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Top 3 stories that sound fake but are 100% real Part 3 · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today we're
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Speaker 1: going to look at three stories that demonstrate that. But
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Speaker 1: get into today's stories. In October of two thousand and two,
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Speaker 1: Mark and his wife Kathy were on their way to
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Speaker 1: a baby shower in Baltimore, Maryland that was being held
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Speaker 1: for them by Kathy's family. It would be a seven
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Speaker 1: hour drive from their home in Ohio, so Mark and
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Speaker 1: Kathy tried to get out the door as early as possible,
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Speaker 1: but one thing led to another and they got a
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Speaker 1: pretty late start. By midnight, they were only about an
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Speaker 1: hour away from their final destination. But they both desperately
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Speaker 1: needed a bathroom break, and so they pulled into a
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Speaker 1: rest stop in Frederick County, Maryland, which is about an
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Speaker 1: hour outside of Washington, DC. The rest area parking lot
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Speaker 1: was completely vacant except for one car, which was a
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Speaker 1: dark blue, late model four door sedan that was parked
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Speaker 1: head in right in front of the bathroom. Mark and
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Speaker 1: Cathy pulled into a spot that was a few over
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Speaker 1: from the sedan. They got out, they walked up to
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Speaker 1: the restroom. Mark was done first, so he waited outside
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Speaker 1: of the women's restroom for his wife. As he waited,
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Speaker 1: he turned around to face the sedan that, initially, when
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Speaker 1: he first pulled in the lot, he believed was empty.
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Speaker 1: But now as he's looking at it, he can clearly
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Speaker 1: see there are two people in the front two seats,
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Speaker 1: a middle aged man who's sitting behind the steering wheel
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Speaker 1: looking directly at Mark, and then next to this guy
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Speaker 1: is a sleeping teenager. And immediately Mark felt really creeped
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Speaker 1: out by these two guys. I mean, they are in
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Speaker 1: this random rest stop in the middle of the night,
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Speaker 1: they're the only ones there, and this guy is just
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Speaker 1: staring menacingly at Mark, and so Mark's doing his best
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Speaker 1: not to be intimidated and to stand his ground and
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Speaker 1: not act phazed by what's happening right in front of him,
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Speaker 1: But in the back of his mind, he is just
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Speaker 1: praying his wife comes out of that bathroom as soon
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Speaker 1: as possible so they can get the heck out here
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Speaker 1: and away from these two creepy guys. Finally his wife
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Speaker 1: did come out, he grabbed her by the hand, and
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Speaker 1: without any explanation, rushed them back to their car, hopped in,
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Speaker 1: locked the doors, turned it on, and began backing out,
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Speaker 1: And as he did, he looked over at the sedan,
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Speaker 1: and he saw the guy behind the steering wheel. The
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Speaker 1: middle aged guy was looking over at Mark with that
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Speaker 1: same menacing look on his face. Mark also noticed that
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Speaker 1: there was something odd about the sedan's trunk. There was
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Speaker 1: a fist size hole right above the license plate where
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Speaker 1: you would normally put the key inside of So the
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Speaker 1: whole scene was just totally bizarre. And after Mark and
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Speaker 1: Kathy sped out and were back on the highway, Mark
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Speaker 1: explained to Kathy that there were actually two people inside
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Speaker 1: of that sedan and they really creeped him out, and
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Speaker 1: that's why he had grabbed her and rushed them back
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Speaker 1: into the car, and so she agreed that was pretty creepy.
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Speaker 1: But by the time the couple got to the baby
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Speaker 1: shower in Baltimore, they had completely forgotten about their experience
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Speaker 1: at the rest stop. The baby shower went well, and
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Speaker 1: before long, Mark and Cathy were back home in Ohio.
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Speaker 1: About a week later, the couple was watching TV in
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Speaker 1: their home when a breaking news bulletin came across and
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Speaker 1: it showed a reporter who was standing at the exact
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Speaker 1: same rest stop that they had stopped in on the
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Speaker 1: way to Baltimore in Frederick County, Maryland. And behind them
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Speaker 1: was the same late model sedan that they had seen
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Speaker 1: parked at that rest stop when they had pulled in.
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Speaker 1: The headline of this special news bulletin was DC Snipers Caught.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out that middle aged man sitting in
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Speaker 1: the driver's seat of the sedan staring at Mark was
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Speaker 1: none other than John Allen Muhammad, and the guy next
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Speaker 1: to him, the teenager who was sleeping, was Lee Boyd Malvow.
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Speaker 1: These were the two men that were responsible for the
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Speaker 1: highly coordinated three week long attack that left ten people
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Speaker 1: dead in the Washington, DC area. The fifth size hole
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Speaker 1: that Mark saw on the back of their trunk was
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Speaker 1: what they used to shoot through because it allowed them
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Speaker 1: to stay concealed in the trunk while they were shooting.
