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His mind games traumatized this high school - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. On March fifteenth, twenty eleven,
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  Speaker 1: just after one pm, sixteen year old Marcus Freeman sat
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  Speaker 1: behind the wheel of his dad's pickup truck, belting out
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  Speaker 1: the lyrics to one of his favorite songs on the
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  Speaker 1: radio as he and his girlfriend Carly drove down a
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  Speaker 1: highway in Northport, Florida. The pair had just left the
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  Speaker 1: dentist where Marcus had just gotten some dental work done,
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  Speaker 1: and in fact.
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  Speaker 2: His jaw was pretty sore.
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  Speaker 1: But he was basically singing right now, as was Carly,
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  Speaker 1: in order to distract himself from the paint. And for
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  Speaker 1: the most part, this worked, but every time a song ended,
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  Speaker 1: it's like all he could think about was just how
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  Speaker 1: sore his jaw was. But Marcus was not like your
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  Speaker 1: typical sixteen year old kid. You know, he was sort
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  Speaker 1: of accustomed to having discomfort in his life, both physical
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  Speaker 1: discomfort and mental discomfort, and he really worked hard to
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  Speaker 1: be someone who was able to push through discomfort, including
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  Speaker 1: things like jaw paint. So he was the quarterback of
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  Speaker 1: his varse football team at his high school, Northport High
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  Speaker 1: and over the last year he'd really begun to focus
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  Speaker 1: on his physical fitness, and so he'd begun doing these
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  Speaker 1: really difficult physical workouts that were sort of.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you know, vomit inducing.
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  Speaker 1: And then also, you know, Marcus, he was for the
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  Speaker 1: most part pretty mentally well adjusted, but you know, nerves
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  Speaker 1: were definitely a thing. You know, he's the quarterback of
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  Speaker 1: the varsity high school team. He's only sixteen years old,
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  Speaker 1: and so you know, nerves before games and just generally
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  Speaker 1: some level of anxiety sort of existed in his life,
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  Speaker 1: and so he would, you know, work with a counselor
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  Speaker 1: at his school to try to overcome those nerves and
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  Speaker 1: try to manage those feelings when he was about to perform,
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  Speaker 1: so a different type of pain. But nonetheless, it's like
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  Speaker 1: this was a kid who was very forward leaning when
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  Speaker 1: it came to sort of dealing with pain and discomfort
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  Speaker 1: and managing it. And all this hard work that Marcus
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  Speaker 1: was doing to sort of become the strongest version of
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  Speaker 1: himself he could be appeared to be paying off because
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  Speaker 1: you know, for example, the football team that he was
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback of. You know, historically for years they had
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  Speaker 1: been sort of terrible, but now, you know, under Marcus's
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  Speaker 1: leadership and you know, him being the quarterback, they were
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  Speaker 1: now coming off one of their best seasons ever. And
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  Speaker 1: actually it was not even just Marcus and the football
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  Speaker 1: team that appeared to be on the upswing these days.
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  Speaker 2: The whole school was.
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  Speaker 1: Northport High used to have terrible sports sort of across
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  Speaker 1: the board, and also low graduation rates and bad test scores.
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  Speaker 1: Like this was not a high performing school, but now
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  Speaker 1: it had like totally turned a corner. Most of the
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  Speaker 1: sports programs beyond football were all improving. Grades and test
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  Speaker 1: scores across the board were all improving, and also just
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  Speaker 1: students at this school just seemed happier and more well adjusted.
