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Ohio Man Found Shot Dead in Execution-Style on Puerto Rico Beach · Murder Files Unsealed

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Speaker 1: So I want you to imagine that your phone just
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completely dies right now, Oh the modern nightmare, right, just
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take a second to really picture it. The screen goes black,
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you have absolutely no charger, and suddenly that invisible digital tether.
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Speaker 2: Is just gone completely severed.
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Speaker 1: Exactly. You are disconnected from your friends, your family, and
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you know, emergency services. And for most of us, I
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mean that induces a pretty immediate mild panic.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of panic for some people, for sure.
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Speaker 1: But what if you actively sought that out? Like imagine
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you drive down this really deeply rutted, uncaved.
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Speaker 2: Dirt road getting away from it all.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, away from the street lights, away from the paved
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parking lots, and you set up a tent on this
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just gorgeous secluded beach in the Caribbean.
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Speaker 2: Sounds pretty ideal, honestly it does.
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Speaker 1: You've got a campfire crackling, you're catching your own food,
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and you are surrounded by this incredible, unbroken canopy of stars. Right,
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you are entirely alone, And well that is exactly the point,
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the primal sort of reset, Yeah, a reset.
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Speaker 2: Because that specific scenario you're painting, it's actually the driving
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force behind a multi billion dollar ecotourism industry right now.
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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely.
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Speaker 2: I mean, modern human beings are just neurologically exhausted by
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constant connectivity. We actively seek out these isolated pockets of
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nature because we basically crave a sensory baseline.
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Speaker 1: We want the sound of the ocean instead of traffic exactly.
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Speaker 2: We want to believe that by stepping away from civilization,
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we are also stepping away from the dangers of civilization.
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Speaker 1: But that is such a beautiful illusion, and our mission
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for this deep dive today is to really explore what
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happens when that illusion shatters, and.
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Speaker 2: In this case, it shatters in just the most violent
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way imaginable.
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Speaker 1: It really does. So we are going to carefully unpack
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a whole stack of recent news reports, family statements, and investigative.
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Speaker 2: Updates right looking at the primary source material.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all surrounding the unsolved July twenty, twenty sixth murder
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of thirty five year old Tyler Wilkin in Puerto Rico.
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Speaker 2: It's an incredibly tough case to look at, it is,
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But we aren't just going to sit here and read
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a timeline of a tragedy.
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Speaker 1: We are going to actually tear apart the mechanics of
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this case.
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Speaker 2: Because there's so much beneath the surface.
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Speaker 1: Here, right, we need to understand these really bizarre psychological
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clues left behind in his final text messages.
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Speaker 2: The text messages are chilling.
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Speaker 1: Beyond chilling. And we also need to look at the
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grim reality of forensic investigations in a tropical environment. Plus,
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there is this massive logistical friction that happens when a
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US state tries to intervene in a territorial police investigation.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this case really is a masterclass in the unexpected.
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I mean, when we think of violent quint and we
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usually picture urban environments.
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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, alleyways cities.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, gang disputes, domestic altercations behind closed doors. We absolutely
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do not picture a designated nature reserve.
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Speaker 1: No, you think you're safe there, right.
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Speaker 2: The circumstances of Tyler Wilkins's death challenge literally every preconceived
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notion we have about geographical safety.
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Speaker 1: It really forces a complete reevaluation, doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: It does. It makes us rethink how we assess threat
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levels in environments that our brains have basically coded as peaceful.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. And the way this crime scene is described in
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the source material, it feels almost like a classic locked room.
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Speaker 2: Mystery, but the room is a completely open beach.
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Speaker 1: Exactly how does someone get targeted, executed, and then left
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in the mangroves in a place that requires a hike
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or an off road vehicle to even access.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't make any logistical sense at first glance, not
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at all.
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Speaker 1: So if you are someone who loves traveling, or you know,
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if you ever hike or camp alone, this story is
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going to make you look at your own surroundings very
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differently by the time we.
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Speaker 2: Finish, I guarantee it will. Because to understand the vulnerability
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of the victim in that specific environment, we first have
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to understand his baseline competency, right who he was. Yeah,
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we have to look at the life Tyler wilks and
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built because his decisions leading up to that weekend were
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deeply rooted in his personal history and really his specific
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skill set.
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Speaker 1: So let's build that profile. Tyler Wilkin was born on
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April seven, nineteen ninety one, and he grew up in
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southwest Ohio, specifically around the Wilmington and Hillsborough areas.
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Speaker 2: Which is pretty rural, right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a fairly rural, really tight knit region about
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an hour or so outside of Cincinnati. But then in
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January of twenty twenty four, he completely uproots.
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Speaker 2: His life, right, the big move.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he moves to Puerto Rico. And looking at the sources,
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he wasn't like running away from Ohio, No, no, no, at all.
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He maintained deep connections with his parents and his four siblings.
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He made frequent trips back home, but he was very
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intentionally designing a new life on the island.
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Speaker 2: A life heavily centered around the outdoors exactly. And you know,
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the demographic shift here is actually highly relevant. Over the
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last decade, and especially accelerated post twenty twenty, we've seen
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this massive migration.
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Speaker 1: Oh totally mainland Americans movie to US.
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Speaker 2: Territory that place like Puerto Rico. And some move for
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tax incentives, obviously under local laws, but a massive portion
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moved purely for lifestyle design.
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Speaker 1: Trading the Midwest winter for year round nature exactly.
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Speaker 2: And Tyler represents a very specific archetype within this migration.
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He's the highly active, hypercompetent outdoorsman.
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Speaker 1: Oh hypercompetent is almost an understatement. The list of his
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regular hobbies reads like an Olympic to Caathlon training schedule.
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Speaker 2: He was always moving.
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Speaker 1: Always. He was swimming, hiking, fishing, camping, rock climbing, and
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playing tennis.
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Speaker 2: He was someone who profoundly knew how his body moved
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through the physical world.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and socially, the sources show he was basically the
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center of gravity for his community.
