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The Taxi Driver - Julio Segundo Pérez Silva Serial Killer · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: Okay, so imagine this, You're hailing a cab, you know,
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  just another day, right, it probably wouldn't think twice. But
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  for a lot of young women in Altosis to be
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  so chile that just hopping in a taxi that became
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  like a nightmare. And that's what we were diving deep
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  into today, the case of Julio Paris Silva. He's called
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  the psychopath of Alkahos Specio, and he was just this
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  like normal taxi driver, but he terrorized this whole community.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was convicted of killing fourteen women and girls,
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  but it's thought that he actually killed many more. And
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  his mo o, it was really like something out of
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  a horror movie. He'd pretend to be this nice taxi driver,
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  you know, and he would target young women who were
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  alone and he'd be like, I'll give you a free ride,
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  but then he would drive them to these isolated places.
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  And well, what really.
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  Speaker 1: Gets me about this case, and I've seen a lot
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  of them, is how he didn't just pray on vulnerability.
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  He used it as like a tool. It's just like
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  we're you know, if someone's offering you a ride, especially
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  if it has to do with like safety or you know,
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  you need to get somewhere. We're taught to trust that,
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  but he completely like twisted it and used against his victim.
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  It's awful. Like think about thirteen year old Macarena Sanchez,
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  she was just a kid, and she was offered a
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  ride to school, you know, or seventeen year old Patricia Palma,
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  who was just on her way home. And it's not
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  like these were late night situations or anything. These were
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  just normal everyday things turned into like total nightmares. It
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  makes you think twice.
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  Speaker 2: And this is where the Haunted Eye Peak becomes important.
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  It's this abandoned mind shaft and it's over two hundred
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  meters deep, like we're talking deep, and it's so isolated.
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  It was like the perfect place to hide a body. Yeah,
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  it's no wonder it took so long to find out
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  what happened and to find those poor girls. Oh yeah,
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  it was a horrific discovery. Yeah, because they finally found.
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  Speaker 1: It, Oh absolutely. And you know, it's just it's just
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  unfathomable to me how with so many disappearances and with
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  such clear similarities between the victims that it went unnoticed
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  for so long, right, And.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's that is the question that really haunts
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  this whole case, and it just shows this huge failing
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  from the authorities. Yeah, I mean they dismissed these missing
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  girls as runaway runaways.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, that's just unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big mistake. The authorities just assumed that
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  these girls, because of their background, that they had run
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  away from poverty, or that they were involved in prostitution.
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  Speaker 1: So you're saying that because of their circumstances, their lives
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  were somehow less important, less worthy of being investigated.
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  Speaker 2: It's a horrible thought. Yeah, right, But unfortunately, we see
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  this happen over and over again throughout history. But in
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  Alto Houspicio at the time, there was a lot of
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  economic hardship. There's this sense of hopelessness, you know, and
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  that created this blind spot.
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  Speaker 1: So it's almost like the disappearances, as awful as they were,
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  that they kind of became normal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's sad, but it's true. I mean Altohuspicio was
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  really struggling back then, and people there were just dealing
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  with so much that this sense of like giving up
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  and just accepting things as they were. It let Paris
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  just disappear. You know. The disappearances were awful, but they
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  weren't totally out of the ordinary when everything else that
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  was going on right, And you know, it's heartbreaking to
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  think about it.
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  Speaker 1: Really is. It makes you think about, you know, what
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  can we learn from all of this? How can we
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  as a society be more aware, more protective, especially of
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  you know, the people who are the most vulnerable.
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  Speaker 2: That's the question, isn't it? Like, how do we stop
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  something like this from ever happening again? How do we
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  make a world where these women feel safe and where
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  when they disappear people do something about it right away
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  and don't just ignore it. Something we all need to
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  think about. And you know what, here's something to think about. Well,
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  Paris was doing all of this. Five other women disappeared
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  from Alta Hospicio and no one ever found out what
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  happened to them.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a chilling reminder that even when justice is served,
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  there are still going to be some questions that we
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  may never know the answer to. That's right, and there
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  are always going to be people out there who are
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  hurting and looking for those answers.
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  Speaker 2: You got it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just unfathomable to me how with so many disappearances
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  and with such clear similarities between the victims that it
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  went unnoticed for so long.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, and that's that is the question that really
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  haunts this whole case, and it just shows this huge
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  feeling from the authorities. I mean, they just dismissed these
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  missing girls as runaways.
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  Speaker 1: Runaways. Come on, that's just it's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a big mistake. The authorities just assumed
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  that these girls, because of their background, that they had
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  run away from poverty, or that they were involved in prostitution.
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  Speaker 1: So you're saying that because of their circumstances, their lives
• 4:24
  were somehow less important, less worthy of being investigated.
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: It's a horrible thought, right, But unfortunately, we see this
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  happen over and over again throughout history. But in Altojauspicio
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  at the time, there was a lot of economic hardship.
