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This Thai resort is a TOURIST (DEATH) TRAP · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today's story has a very surprising ending, and I do
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. Early on the evening of
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Speaker 1: June twelfth, twenty twelve, a twenty five year old woman
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Speaker 1: named Noemi Belanje opened up the door to her hotel
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Speaker 1: room on Pepe Island, which is a major tourist destination
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Speaker 1: in Thailand. Once the door was unlocked, Miami pushed it
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Speaker 1: open and she held it for her little sister, twenty
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Speaker 1: year old Adrey, who came in wheeling. All their suitcases.
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Speaker 1: Noemi and Adrey were both from Quebec, Canada, and they
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Speaker 1: were also both college students, and they were on this
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Speaker 1: big month long vacation to celebrate the end of the
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Speaker 1: school year. They had been in Vietnam for the past
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Speaker 1: three weeks, and today they had arrived in Thailand and
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Speaker 1: their plan was to stay here for a bit before
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Speaker 1: finally heading back to Quebec. But for right now, Noemi
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Speaker 1: in particular, was feeling really exhausted. I mean, there was
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Speaker 1: a lot of travel getting here today, and the past
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Speaker 1: three weeks had been loads of travel, and Miami was
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Speaker 1: kind of hitting a wall. And so as soon as
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Speaker 1: she got into the room, all she really wanted to
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Speaker 1: do was just flop down on the bed and just
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Speaker 1: lay there for a little while. But she had also
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Speaker 1: become a fairly experienced traveler by this point, and she
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Speaker 1: knew before she did that, she just wanted to make
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Speaker 1: sure that the bed was cleanly, you know, I mean
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Speaker 1: make sure there were no bed bugs or you know,
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Speaker 1: unclean sheets or something. And so she went over and
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Speaker 1: pulled the sheets back and checked, and the sheets were pristine.
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Speaker 1: It was beautiful. The room felt super nice, and so
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Speaker 1: she just flopped down on the bed and just enjoyed
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Speaker 1: the air conditioning. And at the same time that she
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Speaker 1: was doing this, Andre who very likely was also feeling
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Speaker 1: all the you know, the symptoms of travel over so
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Speaker 1: many weeks. I mean, she likely was very, very tired,
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Speaker 1: but she instead of laying down, went right into the
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Speaker 1: bathroom and started getting ready for the night. And Noami
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Speaker 1: sort of understood why. So while the girls were in Vietnam,
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Speaker 1: they had met these two really nice guys who were
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Speaker 1: from Brazil and they had kind of hit it off,
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Speaker 1: and you know, they had left today to go to Thailand,
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Speaker 1: and wouldn't you know it, it turned out those guys
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Speaker 1: their itinerary included them coming to Thailand today, and so
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Speaker 1: it was kind of like this revelation at the end
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Speaker 1: of their time in Vietnam that they would not have
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Speaker 1: to stay goodbye basically forever, but instead, you know, the
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Speaker 1: good times could keep on rolling in Tiler And so
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Speaker 1: the plan was that night they would meet up with
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Speaker 1: these two guys, these Brazilian guys, out on the beach
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Speaker 1: and basically party with them and just have a fun night. Now,
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Speaker 1: Miaemi was looking forward to this night out with these
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Speaker 1: two guys, but she also had a little bit of
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Speaker 1: apprehension about it. I mean, these guys were perfectly nice,
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Speaker 1: and she and her sister had spent time with them
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Speaker 1: in Vietnam and really things had been fine. But you know,
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Speaker 1: Miami felt like Audrey was a little bit more naive
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Speaker 1: and sort of like easier to be taken advantage of
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Speaker 1: than she was. I mean, she was younger than her
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Speaker 1: by five years. And also when the sisters had gone
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Speaker 1: on this trip, their parents had been really apprehensive about,
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Speaker 1: you know, two young women traveling alone together all over
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Speaker 1: the world. I mean, they were sort of vulnerable. And
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Speaker 1: so the way Nami had sort of played it to
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Speaker 1: her parents is, you know, don't worry, I'm the big sister.
