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  Speaker 1: Hello everyone. Today, I'm going to tell you about a
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  Speaker 1: case that once shocked one of the most prestigious universities
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  Speaker 1: in the United States, Yale. The victim was a twenty
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  Speaker 1: four year old Vietnamese American woman, an exceptionally brilliant student
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  Speaker 1: who was once the pride of the entire school. But
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  Speaker 1: no one could have imagined that on the very day
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  Speaker 1: of her wedding she would be found hanging upside down,
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  Speaker 1: stuck in a wall crevice of the university's lab building. Creepy,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it. So what exactly happened? Why would someone as
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  Speaker 1: intelligent and full of promise as her be murdered in
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  Speaker 1: such a brutal way. Let's turn back time to the
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  Speaker 1: year two thousand and nine and follow each clue of
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  Speaker 1: this chilling case together DOT first. To understand the context,
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  Speaker 1: let me briefly talk about Yale. Yale University is located
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  Speaker 1: in New Haven, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the.
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  Speaker 1: Oldest and most prestigious universities in the United States, part
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  Speaker 1: of the Ivy League, a group of elite schools known
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  Speaker 1: for their academic excellence. The teaching system at Yale is
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  Speaker 1: top notch, and among its faculty and alumni. There are
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  Speaker 1: sixty five Nobel Prize winners, five Fields medallists, and three
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  Speaker 1: Turin Award recipients, not to mention. Yale has also produced
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  Speaker 1: several US presidents, including Bill Clinton, George H. W.
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  Speaker 2: Bush, and Gerald Ford.
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  Speaker 1: The main character in today's story is Annie Lay also
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  Speaker 1: affectionately known as Thursday Layla thursdborn in San Jose, California
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  Speaker 1: to a Vietnamese American family. She was born in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty five, and from a young age, those around her
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  Speaker 1: called her a genius because of her remarkable intelligence. Thursday's
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  Speaker 1: dream was to become a biomedical researcher. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: dedicate her life to medicine with the hope that one
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  Speaker 1: day she could help find a cure for cancer. During
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  Speaker 1: her school years, Thursday always stood out. Her high school principal,
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  Speaker 1: Mister Tony Deville, once said Thursday was a very active
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  Speaker 1: student with strong ideals. Well liked by both her peers
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  Speaker 1: and teachers, She was among the top two students in
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  Speaker 1: the entire twelfth grade. After graduating from high school with
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  Speaker 1: an outstanding academic record, Thursday easily earned a full ride
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  Speaker 1: scholarship worth one hundred sixty thousand dollars from the University
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  Speaker 1: of Rochester in New York. She majored in cell biology
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  Speaker 1: and medical anthropology. Because of her exceptional intelligence, many people
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  Speaker 1: referred to Thursday as the new generation Einstein. But she
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just smart. Thirs also petite, graceful, and had the
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  Speaker 1: delicate beauty typical of East Asian women. Her friend said
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  Speaker 1: she was always cheerful, funny, and radiated positive energy to
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  Speaker 1: everyone around her. After graduating with honors in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and eight, Thursday was accepted into the graduate program at
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  Speaker 1: Yale University, a major milestone for anyone pursuing an academic career.
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  Speaker 2: Her goal was.
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  Speaker 1: To earn a PhD in pharmacology by twenty thirteen. T
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  Speaker 1: You wasn't just a diligent student. She was also actively
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  Speaker 1: involved in various extracurricular activities at school. Notably, she once
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  Speaker 1: wrote an article titled Crime and Safety in New Haven,
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  Speaker 1: which discussed the security situation on and around the university campus.
