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  Speaker 1: today's stories. It was two days before Christmas in twenty ten,
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  Speaker 1: and fifty four year old Alan Catterall, along with his
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  Speaker 1: future son in law Mark, were sitting in the break
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  Speaker 1: room of a kayak molding facility in the United Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: where they both worked, and as they sat there drinking tea,
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  Speaker 1: they began exchanging notes about what gifts they got for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of their family for the holidays, and as
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  Speaker 1: they spoke, they both were very careful to keep their
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  Speaker 1: voices very quiet in fear that someone might overhear them
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  Speaker 1: because Alan's wife and daughter also worked.
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  Speaker 2: At this kayak company.
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  Speaker 1: Alan had worked for this company for ten years and
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  Speaker 1: even though it was backbreaking work a lot of the time,
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  Speaker 1: he loved it because it meant he got to spend
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  Speaker 1: all this time with his family. Basically, twenty four to seven,
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  Speaker 1: it was only seven am, which meant Mark and Allen
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  Speaker 1: had just started their shifts, but they were already taking
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  Speaker 1: this break to talk.
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  Speaker 2: About Christmas because they were so excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: But they finally said, Okay, we do need to go
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  Speaker 1: to work, and so they put their cups in the sink,
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  Speaker 1: and then Alan made his way down to the factory
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  Speaker 1: floor and his future son in law Mark made his
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  Speaker 1: way up to the control room. On the factory floor
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  Speaker 1: where Alan was heading was where all the special machinery was.
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  Speaker 1: Inside of these little rooms where the kayaks were actually
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  Speaker 1: molded and put together, and it was Alan's job to
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  Speaker 1: make sure the machinery was clean and operational. The machinery
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  Speaker 1: inside of these little kayak making rooms was very customized
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  Speaker 1: and very thinicky, and so Alan was one of the
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  Speaker 1: few people at the company who really understood what made
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  Speaker 1: it work and what would cause issues, and so he
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  Speaker 1: was very valuable at the company. That day, Alan knew
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  Speaker 1: one of the circuit boards for one of these molding
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  Speaker 1: rooms had shorted out, and so the leadership had decided
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  Speaker 1: to shut down that particular molding room while the circuit
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  Speaker 1: board was fixed. And so when Alan went down and
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  Speaker 1: began checking out each of these molding rooms, he knew
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  Speaker 1: which one had been shut down, so he knew when
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  Speaker 1: he went in there it was not going to be operational.
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  Speaker 1: But when he went into that particular molding room, he
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  Speaker 1: noticed that it really needed a good clean. When these
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  Speaker 1: kayaks were made inside of the these molding rooms, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times the excess plastic would kind of seep
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  Speaker 1: out of the actual mold and it would get caked
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  Speaker 1: to the walls and it would flake all over the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and so periodically Alan would clean these rooms, and he figured,
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  Speaker 1: right now, with this one shut down, he might as
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  Speaker 1: well clean it, and so Alan grabbed the crowbar and
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  Speaker 1: he headed into this shutdown molding room and he got
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  Speaker 1: to work chipping all this plastic off the walls and
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  Speaker 1: making a big pile on the ground to sweep out
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  Speaker 1: and throw away. But as Alan chipped away at all
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  Speaker 1: the plastic, the doors leading into this molding room shut
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  Speaker 1: and so suddenly Alan was casked into total darkness because
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  Speaker 1: his only life before that had been coming through these doors.
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  Speaker 1: But that was the least of Alan's worries. He knew
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  Speaker 1: that if these doors were shutting, these doors were automatic,
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  Speaker 1: that meant that the circuit board had to have been fixed,
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't know he was in here, and so
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  Speaker 1: now this molding room must be operational, which meant he
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  Speaker 1: only had minutes to get out of this room. And
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  Speaker 1: so Alan ran to the door and with his crobe
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  Speaker 1: he began trying to pry the doors open, but he couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: These are mechanically sealed doors. They do not just open.
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  Speaker 1: You need to press a button to release them. But
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  Speaker 1: Alan's in a total panic. He knows what happens in
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  Speaker 1: this room, and he just can't get the doors open,
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  Speaker 1: and so he began banging on the door with his
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  Speaker 1: crowbar and screaming for anybody out in the factory floor
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  Speaker 1: to please stop this process that's surely starting inside of
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  Speaker 1: this room.
