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Mass Murderer - Richard Speck - Part 2 · Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to part two of Richard Speck. Today, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to pick up from where we left off in part one,
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  Speaker 1: so if you haven't listened to it yet, be sure
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  Speaker 1: to go check it out. We're going to pick up
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  Speaker 1: right where we left off as he's on his way
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  Speaker 1: to go commit mass murder.
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  Speaker 2: Warning.
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  Speaker 1: The following podcast contains graphic content and material intended for
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  Speaker 1: a mature audience listener discretion. Hey, how's it going. My
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  Speaker 1: name's Ben.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm Nicole, and you're listening to Wicked and.
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  Speaker 1: Grim, a true crime podcast. Can you hear that?
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  Speaker 2: I can't hear it?
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  Speaker 1: A little tinkle tinkle in the glass today.
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  Speaker 2: A little but a different sound for you.
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  Speaker 1: Just as refreshing, though.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: It almost had tea today, though maybe next time. I
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  Speaker 1: was gonna have a tea, but then I had tea
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  Speaker 1: like an hour earlier, and I was like, well, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want another cup of tea.
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  Speaker 2: So we actually drink a lot of tea in this house.
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  Speaker 1: We do. Tea's delicious and it's good for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we like it. It's like a warm hug and a cup.
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  Speaker 1: But that's a good way of describing it. But that's
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  Speaker 1: that's how I feel about coffee though, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, actually that's how I feel about hot chocolate.
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  Speaker 1: Just all the above. Warm drinks, warm drinks.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: But like for me with coffee, it's not like it's
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  Speaker 1: a oh I need coffee to wake up, a caffeine,
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  Speaker 1: you know. It's it's the ritual thing for me. It's
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  Speaker 1: you wake up, you have that nice hot beverage in
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  Speaker 1: your cup, and it's just like so earthy and so grounding.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a warm hug in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Give it. When you have it in the afternoon, that's
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  Speaker 2: to wake your ass up.
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  Speaker 1: If I have it in the afternoon, it's usually I
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  Speaker 1: could use a little bit of a pick me up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, or not a hug just to pick
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  Speaker 2: me up at that point.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty much pretty much don't generally need it. It's I
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  Speaker 1: want it, you know. It's I want that feeling again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's almost sad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it kind of does sound sad now
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  Speaker 1: that I really think of it, taking a step back
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  Speaker 1: and look at it. Oh yeah, So that's that's my
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  Speaker 1: story for coffee. Actually, speaking of stories, we got to
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  Speaker 1: ask you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys transition there.
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  Speaker 1: I think it almost like I set.
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  Speaker 2: It up pretty much, but I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: We got to ask you, guys. We're looking for some
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  Speaker 1: listener tales, so we want you to submit some listener
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  Speaker 1: tales over to us on our email. To shoot us
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  Speaker 1: an email with some spooky stories or some creepy stuff
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  Speaker 1: that's happened to you in your lifetime, some experiences. Send
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  Speaker 1: it to us over at Wicked and Grim podcast at
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  Speaker 1: gmail dot com. We're going to be going through some
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  Speaker 1: listener tail stuff for Halloween week.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's gonna be specifically right now, I guess
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  Speaker 2: for Halloween week. Yeah, and depending how many we get,
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  Speaker 2: we may have to have to choose.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's not guaranteed you're going to be in
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  Speaker 1: the episode with your story. I wish we can guarantee everybody,
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  Speaker 1: but it's unfortunately not the nature of the beast. So
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  Speaker 1: you have the opportunity to potentially be in an episode
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  Speaker 1: as we do a listener tale thing for Halloween a week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we put this out on Patreon already, so
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  Speaker 2: we've had a couple submitted from our patrons.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's some good stories already.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so kind of cool.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of weird some of the shit that happens
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  Speaker 1: to people. It's like, how like you can't explain most
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  Speaker 1: of this shit, it's so crazy. Yeah, like me and
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  Speaker 1: my Sasquatch story, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Feel like I have any story like that, Like there's
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  Speaker 2: I don't feel like there's anything I could submit that
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  Speaker 2: would be of interest. Nothing, I don't think so well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you kind of do. It's not like it
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  Speaker 1: happened to you yet.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, at this I don't think it's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: But that in itself is a fucking weird ass story.
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  Speaker 2: Not really, I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we'll quickly catch them up like an elevator pitch
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  Speaker 1: on what it would be your story?
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  Speaker 2: Well, gosh, it was so long ago, but at different
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  Speaker 2: periods of time, I had gone to psychics, like two
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  Speaker 2: different ones, and they had both basically kind of seemed
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  Speaker 2: like I was hard to read that if I wanted to,
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  Speaker 2: like I could tap into like some psychic ability of
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  Speaker 2: my own, and that at some point I would basically
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  Speaker 2: walk in to a room and I would see something
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  Speaker 2: that no one else would see that would scare the
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  Speaker 2: shit out of me. Yep, and that has yet to happen.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, are these people just like putting me
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  Speaker 2: on edge for the next like how many years of
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  Speaker 2: my life?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe what you saw was how absolutely handsome I am
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  Speaker 1: and it scared the shit out of you with just
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  Speaker 1: how handsome I am.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's funny too, because maybe it has happened, and
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  Speaker 2: like I didn't realize that I was the only one
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  Speaker 2: that saw it and it didn't scare me, Like who knows.
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  Speaker 1: That's very possible, like a whole sixth sense scenario sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of times I'm kind of oblivious because I just
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  Speaker 2: have like way too much shit going on in my brain.
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  Speaker 2: My brain never shuts the fuck up, so I don't
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  Speaker 2: even know. If I maybe I wouldn't have even noticed.
