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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. Just after midnight on June
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Speaker 1: twenty second, nineteen ninety one, Charles Holden was on his
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Speaker 1: way home from work when he decided to stop at
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Speaker 1: a fast food restaurant near his house in Harrington, Delaware.
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Speaker 1: After grabbing a quick bite to eat, Charles left the
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Speaker 1: store and got back in his truck. He turned it
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Speaker 1: on and he was about to drive out of the
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Speaker 1: lot when he stopped because there was this man running
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Speaker 1: towards him, waving, trying to flag him down, So Charles
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Speaker 1: put his truck back in park and he rolled his
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Speaker 1: window down to see what this guy wanted. And when
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Speaker 1: this stranger got close enough, he told Charles that his
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Speaker 1: sister was having a baby and he needed a ride
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Speaker 1: to the hospital, which was about twenty minutes away. Charles
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Speaker 1: couldn't tell that this guy was lying. It was super late.
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Speaker 1: He didn't know this guy, and he said a bad
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Speaker 1: feeling about him, and so he told him, no, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: it's too late. I got to get home. It's too
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Speaker 1: far out of the way. The stranger immediately looked dejected
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Speaker 1: and turned around and started walking away, and as Charles
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Speaker 1: was watching him go, he felt bad and said, you
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Speaker 1: know what, hey, come back here. I'll give you a
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Speaker 1: ride part of the way there, And so the stranger smiled,
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Speaker 1: hopped in his passenger seat, and they took off. Charles
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Speaker 1: drove him approximately three miles in the direction he had
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Speaker 1: asked to go, before pulling over on the side of
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Speaker 1: the road and telling him this is as far as
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Speaker 1: I'm going to take you. Charles lived only about a
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Speaker 1: block away and he didn't want to drive too far
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Speaker 1: away from home so late at night. But the stranger,
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Speaker 1: upon hearing he was being let out, so soon suddenly
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Speaker 1: became angry and began fumbling in his pocket like he
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Speaker 1: was going to get a night for some sort of weapon,
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Speaker 1: and he starts screaming at Charles, hand over your keys,
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Speaker 1: hand over your walle or I'm gonna kill you. Charles meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: was on edge just being in the car with this
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Speaker 1: guy because he had a bad feeling about him, and
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Speaker 1: so he immediately jumped into action. He turned off his truck,
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Speaker 1: he ripped the keys out of the ignition, and he
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Speaker 1: leapt out of his truck and started running. Charles saw
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Speaker 1: way off in the distance was a convenience store and
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Speaker 1: he figured he could run to there and get some help.
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Speaker 1: But as he's running, he turns around and sees the
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Speaker 1: stranger has also leapt out of the car and was
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Speaker 1: now sprinting up to him with a screwdriver in his hand.
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Speaker 1: And this stranger was running really fast. He was gaining
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Speaker 1: on Charles, and soon Charles realized he wasn't gonna make
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Speaker 1: it to the convenience store before this guy caught up
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Speaker 1: to him, and so at some point Charles just stops.
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Speaker 1: He turns around and he puts his hands up and
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Speaker 1: he says, okay, okay, okay, I'll give you a ride
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Speaker 1: wherever you want to go, and then you can have
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Speaker 1: my keys, my wallet, you can have anything you want.
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Speaker 1: And so the stranger runs right up to Charles and
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Speaker 1: he stops and he smiles because he's very pleased with
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Speaker 1: this result, and he pokes him with the screwdriver and
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Speaker 1: kind of gestures for him to go back to the truck.
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Speaker 1: So Charles walks back to the truck with the stranger
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Speaker 1: right behind him, with the screwdriver periodically poking him in
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Speaker 1: the back. They finally get to the vehicle and the
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Speaker 1: stranger tells Charles to get in the car and then wait.
