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Top 3 videos with DISTURBING backstories Part 7 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Stick around for the crazy real life plot twist at
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  Speaker 1: the end of today's top video before we get into
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  Speaker 1: today's stories. If you're a fan of the strange, dark
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  Speaker 1: into today's stories. In July of twenty seventeen, Jerome Kennedy
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  Speaker 1: was laying in bed next to his wife and his
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  Speaker 1: ten month old daughter was sleeping in her crib in
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  Speaker 1: the corner of their bedroom. And as he's laying there,
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  Speaker 1: he starts to hear what sounds like scuffling sounds above
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  Speaker 1: his ceiling.
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  Speaker 2: Now, above his ceiling was an attic.
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  Speaker 1: It was more like a crawl space because it was
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  Speaker 1: incredibly tight, and Jerome and his family didn't keep anything
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  Speaker 1: up there. They didn't spend any time up there, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: and so Jerome's laying here thinking, man, did an animal
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  Speaker 1: get up there? I mean, this is a pretty old
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  Speaker 1: apartment building. It's certainly impossible that a squirrel or something
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  Speaker 1: could have crawled inside the attic and that's what's making
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  Speaker 1: the sound.
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  Speaker 2: But eventually that night the sound stopped and Jerome went
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  Speaker 2: to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: The next day, Jerome went up into the crawl space
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  Speaker 1: and there was nothing up there. But it's a pretty
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  Speaker 1: big space, and again it's pretty difficult to maneuver around,
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  Speaker 1: so we thought, you know, it is still possible that
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  Speaker 1: there could be an animal up here, but there wasn't
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  Speaker 1: any immediately obvious signs, and so he went back down
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  Speaker 1: and just hoped it would stop. A couple days go
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  Speaker 1: by and he hasn't heard anything in the attic, and
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  Speaker 1: then one night he wakes up to the sounds in
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  Speaker 1: the attic and when he opens his eyes, there's a
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  Speaker 1: vent that sits at the top of the wall right
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  Speaker 1: in front of him, that's actually over his daughter's crib,
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  Speaker 1: and he could have sworn he saw what looked like
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  Speaker 1: a flashlight coming from the attic. Immediately he gets up
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  Speaker 1: and walks over and pulls the vent cover out and
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  Speaker 1: he's looking into the attic, but it's not a good view.
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  Speaker 1: It's a curved vent, so at best you're getting a
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  Speaker 1: little sliver of a view into the cross space. And
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  Speaker 1: he didn't see any more light, and he didn't hear
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  Speaker 1: anything else, and so once again he kind of chalks
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  Speaker 1: it up, puts the vent cover back in place, gets
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  Speaker 1: back in bed.
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  Speaker 2: And falls asleep.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, he tells his wife about the light
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  Speaker 1: he saw in the vent, and now they had already
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  Speaker 1: spoken about the strange sounds coming from the attic, and
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  Speaker 1: she knew that perhaps there was some animal up there,
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  Speaker 1: but the light definitely caught her off guard.
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  Speaker 2: But then she remembered that next door they were.
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  Speaker 1: Doing a whole bunch of renovations on the apartment, and
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  Speaker 1: perhaps the partition there was a break in it, and
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  Speaker 1: they could be doing some late night work and light
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  Speaker 1: could have leaked through the break in their partition wall
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  Speaker 1: in the attic, and maybe that was causing the flash
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  Speaker 1: of light. So Jerome knocks on his neighbor's door and
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  Speaker 1: he says, hey, you know, I saw a weird light
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  Speaker 1: in my attic, and I'm trying to see if there's
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  Speaker 1: a break in our partition wall that perhaps if you
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  Speaker 1: guys were working late last night, light could have poured
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  Speaker 1: through onto our side.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a possibility? And his neighbor said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we were.