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Speaker 1: Mohammed and Malvo had been using that particular rest stop
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Speaker 1: in Frederick County as a place to hide out in
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Speaker 1: between their killings. When Mark and Kathy pulled in next
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Speaker 1: to them, they were only halfway through their killing spree.
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Speaker 1: Mark believes the only reason he and his wife were
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Speaker 1: not targeted is because the killers most likely were trying
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Speaker 1: to keep this rest stop off the radar because it
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Speaker 1: was their hiding spot, and so they wouldn't have risked
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Speaker 1: an attacked there, although ironically they would ultimately be caught
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Speaker 1: in that rest stop. Mohammed was executed by lethal injection
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine, and Malvo is serving a
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Speaker 1: life sentence. In nineteen eighty eight, thirty five year old
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Speaker 1: Ivan Maguire was an experienced skydiving instructor with over seven
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Speaker 1: hundred jumps to his name. On April fifth of that year,
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Speaker 1: he was working in North Carolina, and he was tasked
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Speaker 1: with filming other instructors and their students after they jumped
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Speaker 1: out of the plane The way this worked is Ivan
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Speaker 1: would go up in the plane with the instructor and
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Speaker 1: their student, and Ivan would be the first to leap
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Speaker 1: out of the plane. He would roll onto his back
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Speaker 1: and he would film upward towards the plane and he
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Speaker 1: would capture the student and instructor jumping out, and Ivan
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Speaker 1: would continue to film them until they pulled their shootes,
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Speaker 1: at which point he would pull his. Now being nineteen
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Speaker 1: eighty eight, the filming equipment that Ivan was using was
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Speaker 1: much larger and more cumbersome than something you would use today.
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Speaker 1: He had a voice activated camera attached to his helmet
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Speaker 1: and then from there there was a cord going to
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Speaker 1: this big, heavy VHS deck that he kept in a backpack.
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Speaker 1: But despite the nuisance of the equipment, Ivan went up
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Speaker 1: with the first student and instructor and successfully filmed their jump.
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Speaker 1: When he got back on the ground, Ivan went over
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Speaker 1: to the riggers and he gave them his parachutes they
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Speaker 1: could packet for him, and then Ivan went over to
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Speaker 1: a bench and began fiddling with his camera equipment. It
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Speaker 1: was clear he was frustrated with the way it was
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Speaker 1: set up and he was making all sorts of adjustments.
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Speaker 1: When it was time for Ivan's second jump of the
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Speaker 1: day with a new instructor and new student, he was
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Speaker 1: so preoccupied with fiddling with his camera that he forgot
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Speaker 1: to grab his parachute, and so he ran over to
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Speaker 1: the plane and he's about to get on and they say, hey, Ivan,
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Speaker 1: you're not wearing a parachute. And he goes, oh, my goodness,
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Speaker 1: you're right. He runs back over, he gets his parachute,
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Speaker 1: he loads back in the place, he goes up to altitude,
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Speaker 1: and then he jumps out. He films the instructor and student.
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Speaker 1: It all goes great. He makes it to the ground
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Speaker 1: and his second jump is a success, and just like
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Speaker 1: after the first jump of the day, Ivan takes off
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Speaker 1: his parachute. He gives it to the riggers and then
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Speaker 1: he goes and sits down on a bench and continues
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Speaker 1: to fidget and fiddle around with his camera equipment. When
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Speaker 1: it was time for Ivan's third jump of the day
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Speaker 1: with yet another new instructor and student, this time, he
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Speaker 1: grabbed his parachute, put all of his gear on, ran
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Speaker 1: over to the plane, hopped on board, and he took off.
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Speaker 1: Once they got up to their jumping altitude, which was
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Speaker 1: ten five hundred feet, Ivan turned on his camera and
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Speaker 1: the footage shows the instructor and the student kind of
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Speaker 1: getting their gear together sitting across from him in the plane.
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Speaker 1: The jump master, towards the front of the plane slides
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Speaker 1: open the side door. Ivan, who's going to be the
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Speaker 1: first one out, makes his way to the edge. He
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Speaker 1: turns himself upside down so he's sitting basically with his
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Speaker 1: back outside of the plane. He makes sure the instructor
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Speaker 1: and student are right on top of him ready to
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Speaker 1: jump out right afterwards. Once they're ready, Ivan falls out
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Speaker 1: backwards and continues to film. You see the instructor and
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Speaker 1: student jump out right afterwards. Ivan continues to film them
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Speaker 1: as they go down. They're in free fall for a
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Speaker 1: few seconds, and then you see the instructor and student
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Speaker 1: pull their parachutes, at which time Ivan reaches back to
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Speaker 1: pull his own, but he can't find it. For a
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Speaker 1: few seconds, he flails and you can see his hands
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Speaker 1: coming out in front of the camera and he's trying
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Speaker 1: to reach for his ripcord, and then he realizes what's happened.
