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The Woman Without A Face terrified Germany for years - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you two stories that each
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  Speaker 1: into today's stories. On the afternoon of April twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, a twenty five year old police
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  Speaker 1: officer named Martin Arnold and his partner Michelle sat in
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  Speaker 1: their police cruiser in the parking lot of a public
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  Speaker 1: park in Heilbron, Germany. They were on their lunch break
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  Speaker 1: and Martin was eating a sandwich and looking out across
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  Speaker 1: the park, which was mostly empty because it was a
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  Speaker 1: weekday afternoon. So Heilbrun was a medium sized city in
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  Speaker 1: southern Germany, and it was generally a pretty safe area.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, for the most part, the worst crimes committed
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  Speaker 1: here were like break ins or muggings, So Martin and
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  Speaker 1: his partner they didn't have a whole lot of action
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  Speaker 1: happening around them. However, something Martin and Michelle and basically
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  Speaker 1: all police officers for the most part in Germany were
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  Speaker 1: acutely aware of was over the last fourteen years, all
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  Speaker 1: across Germany there had been this rash of crimes, ranging
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  Speaker 1: from home invasions and robberies to at least two murders
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  Speaker 1: that had basically all been committed based on DNA evidence
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  Speaker 1: by the same person, this singular woman whose nickname was
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  Speaker 1: the Woman with No Face, and she still hadn't been
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  Speaker 1: caught yet, and so in essence, all police officers in
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  Speaker 1: Germany were sort of like always on the lookout for
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  Speaker 1: this woman. She was like the most elusive and sought
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  Speaker 1: after criminal in the whole country. But on this particular day,
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  Speaker 1: as Martin sat in his cruiser on his lunch break.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't really thinking about how he might get involved
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  Speaker 1: in capturing the woman with no face. Instead, he was
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  Speaker 1: just worried about his sandwich, and so he went to
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  Speaker 1: take another bite of his sandwich when he heard the doors,
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  Speaker 1: the back doors of his cruiser open up, and he
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  Speaker 1: whipped around and he looked, and there were these two
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  Speaker 1: people who had approached the cruiser, and each of them
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  Speaker 1: were carrying a gun. And before Martin or Michelle could
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  Speaker 1: do anything, these people raised their weapons and they fired
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  Speaker 1: and everything went black. Within minutes, officers from the Heilbroun
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  Speaker 1: Police Department had swarmed the scene. They found Michelle, who
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  Speaker 1: was deceased from a gunshot wound to the head and
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  Speaker 1: had also been shot in the head, but he was
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  Speaker 1: still alive. He was just unconscious, and so an ambulance
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  Speaker 1: rushed him to the hospital while detectives taped off the
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  Speaker 1: crime scene and began looking for evidence. Some officers immediately
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  Speaker 1: began canvassing the area looking for potential witnesses, but because
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  Speaker 1: the park was basically empty all day, there was nobody
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  Speaker 1: who had seen the shooting. Other officers looked for footprints
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  Speaker 1: in the ground, you know, around the car. They also
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  Speaker 1: began looking for fingerprints on the car, bullet casings, hares,
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  Speaker 1: other fibers inside or outside the car, but there was nothing.
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  Speaker 1: And so at this point the investigators are like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all we know is there's been at least one shooter,
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  Speaker 1: maybe multiple. Because they have not spoken to Martin, who's unconscious,
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  Speaker 1: they have no idea what he's seen. So they're seeing
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  Speaker 1: that at least one person has managed to come up
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  Speaker 1: to a police cruiser undetected, presumably open up the doors,
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  Speaker 1: shoot both officers in the head, and then get away
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  Speaker 1: without leaving behind any obvious evidence. That just seemed crazy,
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  Speaker 1: like have we just missed something? Like there's got to
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  Speaker 1: be something here that sort of points us in the
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  Speaker 1: direction of who was responsible. And so, in a last
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  Speaker 1: ditch attempt to find something helpful at the crime scene,
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  Speaker 1: one officer swabbed the inside of the car for potential
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  Speaker 1: DNA evidence. They knew that if there was DNA it
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  Speaker 1: could belong to Martin or Michelle or anybody else who
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  Speaker 1: might have been inside of this car, and any of
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  Speaker 1: those people didn't have to be the shooter or shooters,
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  Speaker 1: They could just be people in the car. But it
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  Speaker 1: was possible that DNA found inside that car could belong
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  Speaker 1: to whoever did this. However, they wouldn't know about this
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  Speaker 1: DNA sample until the crime lab analyzed the swabs, and
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  Speaker 1: that could take a really long time, but it was
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  Speaker 1: certainly worth it, and so they sent the swabs off protesting.