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Speaker 1: I'll keep my eye on Audrey. She'll be fine. And
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Speaker 1: Audrey kind of played the role of younger sister and
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Speaker 1: was like, yep, I'll do what my big sister says,
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Speaker 1: and Sonami sort of felt like she had a responsibility
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Speaker 1: to keep Audrey safe, and so she was feeling a
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Speaker 1: bit at comprehensive about whatever they were going to do
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Speaker 1: that night with these guys. It just sort of seemed
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Speaker 1: like things were sort of moving quickly with these two guys,
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Speaker 1: you know, they should have maybe just stopped in Vietnam,
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Speaker 1: but they're here, and so who knows what was going
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Speaker 1: to happen. And so Noemi, as she's laying there and
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Speaker 1: Audrey's getting ready, Miemmi, decides to just give her parents
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Speaker 1: a call because one of the things Nuemi had been
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Speaker 1: doing over the past several weeks they'd been on this
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Speaker 1: big vacation is sort of constantly updating her parents to
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Speaker 1: assuage their concerns that anything was wrong, you know, with
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Speaker 1: their two kids. You know, Noaemi wanted her parents to
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Speaker 1: see that she was doing everything she could, you know,
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Speaker 1: to keep her and her sister safe. And so she
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Speaker 1: pulled out her phone and she was about to call
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Speaker 1: her parents when suddenly Audrey appeared from the bathroom and
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Speaker 1: said stop. And she told her like, hey, remember, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's evening for us, but back home in Canada, it's
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Speaker 1: the middle of the night, so you're gonna be waking
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Speaker 1: them up and they're gonna have loads of questions like
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Speaker 1: why are you calling in the middle of the night,
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Speaker 1: and probably you're going to have to tell them about
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Speaker 1: you know, how we're going out tonight with these two
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Speaker 1: guys and they're gonna worry, like, don't do that. Spare them.
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Speaker 1: We will talk to them tomorrow. They don't need to
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Speaker 1: know what we're doing tonight. Everything is fine, and Miami
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Speaker 1: was thinking, you know what, she's right, this is a
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Speaker 1: bad time to call. Miemi actually forgot, you know, the
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Speaker 1: time change was so significant, and she also, you know,
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Speaker 1: wasn't sure what she would say to her parents about,
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Speaker 1: you know, going out with these two guys, because it
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Speaker 1: would raise some red flax. And so Miemi put her
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Speaker 1: phone down and decided, you know what, tonight's going to
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Speaker 1: be just fine. I just got to let things go,
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Speaker 1: and so she actually climbed off the bed and she
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Speaker 1: joined her sister in the bathroom and began also getting
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Speaker 1: ready for their big night out. A little bit later,
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Speaker 1: Miami and Are left their hotel room and they headed
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Speaker 1: out to the beach, and sure enough, they're right outside
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Speaker 1: of a beachfront bar where the two Brazilian guys they
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Speaker 1: were meeting up with that night. And as the two
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Speaker 1: girls approached, they saw that each of these guys were
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Speaker 1: holding these big buckets. They almost looked like, you know,
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Speaker 1: a toy that a child would use on the sand,
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Speaker 1: you know, to fill it up and make a sand
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Speaker 1: castle with like a big, you know, beach bucket. And
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Speaker 1: you know, the girls, as they're walking over, they're wondering
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Speaker 1: what these buckets were for, and they thought it was
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Speaker 1: maybe like some joke these guys were gonna play, or
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Speaker 1: they didn't know what. But as they got closer, they
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Speaker 1: realized that these buckets these guys were holding were filled
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Speaker 1: to the brim with ice and liquid. There was some
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Speaker 1: sort of drink in these buckets, and so the girls
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Speaker 1: walked up to them and they said hello, and very
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Speaker 1: quickly the conversation turned to these big drinks they were holding,
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Speaker 1: and Noemi and Andrey were like, what are those? And
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Speaker 1: the guys told them these are like these amazing cocktails
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Speaker 1: that you can only get in this part of the world.
