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What Happened in Room 348! -- SOLVED Mysteries, Episode 1 · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: today's story. On September fifteenth, twenty ten, a fifty five
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Speaker 1: year old man named Greg Flennikan checked into the Elegante
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Speaker 1: Hotel in Beaumont, Texas to start his work week. As
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Speaker 1: a young man, Greg had worked as a chief engineer
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Speaker 1: on ocean going vessels, spending months out at sea, but
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Speaker 1: in his middle age he had reinvented himself as a landman.
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Speaker 1: It was Greg's job to secure leases of mineral rights
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Speaker 1: and land for drilling. Greg was slender and fit looking,
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Speaker 1: despite the fact that he never exercised and he smoked constantly.
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Speaker 2: He kept a close cropped white beard, and he had
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Speaker 2: the leathered skin of a lifelong outdoorsman.
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Speaker 1: Every Monday morning, Greg would make the two hour commute
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Speaker 1: in his pickup truck from Lafayette, Louisiana, all the way
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Speaker 1: to Beaumont, Texas, where his company would always rent him
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Speaker 1: a room. The hotel itself was neither good nor bad,
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Speaker 1: but to Greg, he didn't care. He just needed a
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Speaker 1: bed and a TV. Once Greg walked inside, he had
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Speaker 1: a bathroom immediately to his right, and then a little
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Speaker 1: bit farther in was the main section of the hotel room,
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Speaker 1: which was very basic.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: Straight ahead there was a window that looked down onto
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Speaker 1: a small pool that was lined with potted plants, and
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Speaker 1: then in the main space was a queen size bed
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Speaker 1: tucked up against.
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Speaker 2: The right wall, and then on the left wall was
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Speaker 2: a TV.
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Speaker 1: Greg wheeled his one suitcase into the hotel room and
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Speaker 1: he put it at the foot of the bed and
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Speaker 1: he opened it up. He pulled the shirts that he
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Speaker 1: wanted to keep wrinkled free for the week, and he
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Speaker 1: hung them in his closet. Then he pulled out his
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Speaker 1: toiletries that were kept in a cloth bag with a hook,
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Speaker 1: and he hooked those onto a towel rack. Then he
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Speaker 1: took off his very worn brown boots and his faded
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Speaker 1: blue jeans, and he slipped on some pajama pants. Anytime
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Speaker 1: Greg stayed at the Elegante, he rarely left his room.
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Speaker 1: There was a bar downstairs, but he wasn't a big
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Speaker 1: drinker or socializer. He preferred to just have quiet nights
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Speaker 1: alone in his room watching TV. So that night Greg
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Speaker 1: cranked the air conditioning to make sure it was as
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Speaker 1: cold as it could get.
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Speaker 2: He liked to sleep in a very cold room.
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Speaker 1: And then he hopped on his bed and he put
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Speaker 1: two big pillows behind his head and he rested up
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Speaker 1: against the headboard.
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Speaker 2: And then he took a towel and he laid it
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Speaker 2: out next to him.
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Speaker 1: And then on the towel was his ashtray, his cigarettes,
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Speaker 1: his lighter, his phone, the TV remote, and a candy bar.
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Speaker 1: Then he picked up the TV remote, turned it on,
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Speaker 1: flicked through the channels until he landed on one that
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Speaker 1: was playing Iron Man two, and he thought good enough,
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Speaker 1: put the remote down, picked up his candy bar, opened
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Speaker 1: it up, he ate a piece of his candy, and
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Speaker 1: then he grabbed a cigarette, lit up a cigarette, and
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Speaker 1: he began smoking. The following morning, Susie, Greg's wife, did
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Speaker 1: not get a call from her husband. And he always
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Speaker 1: called her every morning that he was gone. That was
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Speaker 1: their routine, and this was a big break from their routine,
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Speaker 1: and so she tried calling him, and his phone rang
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Speaker 1: and rang and rang, and he never picked up. And
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Speaker 1: so then she called his Beaumont office and he didn't
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Speaker 1: pick up. But after the second or third time she called,
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Speaker 1: his coworkers picked up the phone and they said, hey,
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Speaker 1: you know, Greg's not here. He hasn't come into work yet.
