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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. On the morning of Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: July thirteenth, nineteen ninety three, a middle aged nurse named
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Speaker 1: Sharon Empty hurried down the hallway of the Harry Hubbard Hospital,
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Speaker 1: which was in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. And as she went
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Speaker 1: down the hallway, Sharon checked in every single hospital room
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Speaker 1: because she was searching for a patient that kept disappearing
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Speaker 1: from her room. When Sharon reached the end of the hallway,
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Speaker 1: she looked into the last room and there inside was
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Speaker 1: the woman she was looking for.
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Speaker 2: Her name was Mildred Lancaster. She was sixty nine years.
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Speaker 1: Old, and she was sweeping the floor of another patient's
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Speaker 1: room with the broom that Sharon knew she had taken
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Speaker 1: from the custodian's cart. Sharon walked in and she politely asked, Mildred.
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Speaker 2: You know, what are you doing here?
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Speaker 1: And Mildred turned to her and just said, oh, she
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Speaker 1: was just doing her job, but she wasn't really doing
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Speaker 1: her job. Mildred had been admitted to the hospital two
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Speaker 1: days earlier because she was having stomach pain, but she
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Speaker 1: was also suffering from extreme bounts of confusion. At this, Sharon,
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Speaker 1: the nurse just sort of sighed and kind of rolled
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Speaker 1: her eyes because, you know, obviously this was not Mildred's job.
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Speaker 1: Mildred was a patient had been admitted to the hospital
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Speaker 1: two days earlier, primarily because she was having stomach pain,
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Speaker 1: but she also suffered from severe bouts of confusion, which
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Speaker 1: is something she was witnessing right here. Her family had
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Speaker 1: told doctors that, you know, Mildred had spent most of
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Speaker 1: her life being a housekeeper, and so when she would
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Speaker 1: get confused, which you know, they saw plenty of times
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Speaker 1: she often would sort of default to thinking that she
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Speaker 1: was back to being a housekeeper, even though you know
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Speaker 1: she was home or clearly not working, she would think
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Speaker 1: she was working.
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Speaker 2: And so when.
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Speaker 1: Mildred began demonstrating this kind of bizarre disoriented behavior, there
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Speaker 1: was some consideration to actually just physically restraining Mildred inside
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Speaker 1: of her room to keep her from vanishing and you know,
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Speaker 1: going and thinking she was a housekeeper somewhere, you know,
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Speaker 1: she could get into trouble or get hurt. However, Mildred
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Speaker 1: was this very sweet and gentle woman who you know,
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Speaker 1: it was just hard to forcibly restrain inside of her room.
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Speaker 1: And so instead the medical team decided that we're just
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Speaker 1: going to have to deal with the fact that periodically
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Speaker 1: she's gonna, you know, think she's at work and it
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Speaker 1: might walk out of her room and go start cleaning somewhere,
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Speaker 1: and so we need to keep a close eye on
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Speaker 1: her and keep her safe and just deal with her
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Speaker 1: stomach pain and sort of manage her disorientation.
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Speaker 2: And so in this moment, Sharon, the.
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Speaker 1: Nurse who's just found Mildred once again cleaning some room
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Speaker 1: she was not supposed to be in. She just you know,
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Speaker 1: followed their protocol and went in and kind of gently
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Speaker 1: told Mildred like, okay, you know, put the broom down,
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Speaker 1: come with me, and you know, Mildred listened, and she
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Speaker 1: led Mildred back to her room and Sharon continued going
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Speaker 1: about her day. A couple of days later, and Sharon
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Speaker 1: was doing her regular rounds through the hospital, and as
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Speaker 1: she did, she went into Mildred's room and once again
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Speaker 1: she saw the room was empty. Now Sharon was actually
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Speaker 1: just kind of annoyed at this point. She wasn't really
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Speaker 1: concerned because by this point Mildred had done this, had
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Speaker 1: you know, become disoriented and left to go clean or
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Speaker 1: something so many times by this point that it was
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Speaker 1: just kind of a hassle. But you know, Sharon just
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Speaker 1: followed protocol and quickly left the room and began walking
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Speaker 1: along the floor looking for Mildred.