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Speaker 1: That parachute he grabbed before he loaded up in the
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Speaker 1: plane was not a parachute. He grabbed his heavy backpack
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Speaker 1: that had that big VHS deck in it, and when
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Speaker 1: he put it on, he mistook it for the parachute,
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Speaker 1: and so now falling at terminal velocity with no way
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Speaker 1: to stop himself, he begins yelling out, oh no, oh,
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Speaker 1: God no, and he keeps reaching back as if he's
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Speaker 1: just going to find this cord, but there's nothing there,
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Speaker 1: and after a few agonizing seconds, you see the ground
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Speaker 1: getting closer and closer and closer, and then it cuts out.
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Speaker 1: Ivan's body was later found about a mile and a
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Speaker 1: half outside of the drop zone in the woods. His
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Speaker 1: camera and videotape were severely damaged, but they were able
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Speaker 1: to splice it together, and that's why we know what
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Speaker 1: happened in his final moments. An investigation into his showed
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Speaker 1: the pilot made the same mistake Ivan did when he
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Speaker 1: saw Ivan with that backpack on, he assumed it was
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Speaker 1: a parachute, and so ultimately Ivan's death was ruled an accident.
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Speaker 1: Fair warning, if you look into this case, you will
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Speaker 1: almost certainly come across the actual footage of Ivan's final jump.
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Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty, Bobby Schaffrin was on his way up
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Speaker 1: to Sullivan County Community College, which was two hours outside
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Speaker 1: of New York City to begin his freshman year. Even
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Speaker 1: though he was from the area, he didn't know anybody
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Speaker 1: that was going to this particular school, and so he
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Speaker 1: was pretty nervous about it. Plus, he wasn't that popular
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Speaker 1: in high school and he had a hard time making friends.
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Speaker 1: When he pulled into a parking spot at the school,
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Speaker 1: he saw a sea of people getting out of their
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Speaker 1: parents' cars and carrying boxes up to their dorm rooms,
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Speaker 1: and so he took a deep breath, hopped out of
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Speaker 1: his car, grabbed his backpack, and began walking across the
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Speaker 1: lawn towards the dorm building. On his walk over, Bobby
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Speaker 1: was surprised when he felt like all these random strangers
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Speaker 1: on the lawn were looking at him like they knew him,
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Speaker 1: and a couple people yelled out to him and said, hey,
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Speaker 1: it's good to have you back here, and one girl
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Speaker 1: actually ran up to him and kissed him on the
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Speaker 1: cheek and said, oh my gosh, I'm so happy you're back.
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Speaker 1: And Bobby said, I think he got the wrong person.
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Speaker 1: I don't know you, and she laughed and she just
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Speaker 1: ran away. And so Bobby's totally bewildered by this because
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Speaker 1: he doesn't know anybody, but everybody seems to know him,
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Speaker 1: and so he walks up the steps and he goes
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Speaker 1: inside the dorm building and as he's walking down the hall,
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Speaker 1: people are high fiving him and patting him on the back.
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Speaker 1: And then right as he's about to turn the corner
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Speaker 1: towards his actual dorm room, someone down the hall behind
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Speaker 1: him yells out, hey, Eddie, what's going on, man? And
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Speaker 1: Bobby knew whoever it was was yelling at him because
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Speaker 1: this whole situation had been so weird, he felt like
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Speaker 1: this had to be a case of mistaken identity. And
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Speaker 1: so Bobby turned around and he saw at the other
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Speaker 1: end of the hall another student who he didn't know,
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Speaker 1: clearly waving at him and yelling out, hey, Eddie, come here,
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Speaker 1: what's going on man? And so Bobby walks up to
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Speaker 1: him and says, hey, I'm not Eddie. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what's going on, but everybody thinks I'm somebody that i'm not.
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Speaker 1: But I'm not Eddie. Who's Eddie? And the guy said, yeah, okay, Eddie,
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Speaker 1: it's good to have you back here, man, and then
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Speaker 1: walked off, And so Bobby's like, what is going on? Here.
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Speaker 1: So Bobby turns and he goes back up to his
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Speaker 1: dorm room and he goes inside and he just shuts
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Speaker 1: the door, and he's thinking, I'm just want to be
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Speaker 1: left alone for a second, because this is just this
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Speaker 1: is not right. This is not how a freshman who
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Speaker 1: doesn't know anyone gets welcomed at any school or any
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Speaker 1: place in the world. This is totally unusual. And just
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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes after being inside of his dorm room,
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Speaker 1: he hears a knock on the door and Bobby said,
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Speaker 1: oh great, who is it now? Who is it that
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Speaker 1: thinks I'm someone I'm not. So he opens the door
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Speaker 1: and there's another student who he doesn't know who's standing there.