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  Speaker 1: It was not just Marcus, it was like everybody. But
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  Speaker 1: there was a reason for this, and basically everybody who
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  Speaker 1: went to Northport knew what that reason was. There was
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  Speaker 1: one person to thank for this really positive change, Principal
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  Speaker 1: George Cay. He'd been Northport's principle for a decade now,
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  Speaker 1: but in the last few years he'd made some tweaks
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  Speaker 1: to the curriculum and put a ton more focus on
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  Speaker 1: individual student support, and the result of all of this
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  Speaker 1: appeared to be, you know, Marcus and all of his
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  Speaker 1: classmates thriving. But right now, the pain in Marcus's job
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  Speaker 1: was really all he could think about, and it seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be getting more severe and it was starting to
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  Speaker 1: actually make him feel sort of dizzy. But Marcus had been,
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  Speaker 1: you know, working on pain management, and he sort of
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  Speaker 1: had some tactics and techniques that he would use when
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  Speaker 1: you know, pain got sort of overwhelming, whether it was
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  Speaker 1: physical pain in this case, or mental anguish or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It was, like, he was going to employ the tactics
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  Speaker 1: and techniques that he had been working on. And so Marcus,
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  Speaker 1: as he's driving and you know, Carly's singing next to him,
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  Speaker 1: he took a deep breath and tried to relax and
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  Speaker 1: just breathe and just think of anything else besides the pain,
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  Speaker 1: just put his mind somewhere else. This was actually literally
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  Speaker 1: what he did, you know, during football games, when he'd
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  Speaker 1: be super exhausted and beat up. But you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: the leader of the team, he's the quarterback, Like he
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  Speaker 1: has to find a way to push through that pain
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  Speaker 1: and keep going.
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  Speaker 2: And this is what he would do.
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  Speaker 1: He would do this mental exercise where he basically sort
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  Speaker 1: of let his mind drift away from the physical uncomfortability
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  Speaker 1: he was experiencing then just focus on other things and
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  Speaker 1: it was sort of like meditative and it generally worked.
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  Speaker 1: But this time it just didn't appear to be working.
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  Speaker 1: His jaw pain, you know, kept on throbbing and he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't stop thinking about it. And then soon it sort
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  Speaker 1: of felt like the pain was growing, like it was
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  Speaker 1: radiating up his cheek into his whole head and it
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  Speaker 1: was like really becoming overwhelming.
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  Speaker 2: But he stayed focused.
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  Speaker 1: He kept you know, trying to allow his mind to
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  Speaker 1: sort of separate from the pain, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: that throbbing pain in his jaw stopped, and Marcus relaxed
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  Speaker 1: because truly.
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  Speaker 2: The pain was now gone.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time Marcus was sort of going through
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  Speaker 1: this mental exercise in the passenger seat, Carly was fiddling
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  Speaker 1: with the trying to find another good song to sing
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  Speaker 1: along to. Carly loved being with Marcus so much so
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  Speaker 1: that she'd just gone to the dentist with him just
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  Speaker 1: so they could spend more time together.
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  Speaker 2: She felt like Marcus was super.
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  Speaker 1: Kind and he was funny, and when she was with him,
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  Speaker 1: they could just talk and laugh for hours and it
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  Speaker 1: would just feel like a second. Except now, as Carly
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  Speaker 1: was still fiddling with the radio, she realized that Marcus
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  Speaker 1: was acting unusual.
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  Speaker 2: He was being really.
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  Speaker 1: Quiet, and actually, when she looked over at him and
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  Speaker 1: stared at him, she sort.
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  Speaker 2: Of gasped because Marcus appeared to have.
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  Speaker 1: Gone almost like completely rigid. His arms were sort of
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  Speaker 1: stuck out in front of him, like gripping the steering wheel,
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  Speaker 1: but in this weird stiff way, and his hands they
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  Speaker 1: were turning white from gripping the steering wheels.
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  Speaker 2: As tightly as he could.
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  Speaker 1: And then also his head was sort of tilted back
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  Speaker 1: and his eyes actually were beginning to roll back into
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  Speaker 1: his head. And so when Carly saw that that, like
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  Speaker 1: literally his eyes were being taken off the road, she
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  Speaker 1: began screaming as name and snapping and clapping and being like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing? But Marcus didn't answer, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: even react. He just continued blazing along at nearly one
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  Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour in this weird, like rigid state.
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  Speaker 1: And so Carly she really began to panic. She's screaming,
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  Speaker 1: she's grabbing Marcus, she's trying to like get him out
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  Speaker 1: of this trance he's in, but he just wouldn't move.