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  Speaker 1: There's a potential of that.
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  Speaker 2: So that's not really a very exciting story because nothing
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  Speaker 2: exciting has really happened.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's like a very suspenseful story. It's like
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  Speaker 1: when is something going to happen?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And sometimes I'm like, gosh, do I want to
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  Speaker 2: put myself in that situation? What if it's now?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I wouldn't want that to be me with this
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  Speaker 1: unknown Is something going to happen at any moment?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? No, fangs, I know, I know and I have
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  Speaker 2: put myself in some situations too where with ghosts could
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  Speaker 2: be like I had gone to Alcatraz, which I'm sure. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: if a ghost is gonna be somewhere, there's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a ghost there for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And Barkerville, the local Barker.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I forgot about Barkerville.
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  Speaker 1: How could you forget about Barker. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm obsessed with that place. If you ever get the
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  Speaker 2: chance to go to Barkerville, like you must, Yeah, we'll be.
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  Speaker 1: Going there in the near future for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And there bakery is amazing, like, oh yeah, go hungry,
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  Speaker 2: Like it's getting better every year, is it.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't gone for what like two years now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been too long.
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  Speaker 1: We also got to give a shout out to our patrons,
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  Speaker 1: of course, as we always do. We had a few
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  Speaker 1: more patrons sign up this week. We have Ashley, Justine Smith,
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  Speaker 1: and Eleanor love the name Eleanor by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well in all of those like you nail the names.
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  Speaker 2: Those are razy, Paisy.
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  Speaker 1: They were not challenging names at least I think unless
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  Speaker 1: Justine Smith is like it's actually just Steiny Smithy or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. And I just butchered it, and who knows,
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  Speaker 1: You never know because there is different pronunciation.
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  Speaker 2: There absolutely is, and yeah, and lots of times to
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  Speaker 2: the way we pronounce stuff in Canada is different from
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  Speaker 2: how they pronounce it in other areas of the world exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So it's roll the dice a lot of the times.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but honestly, we appreciate, Yeah, we do.
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  Speaker 1: Even if we say your name right or wrong. We
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  Speaker 1: still love you no matter what. There you go, even
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  Speaker 1: if you're not on Patreon, you just listen to us.
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  Speaker 1: Still love you. You're still awesome, You're still wicked.
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  Speaker 2: Stay wicked.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, that's the end of the episode.
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  Speaker 2: Bye, okay, bye, have a good night. Could you imagine,
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  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I met I wonder Kate. It would
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  Speaker 2: be funny. Okay, not really funny, but it would be
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  Speaker 2: funny to put something out there like that just to
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  Speaker 2: see how many emails we got where people were just
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  Speaker 2: like the fuck jinks.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, Well, I think that's enough of our shenanigans.
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  Speaker 1: We're almost seven minutes into this.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go. Let's say, Yeah, we need to recap two
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  Speaker 2: of what happened on part one here.
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  Speaker 1: So part one it's kind of hard to really recap
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  Speaker 1: in detail of what part one was true. But basically,
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  Speaker 1: we have this individual named Richard Speck growing up. By
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  Speaker 1: the time he was about six years old, he was
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  Speaker 1: your average, regular little boy. His dad unfortunately passed away
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  Speaker 1: from a heart attack. Then he had the step dad
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  Speaker 1: kind of come in who was an alcoholic, kind of
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  Speaker 1: a no good kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Person, wasn't it, Carl.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it was a Carl. Yes, not cool Carl.
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  Speaker 2: We got to keep that trend going here.
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  Speaker 1: And growing up from there on out, his life kind
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  Speaker 1: of took a turn for the worse, committing petting crimes
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  Speaker 1: left right and center, and he began to in his
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  Speaker 1: older years commit things like assault and rape. So all
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  Speaker 1: the while he was unable to hold a job because
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  Speaker 1: of his attitude towards women in life and everything in general.
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  Speaker 1: He just became an all around dick head douche canoe. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and here we are today where he is dressed all
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  Speaker 1: in black after raping an individual and stealing her twenty
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  Speaker 1: two caliber pistol. He now has this pistol in hand
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  Speaker 1: with his switchblade in the other hand, dressed in all black,
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  Speaker 1: heading on his way to where he's going to commit
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  Speaker 1: mass murder to.
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  Speaker 2: A nursing school or not nursing school but nursing.
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  Speaker 1: Housing um or something townhouse.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my gosh, okay, yeah, that you left. I
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  Speaker 2: remember now it's coming back to me here because it
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  Speaker 2: kind of just like toned it out a little bit
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  Speaker 2: because I needed to. But this is going to get
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  Speaker 2: real shitty.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and it was a lot of like information overload
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  Speaker 1: in the other one. It was just more so on Richard,
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  Speaker 1: and unfortunately this is still a Richard heavy episode. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted it to be more about a survivor in this episode,
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  Speaker 1: but there's not a whole lot of detail on her.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just going to kind of respect that, talk
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  Speaker 1: about her as much as we know, and give her
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  Speaker 1: her space as do as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that honestly, sometimes when people go through terrible things,
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  Speaker 2: they probably just want to move on or as much
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  Speaker 2: as they can, not that they totally can at all,
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  Speaker 2: but like you know, they don't want to be on
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  Speaker 2: podcasts maybe exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So she's going to be our badass of the day.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you that right now. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: get to that, Okay. So we're starting off on the
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  Speaker 1: evening of July thirteenth, in nineteen sixty six, just after
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  Speaker 1: ten pm. Richard is dressed all in black and armed
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  Speaker 1: with his usual switchblade and the new twenty two caliber
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  Speaker 1: pistol that we just mentioned. He had spent most of
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  Speaker 1: his day drinking and was now making his way down
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  Speaker 1: the street towards a townhouse complex. Now, the complex was
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  Speaker 1: about a mile walk from where he was staying, and
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  Speaker 1: it functioned as a dormhouse for nine nursing students students
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  Speaker 1: that attended the South Chicago Community Hospital. The nine students
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  Speaker 1: were busy studying for their upcoming exams, all the good
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  Speaker 1: stuff that comes along with being a student. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: it was about eleven PM that Richard arrived at the home.
