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You-ll-never-guess-what-he-did-in-this-home · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: A large strange device was discovered inside of the secret
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  Speaker 1: room in Northern England in two thousand and two, and
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  Speaker 1: today I'm going to share the awful truth behind it.
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  Speaker 1: into today's story. At the end of two thousand and two,
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  Speaker 1: thirty six year old Boyd Taylor was single. He had
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  Speaker 1: no children, and he lived with his divorced father, Robert,
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  Speaker 1: in a small bungalow in the Northern England countryside. In
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  Speaker 1: addition to living with his father, Boyd.
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  Speaker 2: Also worked for his father.
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  Speaker 1: His father, Robert, owned a small construction business, and so
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  Speaker 1: the father son duo built houses in the area. While
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  Speaker 1: Boyd might have envisioned his life turning out in a different,
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  Speaker 1: more exciting way. He didn't seem outwardly unhappy about his circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he seemed very cheerful both at work and
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  Speaker 1: when he was at home.
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  Speaker 2: But despite his.
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  Speaker 1: Cheerfulness, his father, Robert, was still pretty concerned about him
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  Speaker 1: because every time Boyd had some time off from work
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  Speaker 1: and was just at loose ends, he wouldn't go out
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  Speaker 1: with his friends. In fact, he really didn't have any
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  Speaker 1: friends and wasn't even trying to make any friends. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he would just sit in his room all day and
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  Speaker 1: be totally by himself. Now, Robert knew his son was
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  Speaker 1: naturally a bit of a loner and always had been,
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  Speaker 1: but a part of him hoped that his son would
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  Speaker 1: just start going out and meeting new people, or at
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  Speaker 1: the very least developed some sort of hobby that could
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  Speaker 1: occupy his mind. In late September of two thousand and two,
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  Speaker 1: Robert was walking down the hallway of their bungalow when
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  Speaker 1: he passed by his son's bedroom door, and it was shut,
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  Speaker 1: And as he walked past, he heard inside of his
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  Speaker 1: son's room the sound of his son's sawing some wood,
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  Speaker 1: and so he stopped for a second and he just
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  Speaker 1: listened and when the sawing stopped for a second, Robert
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  Speaker 1: just knocked on the door.
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  Speaker 2: He was curious. He wanted to know what his son
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  Speaker 2: was doing.
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  Speaker 1: Boyd, instead of coming over to the door and opening
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  Speaker 1: it up and talking to his dad, instead just paused
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  Speaker 1: for a second and then said, you know, what is it, dad,
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  Speaker 1: What do you need? And Robert would say, well, I
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  Speaker 1: heard sawing, and I just wanted to know what you
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  Speaker 1: were building. And so Boyd pauses again and then just says, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm working on a woodworking project. And so Robert's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: can I poke my head in and actually see what
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  Speaker 1: you're building? And Boyd, again, without opening the door, just
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  Speaker 1: tells his dad very politely that he wants to be
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  Speaker 1: left alone.
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  Speaker 2: And so Robert decides not to push the issue.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever he was doing, it was his business, and so
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  Speaker 1: he just told his son that you know, hey, if
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  Speaker 1: you need any help with anything, let me know. I'd
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  Speaker 1: be glad to help, and then Robert walked away. Over
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  Speaker 1: the next two months, every time Boyd was not working
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  Speaker 1: so in the evenings and on the weekend, he would
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  Speaker 1: be locked inside of his bedroom hammering and sawing away at.
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  Speaker 2: This woodworking project.
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  Speaker 1: And over those two months, Robert would periodically walk down
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  Speaker 1: the hall and stand in front of his son's bedroom
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  Speaker 1: and knock on the door and try to get his
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  Speaker 1: son to let him in to just see what he
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  Speaker 1: was up to, not only because he just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: see what his son was doing, but because Robert was
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  Speaker 1: a carpenter by trade and so was just genuinely interested.
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  Speaker 1: But every time he asked to be let in, Boyd
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  Speaker 1: would very politely tell his father that he really just
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  Speaker 1: wants to be left alone, and Robert respected his wishes.
