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  Speaker 1: Today's video is brought to you by Simply Safe. In
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, four friends rented a small, rustic cabin near
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  Speaker 1: a forest in a little.
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  Speaker 2: Village in Russia.
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  Speaker 1: Their plan was to spend the night in this cabin
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  Speaker 1: and then early the next morning they would get up
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  Speaker 1: and they would hike this trail they would bring them
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  Speaker 1: to the summit of a nearby mountain. So on March
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh, the friends got in their car. They made
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  Speaker 1: their way to this little village. They found their cabin,
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  Speaker 1: They went inside, they hung out for a bit, and
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  Speaker 1: then by two am they had gone to sleep. Little
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  Speaker 1: did they know, outside of their cabin in the forest,
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  Speaker 1: lurking in the darkness, something was watching their cabin's front door,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for one of them.
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  Speaker 2: To come outside.
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. When most people picture Russia
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  Speaker 1: in their minds, they picture European Russia, which is literally
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  Speaker 1: the part of Russia on the western side that sits
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  Speaker 1: in Europe and is by far the most populated part
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  Speaker 1: of the country. But European Russia only accounts for twenty
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  Speaker 1: three percent of the.
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  Speaker 2: Total territory that is Russia.
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  Speaker 1: The other seventy seven percent is to the east of
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  Speaker 1: European Russia. It starts at the Ural Mountain Range and
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  Speaker 1: it extends all the way over five million square miles
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  Speaker 1: to the Pacific Ocean. And this vast mostly forested expanse,
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  Speaker 1: which is fifty times bigger than the entire Higher United Kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: is called Siberia, and Siberia is absolutely brutal. In Siberia,
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  Speaker 1: it is almost always freezing cold.
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  Speaker 2: Literally, the average annual.
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  Speaker 1: Temperature across all of Siberia is thirty two point nine
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  Speaker 1: degrees fahrenheit, so it is zero point nine degrees above
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  Speaker 1: breezing on average every single day. In addition to the
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  Speaker 1: extremely deadly weather, that exists basically year round in Siberia.
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  Speaker 2: Siberia is also home to a.
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  Speaker 1: Bunch of huge, deadly animals, such as the brown bear,
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  Speaker 1: which is the same as the infamous grizzly bear in
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  Speaker 1: North America, the gray wolf, which by size alone makes
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  Speaker 1: virtually all other wolves look like little puppies. Gray wolves
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  Speaker 1: can grow to be nearly two hundred pounds. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: there is the highly intelligent Siberian tiger, who is perhaps
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  Speaker 1: one of the only predators on Earth that is known
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  Speaker 1: to seek out and kill people. For example, in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven, a hunter named Vladimir Markov was walking through
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  Speaker 1: a Siberian forest when he came face to face with
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  Speaker 1: one of these Siberian tigers, and he ended up shooting
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  Speaker 1: the tiger before fleeing, except the tiger didn't die. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: it got up and secretly followed Vladimir all the way
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  Speaker 1: back to his cabin, and then this tiger camped out
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  Speaker 1: outside of the cabin until Vladimir came out again, and
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  Speaker 1: the tiger pounced, killed him and aid him. And so unsurprisingly,
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  Speaker 1: Siberia has an absolutely minuscule population relative to.
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  Speaker 2: Its massive size.
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  Speaker 1: However, there are some adventurous people out there who are
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  Speaker 1: drawn to Siberia for the same reasons that most other
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  Speaker 1: people avoid it. These adventurous people see Siberia as one
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  Speaker 1: of the last truly wild places on our planet, and
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  Speaker 1: they want to experience it for themselves. And one of
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  Speaker 1: these highly adventurous people was a young man named Colin Madson. Colin,
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  Speaker 1: who came from a very very successful American family, was
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  Speaker 1: a big outdoors enthusiast who at some point in his
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  Speaker 1: youth began researching Siberia because he fell in love with
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  Speaker 1: its rugged, natural beauty. He quickly began researching not only Siberia,
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  Speaker 1: but Siberian culture and Russian culture, and also at some
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  Speaker 1: point he became fluent in the Russian language. Then, in
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, when Colin was twenty two years old, he
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  Speaker 1: left his home in Missouri and moved to Siberia. He
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  Speaker 1: settled in one of Siberia's few population centers, a city
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  Speaker 1: called Erkutsk, which is located in the southeast of Siberia
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  Speaker 1: and right along the edge of Lake Baikal, which is
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  Speaker 1: the world's deepest freshwater lake. Colin's Siberia plan was twofold.