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  Speaker 1: Not working late last night, and I've actually been up
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  Speaker 1: into our attic and I've checked that partition wall because
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  Speaker 1: we're doing renovations and I need to make sure this
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  Speaker 1: apartment is in good working order because I'm looking to
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  Speaker 1: sell it. And that partition wall is solid, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't think there's a break in it. Jerome and his
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  Speaker 1: wife are totally stumped, and so they decide, let's just
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  Speaker 1: put a security camera up in the attic and let's
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  Speaker 1: see what's moving around up there. Let's see what's causing
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  Speaker 1: the light and these sounds. So that day, Jerome goes out,
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  Speaker 1: he gets a little security camera, he comes home, he
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  Speaker 1: installs it in his attic, and then he, his wife,
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  Speaker 1: and his daughter go to bed.
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  Speaker 2: That night.
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  Speaker 1: Jerome doesn't wake up to any sounds in the ceiling,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't see any lights, and so when he goes
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  Speaker 1: to check the footage the next morning, he's not expecting
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  Speaker 1: to see anything, but he is shocked at what he
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  Speaker 1: discovers in the middle of the night. After Jerome, his wife,
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  Speaker 1: and his young daughter have already fallen asleep. You see
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  Speaker 1: on camera as the partition that separates Jerome's attic from
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  Speaker 1: his neighbor's attic slides open, and in crawls who else
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  Speaker 1: but Jerome's neighbor, Robert Havrilla, the same guy he was
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  Speaker 1: speaking to the day earlier about Hey, have you heard
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  Speaker 1: anything in the attic?
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  Speaker 2: Well turned out it was his neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: So he comes in. He's carrying a drill and a
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  Speaker 1: plank of wood, and he crawls very quietly over Jerome's
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  Speaker 1: side of the apartment, and then he pulls aside some
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  Speaker 1: insulation that clearly he had already detached before, because it
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  Speaker 1: slid out of the way very easily. He lays the
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  Speaker 1: plank down over some beams and he gets himself positioned
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  Speaker 1: over it, and then he uses his drill to drill
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  Speaker 1: a hole right into Jerome's ceiling, and it would happen
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  Speaker 1: to be directly above his daughter's crib.
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  Speaker 2: He'd put the drill.
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  Speaker 1: Back, and then he'd lay there on the plank of
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  Speaker 1: wood and stare through the hole at Jerome's daughter for thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Minutes without flinching. After he was satisfied, he.
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  Speaker 1: Got up, pulled the plank out of the way, he
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  Speaker 1: slid the insulation back in place. He grabbed his grill
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  Speaker 1: and the plank of wood and he crawled his way
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  Speaker 1: back into his side and shut the false door. Jerome
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  Speaker 1: calls police, who come over and they look at the
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  Speaker 1: footage and they immediately arrect his neighbor. But then when
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  Speaker 1: they go up into the attic to look for themselves,
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  Speaker 1: they find there's all these different drill holes that have
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  Speaker 1: been carefully covered over because their neighbor had been doing
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  Speaker 1: this for some time and had developed a sort of
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  Speaker 1: awful routine where he would come in and spy on
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  Speaker 1: the family, specifically their infant daughter. Jerome's neighbor was found
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  Speaker 1: guilty of criminal trespassing and was given five years of
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  Speaker 1: provision and had to pay Jerome's family twenty two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and forty five dollars. Here is the very creepy security
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  Speaker 1: footage of Jerome's neighbor.
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  Speaker 2: Growing up, Colton Louder was a joy to be around.
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  Speaker 1: He was always goooping off and making people smile, and
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  Speaker 1: he had a really infectious laugh. But secretly he was
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  Speaker 1: depressed and began self medicating at a very young age.
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  Speaker 1: By the time he was eighteen, he was a full
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  Speaker 1: fledged drug addict, and by the time he was twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: he was in jail on a life sentence for murdering
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  Speaker 1: his uncle over a drug related dispute. Colton's actions had
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  Speaker 1: a profound impact on his family, but none more so
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  Speaker 1: than on his twin sister, Caylin.
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  Speaker 2: She had known about his pain.