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Speaker 2: Right, his friends really leaned on him.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. His friend Charles Butcher is quoted in the article
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saying good people surrounded Tyler because he really was so magnetic.
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Speaker 2: That's a powerful quote, it is.
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Speaker 1: And his girlfriend, I have a moo. She described him
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as being completely open hearted, and from.
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Speaker 2: A psychological standpoint that social magnetism is a crucial behavioral
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data point. How so, Well, people who are described as
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the you know, the social glue of their friend groups,
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they usually possess a very high degree of empathy and openness.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense.
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Speaker 2: They assume positive intent in others because they themselves project
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positive intent out into the world.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: So, when you combine a highly open, empathetic personality with
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a really high degree of physical capability in the outdoors,
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you create a very specific psychological profile.
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Speaker 1: Wait, explain how that works in practice, because to me
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it sounds like he was doing literally everything right.
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Speaker 2: It does seem that way on paper.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, on the weekend he was murdered, he was out
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there playing that social glue role. He went out to
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the beach early, all alone, just to secure a great
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campsite for a group of friends who are going to
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join him later.
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Speaker 2: Right, he's taking on the responsibility for the group exactly.
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Speaker 1: So if he's out there all the time, navigating the terrain,
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setting up fires all his gear, shouldn't he be the
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least vulnerable person on that beach.
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Speaker 2: You're hitting right on what we call the paradox of competence.
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Speaker 1: The paradox of competence.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's look at the psychology of risk assessment for
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a second. When you are a complete novice in the wilderness,
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your stress response is incredibly elevated.
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Speaker 1: Oh, for sure, every snap twig sounds like a bear.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, Every shadow looks like a threat. Your brain is
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stuck in a hyper vigilant state because it inherently knows
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you lack the skills to survive an encounter. But as
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you gain mastery, as you actually learn how to rock climb,
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how to build shelters, how to read the weather, your
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brain stops categorizing the environment as inherently dangerous.
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Speaker 1: Ah, I see. So the environment just becomes like your living.
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Speaker 2: Room, precisely, it becomes comfortable. And this leads to a
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phenomenon known in psychology as routine complacency.
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Speaker 1: Routine complacency okay.
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Speaker 2: Because the human brain is designed to conserve energy, it
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physically cannot maintain a state of high alert indefinitely.
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Speaker 1: That would be exhausting, it would.
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Speaker 2: So when Tyler sets up camp, his brain is entirely
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focused on immediate solvable tasks.
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Speaker 1: Like catching fish or pitching the tent right.
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Speaker 2: Securing the perimeter against natural elements like wind or rain.
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Because he has mastered those natural threats, his brain may
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inadvertently lower its defenses against human threats. Wow. The mastery
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of the physical environment basically creates a psychological blind spot
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to malice.
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Speaker 1: That is deeply unsettling because it implies that the more
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comfortable you are, the more exposed you might actually be. Exactly,
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and you really see that comfort, that beautiful routine in
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his daily life. The source material highlights this heartbreaking detail
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from his girlfriend.
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Speaker 2: I have a mo It's a very striking detail.
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Speaker 1: It really is. She shared that Tyler was the kind
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of partner who texted her good morning love every single
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day around six am, without fail, without fail, every single day, and.
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Speaker 2: A detail like that gives us a structural anchor for
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the entire and investigation.
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Speaker 1: How does that help investigators?
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Speaker 2: Well? In forensics, establishing a victim's baseline routine is literally
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one of the first steps in building a timeline.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense.
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Speaker 2: A daily six am text is an ironclad habit. It
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tells investigators that Tyler was firmly tethered to his community.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't just off the grid for days at a
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time night, He.
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Speaker 2: Wasn't a transient drifter.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: Therefore, the exact moment that routine has broken, the investigative
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clock starts ticking immediately.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that tether to his community is going to
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become the entire driving force behind this case later on, absolutely,
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But before we get to the breaking of that routine,
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we really need to understand the physical space where he
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set up camp.
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Speaker 2: The location is everything here.
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Speaker 1: It is because the geography of Plils Salva in Puerto
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Rico is not just a backdrop. It dictates the logistics
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of the crime, the escape routes, and basically the entire
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investigative reality.
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Speaker 2: The physical environment is the ultimate limiting factor in this story.
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Speaker 1: So let's break down the topography and the infrastructre sure
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of this place, the Northeast ecological corridor. So, Plila Selva
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is located near a town called Luko, which is.
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Speaker 2: A pretty popular spot. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The sources describe Luko as a vibrant, up and coming
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beach town. It has these famous food kiosks, great surfing spots,
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and it serves as a gateway to the el Unke
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National Forest.
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Speaker 2: Right. It's very course friendly, very.
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Speaker 1: It's a place where families go, where tourists feel entirely comfortable.
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But Plila Celve itself is a very different animal.
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Speaker 2: We really need to define what an ecological corridor actually
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is in this context.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because the name sounds so official.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, the terminology creates a completely false sense of structure.
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On the mainland US, when we think of a state
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or national park, we immediately picture paved access.
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Speaker 1: Loops, yeah, ranger kiosks, paved parking right.
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Speaker 2: Clearly, demarketed fire pits, regular patrols by law enforcement. But
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an ecological corridor in Puerto Rico, like this specific one,
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is primarily designated to prevent and urban sprawl.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So It's about the land, not the people.
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Speaker 2: Right. It's meant to protect wildlife habitats, specifically things like
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coastal nesting grounds for turtles.
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Speaker 1: Gotcha.
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Speaker 2: So the primary mandate of the agency managing it, which
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is the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources or DNR.
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Their mandate is conservation. It is not necessarily human security.
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Speaker 1: Wow, that distinction is massive, because to even access plial
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A Selva, you can't just pull a sedan into a
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paved lot.
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Speaker 2: No, definitely not.
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Speaker 1: You have to navigate this notoriously rough, unpaved dirt road.
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In fact, people frequently have to hike in if their
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vehicles can't make it over the rest.
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Speaker 2: It requires intent to get there.