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Speaker 2: So she bring her back.
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Speaker 1: But after searching the floor, she didn't find Mildred. And
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Speaker 1: so after checking the whole floor again, but this time
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Speaker 1: much more thoroughly, looking in every closet, every supply area,
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Speaker 1: i mean really searching the area and still not finding her.
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Speaker 1: That's when Sharon began to panic. She began going to
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Speaker 1: other nurses and doctors and asking them, have you seen Mildred.
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Speaker 1: And remember, at this point, the whole floor is aware
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Speaker 1: of what's going on with Mildred, but nobody had seen her,
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Speaker 1: so nobody knew where she was.
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Speaker 2: And so Sharon ultimately went and.
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Speaker 1: Spoke to the higher ups at the hospital and informed
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Speaker 1: them what was going on here, and in turn, they
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Speaker 1: launched this huge search all across the hospital, both inside
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Speaker 1: and outside, to just go find Mildred and get her back.
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Speaker 1: And while the search is ongoing, Sharon was walking around
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Speaker 1: trying to be helpful because she was somebody that worked
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Speaker 1: closely with Mildred and had a sense of where she
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Speaker 1: might go. And she was telling folks to go to
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Speaker 1: messy areas because Mildred, when she would get confused, would
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Speaker 1: basically go clean areas she deemed messy. So go to
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Speaker 1: parts of the hospital that might look messy, and so
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Speaker 1: people were doing that.
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Speaker 2: But this hospital, I mean, it was huge.
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Speaker 1: It was eleven stories tall, and there were lots of
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Speaker 1: areas that appeared messy, and so it just seemed like
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Speaker 1: a kind of overwhelming task to quickly search this massive
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Speaker 1: property for Mildred. And then on top of that, making
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Speaker 1: it even harder to find Mildred was the fact that
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Speaker 1: the hospital didn't have security cameras, so they couldn't just
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Speaker 1: pull up the footage and see if maybe Mildred had.
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Speaker 2: Walked outside or something.
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Speaker 1: After about an hour of the search going on, when
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Speaker 1: still they had not found Mildred and people were starting
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Speaker 1: to wonder, like, are we even going to find her
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Speaker 1: at all? It was at that point that something new
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Speaker 1: and really concerning happened. Sharon called Mildred's cousin to let
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Speaker 1: her and the rest of Mildred's family know that Mildred
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Speaker 1: was missing and that this time it was actually pretty
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Speaker 1: serious that they hadn't found her. But as Sharon is
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Speaker 1: breaking this news to the cousin, the cousin stops her
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Speaker 1: and says, well, wait a minute, I think I know
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Speaker 1: what's going on here, because apparently a few hours earlier,
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Speaker 1: the cousin had gone to the hospital to visit Mildred,
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Speaker 1: and when they got there and spoke to the receptionist,
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Speaker 1: the receptionist looked up Mildred to see what room she
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Speaker 1: was in, and on their system it showed that Mildred
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Speaker 1: had checked out of the hospital that morning, so she
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Speaker 1: was not there, and so of course this big search
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Speaker 1: for Mildred was not going to find her because she
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Speaker 1: wasn't at the hospital. But this really made no sense
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Speaker 1: to Sharon. I mean, it did logically make sense that
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Speaker 1: if she checked out, that would explain why she wasn't here.
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Speaker 1: But Mildred should not have been allowed to check out
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Speaker 1: of the hospital.
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Speaker 2: She still definitely was.
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Speaker 1: Not well, not just her confusion but also the stomach
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Speaker 1: pain she was having, like she was still totally sick
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Speaker 1: and should not have been discharged. But you know, the
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Speaker 1: cousin was adamant that they actually left the hospital because
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Speaker 1: they told them, like, you know, Mildred's not here, there's
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Speaker 1: no one to go visit.
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Speaker 2: She's gone. She checked out.