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  Speaker 2: Open these doors, get me out of here.
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  Speaker 1: But it was so loud out on the factory floor
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  Speaker 1: nobody heard him, and so before long Alan must have
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  Speaker 1: looked around and saw the walls inside of this tight
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  Speaker 1: cramp space beginning to glow red. Because this molding room
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  Speaker 1: was actually just an oven, it reached almost six hundred
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  Speaker 1: degrees fahrenheit in about ten minutes, and so Alan is
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  Speaker 1: watching as this oven is restarting and he's sealed inside
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  Speaker 1: of it, and so the walls turned bright red, and
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  Speaker 1: then before long, the crowbar he was using to try
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  Speaker 1: to open the door must have become so hot he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't have held it, and then the ground as well
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  Speaker 1: would have been red hot, and his shoes would have
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  Speaker 1: begun to melt, and then the air temperature inside would
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  Speaker 1: have gotten so unbelievably hot he couldn't have breathed, and so,
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  Speaker 1: screaming in pain and pounding on the door, leaving his
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  Speaker 1: skin on the door every time he hit it, Alan
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  Speaker 1: eventually just collapsed to the ground in unimaginable pain, as
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  Speaker 1: he cooked alive. Finally, when Alan caught on fire and
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  Speaker 1: black smoke began coming off of his body and pouring
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  Speaker 1: out onto the factory floor, the factory realized there's a
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  Speaker 1: problem with this molding room, so they turned it off.
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  Speaker 1: They opened it up, and they discovered Alan. It would
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  Speaker 1: turn out. After Mark and Alan had chatted about Christmas
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  Speaker 1: in the break room and then parted and gone their
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  Speaker 1: own ways. Alan had gone down to the factory floor
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  Speaker 1: and inside of that molding room, and his future son
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  Speaker 1: in law Mark had gone up to the control room,
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  Speaker 1: where he would have no visibility of the factory floor.
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  Speaker 1: All he had was this big switchboard full of lights
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  Speaker 1: and switches and gages that controlled all of the molding rooms.
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  Speaker 1: And not long after he got up there and was
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  Speaker 1: looking at the control panel, he saw a blinking light
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  Speaker 1: come on, and it was for the molding room that
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  Speaker 1: Alan was working inside of, and that blinking light meant
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  Speaker 1: someone had fixed the circuit board, and so that molding
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  Speaker 1: room now had power, and so reflexively Mark just turned
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  Speaker 1: it on. And when he did that, the molding room
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  Speaker 1: began its restart process, which included sealing its doors and
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  Speaker 1: turning on the oven and inside of that molding room.
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  Speaker 2: There were no safety escapes.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, there was really no safety precautions at all
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  Speaker 1: with regards to these ovens, and so as soon as
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  Speaker 1: Mark flipped that switch, he had killed his future father
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  Speaker 1: in law. Five years later, the Kayak Molding company was
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  Speaker 1: convicted of corporate manslaughter and fined two hundred thousand pounds. Also,
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  Speaker 1: the man who actually designed these molding rooms with no
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  Speaker 1: safety precautions in mind, no emergency exits, nothing, he was
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  Speaker 1: fined twenty five thousand pounds and sentenced.
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  Speaker 2: To jail for nine months.
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  Speaker 1: On the evening of October twenty eighth, two thousand and six,
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  Speaker 1: in a Florida city called Port Ritchie, a thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: year old woman named Marisa Weber walked in the front
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  Speaker 1: door of her.
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  Speaker 2: Home and called out a greeting to her mom.
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  Speaker 1: Her mom didn't call back, but Marisa could hear her
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  Speaker 1: in the kitchen making dinner, and so Marisa walked over
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  Speaker 1: to say hello. But Marisa only got about two feet
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  Speaker 1: into the family's very cramped living room when one of
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  Speaker 1: their many cats came bombing into the room and nearly
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  Speaker 1: knocked Marisa over as it ran past her and ran
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  Speaker 1: up to the side of the wall and just stopped
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  Speaker 1: and stared at the baseboard of the wall like there
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  Speaker 1: was something there. Marisa was totally annoyed by this cat,
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  Speaker 1: and as she looked over at it, she knew what
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  Speaker 1: it was doing, because lately Marisa had noticed there were
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  Speaker 1: clearly rats in her family's home, kind of scurrying around in.