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  Speaker 1: That alone show she wasn't just smart, but also deeply
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  Speaker 1: concerned about the environment and community she lived in. But
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  Speaker 1: what many people admired most about Thursday wasn't just her
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  Speaker 1: academic achievements. It was also her fairy tale like love
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  Speaker 1: story with Jonathan Vedowski, a physics and applied mathematic student
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  Speaker 1: at Columbia University. The two started out as close friends
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  Speaker 1: and gradually became each others first love while studying at
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  Speaker 1: the University of Rochester. They had been together for years,
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  Speaker 1: got engaged, and were just five days away from their wedding,
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  Speaker 1: scheduled for September thirteenth, two thousand and nine, in Long Island,
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  Speaker 1: but then tragedy struck just days before what was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be the happiest moment of her life. On September eighth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, just a few days before the wedding,
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  Speaker 1: Thursday was still attending classes and working on her research
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  Speaker 1: as usual. Despite the hectic wedding preparations, she remained fully
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  Speaker 1: committed to her work in the lab. That night, Thursday
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  Speaker 1: never came home. Her roommate tried calling her repeatedly but
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  Speaker 1: got no answer. There were no texts, no missed calls. Jonathan,
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  Speaker 1: her fiance, couldn't reach her either. Growing increasingly worried, they
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  Speaker 1: called the police to report her missing dot. At first,
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  Speaker 1: the police considered the possibility that Thursd might have gotten
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  Speaker 1: cold feet, that she was overwhelmed by pre wedding pressure
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  Speaker 1: and just needed some time away. But the deeper they looked,
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  Speaker 1: the more they realized this was no simple case. Thursday's
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  Speaker 1: friends all insisted she was an extremely cautious person who
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  Speaker 1: always prioritized her safety. Aside from attending classes and working
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  Speaker 1: in the lab, she rarely went out and almost never
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  Speaker 1: went anywhere unfamiliar alone. When police searched Thursday's office, they
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  Speaker 1: found her phone and wallet still on the desk, everything
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  Speaker 1: neatly arranged, with no signs of a struggle or anything
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  Speaker 1: out of place. The lab was just a short walk away,
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  Speaker 1: but there was no trace of her there either. Fortunately,
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  Speaker 1: Yale had a strict security system in place, with as
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  Speaker 1: many as seven twenty five surveillance cameras installed across campus.
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  Speaker 1: While the lab area itself didn't have cameras inside due
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  Speaker 1: to privacy policies, key locations like entrances and exits were
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  Speaker 1: all monitored, and it was thanks to this system that
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  Speaker 1: the police were able to trace Thursday's final steps before
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  Speaker 1: she mysteriously vanished. The next morning, Yale University handed over
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  Speaker 1: the entire set of surveillance footage to the police after
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  Speaker 1: carefully reviewing the recordings from September eight, two thousand nine.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators found that Thursday was last seen at exactly ten
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  Speaker 1: eleven a m. She was wearing a brown dress, a
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  Speaker 1: green blouse and appeared to be holding some documents likely
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  Speaker 1: related to her research, and that was the last time
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  Speaker 1: she was ever seen on camera. What's especially disturbing is
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  Speaker 1: that after that moment, the entrance cameras never captured Thursday
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  Speaker 1: leaving the building dot. In other words, she entered the
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  Speaker 1: lab but never came back dotted. Around twelve fifty five
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  Speaker 1: pm that same day, the fire alarm in the lab
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  Speaker 1: building suddenly went off. Everyone evacuated the premises immediately, but
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  Speaker 1: among the crowd, THURSDA knew where to be seen. This
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  Speaker 1: raised serious questions for the police. If she wasn't in
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  Speaker 1: the lab anymore, then where did she go in that
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  Speaker 1: narrow window of time between ten eleven am and twelve
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  Speaker 1: fifty five pm. Because Thursday was only about one point
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  Speaker 1: five meters tall and had a petite frame, the police
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  Speaker 1: began to wonder could someone have stuffed her into a suitcase,
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  Speaker 1: a large bag, or even a box to smuggle her
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  Speaker 1: out without being noticed. So they went back and meticulously
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  Speaker 1: reviewed every frame of surveillance footage at the exits, but
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  Speaker 1: everyone leaving the building was only carrying personal items. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: looked suspicious at all. DOT three days past, and despite
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  Speaker 1: scouring every quarner of the camp, the police still couldn't
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  Speaker 1: find a single solid lead. A heavy somber mood hung
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  Speaker 1: over the entire Yale community DOT. The university even offered
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  Speaker 1: a ten thousand dollars reward in hopes that someone, anyone
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  Speaker 1: might come forward with information. Thursday's fiance flew back from
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  Speaker 1: New York immediately, while her parents rushed in from California,
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  Speaker 1: desperately clinging to the hope of hearing even the smallest
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  Speaker 1: piece of news about their daughter. Under immense pressure, the
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  Speaker 1: police decided it was time to re examine everything, this
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  Speaker 1: time with a thorough sweep of the entire lab building,
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  Speaker 1: including the basement below. Thursday's lab was located in the
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  Speaker 1: basement of Yale's Animal Research Center. The moment investigators stepped in,
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  Speaker 1: they had to cover their noses. The stench was overwhelming,
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  Speaker 1: as the facility housed numerous animals for research purposes.