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Speaker 1: The girls asked, you know, like, well, what is it?
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Speaker 1: What's inside of the drink? What makes us so special?
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Speaker 1: And the guys kind of looked at each other and laughed,
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Speaker 1: and they're like, I don't know, just try it. It's
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Speaker 1: really good. It'll make you feel great. Now. Noemi, being
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Speaker 1: the sort of more responsible one, did not immediately begin
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Speaker 1: drinking either of these drinks. Instead, she sort of paused
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Speaker 1: and thought about it. But Audrey, on the other hand,
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Speaker 1: was totally sold. She reached forward, grabbed one of the buckets,
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Speaker 1: and just began chugging this drink. And so Noemi's looking
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Speaker 1: at her like, come on, like, you can't just jump
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Speaker 1: into this. We don't know what the stuff is. But
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Speaker 1: you know, after a couple of chugs, Audrey lowered the
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Speaker 1: bucket and looked at her sister and she just grinned
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Speaker 1: and she handed it back to her guy, and then
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Speaker 1: she told Miami like, these dastes great, this is awesome.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, you got to try it. Loosen up. And
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Speaker 1: so at this point, Miami, you know, she's considering the situation.
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Speaker 1: You know, they were in Vietnam with these guys, and
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Speaker 1: these guys were out partying with them, they were drinking
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Speaker 1: with them, and you know, they seemed perfectly trustworthy and
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Speaker 1: they were clearly drinking from these buckets and it didn't
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Speaker 1: seem nefarious. And also Noemi looked around the beach and
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Speaker 1: suddenly realized that basically everybody had these big buckets. You know,
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Speaker 1: this was not just these two guys. Everybody's drinking this thing.
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Speaker 1: So Miami's thinking, okay, well, if they think it's okay,
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Speaker 1: and it's sort of normal, you know, in this part
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Speaker 1: of the world, then it's got to be okay. And
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Speaker 1: so she reached forward, grabbed the other bucket from the
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Speaker 1: other guy, and took a big step. Several hours later,
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Speaker 1: while after the sun had gone down, Audrey and Noemi
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Speaker 1: were having a great time with their Brazilian friends. They
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Speaker 1: were still near this beachfront bar. They were actually dancing
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Speaker 1: right outside of it because now there was a DJ
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Speaker 1: blaring some music and there are all these people and
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Speaker 1: actually the sisters had sort of broken up and were
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Speaker 1: sort of doing their own thing with their respective guy,
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Speaker 1: but they were sort of near enough each other they
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Speaker 1: could kind of keep tabs on each other, and they
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Speaker 1: were just having a great time. You know. By this point,
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Speaker 1: they had jumped in the ocean and gone swimming, They
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Speaker 1: had eaten a ton of local food, and Noemi had
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Speaker 1: lost count of how many of these these big bucket
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Speaker 1: drinks they had all consumed together. But they were really
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Speaker 1: just having a blast. I mean, Miami's vision was a
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Speaker 1: bit blurry and she was kind of stumbling, and she'd
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Speaker 1: look over at Odrey and she was kind of in
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Speaker 1: the same state, you know, as were the two guys
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Speaker 1: they were with. I mean, they're buzz they're having a
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Speaker 1: great time. And so the two girls and their guys
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Speaker 1: are just out there dancing, doing their thing. It's about
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Speaker 1: one am at this point, and Noami's guy says to her, Hey,
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Speaker 1: do you want to head back to the hotel room together?