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  Speaker 1: While they waited for the DNA results to come in,
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  Speaker 1: the hilbron Pde continued trying to find witnesses or any
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  Speaker 1: other helpful evidence anything, but they kept coming up empty.
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  Speaker 1: Their only potential witness here was Martin himself, but he
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  Speaker 1: was still in a coma at the hospital. It was
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  Speaker 1: not till weeks later that finally the police had something
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  Speaker 1: to go on because the DNA results came back, and
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  Speaker 1: not only was their DNA found in the car, but
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  Speaker 1: what this DNA revealed sent the media into a frenzy
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  Speaker 1: and brought this investigation to the national level. At this time,
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  Speaker 1: it's mid two thousand and seven and a forty four
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  Speaker 1: year old German prosecutor named Gunter Horn was sitting in
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  Speaker 1: his office when he got a call from his boss
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  Speaker 1: and his boss told him the woman without a face
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  Speaker 1: has struck again, this time in Heilbroun. Gunter's eyes went
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  Speaker 1: wide and He immediately sat up and listened really intently
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  Speaker 1: as his boss explained that two police officers in Heilbron
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  Speaker 1: had been shot in the head while parked in their
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  Speaker 1: cruiser near this park, and the woman with no face
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  Speaker 1: her DNA had been found in the backseat of their car. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Gunter had always been fascinated by the woman without a face,
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  Speaker 1: so he was ecstatic when his boss asked if he
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  Speaker 1: Gunter would lead the investigation into this most recent crime
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  Speaker 1: in Heilbraun that was potentially connected to this woman and
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  Speaker 1: to try to finally identify who she was. Once in thrall,
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  Speaker 1: Gunter immediately said he would do it, and he got
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  Speaker 1: to work right away. Gunter organized a task force to
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  Speaker 1: investigate this woman without a Face. The task force was
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  Speaker 1: based in Heilbraun, but at Gunter's command. Detectives on the
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  Speaker 1: team began reinvestigating all these crimes from all over Germany
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  Speaker 1: that this woman was involved in. They searched for patterns,
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  Speaker 1: for evidence or witnesses that maybe had been missed during
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  Speaker 1: the original investigation, and through this effort, this team was
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  Speaker 1: able to come up with a very rough idea of
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  Speaker 1: who this woman was. They knew that she was very
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  Speaker 1: likely a heroin user, because police had once recovered a
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  Speaker 1: heroin needle with her DNA on it at a public park.
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  Speaker 1: They also knew she had a lot of criminal contacts
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  Speaker 1: because many of her crimes involved co conspirators, but anytime
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  Speaker 1: police had interrogated her co conspirators, they had refused to
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  Speaker 1: say anything about her. Was like they were afraid of her.
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  Speaker 1: And there were a couple of other details that struck
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  Speaker 1: Gunter as being pretty odd. The only evidence this woman
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  Speaker 1: had ever left behind at any of these crime scenes
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  Speaker 1: was her DNA, and they didn't have a match in
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  Speaker 1: the database to pair it with, so they only knew
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  Speaker 1: she was a woman, but they didn't know who she was.
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  Speaker 1: In fourteen years. She never left behind a fingerprint, a footprint,
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  Speaker 1: a hair or anything else. So it seemed like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: her crimes were extremely deliberate, very clean, very well planned.