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Speaker 1: And so Sharon hung up with the cousin and quickly
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Speaker 1: ran down the hall to go talk to the receptionist
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Speaker 1: to see if it was actually true that Mildred had
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Speaker 1: been discharged, And when the receptionist looked it up, sure enough,
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Speaker 1: it was true Mildred had checked out. And so at
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Speaker 1: this point, Sharon, I mean, she could not believe what
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Speaker 1: she was hearing. This didn't make sense, and so Sharon
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Speaker 1: kind of not knowing what to do next. She walked
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Speaker 1: away from the receptionist and she just walked over to
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Speaker 1: the window that looked out to the front of the hospital,
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Speaker 1: and she was just standing there wondering what she should do.
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Speaker 1: And as she was standing there, she was just looking outside,
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Speaker 1: kind of absent mindedly, and she saw all these cars
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Speaker 1: whizzing by, you know, all these busy streets out there,
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Speaker 1: and she suddenly had this thought like, well, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: what if Mildred, in her confused state, like went to
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Speaker 1: the front desk and somehow talked her way out and
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Speaker 1: got discharged and is now wandered out into the streets,
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Speaker 1: And what if she's gotten hit by a car or
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Speaker 1: something like This could be an emergency, like I have
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Speaker 1: to do something. And so Sharon's first thought was, I
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Speaker 1: got to call the police. And so not long after this,
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Speaker 1: after Sharon did call the authorities, the police arrived at
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Speaker 1: the hospital and they arrived along with search dogs. One
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Speaker 1: of the search dogs almost immediately picked up Mildred's scent
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Speaker 1: by one of the front doors of the hospital, and
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Speaker 1: the dog led its handler down the street, which seemed
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Speaker 1: to confirm that Mildred really had left the hospital. And
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Speaker 1: so officers would search a full square mile around the hospital,
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Speaker 1: and they even got a helicopter to begin flying overhead.
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Speaker 1: And the search went on for days, but nobody found Mildred.
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Speaker 1: There was no sign of her. She just disappeared until
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Speaker 1: almost two weeks later. On Wednesday, July twenty eighth, so
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Speaker 1: thirteen days after Mildred went missing, a security guard walked
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Speaker 1: into a construction site on his daily patrol, and at
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Speaker 1: the very edge of the site he noticed there was
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Speaker 1: a long, thin hole in the ground that was about
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Speaker 1: five feet deep that had been dug to lay some pipework.
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Speaker 1: But when the security guard just happened to walk over
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Speaker 1: and look down into the hole, he gasped because he
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Speaker 1: saw Mildred.
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Speaker 2: It would turn out.
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Speaker 1: On the day Mildred disappeared, she did become very confused,
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Speaker 1: and she believed she was once again a housekeeper, and
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Speaker 1: she went out, you know, left her room to go
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Speaker 1: do some work. And so Mildred just began wandering around
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Speaker 1: the hospital for quite a while, and surprisingly nobody stopped her,
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Speaker 1: even though she had left the floor that she was
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Speaker 1: supposed to be on. But she was just such a
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Speaker 1: pleasant person and so nice that she just kind of
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Speaker 1: passed by people and nobody said anything. And after wandering
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Speaker 1: around for quite some time and going in and out
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Speaker 1: of different places and up and down flights of stairs,
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Speaker 1: she eventually found this construction site, and to her, it
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Speaker 1: was not a construction site.
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Speaker 2: Instead, it was.
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Speaker 1: This horribly messy area that needed to be cleaned because
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Speaker 1: there was pieces of wood and plastic and debris everywhere,
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Speaker 1: and so she just began to clean and after a
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Speaker 1: while she had picked up quite a bit of debris
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Speaker 1: and she had basically straightened the whole area out. But
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Speaker 1: as she walked around towards the back of the site,
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Speaker 1: she did not see a hole in the ground, and
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Speaker 1: she fell inside. And because Mildred was just very disoriented,
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Speaker 1: she likely didn't understand that she had fallen into a
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Speaker 1: hole and needs to climb out again. And so in
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Speaker 1: this dark space, this dark, confined space, she would have
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Speaker 1: just continued to feel more and more disoriented and maybe
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Speaker 1: didn't even attempt to climb out. But however it happened,
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Speaker 1: she just stayed in that hole and remained undetected for
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Speaker 1: days until she just eventually died. But perhaps the most
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Speaker 1: tragic aspect of this case is that Mildred actually never
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Speaker 1: left the hospital.