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Speaker 1: And this guy his face just drains of color and
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Speaker 1: he starts shaking when he sees Bobby, and they're both
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Speaker 1: looking at each other like what's going on here? And
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Speaker 1: the student says to Bobby, were you adopted? And Bobby
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Speaker 1: said yeah. And then the student said is your birthday
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Speaker 1: July twelfth? And Bobby said yeah. And so the student goes, Okay,
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Speaker 1: my name is Michael and I am best friends with
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Speaker 1: the guy named Eddie Galland and you are his clone.
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Speaker 1: You have got to be his identical twin. At this point,
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Speaker 1: to Bobby, this almost made sense, but it was so
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Speaker 1: crazy to imagine having some identical twin he didn't know.
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Speaker 1: And so Bobby asked Michael if he could go meet
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Speaker 1: Eddie because he's got to be a student here, and
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Speaker 1: Michael said, well, actually, Eddie decided not to come back
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Speaker 1: to school this year, which is probably why everyone you
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Speaker 1: talked to was so excited to see you, because they
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Speaker 1: love Eddie and they thought you were him, and so
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Speaker 1: they're psyched to have you back. After talking for a
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Speaker 1: couple of minutes, Michael tells Bobby that they have to
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Speaker 1: go call Eddie and they have to set up a
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Speaker 1: meeting so that Bobby can meet Eddie and vice versa.
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Speaker 1: And so Michael and Bobby run outside to a payphone booth.
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Speaker 1: They hop inside. They're crammed in there, and they dial
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Speaker 1: up Eddie, and as soon as Eddie answers, Bobby grabs
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Speaker 1: the phone and just says, hey, Eddie, my name's Bobby,
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Speaker 1: and everybody thinks I'm you, and then Eddie says, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I've been getting a lot of calls about that too.
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Speaker 1: And Bobby would later say that when he first heard
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Speaker 1: Eddie's voice. He said it sounded like his own voice
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Speaker 1: coming through the phone. And so ultimately Eddie invited Bobby
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Speaker 1: and Michael to come to his house so that Eddie
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Speaker 1: and Bobby could see if it really was true that
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Speaker 1: they were twins. And so Michael and Bobby hopped in
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Speaker 1: Bobby's car and they spent two hours to Eddie's house.
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Speaker 1: And when they got there, it was the middle of
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Speaker 1: the night, and Eddie's house is the only house in
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Speaker 1: quiet suburb that has all the lights on. And so
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Speaker 1: Michael and Bobby walk up the path towards the front
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Speaker 1: door of Eddie's house, and right as Bobby is about
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Speaker 1: to knock on the door, it flies open, and standing
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Speaker 1: in front of Bobby is his exact clone. It's Eddie,
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Speaker 1: and Eddie's looking back at Bobby and he can't believe
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Speaker 1: what he's looking at. They are definitely identical twins, and
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Speaker 1: they both immediately saw that. Michael would say, after Bobby
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Speaker 1: and Eddie just stared at each other for about a minute,
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Speaker 1: they just started laughing. It was like they were total strangers,
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Speaker 1: but at the same time they had this connection. Immediately
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Speaker 1: they knew they were related and they were laughing, and
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Speaker 1: they hugged, and they just stared at each other, and
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Speaker 1: Michael said, anytime Bobby would tilt his head, Eddie would
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Speaker 1: mimick it, and vice versa. It was like they were
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Speaker 1: looking into a mirror. Shortly after, this story of these
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Speaker 1: two long lost brothers reconnecting found its way to Newsday,
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Speaker 1: which was a prominent local newspaper in New York, and
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Speaker 1: they decided they would look into it to see if
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Speaker 1: it was really true or not. And so one of
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Speaker 1: the editors had a junior reporter fly out and actually
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Speaker 1: see Bobby and Eddie face to face and see if
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Speaker 1: it was really true that they were in fact identical twins.
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Speaker 1: And as soon as this reporter saw them, they knew
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Speaker 1: immediately that yep, they're related. And so Newsday printed this
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Speaker 1: totally heartwarming fairy tale story about these two long lost
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Speaker 1: brothers reconnected after all these years just because of a
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Speaker 1: chance encounter in college, and everybody loved it. But this
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Speaker 1: is where the story went from amazing to truly unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: Friends of another young man living in the New York
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Speaker 1: area named David Kellman began telling David that he had
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Speaker 1: to check out this Newsday article about these long lost twins,
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Speaker 1: because these two twins look exactly like David. Specifically, they said,
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Speaker 1: you got to look at these guys' hands. They are
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Speaker 1: just like yours, David. David was known for having these
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Speaker 1: enormous hands, and a lot of the pictures of Bobby
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Speaker 1: and Eddie in the news showed their hands, and they
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Speaker 1: too were enormous. And so David finally picked up a
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Speaker 1: newspaper and looked at a picture of Bobby and Eddie,
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Speaker 1: and sure enough, he was shocked they looked exactly like him.