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  Speaker 1: Even when he was putting on that facade of being
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  Speaker 1: happy and bubbly and outgoing, and she had reached out
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  Speaker 1: to him and tried to help him, but she could
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  Speaker 1: never get through to him, and when he was ultimately convicted,
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  Speaker 1: it was crushing to her. She felt like she couldn't
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  Speaker 1: help someone who was really vulnerable. But instead of just
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  Speaker 1: feeling bad about this, she took her sadness about her
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  Speaker 1: brother and watching him spiral and turned that into a
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  Speaker 1: laser focus on helping other vulnerable people that were struggling
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  Speaker 1: with addiction and depression, to try to help them before
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  Speaker 1: they end up like her brother. And eventually she would
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  Speaker 1: get her degree and social work from Utah State. But
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  Speaker 1: despite Calen's best intentions to want to help as many
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  Speaker 1: people as she could, she found it very difficult to
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  Speaker 1: find work in her field, and it wasn't uncommon for
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  Speaker 1: her to have fairly long stretches of unemployment, and it
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  Speaker 1: was during one of those long stretches in twenty fourteen
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  Speaker 1: that Caylan's life rapidly fell apart, and it left everybody
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  Speaker 1: who knew her thinking what just happened. On September twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, a little after nine pm, Kaylan calls nine
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  Speaker 1: one one. She reported that there was this huge brutal
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  Speaker 1: fight taking place in her condo's clubhouse. Basically, it was
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  Speaker 1: like a restaurant where you could rent it out in
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  Speaker 1: the first floor of this condo complex, and she said
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  Speaker 1: it was getting out of hand and police needed to
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  Speaker 1: come over here and stop it before someone got hurt.
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  Speaker 1: The police asked her if weapons were involved. Were people
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  Speaker 1: using weapons in this fight? And Kaylen says, yes, guns.
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  Speaker 1: But when police rushed to the scene, bracing for the worst,
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  Speaker 1: they discovered that it's just a docile wedding reception happening
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  Speaker 1: inside of this clubhouse, and not one person in there
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  Speaker 1: reported any altercation happening. They were like, we're being pretty quiet.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where she would have got that from.
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  Speaker 1: One guest would tell police that they had lit a
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  Speaker 1: single firecracker, but they showed them what they had used,
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  Speaker 1: and they were these little, tiny, cheap things that made
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  Speaker 1: almost no noise. So it is possible that Caylen could
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  Speaker 1: have mistaken that for a gunshot, but it does seem
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  Speaker 1: highly unlikely. Police leave and then one hour later, Cayln
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  Speaker 1: calls nine one one again, but she immediately hangs up
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  Speaker 1: as soon as an operator has actually answered the phone,
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  Speaker 1: and the operator calls the number back, and Caylen.
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  Speaker 2: Picks the phone up, but she's not really speaking. She's mumbling.
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  Speaker 1: She sounds confused, and the operator said, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you tried to call nine one one a minute ago.
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  Speaker 1: Is everything okay? Can you tell me where you are?
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  Speaker 1: And Kaylan would have a really hard time giving her
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  Speaker 1: address to the police. It was like she couldn't remember
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  Speaker 1: her address and she's mumbling, and at some point she says,
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  Speaker 1: my roommate thinks I'm delusional and.
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  Speaker 2: Paranoid, but I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Caylen eventually kind of calmed down and said she was
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  Speaker 1: sorry for calling nine one one, and the operator said okay,
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  Speaker 1: and they hung up and that was the end of
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  Speaker 1: the call. The next morning, Cayln calls nine one one
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  Speaker 1: for a third time in twenty four hours.
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  Speaker 2: This time, she's frantic.
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  Speaker 1: While she's on the phone with the operator, she's periodically
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  Speaker 1: screaming at these two people that are apparently robbing her
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  Speaker 1: apartment to get the f out of here. Get out
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  Speaker 1: of my apartment. You can't be here. And the operator
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  Speaker 1: is trying to get more information out of Kaylan, but
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  Speaker 1: Caylen is very distressed. She can barely communicate with the operator.
