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  Speaker 1: I had met Sam just two years ago on a
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  Speaker 1: road trip to the Grand Canyon with our friends, and
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  Speaker 1: we had clicked since then. We had done over nine
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  Speaker 1: such road trips from Yellowstone to Europe and India, but
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  Speaker 1: then we decided to do the Australian Outback. We were
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  Speaker 1: young and high on adventure, but all that changed when
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  Speaker 1: our car broke down. Hours passed before we saw anyone.
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  Speaker 1: The sun was sinking into the dust, and I was
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  Speaker 1: getting worried. I had heard that it could be days
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  Speaker 1: before you would see anyone in the Australian Outback because
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  Speaker 1: the place was so deserted. But that is when a
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  Speaker 1: truck finally pulled up. The driver, Grant, was about fifty,
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  Speaker 1: grizzled and lean, with sharp eyes that didn't waste a
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  Speaker 1: second to check out my body. He offered to help,
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  Speaker 1: his voice gravelly, a smile a little too wide. Sam
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  Speaker 1: was relieved, but my sixth sense felt that something was wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we should wait for someone else. Sam he just
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Sam laughed it off.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to let it go, but the whole time
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  Speaker 1: we drove with Grant, my eyes kept drifting to his
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  Speaker 1: hands on the wheel, his fingers tapping out an odd rhythm.
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  Speaker 2: He glanced in the mirror and checked me out.
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  Speaker 1: His questions were strange, too, personal, probing, as if he
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  Speaker 1: were peeling us apart, one layer at a time. We
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  Speaker 1: stopped at a small shack for gas, from where he
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  Speaker 1: got us water. He must have slipped something into it,
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  Speaker 1: because even though I did not drink the water, Sam did.
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  Speaker 1: Soon after, his eyes started to droop and his words
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  Speaker 1: started to slur. Back on the road, Sam's head lulled,
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  Speaker 1: his hands slipped from mine, and my pulse spiked.
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  Speaker 2: That's when Grant's face changed.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't bother with smiles anymore, just yanked the van
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  Speaker 1: off the road, saying that there.
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  Speaker 2: Was a puncture.
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  Speaker 1: But the next moment he opened my side of the
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  Speaker 1: door and slammed a rent on my head. He then
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  Speaker 1: pulled out a set of cable ties, tied our hands,
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  Speaker 1: our feet.
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  Speaker 2: He even gagged us.
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  Speaker 1: He dragged us into the back of the van, and
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  Speaker 1: I realized how well prepared he was.
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  Speaker 2: This wasn't the first time night fell.
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  Speaker 1: As he drove us deeper into the desert, farther from
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  Speaker 1: the highway, from any hope of rescue, I lost track
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  Speaker 1: of time.
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  Speaker 2: Sinking in and out of a fog of terror.
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  Speaker 1: When the van finally stopped, Grant opened the back doors.
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  Speaker 2: He grabbed Sam first, dragging him out, and.
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  Speaker 1: I watched helpless as he tied him to a post
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  Speaker 1: in the sand.
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  Speaker 2: He turned back to me, his voice low.
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  Speaker 3: Don't even think about running, beautiful, just sit tight on
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  Speaker 3: those lovely thighs of yours.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as he was out of sight, I forced
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  Speaker 1: myself to move, working the cable ties against the rough
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  Speaker 1: metal floor. It was slow, agonizing, but the ties finally
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  Speaker 1: snapped and I slipped out of the van. I ran
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  Speaker 1: into the thick shrubs by the side, concealing myself. Just
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  Speaker 1: as Grant turned back from my hiding place, I watched
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  Speaker 1: him walk back to Sam. His face twisted into something
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  Speaker 1: cold and inhuman. He began taunting him, but Sam was
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  Speaker 1: disoriented from whatever he had mixed in his water.
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  Speaker 2: Come out now, beautiful, into my arms.
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  Speaker 1: The snakes and spiders will get those thick legs of yours.
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  Speaker 1: Then came the sounds, the dull thud of fists, the
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  Speaker 1: snap of bone. I pressed my hands to my mouth,
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  Speaker 1: tears streaming as I watched Grant torture Sam, trying to
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  Speaker 1: lure me out, but All I could do was crouch
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  Speaker 1: there in the dirt, praying. When it was over, Grant's
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  Speaker 1: voice sliced through the darkness.
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  Speaker 3: Chloe, I know you're out there. Look he's gone. Now,
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  Speaker 3: let me be the man who takes care of you.