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Speaker 1: But as soon as Charles sat down, he fired up
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Speaker 1: his truck and sped off before the stranger could hop
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Speaker 1: in the passenger side door. And so Charles is lying
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Speaker 1: away from this guy. He looks in his rear view
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Speaker 1: mirror and he can see the guy is chasing after
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Speaker 1: him with a screwdriver held over his head, but he
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Speaker 1: sees the stranger at some point just stops, turns around
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Speaker 1: and walks away. Charles was totally relieved that he had
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Speaker 1: escaped this horrible encounter, and he was thinking about calling
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Speaker 1: the police, but ultimately decided he wouldn't because it was
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Speaker 1: his decision to allow some stranger to get in his
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Speaker 1: car in the middle of the night, and so Charles
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Speaker 1: kind of blamed himself for the whole ordeal. What Charles
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Speaker 1: was concerned about, though, was where he had ditched. The
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Speaker 1: stranger was not far from his house, and he was
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Speaker 1: worried if he just turned around and drove right back
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Speaker 1: to his house, that this guy could recognize the truck
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Speaker 1: and then follow him to his house, and then who
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Speaker 1: knows what could happen. And so Charles decides he's just
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Speaker 1: going to stay outside of town and drive around for
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Speaker 1: a while to make sure this stranger is long gone
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Speaker 1: by the time he comes back. So after about an
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Speaker 1: hour of doing just that, driving around outside of town,
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Speaker 1: Charles goes back into Harrington, Delaware, and he gets on
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Speaker 1: his street and he's shocked when he sees the stranger
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Speaker 1: who had just tried to kill him is walking down
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Speaker 1: the road right in front of him. But luckily, the
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Speaker 1: stranger did not hear or see Charles pull onto his street,
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Speaker 1: and so Charles immediately throws in a reverse and he
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Speaker 1: gets out of there, and he drives off At this point,
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Speaker 1: Charles decides he needs to tell police because he doesn't
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Speaker 1: know if this stranger actually knows him, and that maybe
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Speaker 1: he's targeting him and he's waiting for him at his property,
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Speaker 1: and so he calls nine one one and he tells
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Speaker 1: the dispatcher about what had happened earlier and how this
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Speaker 1: guy is now lurking around his property, and the dispatcher
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Speaker 1: tells him they'll send an officer out to him, and
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Speaker 1: so a few minutes later, an officer showed up at
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Speaker 1: the payphone where Charles was and they told Charles they
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Speaker 1: would escort him back to his property and if this
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Speaker 1: stranger was still out in the area, they would arrest him,
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Speaker 1: and so the two of them made their way back
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Speaker 1: to Charles's property. They get there, the stranger's long gone,
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Speaker 1: and then Charles goes into his house. There's no sign
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Speaker 1: of a break in, there's no sign that anyone was
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Speaker 1: near his property, and so Charles thanks the officer. He
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Speaker 1: feels totally relieved, but before the officer leaves, he asks
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Speaker 1: him if he wouldn't mind doing a quick sweep of
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Speaker 1: his mother's property. She lived right behind Charles on the
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Speaker 1: other side of some bushes, he told the officer her
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Speaker 1: name was Dorothy, she was seventy years old and she
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Speaker 1: lived alone, and he just wanted to make sure nothing
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Speaker 1: happened to her. So the officer said, no problem, I'll
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Speaker 1: go check in on her. So the officer leaves Charles
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Speaker 1: and goes across his backyard through those bushes into Dorothy's backyard,
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Speaker 1: and right away he can see the back window on
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Speaker 1: the back door has been smashed, and the door itself
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Speaker 1: is slightly ajar. And so the officer draws their pistol
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Speaker 1: and they go up and they enter the house and
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Speaker 1: they look inside. They're yelling for Dorothy, but there's no answer.
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Speaker 1: It's totally dark in the house. It's totally silent, and
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Speaker 1: so after searching the first floor and finding nothing, they
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Speaker 1: make their way up the flight of stairs and they
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Speaker 1: find blood at the top of the landing and they
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Speaker 1: follow this trail of blood and it brings them into
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Speaker 1: one of the bedrooms where a woman is sprawled out
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Speaker 1: on a bed. Was Dorothy. She had been stabbed to death.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out, after Charles had ditched the stranger
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Speaker 1: and sped off without him, the stranger, whose name was
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Speaker 1: Gilbert Cannon, began looking for a place to sleep, and
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Speaker 1: the house he ultimately selected just happened to be Charles's
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Speaker 1: mother's house. After Gilbert broke in through her back door,
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Speaker 1: he saw Dorothy coming down the steps to confront him,
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Speaker 1: and because he was worried she'd be able to identify him,
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Speaker 1: he attacked her with a screwdriver. Gilbert would later tell
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Speaker 1: police that the attack on Charles was completely random. He
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Speaker 1: was just at this fast food restaurant. He saw Charles
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Speaker 1: get into his truck, and he thought to himself, if
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Speaker 1: I can get in that guy's truck, I bet I
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Speaker 1: can rob him. And then after this failed robbery, when
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Speaker 1: Gilbert is out looking for a place to sleep and
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Speaker 1: he breaks into this house and this woman comes down
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Speaker 1: the stairs that he attacks and kills, he has no
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Speaker 1: idea that this woman, Dorothy, is Charles's mother. The entire
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Speaker 1: night was one big, horrible coincidence. Gilbert would plead guilty
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Speaker 1: to the murder and would be sentenced to life in
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Speaker 1: prison without the possibility of parole. In nineteen forty nine,
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Speaker 1: fifteen year old problem child ken Rex mckilroy dropped out
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Speaker 1: of school and moved to a tiny farming town called Skidmore, Missouri.