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  Speaker 1: She's half crying. And the operator tells her, can you leave,
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  Speaker 1: can you go somewhere safe? And Kaylen says no, there's
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  Speaker 1: only one way out. This is a small apartment. I
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  Speaker 1: can't go past them. And the operator tells them the
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  Speaker 1: police are on their way. Just stay in your bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: don't go anywhere. And so, while Caylen is huddled in
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  Speaker 1: her bedroom and the dispatcher is still on the line listening,
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  Speaker 1: you hear Cayln's roommate, Carol, walk into her bedroom and
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  Speaker 1: very calmly say Caylen, what's going on? And Kaylen's like, Carol,
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  Speaker 1: get over here, you lock the door, get in here.
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  Speaker 1: There's two people in here. They're robbing us. They're out there,
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  Speaker 1: they're in the other room. And Carol's like, no, there's
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  Speaker 1: no one here. The front door's locked. Caylen suddenly sounds
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  Speaker 1: really confused, and she says, well, I can't.
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  Speaker 2: Explain that, but they must have been in here because
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  Speaker 2: I heard them.
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  Speaker 1: They must have had a key, and that's how they
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  Speaker 1: got in, and that's how they got out. And right
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  Speaker 1: at that moment, the responding officers show up and there
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  Speaker 1: was no sign of a break in.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing had been taken.
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  Speaker 1: It really looked like nothing had happened unless someone really
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  Speaker 1: did have a key. At this point, Kaylen was very embarrassed.
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  Speaker 1: She apologized to the officers, she apologized to her roommate,
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  Speaker 1: and she ended up calling her mom and saying, I'm mortified.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe I just called nine one one three
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  Speaker 1: different times and nothing came of any of these calls, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I feel so embarrassed about it, and her.
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  Speaker 2: Mom, being a good mom, told her, you know, don't
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  Speaker 2: worry about it. No one got hurt in the process,
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  Speaker 2: so it's all good. And so Kaylen moves past.
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  Speaker 1: It, and on the call with her mom, she starts
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  Speaker 1: talking about what she's going to do that day. She says, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking to update my resume and submit it to
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  Speaker 1: a couple different job openings, and I also want to
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  Speaker 1: clean up my apartment, and so they hang up the
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  Speaker 1: phone and everything seems normal again. But at about five
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  Speaker 1: forty five pm that night, Kaylin along with her beloved
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  Speaker 1: little dog named Phyllis that apparently she took everywhere with her.
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  Speaker 1: We're seeing eggs, the condo and walking out to the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot behind their building. Kaylan was barefoot, was only
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  Speaker 1: wearing a tank top and shorts, despite the fact that
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  Speaker 1: it was cold and raining, And as soon as she
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  Speaker 1: puts her dog down because she was holding her dog
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  Speaker 1: in her arm, Caylan begins having this totally animated discussion,
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  Speaker 1: except there's no one there for her to be talking to.
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  Speaker 2: About fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Later, she and her dog turn around and walk back
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  Speaker 1: towards the condo complex, out of view of a camera,
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  Speaker 1: but residents would say they saw her crying and going
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  Speaker 1: up to a gate that lets you back into the
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  Speaker 1: condo and she apparently couldn't open it, and as she's
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  Speaker 1: standing there struggling, she suddenly stops, puts her dog down,
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  Speaker 1: turns and starts running away, And the camera footage we
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  Speaker 1: have of her is only when she's back in the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot. But she's running away still and the dog
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  Speaker 1: is nowhere to be found, her beloved dog.
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  Speaker 2: She's abandoned.
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  Speaker 1: She's got no phone, no wallet, and nobody knows where
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  Speaker 1: she's going. Later that night, when Kaylen's family could not
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  Speaker 1: get in touch with her because of all the weirdness
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  Speaker 1: around those nine to one one calls, her face family
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  Speaker 1: just had a bad feeling about it, and so they
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  Speaker 1: filed an official missing person report that night.