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Speaker 2: That construction site was.
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Speaker 1: On the tenth floor of the hospital. Mildred had just
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Speaker 1: kind of meandered her way up to that floor, and
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Speaker 1: that floor was being renovated.
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Speaker 2: That was the construction site, and she had fallen in
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Speaker 2: that hole.
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Speaker 1: Then you have all these people that are searching the
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Speaker 1: hospital looking for her, and they searched that construction site,
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Speaker 1: but they didn't look down into this little hole, and Mildred,
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Speaker 1: assuming she was alive when they were up there, didn't
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Speaker 1: have the wherewithal to call out for help. She was
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Speaker 1: confused and just stayed quiet in that hole, and so
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Speaker 1: she was never found. Today, it's still not known why
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Speaker 1: Mildred was listed as having been discharged on the day
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Speaker 1: she went missing, because she was not discharged. Some people
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Speaker 1: say maybe it was added into the system by mistake,
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Speaker 1: or perhaps it was just a glitch in the system,
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Speaker 1: but however it happened, it was just an anomaly. And
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Speaker 1: then also the police dog that found Mildred's scent that
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Speaker 1: took the authorities away from the hospital, that's also anomalists.
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Speaker 2: We don't know how or why that happened.
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Speaker 1: percent off your first month. On the night of January twelfth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four, a police sergeant named Neil Johnson entered
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Speaker 1: a small apartment in Los Angeles County, California, along with
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Speaker 1: they walked inside this apartment, they were hit with this
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Speaker 1: blast of hot air and also a just terrible smell,
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Speaker 1: and very quickly Sergeant Johnson and the others recognized where
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Speaker 1: the smell was coming from because on the couch was
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Speaker 1: a man who was clearly dead and decomposing. So Sergeant
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Speaker 1: Johnson and the rest of the police officers have been
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Speaker 1: called here by this building's landlord. The landlord had gotten
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Speaker 1: planes from some other tenants about this awful smell coming
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Speaker 1: from this specific apartment, so they'd come to check it out,
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Speaker 1: and you know.
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Speaker 2: Mystery solved.
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Speaker 1: There was a dead person in here, and based on
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Speaker 1: the information they'd already gotten from the landlord about who
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Speaker 1: was renting this apartment, the police already suspected that they
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Speaker 1: knew exactly who this man was. The tenant of this apartment,
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Speaker 1: the sole tenant was a thirty eight year old man
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Speaker 1: named Eugene Meadows, and he'd actually just moved into this
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Speaker 1: apartment only six days ago. And on top of you know,
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Speaker 1: living in this new apartment, Eugene also was just kind
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Speaker 1: of new to the area. He'd moved here from about
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Speaker 1: eight hours away for a new job, so realistically, there
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Speaker 1: was a good chance he didn't really know anybody in
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Speaker 1: the area.
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Speaker 2: Sergeant Johnson and a.
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Speaker 1: Few other officers walked over to the couch to take
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Speaker 1: a closer look at Eugene's body, and pretty much right
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Speaker 1: away they could tell two things. One, it was pretty
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Speaker 1: clear Eugene had not died recently. He had died maybe
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Speaker 1: at least a couple of days ago, so we'd been
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Speaker 1: sitting here for some time.
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Speaker 2: And the other thing they noticed.