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  There was this sense of hopelessness, you know, and that
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  created this blind spot.
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  Speaker 1: So it's almost like the disappearances, as awful as they were,
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  that they kind of became normal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's sap, but it's true. I mean Alto Hospicio
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  was really struggling back then, and people there were just
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  dealing with so much that this sense of like giving
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  up and just accepting things as they were, or let
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  Paris just disappear. You know, the disappearances were awful, but
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  they weren't totally out of the ordinary, given everything else
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  that was going on, right And you know what's so
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  it's heartbreaking to think about it, really is.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you think about, you know, what can we
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  learn from all of this? How can we as a
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  society be more aware and more protective, especially of you know,
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  the people who are the most vulnerable.
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  Speaker 2: That's the question, isn't it, like, how do we stop
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  something like this from ever happening again? How do we
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  make a world where these women feel safe and where
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  when they disappear people do something about it right away
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  and don't just ignore it. It's something we all need
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  to think about. And you know, here's something to think about.
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  While Paris was doing all of this, five other women
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  disappeared from Altavos Pco and no one ever found out
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  what happened to them.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a chilling reminder that even when justice is served,
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  there are still going to be some questions that we
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  may never know the answer to o correct, and there
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  are always going to be people out there who are
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  hurting and looking for those answers.
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  Speaker 2: You got it.
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  Speaker 1: It's incredible to think about, you know, finding hope in
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  the middle of something so awful, But I guess that's
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  what love can do. It never gives up. And in
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  the story, that hope, it came from a father who
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  refused to give up on his daughter.
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  Speaker 2: You mean Orlando, Vivianna Gary's dad, That's right, He's the
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  one who really changed everything. Orlando Gary is like the
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  definition of a parent's love. He just knew in his
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  gut that something wasn't right. You know, Viviana his daughter.
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  She would never have just run away. And that belief,
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  that refusal to let her be just another forgotten case,
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  it really sparked something.
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  Speaker 1: He wouldn't let his daughter just disappear.
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  Speaker 2: No, he wouldn't. And his determination it spread to the
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  other families too, the ones who are also grieving and
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  looking for answers, and together they became really powerful.
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  Speaker 1: And that's when things started to change. Right with the
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  official story, I mean exactly.
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  Speaker 2: The families they were united in their grief and they
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  just refused to accept what the authorities were saying. They
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  started their own investigations and that's when everything changed. They
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  found Viviana's things. But here's the thing. They were somewhere
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  she had never been, a place she had no reason
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  to go.
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  Speaker 1: So it wasn't just a random thing. This completely contradicted
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  the whole runaway idea.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. It blew the whole thing wide open. And
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  that wasn't all the other families They saw this, and
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  they started finding similar things with their own daughters, belongings
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  in places that just didn't make sense.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't just one father anymore. This was a whole
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  group of people, all demanding justice for their daughters. It
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  must have been really powerful.
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  Speaker 2: It was. The authorities couldn't ignore them anymore. The investigation
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  finally got the attention it deserved.
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  Speaker 1: It's just heartbreaking that it took so long, that it
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  took the families themselves to uncover the truth, But it
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  also shows how strong they were, how they refused to
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  be silenced.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, their fight for justice is incredible, and thankfully it
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  led to Peas being caught.
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  Speaker 1: But even that had a really creepy twist to it,
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  didn't it It did.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't some big police operation or lucky break. It
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  was because of one of the survivors. She had escaped
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  from Perez and she was brave enough to give a
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  statement that brought the case wide open.
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  Speaker 1: And when they got them, I mean, Paras didn't even
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  try to deny entity.
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  Speaker 2: Nope, he just confessed right away. And get this, he
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  didn't even seem sorry about it. He even took the
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  police to where some of the bodies were buried. It's
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  just chilling, it's terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: It just shows you how much darkness can be hiding
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  in someone who seems totally normal.
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  Speaker 2: It does. And even though Para has got life in prison,
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  think about this, He could be out in twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: It must be so hard for the families to deal
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  with knowing that he could be free one day.
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  Speaker 2: It is, and it just shows how complicated justice can be.
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  You know, even with Paras locked up, Alta Jaspisio is
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  still dealing with what he did. Families are still hurting,
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  and they still have so many questions. It makes you wonder.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you think about how we can stop something
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  like this from happening again. How can we be better
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  as a society, How can we protect people who are vulnerable.
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  Speaker 2: That's the question we all have to think about. How
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  do we stop these horrible things from happening? How do
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  we create a world where these women feel safe, where
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  when someone disappears people take it seriously right away. And
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  you know, while Paris was doing all of this, five
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  other women disappears from Alto Auspicio and no one knows
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  what happened to them. It's chilling to think about.
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  Speaker 1: It really makes you think about the fact that even
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  when justice has served, there are still mysteries out there,
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  and there are still families who are hurting and looking
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  for answers. Ye