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  Speaker 2: The ceilings, in the walls.
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  Speaker 1: Marissa could hear them all the time, and one of
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  Speaker 1: their cats was now clearly hunting one of these rats,
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  Speaker 1: and this totally stressed Marisa out. She'd actually begun taking
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  Speaker 1: anti anxiety and antidepressant medication largely because of this rat infestation,
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  Speaker 1: and really just the fact that Marisa hated living at
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  Speaker 1: her parents' home, but she didn't really have the means
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  Speaker 1: to go out and live in her own place, which
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  Speaker 1: she knew would solve the problem, and so she was
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  Speaker 1: just kind of stuck here. And so Marisa turned away
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  Speaker 1: from the cat and likely the rat behind the wall,
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  Speaker 1: and she made her way through the tight little living
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  Speaker 1: room into the kitchen, and she gave her mom a
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  Speaker 1: quick hug, and she saw her dad was also in
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  Speaker 1: the room as well, and he said hello to her,
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  Speaker 1: and then Marisa's mom offered her some food, but Marisa said,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not hungry, thank you, I'm just tired.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go to bed. And so Marissa again gave.
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  Speaker 1: Her mama hug, she said good night to her dad,
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  Speaker 1: and then she turned, walked up the stairs and made
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  Speaker 1: her way to her bedroom.
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  Speaker 2: She went inside and shut the door.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, Marisa's parents got up and they began
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  Speaker 1: making breakfast and getting ready for the day, but Marisa
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  Speaker 1: did not come downstairs, and so the parents assumed she
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  Speaker 1: must have left early for her job. Marisa was a
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  Speaker 1: secretary at a waste disposal company, and so the parents
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  Speaker 1: just had their breakfast and they too went out for
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  Speaker 1: their jobs. And then in the evening when the parents
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  Speaker 1: were back home, Marisa did not come home at the
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  Speaker 1: time she normally would after work. But the parents were
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  Speaker 1: not actually that concerned right then because they figured, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe she left early and she came home from work early,
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  Speaker 1: and so we just kind of missed her on both ends,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why her door to her bedroom is shut.
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  Speaker 1: She's just come home early, and she's in there and
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  Speaker 1: she wants to be left alone. After all, she's a
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven year old woman. She probably wants her space.
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  Speaker 1: But later that night, when still the parents had not
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  Speaker 1: even heard their daughter moving around up there, the mother
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  Speaker 1: went upstairs and knocked on Maurice's bedroom door, but there
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  Speaker 1: was no answer, and so finally Marisa's mom opened the
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  Speaker 1: door and the room was totally empty. Now at this
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  Speaker 1: point the parents did start to get concerned because they're thinking, Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't see her this.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, we haven't seen her now, we don't know where
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  Speaker 2: she is.
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  Speaker 1: But again, their daughter is thirty seven years old, and
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  Speaker 1: if she wanted to go do something out of the
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  Speaker 1: house by herself and not tell.
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  Speaker 2: Anyone, she was kind of entitled to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And so the parents ultimately decided that they would just
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  Speaker 1: let this go for now, and in the morning they
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  Speaker 1: were sure to see her. But the next morning, the
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  Speaker 1: parents still had not heard from Marisa. She had not
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  Speaker 1: come home, and now they were officially starting to panic.
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  Speaker 1: In particular, the mother was worried that Marisa might have
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  Speaker 1: been kidnapped or something going to or coming back from work,
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  Speaker 1: because Marisa was only five foot three inches tall and
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  Speaker 1: maybe one hundred pounds, so she was really small, and
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  Speaker 1: so Marisa's mom called her other daughter, Gina, in a
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  Speaker 1: total panic, saying, you know, your sister she's missing.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know where she is.
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  Speaker 1: She might have gotten kidnapped, you know, come over and
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  Speaker 1: help us figure out what's going on. And so Gina
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  Speaker 1: came over to the house and when she came inside,
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  Speaker 1: she told her parents, you know, let's stay calm here. Marisa,
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  Speaker 1: she's thirty seven, I'm sure she's fine. Let's search the
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  Speaker 1: house and see if there's some note or something from
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  Speaker 1: Marisa explaining where she is and what she's doing. And
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  Speaker 1: so the family searched the whole house, starting with Marisa's room,
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  Speaker 1: but they couldn't find anything that gave them any clues
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  Speaker 1: about what happened to Marisa. But they did eventually find
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  Speaker 1: Marisa's purse that was still in her room, and when
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  Speaker 1: they opened it up, they saw her wallet was still inside.