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  Speaker 2: When police arrived at the condo complex, the first.
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  Speaker 1: Thing they did is they reviewed the security footage and
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  Speaker 1: they already knew about her three nine to one one
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  Speaker 1: calls that had happened within twenty four hours, and all
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  Speaker 1: of them had been for unfounded reasons. And they see
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  Speaker 1: Kaylin on camera barefoot in a tank top and shorts
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  Speaker 1: in the rain, and she's having this animated discussion with
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  Speaker 1: nobody before running around and running away. And so police
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  Speaker 1: go to Kaylin's family and they say, does your daughter
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  Speaker 1: have a drug problem?
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  Speaker 2: Is she mentally ill?
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  Speaker 1: And her family tells the police, no, she's got no
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  Speaker 1: history of mental illness. She definitely does not have a
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  Speaker 1: drug addiction because of what happened to her brother, and
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  Speaker 1: they explain what happened with Colton and how that had
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous impact on her, and how that had actually
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  Speaker 1: sent her on a course to help people with mental
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  Speaker 1: illness or people who were fighting against addiction or depression.
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  Speaker 1: And they explained how she was just really well adjusted
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  Speaker 1: and everything seemed okay until these nine to one one
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  Speaker 1: calls started and now this huge searches launched between the
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  Speaker 1: police and volunteers, and actually the Louder family even hired
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  Speaker 1: some private investigators to help them look for Kaylin. But
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  Speaker 1: days turned into weeks and there was no leads, No
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  Speaker 1: one knew where she was.
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  Speaker 2: She had just vanished.
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  Speaker 1: Then on December first, ten weeks after she went missing,
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  Speaker 1: city workers were inspecting drainage pipes down near the Jordan River,
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  Speaker 1: which was a river that went by her apartment, and
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  Speaker 1: they discovered behind some plants a body that was half submerged,
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  Speaker 1: and it would turn out to be Kaylin's. They pull
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  Speaker 1: her out of the water and no cause of death
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  Speaker 1: could be accurately determined because of how long she had
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  Speaker 1: been in the water for It looked like she had
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  Speaker 1: been in there for probably all of the ten weeks
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  Speaker 1: she had been missing. They were able to determine that
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  Speaker 1: there were no drugs in her system and there was
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  Speaker 1: no water in her lungs, which meant she didn't drown.
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  Speaker 1: Her body was found five miles from where her apartment was,
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  Speaker 1: and so initial speculation was she must have gotten hurt
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  Speaker 1: and fallen into this river and drifted the five miles
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  Speaker 1: downstream to where she was found. But they looked at
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  Speaker 1: that second of the river between her apartment and where
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  Speaker 1: she was found, and the water was simply too shallow
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  Speaker 1: and windy and it would not have been possible for
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  Speaker 1: a human body to travel that distance, which means almost
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  Speaker 1: immediately after she ran off screen on the security footage,
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  Speaker 1: she covered those five miles, wound up at that section
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  Speaker 1: of the Jordan River, died and then fell in the water,
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  Speaker 1: or fell in the water and then died, but not
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  Speaker 1: via drowning. The police officially ruled Kaylin's death an accident,
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  Speaker 1: but her family disagrees. They say, if you look really
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  Speaker 1: closely at the security footage right before she runs away,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like she's terrified. More specifically, it looks like
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  Speaker 1: she's terrified of someone we can't see on camera when
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  Speaker 1: she's having that animated discussion where it looks like she's
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  Speaker 1: talking to no one, further feeding the idea that she
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  Speaker 1: had kind of lost it. Well, there's this huge rock
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  Speaker 1: to the right in the video that kind of obscures
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  Speaker 1: our view, and behind that is this huge forest, and
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  Speaker 1: it is theoretically possible that someone could be back there
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  Speaker 1: that we can't see. But no matter what, her family
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  Speaker 1: believes that whatever she was doing in her final moments
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  Speaker 1: on camera is the key to understanding why she ran
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  Speaker 1: off and ultimately died. So you be the judge. Was
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  Speaker 1: this a psychotic break or is there something more? On
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  Speaker 1: June twenty, twenty eighteen, fifteen year old Lossandro Gomez Belize,
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  Speaker 1: who went by Junior, was on summer break from school.