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  Speaker 1: He knew exactly where it was, he knew exactly where
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  Speaker 1: he was going, and when he got there, he knew
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  Speaker 1: he needed to make his entrance as quiet as possible. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the front door would draw far too much attention, and
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  Speaker 1: he needed to get inside without being noticed, so he
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  Speaker 1: went to the back of the building. He used his
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  Speaker 1: switchblade to pry open a windows screen and he crawled inside.
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  Speaker 1: He crept through the shadows of the unlit area on
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  Speaker 1: the main floor and began slowly climbing the stairs to
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  Speaker 1: the top floor, where all the rooms were. He came
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  Speaker 1: across the first door and he moved towards it. He
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  Speaker 1: weighed his options. Should he barge in or should he wait?
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  Speaker 1: He knew there were multiple residents of the house. As
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  Speaker 1: I had mentioned, He knew where this place was, and
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  Speaker 1: he had passed it many times before on his way
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  Speaker 1: to and from a finding work and over to his
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  Speaker 1: hotel room. He knew who resided inside, so he didn't
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  Speaker 1: really want to wait either though. He had an agenda
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  Speaker 1: and he wanted to act on his sick ideas, so
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  Speaker 1: in order to avoid any immediate suspicion, he acted as
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  Speaker 1: though as he simply belonged. He raised his hand up
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  Speaker 1: to the door and he knocked.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I wasn't expecting that. But I also
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  Speaker 2: just have to say, the idea that you're just like
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  Speaker 2: in your home, like studying, sleeping, whatever, and someone is
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  Speaker 2: like literally lurking around and then gets into your home
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  Speaker 2: is disturbing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, as we talked about in part one, Richard is
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  Speaker 1: about as creepy as you fucking get.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so, but the idea of that is just like gosh,
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  Speaker 2: like ha, like I'm in my brain right now, I'm like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what the fuck do I need to lock?
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  Speaker 1: We've covered episodes before where it was like you probably
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  Speaker 1: want to lock your like what was that one the
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  Speaker 1: bedroom Strangler? Is that it where it was like the
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  Speaker 1: third or fourth floor?
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  Speaker 2: They come, oh, yeah, there are numerous cases where people
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  Speaker 2: literally like scale buildings. Yeah, like you think you're safe
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  Speaker 2: in like a fourth floor, fifth floor, sixth floor, whatever, balcony,
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  Speaker 2: you're freaking not like lock your door.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, even your balcony door, because they like you said.
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  Speaker 2: Scale and then like you need a window that freaking
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  Speaker 2: locks as well. Apparently yep.
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  Speaker 1: So well, I'm pretty sure most windows nowadays do lock.
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  Speaker 2: Two Yeah, but this was kind of like like a.
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  Speaker 1: Little bit older, but cas well and windows do get
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  Speaker 1: left open or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, So so he knocks on the fucking door.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he knocks on the door, and a moment later
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  Speaker 1: the door opened up. Now in front of Richard stood
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  Speaker 1: a twenty three year old Filipino exchange student nurse by
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  Speaker 1: the name of Corazanto Amaro. Now, Richard wasted no time.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing Corazon saw when she opened the door
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  Speaker 1: was the twenty two caliber pistol pointed directly at her face.
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  Speaker 1: She was left with no other choice but to comply
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  Speaker 1: with Richard's demands.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Man, and.
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  Speaker 1: What he wanted was for her to help gather up
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  Speaker 1: all of her other housemates.
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  Speaker 2: See, I don't know. I feel like in that scenario,
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  Speaker 2: like if you just made a ton of noise and
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  Speaker 2: just started freaking out, like I mean, yeah, I guess
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  Speaker 2: that he would have shot. He could have shot. You
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  Speaker 2: should be dead, I guess. I don't know. Sometimes though,
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  Speaker 2: with attackers, it seems like if you make a huge
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  Speaker 2: fussy he could have got scared and run away. That's true,
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  Speaker 2: But you are rolling the dice yep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're probably you have a gun in your face.
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  Speaker 2: You're probably going to freeze, and you're just going to
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  Speaker 2: freeze too when you see that.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, like I said, gun in her face,
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  Speaker 1: and like you said, she froze. Yeah, So she had
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  Speaker 1: no other choice. One by one, she led him around
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  Speaker 1: the house and they woke five other nursing students.
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  Speaker 2: Yikes.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the five women were Matilda Garulo, who is twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: Valentina Passen who is twenty three, Patricia Mettusik who is twenty,
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  Speaker 1: Pamela Wilkening, who is twenty and Nina Joe Schmail, who
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  Speaker 1: is twenty four. Then he brought them into the largest
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  Speaker 1: room in the house and he began to tie them up. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't able to complete this task very easy though,
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  Speaker 1: he would have to put his gun down to do this,
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  Speaker 1: So while using his knife to cut strips from a
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  Speaker 1: bed sheet to tie them up, he never let his
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  Speaker 1: gun be very far away from him. He kept it
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  Speaker 1: close enough so that in an instant he could reach
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  Speaker 1: over and grab it and have it at any moment. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But also the fact that he didn't have anything just
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  Speaker 2: ready to tie them up, like he really doesn't seem
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  Speaker 2: to he really thought about it that much through.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's done this before. He used someone's housecoat and
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  Speaker 1: cut it in strips to.