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  Speaker 2: He wouldn't look at her. It was like he was gone.
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  Speaker 1: And then Carly turned and looked out the windshield and
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  Speaker 1: she screamed as the truck veered off the road and
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  Speaker 1: careened into a tree. And for Carly, as soon as
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  Speaker 1: that happened, everything went black. A few hours later, Carly
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  Speaker 1: opened her eyes and her whole body ached and her
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  Speaker 1: her head pounded, and at first she really had no
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  Speaker 1: idea where she was, but then she heard beeping sounds
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  Speaker 1: which were coming from these machines near her, and she
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  Speaker 1: looked around and saw the room she was in was
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  Speaker 1: very white, and she realized she was definitely in a hospital.
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  Speaker 1: And once she realized that, it was like the whole
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  Speaker 1: terrible ordeal came rushing back to her. She remembered Marcus
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  Speaker 1: and how strange she had looked rigid at the wheel,
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  Speaker 1: and then she remembered crashing and hitting that tree. And
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  Speaker 1: so as she's processing this horrible thing, a nurse came
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  Speaker 1: into the room, and Carly immediately asked them, like, where
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  Speaker 1: is Marcus and when could she talk to Marcus? But
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  Speaker 1: that's when she found out from the nurse that Marcus
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  Speaker 1: was dead. Almost a month later, on April eighth, Carly
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  Speaker 1: was now out of the hospital, sitting in her Spanish
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  Speaker 1: class at Northport High School, and she was trying her
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  Speaker 1: best to pay attention to what the teacher was saying,
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  Speaker 1: but concentration was not something that came easily to carl
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  Speaker 1: these days. Physically, she had healed from the accident, but
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  Speaker 1: emotionally she had not. Marcus's death had truly devastated her,
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  Speaker 1: But perhaps the worst part of.
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  Speaker 2: His death was there was just no good.
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  Speaker 1: Explanation for it, Like why was he acting the way
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  Speaker 1: he was acting before they crashed?
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  Speaker 2: What happened to him? Like what was going on?
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  Speaker 1: And truly, at this point it was still just a
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  Speaker 1: huge mystery to basically everyone. Now the media had come
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  Speaker 1: out and said that what happened was Marcus simply lost
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  Speaker 1: control of his vehicle, but Carly was right there with Marcus,
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  Speaker 1: and that did not seem like what happened. Again, Marcus
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  Speaker 1: went into this trance of sorts, and it was him
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  Speaker 1: being sort of locked in that position that ultimately caused
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  Speaker 1: the car to at one hundred miles an hour, veer
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  Speaker 1: off the road and crash. But like there was no weather,
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  Speaker 1: there were no obstacles in the road. It was like,
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  Speaker 1: whatever caused Marcus to freeze up is what caused the crash.
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  Speaker 1: But it was like nobody was talking about it or
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  Speaker 1: nobody understood it. Now, there were some theories about maybe
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  Speaker 1: what could have caused Marcus to act that way, In
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  Speaker 1: particular at the high school at Northport High people believed that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe Marcus when he was at the dentist
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  Speaker 1: had gotten some kind of sedation that maybe he had
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  Speaker 1: had a bad reaction to like a late on set
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  Speaker 1: bad reaction while they were driving home and that caused
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  Speaker 1: him to stiffen up, or maybe he had just had
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  Speaker 1: a random medical event that caused him to act that way. However,
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  Speaker 1: when his autopsy came out, it showed there had been
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  Speaker 1: no trace of drugs or any indication that Marcus had
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  Speaker 1: had anything like a seizure or a stroke or an aneurysm,
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  Speaker 1: So those theories were sort of pushed aside. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: this tragedy was considered an accident, not any sort of
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  Speaker 1: foul play, and so the police were not investigating further.
