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Top 3 stories that sound fake but are 100% real Part 12 (MATURE AUDIENCES) · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today we're
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  Speaker 1: going to look at three stories that demonstrate that. But
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. In May of twenty eleven,
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven year old Michelina Lwandowska was surprised when she
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  Speaker 1: got a text message from her on again, off again boyfriend,
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven year old Marchene Casperzak.
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  Speaker 2: The pair had actually.
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  Speaker 1: Previously been engaged and had a three year old son together,
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  Speaker 1: but they just could never seem to make it work
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  Speaker 1: for longer than a couple of months at a time.
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  Speaker 1: In the text message, Marchene was asking Michelina if he
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  Speaker 1: could take her shopping, something he knew she liked to do.
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  Speaker 1: As for Mickeleina, lately, she had been turning down requests
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  Speaker 1: like this one from Marchen, and she was inclined to
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  Speaker 1: at first, but their son was already being looked after
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  Speaker 1: by her mother, and Mickellina didn't have plans that day,
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  Speaker 1: and so she thought, you know what, what the heck,
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  Speaker 1: and so she said yes. So Mickelina took a shower
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  Speaker 1: and got ready and even put on her engagement ring
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  Speaker 1: that Marchene had given her, and then she waited by
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  Speaker 1: the door. A little while later, Marten, who was an
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  Speaker 1: aspiring bodybuilder who had become addicted to taking steroids, showed
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  Speaker 1: up at her Huddersfield, England home. Mickelina opened the door,
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  Speaker 1: Marchen came inside and then as soon as the door
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  Speaker 1: shut behind him, he tased Mckellina.
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  Speaker 2: He jumped on top of.
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  Speaker 1: Her and then he bound and gagged her, and then
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  Speaker 1: once she was restrained on the ground. With no idea
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  Speaker 1: what was going on, Martene opened the front door and
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  Speaker 1: waved down to his car that was parked on the curb,
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  Speaker 1: and one of his friends this eighteen year old named
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  Speaker 1: Patrick came out and walked up to the house and
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  Speaker 1: came inside, and then Patrick and Marshen worked together to
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  Speaker 1: cram Mickelina into this small, rugged cardboard box and then
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  Speaker 1: once she was forced inside of there, they closed it up,
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  Speaker 1: taped it shut, and then brought the box down to
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  Speaker 1: the front of the house and put it into Marchene's trunk,
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  Speaker 1: and then Marcheen and Patrick hopped in the front two
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  Speaker 1: seats of the car and drove off. Once they reached
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  Speaker 1: the outskirts of town, they parked in a parking lot
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  Speaker 1: right next to this huge forest and from there they
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  Speaker 1: took the box with Mickelina inside of it and two
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  Speaker 1: shovels and walked into the woods and at some point
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  Speaker 1: they left the path and walked way away from where
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  Speaker 1: anybody would normally be until they felt like they were
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  Speaker 1: far enough away that no one would see them. And
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  Speaker 1: at that point they put Mickellina down, and then, using
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  Speaker 1: their shovels, they dug a grave. Once it was deep enough,
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  Speaker 1: they put Mickellina in her box inside of the grave,
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  Speaker 1: and then they covered her back up with dirt and
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  Speaker 1: then put a ninety pound log on top of her.
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  Speaker 1: And then the two of them just walked away, leaving
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  Speaker 1: mckellena to die in the box. Mikel was not dead yet,
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  Speaker 1: but she knew if she attempted to escape with Marten
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  Speaker 1: and Patrick right above her, they would just kill her
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  Speaker 1: on the spot, or they would dig an even deeper hole,
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  Speaker 1: and then it would be impossible to get out again.
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  Speaker 1: And so, after waiting an agonizingly long amount of time
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  Speaker 1: to ensure Marchene and Patrick had gone, Nikoline had jumped
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  Speaker 1: into action. She immediately tried to wriggle her way out
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  Speaker 1: of her restraints, but the position they had forced her into,
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  Speaker 1: which was basically the fetal position with her hands tied
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  Speaker 1: behind her back, it didn't allow her to move very
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  Speaker 1: much in any one direction, and so without any movement,
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  Speaker 1: she could not get herself to come free of these restraints.