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  Speaker 2: Tie them up.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so this is his method almost kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a calling card of his fucking scenario.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hate that, hate that. Yeah, okay, and sorry,
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  Speaker 2: how many people does he have in the freaking living
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  Speaker 2: room right now?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he went gathered five up with the help of Corazones,
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  Speaker 1: so he has currently six.
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  Speaker 2: Six nursing students.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So needless to say, though, like women are terrified
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  Speaker 1: as they're systematically having their hands bound behind their backs
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  Speaker 1: and ankles cinched tight together.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I could only imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they were no doubt scared, but the women managed
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  Speaker 1: to keep calm and they tried to talk to Richard.
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  Speaker 1: So far, he seemed very calm himself and was talking
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  Speaker 1: very gently, and it's very reminiscent of how he had
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  Speaker 1: treated some other victims in the past as well, one
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  Speaker 1: of them being are saying that he was almost like
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  Speaker 1: a gentleman.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, like almost kind So.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same sort of situation. He had them all
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: sitting on the floor, and he actually sat down on
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: the floor as well on the other end of the room.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: He lit up a cigarette and he chatted with the women.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Wow also reassured them that he didn't want to hurt anyone.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: He just wanted some money so he could leave town
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: on a ship to New Orleans. His conversation and lighthearted
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: demeanor was easily reflected in the way that the six
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: women spoke back to him. Now, after all, he was
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: talking to multiple nursing students, students who would have gone
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: through training and classes based on dealing with patients who
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: are going through things like trauma, anxiety, and I'm sure
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: a whole other plethora of emotions. Yeah, so psychology was
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: their weapon of choice in this situation. They kept calm,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: they talked compassionately, compassionately with him, They joked, they tried
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: and you know, laughing and being light hearted or doing
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: whatever they need to, and they complied with his requests.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Their hopes were that he would simply tie them up,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: take some of the possessions around the house, and then
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: be honest.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: And then honestly, that's very impressive, it is. And they
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: probably just the fact though, how he sounds when he's
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: like talking to people, and like the situation, the vibe
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: or whatever of what's going on, you almost probably think
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: in your head, Okay, this isn't going to go that badly,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: that's right.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And their hopes are probably up because they're probably
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: seeing this reaction from the individual to training they've received. Yes,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: they're like, oh, it's going how it says it goes exactly,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: So if we keep this up, we'll be fine. Yeah,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: I mean that was their hope.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: But well, it makes sense.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: It was a far cry from how there soon to
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: be reality would play out.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I figured.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so soon another housemate would make her way home
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: from a date with her boyfriend.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Oh man, if only that date lasts longer.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: This would be twenty two year old Gloria Jeane Davey.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: She was dropped off by her boyfriend and she was
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: quickly added to the group of captives in the home,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: making the total of people in Richard's holding seven individuals.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that is terrible. Yeah, and the boyfriend,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I can only imagine he's like shit, like if only
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I like walked her in, but like you wouldn't think
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: anything like that would be going on in there.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, especially like sure you walk her to the front door,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: she goes in, yeah, good night. Whatever, she goes into
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: the house, she doesn't know until she's upstairs. You probably
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: don't know until you're gone. She probably didn't scream because
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: she's going to have a gun in her face immediately.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: So unless this man went in with her, he wouldn't
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: have known. And if he went in with her, he
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: probably would have been right there with the girls, maybe
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: even shot on spot, who knows.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: That's very true. Yep.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: So it's definitely not one of those situations where oh
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: if only, well, if only, it probably would have ended
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: up being worse honestly.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean, if only the date might have
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: lasted a smidge longer or something. Is the only if only?
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Probably eh? Oh okay, okay, never mind.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: No, that wouldn't make a difference either, So Richard instead
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: beginning to leave them out of the room one by
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: one instead of just sitting there in the room. He
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: started by taking Pamela Wilkins out. She wasn't going to
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: simply just let him be this evil guy though, because
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: their kind of demeanor had changed, they was no longer
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: this happy kind individual. He crushed out his cigarette and
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: started systematically one by one bringing them out.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, so she.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Wasn't gonna let him just be this evil guy without
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: showing her disgust to him. She would spit in his face,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: and she told him to his face that she would
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: easily pick him out of a lineup. Wow, so good
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: for her on that.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: That is good.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Like she literally hints that he was going to get
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: caught and go to jail from her own account, so
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: fuck yeah love that. Richard, however, had a different idea
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: of how things were going to play out. He started
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: by pinning her down on the bed in a nearby bedroom,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: ready to rape her.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, Martie like confused, though, Can I just ask one
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: super super quick question here? Yes, So, like he's taking
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: them one by one and the rest are just like
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: they can't move in the other room.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I guess, Yeah, they're all tied up.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: So they can't do anything.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure even if they do get out or whatever,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: he's going to hear them coming out of that bedroom.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Okay, So yeah, he's probably thinking that through.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, so he's ready to unfortunately rape this woman who's
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: bound and at his will. However, it was quickly cut short.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Two more women who lived at the home had arrived
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: from their evening out, and they happened upon Richard and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Pamela in the room. As they opened it up. In
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: this instant, all hell broke loose. Oh oh, and the
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: literal bloodbath would begin.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: No, okay.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: The two women who entered the home were Suzanne Ferris,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: who was twenty one, and Mary Anne Jordan, who was twenty. Now,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: they tried to run when they encountered this situation. I
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: freaking met Richard on top of Pamela, her being tied
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: up and pinned down, and then opening the door to
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: this shit. They tried to run, but they didn't make
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: it far. Richard managed to stop both of them before
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: they made it farther than the hallway.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: How the hell, and.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: He stabbed them both a total of twenty times with
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: his switchblade knife.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Okay, so like shit really really really just hit the fan. Yes,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: because he was out of control really at that moment. Yes,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: there's two more came in that aren't bound.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: And he lost his shit.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Oh wow.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Bodies laid lifeless, surrounded by blood, and Richard, with his