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Speaker 1: It does. It is physically separated from the developed, highly
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populated beaches nearby like Bulnario, La Montserate or Lapered. Yet
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despite that isolation, it still features these designated camp sites.
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Speaker 2: And that word designated is the trap here?
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Speaker 1: A trap?
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Speaker 2: How so well? It implies a stamp of a fish
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approval and safety. When a camper sees a designated spot,
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they subconsciously assume that the state has somehow vetted the
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area for security.
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Speaker 1: Like someone is keeping an eye on it.
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Speaker 2: Right, But in reality, a designated spot in an ecological
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corridor just means the state has determined that camping there
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won't destroy the protected mangroves or the turtle nests.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, so it has nothing to do with personal safety.
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Speaker 2: Nothing at all. It does not mean there are lights,
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does not mean there is a perimeter fence or patrols.
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It simply means you are legally allowed to sleep in
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the dirt at that specific GPS coordinate that is wild.
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Speaker 1: So you have this incredibly secluded spot, buffered from the
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town by rough terrain, but it's legally sanctioned for use,
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and families use it. Locals go there to fishing camp
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all the time. But let's look at the sociological aspect
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of this real quick, Okay, how unusual is a violent
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crime in a place like this.
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Speaker 2: It is a statistical anomaly of the highest order. Really, Yes,
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let's look at the criminology of Puerto Rico overall. Like
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a lot of US jurisdictions, the island does struggle with
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violent crime. But that crime is highly patterned.
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Speaker 1: Meaning it happens in specific areas.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, it is heavily concentrated in specific urban sectors and
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is predominantly tied to the narcotics trade, gang rivalries, or
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targeted interpersonal disputes. Violent random crime against mainlanders or tourists
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in designated nature reserves is exceptionally.
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Speaker 1: Rare because if you're a criminal looking for a crime
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of opportunity, a secluded dirt road that might wreck your
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suspension isn't exactly prime hunting ground.
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Speaker 2: That's the key. The logistics of the location act as
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a natural silter. If you go to apply ales selva
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to commit a crime, you have to plan how to
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get in, and more importantly, you have to plan how
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to get out in the pitch black.
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Speaker 1: Over a terrain that is basically hostile to rapid movement.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, an execution style murder in this specific location requires
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a level of premeditation and logistical confidence that is frankly terrifying.
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Speaker 1: It really is. I want you, the listener, to just
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picture how quickly that environment can turn against you.
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Speaker 2: Things can go bad fast.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, imagine you are Tyler. You drove out there in
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your vehicle. But the weather in the Lukio area, sitting
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right under the Lunk rainforest, is highly volatile.
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Speaker 2: It rains constantly.
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Speaker 1: Right if a sudden tropical downpour hits in the middle
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of the night, that rough dirt access road instantly turns
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into deep, impassable mud.
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Speaker 2: You're stuck.
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Speaker 1: The geography essentially becomes a cage. If someone approaches your camp,
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you cannot just jump in your car and speed away.
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You were literally trapped between the jungle and the ocean.
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Speaker 2: And that physical entrapment sets the stage for the psychological
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mystery that unfolds and miss text messages over the next
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forty eight hours. Yeah, because the isolation he sought out
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ultimately became the mechanism of his vulnerability.
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Speaker 1: So let's pull this timeline apart hour by hour, because
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the sequence of events is where the story shifts from
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a tragic incident to something profoundly disturbing.
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Speaker 2: The timeline is very revealing.
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Speaker 1: July eighth, I've drops Tyler off at Plaialislva. He is
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out there unloading his gear, setting up to claim this
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prime spot for the group that's arriving on the weekend,
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And the sources specifically note that he had a pocket
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knife and a machete with him.
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Speaker 2: And the inclusion of the machete in the source material
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is actually really important to highlight. Why is that well
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in Puerto Rico. A machete is a standard agricultural and
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camping tool. You use it to clearbrush, chop coconuts, manage firewood.
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Speaker 1: So it's not unusual to have one.
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Speaker 2: It is entirely normal for an outdoorsman to have one there.
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But from a psychological standpoint, possessing a large blade actually
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alters your internal threat.
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Speaker 1: Assessment because you feel armed, You feel capable of defending
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your space if you had to. Exactly and initially, there's
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absolutely no need for defense. The first few hours of
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that Wednesday are totally.
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Speaker 2: Idyllic, just a great day on the beach.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Tyler is texting photos and videos back to his
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girlfriend and his friends. He sends pictures of the campsite,
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pictures of the fish he caught and cooked over the
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open fire.
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Speaker 2: It's the perfect picture of a man entirely in his element.
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Speaker 1: It really is.
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Speaker 2: He is establishing a baseline of calm. His physiological state
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is completely relaxed.
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Speaker 1: But later that night, on Wednesday, July eighth, the tone
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takes a really sharp turn.
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Speaker 2: This is where it gets strange.
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Speaker 1: Very strange. Tyler texts his friends that he is hearing
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strange things outside his tent. He specifically describes this eerie howling,
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comparing it to a wolf, and he mentions hearing sounds
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that resembled fireworks.
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Speaker 2: We need to pause right here and look at the
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neuroscience of auditory processing in the dark. Okay, layup, Because
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when you are alone in a wilderness environment, your primary
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sensory input shifts drastically from visual to.
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Speaker 1: Auditory because you can't see anything.
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Speaker 2: Right, the visual cortex is starved for information in the
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pitch black, so the auditory cortex becomes hyper sensitive to compensate.
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Speaker 1: So you hear every single leaf drop.
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Speaker 2: Yes, every tiny sound is amplified. And when the brain
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hears an ambiguous sound like a howl, the amigdalis spikes.
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Speaker 1: The imigal is the threat detection center right exactly.
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Speaker 2: It sends an immediate signal saying pay attention, possible danger.
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But immediately after that initial spike, the prefrontal cortex kicks in.
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Speaker 1: What does that part do?
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Speaker 2: The prefrontal cortex is the logical analytical part of the brain.