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  Speaker 1: And so that sent up a huge red flag for
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  Speaker 1: the family. You know, they're thinking, why would Marisa go
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  Speaker 1: anywhere for an extended period of time without her wallet.
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  Speaker 2: That made no sense.
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  Speaker 1: And so at this point the family did call the
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  Speaker 1: police and they reported Marisa missing, but the police got
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  Speaker 1: nowhere on the case, and so on November ninth, so
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  Speaker 1: twelve days after Marisa had said good night to her parents,
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  Speaker 1: gone up to her room and then vanished. The family
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  Speaker 1: was at a total loss for what to do. But Gina,
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  Speaker 1: Marisa's sister, had begun to think to herself, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's possible that Marisa, who was not doing well mentally,
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  Speaker 1: you know, she was very unhappy. She was totally stressed
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  Speaker 1: out about this rat infestation, which really highlighted the fact
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  Speaker 1: that she was stuck at home with her parents at
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven years old. You know, Gina's thinking that it
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  Speaker 1: was totally possible that Marisa had just abruptly run away,
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  Speaker 1: or worse, maybe she had harmed herself. And so on
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  Speaker 1: November ninth, Gina decided she would take one more pass
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  Speaker 1: through the family home and just see if she could
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  Speaker 1: find any little indication that would give away what was
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  Speaker 1: going through Marisa's mind before she vanished. And where Gina
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  Speaker 1: started was in Marisa's room. And so Gina she went upstairs,
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  Speaker 1: down the hall, she opened up her sister's bedroom and
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  Speaker 1: she walked inside and you got to picture this space.
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  Speaker 1: It was totally cluttered, almost like.
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  Speaker 2: A hoarder's space.
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  Speaker 1: There were piles of clothes that were taller than a
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  Speaker 1: human person. I mean, this room is totally packed with stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But Gina, she took her time kind of walking through
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  Speaker 1: the room, looking everywhere, kind of sifting through all the
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  Speaker 1: piles of junkin clothes and everything in the room, and
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  Speaker 1: she couldn't find anything.
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  Speaker 2: But then at some point her attention was drawn to her.
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  Speaker 1: Sister's bookshelf and she looked over at it, and she
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  Speaker 1: thought she saw something odd right in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the shelf. Now, Gina had a flashlight with her, and
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  Speaker 1: even though the light was on in the room, she
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  Speaker 1: still lifted up the flashlight and turned it on and
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  Speaker 1: shined it at this thing in the middle of the bookcase,
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  Speaker 1: and when she saw it, she screamed. Based on Gina's discovery,
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  Speaker 1: here is what happened to Marisa Webber on October two,
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighth, two thousand and six, the night she disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: That night, Marisa had come home. She saw her mom
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  Speaker 1: and dad in the kitchen. She was offered food.
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  Speaker 2: She turned it down and said, I'm tired, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to bed. She went upstairs.
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  Speaker 1: She went into her room, closed the door, and sat
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  Speaker 1: down on her bed. Then Marisa grabbed a pill bottle
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  Speaker 1: next to her bed, which contained morphine and codeine, which
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  Speaker 1: are two very powerful painkillers. They're opiates so highly addictive.
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  Speaker 1: She popped a few of o's and then she rolled
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  Speaker 1: a marijuana joint and smoked that, and then she grabbed
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  Speaker 1: the TV remote and sat back on her bed, getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to zone out. But when she tried to turn
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  Speaker 1: on the TV, which was sitting on this bureau on
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the room, it didn't turn on,
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  Speaker 1: and right away Marissa knew that the TV likely had
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  Speaker 1: become unplugged. This was something that happened periodically. The room
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  Speaker 1: was so packed with stuff that sometimes when Marissa was
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  Speaker 1: just navigating through her room, the stuff would bump into
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  Speaker 1: the bureau and that would in turn jostle loose the
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  Speaker 1: plug from the TV. But the TV was actually not
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  Speaker 1: plugged in right behind where.
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  Speaker 2: This bureau was.