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Speaker 1: And Susie felt concerned. She felt like something was wrong,
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Speaker 1: and she said, do you guys mind just going to
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Speaker 1: his hotel room and knocking on a store and making
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Speaker 1: sure he's okay, And they said, sure, we'll go over there.
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Speaker 2: So the two.
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Speaker 1: Coworkers head over to the hotel. They knock on Greg's store.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't answer, and so they go down and get
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Speaker 1: the manager who comes up and opens Greg's store, and
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Speaker 1: right away they find Greg lying dead in the middle of.
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Speaker 2: His hotel room.
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Speaker 1: The way Greg was positioned when they found him. It
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Speaker 1: looked like he had fallen to his knees and then
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Speaker 1: fallen again onto his face, and his left arm got
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Speaker 1: kind of tucked underneath his body, and still in his
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Speaker 1: two left fingers was a cigarette that had not fallen
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Speaker 1: from his hand that had burned down to the wick.
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Speaker 2: The room was exceptionally warm, and Greg's skin was grayish blue.
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Speaker 1: Immediately after seeing Greg, the two coworkers called nine to
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Speaker 1: one one. Shortly after the ambulance arrived at the hotel,
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Speaker 1: Detective Scott Apple arrived in his cruiser. Apple was a
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Speaker 1: short guy, very very fit. He had silver hair that
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Speaker 1: he spiked up. He looked one hundred percent cop and
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Speaker 1: he worked basically twenty four to seven. When he got
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Speaker 1: up to room three forty eight, there was no sign
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Speaker 1: of a break in. Nothing had been disturbed inside of
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Speaker 1: the room, and there was no blood or obvious wound
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Speaker 1: on Greg, with the exception of a slight abrasion on
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Speaker 1: his cheek when he came down and hit.
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Speaker 2: His face on the rug.
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Speaker 1: He looked around the room and he found Greg's wallet
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Speaker 1: that was sitting in the back pocket of his jeans,
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Speaker 1: and there was hundreds of dollars in his wallet that
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Speaker 1: had not been taken, so he ruled out robbery. He
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Speaker 1: went out into the hall and he began interviewing the
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Speaker 1: other occupants of the surrounding rooms, and no one had
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Speaker 1: heard anything, and no one had seen anything. He went
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Speaker 1: back into the hotel room and he began looking around
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Speaker 1: for drugs of any kind or any substance that Greg
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Speaker 1: might have taken that could have contributed to death.
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Speaker 2: And there was nothing. No prescription pills, no alcohol, and nothing.
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Speaker 1: Later that day, after the family had been notified of
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Speaker 1: Greg's passing, his grief stricken wife Susie, called Detective Apple
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Speaker 1: and she said, you know, my husband did not take
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Speaker 1: good care of himself.
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Speaker 2: He had a terrible diet.
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Speaker 1: He's been smoking like a chimney since he was a
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Speaker 1: young teenager, and he never saw a doctor. And I
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Speaker 1: always told him that if he wasn't careful, something like
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Speaker 1: this was.
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Speaker 2: Going to happen. I always worried that he might have
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Speaker 2: a heart attack or something. So at this point, not only.
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Speaker 1: Does Greg's family think he died of natural causes, Detective
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Speaker 1: Apple also thinks the same thing. He's thinking about what
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Speaker 1: he saw in the hotel room and there's no sign
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Speaker 1: in any foul play.
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Speaker 2: It just looks like a guy whose lifestyle caught up
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Speaker 2: to him.
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Speaker 1: Greg's body was sent to doctor Tommy Brown, who in Beaumont, Texas.
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Speaker 2: He was like the medical examiner. He'd been doing this
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Speaker 2: for years and years.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Brown had read ahead that they believed Greg had
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Speaker 1: died of a heart attack or something like that, and
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Speaker 1: when his body was wheeled in in front of him,
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Speaker 1: there was nothing he saw right away that contradicted that theory.
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Speaker 1: The only two marks that the doctor vod on the
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Speaker 1: outside of Greg's body was the small abrasion on his
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Speaker 1: face from where he landed on the rug, and then
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Speaker 1: he also had another small abrasion on his crotch, But
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Speaker 1: beyond that, the rest of his body was completely unblemished.