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  Speaker 1: And so as she's struggling trying to figure out what
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  Speaker 1: she's going to do, she realizes she had chosen to
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  Speaker 1: wear her engagement ring that Marchene had given her, something
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  Speaker 1: she never wore anymore, and she could potentially use the
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  Speaker 1: diamonds in the ring to cut through the tape that
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  Speaker 1: was keeping her wrists tied together, and so she began
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  Speaker 1: working that ring until finally she did cut through her
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  Speaker 1: restraints and her hands were free, and so she managed
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  Speaker 1: to force both her arms right in front of her body,
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  Speaker 1: and then once they were in front of her, she
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  Speaker 1: immediately begins scratching and clawing at the cardboard right above her,
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  Speaker 1: and eventually she scratched a hole in the box itself,
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  Speaker 1: and dirt began pouring in on her, and she was
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  Speaker 1: already very low on oxygen. She was fighting off unconsciousness
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  Speaker 1: by remembering that her three year old son needed her,
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  Speaker 1: and she had no idea what Marchine was going to
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  Speaker 1: do to him, and so she just kept on digging
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  Speaker 1: and fighting as the dirt's coming in on her and
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  Speaker 1: she's struggling to breathe, and then finally she pokes all
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  Speaker 1: the way through and she can see sunlight and fresh
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  Speaker 1: air comes into the hole. She can breathe again, and
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  Speaker 1: then with this huge surge of adrenaline, she forces herself
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  Speaker 1: and manages to push all the way up through this
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  Speaker 1: hole until she's standing in her grave, and from there
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  Speaker 1: she pulls herself up and out of the dirt, and
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  Speaker 1: she runs towards the road, where she flags down the
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  Speaker 1: motorists and the motorists would call police and then wait
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  Speaker 1: with her until they arrived. After Marchin was arrested, the
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  Speaker 1: story came out that he had heard a rumor that
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  Speaker 1: Michelina was going to be leaving him and going back
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  Speaker 1: to Poland with their s on and he didn't want that,
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  Speaker 1: so he had decided.
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  Speaker 2: He was going to kill her.
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  Speaker 1: Marchene was found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: twenty years in prison, and Patrick was found guilty of
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  Speaker 1: kidnapping and sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen thirty two, Charlie Pollard was a twenty six
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  Speaker 1: year old farmer living in Macon County, Alabama, where eighty
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  Speaker 1: two percent of the population at the time was African American,
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  Speaker 1: and they were all forced to live under the rules
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  Speaker 1: of a strictly segregated society. At the time, the United
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  Speaker 1: States was just beginning to crawl out of the Great
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  Speaker 1: Depression that had started three years earlier, but you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: know it riding through Charlie's town. Like Charlie, many of
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  Speaker 1: the other residents in Macon County were completely dirt poor,
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  Speaker 1: and they lived in these wooden shacks with no screens
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  Speaker 1: on their windows. There was no furniture inside, and they
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  Speaker 1: would just throw some dirty.
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  Speaker 2: Rags on the ground to sleep on.
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  Speaker 1: On average, the men in the town that were lucky
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  Speaker 1: enough to have a job made less than one dollar
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  Speaker 1: per day. So when Charlie heard a rumor that the
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  Speaker 1: government was going to become to town and giving free
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  Speaker 1: medical exams to all the African American.
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  Speaker 2: Men, Charlie was thrilled. He had never been to a
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  Speaker 2: doctor before, and.
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  Speaker 1: He certainly wasn't going to turn down a free visit
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  Speaker 1: to one, and so a couple of days later, the
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  Speaker 1: rumor turned out to be true when a government health
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  Speaker 1: service worker showed up in their town and set up
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  Speaker 1: shop in their one room schoolhouse. Charlie got in line
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  Speaker 1: with the hundreds of other men from Macon County, and
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  Speaker 1: then by mid morning it was his turn, and the
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  Speaker 1: health service worker told him that today they were just
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  Speaker 1: going to be doing a blood test, and so Charlie
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  Speaker 1: eagerly rolled up the sleeve and stuck his arm out.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of days later, the results from the blood
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  Speaker 1: test had come in and Charlie was informed that he
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  Speaker 1: had bad blood. Bad blood was a commonly used term
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  Speaker 1: in that area at the time to describe a wide
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  Speaker 1: array of ailments. The worker didn't get into specifics about
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  Speaker 1: what Charlie's diagnosis meant. They just told him that in
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  Speaker 1: virtue of his diagnosis of bad blood, he was now
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  Speaker 1: eligible to join a government sponsored medical treatment program. If
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  Speaker 1: he agreed to be a part of it, he would
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  Speaker 1: not only receive medical care for his bad blood, he
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  Speaker 1: would also receive free rides to and from the health clinic.