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  Speaker 1: He would go to school while he was there and
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  Speaker 1: he would go out and explore. And at first his
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  Speaker 1: plan went perfectly. He was accepted into Moscow State Linguistic
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  Speaker 1: University in Erkutsk, and very quickly he made friends who
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  Speaker 1: were eager to accompany him on his adventure out into
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  Speaker 1: the Siberian wilderness. From his arrival in Siberia in twenty
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  Speaker 1: thirteen to twenty sixteen, Colin did well in his studies
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  Speaker 1: and he spent countless hours exploring the forests and mountainous
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  Speaker 1: areas all around Lake by Kol and right outside of Erkutsk.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, Colin became so familiar with this region that
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  Speaker 1: he began volunteering with a nonprofit in the area that
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  Speaker 1: went around marking new trails, which meant Colin was literally
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  Speaker 1: venturing into the wilds of Siberia and just marking the
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  Speaker 1: trail as he went. So when Colin's family heard about
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  Speaker 1: what happened to him in twenty sixteen, they could not
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  Speaker 1: believe it. In March of twenty sixteen, Colin and three
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  Speaker 1: of his good hiking friends, one was American and two
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  Speaker 1: were Russian, decided they wanted to go on a hike together.
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  Speaker 1: They settled on hiking to the summit of Love Peak,
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  Speaker 1: which was a mountain located a few hours away from
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  Speaker 1: Rkutsk in a small.
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  Speaker 2: Village called Arshan.
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  Speaker 1: This hike was nothing compared to the gnarly Siberian wilderness
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  Speaker 1: hikes all four of these guys had been on before.
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  Speaker 2: The trail that led up to Love Peak.
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  Speaker 1: It was fairly steep, but it was incredibly well marked,
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  Speaker 1: and all four of these guys had hiked it several
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  Speaker 1: times before. However, because Colin and his friends were so
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  Speaker 1: experienced at hiking in Siberia, they knew that even the.
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  Speaker 2: Easiest hikes needed to be respected.
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  Speaker 1: Because Siberia was still Siberia, there were dangers that lurked everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: And so the men called ahead to the village of Ourshan,
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  Speaker 1: and they rented one of these small rustic cabins that's
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  Speaker 1: in the village, that sits right at the base of
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  Speaker 1: Love Peak, and it's kind of tucked away in this forest.
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  Speaker 2: And so this cabin would.
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  Speaker 1: Serve as their sort of base camp and would allow
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  Speaker 1: them to arrive in Urshan, get their gear together, and
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  Speaker 1: then when they were ready, they could begin this.
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  Speaker 2: Hike to the summit.
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  Speaker 1: And so a few days later, on March twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 1: Colin and his three friends loaded up their car and
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  Speaker 1: they drove west to Ourshan and when they got there,
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  Speaker 1: they stopped at a local store, got some supplies, and
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  Speaker 1: then made their way to their cabin. Their cabin was
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  Speaker 1: just a single room with a few beds inside of it.
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  Speaker 1: It was enough to protect them from the elements, but
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  Speaker 1: really nothing more. As for a toilet, the cabin didn't
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  Speaker 1: have one, but there was an outhouse outside that they
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  Speaker 1: could use. So after the friends moved into the cabin
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  Speaker 1: and claimed their beds and put their things down, they
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  Speaker 1: all sat down and began prepping their gear and eating
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  Speaker 1: some food and chatting, And then finally at two am,
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  Speaker 1: they decided they needed to go to sleep because their
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  Speaker 1: plan was to get on the path up to Love
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  Speaker 1: Peak by seven am, which meant they needed to get
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  Speaker 1: up at five am to make their final preparations. So
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  Speaker 1: at two am, the lights in the cabin turned off
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  Speaker 1: and the friends all fell asleep, And then three hours
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  Speaker 1: later at five am, when the lights came back on again,
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  Speaker 1: it was immediately clear something was wrong. Colin was not
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  Speaker 1: in his bed, his friends assumed when they looked over
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  Speaker 1: at his bed and saw his personal belongings were all
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  Speaker 1: still there, that Colin must have gotten up and headed outside,
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  Speaker 1: maybe to use the outhouse or go for a quick walk,
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  Speaker 1: and they just hadn't heard him leaving, And so the
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  Speaker 1: three friends initially just kind of shrugged off Colin's absence
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  Speaker 1: and said, you know, he'll be back any minute, most likely,
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  Speaker 1: and if for some reason he's not back soon, he'll
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  Speaker 1: certainly be back by seven am, because that was the
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  Speaker 1: agreed upon time they would leave for this hike. But
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  Speaker 1: as the minutes ticked closer and closer to seven am
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  Speaker 1: and Colin still had not shown up or tried to
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  Speaker 1: call them or do anything, the friends started to worry.