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  Speaker 1: The TV was sitting on the bureau, but the plug
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  Speaker 1: ran down and kind of to the side of the bureau,
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  Speaker 1: behind this huge bookcase that was pressed right up against
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  Speaker 1: the bureau. But this bookcase was so.
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  Speaker 2: Loaded down with books and things that.
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  Speaker 1: Marissa had collected over the years that not only could
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  Speaker 1: you not really reach through the bookcase, to the wall,
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  Speaker 1: but it was too heavy.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't move the bookcase, and.
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  Speaker 1: So the only way to access this plug from the
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  Speaker 1: TV was to climb on top of the bureau where
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  Speaker 1: the TV was and kind of reach back and grab
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  Speaker 1: the plug behind the bookcase and plug it back in.
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  Speaker 1: And so Marissa, who was likely beginning to feel the
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  Speaker 1: effects of all the drugs she had taken, climbed on
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  Speaker 1: top of this bureau and she reached back behind the
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  Speaker 1: six foot tall bookcase, and she began trying to grab
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  Speaker 1: the plug.
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  Speaker 2: But it was just out of reach, and so.
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  Speaker 1: She leaned farther and farther and farther until she finally
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  Speaker 1: grabbed the plug. But when she managed to plug it
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  Speaker 1: back into the wall, she slipped forward and fell headfirst
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  Speaker 1: into this tiny space behind the the bookshelf and the wall,
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  Speaker 1: and she got pinned upside down. Now we don't know
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  Speaker 1: why Marisa didn't begin calling out for help.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps she was.
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  Speaker 1: So under the influence of these drugs that she couldn't
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  Speaker 1: really process the situation and didn't know what she should do,
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe she was embarrassed about the fact that she
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  Speaker 1: had somehow gotten trapped upside down behind her bookcase. But
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  Speaker 1: either way, she didn't call out for help right away.
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  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, what happens when a human body is trapped
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  Speaker 1: upside down long enough is all the blood rushes to
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  Speaker 1: the upper part of your body. It causes your eyes
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  Speaker 1: eventually to pop out of your head. It feels like
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  Speaker 1: your head's gonna explode. But the real problem is all
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  Speaker 1: that blood pulls around your lungs and restricts your lungs
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: and makes it really hard to breathe. And critically, if
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: you can't take a big breath in, you can't project
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: your voice loud enough to call out for help, and
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: so Marisa did not call out for help during those
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: first critical few moments she was trapped behind the bookcase,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: and then when she realized she absolutely couldn't move, she
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  Speaker 1: didn't have the lung capacity to call out for help,
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  Speaker 1: and so likely for one or maybe even two days,
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  Speaker 1: Marisa remained upside down behind this bookshelf and likely was
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  Speaker 1: aware of her family coming in and out of her
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  Speaker 1: bedroom looking for her, but she was not able to vocalize,
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  Speaker 1: She could not get their attention, and so eventually she died.
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  Speaker 1: Marisa's family would say when they were looking for Marisa
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  Speaker 1: in her bedroom while she was dying behind the bookcase.
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  Speaker 1: They said they did hear sounds, but it sounded like
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: the rats that were running all over their house, and
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: so they didn't know it was actually likely Marisa moving
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  Speaker 1: around behind the bookcase trying to get their attention because
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  Speaker 1: you can't use her voice. And then after Marisa died,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: her family did continue to go back into her room
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: to look for her, and they began to smell something funny,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: which was Marisa decomposing, but the family didn't know that,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: and they chalked it up to the fact that the
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: room was really messy and again, there are rats in
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: this house. I mean, this was not a clean space,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: and so they kind of thought, Okay, you know, the
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: smell can't be anything serious.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: It was until November ninth when Marisa's.