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Speaker 1: There he began his life of crime, which consisted primarily
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Speaker 1: of theft. At night, he would drive his truck onto
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Speaker 1: Skidmore residence property and he would steal their livestock, alcohol, grain, food, antiques.
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Speaker 1: Anything he could get his hands on and that he
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Speaker 1: could sell, he would take. And if the owners ever
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Speaker 1: caught him in the act, he would just raise his
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Speaker 1: rifle at them and tell them to go back inside
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Speaker 1: and never report it to the police, or he would
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Speaker 1: kill them. And because Rex was this big, two hundred
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Speaker 1: and seventy pound monster of a man who was known
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Speaker 1: for having a bad temper and for being really aggressive,
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Speaker 1: people generally just did what he asked and his crimes
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Speaker 1: went totally unreported. In the rare instances that victims would
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Speaker 1: report Rex's crimes to police, Rex would begin intimidating them
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Speaker 1: and their family by staking out their houses at all
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Speaker 1: hours of the night, or he would just walk directly
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Speaker 1: up to these victims and he would say, I will
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Speaker 1: kill you if you testify against me. And if none
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Speaker 1: of those tactics worked, Rex used some of his illegal
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Speaker 1: money to hire one of the very best defense lawyers
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Speaker 1: in the entire state, a lawyer who had famously represented
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Speaker 1: the mob, and he would step in and get Rex
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Speaker 1: off of virtually any charge, including the time Rex actually
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Speaker 1: did shoot one of the owners who caught him in
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Speaker 1: the act. Over the years, Rex would use these fear
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Speaker 1: and intimidation tactics not just to make money, but also
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Speaker 1: to prey on young women and girls. In the nineteen seventies,
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Speaker 1: when Rex was in his forties, he began stocking a
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Speaker 1: local Skidmore girl who was twelve years old named Trina.
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Speaker 1: After assaulting her dozens of times, Rex learned her family
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Speaker 1: was going to be pressing charges against him, so Rex
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Speaker 1: burned down Trina's family's house and killed the family dog,
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Speaker 1: and then threatened to kill the entire family unless they
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Speaker 1: signed paperwork that would legally marry their daughter Trina to Rex.
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Speaker 1: This would protect him legally in case they pressed any
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Speaker 1: charges against him. After the family finally relented and signed
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Speaker 1: off in the marriage, Trina was forced to come live
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Speaker 1: with Rex at his house, and within two years she
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Speaker 1: became pregnant. After the birth of her child, she took
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Speaker 1: her baby and tried to run away from Rex, and
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Speaker 1: she ran back to her family's new house and she
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Speaker 1: was hiding there, but Rex tracked her down, He took
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Speaker 1: her and their baby back, and then Rex proceeded to
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Speaker 1: burn her family's house down again and again killed their
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Speaker 1: new family dog. By the end of the nineteen seventies,
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Speaker 1: Rex wasn't only just the most hated person in Skidmore,
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Speaker 1: he was the most destructive person. He had hurt so
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Speaker 1: many people in town, but it seemed like no one
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Speaker 1: could do anything about it. It was like he was untouchable.
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Speaker 1: Then a single piece of candy changed everything. In nineteen eighty,
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Speaker 1: one of Rex's children was at a local grocery store
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Speaker 1: in Skidmore when they were caught stealing a piece of candy.