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Speaker 1: Was very clearly there was a bullet hole in the
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Speaker 1: back of his head. But as Sergeant Johnson began looking
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Speaker 1: around the apartment for more clues, he realized that the
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Speaker 1: bullet hole really didn't make any sense because, first of all,
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Speaker 1: the whole apartment was very neat and very clean. There
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Speaker 1: was no sign of a robbery or a struggle or
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Speaker 1: a break in. Plus, the landlord had told Sergeant Johnson
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Speaker 1: that when he had first come to check on Eugene
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Speaker 1: after the initial reports of a bad smell coming from
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Speaker 1: his apartment, the landlord had found that the apartment door
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Speaker 1: was locked from the inside, and also he found that
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Speaker 1: all the windows were closed and locked as well, which
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Speaker 1: meant if Eugene was murdered, the only way that was
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Speaker 1: possible would be if the killer, after shooting Eugene, left
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Speaker 1: and then locked the door behind them, which meant they
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Speaker 1: would have had a key, which sort of suggested that,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe they knew Eugene, or maybe they just
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Speaker 1: took the key off of him. But you know, Eugenie's
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Speaker 1: new to the area, and so it just seems sort
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Speaker 1: of like a difficult theory to come up with of
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Speaker 1: who would have killed him and left the scene looking
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Speaker 1: this way. But the alternative to murder, you know, perhaps
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Speaker 1: that Eugene took his own life, also didn't really seem
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Speaker 1: possible because, number one, they couldn't find a gun. There
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Speaker 1: was no gun in the apartment, certainly not a gun
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Speaker 1: that was near Eugene. You know, if he would have
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Speaker 1: taken his own life, the gun should have been nearby,
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Speaker 1: and it wasn't, and they searched the whole apartment there
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Speaker 1: was no gun. So Sergeant Johnson and the entire team
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Speaker 1: were pretty much baffled at this point. You know, it
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Speaker 1: just didn't seem to make sense how this guy could
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Speaker 1: have died, and so instead of trying to, you know,
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Speaker 1: piece it all together now, they just transferred Eugene's body
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Speaker 1: to the local corner for an autopsy, hoping that the
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Speaker 1: autopsy would give them more answers and allow them to
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Speaker 1: understand what happened here. However, when the coroner examined Eugene's body,
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Speaker 1: things actually only got more strange because the coroner could
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Speaker 1: not find a bullet inside of Eugene's head or anywhere
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Speaker 1: in his body, and there wasn't an a exit wound.
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Speaker 1: So imagine, if you get shot, the bullet goes into you.
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Speaker 1: Unless there's an exit wound where that bullet can exit you,
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Speaker 1: the bullet will.
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Speaker 2: Remain inside your body.
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Speaker 1: And so Eugene has one hole in his head, a
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Speaker 1: hole in the back of his head, a bullet hole,
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Speaker 1: no second hole, no exit wound, and no bullet inside
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Speaker 1: of his body. And in addition to this one big
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Speaker 1: anomaly that you know there is no bullet, the corner
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Speaker 1: also noticed two other things that were strange. The first
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Speaker 1: was that Eugene had something known as a calcium ridge
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Speaker 1: on the back of his head near the area where
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Speaker 1: there was this hole, And it's a genetic thing. Basically,
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Speaker 1: there's a section of his skull that was.
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Speaker 2: Harder but also more brittle.
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Speaker 1: This would have been something he was born with and
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Speaker 1: likely basically didn't affect him in any way, but considering
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Speaker 1: it was near the area where there's this hole in
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Speaker 1: his head, the corner flagged it. And then the other
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Speaker 1: thing the coroner noticed is that when he looked at
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Speaker 1: Eugene's internal organs, like in his abdomen, they.
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Speaker 2: Were a very bright cherry red color.
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Speaker 1: Now, first glance, the coroner actually didn't necessarily think that
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Speaker 1: the color of his organs really mattered that much. But
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Speaker 1: as the coroner really just could not make sense of
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Speaker 1: how Eugene actually died, he began to go back to
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Speaker 1: the color of the organs, and he thought of something,
18:16
Speaker 1: and so he went to the police and he asked
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Speaker 1: Sergeant Johnson to, you know, just in case, go back
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Speaker 1: to Eugene's apartment and check for this one very specific thing.
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Speaker 2: If it's there, it explains this whole thing.
18:29
Speaker 1: And sure enough, Sergeant Johnson and the police they went
18:32
Speaker 1: back to Eugene's apartment and they found the thing that
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Speaker 1: the coroner suspected would be there.
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Speaker 2: And it did explain the whole mystery.