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Speaker 1: And Miami's like, yeah, let's go back, but hold on,
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Speaker 1: I want to talk to my sister first. And so
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Speaker 1: Miami kind of stumbles her way over to Adrey, who's
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Speaker 1: in the middle of this big dance routine with her guy,
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Speaker 1: and she stops Audrey and she whips around and Audrey's
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Speaker 1: all smiles too, and Miami's like, hey, do you want
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Speaker 1: to go back to the hotel room. We're going back now,
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Speaker 1: do you want to come? And Audrey's like, no, I
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Speaker 1: want to stay here. I'm having too much fun. This
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Speaker 1: is awesome. We're just gonna keep on dancing. You guys
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Speaker 1: should stay too. But Miami was like, no, I got
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Speaker 1: to go. You know we're gonna go back, so you
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Speaker 1: sure you want to stay? And Audrey was like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we'll stay. We'll see at the hotel soon. Now. Typically,
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Speaker 1: Noemi and her sister really rarely separated, especially when they
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Speaker 1: were out drinking and partying, you know, because of all
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Speaker 1: the inherent risks of being alone at night, potentially intoxicated,
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Speaker 1: and so, you know, this was kind of a rare
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Speaker 1: thing for her to break away from her sister and separate.
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Speaker 1: But it just seemed like this was okay, it was safe,
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Speaker 1: and you know, these guys they were with, they really
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Speaker 1: seemed like stand up guys. And again, they were just
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Speaker 1: having a blast here, and Miami didn't really want to
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Speaker 1: stop her from having a good time. And so ultimately
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Speaker 1: she did say bye to her sister and said she'd
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Speaker 1: see her soon. Miami turned and with her guy, she
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Speaker 1: on the evening of June fifteenth, a member of the
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Speaker 1: housekeeping staff at the hotel where Miami and Audre were
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Speaker 1: staying walked up to the girl's room and they knocked,
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Speaker 1: and like it had been the past two days, they
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Speaker 1: didn't get a response. Because over the past couple of days,
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Speaker 1: the housekeeping staff had not seen anybody come in or
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Speaker 1: out of this room, and now it had gotten to
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Speaker 1: the point where they really had to get in there
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Speaker 1: to clean the room. And basically, if they didn't get
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Speaker 1: a response, this staff member was going to have to
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Speaker 1: unlock the door and just go in there. And so
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Speaker 1: one more time they knocked on the door and called out,
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Speaker 1: you know, housekeeping, you know, just in case somebody was
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Speaker 1: in there. But again there was silence. So the staff
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Speaker 1: member put their card into the door, they unlocked it,
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Speaker 1: they opened it up and stepped inside, and seconds later
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Speaker 1: that staff member was literally running out of the hotel
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Speaker 1: room screaming for help. At nine pm that night, a
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Speaker 1: team of police officers led by Lieutenant Colonel Rat Somboon
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Speaker 1: arrived at the hotel room. Samboon was an experienced police
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Speaker 1: officer and he'd already been briefed on what was found
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Speaker 1: inside the hotel room, so when he and his team
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Speaker 1: walked inside and saw it for themselves, he wasn't shocked.
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Speaker 1: When they got in there, they found two women inside.
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Speaker 1: It was Noemi and Andre Belanchet, and both of them
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Speaker 1: were lying in their respective beds, tucked up in their sheets,
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Speaker 1: lying perfectly still, and each of them was completely surrounded
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Speaker 1: by vomit. Sam Boon estimated that these two women had
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Speaker 1: been dead for between twelve and twenty hours, and his
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Speaker 1: firse theory as to what might have killed them was
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Speaker 1: alcohol poisoning. I mean, that would explain the vomit. This
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Speaker 1: was also a big tourist destination, and clearly these people
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Speaker 1: were tourists, and so maybe they were out partying and
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Speaker 1: they died from alcohol poisoning. However, when Samboon looked more
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Speaker 1: closely at the bodies, he noticed a confounding detail. There
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Speaker 1: was all this dried blood on the girl's gums and
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Speaker 1: also under their fingernails, and so that was not consistent
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Speaker 1: with alcohol poisoning, and so Salmboom thought, Okay, well, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe the reason they have blood in these parts of
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Speaker 1: their body is because those are defensive injuries. You know,
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Speaker 1: maybe somebody attacked these girls and that's how they've been killed.