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  Speaker 1: Sister, Gina, was back in Marisa's bedroom and she looked
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: over at the bookcase and she saw something strange. What
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: she saw was her sister's foot right behind the bookcase.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Gina couldn't really process it, so she got her flashlight out,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: she shined it on the foot, and when she scanned
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: from the foot down she realized it was her sister.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: On the night of May twenty ninth, two thousand and seven,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: a twenty nine year old man named Romy Buligula sang
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: to himself as he and a big group of his
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: friends wandered into a karaoke bar in the city of
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: San Mateo in the Philippines. Life had not been easy
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: lately for Romy, but tonight he was feeling good. He
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: and his buddies had begun drinking alcohol about an hour earlier,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: and so he already had a nice buzz as he
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: walked into this bar. He had a brand new shirt on,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: and for the first time in weeks, Romy actually had
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: money in his pocket. Romy had lost his job a
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: couple of months earlier, and since then he had not
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: been able to find new employment, and so this city
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: he was living in, San Matteo, even though it was
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: one of the wealthiest places in all of the Philippines,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: it was also known as a place that had lots
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: of poverty and really no safety net for people that
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: fall on hard times. And so if you lose your
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: job like Romy had, you could find yourself out on
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: the streets really quickly, looking for scrap metal to sell
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: and dumpster diving just to find your next meal. And
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: that's exactly what Romy had been doing for the better
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: part of the last two months. He had been living
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: out on the streets, but just a day earlier, he
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: had discovered this stash of very valuable scrap metal and
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: he had sold it that day for a nice profit,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and with that money he had bought a nice, big dinner,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: a brand new shirt, and tonight he had bought a
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: night out.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: And the best.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Kind of night out for Romy was going to a
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: karaoke bar because Romy loved to sing, and his friends
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: did too, but Romy sang basically all the time.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Whether he was full time employed, making lots.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Of money, enjoying life, or if he was in a
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: dumpster looking for food to eat, Romy would be singing.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Romy was not the best singer, certainly not compared to
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: some of his friends who were excellent singers, but he
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: felt like the more he sang, the better he got,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and he was kind of proud that he felt like
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: he was progressing and becoming a better and better singer.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: And Romy's favorite songs to sing were these big ballads.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: He just loved to close his eyes and let the
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: words of the story.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Kind of take him away. It really was his escape.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: It was like no matter how bad his life got,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: he could always sing and that would make him feel better.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Once Romy and his friends went inside the karaoke bar,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: they made their way across the very crowded space to
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: the far side of the bar. They found two unoccupied tables.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: They pushed them together. They all sat.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Down, and then they ordered a round of beers.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: And then after the beers came, the friends all did
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: a toast to their wonderful.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Night out they were having.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: And then one by one, each of Romy's friends began
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: getting up and making their way over to the karaoke
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: machine and began and going through all the music and
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: deciding which songs they were going to sing that night.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: One of Romy's friends chose an American country song.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Another one of his friends chose a pop song from
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties about unrequited love. But regardless of the
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: songs that any of Romy's friends chose, when they began
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: getting up there and singing their song, it was like
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the karaoke bar came alive. People in the Philippines love karaoke.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: It's really a part of the culture. In fact, many
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: people in the Philippines have a karaoke machine of their
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: own in their house. And so what that means is
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: in karaoke bars like the one Romy was at, the
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: crowd is both really appreciative of good singers who go
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: up there and do karaoke really well, and everyone will
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: get up and cheer and dance along.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: And then also if.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: There are bad karaoke singers, the crowd is just as
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: quick to begin jeering and booing at them and getting
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: them to stop. And Romy knew that when he went
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: up on stage that night, he was taking a bit
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: of a risk, because when he went up and identified
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the song that he was going to sing, he knew
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: it was a questionable choice, but he was confident in
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: his abilities.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: He had been singing and practicing.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: He really felt like he was ready to nail this
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: really challenging song and the crowd was going to love
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: him for it. As Romy sat at the table watching
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: one of his friends perform a fast paced song about
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: a race car, the bar's bouncer, a forty three year
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: old man named Robolito Ortega, came over to Romy's table
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: with a big grin on his face. Robollito didn't recognize
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Romy or his friends. They were new at this bar,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: and so Robalito wanted to introduce himself and get to
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: know these people, one because Robollito was a big karaoke enthusiast,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: just like everybody else was. And two, Robollito felt like
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: it was easier to keep the peace in this bar
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: when everybody knew him and he knew everybody. And so
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Romy and his friends they chatted happily with Roboalito. And
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: then after Romy's friend, who was singing the song about