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  Speaker 1: But also she was clearly leaving behind her DNA at
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  Speaker 1: all these crime scenes. It almost seemed like that was
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  Speaker 1: her calling card. Also, what Gunter and his task force
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  Speaker 1: discovered is that in many of the crimes committed by
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  Speaker 1: the woman without a face, witnesses described seeing what looked
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  Speaker 1: like a man at the scene not a woman. And
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  Speaker 1: this was obviously weird because based on the DNA evidence,
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  Speaker 1: they knew unequivocally that their suspect, this woman without a face,
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  Speaker 1: was biologically female, not male. And so to Gunter, it
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  Speaker 1: seemed like, you know, maybe this man that was being
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  Speaker 1: seen at these crime scenes was just one of the
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  Speaker 1: woman's co conspirators, or maybe the woman without a face
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  Speaker 1: dressed as a man to avoid being caught, But it
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  Speaker 1: was impossible to know without a first hand witness who
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  Speaker 1: had actually seen the suspect up close. That was what
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  Speaker 1: Gunter really needed, and in late May, about a month
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  Speaker 1: after the shooting in Heilbraun, Gunter got a call about
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  Speaker 1: that exact type of witness that he was looking for.
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  Speaker 1: That same day, Gunter walked into a hospital in Heilbroun
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  Speaker 1: and he saw heilbron police officer Martin Arnold laying in
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  Speaker 1: a hospital bed with his eyes open. He'd been in
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  Speaker 1: a coma for a month now after being shot, but
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  Speaker 1: he had woken up and he clearly was Gunter's best
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  Speaker 1: chance of catching the woman without a face because presumably
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  Speaker 1: before he was shot he might have gotten a look
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  Speaker 1: at her. So he was that witness who might be
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  Speaker 1: able to describe her, and so Gunter he walked over,
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  Speaker 1: sat down next to Martin's hospital bed, and he asked
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  Speaker 1: him to please tell him everything he remembered about what happened.
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  Speaker 1: And Martin, you know, he was very distraught about the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing. He's just woken up, he's just learned that
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  Speaker 1: his partner has died, and so he's very emotional. But
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  Speaker 1: he ultimately tells Gunter that, you know, realistically, he can't
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  Speaker 1: really remember what happened. He basically turned around, he saw
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  Speaker 1: there was, you know, these two figures, but after he
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  Speaker 1: got shot, it was like he just didn't remember anything.
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  Speaker 1: And so realistically, Martin had almost nothing to offer, which
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  Speaker 1: meant Gunter was back to square one. For the next
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  Speaker 1: two years, Gunter and his task force worked tirelessly to
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  Speaker 1: try to catch the Woman without a Face. They spent
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  Speaker 1: millions of euros, clogged thousands of hours of overtime, and
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  Speaker 1: even offered a reward equivalent to four hundred thousand US
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  Speaker 1: dollars for information, but none of it led anywhere. And
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  Speaker 1: adding insult to injury was the fact that the whole
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  Speaker 1: time this investigation is going on, the woman without a
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  Speaker 1: Face kept committing crimes. The task force connected her to
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  Speaker 1: at least six more break ins, one more robbery, and
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  Speaker 1: another murder, and these crimes weren't even just happening in
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  Speaker 1: Germany anymore. They also found the woman's DNA at crime
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  Speaker 1: scenes in France and in Austria. So now the entire
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  Speaker 1: region was on alert for this woman who seemed like
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  Speaker 1: this impossibly cunning international criminal genius, and Gunter he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: help but start to wonder if he would ever be
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  Speaker 1: able to catch her. But then, in March of two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and nine, Gunter got a call from a police
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  Speaker 1: officer in France, and what this officer told him would
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  Speaker 1: change everything. According to this officer, the French police were
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  Speaker 1: currently investigating a potential murder. They told Gunter that a
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  Speaker 1: badly burned body had been found in France, and it
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  Speaker 1: was so disfigured that for a while, all police knew
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  Speaker 1: was that it was a man. However, an asylum seeker
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  Speaker 1: who had come to France had recently been reported missing,
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  Speaker 1: and police wondered if maybe the body belonged to him.