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  Speaker 2: The space was.
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  Speaker 1: Dark, cramped, and damp, creating a chilling atmosphere that felt
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  Speaker 1: less like a lab and more like an underground graveyard.
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  Speaker 1: The police immediately deployed a forensic team of hundreds divided
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  Speaker 1: into five groups. They began combing through each room, starting
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  Speaker 1: from Thursday's work space and gradually expanding to nearby labs.
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  Speaker 1: They used luminol, a chemical specially designed to detect traces
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  Speaker 1: of blood. Even if the blood had been thoroughly cleaned
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  Speaker 1: and was invisible to the naked eye, luminol would still
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  Speaker 1: make it glow under the right light, and just as
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  Speaker 1: they suspected, at the entrance of lab room G thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: where Thursday used to work, faint traces of blood began
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  Speaker 1: to glow. But that wasn't all. Investigators also discovered a
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  Speaker 1: blue rubber glove, a white sock, and a yellow lab
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  Speaker 1: coat lodged in the ceiling. All of these items were
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  Speaker 1: stained with blood, and later tests confirmed it was Thursday's
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  Speaker 1: blood dot. At the same time, another investigative team found
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  Speaker 1: a tiny bead on the floor near the locker room
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  Speaker 1: behind lap G twenty two. It looked like it had
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  Speaker 1: come from a broken necklace. After comparing it with surveillance
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  Speaker 1: footage and Thursday's personal belongings, they confirmed the bead was
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  Speaker 1: from her necklace. However, there was something deeply unsettling. The
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  Speaker 1: area was extremely small, there was seemingly nowhere a person
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  Speaker 1: could be hidden, and yet throughout the search, every one
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  Speaker 1: reported smelling a strong, foul odor, thick and unbearable, as
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  Speaker 1: if something or some one was being concealed.
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  Speaker 2: Right there, just out of sight. Dot.
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  Speaker 1: To pinpoint the source of the strange odor, the police
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  Speaker 1: brought in a cadaver dog, and just as they feared,
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  Speaker 1: the dog reacted strongly at one specific spot, a wall
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  Speaker 1: near the lockers in room G too du Dot. On
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  Speaker 1: that wall was a small opening, about the size of
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  Speaker 1: a computer screen, originally meant for accessing and repairing the
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  Speaker 1: building's internal piping.
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  Speaker 2: The whole had been.
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  Speaker 1: Sealed with a stainless steel panel fastened tightly with multiple screws.
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  Speaker 1: One by one, the police carefully removed each screw. The
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  Speaker 1: entire room seemed to hold its breath. Inside the narrow
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  Speaker 1: wall cavity was the decomposing body of a young woman.
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  Speaker 1: It was Thhu Dot. She had been stuffed in head first,
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  Speaker 1: her body twisted and crammed into the impossibly tight space.