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Speaker 1: When he looked inside of his body, it looked like
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Speaker 1: someone had literally just crushed his insides. His torso was
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Speaker 1: full of blood, food from his intestines had been ripped outside.
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Speaker 1: He had ribs broken, internal organs were lacerated, and there
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Speaker 1: was a hole in his heart. Doctor Brown was really
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Speaker 1: confused at what he was looking at because the severity
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Speaker 1: of Greg's internal injuries were more consistent with someone who
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Speaker 1: had been in a severe.
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Speaker 2: Car crash, or who had had a really heavy object
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Speaker 2: land on them.
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Speaker 1: But Greg didn't have any significant external injuries that would
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Speaker 1: support either of those two things happening to him. And
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Speaker 1: he was found in the middle of a hotel room
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Speaker 1: where there was nothing disturbed and no one had apparently
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Speaker 1: seen or heard anything. And so doctor Brown says, look,
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Speaker 1: I don't have all the answers here, but this was
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Speaker 1: not natural. This is a homicide. And my best guess
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Speaker 1: is he was beaten to death. I know it doesn't
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Speaker 1: really make sense because there's not any external injuries, but
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Speaker 1: he suffered some significant trauma from somebody else and that's
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Speaker 1: what killed him.
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Speaker 2: When Detective Apple got this report from.
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Speaker 1: The medical examiner, he was just as confused as doctor
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Speaker 1: Brown was, but his attention turned to okay, well, if
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Speaker 1: he's been murdered, who would.
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Speaker 2: Want to murder him?
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Speaker 1: And he began digging into Greg's background, and he found
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Speaker 1: that he was universally liked. He was known for being
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Speaker 1: incredibly courteous and polite. He kept to himself, he was
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Speaker 1: in love with his wife, and his wife.
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Speaker 2: Loved him back.
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Speaker 1: There's no evidence of some scandal in the background. He
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Speaker 1: was just this really nice, normal guy, and it didn't
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Speaker 1: make any sense why anybody would want to kill him.
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Speaker 1: After a few months of getting nowhere, and in reality,
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Speaker 1: he hadn't really even gotten started because there wasn't any
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Speaker 1: good starting point. The only thing he could find that
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Speaker 1: was odd about the crime scene was that the room
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Speaker 1: was particularly warm when they walked inside, which was not
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Speaker 1: in keeping with how Greg would have kept the room,
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Speaker 1: But that doesn't explain why his insides were And so
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Speaker 1: he's gotten nowhere, and then he makes a discovery he
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Speaker 1: found in the hotel's maintenance logs. On the night Greg died,
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Speaker 1: he had been making popcorn in his microwave and managed
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Speaker 1: to blow a fuse and it wasn't just his power.
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Speaker 1: Maybe Greg didn't know this, but he cut the power
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Speaker 1: to both the room next to him.
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Speaker 2: On his right and on his left and below him.
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Speaker 1: And so he calls down to the front desk and
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Speaker 1: a maintenance guy came up and he reset the breaker.
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Speaker 1: This opened the door to two theories. The first theory
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Speaker 1: is the maintenance guy who did have a criminal record.
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Speaker 1: When he came up to fix the breaker, he attacked Greg,
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Speaker 1: But that was wildly speculative, and there was no evidence
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Speaker 1: to suggest that the maintenance.
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Speaker 2: Guy would do that, and so that was quickly ruled out.
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Speaker 1: The other theory was Greg's neighbors in room three forty
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Speaker 1: nine were these two electricians who were big partiers and drinkers,
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Speaker 1: and so Detective Apple suggested that maybe when Greg accidentally
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Speaker 1: cut the power to their room, they were really annoyed
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Speaker 1: and they went outside in the hall and they saw Greg,
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Speaker 1: and they somehow realized he was to blame for this,
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Speaker 1: and in a drunken rage, they attacked him and killed him.