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: knife in hand, turned back towards Pamela, who is tied
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: up in the bedroom. He was dead set on leaving
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: no witnesses.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my heart, that just like that, just a little
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: scene you just that makes my heart to sink.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: And it's it's super sad because, like you say, you
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: said earlier, what if someone did scream? What if someone
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: made a loud enough noise? But these are just what ifs. However, Yeah,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: you also have someone on top of you with like
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: a gun from Corazone who had and these individuals a knife.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: You never know, you kind of got to try and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: play the cards right.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Well, those two girls that entered later and then we're
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: basically trying to run a rain being chased. I bet
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: you they did.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I bet you they did scream, but they still weren't hurt.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: So, now after Pamela, he didn't rape her, but he
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: did murder her. He did stab her with his switchblade
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: knife multiple times. After he was done, he would wash
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: his hands of all the blood and clean himself up,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: then return back to the room where the rest of
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: the women waited with in their bonds. He would take
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the next out of the room and proceed to stab
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: her repeatedly.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Holy shit, all.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: While the muffled screams were being heard from inside the
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: room where the woman were laying helpless. And I do
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: want to highlight muffled screams. They were not heard easily.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: This happened repeatedly, over and over for the course of
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the next four hours.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Holy shit.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Four hours.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. I just can't even I just can't
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: even imagine this, Like the just the sheer fear that
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: would be, like this is unbelievable.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Those four hours would feel like an absolute eternity, like absolute,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: like every second is going to feel like an hour
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: on its own.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're literally the whole time trying to figure out,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: How the fuck can I get out of this situation?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Yep? So Gloria Dean Davis Jeane Davis excuse me, was
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: last and she was, unfortunately the women that the woman
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: that Richard decided to rape. He unleashed everything on.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Gloria, Oh my gosh, anger.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: From his past, his terrible job history, his absolute fucking
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: pathetic view on women, which, if you don't recall from
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: last episode, in his mind either ye trash or like perfect.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: He sexually brutalized her for an extended period of time
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: before strangling her to death. After he had finished and
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: there was no one left in the room of captives,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Richard left the house, but not before cleaning himself up
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and stealing any valuables he found inside. He walked over
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: to a nearby bridge not too far from where he
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: had committed this crime, and chucked his bloody switchblade off
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the knife into the water before walking back to his
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: hotel room for the night.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, was his clothes just not coated as well? Like
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: just drenched in blood?
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Probably, but remember he is wearing all black. You probably
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: wouldn't see it.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, I never thought about that, could Chane something? I
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: just saw something out of the corner of my eye outside.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I was just like it was probably to some moth,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: but I'm on some serious edge right now.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Well, he would walk back to his hotel room, like
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: you say, probably coated and blood. Yeah, you don't see it.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: But he basically thought he got away with murder. He
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: committed the perfect crime. He left no witnesses, he got
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: rid of the murder weapon, everything. But what Richard didn't
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: know is there was one detail he overlooked. He intended
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: to kill any witness that night, but he failed on
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: this task. He left one witness alive. Somehow during the night,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Richard lost count of how many people were in the house.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I was wondering how the hell this happened.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Now, maybe it's because of his blind rage, or perhaps
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: because of the new faces coming into play twice over
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the course of this entire event. But one thing's for sure.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: He left behind a witness. While everything was going on
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the house, one woman managed to slip his view, and
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: that was Corazon Amorrowka, a woman who answered the knock
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: at her door to find Richard standing there with a
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: pistol in her face.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Oh shit.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: At one point she waited until Richard's back was turned
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and she rolled underneath the bed in the room that
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: everyone was held captive. And there she hid and.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: She waited seriously. Oh my god. Okay, so she is
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: super like a bad ass of the day, for sure.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: She is one hundred percent the badass of the day
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: here for these reasons wholeheartedly. But I'm going to tell
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: you the exact moment where I want to declare it. Okay,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: so though she is our badass, I'm not declaring it
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: just yetka wait for the moment and you'll understand why.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: That is the moment that tops it all off. So
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: she waited for his bag to be turned, hid under
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the bed, and there she would wait. She would hear
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: footsteps come in the room and then leave again. She
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: would hear screams, then silence, and more footsteps into the room.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Any moment she was expecting to have hands wrap around
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: her ankles and drag her out from her hiding place.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Uh huh.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: She thought there was no way she's getting away with this.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Each breath she took felt like she was literally going
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: to be breathing her last until she didn't hear any
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: more footsteps, she didn't hear any more screams, She didn't
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: hear anything. She stayed hidden under the bed for a
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: long time, long after Richard was gone, actually unsure if
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: he was even there. Still, she kept hiding. Eventually hours
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: had gone by since he had left the house, and
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Corizone finally emerged from her hiding place at six a m.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Well, because you have no idea, what if he was
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: just literally just sleep taking a nap on the freaking coach,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: which just happened in some of our cases.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: And stuff, exactly. People do stay around, Yeah, who knows, Like, oh,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: maybe he was in the room just waiting for her
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: to come out. Maybe it was a game for him.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Right. That was almost like seven hours ish that she
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: was under that bed.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Now when she did get out from underneath the bed,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: she didn't calmly and quietly like creep out and sneak
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: around either. She got up and she bolted to the
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: nearest window, opened it, leaned outside, and she began screaming
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: for help. She screamed out into the street below. They
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: are all dead, My friends are all dead. Oh God,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I'm the only one alive.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, goobs bumps, holy heck.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: She continued screaming and didn't stop until police arrived at
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the scene. Oh my gosh, so again complete badass. But
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: we gotta wait for the cherry on top.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, this isn't the cherry.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: This isn't the cherry on top. Oh, trust me, she's
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: a bad asshole.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm just like, what else is gonna happen?