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  Speaker 2: He would get a free hot meal.
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  Speaker 1: On examination days, and in the event he died during
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  Speaker 1: the program, his family would be given fifty dollars if
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  Speaker 1: they allowed the doctors to perform a thorough autopsy on
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  Speaker 1: his body before they buried him.
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  Speaker 2: Despite not really.
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  Speaker 1: Understanding what it meant to have bad blood, Charlie decided
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  Speaker 1: to join the program mostly because of those free meals
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  Speaker 1: and because he had a deep trust and respect of
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  Speaker 1: the government.
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  Speaker 2: And Charlie wasn't alone.
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  Speaker 1: About four hundred other African American men from Macon County
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  Speaker 1: agreed to be a part of the program as well.
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  Speaker 1: At first, the program was everything they promised it would be.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a couple of low key medical examinations
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  Speaker 1: with a nice hot meal and then occasionally they would
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  Speaker 1: take some pills and have another blood draw, but eventually
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  Speaker 1: they started being given regular, excruciatingly painful spinal taps that
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  Speaker 1: would leave them bedridden for weeks afterwards. But despite this
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  Speaker 1: painful and surprising turn of events that none of the
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  Speaker 1: men saw coming, they were not aware they would be
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  Speaker 1: getting spinal.
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  Speaker 2: Taps as part of this program.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie and the other men were convinced this program was
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  Speaker 1: still in their best interest and that they could trust
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  Speaker 1: the government to eventually cure them of their bad blood,
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  Speaker 1: and so Charlie and the other men didn't resist these
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  Speaker 1: spinal taps or other follow on painful and bizarre medical
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  Speaker 1: procedures that they were being told was good for them
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  Speaker 1: and would help them get rid of this bad blood.
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  Speaker 1: Less than a year later, men in this program began
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  Speaker 1: getting sick. They started developing rashes and sores all over
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  Speaker 1: their body. Their bones and joints would ache, They began
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  Speaker 1: losing hair, They had indigestion, they had headaches, they had
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  Speaker 1: constant fevers, and for some of the men these symptoms
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  Speaker 1: would eventually subside, but for others they got dramatically worse.
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  Speaker 1: For those men, they would develop tumors and their bones
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  Speaker 1: would start to disintegrate, they would.
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  Speaker 2: Go blind or death, or become paralyzed, or they would
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  Speaker 2: simply die.
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  Speaker 1: But despite the obvious ineffectiveness of this treatment program, it persisted.
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  Speaker 1: When America entered World War Two in nineteen forty one,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie and many of the other men in this program
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  Speaker 1: wanted to enlist in the military and go join in
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  Speaker 1: the fight. But when they went to enlist, they were
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  Speaker 1: told that as members of this special medical program, they
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  Speaker 1: could only receive treatment from the doctors in that program,
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  Speaker 1: and so they could not receive treatment from military doctors
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  Speaker 1: and therefore were disqualified from military service. While frustrated by
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  Speaker 1: this rule, Charlie and many of the other men still
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  Speaker 1: considered themselves to be very fortunate to be allowed to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of this program that was curing them
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  Speaker 1: of their bad blood, and Charlie specifically felt like he
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  Speaker 1: was one of the luckiest men inside of this program
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  Speaker 1: because his bad blood had not led to these terrible
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  Speaker 1: symptoms that his friends were experiencing. And so over the
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  Speaker 1: years in between his medical appointments, Charlie got married, he
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  Speaker 1: had a child, He even managed to buy a little
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  Speaker 1: plot of land that he farmed.
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  Speaker 2: On nearly year round.
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  Speaker 1: Then in nineteen seventy three, so over forty years after
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  Speaker 1: they began this medical program, Charlie and the other survivors
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  Speaker 1: of this program had their lives completely turned upside down.
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  Speaker 1: That year, a very junior assistant within the Public Health
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  Speaker 1: Service secretly mailed off all of the records of this
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  Speaker 1: Macing County medical program to the Associated Press, and then
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days later, the Washington Star newspaper ran
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  Speaker 1: this huge story on their front page that said syphilis
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  Speaker 1: victims in United States study went.
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  Speaker 2: Untreated for forty years.
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  Speaker 1: It would turn out Charlie and the other four hundred
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  Speaker 1: men in this medical program, they didn't have bad blood.