18:39
Speaker 1: And it turned out what happened to Eugene was not
18:41
Speaker 1: even close to what Sergeant Johnson originally suspected. Eugene was
18:47
Speaker 1: not murdered, He was not shot in the head, nor
18:49
Speaker 1: did he take his own life. In fact, there was
18:51
Speaker 1: no shooting. He was not shot to death, either by
18:53
Speaker 1: himself or by somebody else. Instead, what the coroner suspected
18:58
Speaker 1: from seeing those bright red organs is that maybe Eugene
19:02
Speaker 1: died from carbon monoxide poisoning, which can cause your organs
19:05
Speaker 1: to turn bright cherry red. And so when they went
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Speaker 1: to his apartment, they discovered his heater was leaking and
19:12
Speaker 1: it was emitting poisonous carbon monoxide gas. And so the
19:16
Speaker 1: mystery of how Eugene died was salved. He died from
19:19
Speaker 1: carbon monoxide poisoning, but how he got this hole in
19:22
Speaker 1: his head as a whole other story. After Eugene passed
19:26
Speaker 1: out on his couch from this poisoning, the gas caused
19:29
Speaker 1: his brain to swell, and because he had that calcium
19:32
Speaker 1: ridge on the back of his head that he was
19:34
Speaker 1: born with, that's that harder but more brittle part of
19:37
Speaker 1: his skull. While as his brain continued to swell, it
19:40
Speaker 1: eventually broke through that calcium ridge and basically his head exploded.
19:46
Speaker 1: His brain blew out the back of his head, giving
19:49
Speaker 1: the impression that he had been shot. One afternoon in
20:03
Speaker 1: the spring of nineteen ninety eight, a sixty four year
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Speaker 1: old man named Klaus Schmidt walked through the international terminal
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Speaker 1: of the Dublin Airport in Ireland, and for some reason,
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Speaker 1: as he was walking, he just felt really really nervous,
20:17
Speaker 1: like the idea of getting on his plane today just
20:21
Speaker 1: felt like a really bad idea. When Klaus finally spotted
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Speaker 1: his gate at the end of the terminal, that feeling
20:27
Speaker 1: of almost dread really just totally washed over him. Now,
20:31
Speaker 1: Klaus generally was kind of a nervous flyer, but he
20:34
Speaker 1: never had this sort of existential dread before boarding a flight.
20:38
Speaker 1: This was new, This felt different, and so finally when
20:41
Speaker 1: he got to the end of his terminal and actually
20:43
Speaker 1: saw his gait and saw people boarding his flight, he
20:46
Speaker 1: almost had like a panic attack, and he thought, you know,
20:49
Speaker 1: maybe I should just listen to my gut feeling here
20:52
Speaker 1: and not board this plane and just you know, fly
20:54
Speaker 1: out tomorrow or something.
20:56
Speaker 2: But as he's.
20:57
Speaker 1: Standing there looking at the people getting on this flight,
20:59
Speaker 1: you know, his his logical side of his brain began
21:02
Speaker 1: taking over, and he just told himself that he was
21:04
Speaker 1: just being really nervous here, that there was nothing to
21:06
Speaker 1: be worried about, that he should just get on the flight,
21:09
Speaker 1: that it'll be over soon. And you know, he was
21:11
Speaker 1: just overreacting. And so even though he really could not
21:14
Speaker 1: fully get rid of this feeling he had this this
21:16
Speaker 1: dread that was like in his stomach, at this point
21:19
Speaker 1: he kind of overrode how he was feeling walked up
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Speaker 1: to the gate, scanned his ticket, and boarded the flight
21:26
Speaker 1: about an hour later, and Klaus, you know, he's in
21:29
Speaker 1: the aircraft. They've taken off by this point and they're
21:31
Speaker 1: they're flying over the Irish Sea and Klaus, he was
21:34
Speaker 1: by the window. He raised up the blind on his
21:37
Speaker 1: window and he looked out and it was, you know,
21:39
Speaker 1: smooth sailing out there.
21:40
Speaker 2: You know, the water's beautiful and calm down below.
21:43
Speaker 1: And he looked around through their passengers and saw people
21:45
Speaker 1: were you know, relaxed, they were reading and relaxing and chatting,
21:49
Speaker 1: like there was no reason to think anything was going
21:52
Speaker 1: wrong on this flight. But still Klaus just could not
21:56
Speaker 1: get rid of this feeling, and he just desperately wanted
21:59
Speaker 1: the plane to land and be done with this thing.