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  Speaker 1: In early December, Boyd approached his father and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, would it be possible for me to take
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  Speaker 1: the next month off from work so I can focus
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  Speaker 1: on this woodworking project. Now, for Robert, this was a
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  Speaker 1: massive inconvenience. This construction business that he owned was really
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  Speaker 1: just he and his son building the houses, and so
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  Speaker 1: if his son was not going to be working, then
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  Speaker 1: Robert would be solo on all of his projects for
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  Speaker 1: that month. But Robert's thinking to himself, you know, my
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  Speaker 1: son has finally found a hobby that he's really into.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really know what it is, but clearly he's.
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  Speaker 1: Invested in it. And so he tells his son, and
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  Speaker 1: you know what, that's fine. You take the whole month,
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  Speaker 1: and if you want more time in January, that's fine,
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  Speaker 1: you just let me know. So, starting that first week
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  Speaker 1: in December, every time Robert would leave the house to
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  Speaker 1: go to work in the morning, he would leave to
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  Speaker 1: the sound of Boyd in his bedroom hammering and sawing
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  Speaker 1: and tinkering away at his woodworking project. And then several
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  Speaker 1: hours later, when Robert finally came back home, he'd walk
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  Speaker 1: into the house and the first thing he would hear
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  Speaker 1: is his son still in his bedroom, still hammering and
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  Speaker 1: sawing away. When December finally ended and Robert expected his
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  Speaker 1: son to be done with his project and to finally
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  Speaker 1: show him what he's been working on, Boyd approached him
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  Speaker 1: and said, well, Dad, I'm not quite done with the project.
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  Speaker 1: I need about two more weeks, And so Robert said,
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  Speaker 1: no problem, we'll talk in two weeks. So December rolled
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  Speaker 1: into January and Boyd just continued to work all day
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  Speaker 1: long inside of his bedroom. Then on the evening of
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  Speaker 1: January seventh, Robert was home. He was watching TV in
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  Speaker 1: the living room and Boyd was hard at work in
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  Speaker 1: his bedroom right down the hall. When Robert decided he
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  Speaker 1: was tired and he was going to go to bed.
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  Speaker 1: So he stands up, turns the TV off, he leaves
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  Speaker 1: the living room. He goes down the hallway with a
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  Speaker 1: son's room on the right, and as he passed, he
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  Speaker 1: can hear his son at work, and he kind of
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  Speaker 1: yells to his son that he's going to bed, and
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  Speaker 1: then Robert goes into his bedroom, crawls into his bed,
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  Speaker 1: and falls asleep. At three point thirty am the following morning,
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  Speaker 1: Robert is suddenly awoken by this incredibly loud, crashing sound
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in his house. Robert's first thought was the chimney
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  Speaker 1: must have collapsed. That was how loud the sound was,
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  Speaker 1: and so he leaps out of his bed, He runs
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  Speaker 1: out of his door. He goes down the hallway past
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  Speaker 1: his son's room into the living room, and he looks
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  Speaker 1: at the fireplace which is in the TV room, and
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  Speaker 1: clearly the chimney has not collapsed onto itself. And so
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  Speaker 1: he's standing there thinking, you know, what else could that
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  Speaker 1: sound have been? And then he's thinking to himself, well,
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  Speaker 1: did I really hear that sound or was that sound
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  Speaker 1: in my dream? And I kind of thought it was real,
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  Speaker 1: but it really wasn't, and so just to be sure,
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  Speaker 1: he walked all around the house, kind of seeing if
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  Speaker 1: there were any signs of something big falling and crashing
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, but the house seemed totally in and
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  Speaker 1: so he walked back down the hallway towards his bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: and he stopped right outside of his son's room, and
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  Speaker 1: he considered knocking and waking his son up to see
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  Speaker 1: if maybe he had heard this loud sound too, but
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  Speaker 1: when he listened to the door, it was quiet inside.