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  Speaker 1: That was just kind of a made up term to
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  Speaker 1: get them not to ask any questions. What they had
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  Speaker 1: was syphilis, a deadly disease that ravages the human body
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  Speaker 1: in three stages that can unfold over a lifetime. And
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  Speaker 1: so these doctors that treated Charlie were not actually treating him.
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  Speaker 1: They knew he had syphilis. That was why he was
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  Speaker 1: even part of the program to begin with. When they
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  Speaker 1: tested his blood, they were trying to see who had
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  Speaker 1: syphilis in Macon County. And then they took those people,
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  Speaker 1: and they entered them into this phony program not to
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  Speaker 1: make them better, because this was not a treatment program.
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  Speaker 2: It was a US.
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  Speaker 1: Government backed medical study of what happens to African American
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  Speaker 1: men with syphilis if their condition goes completely untreated for
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  Speaker 1: their entire lives.
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  Speaker 2: The leaders of.
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  Speaker 1: The study did not care what happened to these men,
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  Speaker 1: and that point was made crystal clear when in the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forties a cure for syphilis was discovered penicillin, But
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  Speaker 1: instead of giving it to these men and saving their lives,
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  Speaker 1: they intentionally hid the cure from them and prevented them
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  Speaker 1: from getting it. This is why these men were not
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  Speaker 1: allowed to enlist in the military or seek outside medical care,
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  Speaker 1: because those doctors would discover these men had syphilists and
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  Speaker 1: they would just give them penicillin, curing them.
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  Speaker 2: But that screwed up the study, and so they couldn't
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  Speaker 2: have that.
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  Speaker 1: The Public Health Service chose Making County, Alabama, because at
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  Speaker 1: the time, thirty five percent of the population was already
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  Speaker 1: infected with syphilis, and because they knew the men in
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  Speaker 1: this town would be largely uneducated and poor and desperate
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  Speaker 1: and therefore easy to trick into joining this highly unethical study.
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  Speaker 1: At least twenty eight men in the study died as
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  Speaker 1: a result of their simplest infections, and countless others suffered
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  Speaker 1: from long term side effects. Ellie was sixty six years
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  Speaker 1: old when he heard the news. Finally he had an answer.
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  Speaker 1: Bad blood meant he had syphilis, but fortunately his syphilis
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  Speaker 1: had either burned out.
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  Speaker 2: Or gone dormant.
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  Speaker 1: But he thought about all the other men in the
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  Speaker 1: study that had not been as lucky, and Charlie felt
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  Speaker 1: so betrayed by the government. He and the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the men had no idea they were getting taken advantage of.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie got in touch with a lawyer who eventually sued
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  Speaker 1: the federal government, and in an out of court settlement,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie and the other seventy three survivors of the so
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  Speaker 1: called Tuskegee Experiment were given thirty eight thousand dollars each
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  Speaker 1: as compensation. After the settlement, Charlie just went back to
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  Speaker 1: his simple life in Macon County, and then twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: years later, on April twenty ninth, two thousand, Charlie passed
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  Speaker 1: away at the age of ninety four. In the early
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  Speaker 1: morning hours of March eleventh, nineteen eighty nine, four young
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  Speaker 1: men who were all in their twenties and all very
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  Speaker 1: close friends, left their homes in East Texas.
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  Speaker 2: And headed south.
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  Speaker 1: Nine hours later, they arrived in the beautiful resort town
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  Speaker 1: of South Padre Island, which is just off the coast
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  Speaker 1: of southern Texas. They were there to enjoy their spring
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  Speaker 1: break by sunning on the beach, drinking in bars, and
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  Speaker 1: meeting girls. When they finally arrived that night, they were
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  Speaker 1: so exhausted from the trip that they went right to bed.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, when they got up, they went straight
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  Speaker 1: down to the beach and they had some drinks, and
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  Speaker 1: then by the afternoon they were talking amongst themselves and
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  Speaker 1: they decided that for their first full night of being
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  Speaker 1: on vacation, they would kick things off with a bang,
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  Speaker 1: and they would go into Mexico and party there. And
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  Speaker 1: so they piled into their car and they drove an
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  Speaker 1: hour southwest to Brownsville, Texas, which is a town that
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  Speaker 1: sits right on the border of Mexico. And when they
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  Speaker 1: got there, they parked their car and then walked right
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  Speaker 1: over the footbridge that crossed the Rio Grande River into Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: On the other side. In Mexico, they found themselves in
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  Speaker 1: the town of Matamoros, which is very popular amongst spring
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  Speaker 1: breakgoers for their bars and their clubs, and so the
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  Speaker 1: four friends got a quick bite to eat at a
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  Speaker 1: Hamburger joint, and then they made their way into the
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  Speaker 1: bars and the clubs, and they danced and they drank
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  Speaker 1: for hours, and then at some point they got tired
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  Speaker 1: and left the bar, scene over the footbridge back into
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  Speaker 1: the US and made their way back to their hotel
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  Speaker 1: in South Padre Island. The next morning, when they got
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  Speaker 1: up and they recovered from their hangover, they decided they
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  Speaker 1: had so much fun in Matta Morros the night before
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  Speaker 1: that they had to go back, and so that night
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  Speaker 1: they piled back into their car they drove back down
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  Speaker 1: to Brownsville, Texas, they crossed over that footbridge into Mexico,
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  Speaker 1: and then all night they partied and danced and had
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  Speaker 1: a great time. And then at some point the four
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  Speaker 1: decided it was time to leave, and so they left.