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It rapidly searches its internal database to categorize the sound.
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It asks, what is the most statistically probable source of
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this noise?
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Speaker 1: Okay, so what does his prefrontal cortex tell him in
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that moment, because there are no wolves in Puerto Rico, right, There.
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Speaker 2: Are no large natural predators on the island at all.
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So his brain immediately discards the idea of a wild
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animal threat.
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Speaker 1: That makes sense.
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Speaker 2: It likely categorizes the noise as feral dogs, which are
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very common, or maybe just a human being acting strangely
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on the beach.
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Speaker 1: And what about the fireworks? He said he heard fireworks too.
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Speaker 2: That adds a massive layer of cognitive dissonance.
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Speaker 1: Explain the cognitive dissonance there. Why do you fireworks conflict
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with the idea of a threat.
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Speaker 2: Well, think about it. If someone is hunting you, If
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a predator is actively stalking a campsite with malicious intent,
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their primary advantage is stealth, right.
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Speaker 1: They want the element of surprise exactly.
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Speaker 2: Setting off pyrotechnics is literally an announcement. It screams for attention.
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It creates loud, concussive noises and bright flashes of light.
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Speaker 1: So Tyler's logical brain processes the fireworks and concludes.
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Speaker 2: What it concludes. This is not an assassin. This is
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a local kid messing around, or maybe someone partying further
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down the beach. The contradictory inputs physically force his brain
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to downplay the threat level.
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Speaker 1: Wow, that makes so much sense because the disturbances don't actually.
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Speaker 2: Stop, No, they continue into the next night.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we roll into Thursday, July ninth, turning into the
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early hours of Friday, July tenth. He is still alone
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out there, and he texts the friend the.
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Speaker 2: Howler is back a repeat event. Yes.
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Speaker 1: Then, at roughly two am on July tenth, Tyler sends
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his final known text message. He writes, Oh, this guy
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is getting rowdy.
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Speaker 2: Lull, And that single acronym lull is perhaps the most
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important psychological clue in this.
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Speaker 1: Entire case, really, just the lull.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it is devastating to read in hindsight, obviously, but
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it tells us exactly what was happening in his mind
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at two am.
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Speaker 1: How So, because honestly, when I read that in the sources,
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it frustrates me.
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Speaker 2: It's hard to read.
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Speaker 1: It feels like watching a horror movie where you were
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just screaming at the screen for the protagonist to run,
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but they just stand there laughing at all.
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Speaker 2: Oh, but it is the ultimate manifestation of normalcy bias.
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Normalcy bias, Yes, normalcy bias is a cognitive bias that
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leads people to disbelieve or minimize threat warnings.
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Speaker 1: Oh like when people ignore fire alarms because they think
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it's just a drill.
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Speaker 2: Precisely, our brains are metabolically lazy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Maintaining a state of high alert panic consumes massive amounts
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of physical energy, so the brain heavily favors the most
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normal explanation for any given event, even when a disaster
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might be.
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Speaker 1: Imminent, like people refusing to evacuate for a hurricane because
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the weather looks totally fine right now.
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Speaker 2: Exactly that. So in Tyler's case, he is an experienced camper,
20:07
he is armed with a machete. He hears someone making
20:09
strange noises and lighting off fireworks.
20:11
Speaker 1: Outside, and his normalcy bias kicks in.
20:15
Speaker 2: Yes, it tells him this is just an annoyance. This
20:17
is a rowdy, drunk guy stumbling around on.
20:20
Speaker 1: The beach, so he isn't afraid.
20:22
Speaker 2: No, The inclusion of wall proves that his autonomic nervous
20:26
system was not in a fight or flight state. He
20:29
was amused or perhaps mildly annoyed, but he definitely did
20:34
not perceive imminent mortal danger.
20:36
Speaker 1: He felt secure in his environment.
20:38
Speaker 2: He felt secure in his ability to handle a.
20:40
Speaker 1: Nuisance, but the reality of what was waiting in the
20:42
dark was so far beyond a nuisance. And this forces
20:46
us to really speculate on the nature of this howler.
20:49
Speaker 2: It's the biggest mystery of the case.
20:51
Speaker 1: If we look at the mechanics of this crime. Was
20:53
the howler? Actually the killer was the howling and the
20:56
fireworks a bizarre distraction tactic to keep Tyler looking to
21:00
the tree line while someone else approached from the water.
21:03
Speaker 2: The tactical analysis of the howler is deeply perplexing.
21:07
Speaker 1: I mean, does it make sense tactically, not really.
21:09
Speaker 2: If it was a distraction, it was highly elaborate and
21:12
incredibly risky. If you are executing a targeted hit, you
21:16
want to get in and out before law enforcement can
21:18
be called.
21:19
Speaker 1: You definitely do not want the victim texting their friends
21:21
about your presence, exactly unless unless they knew he didn't
21:25
have cell service out there.
21:26
Speaker 2: But he clearly did have service. He was texting fine,
21:29
and a local would know that the Leukilo area generally
21:32
has decent coverage, even on the beach.
21:35
Speaker 1: So what's the alternative.
21:36
Speaker 2: The other possibility is a tragic, horrific coincidence.
21:40
Speaker 1: Your coincidence.
21:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is possible that the Howler was exactly what
21:44
Tyler thought. It was a random person acting wildly on
21:47
the beach, and the actual killer approached silently, entirely separate
21:52
from the auditory disturbances.
21:54
Speaker 1: But statically speaking, Having two completely independent, highly unusual events
21:58
happen at an isolated care at two am stretches credulity.
22:02
Speaker 2: It absolutely stretches credulity. It's highly unlikely, but we have
22:06
to consider it, which.
22:06
Speaker 1: Brings us to the sudden, violent end of that timeline.
22:10
The transition from that two am text getting rowdy loll
22:13
to the reality of dawn is just staggering.
22:16
Speaker 2: The tonal shift is jarring.
22:17
Speaker 1: Because at six am on Friday, July tenth, the routine breaks.