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: But there's a cherry on top for it all. Just wait,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: it's coming up a little bit later, but just wait.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: So news sources would of course quickly pick up on
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: this horrific incident that occurred over the night, and a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: manhunt literally began for the individual at large. Now Richard
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: would shortly thereafter learn that he left behind a survivor
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: in the house.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Oh man, I would have loved to been a fly
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: on the wall for that moment.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Of course, the papers the new he was on TV.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: He would learn that someone is there to tell about
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the story yep. And there's someone to tell who it was,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: who did it?
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: So he of course he panicked. He tried to leave
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Chicago as quick as he could, and he began by
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: starting with using a new name. Now he would make
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: his way down to the skid Row district of Chicago,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: where he booked himself a ninety nine cent hotel room
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: under the name of our Franklin. Now he was desperate
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: to find his way out of the city, but he
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: knew public transportation would be crawling with authorities looking for
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: an individual trying to escape the city. And as time
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: went on it only got worse. Every moment that passed,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: new things came out. The police pulled a total of
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: thirty three fingerprints from the crime scene. Oh really, thirty
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: three fingerprints?
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: He was so that doesn't make any sense because he
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: thought that he was pretty much like good to go
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: after this.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, clearly he's dumb as fuck and no. Yeah, so
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: they pulled thirty three fingerprints from the scene, and together
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: with the full description given from Corazone, the prints were
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: found to be a direct match with Richard spec. Yes,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: his criminal history caught up with him and they were
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: able to identify exactly who he was. So police knew
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: who he was and now it was just a matter
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: of finding him.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: He's done, You done, buddy, So well.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Richard knew that too. He knew there was absolutely no
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: way out. It was only a matter of time. But
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: just like the night of his crime, he didn't intend
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: on getting caught. So one night, I think it was
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: three days afterwards, he downed a bottle of cheap wine,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: smashed the glass, and used the shards of the bottle
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: to cut his wrists to commit suicide.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: He slowly began to bleed out and his vision darkened.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Eventually he was unconscious, unconscious but still alive when a
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: hotel handyman found him lying in his room. Oh wow,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: so nine when one was called and he was rushed
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: to the hospital where they managed to save his life. Okay,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: but it was there that doctor Leroy Smith would recognize
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the tattoo on his arm born to raise Hell, and
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: in that instant he knew this was Richard Speck, a
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: man who committed the crime who police were looking for.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I thought it for some reason, I just assumed the
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: handyman knew. I don't know why, but so was the
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: doctor that actually correct realized.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: That they were just concerned about this individual who was
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: bleeding out and just rushing into the hospital. And it
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: came time where the doctor's the first one to really
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: like looking over him and they saw There's actual clip
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: in a documentary I watched where the doctor's talking about
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: wiping away the crusted blood off his arm. Oh my gosh,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: to reveal the tattoo.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: That's a momente.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: And he said like in that moment, I knew this
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: was the guy. So Richard would of course be sentenced
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: to a lot of things, let's put it that way.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: So to sum it all up, we would get into
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: his prison or sorry not prison sentences, court sentencing. But
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: before that he would be analyzed by a panel a
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: psychiatrists chosen both by his defense and his prosecution, and
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: he would thankfully be found competent to stand trial. Okay, So,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: during his trial, which began on April third in nineteen
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: sixty seven, Richard and his defense claimed that he had
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: absolutely no recollection of the murders. Oh of course, he
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: recalled drinking up until about eight pm, when he stated
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: that he was given an injection of speed by some
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: stranger at the bar.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: See, I have so much trouble of who the fuck
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: would even want to defend him. But I think, honestly,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: even if like someone would be appointed, like, you're entitled
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: to have someone defend you, right, yes, So I mean
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: even if someone doesn't step up, like you're probably almost
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: maybe someone asks be forced you. But because I'm like,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: how could someone literally defend him?
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I believe that's exactly how it worked, and how it
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: worked in this case is he was appointed.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, that poor soul.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: He was appointed a defense and that was their defense. Now,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: he never actually denied the murders, specifically or flat out.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: He did apparently say and this is a quote from
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: someone else who was in court reminiscing of what he said.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: So it's a quote through a quote. Okay, but he
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: did say, if I am accused of it, I don't
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: remember it. So that's kind of the attitude he approached
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: it with in court.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Well what else does he have?
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So Correzone would stand trial against Richard.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Okay, is this the moment we're getting there?
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: The moment? Yeah? Now, she painted the picture of the
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: horrific night that she and her roommates were put through
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: and how she was lucky enough to be forgotten about.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: She would quite literally point out to the jury the
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: man responsible for it, and she would do so by
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: standing directly in front of him and pointing her finger
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: inches away from him, right in his face, saying, this
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: is the man, fucking bad ass of the day.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Okay. So many moments here that just give me like
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: a shiver.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Like wow, Like she stood inches away from this fucking
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: assholeah and said, this is the guy with her finger
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: in his face.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: That's impressive. That is amazing. Well, yes, good for her,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: like right on, so.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Like she's got balls bigger than me one hundred and
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: ten percent, like wow.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean she's had some time to ste on.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: What a complete freakin' asshole. This is more so than that,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Like I don't even want to say what he is.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but I mean and fair enough, like someone
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: who's going to go through something like that, that trauma
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: is going to carry way through the rest of your life.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: You think it could go on the other way where
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: she was just completely terrified and didn't even want to
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: go into the courtroom.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean respectively, So if that is the case.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: But less than a year later, she stands inches from
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: this man and tells the entire courtroom and she points
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: to him, this.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Is the man right on. I love that? So good
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: for her?