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Speaker 1: But after doing a cursory check around the hotel room,
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Speaker 1: there was no sign of a struggle or any sort
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Speaker 1: of break in or anything like that. And so, you know,
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Speaker 1: if there had been some sort of lethal struggle in here,
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Speaker 1: it certainly didn't show. And so sam Boone and his
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Speaker 1: team really didn't have any idea what had happened here.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they had some ideas, but clearly they needed
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Speaker 1: more information. Specifically, they needed to do an autopsy and
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Speaker 1: a full toxicology report on both women. That would be
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Speaker 1: the only way to really see what happened here, but
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Speaker 1: that would take time, and so while they waited for
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Speaker 1: those results to come in, Samboon decided that what he
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Speaker 1: would focus on instead is trying to figure out what
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Speaker 1: these girls were doing in the hours before they died.
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Speaker 1: You know, where were they, what did they eat, what
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Speaker 1: did they drink, and who were they with. Over the
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Speaker 1: next couple of days, sam Boone and his team interviewed
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Speaker 1: several of the hotel staff and from those interviews they
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Speaker 1: learned that Audrey and Noemi were visiting Thailand from Canada
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Speaker 1: and on the first night they were here, the two
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Speaker 1: women went out early in the evening and then one
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Speaker 1: of them came back with some guy, some unidentified man.
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Speaker 1: At one am, they came back to the hotel, and
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Speaker 1: then at four am, the other girl came back to
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Speaker 1: the hotel, also with an unidentified man. And so there
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Speaker 1: are Noemi and Anddre and these two unidentified men that
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Speaker 1: are in the hotel room presumably from four am until
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Speaker 1: six am, when both of these unidentified men left the
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Speaker 1: hotel room together and the two girls were presumably left
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Speaker 1: inside the hotel room. The tenant. Samboon, reviewed some security
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Speaker 1: footage from the hotel which confirmed this entire timeline was correct,
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Speaker 1: which meant Somboon really needed to speak to these two
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Speaker 1: unidentified men because they clearly were the last ones to
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Speaker 1: see these girls alive and so the police department put
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Speaker 1: out an announcement about Miami and Andre's deaths, as well
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Speaker 1: as a public call for help in identifying these two
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Speaker 1: unidentified men. And shortly after making this announcement, the police
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Speaker 1: learned that these two men were Brazilian and unfortunately they
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Speaker 1: had already left Thailand on their way back to Brazil,
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Speaker 1: and so obviously Brazil is outside of his jurisdiction, and
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Speaker 1: so he had to appeal to Interpol, which is an
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Speaker 1: international police organization, and appealed to them to find these
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Speaker 1: two Brazilian men and interview them. About a week later,
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Speaker 1: Samboon finally got a call from Interpol. They had found
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Speaker 1: these two men and they had interviewed them, and they
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Speaker 1: told Samboon that when they informed these two guys that
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Speaker 1: Nuemi and Andre had died, the two men seemed genuinely shocked.
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Speaker 1: And then when they were asked, why were you so
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Speaker 1: quickly on a flight out of Thailand back to Brazil,
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Speaker 1: they said, no, no, no, no, no, there's nothing suspicious about it.
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Speaker 1: We already had booked those tickets way in advance. We
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Speaker 1: just got on the flight and left. There's nothing more
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Speaker 1: to it. And so Interpol said they continued to press
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Speaker 1: these guys and asked them, you know, hey, you were
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Speaker 1: the last ones were with these girls before they died.
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Speaker 1: Tell us about their condition, tell us how you left
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Speaker 1: them when you left the hotel at six a m.
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Speaker 1: And the two guys, they said, look like they did
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Speaker 1: seem like maybe they were already hung over or sort
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Speaker 1: of sick from you know, partying the night before. They
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Speaker 1: definitely did seem a little bit down, but they were
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Speaker 1: basically fine. However, Interpol said it was fairly interesting that
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Speaker 1: the two men did admit that following, you know, their
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Speaker 1: night out with Noaemi and Adre, that the next two
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Speaker 1: days they were stuck in bed themselves totally sick, vomiting ill.