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Speaker 1: And then when he read the article, it showed their
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Speaker 1: birthday was July twelfth, the same as his, and they
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Speaker 1: were born at the same hospital he was born at.
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Speaker 1: And so he's thinking, these are too many coincidences. They
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Speaker 1: have to be my brothers. And so David called Eddie's
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Speaker 1: home phone number, and Eddie's mother picked up and she
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Speaker 1: asked who was calling, and David said, Hi, my name
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Speaker 1: is David Kellman. I was born July twelfth, nineteen sixty one,
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Speaker 1: and I'm looking at a newspaper article of two identical
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Speaker 1: twins that looked just like me, and one of them
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Speaker 1: is your son. I think I'm the missing third twin.
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Speaker 1: After hearing this, Eddie's mom apparently dropped the phone and
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Speaker 1: yelled out, they're coming out of the woodwork. So Eddie
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Speaker 1: and Bobby went to David's house, and as soon as
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Speaker 1: they walked in and saw David, they knew right away
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Speaker 1: he was one of them. He was the third twin,
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Speaker 1: And apparently within minutes of meeting each other, they were
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Speaker 1: wrestling and laughing hysterically on the ground. It was like
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Speaker 1: even though they were strangers, they somehow already knew each
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Speaker 1: other and had an instant connection. David's family members that
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Speaker 1: witnessed this first interaction said it was the most incredible
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Speaker 1: thing they had ever seen, that it was just so
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Speaker 1: wonderful to see these long lost siblings finally reconnected after
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Speaker 1: all these years. Shortly after David realized he was the
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Speaker 1: third missing twin, Newsday did another story talking about how
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Speaker 1: there was actually three missing twins that had all been reconnected,
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Speaker 1: and once again, it was just this incredible Cinderella story.
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Speaker 1: And now this story went all over the world. They
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Speaker 1: were on the cover of every magazine, every newspaper, they
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Speaker 1: were on every talk show, and everybody had the same question,
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Speaker 1: what similarities did they discover? And they would say, well,
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Speaker 1: we all wrestled in junior high school and high school.
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Speaker 1: We all smoked the same cigarettes, we liked the same food,
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Speaker 1: we the same taste in women. And on talk shows
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Speaker 1: when they would answer these questions, it was immediately clear
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Speaker 1: that they all shared the same mannerisms, and on the
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Speaker 1: show they would routinely interrupt each other and finish each
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Speaker 1: other's sentences. It really was like they were the exact
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Speaker 1: same person, despite having been raised completely separate from one another.
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Speaker 1: The boys loved the attention they were getting. They had
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Speaker 1: become international rock stars overnight, and all three of them
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Speaker 1: were immediately so close they were best friends right away.
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Speaker 1: They moved into an apartment together, they went out partying,
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Speaker 1: they met Madonna. It was just this incredible time in
15:56
Speaker 1: their lives, and so they weren't asking questions about why
16:00
Speaker 1: they had been separated in the first place. But their
16:02
Speaker 1: parents were asking a lot of questions because they had
16:04
Speaker 1: not been told by the adoption agency that the boy
16:07
Speaker 1: they were adopting actually had two identical siblings. They had
16:10
Speaker 1: no idea, So the boys adoptive parents reached out to
16:13
Speaker 1: the adoption agency, which was Louise Wy's Services. It's based
16:16
Speaker 1: in New York, very prestigious. Basically, the most powerful and
16:19
Speaker 1: wealthy people in New York use this adoption agency if
16:23
Speaker 1: they're going to adopt. And so the parents reached out
16:26
Speaker 1: to them and asked for a meeting so they could
16:27
Speaker 1: get some answers as to why their kids had been separated.
16:30
Speaker 1: And so the parents go to New York. They go
16:31
Speaker 1: into this meeting room with the top brass of Louise
16:34
Speaker 1: Wise Services and they say, you know, did you separate
16:37
Speaker 1: our sons at birth on purpose? And one of the
16:39
Speaker 1: executives said, yes, we did, because it's really hard to
16:43
Speaker 1: place three children into one home, at which point David's
16:46
Speaker 1: adoptive father lashed out and said, that's absolute bs. If
16:49
Speaker 1: you had told me he had two identical siblings, I
16:52
Speaker 1: would have taken all three. But the agencies stood by
16:54
Speaker 1: their decision and said that's the only reason it happened,
16:57
Speaker 1: and so sorry, that's all we can tell you. And
16:59
Speaker 1: so the parents were very frustrated and felt like there
17:01
Speaker 1: was much more to the story, and in fact, they
17:03
Speaker 1: felt like the agency was actually lying to them about
17:06
Speaker 1: why they had separated their sons in the first place,
17:08
Speaker 1: But they couldn't get any more information. So they left
17:10
Speaker 1: the agency, and right when they got outside, Bobby's father
17:14
Speaker 1: realized he had left his umbrella inside of the meeting room,
17:17
Speaker 1: and so he turned around and went back inside, walked
17:19
Speaker 1: down the hall quietly, so we didn't want to disturb anyone.