22:21
Speaker 2: And in forensics, the absence of a signal is a
22:24
signal itself.
22:25
Speaker 1: Exactly I Vamo wakes up and there is no good
22:29
morning love text. The daily anchor is just gone. It
22:32
didn't happen, and the panic in Tyler's community sets in
22:35
with terrifying speed. His friend Charles Booker starts hearing these
22:40
vague rumors that morning about a murder on a local beach.
22:43
Speaker 2: Look at the behavioral response here though Booker doesn't wait
22:47
for confirmation.
22:48
Speaker 1: No, he doesn't.
22:49
Speaker 2: He doesn't assume Tyler just lost his phone in the sand,
22:51
or that the battery died. He operates on pure instinct
22:55
and immediate dread.
22:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, he rushes straight to the Lucio police station. Meanwhile,
23:00
out at Plai La Selva, a beach goer out for
23:03
a sunrise walk makes the discovery.
23:05
Speaker 2: This is where it becomes a crime scene.
23:07
Speaker 1: Tyler's body is found in the mangroves facing the sea,
23:09
a short distance away from his actual campsite.
23:12
Speaker 2: Now we have to shift gears from psychology to forensic science.
23:16
Speaker 1: Let's do it.
23:17
Speaker 2: The discovery of the body in the mangroves, separate from
23:20
the campsite is the critical physical evidence that defines this
23:23
entire investigation.
23:25
Speaker 1: Because the authorities determine the cause of death is a
23:27
single gunshot wound to the back of the head, fired
23:29
at close range. It is described uniformly in the sources
23:33
as an execution style killing, and the investigators from the
23:37
qut Withe investigacies criminals.
23:40
Speaker 2: That's the SICEE, the investigative branch of the Puerto Rico
23:43
Police Bureau in that specific Fajardo region.
23:46
Speaker 1: Right the sicee. They make a very specific crucial determination
23:51
right away. They officially treat the campsite and the shoreline
23:54
where the body was found as two separate crime scenes.
23:58
Speaker 2: Let's break down the mccamic of what separate crime scenes
24:01
actually means in an outdoor environment. Please do When investigators
24:05
arrive at a scene, they're looking for the kinetic sequence.
24:07
Speaker 1: Of events, the order of what happened.
24:10
Speaker 2: Right. If Tyler was shot inside his tent or while
24:13
sitting in its campfire, the blood evidence, the shell casing,
24:16
and the disruption of the dirt would all be highly
24:18
localized in one spot.
24:19
Speaker 1: But he wasn't found at the fire. He was found
24:21
in the mangroves.
24:22
Speaker 2: Right. The fact that the CIC established two scenes implies
24:26
a spatial relationship and crucially, forced movement.
24:29
Speaker 1: Forced movement.
24:30
Speaker 2: Yes, the spatial gap between the tent and the mangroves
24:33
tells a story of his final minutes.
24:35
Speaker 1: How does that movement happen? Though? Does it mean he ran?
24:37
Speaker 2: There are two primary forensic hypotheses here.
24:41
Speaker 1: Okay, what's hypothesis one?
24:42
Speaker 2: Hypothesis one, The threat presented itself at the campsite, Tyler
24:46
recognized the danger, perhaps a firearm was drawn, and he
24:49
fled into the darkness towards the water, seeking cover in
24:52
the dense root systems of the.
24:53
Speaker 1: Mangroves, only to be chased down and shot.
24:55
Speaker 2: Exactly and hypothesis too, what is it The killer took
24:59
physical control of Tyler at the campsite, perhaps at gunpoint,
25:02
and intentionally marched him away from his gear down to
25:05
the water's edge before executing him.
25:07
Speaker 1: Wow. Both of those scenarios are just sickening to visualize
25:11
the terror of those final moments realizing the rowdy guy
25:15
wasn't a joke at all.
25:16
Speaker 2: It's horrifying.
25:17
Speaker 1: But forensically, what does that specific method of killing tell
25:21
us about the motive?
25:22
Speaker 2: It unequivocally points to a targeted, intentional.
25:26
Speaker 1: Killing because of the single shot.
25:28
Speaker 2: Yes, a single shot to the back of the head
25:30
at close range is not the result of a chaotic struggle.
25:34
It is not a stray bullet from an illegal hunter
25:36
in the woods. It is a controlled, deliberate action designed
25:40
to ensure immediate death.
25:42
Speaker 1: And it strongly rules out a simple robbery, doesn't it completely?
25:46
Speaker 2: Yeah.
25:46
Speaker 1: Iveamo released a statement saying it was incomprehensible that his
25:49
life and his future were taken away over a wallet.
25:53
Speaker 2: Her intuition there aligns perfectly with criminal profiling. How So,
25:57
in a standard armed robbery in an isolated area, the
26:00
perpetrator just wants the valuables and wants to escape quickly.
26:04
Speaker 1: They want the path of least resistance.
26:06
Speaker 2: Exactly if the victim is compliant, the robber leaves. If
26:09
there's a struggle, The violence is usually chaotic infrontal, right,
26:13
Marching a victim to a secondary location to execute them
26:16
is a massive escalation of risk for a robber. It
26:20
indicates that the primary goal was the murder itself, not
26:23
the acquisition of property.
26:25
Speaker 1: So we have a targeted execution of a mainland US
26:28
citizen in a territorial nature reserve. Yes, as a listener,
26:31
you hear that, and you expect the cavalry to arrive.
26:34
You expect helicopters, search dogs, massive forensic sweeps of the sand.
26:39
Speaker 2: That's what television trains us to expect, right.
26:42
Speaker 1: But this is where the story hits a massive, frustrating
26:46
institutional wall.
26:47
Speaker 2: The gap between public expectations of a homicide investigation and
26:52
the logistical reality is enormous. It's staggering, especially in cross
26:57
jurisdictional cases involving very remote environments.
27:01
Speaker 1: So let's start with the most infuriating detail in the
27:03
source material. We established earlier that pli ALESLVA is a
27:07
designated campsite managed by the DNR, the Department of Natural
27:12
and Environmental Resources, and because it's managed, they had actually
27:16
installed security cameras in the area to monitor the access.