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  Speaker 1: So on hunch, they had gotten his asylum application paperwork,
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  Speaker 1: which included his fingerprints, and they'd been able to lift
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  Speaker 1: a DNA profile from those prints, but when they had
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  Speaker 1: the DNA analyzed, the results didn't make any sense, and
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  Speaker 1: the French police were so baffled by these results that
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  Speaker 1: they were now calling Gunter because they knew if there's
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  Speaker 1: someone who needs to know about this, it's Gunter. And
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  Speaker 1: so Gunter, after being fully filled in about the baffling
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  Speaker 1: results that they had found, he was also at first
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  Speaker 1: very confused, but at the same time, he felt this
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  Speaker 1: new surge of hope because to him it felt like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as bizarre as this was, maybe this was
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  Speaker 1: the break he'd been looking for for the past two years.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe this was the time he was finally going to
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  Speaker 1: figure out who this woman really was. So he thanked
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  Speaker 1: the French police officer and then brought this new information
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  Speaker 1: to his team, and within just a few days, this
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  Speaker 1: new information from France did lead Gunter and his team
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  Speaker 1: to the woman with no Face. It would turn out
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  Speaker 1: this woman, the international criminal mastermind behind dozens of crimes,
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  Speaker 1: including at least four murder who had evaded capture for
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  Speaker 1: sixteen years, all across the entirety of Germany and beyond,
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  Speaker 1: appeared to everybody who actually knew her as a totally
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  Speaker 1: normal person, like nobody suspected she was actually responsible for
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  Speaker 1: all these horrible crimes. She was a young woman who
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  Speaker 1: lived in southern Germany, who during the day she appeared
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  Speaker 1: to work at a factory, and at night she appeared
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  Speaker 1: to just go home like she lived a very ordinary life.
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  Speaker 1: And so again nobody ever suspected her. But what the
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  Speaker 1: French police found when they analyzed the DNA from the
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  Speaker 1: missing man's asylum application was that that man's fingerprints somehow
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  Speaker 1: contained this woman's DNA. This was clearly impossible, I mean
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  Speaker 1: primarily because the man was biologically male and the woman
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  Speaker 1: without a face was biologically female. They knew that, so
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  Speaker 1: even if the asylum seeker had secretly been this woman,
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't really possible. And so when the French police
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  Speaker 1: saw this, they knew they had to tell Goonter because
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  Speaker 1: he was in charge of the Woman without a Face investigation.
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  Speaker 1: And when he and his team looked into this, they
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  Speaker 1: figured out something shocking. It was precisely this woman's normal
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  Speaker 1: seeming life, in particular her very normal seeming job at
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  Speaker 1: the factory that made everything she did possible. Because at
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  Speaker 1: this factory, this woman sat on an assembly line helping
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  Speaker 1: to manufacture the very cotton swabs that police use in
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  Speaker 1: DNA testing. On any given single shift, this woman would
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  Speaker 1: touch hundreds or even thousands of these swabs and would
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  Speaker 1: accidentally leave her DNA behind on each one. There was
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  Speaker 1: no international serial killer, you know, woman, criminal mastermind parading
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  Speaker 1: around the whole country. No, there was just a lot
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  Speaker 1: of contaminated cotton swaps, and so in essence, police had
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  Speaker 1: wasted all this time, nearly two decades, millions and millions
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  Speaker 1: of euro in thousands and thousands of hours of overtime
