe they had been hijacked, and so Dez, Peter
26:16
Speaker 1: and Jim could be held hostage down below along with
26:19
Speaker 1: the people that took them hostage, or maybe the boat
26:21
Speaker 1: just got stolen and Dez, Peter and Jim are not
26:24
Speaker 1: on this boat, and that it's just the criminals on board,
26:27
Speaker 1: and again they're down below hidden from view, you know,
26:29
Speaker 1: so authorities they don't know, but they decided to take
26:33
Speaker 1: a risk and just send somebody down to get on
26:35
Speaker 1: that boat and just see what was going on. So
26:38
Speaker 1: a rescue officer on board the rescue helicopter named Corey
26:42
Speaker 1: Benson was lowered by a rope where he was dropped
26:45
Speaker 1: into the water and then Corey swam by himself over
26:48
Speaker 1: to the cast too, and he climbed up the side
26:50
Speaker 1: of the boat and he stepped onto the deck and
26:52
Speaker 1: right away he noticed it was kind of like eerily
26:55
Speaker 1: quiet on board the boat. There was nobody he could see,
26:59
Speaker 1: and there was no sign any disturbance minus the sails
27:02
Speaker 1: of the ship being all tattered. And for a second,
27:05
Speaker 1: Corey thought about maybe calling out for Daz, Peter and
27:08
Speaker 1: Jim to see if they were down below and could
27:10
Speaker 1: come up and solve this mystery. But then he also
27:12
Speaker 1: worried that if he called out there could be some
27:14
Speaker 1: bad people on board this boat, and he didn't want
27:17
Speaker 1: to draw their attention, and so Corey was quiet and
27:20
Speaker 1: just began walking towards the front of the boat. And
27:22
Speaker 1: as he did, he began to notice signs that people
27:25
Speaker 1: must have recently been on board this boat doing normal
27:29
Speaker 1: things like, for example, there was a fishing rod that
27:32
Speaker 1: was cast out into the water that was anchored to
27:35
Speaker 1: a post on the side of the boat that looked
27:37
Speaker 1: like it had just been operated minutes ago. There was
27:39
Speaker 1: a blue mug of coffee that was just sitting on
27:41
Speaker 1: a table that looked like maybe someone had been drinking
27:44
Speaker 1: from it recently. There was a neatly folded T shirt
27:47
Speaker 1: on another chair with a set of glasses on them.
27:50
Speaker 1: I mean, there was just all these kind of tells
27:52
Speaker 1: that this was a boat that was being used recently.
27:56
Speaker 1: And when Corey actually got to the front of the
27:58
Speaker 1: boat where the captain stand, he saw the engine was
28:01
Speaker 1: actually still on. It was idling, and so Corey turned
28:04
Speaker 1: it off. Now, at this point, Corey knew his next
28:07
Speaker 1: step was going down the stairs and opening up the
28:10
Speaker 1: door that led into the cabin down below to see
28:13
Speaker 1: if Dez, Peter and Jim were down there. But he
28:16
Speaker 1: also knew when he went down there, despite their being
28:19
Speaker 1: back up up in the helicopter and more people making
28:22
Speaker 1: their way out here, Corey would be all alone if
28:24
Speaker 1: there were criminals or bad people down there. But this
28:28
Speaker 1: was his job, and so after taking a deep breath,
28:30
Speaker 1: he turned and walked down the few steps and he
28:33
Speaker 1: got to the door that led to the cabin. He
28:35
Speaker 1: grabbed the handle and he opened it up, and the
28:37
Speaker 1: room he was walking into was kind of like a
28:39
Speaker 1: half living room, half kitchen area, and he saw there
28:42
Speaker 1: was this table, and on it was a newspaper that
28:45
Speaker 1: was dated April fifteenth, so the day the cabs set sail,
28:49
Speaker 1: And then on the wall behind the newspaper was a
28:51
Speaker 1: calendar where days had been marked off all the way
28:54
Speaker 1: through April fourteenth. April fifteenth was not marked off. But
28:58
Speaker 1: also nearby on a table was a computer that was
29:01
Speaker 1: still plugged in and on and looked very much like
29:05
Speaker 1: someone had just been using it. And also there were
29:07
Speaker 1: plates of food that were out that didn't look that
29:09
Speaker 1: old that also seemed like people must have just been
29:12
Speaker 1: eating from them. And then also Corey could see past
29:15
Speaker 1: this common area into the bedroom and very obviously the
29:18
Speaker 1: bunks inside it there had been slept in, and so
29:22
Speaker 1: basically everything seemed like it was where it should be.
29:25
Speaker 1: There was just one problem. Des Peter and Jim were
29:29
Speaker 1: not on this ship. There was no sign of where
29:31
Speaker 1: they were. They were just gone and there was nobody
29:34
Speaker 1: else on board the ship. It was just completely abandoned
29:38
Speaker 1: with no sign of what happened. Des Jim and Peter
29:41
Speaker 1: were never found, and so we have no idea what
29:45
Speaker 1: actually happened to them, nor do we have any idea
29:48
Speaker 1: why they were seen by Isabelle and the two men
29:50
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29:54
Speaker 1: piloting out towards open water, which totally went against their plan,
29:58
Speaker 1: which was stay close to shit or be safe, or
30:01
Speaker 1: you know why on that second day they were seen
30:03
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30:07
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30:10
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30:13
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30:16
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30:19
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