27:19
Speaker 2: Roads digital witnesses. Exactly in a location with no human witnesses.
27:24
A camera is basically the entire case. It captures the
27:27
license plate of the vehicle driving down that dirt road
27:30
at two am.
27:30
Speaker 1: Except when investigators went to pull the footage they found
27:34
absolutely nothing.
27:35
Speaker 2: Nothing at all.
27:35
Speaker 1: The cameras were not recording because the batteries were completely dead.
27:39
Speaker 2: It is a catastrophic failure of infrastructure, it really is.
27:42
And we need to explain how this happens because it's
27:44
easy to l conspiracy.
27:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, people love a cover up theory, but the truth.
27:49
Speaker 2: Is usually just a combination of physics and bureaucracy.
27:52
Speaker 1: Okay, please explain the mechanics of how critical security infrastructure
27:56
just fails like that, because it sounds like a cheap
27:58
plot device and a bad thriller novel.
28:00
Speaker 2: Let's look at the environmental physics first. Okay. Pli A
28:03
LESLVA is a coastal tropical environment. The air is heavily
28:08
saturated with salt and humidity from the ocean. When you
28:11
place electronic equipment in that environment, you introduce galvanic corrosion.
28:15
Galvanic corrosion, Yes, saltwater aerosol degrades battery terminals and circuit
28:20
boards exponentially faster than in a dry, climate controlled environment.
28:25
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, a.
28:26
Speaker 2: Camera that might last six months on a battery in
28:29
Ohio might last only six weeks in Lukeuil.
28:32
Speaker 1: Okay. So the environment actively eats the equipment, but surely
28:36
someone is supposed to go out there and check them.
28:38
Speaker 2: Right. That brings us to the bureaucracy side of things.
28:41
Speaker 1: Here you go.
28:42
Speaker 2: Often a government agency will secure a grant or a
28:45
budget allocation to purchase and install security infrastructure.
28:49
Speaker 1: Because politicians get to cut a ribbon and say, look,
28:51
we made the park safer exactly.
28:54
Speaker 2: But they frequently failed to secure the ongoing operational budget
28:58
required to actually maintain that infrastructure.
29:01
Speaker 1: Maintenance is expensive.
29:02
Speaker 2: It costs money to pay a technician to drive a
29:05
four x four down a rutted dirt road every single
29:08
month to physically swamp out batteries and clean.
29:11
Speaker 1: The lenses, right, they have to pay a guy to
29:13
do it, and.
29:14
Speaker 2: When municipal budgets get tight, preventive maintenance in remote areas
29:18
is always the very first thing cut. The cameras essentially
29:20
just become security.
29:21
Speaker 1: Theater, security theater. Wow, So the illusion of safety strikes again.
29:26
Tyler was camping under dead cameras, yes, and because of
29:29
that failure, the authorities are left with a massive black hole.
29:33
There are absolutely zero identified witnesses between the hours of
29:37
two am when the text was sent and six am
29:39
when the sun came up.
29:40
Speaker 2: And processing the physical scene in the daylight is incredibly
29:44
difficult as well.
29:45
Speaker 1: Out there, Why is that?
29:46
Speaker 2: Think about the mangroves. They are title ecosystems. Water washes
29:50
in and out constantly, the sand shifts with the wind.
29:54
Any trace evidence, footprints, tire tracks, dropped fibers, even by
30:00
biological evidence like DNA, de grades incredibly fast in a humid,
30:03
windy title environment.
30:05
Speaker 1: It just gets washed away.
30:06
Speaker 2: Lockhart's exchange principle dictates that every contact leads a trace,
30:10
but the ocean is exceptionally good at erasing those traces.
30:14
Speaker 1: The frustration back in Ohio begins to boil over immediately
30:19
because of this, understandably so, the family is grieving, the
30:23
community is loudly demanding answers, and they aren't getting the
30:26
swift resolution they expect.
30:28
Speaker 2: So they escalate it.
30:29
Speaker 1: They escalate it politically. Ohio State Senator Shane Wilkin, who
30:32
the sources note is a relative of Tyler's father. He
30:36
gets involved, okay, he contacts the top law enforcement officer
30:39
in the state, Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson.
30:42
Speaker 2: This introduces a really fascinating layer of jurisdictional mechanics. How
30:47
so you have a state senator actively demanding action for
30:50
a constituent and family member who is murdered outside of
30:53
his state's borders.
30:54
Speaker 1: Right, it's out of his jurisdiction, and Attorney General Wilson
30:57
makes a highly unusual public state he did. He goes
31:01
on the record saying that the Puerto Rico police weren't
31:04
super helpful in any way, shape or form.
31:07
Speaker 2: Those are strong words for an ag very strong.
31:11
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the local Puerto Rican authorities push back, maintaining that
31:14
the investigation is entirely open, active and following all standard protocols.
31:19
Speaker 2: We really have to unpack this friction objectively. Yeah, let's
31:22
do that because this dynamic happens constantly when crimes cross borders.
31:26
Let's look at the legal and bureaucratic reality of how
31:29
these agencies actually interact. Okay, Puerto Rico is a US territory,
31:34
They have their own constitution, their own Department of Justice,
31:37
and the Puerto Rico Police Bureau is actually one of
31:39
the largest police forces in the United States.
31:42
Speaker 1: Really, I didn't know was that big it is.
31:45
Speaker 2: So, how does communication break down so badly that an
31:48
Ohio Attorney General calls them unhelpful?
31:51
Speaker 1: Yeah? What causes that gap?
31:53
Speaker 2: It basically comes down to chain of command and the
31:56
strict rules.
31:56
Speaker 1: Of evidence, the chain of custody stuff.
31:59
Speaker 2: Exactly. Investigator in Ohio wants information about an active homicide
32:03
in Puerto Rico, they cannot just pick up the phone
32:05
and ask a local detective in Fajardo to email them
32:08
the case file.