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  Speaker 1: He prowled the scrub with a flashlight, sweeping it across
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  Speaker 1: the desert floor. Each time the light passed over me,
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  Speaker 1: I stopped breathing, my muscles clenched to stone. Grant took
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  Speaker 1: his time, enjoying the hunt, calling my name in a
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  Speaker 1: mocking tone that made my skin crawl. I sat there
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  Speaker 1: until morning, too afraid to move. My throat was raw
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  Speaker 1: from thirst, my mind barely holding on. Finally, I stumbled
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  Speaker 1: back to the road, hoping for a miracle. Hours later,
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  Speaker 1: a small truck appeared on the horizon, a dusty speck
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  Speaker 1: growing closer. I staggered into the road, waving my arms
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  Speaker 1: and collapsed as the driver pulled over. I woke up
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  Speaker 1: in a hospital two days later, swarmed by police officers.
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  Speaker 1: They set out a hunt, and it took them two
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  Speaker 1: weeks to finally catch Grant. Unfortunately, Sam's body was never found,
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  Speaker 1: and Grant did not speak a word of it. This
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  Speaker 1: story draws inspiration from the real life murder of Peter Falconio.
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  Speaker 1: In two thousand and one, Falconio and his girlfriend Joanna
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  Speaker 1: Lee's were traveling through Australia's remote outback when they encountered
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  Speaker 1: Bradley John Murdoch, a local mechanic. Murdoch shot Falconio, then
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  Speaker 1: attempted to abduct Lee's, who managed to escape and hide
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  Speaker 1: in the dense outback brush. She waited for hours, evading Murdoch,
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  Speaker 1: and eventually flagged down a passing truck to safety. Falconio's
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  Speaker 1: body was never found, but Murdoch was later captured and
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  Speaker 1: convicted of his murder, serving a life sentence. This chilling
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  Speaker 1: case remains one of Australia's most infamous vacation tragedies. It
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  Speaker 1: was a quiet morning at the Ritzun Cancun. The hotel
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  Speaker 1: had its usual holiday energy, The pool was full of
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  Speaker 1: laughter as the music drifted up from below, and everything
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  Speaker 1: in that warm golden light you only get here. But
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  Speaker 1: something felt different that morning. A heaviness I couldn't shake.
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  Speaker 1: Four to twenty seven was on my list that day.
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  Speaker 1: I'd been by it yesterday and noticed the do not
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  Speaker 1: disturb sign left hanging for days. But people were on vacation.
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  Speaker 1: They'd get up to do their own things, and we
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  Speaker 1: respected their privacy. So I hadn't thought much of it
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  Speaker 1: until I stood there with the cleaning cart by my side,
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  Speaker 1: listening to the silence inside.
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  Speaker 2: I knocked twice.
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  Speaker 1: That careful housekeeping call in a bright voice meant to
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  Speaker 1: cut through even the heaviest hangover. Nothing, just an unsettling quiet,
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  Speaker 1: thick like a fog around the door. It was on
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  Speaker 1: the third knock that I noticed there was unlocked. I
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  Speaker 1: looked around, wondering if it was an accident. The DND
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  Speaker 1: sign was still there, but then I pushed the door
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  Speaker 1: open slowly. My heart skipped a beat as it creaked,
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  Speaker 1: and darkness met me from inside the room. The curtains
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  Speaker 1: were drawn tight, as if to keep the light out.
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  Speaker 2: Ma'am sir, it's housekeeping.
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  Speaker 1: I called loudly, waiting for a response as I slowly
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  Speaker 1: shuffled in. There were no voices, no hint of laughter
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  Speaker 1: or movement, only stillness that made my pulse quicken. As
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  Speaker 1: I stepped in, my eyes adjusted to the dimness. The
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  Speaker 1: bed was slightly unmade, a sheet crumpled halfway across, shoes
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  Speaker 1: were left in a strange pattern on the carpet, like
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  Speaker 1: someone had stepped out quickly, never intending to come back.
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  Speaker 1: A faint smell hung in the air. Not the usual
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  Speaker 1: leftover perfume or sunscreen. Now this was sharper, something bitter
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  Speaker 1: and metallic that seemed to settle heavy in my lungs.
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  Speaker 1: I felt a cold prickle at the back of my neck.
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  Speaker 1: Something was warning me that this wasn't right, but the smell,
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  Speaker 1: that coppery edge. The curiosity in me had to know.