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  Speaker 1: chasing a criminal who didn't exist. It was later determined
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  Speaker 1: that the police officer Martin Arnold and his partner Michelle
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  Speaker 1: were shot by two members of a neo Nazi group. However,
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  Speaker 1: many of the other murders previously attributed to the Woman
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  Speaker 1: without a Face are still unsolved, primarily because police spent
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  Speaker 1: so long chasing the wrong suspect. Today, the case of
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  Speaker 1: the Woman without a Face is considered one of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest embarrassments in German police history. On the afternoon of
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  Speaker 1: May second, nineteen thirty, a middle aged woman named Gim
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  Speaker 1: Sujin walked into her farmhouse in a small village called
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  Speaker 1: Bibong Miun in what is now South Korea. She had
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  Speaker 1: spent the whole day working outside on her farm, and
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  Speaker 1: now all she wanted to do was grab some water,
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  Speaker 1: sit down, and finally just rest for a second. But
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  Speaker 1: before she could do any of that, she heard a
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  Speaker 1: knock at her door, and even though she was exhausted,
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  Speaker 1: the sound of this knock actually sort of energized her
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  Speaker 1: because she was pretty sure that her sixteen year old son,
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  Speaker 1: bach chung su had finally come home. So Sujin and
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  Speaker 1: her son ran this farm together, just the two of them,
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  Speaker 1: and they really barely made any money doing it. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the time they didn't even grow enough
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  Speaker 1: food to feed themselves. So to try to make ends meet,
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  Speaker 1: Sujin's son had recently started a full time job at
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  Speaker 1: an inn in town, and he also frequently did odd
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  Speaker 1: jobs in the village for extra cash. The problem was,
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  Speaker 1: Sujin's son would sometimes go straight from his job at
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  Speaker 1: the inn to one of those odd jobs, and he
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  Speaker 1: didn't always have time to stop by to tell his
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  Speaker 1: mother where he was going first. And remember this was
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  Speaker 1: nineteen thirty in rural Korea, so it wasn't like he
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  Speaker 1: could just call her and so basically, this mother was
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  Speaker 1: left to worry about her son kind of frequently and
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  Speaker 1: over the past six days, that is all Sujin did
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  Speaker 1: it because she had not seen or heard from her
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  Speaker 1: son at all, and even though he did go, you know,
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  Speaker 1: days at a time in the past, you know, doing
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  Speaker 1: these different odd jobs, this stretch was a pretty long
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  Speaker 1: time for him to be gone. But she told herself,
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  Speaker 1: what must have happened is he must have found work
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  Speaker 1: with a family who was you know, having him work
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  Speaker 1: and live with them full time, like this was just
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  Speaker 1: a great opportunity, and he had taken it, and surely
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  Speaker 1: he would be home soon. And now it seemed like maybe,
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  Speaker 1: just maybe he was home. So Sue Jen she rushed
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  Speaker 1: to the front door. She opened it up, and the
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  Speaker 1: smile on her face faded immediately because it was not
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  Speaker 1: her son standing at the door. Instead, it was two
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  Speaker 1: police officers, and the first thing they asked her was
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  Speaker 1: if she knew of any teenage boys who were missing
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  Speaker 1: from the village, and Sue Jin told them that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: she had a son of her own who was a teenager.
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  Speaker 1: He was sixteen, and the reality was is she didn't
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  Speaker 1: know where he was and he'd been gone for the
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  Speaker 1: past week, but don't worry. You know, he wasn't missing.