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Speaker 1: And that's what killed Greg. And even though it was
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Speaker 1: a stretch, it was the closest thing to a motive
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Speaker 1: Detective Apple had found in anyone. And so Detective Apple
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Speaker 1: put on a hidden camera and he went and interviewed
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Speaker 1: these two electricians that were still staying in room three
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Speaker 1: forty nine, and he said when he spoke to them,
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Speaker 1: they were very forthcoming, They seemed very honest. They were
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Speaker 1: appropriately curious about what happened to Greg. And all they
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Speaker 1: said was, look, we had no interaction with him. We
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Speaker 1: did hear him coughing when we came back from the bar.
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Speaker 1: We were at the bar that night, But honestly, that's
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Speaker 1: the extent of our interaction with him, The electricians offered
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Speaker 1: up their cell phone numbers, their email addresses and said
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Speaker 1: anything you need from us, we'd be happy to help
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Speaker 1: or really sorry this happened. At this point, Detective Apple
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Speaker 1: is back to square one. No one knows what happened
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Speaker 1: to this guy. The one big lead he had the
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Speaker 1: maintenance records, proved to be a total dead end, and
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Speaker 1: so unfortunately this case went cold seven months after Greg's death,
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Speaker 1: where there had been absolutely no traction on figuring out
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Speaker 1: what happened to him. Susie, Greg's wife, decided that she
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Speaker 1: wanted to hire a private investigator, and her friends said
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Speaker 1: jested she call Ken Brennan, who was a famous private
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Speaker 1: detective who was well known for being able to solve
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Speaker 1: really complex cases and so on a whim, Susie calls
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Speaker 1: Ken Brennan, not expecting to get through to him, thinking
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Speaker 1: he's probably super busy and has other cases because he's
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Speaker 1: on TV and he's this really famous guy. But he
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Speaker 1: picked up the phone and he was like, Hey, how
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Speaker 1: can I help you? And Susie couldn't believe it. She
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Speaker 1: had a chance to tell him about what happened to
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Speaker 1: her husband and Ken said he was really interested in
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Speaker 1: that he would take on the case.
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Speaker 2: Ken was a former Long Island cop and he was
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Speaker 2: a DEA special agent.
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Speaker 1: He spoke with a really thick New York City accent,
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Speaker 1: and he wore t shirts that were a little bit
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Speaker 1: too small to show off his muscles, and he usually
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Speaker 1: had a big, gaudy gold chain on. Once Ken agreed
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Speaker 1: to take on this case, he flew right to Lafayette, Louisiana,
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Speaker 1: where Susie lived, and he sat down and he asked
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Speaker 1: her a lot of really difficult questions about their marriage,
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Speaker 1: about whether she thought he might be cheating on her,
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Speaker 1: if he had like a secret life she didn't know about.
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Speaker 1: And after feeling satisfied that all those avenues have been
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Speaker 1: explored and we're not going to lead to the answer,
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Speaker 1: he said, okay, well, can you tell me anything about
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Speaker 1: the crime scene that stood out to you? Is there
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Speaker 1: anything about it that seems off? And Susie said yeah.
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Speaker 1: Greg always kept the air conditioning on very cold at night.
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Speaker 1: He never slept in a room that wasn't freezing cold,
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Speaker 1: and so I thought it was really odd when his
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Speaker 1: coworkers discovered him that the air conditioning was off and
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Speaker 1: it was really hot inside of the room.
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Speaker 2: That's incredibly unlike Greg for his air conditioning to be off.
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Speaker 1: Ken made a note of this, and then he left
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Speaker 1: Lafayette and he went to Beaumont, Texas to meet up
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Speaker 1: with Detective Apple and Detective Apple and he actually got
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Speaker 1: along really well. They agreed to work together on this
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Speaker 1: case because Detective Apple feels like he's reached a dead end. Anyways,
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Speaker 1: Apple brought Ken to the crime scene. He showed him
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Speaker 1: the hotel room, and then afterwards he turned over all
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Speaker 1: of the documents he had on the case, from the
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Speaker 1: autopsy report to the photographs, to anything he'd collected over
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Speaker 1: the seven months he'd been working on it. So that night,
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Speaker 1: Ken diligently looks through all of the documentation, all of
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Speaker 1: the photos, and the next day, when he goes into
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Speaker 1: Apple's office, he says to him, I think I figured
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Speaker 1: it out.