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  Speaker 1: One hand still wore a blue rubber glove on one
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  Speaker 1: foot only a white sock remained. September thirteenth, the day
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  Speaker 1: that should have been Thursday's wedding, the day she was
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  Speaker 1: meant to wear her white dress and walk down the
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  Speaker 1: aisle with the man she loved. Instead, it became the
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  Speaker 1: day of her funeral, day when her family had to
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  Speaker 1: say their final goodbye, shattered by a grief too deep
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  Speaker 1: for words, a brutal, heartbreaking reality, one that neither her
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  Speaker 1: loved one, her friends, nor her professors could fully comprehend
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  Speaker 1: or accept that. The autopsy revealed that Thirge had died
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  Speaker 1: from asphyxiation due to strangulation. She had also suffered severe
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  Speaker 1: injuries while still alive, including a broken jaw and a
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  Speaker 1: fractured collar bone. This indicated that she had been brutally attacked,
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  Speaker 1: likely from behind, and then stuffed into the wall, either
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  Speaker 1: while she was still alive or just after losing consciousness.
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  Speaker 1: The moment Thursday's body was discovered, the case exploded into
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  Speaker 1: the national spotlight. A prestigious institution like Yale had now
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  Speaker 1: become the scene of a chilling murder, one that shocked
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  Speaker 1: the entire country. Journalists and news crews flooded the campus, parents, students,
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  Speaker 1: even alumni were gripped by fear and disbelief. The following day,
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  Speaker 1: over two thousand people gathered on the Yale campus for
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  Speaker 1: a candlelight vigilant Thursday's memory that the flickering candles in
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  Speaker 1: the darkness seemed to echo the grief, sorrow, and the
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  Speaker 1: overwhelming sense of loss that words simply couldn't express. Dot
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  Speaker 1: After the tragedy, the atmosphere on campus changed completely. Before,
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  Speaker 1: students often walked to class alone worked late by themselves
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  Speaker 1: in the labs. But after thieves death, no one dared
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  Speaker 1: to be alone anymore. They moved in groups even during
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  Speaker 1: the day, and only felt safe studying in crowded areas.
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  Speaker 1: The Yale campus, once considered peaceful and secure, was now
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  Speaker 1: filled with fear, tension, and exhaustion. Yale University was forced
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  Speaker 1: to take immediate action. The school rolled out a series
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  Speaker 1: of heightened security measures, more frequent ID checks, additional surveillance cameras,
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  Speaker 1: and stricter access control. From that point on, only students
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  Speaker 1: and staff with valid ID cards were allowed into the
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  Speaker 1: lab areas. Even then, each card had customized access, meaning
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  Speaker 1: no one could freely enter just any room, even if
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  Speaker 1: they were part of the university but the most terrifying
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  Speaker 1: question still lingered who was the killer? Because clearly the
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  Speaker 1: murderer had to be someone with authorized access to the lab,
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  Speaker 1: someone who could move in and out without raising suspicion.
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  Speaker 1: Even more disturbing, this person knew the layout of the basement,
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  Speaker 1: knew exactly where to hide a body and how to
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  Speaker 1: stash bloodied evidence, gloves, a sock, a lab coat up
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  Speaker 1: in the ceiling, a place no one would normally look.
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  Speaker 1: That person was definitely not an outsider dob. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: just two days after Thursday went missing, the police had
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  Speaker 1: already narrowed down their list to three main suspects, all
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  Speaker 1: of whom had access to the lab. They quietly began
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  Speaker 1: a deeper investigation into each one. The first suspect was
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  Speaker 1: Raymond Clark, twenty four year old lab technician responsible for
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  Speaker 1: the animal research facilities at Yale. His job included taking
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  Speaker 1: care of lab mice and cleaning the areas where students,
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  Speaker 1: including Thursday, conducted their experiments. There was a particularly important detail.
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  Speaker 1: Raymond had previously clashed with thirsd over how the lab
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  Speaker 1: mice were being handled. While this might seem like a
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  Speaker 1: minor issue to outsiders, in a high stakes research environment,
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  Speaker 1: even small disagreements can create serious tension. What made him
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  Speaker 1: even more suspicious was that his access badge granted him
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  Speaker 1: extensive privileges. He could enter almost any area in the lab.