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  Speaker 1: The smell grew stronger as I moved closer to the bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: each step making it harder to ignore. That metallic scent
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  Speaker 1: hit me again and again, stronger each time, almost sour.
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  Speaker 1: I whispered, calling out in a trembling voice, lay but
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  Speaker 1: the only answer was silence, an echo that seemed to
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  Speaker 1: bounce right back at me. Then I saw it, a
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  Speaker 1: dark smud streak trailing from the bed to the bathroom door,
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  Speaker 1: a line too dark to be anything but blood. My
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  Speaker 1: hands shook as I reached for the bathroom door, fingers
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  Speaker 1: barely gripping the handle. Every instinct screamed to me to leave,
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  Speaker 1: to close the door, to call someone else. But something stronger,
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  Speaker 1: a horrible kind of curiosity pushed me to open it.
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  Speaker 1: The door opened slowly, and I froze inside. The light
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  Speaker 1: from the bathroom cast a faint glow across the tiles,
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  Speaker 1: and there, lying twisted and still, was her body, slumped
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  Speaker 1: in the tub. The girl lay there in the bathtub
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  Speaker 1: with her head tipped to one side, eyes half open and.
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  Speaker 2: Glassy, staring into nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Her skin was pale, his bruises darkened along her neck
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  Speaker 1: and arms, and there on her wrists were dark, angry marks,
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  Speaker 1: like she'd been held down, forced still, while someone took
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  Speaker 1: the life away from her. The water was pink, swirling
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  Speaker 1: in lazy circles in the tub, like some grim twisted
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  Speaker 1: snow globe holding a nightmare. I tried to breathe, but
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  Speaker 1: the air was thick, and the smell of iron filled
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  Speaker 1: my lungs until I thought I'd choke. I backed up,
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  Speaker 1: my foot, slipping on the tile. My eyes glued to
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  Speaker 1: her face. She'd been beautiful once, long, dark hair, soft features,
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  Speaker 1: but now her lips were split, swollen. Her face held
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  Speaker 1: this look as if the last thing she'd seen wasn't
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  Speaker 1: of this world, but something from the depths, something so
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  Speaker 1: dark it had frozen her terror forever. I turned to leave,
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  Speaker 1: to run, but something kept me there, staring, as if
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  Speaker 1: I were in a trance. I wanted to scream, but
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  Speaker 1: my voice wouldn't come. And then, as I took one
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  Speaker 1: last look, I thought I saw her eyes, just for
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  Speaker 1: a second, flicker, like she was still there, trapped somehow,
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  Speaker 1: watching me pleading. But it was just a trick of
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  Speaker 1: the light, a horror that burned into my mind that
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  Speaker 1: I'd never forget. I stumbled out of the room, feeling
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  Speaker 1: the walls press in around me. Every shadow held a shape,
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  Speaker 1: every sound stretched out like a whisper, something reminding me
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  Speaker 1: of the awful truth I'd just seen. When the police
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  Speaker 1: finally arrived, I watched them enter Room for twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: their eyes hard, their faces pale as they took in
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  Speaker 1: the scene. They didn't speak much. They didn't have to.
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  Speaker 1: Everything was in that room, Every dark detail was etched
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  Speaker 1: into the carpet, the walls, the tub. As they wheeled
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  Speaker 1: her out of Room for twenty seven, the cat was
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  Speaker 1: out of the box. So Tiva Transu was just twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: She had been here with her boyfriend Taylor Allan. They'd
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  Speaker 1: come from Water, Washington for what should have been a
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  Speaker 1: sunny escape in CanCon, but just hours before she messaged
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  Speaker 1: friends telling them she and Alan had argued. Her friends
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  Speaker 1: grew worried when she went silent after that She'd never
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  Speaker 1: checked out, never answered. Alan had beaten her to death.
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  Speaker 1: It was a crime of passion. It was something cold
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  Speaker 1: and calculated. The boyfriend was arrested, and his blank, indifferent
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  Speaker 1: face was all over the screen, staring right at us.
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  Speaker 2: Like he didn't care what he'd done.
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  Speaker 1: When I closed my eyes that night, I saw her
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  Speaker 1: outline under that sheet.
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  Speaker 2: This story is based on the murder of Sativa.