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Speaker 1: When the shopkeeper asked the child to put the candy back,
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Speaker 1: they refused and caused this huge fight. And before long
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Speaker 1: Rex has found out about this huge fight, and Rex,
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Speaker 1: instead of being upset with his child for stealing, he
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Speaker 1: becomes enraged that the shopkeeper had the audacity to accuse
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Speaker 1: his child of a crime, and so Rex began stalking
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Speaker 1: the owner of the store, a seventy year old man
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Speaker 1: named Bo, along with the rest of Bo's family at
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Speaker 1: all hours of the night. Rex would just show up
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Speaker 1: in front of their house with a gun slung across
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Speaker 1: his lap and he would fire shots into the air,
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Speaker 1: and then during the day he would walk right up
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Speaker 1: to Bo and he would tell him, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: kill you. And so Bo and his family knew it
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Speaker 1: was only a matter of time before Rex did become violent,
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Speaker 1: and they were right. In July of that year, Rex
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Speaker 1: showed up at Bo's grocery store with a shotgun in hand,
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Speaker 1: and Bo, who was in the back of the shop
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Speaker 1: loading groceries through the back door, he turns around and
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Speaker 1: he sees Rex walking up to him. They have this
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Speaker 1: heated confrontation where at some point Rex just raises a
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Speaker 1: shotgun and he fires a shot into Bo's neck. Bo
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Speaker 1: was gravely wounded, but he would survive. And Rex would
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Speaker 1: actually get arrested and would be charged with attempted murder,
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Speaker 1: and it seemed like, for once, maybe Rex was actually
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Speaker 1: going to get what was coming to him, but he didn't.
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Speaker 1: The attempted murder charge was lowered to just assault and
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Speaker 1: he was given two years in prison, but he would
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Speaker 1: only serve one day in jail before being released on bond.
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Speaker 1: And as soon as he was out on bond, he
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Speaker 1: went right to his house and he got his rifle
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Speaker 1: that had a bayonet attached at the end of it,
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Speaker 1: and he went right to the tavern in the middle
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Speaker 1: of Skidmore and he began telling anybody who would listen
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Speaker 1: that he planned to finish the job. I e. He
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Speaker 1: was going to kill Bo. And he described in very
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Speaker 1: graphic detail how he planned to do it, which involved
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Speaker 1: this rifle and this bayonet. Patrons that were at the
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Speaker 1: tavern that saw Rex and heard these claims, they were
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Speaker 1: scared for Bo, and so they left the tavern and
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Speaker 1: they told city leaders about these threats. And so city
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Speaker 1: leaders at this point they'd had enough of Rex, and
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Speaker 1: they decide they're going to host this secret meeting that
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Speaker 1: will not include Rex the following morning. So the next
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Speaker 1: morning comes around and all these angry residents they come
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Speaker 1: to this meeting and they begin discussing, you know, how
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Speaker 1: are we going to handle Rex. We can't use police,
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Speaker 1: we can't use politicians, nothing can be done. So what
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Speaker 1: are we going to do? How are we going to
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Speaker 1: put an end to his reign of terror? And after
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Speaker 1: a while they came up with a plan, and after
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Speaker 1: the meeting was done, everybody left the town hall. They
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Speaker 1: got their guns and they made their way over to
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Speaker 1: the tavern where Rex was seen earlier that morning. About
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Speaker 1: forty of these armed men surrounded the outside of this tavern,
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Speaker 1: and once they were all in place, another smaller group
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Speaker 1: of men that were all armed walked inside the tavern
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Speaker 1: and they saw Rex sitting at the bar with Trina
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Speaker 1: sitting right next to him, and so these men they
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Speaker 1: walk up right behind Rex, uncomfortably close right behind him,
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Speaker 1: and they just stand there with their guns looking at him.
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Speaker 1: And at some point Rex turns around and sees them,
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Speaker 1: and he's about to lash out and start fighting them,
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Speaker 1: but he realizes he's totally outnumbered and these men they're
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Speaker 1: standing all around him. They look like they mean business,
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Speaker 1: and so he stands up. He grabs Trina, and he
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Speaker 1: brushes past them, trying to act tough, and he walks
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Speaker 1: out of the tavern. When he gets outside, he's taken
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Speaker 1: aback at this additional group of armed men, which is
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Speaker 1: much larger, who are all standing there just looking in
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Speaker 1: at him. And so Rex at this point becomes visibly frightened,
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Speaker 1: but he grabs Trina and he walks out to his truck,
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Speaker 1: which has parked a little ways out in front of
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Speaker 1: the tavern. He gets in the driver's side. She hops
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Speaker 1: in the passenger side and Rex lights a cigarette up.
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Speaker 1: He turns on his truck and he's about to try
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Speaker 1: to drive away when a gunshot rings out and Rex
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Speaker 1: immediately slumps forward onto his wheel. One of the Skidmore
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Speaker 1: residents runs up to the truck. They open up the
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Speaker 1: passenger side and they grabbed Trina, who was unhurt, pulled
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Speaker 1: her out and rushed her to safety. Once she was clear,
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Speaker 1: the other residents with their guns just moved in on
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Speaker 1: the truck and for twenty seconds they opened fire on Wreck.