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  Speaker 2: Complex without restriction.
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  Speaker 1: When summoned, Raymond appeared calm. He said, I arrived at
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  Speaker 1: the lab at seven a m. At ten thirty eight,
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  Speaker 1: I saw Thursday enter. Then at twelve o three pm,
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  Speaker 1: I saw her leave the lab. At twelve fifty five,
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  Speaker 1: the fire alarm went off and I evacuated. After that,
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  Speaker 1: I returned and left again around four pm. It sounded plausible,
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  Speaker 1: but the security cameras never recorded Thursday leaving the building
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  Speaker 1: at twelve oh three, as Raymond claimed, and that was
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  Speaker 1: the first major hole in his story. That's not all.
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  Speaker 1: After leaving the lab building, security cameras also captured Raymond
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  Speaker 1: sitting alone on the steps, his head in his hands,
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  Speaker 1: clearly distressed. It looked like he was deeply troubled, maybe
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  Speaker 1: even overwhelmed by something, but of course that alone couldn't
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  Speaker 1: be used as evidence. Raymond was known for being meticulous
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  Speaker 1: and strict with students, especially when someone left the lab messy.
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  Speaker 1: Colleagues described him as so serious it was uncomfortable. Police
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  Speaker 1: took a biological sample from Raymond for testing, then temporarily
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  Speaker 1: let him go. The second suspect was Larry Godfrey, a
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  Speaker 1: maintenance technician responsible for the basement's infrastructure. On the day
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  Speaker 1: of the incident, he was present to replace parts of
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  Speaker 1: the lighting system. Larry was extremely familiar with the basement structure,
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  Speaker 1: including the utility tunnels, sealing panels, and wiring. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: if anyone had the knowledge and ability to hide a
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  Speaker 1: body in a place no one would think to look,
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  Speaker 1: Larry was one of those people. When questioned, Larry calmly
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  Speaker 1: recounted around eleven am I entered Thursday's lab to check
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  Speaker 1: the lights when the fire alarm went off. I evacuated
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  Speaker 1: with everyone else. After things were clear, I went back
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  Speaker 1: in to finish the job and left the building at
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  Speaker 1: around two thirty pm. The police compared his statement with
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  Speaker 1: the surveillance footage and found that everything matched perfectly. There
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  Speaker 1: were no suspicious signs that Larry was released. The third
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  Speaker 1: suspect was none other than Jonathan Vadovski, Thursday's fianza. In
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  Speaker 1: many past cases, it's been shown that the perpetrator can
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  Speaker 1: be someone close to the victim, so the police didn't
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  Speaker 1: overlook this possibility. However, after a thorough investigation, Jonathan had
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  Speaker 1: a solid alibi and was quickly ruled out as a suspect.
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  Speaker 1: With few leads left, the police widened the investigation, reviewing
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  Speaker 1: every person with access to the lab facilities, but no
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  Speaker 1: new suspects emerged. Yet the most shocking part remained. In
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  Speaker 1: one of the most prestigious universities in the US, with
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  Speaker 1: an advanced security system like Yale's, how could a young
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  Speaker 1: woman be murdered and hidden right inside the school for
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  Speaker 1: five entire days and no one noticed. A terrifying question
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  Speaker 1: that haunted not just the investigators, but the entire nation.
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  Speaker 1: Dit At that moment, all suspicions began to circle back
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  Speaker 1: to Raymond Clark. So then, who was the real killer?
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  Speaker 1: Just when it seemed like every lead had gone cold,
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  Speaker 1: the police decided to go back to the very beginning.
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  Speaker 1: They meticulously reviewed every single person who had entered or
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  Speaker 1: exited Thursday's lab that date, and it was during this
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  Speaker 1: reinvestigation that they discovered something deeply unusual. Dot the access
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  Speaker 1: card records revealed something shocking. Raymond, who had already been
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  Speaker 1: a person of interest, had entered and exited the lab
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  Speaker 1: eleven times in a very short period. Eleven times. That
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  Speaker 1: was far from normal.