17:21
Speaker 1: Then he opened the door to the meeting room and
17:22
Speaker 1: he reached in to get his umbrella, and he looked
17:25
Speaker 1: inside and he saw the people he had just met
17:27
Speaker 1: with from louise Y's Services had just opened a bottle
17:30
Speaker 1: of champagne, and they were laughing and smiling, and they
17:33
Speaker 1: were clearly toasting each other on a job well done.
17:36
Speaker 1: And even though Bobby's father did not go in there
17:38
Speaker 1: and confront them about what they were celebrating, he got
17:41
Speaker 1: the sense that they were celebrating having dodged a bullet
17:43
Speaker 1: that they clearly had just lied to the families of
17:46
Speaker 1: these three triplets and they'd gotten away with it. And
17:48
Speaker 1: so between the parents' general sense that the agency was
17:51
Speaker 1: clearly hiding something and then Bobby discovering this champagne toast
17:55
Speaker 1: as soon as they left, the parents decided they needed
17:57
Speaker 1: to get in touch with some lawyers to help them
17:59
Speaker 1: get to the bottom of why their sons had been separated,
18:02
Speaker 1: and so initially a number of really prestigious law firms
18:05
Speaker 1: in New York were excited to take this case, but
18:08
Speaker 1: shortly after they all contacted the families to say, well,
18:11
Speaker 1: actually there's a conflict and we can't do it anymore.
18:14
Speaker 1: And the parents believe this was because the adoption agency,
18:17
Speaker 1: Luise Wise Services, and some of their more prominent and
18:20
Speaker 1: powerful clients were pressuring the lawyers not to dig into
18:24
Speaker 1: this that clearly there was some secret that they did
18:27
Speaker 1: not want uncovered, and so unfortunately the parents hit a
18:30
Speaker 1: dead end, didn't nowhere else to turn to try to
18:32
Speaker 1: get more information, and so over time they kind of
18:35
Speaker 1: just accepted that this is just the way it is,
18:37
Speaker 1: and as for their sons, they didn't really care that
18:39
Speaker 1: much because the way they looked at it, at least
18:41
Speaker 1: they had each other now, and so over the years
18:43
Speaker 1: the boys continued to stay really close, They started families
18:46
Speaker 1: of their own, and had lots of family get togethers.
18:48
Speaker 1: It was just a really happy time in all of
18:50
Speaker 1: their lives. And at some point the boys actually went
18:53
Speaker 1: into business together and opened their own restaurant in New
18:55
Speaker 1: York called Triplets, and the first year it was extremely successful.
18:59
Speaker 1: Did over million dollars in revenue. But in the second year,
19:02
Speaker 1: the brothers started to fight with each other about how
19:04
Speaker 1: to run the restaurant, and in many ways, this was
19:07
Speaker 1: their first major conflict. They hadn't grown up together, they
19:09
Speaker 1: had never really thought and so now they're fighting over
19:12
Speaker 1: money and how to run the business. And it got
19:14
Speaker 1: really bad, really quick, and they just could not come
19:16
Speaker 1: to any sort of compromise, and so at some point
19:18
Speaker 1: Bobby left the business. He said, I don't want to
19:21
Speaker 1: do this with you guys anymore, and apparently his departure
19:23
Speaker 1: just completely ruined the dynamic of the three brothers. Eddie
19:27
Speaker 1: was the most affected by this fracture in their relationships.
19:30
Speaker 1: All he wanted was for his brothers to be really
19:32
Speaker 1: close and for their families to spend time together, and
19:34
Speaker 1: now all of that was in jeopardy, and so Eddie
19:36
Speaker 1: started showing signs of severe depression and was ultimately hospitalized
19:40
Speaker 1: for three weeks, and then shortly after getting out of
19:42
Speaker 1: the hospital, he took his own life. This was beyond
19:45
Speaker 1: devastating for the two brothers and the rest of their family.