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  Speaker 1: It just didn't make any sense that Colin would just
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  Speaker 1: get up and leave without telling them where he was going. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: at seven am, when Colin still had not shown up
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  Speaker 1: and the friend's cursory search of the outside area near
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  Speaker 1: the cabin had yielded no results, they decided they had
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  Speaker 1: to tell someone, and so they wrote a note addressed
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  Speaker 1: to Colin, and they put it on the front of
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  Speaker 1: their cabin door, and this note basically just told Colin, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, if you come back here and you see this note, know.
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  Speaker 1: That we're looking for you, so stay put or tell
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  Speaker 1: someone you're here.
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  Speaker 2: And so, after put it up this note, the friends
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  Speaker 2: left the.
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  Speaker 1: Cabin and they headed to the nearest police station, where
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  Speaker 1: they reported Colin missing. The police would eventually launch this
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  Speaker 1: huge search in and around our shan, both in the
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  Speaker 1: forested area right around the village and then also up
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  Speaker 1: into the mountains near Love Peak. But despite this huge effort,
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  Speaker 1: no one could find Colin, at least not at first.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of months ago, I was laying in bed
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  Speaker 1: when I heard this strange tapping sound coming from my downstairs. Now,
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  Speaker 1: as I'm laying there, I'm trying to run through the
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  Speaker 1: different scenarios of what this sound could be. When this
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  Speaker 1: tapping sound gets louder and louder, and then all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, I hear the sound of glass breaking in
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  Speaker 1: my first floor, and so I immediately leap out of bed,
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  Speaker 1: I run down the hall, I go downstairs, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking across my living room and they are coming through
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  Speaker 1: my now broken window.
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  Speaker 2: Was everyone's worst nightmare?
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  Speaker 1: a special breathing apparatus, who was carrying a crowbar looking
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  Speaker 1: to rub my home. Carrying a crowbar coming into my
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  Speaker 1: home to try to rob me.
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  Speaker 1: On Monday, April fourth, so eight days into Colin's disappearance,
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  Speaker 1: a group of searchers were looking in the forest about
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  Speaker 1: one mile away from the cabin where Colin and his
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  Speaker 1: friends had been staying. And they look up ahead and
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  Speaker 1: they see there is this clearing and there's something in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of it. And so the searchers begin moving
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  Speaker 1: their way towards this clearing, ducking under branches and stepping
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  Speaker 1: over brush, and when they get close enough they can
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  Speaker 1: see Colin is in the clearing, and Colin is deceased.
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  Speaker 1: He was laying flat on his back, with his left
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  Speaker 1: arm extended out to the side and his right arm
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  Speaker 1: extended but closer to his body, and both of his
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  Speaker 1: hands were clenched in tight fists, and on his hands
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  Speaker 1: and his wrists were visible abrasions and cuts, which later
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  Speaker 1: would be determined to have most likely been caused from
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  Speaker 1: someone or something holding on to him trying.
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  Speaker 2: To restrain Colin.
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  Speaker 1: Colin also had visible abrasions and cuts on the front
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  Speaker 1: of his neck. Colin's clothing, which consisted of a long
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  Speaker 1: sleeved thermal shirt, heavy pants, and hiking boots, were ripped
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  Speaker 1: and torn in several places, and interestingly, Colin.
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  Speaker 2: Was not wearing socks under his boots. Now that seems.
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  Speaker 1: Inconsequential, but Colin had had surgery on both of his
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  Speaker 1: ankles and had scar tissue on his ankles that if
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  Speaker 1: he didn't have socks on, those scars would rub against
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  Speaker 1: the inside of his boot, and he said it was
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  Speaker 1: very painful, so he always wore socks. Also, Colin's body
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  Speaker 1: showed virtually no signs of decomposition, and all of his
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  Speaker 1: wounds and abrasions looked quote fresh, according to medical personnel.
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  Speaker 1: In short, Colin looked like he had recently been in
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  Speaker 1: some sort of physical altercation and whoever or whatever he
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  Speaker 1: was grappling with had eventually overpowered him and killed him,
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  Speaker 1: although it was not clear how he actually dies. Russian
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  Speaker 1: authorities were very quick to suspect Colin's three friends who
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  Speaker 1: had been with him, but they were brought into the
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  Speaker 1: station and they denied having anything to do with Colin's death,
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  Speaker 1: and they all passed their.