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  Speaker 1: He was very likely just working for a family somewhere
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  Speaker 1: and he'd be home soon. But after she said this,
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  Speaker 1: the police looked at Sujin with clear pity on their
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  Speaker 1: faces and told her they were so sorry, but they
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  Speaker 1: were nearly certain that her son had been murdered. Sujin
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  Speaker 1: just stared at them in shock and disbelief as they
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  Speaker 1: told her that a few days ago, during the time
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  Speaker 1: her son was gone, a teenage boy's body had been
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  Speaker 1: found on a nearby mountain and autopsy showed he'd been
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  Speaker 1: beaten and strangled to death. And for the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of days, the police had been traveling all over the
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  Speaker 1: village interviewing people and trying to figure out who this
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  Speaker 1: boy was, and based on everything they'd learned so far,
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  Speaker 1: Sujin's son was actually the only teenager in the area
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  Speaker 1: who wasn't accounted for. But hearing all of this, Sujin
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  Speaker 1: did not think this could be true. Her son stayed
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  Speaker 1: out of trouble and worked really hard. She couldn't imagine
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  Speaker 1: why anybody would want to hurt him, so she just
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  Speaker 1: told the police, this has got to be a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: But the police didn't seem to think so they just
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  Speaker 1: said that they needed her to come to the local
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  Speaker 1: hospital morgue to identify the body. A little while later,
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  Speaker 1: Sujin arrived at the hospital with the two police officers,
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  Speaker 1: and as they led her through the entrance, down a
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  Speaker 1: few hallways, and towards the morgue, she kept telling herself
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  Speaker 1: that her son was okay, he was still alive, and
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: this really has to be some sort of horrible mistake.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: It has to be. But the second she actually walked
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  Speaker 1: into the morgue and saw the body lying on the table,
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  Speaker 1: her eyes welled up with tears because she knew it
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  Speaker 1: was her son, and to sue Jin, this moment felt
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  Speaker 1: like leaving real life and entering a nightmare. Her son's
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: face and body were covered in bruises and wounds, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: he was very clearly decomposing. I mean, it was just
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: awful to see. But as this mother is sort of
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: just staring down at basically a parent's worst nightmare, here
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  Speaker 1: she noticed something strange. She turned to the police officers
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  Speaker 1: and she told them that this was her son definitely,
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  Speaker 1: but the clothes he was wearing were actually not his,
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  Speaker 1: and for some reason to sue Jin, the clothes thing
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: felt very important. She started rattling off ideas for you know,
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  Speaker 1: where they could have come from. You know, it was
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  Speaker 1: like her brain suddenly became fixated on this one aspect.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: To avoid touching on the trauma of losing her son,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: you know, she began telling them that, you know, maybe
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the family he was working for let him borrow them,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: or maybe he bought them without her knowing, and or
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: maybe whoever killed him dressed him up for some reason.
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  Speaker 1: But when she said that last part, it was like,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: all at once, the reality of her son being dead
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: just came crashing down on her. She started shaking, and
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: before she knew it, she had collapsed onto the floor
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: and was sobbing hysterically. Less than a week later, sue
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Jin was sitting in her farmhouse staring at her front
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: window in a daze when she saw the police walking
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: towards her house. Again. Over the past few days, she
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: hadn't heard any updates about her son's case, so she'd
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: just been at the farmhouse all alone, trying to make
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: sense of his death. But now, you know, sue Jin
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: sees these officers, and so she goes right outside and
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: she meets them, and she asked them, like, do you
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  Speaker 1: have news for me about what happened to my son?
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  Speaker 1: And they tell her that she was likely going to
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: have to sit down to hear this. Sujin figured it
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: couldn't be worse than finding out your son's been murdered,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: so she said, okay, let's go inside, and so they
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: went inside the farmhouse. They sat down, and then the
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: police told her that they figured out who had killed
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: her son. They told her they had not one, but
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: two people in jail right now who had both issued
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: full confessions. Both of these suspects were people that Sujin's
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: son Chong Su, had worked with at the inn in town.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: One of them was a young man and one was
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a young woman, and apparently Chang Su had gotten involved
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: in the woman's personal life. She was having an affair
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: with a married man, but was planning to run away
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: with a different man from the village soon, and Chong
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  Speaker 1: Su had told the married man about it. When the
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: woman found out that Chung Su had done that, she
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: was furious, so furious that she conspired with her co worker,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: the young man the other suspect, to lure cheng Su
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: out to the mountains under the guise of gathering wild vegetables,
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  Speaker 1: and then when they got there, the man and the
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: woman beat up chong Su and then strangled him to death.