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Speaker 1: They didn't know what from, but they said they were very,
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Speaker 1: very sick following their encounter with these two girls. Samboonm
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Speaker 1: thanked the Interpol officer and then hung up. And even
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Speaker 1: though sam Boom couldn't help but feel still pretty suspicious
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Speaker 1: of these two Brazilian guys, he now was thinking, Okay, well,
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Speaker 1: if they said they got really sick after, you know,
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Speaker 1: spending time with Noami and Adre, maybe what happened here is,
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Speaker 1: you know, all four of them got sick with something,
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Speaker 1: some illness, and the guys survived it and the girls didn't.
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Speaker 1: And so sam Boon began to think of, you know,
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Speaker 1: what type of illnesses could they have contracted. And the
16:42
Speaker 1: first thing that sam Boom began to think about that
16:44
Speaker 1: could have been an illness that all four of these
16:46
Speaker 1: tourists could have contracted was food poisoning. You know, taurusts
16:49
Speaker 1: come to Thailand and try the local food and sometimes
16:52
Speaker 1: it makes them really, really sick. In particular, there were
16:56
Speaker 1: two types of food in Thailand that were sort of
16:58
Speaker 1: notorious for giving tory. It's just the worst food poisoning.
17:02
Speaker 1: One of them was a particular type of mushroom and
17:05
Speaker 1: another was blowfish. And these two items, you know, if
17:09
Speaker 1: your body reacted badly enough to them, it could be lethal. However,
17:13
Speaker 1: when Samboon got back the autopsy reports and the toxicology reports,
17:18
Speaker 1: he realized his theory about food poisoning was definitely wrong.
17:22
Speaker 1: So it would turn out those drinks that the girls
17:25
Speaker 1: had with the guys in those big buckets, they were
17:28
Speaker 1: unique to Thailand. Those are not drinks that are served
17:30
Speaker 1: really anywhere else in the world. And that's because those
17:33
Speaker 1: drinks are just not safe, and for whatever reason, it's
17:36
Speaker 1: sort of blossomed in Thailand and it's sort of an
17:39
Speaker 1: accepted thing. But when you hear the ingredients of what's
17:43
Speaker 1: in this drink, you'll understand why it's not like a
17:46
Speaker 1: sanctioned or more popular thing outside of this small part
17:49
Speaker 1: of the world. So there is no alcohol in these
17:52
Speaker 1: big buckets of liquid. Instead, it includes crushed up narcotics.
17:57
Speaker 1: It includes cough syrup and coca cola and in some
18:01
Speaker 1: cases pesticide, in fact, specifically deet, which is the main
18:05
Speaker 1: ingredient in mosquito repellent. And wouldn't you know it, in
18:08
Speaker 1: the reports that Sambun got back, he saw both of
18:11
Speaker 1: these girls clearly had ingested deat, which again is a
18:16
Speaker 1: highly toxic chemical. However, despite learning this, even though this
18:20
Speaker 1: seemed to be clearly what happened here, this is a
18:22
Speaker 1: deep poisoning case, Salmboon's thinking to himself, how could this
18:26
Speaker 1: have happened? I mean, these drinks, which are called four
18:29
Speaker 1: by one hundreds, are pretty popular in Thailand, and people
18:32
Speaker 1: are not just turning up dead left and right. It's
18:35
Speaker 1: a dangerous drink, no doubt, but you know, people do
18:38
Speaker 1: not die with any regularity from drinking it, and so
18:41
Speaker 1: Sambom thought, you know what must have happened here is
18:44
Speaker 1: whoever mixed this particular batch of four by one hundreds
18:48
Speaker 1: must have accidentally included too much deet, and so that
18:51
Speaker 1: would explain how you know, the two girls died from
18:54
Speaker 1: deep poisoning, you know, too much deep in their drinks,
18:57
Speaker 1: and that very likely the guys as well consume the
19:00
Speaker 1: same batch which had tons of deep in it. But
19:03
Speaker 1: you know, their bodies were able to withstand it, and
19:05
Speaker 1: they survived it despite getting very, very sick. And so
19:07
Speaker 1: nine days after the two girls had died, their bodies
19:11
Speaker 1: were sent from Thailand back to Canada, along with the
19:14
Speaker 1: Thai police's official findings that this was an accidental deep poisoning. However,
19:19
Speaker 1: when Noemi and Adre's remains arrived in Canada, they did
19:23
Speaker 1: not go straight to their family. Instead, they went to
19:26
Speaker 1: a leading corner in Quebec whose name was Renee Roussel.