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  Speaker 1: Sativa Transu, twenty six, and her boyfriend Taylor Allen, thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: were vacationing for the Thanksgiving holiday in Cancun, Mexico. A
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  Speaker 1: hotel worker found her inside her room on the twenty
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  Speaker 1: seventh of November and called nine to one one to
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  Speaker 1: report an unconscious woman. According to the Mexican police, Transu
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  Speaker 1: was killed the previous night. On twenty six November, Alan
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  Speaker 1: was arrested for femicide by Mexican authorities. According to the
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  Speaker 1: Transux family, it is believed that Alan remains in prison
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  Speaker 1: in Mexico. It all started with a phone call in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the night, two British tourists were found
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  Speaker 1: dead on Syrie Beach, one of those paradise islands that
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  Speaker 1: travelers are so drawn to. The bodies, half naked and
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  Speaker 1: brutally beaten, showed signs of violence. The worst part, the girl,
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  Speaker 1: Hannah Witherreg, had been ripped. I knew this case wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be easy, but I never imagined did we be so complex.
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  Speaker 1: The morgue it's not a pleasant place, but it's where
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  Speaker 1: everything begins. Salvador Lereaux, the forensic examiner, was going over
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  Speaker 1: the bodies when I arrived.
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  Speaker 2: He told me they couldn't do fingerprint analysis.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have the right technology, he murmured as he
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  Speaker 1: examined Hannah's body. Still, I couldn't shake the feeling that
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  Speaker 1: something didn't add up. Salvador, with his perpetually trembling hands,
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  Speaker 1: handed me a small, crumpled piece of paper, an invitation
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  Speaker 1: to a party, which had been found in the hands
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  Speaker 1: of David Miller, one of the victims who had drowned.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Lafleur was the name of the host, a seemingly
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  Speaker 1: ordinary tourist, but the coincidence that he had arrived on
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  Speaker 1: the same flight as the victims and rented the large
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  Speaker 1: hall for a party. Left me uneasy. I spoke to
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  Speaker 1: my colleague Ricardo. He's always been there for me in
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  Speaker 1: situations like this. I told him about Eric Lafleur. You're right,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be a key figure. I'll try to check the
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  Speaker 1: city records just to see if I can find anything interesting,
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  Speaker 1: he suggested. Ricardo always had good ideas and his help
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  Speaker 1: was never unwelcome. I went straight to the hotel where
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  Speaker 1: the couple were staying, but something strange happened. There was
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  Speaker 1: no record of Eric LeFleur at the hotel. It was
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  Speaker 1: as if he had never existed. When I reported this
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  Speaker 1: to my superiors, they immediately blocked me. They told me
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't investigate further without proper authorization. The hotel and staff.
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  Speaker 1: Everything gave me a bad feeling. I couldn't stand by
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  Speaker 1: and watch, so I decided to take matters into my
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  Speaker 1: own hands. I went to the scene of the crime,
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  Speaker 1: a deserted beach with salty, cold air. There wasn't much
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  Speaker 1: information left. The officers had already searched everything. To be honest,
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  Speaker 1: their lack of professionalism frightens me. This scene was compromised,
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  Speaker 1: but Ricardo sent me an interesting piece of information. Only
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  Speaker 1: one vehicle had been rented on the island in recent
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  Speaker 1: weeks a LORI. The photos didn't reveal much, but it
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  Speaker 1: was enough to follow the trail. I decided to take
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  Speaker 1: Ricardo's advice again. Why don't we check the security cameras.
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  Speaker 1: I went to the local surveillance center and spoke to Eduardo,
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  Speaker 1: the manager. I knew I could trust him. We spent
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  Speaker 1: hours going through the footage. We saw the truck in question.
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  Speaker 1: It was on its way to a remote area of
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  Speaker 1: the island. Although the cameras only covered part of the route,
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  Speaker 1: it was something I could use. Armed with that information,
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  Speaker 1: I went there. There was blood on the floor, stains
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  Speaker 1: that had been hastily cleaned up. I knew I was
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  Speaker 1: on something big, but I didn't realize how dangerous it was.
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  Speaker 1: I called Salvador, the forensic expert, and asked him to
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  Speaker 1: tell the officers to come and investigate. I insisted that
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  Speaker 1: he personally carry out a blood test. I think we've
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  Speaker 1: at least got that, that's the most basic thing. Several
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  Speaker 1: days have passed since my last report. I finally got
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  Speaker 1: the authorization I needed to investigate the hotel I was
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  Speaker 1: eager to get to the bottom of things. The reception
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  Speaker 1: area was quite quiet. In fact, the receptionist offered to
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  Speaker 1: take me to the main hall orself, and they had
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  Speaker 1: prepared something very special for me as a gesture of goodwill.