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  Speaker 2: Their bar and began walking towards the footbridge.
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  Speaker 1: But that night it was so crowded in Madam Morros
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  Speaker 1: that you could barely move a foot without bumping into someone.
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  Speaker 1: And so the four sum split into two separate pairs,
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  Speaker 1: and the lead pair they made their way ahead, and
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  Speaker 1: they stopped at the gift shop right at the foot
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  Speaker 1: of that bridge going back to the US side, and
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  Speaker 1: there they waited for the trail pair. The trail pair
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  Speaker 1: which consisted of Mark Kilroy and Bill Huddleston. They weren't
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  Speaker 1: far behind, but they got sidetracked when Mark saw a
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  Speaker 1: girl standing next to a house that he had seen
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the night and he just wanted to go
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  Speaker 1: up and talk to her and say bye to her.
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  Speaker 1: And so they go over to this girl and Mark
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  Speaker 1: is talking to her. Bill moves on head and goes
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  Speaker 1: down an alleyway to urinate, and then when he comes
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  Speaker 1: back out, Mark and this girl are not there. Bill
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  Speaker 1: assumed Mark must have just moved on the little ways
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  Speaker 1: up to the bridge where the other two friends were
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  Speaker 1: at the gift shop, and so after looking around for
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of seconds, Bill makes his way up
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  Speaker 1: to the bridge and he meets up with the other
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  Speaker 1: two friends. And when he gets there, he asks the
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  Speaker 1: other two friends, you know, where's Mark? Did he come
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: up here already? And they say, no, we haven't seen him.
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  Speaker 1: And so now the trio's a little bit concerned but
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  Speaker 1: they're thinking, okay, he must be with this girl he
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: had seen, and so they backtracked a little ways and
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: they looked for Mark. They went back to where he
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: had been talking to that girl, and again he wasn't there,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: and so they decided, Okay, he must have already crossed
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: the bridge and made it to our car, and he's
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: probably just waiting for us over there, and so the
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: trio crosses over the bridge into the US side. They
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: get to their car and Mark's not there, and so
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: at this point they are pretty concerned about Mark, but
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: they eventually convinced themselves that he must have just left
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: with this girl and they probably are back at the
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: hotel together. And so after a little while, the trio decides,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: let's just go back to the hotel were bound to
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: find Mark, and so they drive all the way.