22:02
Speaker 1: But Klaus knew he couldn't speed the plane up, and
22:04
Speaker 1: so instead he just kind of did some breathing exercises
22:07
Speaker 1: and tried to calm himself down, and at first it
22:10
Speaker 1: was working, but over the next ten or fifteen minutes
22:13
Speaker 1: or so, Klaus started to feel like he was having
22:15
Speaker 1: a hard time breathing, and he began looking around to
22:18
Speaker 1: see if other passengers were also struggling to breathe, like
22:21
Speaker 1: maybe there's something wrong with the cabin pressure, maybe there's
22:24
Speaker 1: something wrong with the air inside of the plane. But
22:26
Speaker 1: you know, he'd look around and everybody still seems completely fine.
22:29
Speaker 1: It's just Klaus, who, by this point is you know,
22:32
Speaker 1: he's sweating, he's.
22:33
Speaker 2: Rocking back and forth.
22:34
Speaker 1: He's so anxious. He just desperately wants this flight to
22:37
Speaker 1: be over. But again it was like this, this inability
22:41
Speaker 1: to breathe continued to get worse and worse, and then
22:44
Speaker 1: he started to feel this really intense tightness in his
22:46
Speaker 1: chest and he was telling himself like, I'm having a
22:49
Speaker 1: panic attack. That's what's happening here. It's like my anxiety
22:52
Speaker 1: has fully taken over. I can't control it. And so
22:55
Speaker 1: he took off his jacket and he kind of unbuttoned
22:57
Speaker 1: his shirt and he's like dripping sweat.
22:59
Speaker 2: And the other passengers now are starting to take.
23:01
Speaker 1: Notice of Klaus, like something's going on with this guy,
23:03
Speaker 1: but no one said anything yet. And Klaus, you know,
23:06
Speaker 1: he's trying to stay calm, but he keeps looking around
23:08
Speaker 1: and everybody else seems fine, and something's going on with him.
23:12
Speaker 1: And then that tightness in his chest had got so
23:14
Speaker 1: bad that Klaus realized that this likely was not anxiety.
23:20
Speaker 2: He could be having a heart attack. And then as
23:22
Speaker 2: soon as he.
23:23
Speaker 1: Realized that that likely was what was happening to him,
23:26
Speaker 1: it was like all of his symptoms got ten times worse,
23:29
Speaker 1: and before long he felt himself kind of fading out
23:31
Speaker 1: of consciousness. He heard other passengers near him yelling out
23:35
Speaker 1: for help, clearly about him, and then a flight attendant
23:38
Speaker 1: ran over and began yelling out to the rest of
23:40
Speaker 1: the plane, are there any doctors on board? And so
23:43
Speaker 1: as Klaus is drifting further and further into unconsciousness, all.
23:47
Speaker 2: He could think to himself was his intuition was right.
23:50
Speaker 2: Something bad was going to happen on this plane.
23:53
Speaker 1: But before he could think much more about it, his
23:55
Speaker 1: vision went blurry and he faded into darkness. But it
23:59
Speaker 1: would turn out that Klaus's intuition was actually only half right,
24:03
Speaker 1: because while it was true that something terrible did happen
24:06
Speaker 1: to him on that flight, he really did have an
24:08
Speaker 1: heart attack, It actually was his decision to get on
24:11
Speaker 1: the flight that saved his life. Because this particular flight
24:17
Speaker 1: was carrying forty heart specialists home from an international cardiology conference,
24:23
Speaker 1: and they had samples with them of a brand new
24:25
Speaker 1: heart drug.
24:25
Speaker 2: That was not yet available to the public.
24:27
Speaker 1: So when Klaus had his heart attack and the flight
24:30
Speaker 1: attendant began calling out for a doctor, well the forty
24:34
Speaker 1: doctors all shot their hands up in the air, and
24:36
Speaker 1: one of them rushed over and literally just gave Klaus
24:40
Speaker 1: this new medication that saved his life. Thank you so
24:49
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24:51
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