19:48
Speaker 1: Around this time, a journalist named Lawrence Wright, who had
19:50
Speaker 1: always had a fascination with identical twins, found an obscure
19:54
Speaker 1: scientific article called Psychoanalytics Study of the Child. It detailed
19:58
Speaker 1: a New York based study about idea twins that were
20:01
Speaker 1: intentionally separated at birth and then given to different adoptive
20:04
Speaker 1: families to be studied, although it wasn't clear what they
20:07
Speaker 1: were actually studying or why they needed identical twins to
20:10
Speaker 1: do this research. In this article, Lawrence discovered all the
20:13
Speaker 1: babies that had been used in the study came from
20:15
Speaker 1: the same adoption agency, the same one the triplets had
20:18
Speaker 1: come from, the Luise Wise Services in New York, and
20:21
Speaker 1: so Lawrence called Bobby and told him that based on
20:24
Speaker 1: this article, it seems like he and his brothers were
20:27
Speaker 1: used in a scientific study. Bobby and David were totally furious.
20:30
Speaker 1: They felt like they had been treated like lab rats.
20:32
Speaker 1: They also wondered if they're being separated at birth had
20:34
Speaker 1: a negative impact on their mental health, and that that
20:37
Speaker 1: might have contributed to Eddie's depression and untimely death. Lawrence
20:41
Speaker 1: wound up writing an article about this twin study he
20:44
Speaker 1: had discovered, and after he published it, another set of
20:47
Speaker 1: twins found out they had been a part of the study.
20:49
Speaker 1: And discovered themselves. These two women were also struggling with depression,
20:53
Speaker 1: furthering the idea that the study could have led to
20:56
Speaker 1: irreparable harm to their subject's mental well being. At this point,
21:00
Speaker 1: David and Robbie did not expect anybody to be held
21:02
Speaker 1: accountable for this study. Instead, they just hoped to find
21:05
Speaker 1: out why it was done and what they were testing
21:08
Speaker 1: for and what the results were, and so they began
21:10
Speaker 1: working with Lawrence to try to get those answers. They
21:13
Speaker 1: contacted Louise Wise Services, who did admit that yes, actually
21:16
Speaker 1: this was part of a study, but they didn't get
21:18
Speaker 1: any information about what the results were or why they
21:21
Speaker 1: did it. And so they did some digging and they
21:23
Speaker 1: discovered the guy in charge of the actual scientific study
21:26
Speaker 1: was this doctor named Peter Nubauer, who was this very
21:29
Speaker 1: well known psychologist in New York. And so Lawrence managed
21:32
Speaker 1: to get an interview with this doctor. But the doctor
21:35
Speaker 1: basically said, I won't answer any of your questions and
21:37
Speaker 1: I won't give you any information about this study, and
21:39
Speaker 1: he never published his findings. Right before the doctor died
21:42
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight, he made sure the entire
21:45
Speaker 1: study was put under seal inside of the Yale University Archives,
21:49
Speaker 1: so no one could access it until twenty sixty six,
21:53
Speaker 1: which has led many people to believe that the reason
21:55
Speaker 1: he said it so far out was to guarantee all
21:58
Speaker 1: of these subjects in this study would have died by
22:01
Speaker 1: the time it was made publicly available, protecting his own
22:04
Speaker 1: legacy and the people that were involved in this study.
22:06
Speaker 1: In the recent documentary called Three Identical Strangers, doctor Nubauer's
22:11
Speaker 1: personal assistant a woman by the name of Natasha Josephawitz.
22:15
Speaker 1: She was interviewed and they asked her, you know, can
22:16
Speaker 1: you shed any light on why this study was done,
22:19
Speaker 1: what they were testing for, and what the results were.
22:22
Speaker 1: And she would say that she was not actually part
22:24
Speaker 1: of the study, She was born on the periphery, but
22:26
Speaker 1: she was privy to what they were doing. And she
22:28
Speaker 1: said the point of the study was to finally put
22:30
Speaker 1: to bed whether it was nature or nurture that made
22:33
Speaker 1: the person who they ultimately become. Basically, are your surroundings
22:37
Speaker 1: the thing that ultimately makes you who you become or
22:40
Speaker 1: is it just your genetic makeup that you're predestined to
22:42
Speaker 1: become a particular person independent of how you were raised?
22:46
Speaker 1: And she said the results were incredible that basically it
22:49
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with nurture. It's all about your
22:52
Speaker 1: genetic makeup that we unconsciously trend towards specific behaviors and decisions.
22:57
Speaker 1: But we believe it's free will. We believe were choosing
23:00
Speaker 1: to do certain things, but in reality it's basically predetermined.