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  Speaker 1: This had all happened on the first night that chong
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Su had left the farmhouse, so over that six day
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: period he pretty much went out and immediately was killed.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: And so over those six days he was never you know,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: living with a family and working for them. He was
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: just dead on the mountain. The whole time, the police
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: told Sujin that they had charged both suspects with murder.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: But after hearing all this, Sujin still had one question,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: what about her son's clothes? Was there anything in the
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: suspects confessions about that? But the police just shook their
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: heads no and said the clothes didn't really seem relevant
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: to the case anyway. And this time, even though su
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Jin you know, did feel like the clothes have to
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: mean something, she didn't argue or even you know, try
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: to come up with other theories about the clothes. She
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: just sort of accepted what the police had told her.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: As horrible as it was to know that her son
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: was murdered over something so petty, she was at least
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: glad to know that his killers were behind bars. Sujin
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: entually got her son's body from the police and she
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: was able to bury him in the local cemetery. And
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: then after that she did her best to try to
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: move on, but she never could. And as this nightmare
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: kept happening night after night, sue Jin slowly became convinced
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: that her son was haunting her dreams, and so sue
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Jin basically stopped sleeping, couldn't really eat, certainly couldn't work,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: her farm fell into disrepair. She actually began to think
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: she was just gonna wither away and die here unless
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: something changed. I mean, this was horrible. She was overcome
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: with grief and sadness and also just scared. These dreams
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: were terrifying. But then on the night of October eighteenth,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: nineteen thirty one, so about six months after her son
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: was killed, sue Jin woke up from yet another nightmare,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and when she opened her eyes, she saw this shadowy
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: figure at the foot of her bed, and she immediately
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: realized that it was her son's ghost coming to visit her.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: But sue Jin, she wasn't scared. She actually felt tears
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: welling up in her eyes, and she actually just began speaking.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: She told the ghost. I love you, but you have
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: to move on. You have to rest in peace. Now,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: you have to Now. Sujin really didn't know what she
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: expected to happen here when she began speaking to the ghost,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: but what did happen was definitely not something she would
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: have considered, because suddenly the ghost opened their mouth and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: they spoke, and what the ghost said changed everything. It
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: would turn out chong Su Sujin's son had been viciously
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: attacked by that man and woman up on the mountain.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: They really had beaten and strangled him and left him
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: for dead, but he didn't die. He survived the attack,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and when he came to he fled the area because
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: he was fearful if he went back home they would
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: finish the job. They would attack him and kill him.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: So he didn't have a chance to tell his mom
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: that he was basically on the run. And so for
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: six months he's living in random towns doing odd jobs
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: to survive. But eventually, you know, six months in, he
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: misses his mom, he misses home, and he goes back
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and he walks into a room in the middle of
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the night. He is the ghost. And when she said
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: to him, you need to rest in peace, now he
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: just says to his mom, I'm not dead, and he
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: was just being honest. I'm here, I'm back. I survived.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: It would turn out the body that was found on
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the mountain was just some other teenage boy who was
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: never identified by the way, who happened to be in
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the same area where he had been attacked. And so
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: when word got out about this body being found on
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the mountain, the man and the woman who had attacked
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Chung Su, they're like, shoot, that's him. That was us,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and they confessed to killing him because that's what they
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: tried to do. They tried to kill him. It just
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: they didn't kill him. There was some other body. And
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: then when Sue Jin went to the morgue and saw
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: this body, you know, it was decomposing and he basically
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: looked like her son, and so she misidentified him. She
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: thought it was her son, but it really wasn't fixated
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: on his clothes and she was like, something's off. Well,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: she was right, it wasn't her son. It was someone
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: else's close And so in the end, the man and
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: woman who had attacked Chongsu had their murder charges dropped
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: because they didn't commit a murder and they were both
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: ultimately released from jail after serving about a year in
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: prison for the assault. As for the actual person who
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: is found dead on the mountain, they were never identified,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: and they were buried in a sort of unmarked grave,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and the location of that grave has been lost to time,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: and so even though we have the ability today to
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: test for DNA, we're not able to exhume them because
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: we don't know where their grave is, and so very
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: likely we'll never know who that person was. Thank you
• 25:48
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• 25:50
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• 25:54
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• 25:57
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