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  Speaker 2: Dot.
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  Speaker 1: That tiny detail set off alarm bells.
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  Speaker 2: DOT.
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  Speaker 1: According to protocol, every time someone entered the lab, they
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  Speaker 1: had to manually check in and sign their name with
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  Speaker 1: a pen. Thursday always used blue ink, while Raymond, as
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  Speaker 1: confirmed by previous records, consistently signed with black ink. But strangely,
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  Speaker 1: on one occasion, Raymond's signature appeared in blue ink. That
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  Speaker 1: simple inconsistency suggested something chilling. Had he forged thirst check
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  Speaker 1: in to make it seem like she had left the
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  Speaker 1: lab alive. This small detail raised a red flag. They
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  Speaker 1: began to suspect could Raymond have taken Thursday's pen to
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  Speaker 1: forge her signature or fabricate evidence. It didn't stop there.
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  Speaker 1: When reviewing the surveillance footage, investigators noticed that Raymond was
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  Speaker 1: wearing blue clothing underneath and a yellow lab coat on top.
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  Speaker 1: This matched the blood stained yellow lab coat found near
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  Speaker 1: the crime scene earlier and during the fire alarm. When
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  Speaker 1: Raymond exited the building, there was a reddish stain on
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  Speaker 1: his coat that looked very much like blood. But when
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  Speaker 1: he returned to the lab, afterward that stain was gone DOT.
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  Speaker 1: It was highly likely that he had changed clothes to
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  Speaker 1: eliminate the evidence.
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  Speaker 2: All the clues were.
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  Speaker 1: Pointing to Raymond, but there still wasn't enough solid legal
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  Speaker 1: evidence to formally charge him DOT. At this point, the
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  Speaker 1: police brought in on one of the world's leading forensic experts,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Henry C. Lee, founder of the Henry Sea Lee
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  Speaker 1: Institute of Forensic Science. He had been involved in solving
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  Speaker 1: numerous high profile cases across the United States DOT. In China,
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  Speaker 1: he was respectfully known as the Chinese Sherlock Holmes. Doctor
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  Speaker 1: Henry Lee personally arrived at the scene and meticulously examined
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  Speaker 1: every piece of evidence, the blood stain on the lab coat,
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  Speaker 1: the blue pen, a single song, the blue rubber glove,
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  Speaker 1: and the other blood stained items discarded in the ceiling space.
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  Speaker 1: He ordered DNA samples to be collected and began analyzing
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  Speaker 1: each item one by one. Final results, every single item
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  Speaker 1: contained the DNA of both Thursday and Raymond. Doctor Henry
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  Speaker 1: Lee's conclusion struck like a hammer in a case shrouded uncertainty.
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  Speaker 1: These DNA traces are a refutable evidence, no matter how
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  Speaker 1: hard he tried to deny it. Raymond cannot escape the truth.
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  Speaker 2: He is the one who killed THIRSD.
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  Speaker 1: September eighteenth, two thousand and nine, at exactly eight twenty
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: five am, police officially arrested Raymond Clark, the laboratory technician
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: suspected of murdering the young woman Annie Thurs. He was
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: apprehended at a hotel located about thirty miles from Yale University.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Court immediately set bail at three million US dollars, an
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: amount high enough to ensure that Raymond could not leave custody.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: He was held at a maximum security prison in Connecticut
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: awaiting trial. On October sixth, two thousand and nine, the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Connecticut Superior Court began the trial. Inside the court room,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the atmosphere was heavy, almost suffocating. When faced with justice,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Raymond offered no defense. He simply stood still and spoke
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: in a low voice. Annie was a good girl. Un sorry,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: sorry for taking her life and for hurting so many people.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: That was all he said. No explanation, no reason, just
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: a belated apology and nothing more.