32:09
Speaker 1: That's not how it works.
32:10
Speaker 2: No, the local detective has no legal authority to release
32:14
active case details to an out of jurisdiction agency without
32:18
going through immense bureaucratic channels, usually involving the FBI or
32:22
formal interstate requests, because.
32:24
Speaker 1: If they just hand over evidence informally, it could totally
32:28
ruin the integrity of the prosecution in a pr court
32:30
later on.
32:31
Speaker 2: Exactly, the chain of custody must be preserved at all costs.
32:35
What an Ohio politician views as stonewalling or being unhelpful
32:40
a Puerto Rican police captain views as protecting the integrity
32:44
of an open homicide investigation.
32:46
Speaker 1: It's two totally different perspectives, right.
32:48
Speaker 2: Furthermore, you have massive resource disparities to consider.
32:51
Speaker 1: Like budget differences.
32:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Ohio AG's office has different resources and priorities
32:56
than a regional CIC office in Puerto Rico that might
33:00
be simultaneously dealing with organized crime and drug trafficking.
33:03
Speaker 1: Oh well, that makes sense.
33:03
Speaker 2: The urgency of a single isolated beach murder of a
33:08
mainlander is naturally going to be weighed against the daily,
33:11
systemic realities of local law enforcement.
33:14
Speaker 1: And let's not ignore the cultural and language barriers either.
33:17
Speaker 2: Right, Spanish is the primary language there.
33:19
Speaker 1: The nuanced communication required in a complex homicide investigation can
33:23
easily break down when it's being filtered through different bureaucratic cultures,
33:27
translation delays, and political pressures.
33:29
Speaker 2: It's a recipe for frustration.
33:31
Speaker 1: But for the family, none of that administrative reality matters
33:35
at all. They just know their son is dead and
33:37
the official channels seem stalled.
33:39
Speaker 2: Which leads to a very modern phenomenon on that when
33:42
the state apparatus fails to deliver immediate answers, the community
33:46
basically bypasses the state.
33:48
Speaker 1: Oh, the crowdsource justice. Yes, Tyler's girlfriend Ivamo, his friend
33:52
Charles Booker, and another friend named Lily Wright. They launch
33:55
a GoFundMe campaign. They title it Justice for Tyler Us
34:00
Fine answers.
34:01
Speaker 2: This is a direct, tangible response to the informational vacuum
34:05
left by the dead cameras and the jurisdictional friction. Yeah.
34:08
Speaker 1: They set a goal of thirty thousand dollars and their
34:11
stated purpose is to hire a private investigator and help
34:14
support the family.
34:15
Speaker 2: And the response from the community is staggering.
34:18
Speaker 1: It is in an incredibly short amount of time. They
34:21
raise over twenty three thousand, seven hundred and twenty dollars
34:23
from more than one hundred individual donors.
34:25
Speaker 2: The mobilization of capital is immediate because the emotional devastation
34:29
is just so acute.
34:31
Speaker 1: It really is the source material captures this visceral grief
34:34
so clearly.
34:35
Speaker 2: The quotes from the family are tough to read.
34:37
Speaker 1: Tyler's father back in Ohio is quoted saying that he
34:41
has cried more in the three weeks following the murder
34:43
than he has in his entire life.
34:45
Speaker 2: It's just devastating.
34:46
Speaker 1: You read the GoFundMe page and embrace your heart. They
34:49
write that they are determined to leave no stone unturned
34:52
in the pursuit.
34:53
Speaker 2: Of the truth they want answers.
34:55
Speaker 1: A friend named Trigger Ray, who is sometimes referred to
34:57
as trigger Tray in the sources, calls Tyler an awesome guy,
35:01
incredibly intelligent, with more opportunities ahead of him than most people.
35:06
Speaker 2: And the deployment of a private investigator changes the mechanics
35:09
of the manhunt entirely.
35:11
Speaker 1: How So, like what can a private investigator in Puerto
35:14
Rico do that the actual police, with their badges and
35:18
forensic labs cannot do.
35:20
Speaker 2: The primary weapon a private investigator has is undivided time.
35:25
Speaker 1: Time.
35:25
Speaker 2: Yes, a local police detective might be juggling fifteen octave
35:30
felony cases at once, right they were responding to court subpoenas,
35:34
attending mandatory trainings, and reacting to brand new crimes every
35:38
single shift.
35:38
Speaker 1: They're spread thin.
35:40
Speaker 2: Exactly. A private investigator hired by the family has an
35:43
active caseload of exactly one Tyler Wilkin.
35:47
Speaker 1: They don't have to clock out to go cover a
35:48
robbery across down.
35:49
Speaker 2: They are purely focused on this one goal. Furthermore, a
35:53
PI operates outside the constraints of official law enforcement.
35:56
Speaker 1: Meaning they don't have all the red tape.
35:58
Speaker 2: Right, Let's talk about the blue wall and local trust.
36:01
In many communities, there is an inherent distrust of uniformed police.
36:05
Oh sure, witnesses who might have seen something near the beach,
36:08
perhaps locals who are out fishing illegally, or individuals without
36:12
standing warrants. They will never walk into a police station
36:14
to give a tip because.
36:15
Speaker 1: They don't want to bring heat on themselves exactly.
36:18
Speaker 2: But a local PI who knows the culture, who can
36:21
just sit in a bar in Lucreo and have quiet
36:23
conversations without a badge on their chest, can often extract
36:26
information that the police cannot.
36:28
Speaker 1: They fly under the radar, right.
36:30
Speaker 2: A PI doesn't need a warrant to ask questions in
36:32
a neighborhood. They can relentlessly pursue the bizarre leads like
36:37
trying to identify who the howler was without having to
36:41
justify the resource expenditure to a police captain, and.
36:44
Speaker 1: The media plays a huge role in keeping that pressure
36:46
on too. But looking at the sources, there's a fascinating
36:50
disparity in how the story was covered.
36:52
Speaker 2: The media footprint perfectly illustrates the two different worlds colliding
36:56
in this case.