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  Speaker 2: They basically were there on site.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they saw what happened, they documented it, but
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  Speaker 1: there was not like a deeper investigation happening here. So
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  Speaker 1: for Carly, I mean, she knew that it was very
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  Speaker 1: possible that she and everyone else would really never get
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  Speaker 1: the answers that they were looking for here, that it
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  Speaker 1: would just be a mystery what happened to Marcus. So
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  Speaker 1: for Carly, it just was really difficult to sort of
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  Speaker 1: just go back to normal life, go back to school,
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  Speaker 1: and just be a kid again when there was this
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  Speaker 1: huge hole in her life that just felt like it
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  Speaker 1: was never going to be filled. But Carly was not
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  Speaker 1: the only one grieving here. Marcus had been incredibly popular
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  Speaker 1: at Northport High and after their principal, mister Kenny, had
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  Speaker 1: notified the student body about his death, there had been
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  Speaker 1: a whirlwind of memorial services and student gatherings, and mister
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  Speaker 1: Kenny had made sure that counselors were brought into school
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  Speaker 1: to help kids process what had happened. And so now,
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  Speaker 1: as Carly sat there in her Spanish class, trying her
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  Speaker 1: best to concentrate, she suddenly heard the crackle of the
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  Speaker 1: school's announcement system kick on, and then she heard mister
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  Speaker 1: Kenny's voice, and he said he had something to tell them,
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  Speaker 1: and Carly could tell pretty much right away that whatever
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  Speaker 1: he was going to tell them was not going to
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  Speaker 1: be good news. Now, normally mister Kenny was a very
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  Speaker 1: enthusiastic and very sort of positive person, but right now
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  Speaker 1: his voice was very solemn, and there was a slight
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  Speaker 1: tremor to it as he began to speak.
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  Speaker 2: And then at some point he kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of stopped himself and he cleared his throat, and then
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  Speaker 1: he just said, another Northport student has just died. In
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  Speaker 1: the weeks following that announcement, Carly tried to wrap her
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  Speaker 1: head around how it was possible that two students had
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  Speaker 1: died at their school in two months now. The second
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  Speaker 1: death was not similar to Marcus's death in terms of
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  Speaker 1: how they died. The second death was self inflicted, but still, Northport,
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  Speaker 1: which was a small, tight knit school, was not a
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  Speaker 1: place where young people just suddenly started dying like this
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  Speaker 1: didn't happen. But then, just weeks later, in early May,
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  Speaker 1: Carly's confusion turned into outright disbelief when another Northport student died,
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  Speaker 1: also self inflicted. And this really sent Carly and the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the already very fragile student body at Northport
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  Speaker 1: into a state of shock. I mean, two students dying
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  Speaker 1: so close together was already so difficult to process, but
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  Speaker 1: three was unthinkable, And so now it was like the
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  Speaker 1: entire student body was on edge, like almost brace for
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  Speaker 1: more awful news, like more deaths just almost felt inevitable. However,
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  Speaker 1: one night, soon after the third death, Carly was at
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  Speaker 1: her home in her room on her computer, scrolling around
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  Speaker 1: on Facebook when she saw a post from another classmate,
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  Speaker 1: And when she read what this person had written, which
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  Speaker 1: was very short, she couldn't believe she hadn't thought of
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  Speaker 1: this sooner. This person's post pointed out that all three
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  Speaker 1: of these deaths had one thing in common, so many
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  Speaker 1: students and staff and parents at Northport High believed that
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  Speaker 1: the school's overall recent improvements in athletics and testing and
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  Speaker 1: general student satisfaction were all because of their principle, mister Kenny.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Kenny was very student focused and he offered the
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  Speaker 1: kids at Northport a lot of individual attention, but he
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  Speaker 1: also had a secret. So over the last three years,
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  Speaker 1: mister Kenny had been meeting with students and staff members
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  Speaker 1: to resolve various persons issues like people's anxiety or pain
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  Speaker 1: management or mental health issues, test scores, being better at
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  Speaker 1: concentrating like he was there, and working with people to
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  Speaker 1: try to sort of make them the best version of themselves.