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Speaker 2: And Apple's like, really figured it out?
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Speaker 1: One day after being here, and Ken's like, no, seriously,
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Speaker 1: I think I figured it out. I have to confirm
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Speaker 1: something with his wife, but I think I have a theory.
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Speaker 1: And so Ken calls Susie right in front of Apple,
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Speaker 1: and when Susie picks up Ken's like, hey, did your
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Speaker 1: husband ever smoke with his left hand or did.
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Speaker 2: He smoke with his right hand?
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Speaker 1: And Susie said, oh no, he only smoked with his
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Speaker 1: right hand, and Ken goes, thank you very much. He
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Speaker 1: hangs up and he goes, Apple, I got it, and
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Speaker 1: so Apple's.
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Speaker 2: Like, okay, what's your theory? And Ken says okay.
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Speaker 1: So I spoke to Susie and she told me it
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Speaker 1: was very strange that his room was not air conditioned
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Speaker 1: when they discovered his body, because Greg was known for
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Speaker 1: always turning on the air conditioning to as cold as
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Speaker 1: it can get, especially at night when he went to bed,
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Speaker 1: and so when his power went out the night before,
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Speaker 1: his air conditioning would have gone out. And so the
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Speaker 1: maintenance guy comes up, turns the power back on, but
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Speaker 1: it doesn't trigger the air conditioning to turn back on.
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Speaker 1: The room is still cold from having been air conditioned
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Speaker 1: all evening to that point, and so the TV is
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Speaker 1: back on, and so perhaps Greg turns and just starts
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Speaker 1: watching TV because the room feels the air conditioned. He
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Speaker 1: hasn't realized that he hasn't turned the air conditioning back
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Speaker 1: on again. Now this is Beaumont in the summer, so
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Speaker 1: it's going to get really hot in his room really quickly,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as it starts to warm up in there,
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Speaker 1: he's going to realize, oh, I didn't turn the AC
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Speaker 1: back on, and he would go over and turn it
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Speaker 1: on again. And so because the air conditioning wasn't on,
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Speaker 1: and we know that the power was restored at eight thirty,
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Speaker 1: then he must have died after the power was on,
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Speaker 1: but before it got warming up in the room for
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Speaker 1: him to recognize he did not turn the AC on,
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Speaker 1: which means he would have died somewhere between eight thirty
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Speaker 1: and nine PM at night. And so Apple's like, wow,
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Speaker 1: that's pretty impressive, except that doesn't really help us figure
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Speaker 1: out how he died or who killed him. And Ken
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Speaker 1: puts his hand up and he says, I know, I'm
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Speaker 1: just building the whole picture here, Okay, So we have
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Speaker 1: him dying between eight thirty and nine and I don't
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Speaker 1: think he was beaten to death. I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of people want that to be what killed him because
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Speaker 1: it's kind of the only thing that might make sense.
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Speaker 1: But I say it definitely doesn't make sense because of
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Speaker 1: the cigarette. Now, we found that cigarette in his left hand,
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Speaker 1: and I talked to his wife, and she said he
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Speaker 1: only smokes in his right hand. And so what I
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Speaker 1: think happened is the power came back on at about
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Speaker 1: eight thirty, which is what the report says. The TV
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Speaker 1: turns back on. Greg doesn't turn the air conditioning back on.
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Speaker 1: He sits on his bed, he's watching TV. He lights
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Speaker 1: up a cigarette and he's smoking with his right hand,
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Speaker 1: and then something happens to him, which I'll get into
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Speaker 1: my theories on that, and he jumps off the bed
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Speaker 1: and he starts making his way to the door to
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Speaker 1: get help, and he transfers the cigarette from his right
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Speaker 1: hand to his left hand so he can use his
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Speaker 1: right hand to turn the.
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Speaker 2: Doorknob and open the door to safety. But he doesn't
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Speaker 2: make it.
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Speaker 1: He falls to his knees and he falls to the
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Speaker 1: ground and his cigarette still in his fingers, and he dies.
