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The Gym Reaper · 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

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  By all accounts, Tom Coleman lived a pretty normal life. He'd been married
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  to his wife, Linda for more than a decade, and the pair were
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  raising their kids together in a small town just outside of New York. Tom
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  worked as a physical therapy supervisor, and as he got older, his life
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  had settled into a comfortable routine. He hit the gym every morning like clockwork.
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  He spent time with his family and friends, and in November twenty eleven,
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  it was no different. After spending time off work and relaxing with his
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  family and watching football, Tom woke up early the morning of November twenty ninth,
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  twenty eleven, and began his usual routine. He headed to Planet Fitness
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  to get a workout done before his day began, but this time he didn't
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  make it to work. A no call, no show was totally out of
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  character for the very reliable Tom, so Linda was immediately worried about her husband.
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  She drove straight to the last place that Tom had been and found his
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  car still in the parking lot of Planet Fitness. For a moment, Linda
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  was relieved when she spotted Tom still behind the wheel, but when she got
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  a closer look, she realized that something had gone terribly wrong. Tom was
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  freezing cold when Linda touched his hand, and his nails and lips had turned
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  blue. Linda realized that he wasn't breathing and called nine one one for an
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  ambulance, but it was too late. At the age of forty four,
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  Tom Coleman had suddenly died. A toxicology report was run on Tom's body and
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  it revealed something strange. There was a drug called medazoleum in his system.
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  In BT dubs, I may be saying that wrong. Medazoleum is a sedative
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  which can be fatal in high doses, but the levels in Tom's blood were
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  not high enough to be fatal. However, Tom did have sleep apne and
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  disorder, which might have made him more sensitive to the effects of the drug.
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  Regardless of whether medazoleum killed Tom, the question remained. Tom wasn't being
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  prescribed any sedatives, so where had he gotten the medazoleum and why was he
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  taking it in the first place. There was another strange factor in the way
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  that Tom's body was found. His belt had been undone, his seat was
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  reclined and his shirt was pulled up zipper down, as if he had been
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  having some type of sexual encounter. In the car, The DNA of an
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  unknown male was discovered on the inside of his undone belt. Had Tom been
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  meeting someone at Planet Fitness, maybe even cheating on his wife? Investigators were
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  suspicious, so they pulled the CCTV footage from Planet Fitness. The footage showed
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  Tom pulling into the parking lot at his usual four thirty am, next to
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  another car, a white SUV with an unusual fault in its fog lights.
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  One of the lights hit the ground much more closely than the other. The
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  SUV pulled next to Tom's car and remained there for almost half an hour,
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  but the footage did not capture whether either of the vehicles opened or closed their
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  doors. You couldn't really see it. After twenty eight minutes, the SUV
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  pulled away. Tom's car remained in the parking lot. The strange pattern of
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  the SUV's fog lights matched one car in particular, Doctor Gilberto Nunez his white
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  Nissan Pathfinder, which had a fault in its mounting that caused one of its
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  lights to dip down. Doctor Nuniez was a friend of both Tom and Linda
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  and worked as a dentist nearby. Talking to doctor Nuniez quickly made investigators realize
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  that Tom and Linda's lives weren't all they seemed to be. Gilberto wasn't just
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  a close friend of Tom's, he was also close with Linda, very close
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  under Tom's nose. Gilberto and Linda were having an affair, which had continued
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  for almost a year before Tom's death. However, it seemed that the affair
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  fizzled out for Linda. She decided that she wanted to work on her marriage
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  with Tom instead of leaving him for Gilberto. Meanwhile, Gilberto did not share
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  those same feelings. He'd even bought an engagement ring for Linda in the hope
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  that they could start a life together. Strangely, Tom had found out that
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  Linda was sleeping with Gilberto, but he didn't get angry or cut the dentist
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  out of their lives. He allowed the affair to continue. Andy kept being
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  friends with Gilberto. Investigators later discovered that Gilberto had actually been the one to
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  tell Tom about the affair. Stranger Still, it seemed that Tom hadn't just
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  remained close with Gilberto. After this revelation, the parrot actually even become closer
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  friends. Originally, Gilberto denied having any Medazzo Lamb in his possession, but
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  it soon turned out that he had a supply of the sedative in his dental
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  office. It was possible that he had taken some of his supply and administered
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  it to Tom secretly. As well as this, investigators discovered that Gilberto was
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  aware of Tom's sleep apnea, and his medical training meant that the dentist was
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  aware of the dangers of a patient with this disorder consuming a sedative like Medazzo
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  Lamb. Also, it's worth mentioning that Tom wasn't the exact picture of health.