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  Speaker 1: To do this, he put the students and the staff
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  Speaker 1: members under hypnosis. Mister Kenny would invite sometimes as many
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  Speaker 1: as two students a day into his office for these private,
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  Speaker 1: recorded hypnosis sessions, and he would do the same thing
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  Speaker 1: for teachers. He even sometimes brought entire school sports teams
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  Speaker 1: into his office and he would hypnotize them before games
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  Speaker 1: to improve performance. But critically, mister Kenny not only performed
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  Speaker 1: the hypnotism himself. He also taught the students how to
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  Speaker 1: do it on themselves. Mister Kenny had only ever taken
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  Speaker 1: a brief course in hypnosis and certainly did not have
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  Speaker 1: a license to be using it to diagnose or resolve
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  Speaker 1: actual mental health issues or even physical issues like He
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  Speaker 1: was not licensed to be doing this, But a lot
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  Speaker 1: of kids really responded to his sessions and reported improvements
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  Speaker 1: and their anxiety and their focus, and some athletes started
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  Speaker 1: excelling in their sports. But along with these good developments,
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  Speaker 1: there were some alarming side effects. Some Northport parents reported
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  Speaker 1: that their children began experiencing these strange personality changes and
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  Speaker 1: they would have these blank stares on their faces after
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  Speaker 1: they had begun hypnosis with mister Kenny. Others said that
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  Speaker 1: after these sessions, their child became disoriented, or started doing
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  Speaker 1: things they wouldn't normally do, or began thinking.
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  Speaker 2: About hurting themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And so, after the third student death, that Facebook post
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  Speaker 1: that Carly found had revealed that all three of those
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  Speaker 1: students had been repeatedly hypnotized by mister Kenny. Now, mister
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  Speaker 1: Kenny swore he was not the one responsible for these deaths.
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  Speaker 1: He was charged with practicing therapeutic hypnosis without a license,
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  Speaker 1: and he did receive a year of probation. In addition,
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  Speaker 1: the Sarasota County School Board paid a total of six
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars to the three victims' families, and as
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  Speaker 1: for mister Kenny, he has since retired from teaching. Shortly
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  Speaker 1: after eight pm on October ninth, nineteen ninety six, thirty
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  Speaker 1: one year old Anthony Irvin walked down a dark sidewalk
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, towards a local grocery store. It was
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  Speaker 1: not that cold outside, but you know, it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of windy, and it was dark, and you know, Anthony,
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  Speaker 1: he only had a light jacket on, and so he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't feeling that comfortable, and so he pulled his jacket
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  Speaker 1: tight around him as he walked. And as he was walking,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all he wanted to do was just go
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  Speaker 1: home where it was warm, but he couldn't. He really
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  Speaker 1: needed money first. Once he had money, then he could
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  Speaker 1: go home. So Anthony had a pretty tough life, and
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, he really was just a career criminal.
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  Speaker 1: He had not had a regular job in a very
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  Speaker 1: long time, and instead, when he needed money, like tonight,
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  Speaker 1: he would steal from local businesses, or he would mug people.
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  Speaker 1: In the past nine years, he'd been arrested eight times
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  Speaker 1: for things like robbery and assault, and.
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  Speaker 2: So for the most part, he was just a huge.
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  Speaker 1: Nuisance to the people in this neighborhood. Even if they
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  Speaker 1: felt bad for him, he was.
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  Speaker 2: Just a problem.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, despite how often he committed crimes, his
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  Speaker 1: crimes were always relatively petty, and so he really didn't
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  Speaker 1: serve much time at all in prison. He always ended
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  Speaker 1: up back out on the street, and he always ended
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  Speaker 1: up continuing to you know, be a problem. But tonight, though,
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  Speaker 1: as Anthony walked down the road, he was not thinking
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  Speaker 1: about how his behavior impacted his neighbors. He was thinking
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  Speaker 1: about finding some place or someone to rob. And tonight
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  Speaker 1: in particular, he thought, I'm gonna look for a person
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  Speaker 1: I need, I need a target. And so he's walking
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  Speaker 1: down the road and he actually began to get kind
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: of worried because it seemed like it was it was
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: quieter than usual out on the street, like there was
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: nobody out here, and he started to worry that if
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: he didn't find somebody soon, like he was gonna be
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: out of luck, no money.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: But just then, right up ahead.