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  Speaker 2: Light detector tests.
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  Speaker 1: After that, Russian authorities quickly closed this case by concluding that, well,
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  Speaker 1: if his friends didn't do it, then that means Colin
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  Speaker 1: must have been high on drugs or drinking alcohol or both,
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  Speaker 1: and he just wandered out of his cabin and he
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  Speaker 1: got lost in the woods and he died of hypothermia.
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  Speaker 2: He froze to death the end.
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  Speaker 1: However, Colin's parents just could not accept that as being
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  Speaker 1: what happened to their son. There were a lot of
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  Speaker 1: reasons for skepticism, but the main one was that Colin
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  Speaker 1: was an absolute expert at navigating this particular region of Siberia,
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  Speaker 1: and so the idea that he would leave his cabin
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  Speaker 1: for a quick walk or something and get so completely
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  Speaker 1: lost that he would die eight days later seemed way
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  Speaker 1: too far fetched, and so Colin's parents hired a US
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  Speaker 1: based private lab to do a review of Russia's autopsy
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  Speaker 1: of Colin to give their opinion if the autopsy was
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  Speaker 1: accurate or not, and this US based lab pretty much
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  Speaker 1: immediately found that the Russian autopsy was not remotely accurate.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, Colin was not under the influence of alcohol
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  Speaker 1: or drugs. He was sober, although technically he did have
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  Speaker 1: very small amounts of THCHC in his urine.
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  Speaker 2: THCHC is the chemical that is.
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  Speaker 1: Found in marijuana, but the amount was so little it
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  Speaker 1: basically meant he had consumed the thchc days before he
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  Speaker 1: went missing, and so he would not have been remotely
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  Speaker 1: affected by that small.
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  Speaker 2: Amount of thchc in this system.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, the lab determined that Colin almost certainly did
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  Speaker 1: not die from hypothermia. Instead, all signs pointed to Colin
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  Speaker 1: dying from being suffocated, meaning he was murdered. Someone crushed
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  Speaker 1: his airway or in some way restricted him from breathing
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  Speaker 1: and that's what killed him. And three, based on the
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  Speaker 1: lack of decomposition, the freshness of the injuries on Colin's body,
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  Speaker 1: and the lack of animal predation on his body when
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  Speaker 1: they found him, indicated that Colin did not just wander
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  Speaker 1: out of his cabin and immediately die somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: In the forest.
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  Speaker 1: Instead, he was alive for most of the time people
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  Speaker 1: were looking for him, meaning when they found him, he
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  Speaker 1: likely had died within hours of being found.
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  Speaker 2: And so these.
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  Speaker 1: Findings by this US based lab kind of create a
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  Speaker 1: general theory about what must have happened to Colin after
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  Speaker 1: Colin left the cabin in the early morning hours of
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  Speaker 1: March twenty eighth, maybe to go to the outhouse.
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  Speaker 2: Or to go for a quick walk.
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  Speaker 1: When he went outside, someone or something was nearby and
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  Speaker 1: they either lord callin to them, or they straight up
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  Speaker 1: ambushed Colin and took him away. Now, we have no
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  Speaker 1: idea what happened to Colin after he was abducted, but
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  Speaker 1: we can safely assume that after being abducted and taken somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: he was alive, and he stayed alive for several days
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  Speaker 1: until on the eighth day of his disappearance, Colin was killed,
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  Speaker 1: likely by his captor, either at the spot where he
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  Speaker 1: was found, or he was killed somewhere else, maybe in
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  Speaker 1: the forest, and then moved to.
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  Speaker 2: The spot where he was found.
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  Speaker 1: Many people believe it was the Russian government who targeted Colin.
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  Speaker 1: They kidnapped him, and they killed him, and their botched
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  Speaker 1: investigation into his death was actually a calculated cover up.
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  Speaker 1: Colin had participated in at least one peaceful environmentalist led
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  Speaker 1: protest in Siberia, and after the protest, Colin apparently got
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  Speaker 1: a written warning by the Russian police not to attend
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  Speaker 1: another protest. But why would Colin, who was just one
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  Speaker 1: of many people involved in these protests, be singled out
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  Speaker 1: by the Russian government and for his participation, And why
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  Speaker 1: would the government elect to kill Colin when he was
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  Speaker 1: with three of his closest friends who.
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  Speaker 2: Would immediately notice his absence. It just doesn't add up.
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  Speaker 1: Today, Colin's parents are still trying to figure out what
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  Speaker 1: happened to their son, but unfortunately their son's case is
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