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  He weighed two hundred thirty pounds, he had an enlarged heart and enlarged
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  liver, and a history of hypertension, depression, anxiety, migraines, and
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  insomnia. At first, Linda didn't want to believe that Gilberto could have anything
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  to do with Tom's death. He was a trusted family friend, someone that
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  Linda loved. They even celebrated their one month anniversaries of the day their love
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  affairs started. They were the sappy couple that would be like happy four month
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  anniversary, and they probably sat on the same side of the table at restaurants.
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  Unconfirmed, but as the evidence mounted, Linda began to confront the possibility
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  that her lover had been the one to kill Tom. Gilberto refused when asked
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  to take a polygraph, which btw many people look at as a sign of
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  guilt. It could be, but if you, like I have done,
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  delve into the statistics of accuracy and chances of false positive, you wouldn't take
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  one either. There's a reason that they are not admissible in court. No
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  matter the circumstantial evidence, it was not enough to make an arrest, and
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  Gilberto didn't face any charges. In fact, he married three years later after
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  meeting his now wife on a dating site. In the four years that passed
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  since Tom's death, the family had been struggling with a sudden loss. His
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  teenage son, Bradley, committed suicide at the age of eighteen, less than
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  two years after his dad died. While Gilberto was moving on with his life,
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  Tom's family was struggling searching for answers. In October twenty fifteen, it
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  seemed as if they might finally get the answers They needed. Suddenly, Gilberto
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  was arrested and he faced charges for second degree murder. At Gilberto's trial,
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  there was ample evidence showing his obsession with Linda, and one of the emails
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  shown to the courtroom, Gilberto told Linda quote, I'm not gonna let you
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  just walk away from me. Never in his efforts to prevent Linda from ending
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  the affair, Gilberto even told her that he worked for the CIA, sending
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  her a fake government ID as proof. This alone was evidence enough for Gilberto
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  to be charged with forgery, if not Tom's murder. However, the defense
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  had a different argument, insisting that Gilberto wasn't aware that Linda was ending the
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  affair. Besides, he and Tom were close, having texted each other over
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  sixty times in the last few days of Tom's life. Why would Gilberto go
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  as far as killing Tom when their friendship seemed to have survived the affair with
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  Linda. The forensic evidence linking Gilberto to the case was lacking. In fact,
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  there was no forensic evidence at all. None of his fingerprints or DNA
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  were found the scene of the crime, and the unknown male DNA on Tom's
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  belt was not a match to Gilberto. Besides, even if Gilberto had given
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  Tom the sedative, it had not been a guaranteed fatal dose. They couldn't
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  prove that the intent had been to murder Tom, even though Gilberto had been
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  aware of tom sleep apnea, which might have made it more vulnerable to the
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  drug. One key piece of evidence was an email on Tom's phone. It
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  was from a hook up website. He'd received that email at one thirty am
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  before arriving at Planet Fitness. This supported the theory that Tom had been meeting
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  in a fair partner at the gym, but although Tom and Gilberto had been
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  incredibly close, there was no evidence that the email was from Gilberto. The
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  courtroom had to consider that Tom had been meeting a completely unrelated person that morning.
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  The trial dragged on for three weeks, and the ending was unsatisfying for
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  Linda and her family. Doctor Gilberto Nunez was charged with forgery and unrelated insurance
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  fraud, but found not guilty of Tom's murder. Linda angrily left the courtroom
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  after the verdict, calling Gilberto psychotic. Gilberto spent two years in Altuna Correctional
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  Facility, serving less than a third of his potential seven year sentence, before
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  he was given back his freedom. His parole will end in October twenty twenty
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  three. Ultimately, Gilberto lost his license to practice dynastry, but Tom Coleman
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  lost his life. The question of why Tom died and who killed him seems
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  as if it will remain unanswered.