19:29
Speaker 1: So by this point the girl's parents were obviously heartbroken,
19:33
Speaker 1: but more than that, they were furious the way they
19:37
Speaker 1: found out about the deaths of their daughters was on
19:40
Speaker 1: the media. I mean, despite the fact that the police
19:42
Speaker 1: were immediately called when the girls were found dead, the
19:45
Speaker 1: Thai police did not get in touch with the family.
19:48
Speaker 1: They only got in touch after their investigation was done,
19:51
Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, by the way, your daughters are
19:52
Speaker 1: dead and it was a deep poisoning. It is what
19:55
Speaker 1: it is, good luck. And so the parents felt like,
19:57
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? Like you didn't loop us in
19:59
Speaker 1: at all. We're spending days trying to get in touch
20:02
Speaker 1: with our daughters and you knew all along they were
20:04
Speaker 1: already dead. Like, so the parents have no faith, no
20:08
Speaker 1: trust in the Thai police. And then to find out
20:10
Speaker 1: wait a minute, so they drank this drink that apparently
20:14
Speaker 1: is sold at this beach bar all the time, and
20:16
Speaker 1: oh yeah, it killed them, No big deal. Well there's
20:19
Speaker 1: no warnings at this beach bar about how dangerous this
20:22
Speaker 1: drink is. Shouldn't there be like a tourist warning or something.
20:25
Speaker 1: And also it's kind of a lazy explanation that, well,
20:29
Speaker 1: you know, the two guys they were with drank the
20:31
Speaker 1: same poison, but they didn't die just cuz and our
20:34
Speaker 1: daughters did. Like that doesn't add up either. This whole
20:37
Speaker 1: thing feels like laziness, you know, at best, or at
20:41
Speaker 1: worst a cover up. You know, maybe this looks really
20:43
Speaker 1: bad for Thailand that these tourists have died and it
20:46
Speaker 1: could have been prevented. And so the parents felt like
20:48
Speaker 1: we can't just take their explanation at face value, like
20:51
Speaker 1: clearly something is going on here, something's wrong. And apparently
20:55
Speaker 1: the Canadian government felt the same way as the parents.
20:59
Speaker 1: You know, this case was all all over the news,
21:01
Speaker 1: and they also felt like, wait a minute, guys, like
21:03
Speaker 1: we haven't looked closely enough at this, what's really going
21:05
Speaker 1: on here? And so it was actually the Canadian government
21:08
Speaker 1: who told Renee Roussel to go ahead and do another
21:11
Speaker 1: autopsy on these girls's remains. Let's really see if it
21:15
Speaker 1: was det that killed them, or maybe if it was
21:17
Speaker 1: something else. And when Renee checked Noami and Adre's bodies,
21:21
Speaker 1: she did discover there was deet in their system, however,
21:25
Speaker 1: not nearly enough to kill them. So while it seemed
21:28
Speaker 1: plainly obvious that yes, they must have consumed those four
21:32
Speaker 1: by one hundred drinks, that couldn't have been the thing
21:35
Speaker 1: that actually killed them. However, Renee didn't find any other
21:39
Speaker 1: poisonous substances in these girls' bodies, Like there wasn't another
21:43
Speaker 1: explanation it just showed there was det but that was
21:46
Speaker 1: basically it, and so Renee she's thinking, like, there's got
21:49
Speaker 1: to be some explanation here. And so Renee really began
21:53
Speaker 1: to do some serious research into this whole case, and
21:56
Speaker 1: eventually she found something and it horrified her, at horror
22:00
Speaker 1: fight the family, it horrified the world. It would turn
22:04
Speaker 1: out from Renee Roussel's additional research, Noemi and Adre were
22:08
Speaker 1: far from the first Torus to die this way. In Thailand.