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  Speaker 2: Back to South Padre Island.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: They get to their hotel room and Mark's not there,
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: but again they tell themselves he's not here because he's
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: probably with this girl in another room, and so they don't.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: Worry about him.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: They go to bed, but the next morning, when Mark
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: still had not come back to the hotel room, they decide,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: you know what, something's wrong here, we have to tell police,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: and so they file a missing person report. But the
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: police get so many of these about spring breakers who
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: go missing and madamorros that they don't really take them
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: seriously at first, because typically the missing person will just
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: show up twenty four hours later with a horrible hangover
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: and no memory of how they got back from Mata Moros,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: and so the police were expecting this to happen with Mark.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: But after twenty four hours, when Mark didn't show up
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: with a bad hangover, they were convinced that something had
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: happened to him, and American and Mexican police suspected foul
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: play because Matta Moros and the surrounding areas are not
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: exactly safe for taurists, but they didn't have any leads and.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: So Mark's case languished.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Three weeks later, a drug smuggler drove through a police
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: checkpoint without stopping just outside of Matamoras, and so the
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: police pursued him, and this guy ultimately stopped at this
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: secluded ranch up in the mountains. After the police arrested
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: the smuggler, they noticed a ranch worker was standing nearby,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: and on a whim they showed him a picture of
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: mark and said, hey, have you seen this guy, And
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: the worker, despite being scared and not really sure what
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: to do, he said to police, yeah, I have seen
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: him here. The smuggler and his friends. They brought him
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: here in handcuffs. And then the worker turned around and
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: pointed up the mountain towards the shack. It was about
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: four hundred yards up the mountain, and he said that's
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: where they took him. And so authorities began walking up
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  Speaker 1: the hillside towards the shack, and when they got about
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: one hundred yards away, they saw this big metal cauldron
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: sitting on the front stoop of the shack.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: And then when they got about fifty.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Yards away, they were hit with this horrible smell of
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: death and decay. And then when they got right up
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: in front of the shack and could see inside of
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: this cauldron and inside of the shack itself, what they
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: saw was so gruesome and horrible that even the most
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: senior and grizzled responding officers were totally shaken up by it.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Under intense questioning, the drug smuggler that had originally led
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: police up to the secluded ranch and the shack admitted
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: that he was a part of a gang and that
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: his gang had taken Mark.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Three weeks earlier.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: While Bill was urinating in that alleyway, Mark spoke to
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: that girl he wanted to see, and then she went off,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: and then Mark was left standing alone waiting for Bill
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: to come back. And while he was waiting, a man
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: on the street parked in a red truck yelled out
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: to him to come over. He needed help or something.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: He lured him to the truck, and so Mark went
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: over to the truck, and then right when he asked
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: the man, you know what do you need, two men,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: one of which included the drug smuggler, jumped out from
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: behind a building and tried to grab Mark and put
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: him inside of this red truck. Mark was a very fit,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: big athletic guy, and so he was able to fight
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the two men off and then took off running down
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the road. But he only made it about two blocks
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: when another car full of gangsters showed up, cut him off,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: and then at gunpoint got him to come into the
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: second vehicle.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: So once he was.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Restrained inside of this vehicle, they drove him out of
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the town of Ata Moros onto some back country roads
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: up into the mountains to the secluded ranch where they
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: left him overnight in the car. The next morning, the
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: gang members came back out and they wrapped duct tape
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: around Mark's mouth and his whole face and his eyes.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: They just left a little slit around his nostrils so
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: he could breathe, and then they pulled him out of
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: the vehicle with his hands tied behind his back, and
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: they walked him up the hill to that shack. This
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: gang that had abducted Mark, that the drug smuggler was
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: a part of, was more like a cult, and this
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: cult was led by a man named Constanzo who practiced
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: a form of black magic called polo. Constanzo would perform
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: pollo rituals, which he claimed to his followers would make
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: he and all of them invincible. These rituals, which took
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: place in the shack up in the mountains, involved human sacrifice.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Constanzo would tell his followers that these people who were
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: going to be sacrificed, they didn't just need to die,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: they needed to die screaming, because Constanzo believed the more
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: agony he inflicted on his victims before they ultimately died
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: and were sacrificed to the gods, the more power or
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the gods would grant to he and his followers, and
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: so the people who got kidnapped and marched up to
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: that shack to be sacrificed were subjected to unspeakable atrocities,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: and Mark had been selected to be the next ritual sacrifice.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: After Mark was led out of the vehicle with a
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: space all taped up, he was walked up to that
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: shack where he spent several horrifying hours with Constanzo and
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: his cronies. And then at some point Mark was killed
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: when a machete was brought down on the back.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Of his neck.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Afterwards, Mark's brain was removed and placed into their sacred
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: cauldron and boiled, and then Mark's legs were removed, and
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: then a long wire was inserted into Marx's torso and
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: fished around inside of him until they hooked it onto
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: his final column. And then they buried his torso and
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: his legs, and they left that wire protruding from his
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: body up out of the dirt. There was basically a
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: lead poking out.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Of the ground.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: And the reason they did that was because later on
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: they could just pull on that wire and pull up
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Mark's bones and use his bones to make jewelry. Mark's
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: body was one of fifteen discovered in and around this shack.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: The total number of people that Constanzo and his cult
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: ritualistically murdered is at least sixteen, but believed to be
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: closer to twenty six. However, the police were not able
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: to get the official number from Constanzo because Constanzo had
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: his followers shoot and kill him before the police could
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: get to him. Five other cult members were ultimately convicted
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: for their roles in the cult's murders, and they were
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: each given a sentence of over sixty years in prison.
• 21:26
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