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  Speaker 1: So he figured, you know what, my son's asleep. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to wake him up for this, and so
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  Speaker 1: Robert just went into his bedroom and he went back
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  Speaker 1: to sleep. A few hours later, Robert got up and
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  Speaker 1: he left his bedroom. He went into the kitchen and
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  Speaker 1: he made himself some food. And as he's preparing his food,
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  Speaker 1: he's realizing that he doesn't hear the sound of Boyd
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  Speaker 1: working in his bedroom, because normally Boyd would be working
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  Speaker 1: that early in the morning, but he wasn't. And so
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  Speaker 1: right before Robert left to go to work that day,
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  Speaker 1: he actually walked down the hall and listened to his
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  Speaker 1: son's bedroom to hear if maybe he was at working there,
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  Speaker 1: but he just sadn't heard him, but it was totally
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  Speaker 1: silent in the room, and so he reached down to
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  Speaker 1: the doorknob, thinking maybe he could just poke his head
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  Speaker 1: in and see if the sun was on his bed.
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  Speaker 1: But when he tried the doorknob, it was locked. So
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  Speaker 1: Robert just thought to himself, Okay, I guess Boyd is
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  Speaker 1: sleeping in this morning, and so I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: bother him. And so Robert lee the house. He gets
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  Speaker 1: into his truck and he drives off to work. And
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  Speaker 1: then several hours later, he comes back to the house
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  Speaker 1: at night and he walks inside and the first thing
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  Speaker 1: he hears is nothing. It's silent, and this house in
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  Speaker 1: the evenings for the past several months was never quiet.
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  Speaker 1: Boyd was always hammering, sawing and tinkering away at this
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  Speaker 1: woodworking project.
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  Speaker 2: And so right away Robert's thinking.
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  Speaker 1: To himself, maybe he's done with the project and I
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  Speaker 1: can finally see this thing he's been working on. And
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  Speaker 1: so Robert drops his stuff at the door and he
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  Speaker 1: walks down the hallway. He goes to his son's bedroom
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  Speaker 1: door and he knocks, and he says, hey, Boyd, are
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  Speaker 1: you done with your project? But he's met with silence,
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  Speaker 1: and so Robert reaches down again and tries the doorknob,
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  Speaker 1: but it's locked, and so Robert's standing there thinking, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's too early for him to be asleep, and so
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  Speaker 1: he yells out for Boyd to know, Hey, what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you? I haven't seen you today. Come out here,
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  Speaker 1: come talk to me. But again it's silent, and so
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  Speaker 1: Robert's thinking, okay, well, when I pulled in, was his
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  Speaker 1: car in the driveway and he can't remember, and so
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  Speaker 1: he leaves the house. He goes out to the driveway
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  Speaker 1: and sure enough, there's Boyd's It's in the driveway, so
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  Speaker 1: he has to be here, and so suddenly Robert's starting
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  Speaker 1: to feel a little bit panicked about his son. He
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  Speaker 1: runs back into the house and he just starts screaming
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  Speaker 1: his son's name as he goes room to room, into
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  Speaker 1: the bathrooms and the other bedrooms to see if he's
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  Speaker 1: in there. But he's nowhere to be found, and so,
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  Speaker 1: operating on a gut instinct, Robert just runs right out
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  Speaker 1: to his car. He gets a sledgehammer, comes back in
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  Speaker 1: the house, goes down the hallway, and he's standing in
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  Speaker 1: front of his son's bedroom door, and one more time
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  Speaker 1: he yells for his son and bangs on the door,
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  Speaker 1: tries to get his son's attention, but after once again
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  Speaker 1: there being total silence, he picks up his sledgehammer and
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  Speaker 1: begins breaking the door down, and after a couple of swings,
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  Speaker 1: he manages to pop off the locking mechanism, the actual
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  Speaker 1: doorknob that gets blown off, and he can push the
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  Speaker 1: door open, and he sees inside the bedroom is empty.
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  Speaker 1: There's just a bed and a dresser, and there's no void.
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  Speaker 1: But in the back right corner of the room where
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  Speaker 1: normally there was like this alcove basically a segment of
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  Speaker 1: his room kind of jutted away from the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the space, almost like it was a closet, but with
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  Speaker 1: no door on it. Boyd had clearly built a wall
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  Speaker 1: and door over that alcove, kind of creating a sort
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  Speaker 1: of subroom within his bedroom. And this door was shut,
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  Speaker 1: and so Robert immediately runs over to this new second door.