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  Speaker 1: He and his mother lived in a small apartment in
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  Speaker 1: the Bronx, which is in New York City, and this
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  Speaker 1: particular night, he was staying in playing video games while
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  Speaker 1: his mom was trying to sleep in the other room.
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  Speaker 1: Just after ten pm, Junior gets a text message from
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  Speaker 1: his friend Jason Velez, who lived about two blocks over,
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  Speaker 1: and Jason was asking Junior if you wanted to come
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  Speaker 1: over and listen to music with him.
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  Speaker 2: Junior was getting.
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  Speaker 1: Bored of his video games anyway, so he says, sure,
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  Speaker 1: I'll come Mitscha, and then at ten h five pm,
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  Speaker 1: an outside security camera picks Junior up leaving his house,
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  Speaker 1: walking the two blocks over to his friend Jason. Junior
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  Speaker 1: arrives a couple minutes later, and he and Jason spend
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  Speaker 1: the next hour and a half looking at their phones,
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  Speaker 1: listening to music.
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  Speaker 2: And just chatting with each other.
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  Speaker 1: At about eleven thirty, Junior says he wants to go,
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  Speaker 1: and so he says by to Jason and he starts
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  Speaker 1: walking back towards his apartment, but instead of going to
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  Speaker 1: his apartment, he walks past it towards an area known
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  Speaker 1: as Adam's Place. Adam's Place was notorious for gang activity
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  Speaker 1: and it was just not a safe place to be
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  Speaker 1: unless you were in a gang or it was broad daylight.
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  Speaker 1: And since it wasn't broad daylight and Junior was not
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  Speaker 1: in a gang, this is a pretty risky move for him.
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  Speaker 1: But Junior had a very close friend that lived right
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  Speaker 1: near Adam's Place, and this friend of his was not
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  Speaker 1: in a gang either, and Junior wanted to hang out
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  Speaker 1: with him, and so as he's walking over to Adam's Place,
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  Speaker 1: he texts this friend and says Hey, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be there in a minute, and his friend writes back,
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  Speaker 1: don't come here.
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  Speaker 2: It's not safe.
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  Speaker 1: There's some people outside that are a little bit sketchy.
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  Speaker 1: There's some cars in the area that we don't recognize,
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  Speaker 1: like stay away from Adam's place. And so Junior gets
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  Speaker 1: this text message and he's not about to risk it,
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  Speaker 1: so he turns around and starts walking back towards his apartment.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time Junior's getting this text message,
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  Speaker 1: a security camera picks up four cars full of gang
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  Speaker 1: members going past Adam's place and turning onto the road
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  Speaker 1: that Juniors on, and they start driving up towards him,
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  Speaker 1: and as they drive past Junior, they start yelling out
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  Speaker 1: at him and taunting him and making fun of him,
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  Speaker 1: and Junior, who's scared, just starts running and right away
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  Speaker 1: the cars start chasing him, and they immediately cut around
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  Speaker 1: another side street and they cut him off, and so
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of funneled into this bodega that's on the
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  Speaker 1: corner right in front of his apartment.
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  Speaker 2: He's literally a stone's throw away from the.
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  Speaker 1: Front door of his apartment, but he can't get to it,
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  Speaker 1: so he goes in the bodega, and he yells for
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  Speaker 1: the store manager to let him over the counter to
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  Speaker 1: hide on the other side of the counter, and this
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  Speaker 1: store manager, who's used to gang bylence in this area,
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  Speaker 1: is not quick to want to help this guy jump over.
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  Speaker 2: He's worried he's gonna get robbed.