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  Speaker 1: I expected it to be something of great importance, but
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  Speaker 1: judging their words, there were probably just trying to get
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  Speaker 1: me drunk to get rid of me. Still, I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: going to be distracted. I told them that I wanted
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  Speaker 1: access to the rooms in the lower part, and they
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  Speaker 1: said that they would do.
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  Speaker 2: It, but only after the gift.
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  Speaker 1: When I arrived at the hall, I didn't find any
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  Speaker 1: party or people.
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  Speaker 2: What I saw stopped me in my tracks.
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  Speaker 1: Bodies Salvador, the forensic expert, Ricardo, my assistant who had
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  Speaker 1: told me every detail of the case, and Eduardo, the
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  Speaker 1: man who helped me with the cameras, all dead.
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  Speaker 2: How and why? I didn't have time to think about it.
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  Speaker 1: The police stormed the hall and immediately pointed to me
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  Speaker 1: as the main suspect. They accused me of killing the
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  Speaker 1: tourists and all the collaborators. It was ridiculous, but the
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  Speaker 1: case had already been built. The prosecutor presented evidence that
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  Speaker 1: seemed impossible to refute my fingerprints on the car and
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  Speaker 1: on the bodies. But how they told me it was
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  Speaker 1: impossible to lift fingerprints with the equipment they had.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I tried to explain.
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  Speaker 1: I told you all this in detail, straight from my diary,
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  Speaker 1: and here I am standing before you, telling you every
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  Speaker 1: step I took, every clue I followed, every mistake I made,
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  Speaker 1: trying to convince you that I didn't do it. I
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  Speaker 1: told you how I discovered that there was someone else,
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  Speaker 1: someone powerful, behind it all. Eric Lafleur wasn't just any tourist,
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  Speaker 1: as I said. He was connected to the highest circles
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  Speaker 1: of power, even had meetings with a prominent congressman from
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  Speaker 1: the Island, an untouchable man. It was obvious that I
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  Speaker 1: had been set up.
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  Speaker 2: But why?
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  Speaker 1: The new forensic expert, whom I had never seen before,
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  Speaker 1: delivered the final blow in the trial, claiming that he
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  Speaker 1: had always been in charge and that this so called
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  Speaker 1: Salvador never existed. He said that the fingerprints on the
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  Speaker 1: van and the bodies were mine, as if it were irrefutable.
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  Speaker 1: But I knew it was impossible. I had never touched
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  Speaker 1: those bodies. Salvador the original forensic expert had died, and
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  Speaker 1: with him the whole truth, and Eduardo, the only person
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  Speaker 1: who could have confirmed my version, was also dead. The
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  Speaker 1: most outrageous thing was that there were two other men,
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  Speaker 1: obviously beaten and tortured, who.
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  Speaker 2: Claimed to be my accomplices.
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  Speaker 1: I'd never seen these men before, but they produced photos
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  Speaker 1: with them that was clearly doctored. There was nothing I
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  Speaker 1: could do. I was sentenced to life imprisonment. Everything was
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  Speaker 1: too perfectly orchestrated, every piece carefully placed to incriminate me.
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  Speaker 1: I left the courtroom in silence, and as I passed
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  Speaker 1: through the doors, I saw him, Eric Lafleur, sitting in
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  Speaker 1: a nearby restaurant, enjoying his meal, as if nothing had happened.
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  Speaker 1: He looked at me, and his smile froze my soul.
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  Speaker 1: He was the hidden killer, and now while I was
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  Speaker 1: on my way to prison, he was free and laughing.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: In September twenty fourteen, the bodies of two British tourists,
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  Speaker 1: Hannah Witherridge and David Miller, were found on Sirie Beach, Kotal, Thailand.
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  Speaker 1: Both had been brutally murdered. Hannah was raped and beaten,
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  Speaker 1: while David was beaten and drowned. Thai police, under pressure
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  Speaker 1: over the potential impact on tourism, launched an investigation and
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: quickly arrested two Burmese migrant workers, Zaul Lynn and Wi Fo,
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  Speaker 1: on the basis of DNA evidence and confessions obtained after
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: lengthy interrogation. However, the defendants claimed that their confessions had
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: been extracted under torture. The case drew international criticism for
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the mishandling of evidence, possible contamination of the crime scene,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: and lack of due process. Despite the irregularities in the investigation,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the two Burmese men were sentenced to death in twenty fifteen.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: by the King of Thailand.