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Speaker 1: The shooting was over, nobody called an ambulance. Everyone just
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Speaker 1: stood there and watched as the town bully died. In all,
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Speaker 1: there were forty six witnesses that were there when Rex
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Speaker 1: was murdered, but they all said they had either not
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Speaker 1: seen the shooting or they didn't know who the shooter was,
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Speaker 1: and despite a lengthy federal investigation, none of the witnesses
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Speaker 1: ever changed their stories, and so as a result, no
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Speaker 1: one was ever charged with Rex's murder. Years later, a
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Speaker 1: Skidmore resident when asked what happened here, they just said
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Speaker 1: that man needed a killing. On the morning of March eighteenth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety, a young woman named Karen parked her car
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Speaker 1: just outside of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Speaker 1: This famous museum is home to over fifteen thousand pieces
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Speaker 1: of priceless art from Ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia,
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Speaker 1: the Islamic world, in nineteenth century France, and America. The
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Speaker 1: outside of this four story building is strikingly plain, but
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Speaker 1: inside is strikingly gorgeous. There is this lush, green, open
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Speaker 1: air courtyard that sits right in the middle of the
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Speaker 1: museum that all of the galleries looked down into. Karen
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Speaker 1: was an art enthusiast and she was a security guard
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Speaker 1: at this museum and that day she was on duty.
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Speaker 1: After parking her car, she got out and walked her
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Speaker 1: way over to the employee entrance, and there she pressed
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Speaker 1: the buzzer and announced her arrival to the two night
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Speaker 1: shift guards that she would be relieving. But after a
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Speaker 1: few seconds, the night shift guards did not respond to her,
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Speaker 1: and they did not unlock the door, and sof while
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Speaker 1: Karen pressed the buzzer again and said I'm here, can
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Speaker 1: you please open the door? But again the guards that
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Speaker 1: were on duty did not respond back to her, and
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Speaker 1: the door did not open. This was highly unusual, so
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Speaker 1: Karen left the door, found a payphone and called the
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Speaker 1: chief of security for the museum, who lived out in town,
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Speaker 1: and told him she couldn't get in the building. So
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Speaker 1: about ten minutes later, the chief of security shows up
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Speaker 1: and he takes Karen and he walks her around to
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Speaker 1: the other side of the building. He leads her up
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Speaker 1: an outdoor flight of stairs to another entrance to the museum.
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Speaker 1: He pulls out a big ring of keys, he finds
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Speaker 1: the right one, and he opens the door. The entrance
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Speaker 1: they were going through placed them in this dark hallway
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Speaker 1: that stretched out straight in front of them, and then
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Speaker 1: at the very end of the hallway on the right
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Speaker 1: was this very brightly lit room that the door was
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Speaker 1: wide open to, and that was the security office where
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Speaker 1: the guards were supposed to be. And so Karen and
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Speaker 1: the chief they begin walking down this hallway expecting to
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Speaker 1: get to the end of it and look inside this
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Speaker 1: room and see these guards and get an explanation for
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Speaker 1: why they didn't buzz Karen in in the first place.
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Speaker 1: But when they reached the into the hallway and they
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Speaker 1: look in this office, there's nobody inside of there, And
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Speaker 1: now that they were up closed, they could see the
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Speaker 1: door leading into the security office had been smashed open.
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Speaker 1: In fact, the doorknob to this door had been smashed
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Speaker 1: off and was laying on the ground. And then next
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Speaker 1: to it, right in front of them, was this metal crowbar.
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Speaker 1: And then above them the one camera that would have
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Speaker 1: seen whatever it happened in the hallway. It had been
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Speaker 1: turned around and was facing the wall. So Karen and
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Speaker 1: the chief they know they've stumbled on something that's probably
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Speaker 1: really bad. They don't know what it is. They don't
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Speaker 1: know if there's still people inside the museum, they don't
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Speaker 1: know where the guards are. So the chief just grabs
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Speaker 1: the crowbar for protection and he and Karen run into
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Speaker 1: the office and they call police. Although they didn't know
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Speaker 1: it yet, Karen and the Chief had just discovered one
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Speaker 1: of the most famous crimes in history. The night before,
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Speaker 1: twenty three year old security guard Rick Abath trudged his
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Speaker 1: way down the walkway towards the employee entrance of the museum.