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Fuck yes, yeah. So along with her testimony, which in
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: all honesty, the whole trial primarily was her testimony. That's
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: pretty much how this all wrapped up was because of her.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: But along with her testimony and the various fingerprints at
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: the scene that matched his. After only forty five minutes
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: of deliberation, the jury came back with a guilty verdict
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: and Richard was given the death penalty. Okay, however, there's
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: always a however.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Oh here, I'm just like, okay, yeah, this is good,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: this is a good well, and this is a shit ending,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: but like the best possible ending of a shitty scenario.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: But what well you're not going to like the ending?
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Is that?
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Not?
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: For this part? I'm going to tell you about this
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: real quick. However, it would later be changed to a
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: life sentence. Oh, nineteen seventy one. This is a fair
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: I get this, This is fair. It was changed in
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one when the Supreme Court ruled that people
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: opposed to the death penalty were unconstitutionally excluded from his
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: jury during the trial. So he did not have a
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: fair trial or fair jury in the trial as far
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: as considering death penalty.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, say that again, sorry, say that one part again.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: The jury was predominantly people who believed in the death penalty.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, So it was like he's going to be guilty,
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: and like, no matter what he's going to be.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Sentenced to that, Yes, so it was not a fair
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: distribution of death penalty or not, right, so they took
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: it away because of that reason. So he's still serving life.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so still like a good sentence.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I understand that call. So anyway, I mean I may
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: not agree with the sentence or whatever, but the call makes.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Sense, and they're not wasting money and resources and all
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: that to have like another trial.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Yes, they just went, okay, you know what, he could
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: have also gotten life instead of death, so let's just
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: give him life.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: So he served out a sentence in Stateville Correctional Center
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: in Illinois. Now, a sentence that in itself was almost
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: as odd as his life growing up. This is where
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: things take a really weird turn and where it's almost
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: like it's not a happy ending. Now. He was frequently
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: found in his cell in prison with drugs or contraband
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: like moonshine, all within his possession. Often he was given
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the nickname Birdman, apparently because he had managed to capture
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: a few sparrows that would fly into his room. So
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: we had these pet birds, So he got the nickname Birdman.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: But he kept everything in his cell very meticulous, odd individual. Now,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: amongst the drugs that were smuggled in for Richard were
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: some sort of unknown hormone therapy drugs. He began to
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: grow breasts while in prison, something he did it speculated
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: specifically to use to his advantage in prison and ensure
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: his survival in the rough atmosphere.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Oh wow.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety six, a very bizarre video was leaked
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: from his prison cell. Now, this video was taken in
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, and it was released to the public
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: by an anonymous attorney. The video shows Richard wearing silk
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: panties and being topless with his very feminine like breasts.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm sorry, but I'm just like, what's going
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: on right now? Like this is about the least thing
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: I ever expected.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, in this video that I've only seen PG
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: rated clips of Richard is performing oral sex on another
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: in while they do large amounts of cocaine. Now, quote
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: from Richard from the video has him saying, quote, if
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: they only knew how much fun I was having, they'd
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: turned me loose.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, I don't even know what to say. I am
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: just like, yeah, in shock right now? So was I okay?
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Like what just happened?
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Well, so many people wanted him to rot, to suffer,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: to justice. This isn't justice.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: And here he's just saying that he's living like his
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: best life in there and having fun. Yeah, what on
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: earth is happening? Okay? And sorry? What prison was he in?
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Oh? You're make me scroll back here?
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Oh you don't have to. I just feel like when
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: I was at Alcatrals there was a birdman.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: No, it's not that one stateful correctional center in Illinois.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, I look that up now.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Though, as I've stated, I have not watched this whole video.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: I've only seen the PG rated stuff or some highlights
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: of the PG rated stuff. There are conversations of individuals
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: asking him if he likes intercourse with men, does he
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: like receiving it from men in prison? And he's like,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: of course I do. And these men are asking him
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: about his underwear and stuff and like are you wearing
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: the silk one stain? He's like yeah, like let's see
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: take it off, and he's just like on a whim,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: He's just doing it. He's just like happy to He's basically,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: for a lack of better term, he's a sex slave
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: in prison.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: But this is almost like it was his survival mechanism. Yes,
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: very much, so just faking that.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Well, that's what a lot of people are saying. Is Okay,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: maybe he is getting a fate worse than his death
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: because he is turned into something where he is he
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: could be getting he was.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Doing this to other people in a sense.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he could be now a sex slave in prison,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: and he could be doing this as some sort of
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: coping mechanism for what he did to other people.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because he probably went in there thinking that he
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: would get murdered then because of what he's done.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so now he's almost become his own victim in
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: a sense, or he's.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: So messed in the in the head that he has
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: convinced himself that he likes this and he actually does.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe he does like this, and wow, he is
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: literally enjoying prison. Who knows?
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: I literally like, is this is this a movie like this?
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: It's bizarre because.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: This made out to me it's not. I know, I'm
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: not questioning you at all, but I'm just like this, Okay,
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: my mind's blown. Now.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: At one point in the video, another voice, well a
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: voice from behind the camera, asked Richard another question he
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: asked why he killed the women. Okay, Now, he responded
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: by saying it just wasn't their night and kind of
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: laughing it off.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Wow, asshole.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Now in this video there's a few other references to
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: the murders. This is the only time on record Richard
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: ever admitted to killing the women.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, so that was actually okay, Like he's admitting there.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like in the whole trial and everything, he's like,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: I don't remember it.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That was his defense, basically that he had no
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: recollection of it. Yeah.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: So in this video, which as far as I can tell,
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: he was not being aware. He was not aware of
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: that other was being filmed.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Oh who was filming this?