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the race car, wrapped up and came down off the stage,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Robalito gave him a nice congratulatory pat on the back
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: and told the friend he did a great job up there.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Then the friend, in turn turned around and flagged down
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the bartender at the other side of the bar and
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: kind of gestured, hey, we want another round of drinks.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: And the friend also made it clear that he wanted
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: to give a drink to the bouncer as well as
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: like a thank you to the bouncer for giving him
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the compliment, and the bouncer said thank you very much,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: And then before long the beers arrived, and Romy and
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: his friends and a bouncer they all cheersed and toasted
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the night and enjoyed their drinks together, and then just
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: a couple of minutes later, it was Romy's turn to
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: take the stage, and so he got up and as
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: confidently as he could, kind of jogged up onto the stage,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: and he took the microphone, and he looked out at
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the crowd.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: And everybody's having a great time.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: It seemed like the mood was really positive, and Romy
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: really felt like again, even though this song was a
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: questionable song choice, that this crowd was going to love
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: it and that he was.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Going to do a wonderful job.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: But when the song began to play in the background,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Romy noticed that right away the mood in the bar
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: completely shifted. It went from loud, happy and talkative to
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: almost silent as everybody in the bar turned and looked
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: up at the person who had chosen this song. But
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Romy had anticipated this, and he knew as soon as
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: he actually began singing this song that he could win
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: them over. He was gonna nail this song. And sure enough,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Romy began to sing, and right away it was like
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the mood began.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: To kind of return to what it was.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: People in the audience could tell that Romy was doing
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: a good job, and so about a third of the
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: way into his song, Romy noticed that the bar was
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: basically back to normal. He even looked over and saw
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: the bouncer, who was still standing with his friends over
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: at the table, had raised his beer kind of saying,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: keep it up, you're doing great. And when Romy saw
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the bouncer really getting into it, Romy had the surge
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: of adrenaline, and suddenly he felt so confident that he
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: really leaned into the song, and so he began dancing
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: on stage and really belting.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Out each of the lines of the song. But at
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: some point in the.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Song, there's this moment where the singer really needs to
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: hit a high note, and when Romy very confidently attempted
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: to hit this high note, his voice cracked, and it
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: was a really loud, like obvious cracking of his voice,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: and it kind of threw Romi off rhythm and he
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: couldn't really get back on rhythm. And so right away
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the audience reacted by going quiet again and looking angrily
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: up at Romy, like, we knew you were going to
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: screw this up. This was a bad choice. And Romy
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: actually looked over and saw the bouncer, and now the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: bouncer had his beer down and he's glaring angrily at
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Romy like what are you doing? But Romy, even though
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: he was kind of faltering here, he did his best
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: to kind of regain his composure because he knew he had.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Practiced this song so many times. He knew he.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Could do it, and he tried so hard to get
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: back on track, but he just couldn't do it. And
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: it was around this point that he looked back at
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Robollito the bouncer, and all he would have seen is
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Robolito angrily belting out the words of this song, almost
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: like he was trying to override how badly Romy was
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: singing it. And then at some point, as Rome is
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: staring at Roboto, Robolito while singing this song, pulls out
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: a gun, aims it at Romi and fires. In the Philippines,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: there is one song that everybody knows you do not sing.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: In fact, this song is often banned in most karaoke bars,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: and then even when it's not banned, nobody sings it.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: And the reason this song is so forbidden is because
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety eight, people have begun being murdered for
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: singing it, reasons unknown, but it just keeps on happening.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety eight, twelve people have been murdered, either
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: while they were singing this song for karaoke or immediately
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: after it. The forbidden song is called My Way by
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra, and that was the song that Romy chose. Now,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: no one really understands why this song somehow elicits all
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: this violence in people in karaoke bars in the Philippines,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: but it does. Some have said that the message of
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: the song, which is about a man being a man
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: and doing it his way, kind of brings out a
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: lot of masculine energy amongst people that are listening to it,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: and it can apparently prompt people to just suddenly start
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: acting violent.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: But that's just a theory.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: No one really understands why this song just keeps leading
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: to murders. But on May twenty ninth, two thousand and seven,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: when Romy sang this song, Robolito, the bouncer who liked
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Romy and liked his friends and was having a nice
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: drink with them, he just couldn't handle it when the
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: song was getting butchered, and he hated the song to
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: begin with. And in fact, ironically, Robollito had been hired
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: by that karaoke bar specifically to keep the peace if
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: this song were to come on. But as he listened
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: to this song, something happened inside of him and he
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: pulled his gun and shot and killed romy.
• 26:51
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