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Speaker 1: He and another young man named Randy were scheduled to
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Speaker 1: work the overnight shift that night. Rick hated his job
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Speaker 1: at the museum because it was incredibly boring, but Rick
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Speaker 1: didn't really have many other employment opportunities to choose from.
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Speaker 1: He was a guy that had dropped out of music
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Speaker 1: school and spent most of his time smoking marijuana, drinking beer,
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Speaker 1: and playing in his friend's rock band, and so he
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Speaker 1: just kept this job that he hated. Once Rick got
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Speaker 1: inside the museum, he walked over to the office, where
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Speaker 1: he found his partner that night, Randy, was already sitting
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Speaker 1: behind the desk. After chatting with him for a few minutes,
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Speaker 1: Rick said he would do the first set of security rounds,
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Speaker 1: and so he grabbed a walkie talkie in a flashlight
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Speaker 1: and he headed out to the exhibit halls. Almost immediately,
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Speaker 1: a fire alarm went off. Rick went to the area
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Speaker 1: where it was going off, and he investigated and did
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Speaker 1: not see a fire, and so he just turned the
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Speaker 1: alarm off. The building was very old and it wasn't
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Speaker 1: uncommon for their electronics to fail or glitch, and so
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Speaker 1: after this Rick didn't think much of it. He continued
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Speaker 1: doing his security rounds and after about thirty more minutes
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Speaker 1: of that, he made his way back down to the
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Speaker 1: talkie and flashlight and headed out into the exhibits. About
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Speaker 1: thirty minutes later, while Randy was still doing his security rounds,
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Speaker 1: Rick had his head down on the desk when he
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Speaker 1: heard the sound of the buzzer coming from one of
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Speaker 1: the outside doors. He lifted his head up and he
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Speaker 1: looked at the screen that was connected to the camera,
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Speaker 1: looking down at whoever was outside at this door, and
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Speaker 1: he saw there were two police officers standing right outside
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Speaker 1: the door, and so he reached over and he pressed
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Speaker 1: the intercom button and he said, hey, can I help you?
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Speaker 1: And the officers said they were there responding to a
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Speaker 1: disturbance call. Can they come inside? Now? Rick didn't know
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Speaker 1: what this was about. He assumed it must have to
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Speaker 1: do with maybe the fire alarm that had gone off earlier,
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Speaker 1: or maybe somebody outside had seen someone trying to break
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Speaker 1: in and they had called it in. But either way,
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Speaker 1: let them in, even though it was against protocol to
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Speaker 1: allow anyone into the museum after hours, including police. And
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Speaker 1: so the two officers they come through the doors and
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Speaker 1: they wind up in the hallway right outside of the
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Speaker 1: security office, and there's a window into the security office,
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Speaker 1: so both the officers and Rick can see each other.
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Speaker 1: And the officers immediately say to Rick, hey, are you
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Speaker 1: working alone tonight? And Rick says, no, my partner is
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Speaker 1: out doing security rounds. He'll be back soon, and so
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Speaker 1: the officers just kind of nod heads and they're looking
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Speaker 1: around the room for a second, and one of them,
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Speaker 1: as he glances at Rick again, he does kind of
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Speaker 1: a double take and he goes, wait a minute, I
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Speaker 1: think I know you. There's a warrant out for your arrest.
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Speaker 1: You need to come out here and show me your ID.
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Speaker 1: And so Rick is caught completely off guard, but he
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Speaker 1: out of the office, he goes out into the hallway,
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Speaker 1: and as he's about to present his ID to the
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Speaker 1: inquiring officer, the officer just grabs him, pushes him up
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Speaker 1: that had not handcuffed Rick, grabs Randy and does the
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Speaker 1: same thing, presses him up against the wall and handcuffs him.
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Speaker 1: And so as Randy and Rick are standing there up
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Speaker 1: against the wall with their hands behind their back, they're
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Speaker 1: looking at each other. They're looking around thinking what's going
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Speaker 1: on here? And at some point Randy just blurts out,
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Speaker 1: the officers just says, oh, you're not being arrested, you're
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Speaker 1: being robbed. Rick and Randy were led by the imposter
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Speaker 1: cops down into the basement of this building, where they
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Speaker 1: were bound and gagged with duct tape. And then these
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Speaker 1: two thieves proceeded to spend the next eighty one minutes
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Speaker 1: walking all around the museum, ultimately stealing thirteen pieces of
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Speaker 1: Rick and Randy were discovered unhurt later that morning by police,
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Speaker 1: numerous viable theories, and a massive monetary reward, these two
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Speaker 1: art thieves were never caught and remain at large today.
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