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  Speaker 1: But as he's kind of holding him back from getting
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  Speaker 1: on the other side of the counter, the gang members
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  Speaker 1: saw Junior go into this bodega, and one comes flying
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  Speaker 1: into the bodega, sees Junior and immediately turns around, runs outside,
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  Speaker 1: and on security camera alerts the other gang members that
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  Speaker 1: Junior is in here and there's no way for him
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  Speaker 1: to get out. There's only one entrance into the bodega,
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  Speaker 1: and you see all the cars converge on this bodega
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  Speaker 1: and you see all these gang members get out with
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  Speaker 1: machetes and knives. Then they make their way into the bodega,
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  Speaker 1: where now Junior is behind the counter, and you can
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  Speaker 1: tell he's terrified because he does not know what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't know why he's being attacked. And you see
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  Speaker 1: the gang go right up to the calendar and they're
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  Speaker 1: screaming at the shop owner to give them Junior and
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  Speaker 1: the shop owner is actually doing a pretty good job
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  Speaker 1: of saying get out, like I don't want you in here,
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  Speaker 1: leave him alone, just get out. But at some point
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  Speaker 1: one of the more aggressive gang members just reaches across
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  Speaker 1: and grabs Junior and starts pulling him, and they all
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  Speaker 1: pile on and start beating on Junior. They beat him
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  Speaker 1: to the ground. They pull him painstakingly out of the store.
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  Speaker 1: Junior's grasping at everything he can. At one point he
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  Speaker 1: grabs onto the ATM machine and you can see fear
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  Speaker 1: in his face. He does not want to go outside,
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  Speaker 1: but they eventually yank him out into the streets, and
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  Speaker 1: they proceed to savagely stab and slash him with machetes
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  Speaker 1: and knives.
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  Speaker 2: After a flurry of attacks.
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  Speaker 1: The gang members all run away and getting cars and
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  Speaker 1: drive away, and Junior stands up and he's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit dazed, and he runs back into the bodega, and
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: now he's bleeding profusely, and he's yelling for help, help me,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone's telling him to get out of the store.
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  Speaker 1: No one wants to help him. He goes back out
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  Speaker 1: onto the road and he's screaming. Someone called nine to
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  Speaker 1: one one and no one's listening to him. People are
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  Speaker 1: just filming him, and with what little strength he had left,
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  Speaker 1: he just starts running towards Saint Barnabas Hospital, which was
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  Speaker 1: about a block away, and he makes it all the
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  Speaker 1: way to the front of the hospital and then collapses
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  Speaker 1: and he bleeds to death. The gang responsible for Junior's
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: death was the Trinitarios, which is a Dominican gang that
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  Speaker 1: was born out of New York prisons, and over the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: past couple of years, their violence is skyrocketed. There have
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  Speaker 1: been numerous clashes between they and other gang members. Lots
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  Speaker 1: of people have been stabbed and attacked, just like Junior was.
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  Speaker 1: But Junior's death wound up being very unique. After his death,
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  Speaker 1: one of the leaders of the Trinitario gang posted to
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  Speaker 1: social media that the killing was actually an accident, that
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  Speaker 1: this was a case of mistaken identity. Apparently someone had
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: been disrespectful to a gang member's niece and that night
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  Speaker 1: those four cars were out there looking for him, and
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  Speaker 1: apparently they expected to find him near Adam's place, and
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  Speaker 1: he looked enough like Junior that they decided that's the guy,
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  Speaker 1: and Junior was just in the wrong place at the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: wrong time.
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  Speaker 2: The gang would.
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  Speaker 1: Apologize to Junior's family on social media and staid they
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: kicked the killers out of the gang and the five
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  Speaker 1: people that were responsible for killing Junior were ultimately convicted
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  Speaker 1: of murder and given life sentences.
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  Speaker 2: Here is some of the footage of Jr.
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  Speaker 1: Running into the bodega trying to save himselves before ultimately
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  Speaker 1: being dragged out into the street and killed.
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