23:03
Speaker 1: And specifically in the triplets case, Bobby was intentionally placed
23:07
Speaker 1: into a more affluent household where his father was a
23:10
Speaker 1: doctor and his mother was a lawyer, and so they
23:12
Speaker 1: were very well educated and that was his upbringing. Eddie
23:15
Speaker 1: was placed into a more middle class family with his
23:17
Speaker 1: father being a teacher and his mom being a stay
23:19
Speaker 1: at home mother. And David was put into a low
23:21
Speaker 1: income household where they were all immigrants. English was a
23:24
Speaker 1: second language and they just have this very small shop
23:27
Speaker 1: that they owned. And Natasha said, this study demonstrated that
23:30
Speaker 1: despite these boys being put into different socioeconomic levels, it
23:34
Speaker 1: had almost no impact on who they ultimately became. She
23:36
Speaker 1: said she doesn't know why the study wasn't published, but
23:39
Speaker 1: she hopes someday it will be. Also in this documentary,
23:42
Speaker 1: a doctor named Lawrence Pearlman, who was actually one of
23:45
Speaker 1: the researchers in the study that would actually make house
23:47
Speaker 1: visits to each of the boy's houses as they were
23:50
Speaker 1: growing up, under the false pretext that they were there
23:52
Speaker 1: as part of routine follow up for the adoption agency.
23:55
Speaker 1: And he went on record and said that the study
23:57
Speaker 1: was not just about the effects of socio economic class,
24:01
Speaker 1: it was really about the effects of different styles of parenting.
24:04
Speaker 1: He said. In the triplets case, each of the boys
24:06
Speaker 1: had been placed into their respective households after that household
24:11
Speaker 1: had already adopted another child, and that first child they
24:14
Speaker 1: adopted effectively became the guinea pig for this study, where
24:18
Speaker 1: scientists would come in and they would study this child
24:20
Speaker 1: under the false pretext that they were there just following
24:23
Speaker 1: up for the adoption agency, but really they were creating
24:25
Speaker 1: a baseline of how do these parents parent? And then
24:28
Speaker 1: once that baseline was established, then the triplets were sent
24:31
Speaker 1: into their respective homes, with the researchers knowing full well
24:35
Speaker 1: how they were each going to be brought up, with
24:37
Speaker 1: the adoptive father being the X factor. Bobby's father, who
24:41
Speaker 1: was a doctor, was rarely around, but he was devoted
24:43
Speaker 1: and loving to his son. David's father, who was the
24:45
Speaker 1: shop owner was around all the time and adored his
24:48
Speaker 1: son and loved him unconditionally. Eddie's father was a teacher
24:51
Speaker 1: who was around a pair amount, but when he was
24:54
Speaker 1: he was very strict and rough with Eddie and quick
24:56
Speaker 1: to discipline him, and rarely showed any affection for him.
25:00
Speaker 1: And while doctor Pearlman does not come out and say
25:02
Speaker 1: that Eddie's relationship with his father probably had an effect
25:06
Speaker 1: on him becoming depressed and ultimately taking his life, there
25:09
Speaker 1: are many other people close to this case that believe
25:12
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it was. That David and Bobby had
25:14
Speaker 1: a stable, healthy upbringing and Eddie did not, and so
25:17
Speaker 1: when he was faced with the crisis of the brothers separating,
25:20
Speaker 1: Eddie couldn't handle it. These same people refute what Natasha
25:23
Speaker 1: said about the findings of the study that were all
25:26
Speaker 1: genetically predisposed to become a particular person. They say, if
25:30
Speaker 1: that was the case, then why haven't David and Bobby
25:32
Speaker 1: taken their lives? But ultimately, because the study was never published,
25:36
Speaker 1: we won't know for sure why it was done, what
25:38
Speaker 1: they studied, and what the conclusions were. All we have
25:41
Speaker 1: is speculation and second and third hand information. But what
25:44
Speaker 1: we do know for sure is these surviving triplets and
25:47
Speaker 1: their families are furious that this study was done. They
25:50
Speaker 1: feel like it ruined their lives. Following the release of
25:53
Speaker 1: the documentary, three identical strangers, Bobby and David were actually
25:57
Speaker 1: granted early access to the study that was sealed in
26:00
Speaker 1: out of Yale University, and when they looked at it,
26:02
Speaker 1: they were expecting to be blown away with the results.
26:04
Speaker 1: But it turned out it was over ten thousand pages
26:07
Speaker 1: of very technical information and much of it was heavily redacted,
26:11
Speaker 1: so they couldn't even read most of it. They were
26:13
Speaker 1: not able to deduce what the purpose of the study
26:15
Speaker 1: was in the first place, or what it accomplished. It
26:18
Speaker 1: was just all very ambiguous. This study was ultimately shut
26:21
Speaker 1: down permanently in nineteen eighty, the same year the triplets
26:24
Speaker 1: discovered themselves. As for the adoption agency, Louise Wise Services,
26:28
Speaker 1: and all the scientists and researchers involved in the study,
26:31
Speaker 1: none of them were held accountable for their role in
26:33
Speaker 1: this totally unethical study, and so basically everything was swept
26:37
Speaker 1: under the rug, and so Bobby, David and all of
26:39
Speaker 1: the family members of the triplets were just left with
26:42
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26:44
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