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Speaker 1: And Apple's like, you know what, that's pretty good. It
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Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. But the crucial missing piece
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Speaker 1: here is, well, what was the trauma he suffered that
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Speaker 1: caused him to jump from his bed and run to
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Speaker 1: the door and then ultimately die Ken's like, I got
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Speaker 1: a theory on that too, but I got to be
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Speaker 1: in the hotel room to see if it's true. So
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Speaker 1: Apple and Ken go back to the hotel room. When
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Speaker 1: they get there, Ken goes inside and he starts walking around,
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Speaker 1: looking at the ceiling, the wall, the ground, and then
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Speaker 1: finally he stops when he's looking back towards the front
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Speaker 1: door leading back into the hall, and he points at
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Speaker 1: the wall and he says there, and Apple looks at what
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Speaker 1: he's pointing at, and it looks like there had been
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Speaker 1: some patchwork on the wall in the same spot where
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Speaker 1: the doorknob when it swings open would hit the wall.
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Speaker 1: And so Apple's looking at it and he's like, that's
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Speaker 1: just from the doorknob. And so Ken takes the door
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Speaker 1: and he opens it all the way to where the
15:23
Speaker 1: doorknob is pressed against the wall, and it's to the
15:26
Speaker 1: right of this patchwork, meaning this patchwork is not connected
15:29
Speaker 1: to the doorknob. Apple was confused and was about to
15:32
Speaker 1: ask questions, and Ken was like on a roll and
15:34
Speaker 1: he said, hold on, and he goes outside.
15:36
Speaker 2: He goes next door to room three p.
15:37
Speaker 1: Forty nine to go inside, and Apple walks in the
15:40
Speaker 1: room and he's watching Ken do his work, and Ken's
15:43
Speaker 1: rubbing his hands all over the wall, and eventually he
15:45
Speaker 1: stops and he looks up at Apple, and he takes
15:48
Speaker 1: his finger and he pushes on one spot in the
15:51
Speaker 1: wall as Apple is watching, and his finger goes right
15:53
Speaker 1: in and what he pushed on was this little chunk
15:56
Speaker 1: of toothpaste that had been wedged in this little tiny
15:58
Speaker 1: hole in the wall, and he pushed through. Apple brought
16:01
Speaker 1: in a crime scene investigations unit who carefully excavated both
16:05
Speaker 1: sides of this wall and they shined a laser from
16:08
Speaker 1: three p forty nine into Greg's room, and the trajectory
16:11
Speaker 1: of the laser going through this hole lined up perfectly
16:14
Speaker 1: with where Greg would have been sitting on the bed,
16:16
Speaker 1: smoking cigarettes, eating candy, watching a movie. So Ken and
16:19
Speaker 1: Apple go back to the medical examiner, doctor Brown, and
16:22
Speaker 1: they say, look, you miss something because Greg got shot.
16:26
Speaker 1: And unfortunately Greg's body had already been cremated, but they
16:28
Speaker 1: did have the pictures to look at from the autopsy,
16:31
Speaker 1: and sure enough, they find that little tiny laceration in
16:34
Speaker 1: his crotch was.
16:34
Speaker 2: Actually an entrance wound.
16:36
Speaker 1: And then when doctor Brown pointed out there was a
16:38
Speaker 1: hole in the heart, and it kind of lined up
16:40
Speaker 1: with the trajectory that bullet would have been traveling through
16:42
Speaker 1: his body.
16:43
Speaker 2: Doctor Brown realized he had made a mistake, and.
16:45
Speaker 1: He changed the autopsy report to reflect a gunshot wound.
16:48
Speaker 1: Ken and Detective Apple reinterviewed one of the electricians that
16:51
Speaker 1: had been in room three forty nine, that was in
16:54
Speaker 1: the room where the gunshot had originated from. His name
16:56
Speaker 1: was Lance, and when they brought him in, they said,
16:59
Speaker 1: this is totally routine. You know, it's been seven plus
17:01
Speaker 1: months since Greg's death, and what we're doing is any
17:04
Speaker 1: of our witnesses, we want them to sign a statement
17:07
Speaker 1: basically attesting that.
17:08
Speaker 2: This is what I saw or didn't see.