36:56
Speaker 1: So in Ohio, local stations like WRC Fox nineteen and
37:01
the Cincinnati Inquire they blanketed the airwaves with this story.
37:04
Speaker 2: It was everywhere.
37:05
Speaker 1: They heavily amplified the families Please. The coverage was deeply emotional,
37:09
focusing on the bizarre final text messages, the grief of
37:12
the father, the loss of this magnetic young man, and
37:16
the demand for answers from the territory.
37:18
Speaker 2: It is a classic mainland media narrative. It focuses heavily
37:21
on the loss of potential and the mystery of it all.
37:24
Speaker 1: But down in Puerto Rico, the local Spanish language media
37:27
covered it very differently. Their reporting focused almost entirely on
37:31
the procedural elements. They reported on the discovery of the body,
37:35
the location and the mangroves, and the bureaucratic steps the
37:39
police were taking.
37:40
Speaker 2: It reflects the function of the media in their respective environments. Really,
37:43
what I mean for Ohio, this is an anomalous tragedy
37:47
striking a native son. It's highly unusual for the Puerto
37:51
Rican media. Unfortunately, homicides are a more regular part of
37:55
the news.
37:55
Speaker 1: Cycle, so it's treated differently.
37:58
Speaker 2: The coverage is procedural because it is treated as a
38:00
local crime blodder entry rather than this massive international mystery.
38:05
Speaker 1: Right. But regardless of the angle, the GoFundMe and the
38:08
continued media presence ensure one vital thing. What's that the
38:13
case does not quietly disappear into a filing cabinet.
38:15
Speaker 2: No, the family won't let it.
38:17
Speaker 1: The collective will power of that community completely refuses to
38:20
let it go cold.
38:21
Speaker 2: And that's what keeps investigations alive.
38:23
Speaker 1: Exactly. So, as we step back and look at the
38:26
entirety of this deep dive, the core tragedy remains demastatingly simple,
38:32
even if the mechanics are incredibly complex.
38:34
Speaker 2: It's incredibly sad.
38:35
Speaker 1: We have a highly competent, deeply loved man who actively
38:39
sought peace and community in the wilderness. He mastered the
38:43
natural environment only to be undone by an incomprehensible act
38:47
of human violence.
38:48
Speaker 2: He was killed in a space that was legally designated
38:51
for recreation. That highlights the terrifying gap between the illusion
38:57
of structural safety and the reality of true isolation.
39:00
Speaker 1: And that is the visceral takeaway for you, the listener.
39:03
Speaker 2: It really is.
39:04
Speaker 1: The next time you are driving down a dirt road
39:06
to go camping, or you know, you find yourself alone
39:08
on a beautiful remote beach, Tyler's story is going to
39:11
echo in your mind.
39:12
Speaker 2: You'll look at the shadows a little differently.
39:14
Speaker 1: It forces us to acknowledge that our physical isolation does
39:17
not shield us from human threats. It just means that
39:20
when a threat arrives, we are entirely on our own.
39:23
Speaker 2: If I can add one final layer of analysis to.
39:25
Speaker 1: That, yeah, please do.
39:26
Speaker 2: There is a specific detail hidden in the tomline that
39:29
we really need to examine closely because the implications are
39:32
deeply unsettling.
39:33
Speaker 1: Let's hear it.
39:34
Speaker 2: We established that Tyler texted about the howler and the
39:38
sounds of fireworks, but look at the dates in the
39:41
source material. Okay, the dates those disturbances did not just
39:45
happen on the night he was murdered.
39:47
Speaker 1: No, they didn't.
39:48
Speaker 2: They occurred on successive nights.
39:49
Speaker 1: Right Wednesday, July eighth, and then Thursday July night right.
39:53
Speaker 2: He texted the howler is back. Think about the psychological
39:56
and tactical implications of a multi night timeline here.
40:00
Speaker 1: It changes things.
40:01
Speaker 2: If the forensic evidence the separate scenes the single gunshot
40:05
wound to the back of the head, If that proves
40:08
this was a targeted execution, we have to ask a
40:10
terrifying question, which is why did the killer announce their
40:14
presence the night before?
40:15
Speaker 1: Yeah? Why give the target a twenty four hour warning?
40:17
It doesn't make sense.
40:18
Speaker 2: Exactly was the howling a bizarre escalating intimidation tactic? Was
40:23
someone intentionally trying to terrorize them to make him leave
40:26
the campsite, and when he refused, they escalated to.
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Speaker 1: Murder that His text getting rowdy loll shows he wasn't
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terrorized at all. He completely misinterpreted the intimidation, which.
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Speaker 2: Leads to an even darker possibility. The twenty four hour
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delay suggests the killer wasn't trying to scare him at all.
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Speaker 1: What were they doing then?
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Speaker 2: Were they simply waiting in the dark. It is highly
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possible that a predator was stalking that campsite, observing Tyler's movements,
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watching his routines, and calculating the exact logistical hurdles of
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the environment for a full day before finally deciding to
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strike on the second night. Wow. It suggests a level
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of patient, calculated malice that is incredibly difficult to comprehend.
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Speaker 1: A predator just waiting just beyond the firelight while you
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text your friends. That is a chilling reality to try
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and process. It really is, and it is exactly the
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kind of unanswered question that keeps this case haunting everyone
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who looks into it. We are going to leave you
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to turn that over in your own mind.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot to think about.
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Speaker 1: As always, stay curious, evaluate your surroundings, and above all,
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stay safe out there. Very Sif, and most importantly, if
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you or anyone you know has any information about activity
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at or near Pli A Las Silva in Lucio, Puerto Rico,
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during the nights of July eighth through the tenth, twenty
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twenty six, especially regarding anyone matching the description of someone
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howling or setting off fireworks, please reach out to the
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Puerto Rico Police Bureau or the channels established by Tyler
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Wilkins Family.
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Speaker 2: Somebody knows something.
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Speaker 1: The smallest detail might be the key to breaking this open.
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We will see you on the next deep dive.