22:11
Speaker 1: Between two thousand and nine and twenty fifteen, at least
22:15
Speaker 1: twenty tourists have been found dead under very similar circumstances. Now,
22:20
Speaker 1: Renee believed that what must have happened here is all
22:23
Speaker 1: these people, including Noemi and Adre, must have been poisoned.
22:27
Speaker 1: But the common denominator did not appear to be food
22:30
Speaker 1: or drink. It had to be something else that was
22:33
Speaker 1: poisoning them, something that was damaging blood vessels that would
22:36
Speaker 1: account for the blood under the fingernails and the gums,
22:39
Speaker 1: but also metabolized so quickly that after death, this particular
22:45
Speaker 1: poison could not be detected. And Renee figured out she
22:48
Speaker 1: was correct. So when Noemi and Adre first arrived in Thailand,
22:52
Speaker 1: they went to their hotel room and one of the
22:55
Speaker 1: first things that Naemi did is she pulled back her
22:58
Speaker 1: sheets to check for bed bucks, you know, want to
23:00
Speaker 1: make sure her bed was clean before she laid down
23:03
Speaker 1: and relaxed. And when she looked, it appeared clean. And
23:06
Speaker 1: it was because the sheets were clean. They had actually
23:09
Speaker 1: just been treated for bedbugs, so there were no bed bugs. However,
23:13
Speaker 1: the way this hotel and other hotels, not just in
23:16
Speaker 1: Thailand but in other parts of the world, the way
23:19
Speaker 1: they were treating for bedbugs was by spraying the sheets
23:23
Speaker 1: with pesticide, specifically phosphene gas, which is highly toxic to bedbugs,
23:29
Speaker 1: so it gets rid of the bedbugs, but it's also
23:31
Speaker 1: highly toxic to people. For reference, it is illegal to
23:36
Speaker 1: do this. You're not allowed to spray sheets with pesticide.
23:38
Speaker 1: And so, based on all the evidence, it's believed that
23:41
Speaker 1: what actually happened to Noami Adre and the two Brazilian
23:45
Speaker 1: men they were with is that they climbed into those
23:47
Speaker 1: beds on the night they came back, and you know,
23:50
Speaker 1: the men were in there with them for some time
23:52
Speaker 1: and all four of them were being exposed to this
23:55
Speaker 1: phosphene gas. It was going in through their skin. They
23:57
Speaker 1: were breathing it in and they likely had no idea,
24:00
Speaker 1: and so they're getting sicker and sicker. And then finally
24:03
Speaker 1: the two men they get up out of the beds
24:05
Speaker 1: and they leave at six am. They've now been totally
24:08
Speaker 1: contaminated by this poison, but not enough to kill them,
24:12
Speaker 1: so they go home, and over the next couple of
24:13
Speaker 1: days they get really sick from their exposure to this gas.
24:17
Speaker 1: But Audrey and Noemi they didn't leave their bed. They
24:20
Speaker 1: stayed in those beds all night, and unfortunately, as they
24:24
Speaker 1: laid there, their bodies continued soaking in all of this poison,
24:28
Speaker 1: and their bodies just could not handle it, and so
24:31
Speaker 1: it eventually killed them. But despite learning this, and despite
24:34
Speaker 1: the fact that clearly something illegal was done here, you
24:38
Speaker 1: cannot spray your bed sheets in a hotel with pesticide
24:41
Speaker 1: to get rid of the bed bugs. It's incredibly hazardous.
24:43
Speaker 1: You can't do it. Despite that, to this day, no
24:47
Speaker 1: one has been held accountable for these girls' deaths. Thank
24:57
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