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  Speaker 1: He tries the doorknob, it's locked. He yells for his son,
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  Speaker 1: but again after silence, he picks the sledge up and
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  Speaker 1: begins trying to break this door down, and after a
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  Speaker 1: few good swings, like the first door, he was able
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  Speaker 1: to knock the doorknob off of the door, and then
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  Speaker 1: he reached down and he pulled the door open, and
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  Speaker 1: what he saw on the other side of this door,
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  Speaker 1: inside of this little subroom was so far from anything
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  Speaker 1: he ever expected that he just stood there and stunned silence,
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  Speaker 1: and then eventually reality kind of kicked back in and
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  Speaker 1: he ran out of his son's room and he called
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  Speaker 1: the police. Three months earlier, Boyd had decided he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to build this very specific device that was invented in
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  Speaker 1: seventeen eighty nine. Now he didn't want his father to
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  Speaker 1: know about this device, and so he built that door
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  Speaker 1: and wall frame in front of that alcove specifically so
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  Speaker 1: he could build this device inside of this new subroom
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  Speaker 1: in privacy. He also always made sure to lock his
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  Speaker 1: main bedroom door. So for three months, Boyd began constructing
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  Speaker 1: this eight foot tall, three foot wide structure inside of
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  Speaker 1: the subroom. And once the shell of this device was constructed,
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  Speaker 1: he began installing all of its inner workings. These included
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  Speaker 1: things like various lengths of wire and clocktimers, and a jigsaw,
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  Speaker 1: which is like an electric saw. And then finally on
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  Speaker 1: January seventh, it was complete. So that night BOYD blew
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  Speaker 1: up an air mattress and he slid it inside of
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  Speaker 1: the subroom, right underneath this ancient machine.
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  Speaker 2: He had built.
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  Speaker 1: And then after that he went and locked the main
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  Speaker 1: bedroom door. He went into the subroom himself and shut
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  Speaker 1: the subroom door and locked that, And then he pulled
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  Speaker 1: twelve sleeping pills out of his pocket, swallowed those, and
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  Speaker 1: then laid down on this air mattress on his back,
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  Speaker 1: looking up at the inner workings of this machine. And
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  Speaker 1: then once he was positioned the way he wanted to,
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  Speaker 1: he reached over up inside of this machine and he
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  Speaker 1: felt around for a.
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  Speaker 2: Button that he had placed.
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  Speaker 1: He pressed that button, and then he put his hands
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  Speaker 1: over his chest and he laid there looking straight up
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  Speaker 1: until the sleeping pills kicked in and he fell asleep.
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  Speaker 1: That button he pressed right before he passed out from
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  Speaker 1: the sleeping pills started a timer, and when that timer
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  Speaker 1: went off, it would actually activate this whole device. And
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  Speaker 1: so several hours after pressing that button, the timer finally
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  Speaker 1: went off at three point thirty am. The first thing
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  Speaker 1: that happened when this device was activated is the jigsaw.
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  Speaker 2: The electric saw began sawing this wire.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the wire had been very intentionally placed against the
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  Speaker 1: teeth of this jigsaw, and so it's cutting this wire,
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  Speaker 1: and this wire is supporting this weighted down, heavy angular
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  Speaker 1: blade that's pointing straight down. And so as soon as
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  Speaker 1: this wire is cut, it releases the blade, and the
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  Speaker 1: blade that almost looks like this oversized axe head begins
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  Speaker 1: falling straight down this shoe, and the shoot aims the
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  Speaker 1: blade directly onto the front of Boyd's throat. Boyd's woodworking
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  Speaker 1: project was a guillotine, and that loud crashing sound that
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  Speaker 1: woke Robert up at three point thirty in the morning
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  Speaker 1: on January eighth, that was the sound of the blade
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  Speaker 1: of this guillotine crashing down and decapitating his son. Even
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  Speaker 1: though Boyd did not leave behind a note explaining his actions,
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  Speaker 1: it was determined Boyd's death was in fact a suicide,
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  Speaker 1: a very complicated and deliberate suicide. Boyd's father and other
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  Speaker 1: people involved in this case have come to the conclusion
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  Speaker 1: that Boyd was clearly showing signs of depression before he
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  Speaker 1: chose to take his own life, and so maybe if
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  Speaker 1: Boyd had reached out for help, or if there had
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  Speaker 1: been some sort of intervention.
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  Speaker 2: His death could have been prevented.
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  Speaker 1: mental health, remember you are not alone.
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