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Like I said, it was an anonymous
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: video that surfaced in nineteen ninety six when it was
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: originally recorded in nineteen eighty eight. So yeah. Richard Speck
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: would eventually die on December fifth, nineteen ninety one, the
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: eve of his fifteenth fiftieth birthday. So he died when
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: he was forty.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Nine years old, pretty young.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: He died from a sudden heart attack, just like his father.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: He spent twenty five years behind bars, and upon his creation,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: his family didn't want his body or anything to do
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: with them.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: And to this day, apparently there are only two individuals
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: who know what happened to his remains because they are
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: the individuals who had to deal with his remains. No
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: one cares to.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Know that, right there is Oh, what's the word? I
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: can't even think of the word. But that's the ultimate punishment. Really,
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: you literally have no one who gives a shit that
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: you are no longer in the world. Like that's wow,
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: Like you really fucked up.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he is like Douche Canoe beyond belief. Yeah, Like
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: fuck this guy and the whole like prison thing is
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: like if they knew how much fun I was having,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: did turn me loose? Like what the fuck?
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: When I when I watched that clip of him saying that, I.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Feel like I need to google something. I need to
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: see that.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure you don't want to see the whole video,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Like I said, no, I'd like the PG Yeah, well
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: I can. I can link the documentary that one of
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: the documentaries I used for a resource in the bottom
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: show notes of this, so you can go click on it.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: It's on YouTube and it's some highlights of that video
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: in there as well. So you guys can go check
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: it out too.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: This whole thing though like bizarre, Like the whole story
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: is just bizarre. And then to end it in that way.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the whole psychological factor in this is jaw
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: dropping beyond belief.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Like I've never heard of anything like that.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's again bizarre.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Because generally you're like, okay, this person, like, yeah, he's guilty,
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: he's going to serve life in prison. Maybe there's some
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: like he gets attacked in prison or like or something
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: or dies or something, but not like that. He literally
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: takes pills to give himself breasts and wears underwear and
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: is like a sex slave to inmates.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and like, as far as I can tell, there
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: is no there's no documentation or any statement of him
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: wanting to become transgendered or become a woman or anything
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: like that. He just did this strictly as a defense
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: mechanism to keep going, which kind of falls back to
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: again the first episode on this, people talked if he
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: didn't have a weapon in his hand, he was just spineless,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: And I think that's what it was. He didn't have
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: a weapon in his hand, so he needed some way
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: to have the power over individuals, which is exactly what
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: we talked about. Wow, first episode, he needed power somehow,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: this was his way.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: So he was basically using sex as his power in prison. Yep, well,
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: my head is spinning this Okay. I was not expecting
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: any Well I knew a little bit, but not that part.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: Holy heck, can't believe you kept that from me.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: If there's one episode or one case you guys listened
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: to from our show multiple times to try and understand things,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: or maybe even if you don't listen to us, but
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: you dive deeper in a case, this should be it,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: because holy fuck, Like I said, the psychological stuff behind
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: it is it's heavy. It's it's so deep.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: And is this a movie?
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: I don't, not that I'm aware of documentaries.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but okay, but the story kind of is. So
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry I keep saying this bizarre, but it almost
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: just seems like it needs to be made into a movie.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: It's it seems like a movie plot.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: It does because like at one point I was like,
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: is this literally real?
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah? It is?
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, that would have been interesting to research prior to researching.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: Did you know about that end part? No?
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: No? I did not.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Okay, Wow, that's probably the biggest shock of researching a
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: case ever.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Well, prior to researching this, I knew of this. I've
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: heard the name, and then I knew it was he
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: killed some women. That's all I kind of knew. And
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: then when I started scrolling, you know, looking for cases,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: you know, through a book or online or whatever, I
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: came across his name again, and it came across like
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: a quick little like meme article sort of thing, little
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: elevator pitch on how he's a mass murderer and killed
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: eight women in a dorm room essentially, and there was
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: a survivor, and I was like, you know what, we
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: haven't done a survivor for a while. I want to
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: cover her survivor. So that's kind of the case that
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: stood up, like let's do it. And then upon researching
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: it was just like holy fuck, everything just started unfolding
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, what the fuck?
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean survivor or not. Like, it's amazing.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: I'm so thankful that someone survived. Gosh, it had been
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: amazing if more people survived, but they would have probably
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: found him anyway. Yeah, I'm assuming right. She just really
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: sped up and helped the process.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: She did. I think alone the fingerprints would have pulled
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: up a match.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Eventually because his criminal record was so vast prior to right.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but she was able to give a description that
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: fit that kind of narrow down their search.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: For the yeah prints. So she was very helpful.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: But wow, okay, wow.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's the episode. Hopefully it was worth being
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: a two harder. Like I say, if there's one case
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: that you guys dive deeper into or listen to double on,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: this should be it. Because I'm just gonna leave with that.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: It was insane. Thank you for sitting here with us.
• 49:11
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• 49:13
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• 49:16
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• 49:19
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• 49:20
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• 49:23
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• 49:26
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• 49:28
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• 49:31
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• 49:34
  Speaker 2: I just have to say too, I think most people
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: make it to the end, but this is one you
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: got to put on the Instagram post because maybe they
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: are like, oh he's guilty, they just stop listening. You
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: got to listen to the end on this one. Yeah
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: that's insane. Oh yeah, but anyway, well done and until
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: next time, Not cool, Carl, stay wicked.