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  Speaker 1: A young man turned the corner and began walking up
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: the sidewalk in Anthony's direction. He was sort of a smaller,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: younger looking guy. He appeared to be all alone, and
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: right away, Anthony's like, oh my goodness, perfect, I have
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  Speaker 1: my mark.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna rob this guy.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: And so Anthony he begins walking towards you know, this
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: this unsuspecting young man, and as he got closer, Anthony
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: realized he knew who this guy was. This was Harry,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: his neighbor. And he's like, oh my gosh, perfect, cause
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I know Harry is super soft spoken and gentle, like,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: he's so calm, he's not gonna do anything, like he's
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: gonna be so easy to rob. Yeah, it's horrible to
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: rob your neighbor. He's gonna know I did it, But
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: what's he gonna do. So Anthony marches right up to
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Harry and he stops right in front of him, blocking
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  Speaker 1: his path, and then Anthony delivers, you know, his classic
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: mugging threat. A few minutes later, a detective with the
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Police Department named Perry Kelly drove his cruiser fast
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: down a city street. He'd been called to the area
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: about a mugging, and he was hopeful he would get
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: there in time to potentially catch the mugger, or at
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: least see who they were or see where they went
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: so that maybe he could catch them. And so Kelly
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: he turns the corner and he pulls up in front
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: of the address where he's been told to go. And
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: as he's pulling up, he sees there are two men
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: out on the sidewalk. One is lying motionless on the
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: ground and the other is sitting on top of him.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: And Kelly's thinking, perfect.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I have caught the mugger, like he's the one on
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: top of the other, I've caught him. In he act great,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna jump out of the car and arrest this guy.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: But no, when Kelly got out of the car and
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: learned what actually happened here, this became easily the strangest
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: thing he had ever come across in his twenty five
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: year career. So when Anthony mugged people, what he would
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: do is he would put his hand into his coat
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: pocket and he would press his fingers forward like he
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: had a gun in his pocket, and he would sort
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: of aim his hand inside of his jacket towards the
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: person he was mugging, and he would say to them
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: as soon as he walked up to them, like, hey,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I got a gun, give me all your money, or
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna shoot you. And they would often look down
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: they'd see what they thought was a gun in his jacket,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: although they couldn't be sure, and you know, instead of
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: questioning whether really Anthony had a gun or not, they
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: would just hand over their money like it wasn't worth it. Here,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: take my money. Then Anthony would take their money and
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: run off, right. So this worked most of the time,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: and he's thinking, Harry, here's my easy mark this this
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: young meek kid.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I'm going to use this same thing on him. It's
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: going to be so easy. And so he walks up
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: to Harry.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: And literally stands in front of him and blocks his way,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: and Harry actually kind of walks into him and is like,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: what's going on, and Anthony he delivers the line he's
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: got his hand in the pocket, pretending he's got his gun,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: and he's like, hand over all your money or I'm
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: gonna shoot.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: But Harry, you know, whether or not.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: He believed that Anthony had a gun or not, he
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: actually had virtually no way of confirming it one way
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: or another, because Harry was actually blind, and Anthony knew
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Harry was blind because they were neighbors, and that was
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: a big reason why he thought this was going to
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: be so easy. I'm gonna rob the slight blind kid,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna do. But what Anthony didn't realize
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: is that in addition to being blind, Harry also happened
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: to be a karate master and a master wrestler as well,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and so when Harry was suddenly being told, you know
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: you're gonna get shot if you don't hand over your money,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: his instincts kicked in and he.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Grabbed Anthony, slipped him over his shoulder and slammed him
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: into the ground and broke his neck and killed him,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: and then he sat on top of his body until
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: police arrived.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Harry was never charged in connection with Anthony's death, since
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: it was determined he acted in self defense, and even
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: though the media called him a hero for defending himself,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Harry actually felt terrible that he had killed Anthony. He
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: didn't mean to, he was just protecting himself, and so
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: he called the whole thing a tragedy.
• 22:32
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