17:10
Speaker 1: And so they had prepared a statement that basically lined
17:12
Speaker 1: up with the first thing he had told police, which
17:14
Speaker 1: was I didn't hear anything.
17:16
Speaker 2: I didn't see anything.
17:17
Speaker 1: And they said, is there anything you want to change
17:18
Speaker 1: about your story or is this exactly what you saw
17:21
Speaker 1: and heard? And Lance said, yeah, that's exactly. I don't
17:24
Speaker 1: know anything. I wish I wish I knew more. I'm
17:26
Speaker 1: sorry and like, all right, well, then can you sign
17:28
Speaker 1: this document saying that you don't know anything and you
17:30
Speaker 1: didn't see anything. And he said yeah, he signs the
17:33
Speaker 1: document and then Ken's like, all right, gotcha, because we
17:36
Speaker 1: know a gun shot was fired from your room and
17:39
Speaker 1: that's what killed Greg, and so you need to tell
17:41
Speaker 1: me who shot the gun, otherwise I'm taking you to
17:44
Speaker 1: jail for submitting a false police report. At this point,
17:46
Speaker 1: Lance crumbles and the truth comes out, and he said
17:49
Speaker 1: that he and the other electrician in the room with him,
17:51
Speaker 1: whose name was Muller, they were gooping around and drinking
17:54
Speaker 1: that night, and Muller went out and got his pistol
17:56
Speaker 1: from his car and he brought it in and he
17:58
Speaker 1: was gooping around with it, and Lance was saying that
18:01
Speaker 1: he was trying to get him to stop doing that,
18:03
Speaker 1: but he kept goofing around with the gun, and at
18:05
Speaker 1: one point he aimed the gun at Lance, and Lance
18:08
Speaker 1: kind of batted it away from him. He dropped the gun.
18:10
Speaker 1: It landed and it went off, and they saw where
18:12
Speaker 1: the bullet hole was. They saw it was into Greg's room,
18:16
Speaker 1: and they both froze, and they listened to see if
18:19
Speaker 1: anybody had reacted to this gunshot, and he said they
18:22
Speaker 1: didn't hear anything for a long time, and that made
18:24
Speaker 1: them believe that no one was in the other room,
18:26
Speaker 1: that no one was in Greg's room, and that they
18:28
Speaker 1: were in the clear, and so they left and went
18:30
Speaker 1: to the bar. They didn't even think to check on
18:32
Speaker 1: whoever was in that room, And when they came back,
18:34
Speaker 1: they said they heard Greg coughing in his room, and
18:36
Speaker 1: that further confirmed that he must not have been in
18:39
Speaker 1: there when they fired the shot. And he's totally fine
18:42
Speaker 1: and they are totally in the clear.
18:43
Speaker 2: The next day, Lance.
18:44
Speaker 1: Said when they saw his body being taken out, at
18:47
Speaker 1: first they did think, oh, my goodness, this is us,
18:49
Speaker 1: we did this, But they overheard Detective Apple walking around
18:53
Speaker 1: interviewing people, saying out loud that yeah, we think this
18:56
Speaker 1: is natural causes. Yep, it looks like a heart attack.
18:58
Speaker 1: This is probably nothing. Sure, it's nothing. And they were like, oh, phew,
19:03
Speaker 1: it's not us. And so they actually believed it was
19:05
Speaker 1: just a coincidence that on the same day they're firing
19:08
Speaker 1: a rogue bullet into Greg's room, that Greg had a
19:11
Speaker 1: heart attack and died separately. But Lance would say that
19:14
Speaker 1: somewhere in the back of both of their minds they
19:16
Speaker 1: knew they probably had something to do with it, and
19:18
Speaker 1: so they covered their tracks, and they put toothpaste in
19:20
Speaker 1: the wall to cover up the hole, and they hid
19:22
Speaker 1: the gun, and they intentionally kept information from the police,
19:26
Speaker 1: and so ultimately Muller, the owner of the gun, the
19:28
Speaker 1: one who really instigated that night waving the gun around,
19:31
Speaker 1: and the one who actually dropped the gun. He was
19:34
Speaker 1: charged with manslaughter and was given ten years in prison.
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