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Speaker 1: Today, we're going to look at three places you can't
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. By the beginning of twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 1: everybody who lived in apartment building number twelve on Shawn
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Speaker 1: Sea Road in the big Chinese city of chian knew
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Speaker 1: to stay away from the woman who lived at the
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Speaker 1: end of the hall on the fifteenth floor. Now, they
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Speaker 1: didn't know much about this woman, but what they did
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Speaker 1: know about her was totally bizarre and kind of alarming.
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Speaker 1: The woman whose family name was Woo, but nobody actually knew.
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Speaker 1: This woman's individual name, was forty three years old, and
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Speaker 1: she lived alone, and from what residents could tell, nobody
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Speaker 1: ever came to visit her, and she almost never left
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Speaker 1: her apartment. But Oftentimes, residents on the fifteenth floor could
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Speaker 1: hear this woman talking to herself very animatedly inside of
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Speaker 1: her apartment, and sometimes she'd even get into these big
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Speaker 1: arguments with herself where it was clear she was kind
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Speaker 1: of playing the role of multiple personalities at once. But
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Speaker 1: none of these things were the reason why people avoided
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Speaker 1: her altogether. They avoided her because she seemed really dangerous.
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Speaker 1: One day, a few months earlier, a teenage girl was
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Speaker 1: walking down the hallway on the fifteenth floor, making her
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Speaker 1: way towards her friend's apartment when she passed by this
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Speaker 1: woman's apartment door. And as soon as she walked past,
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Speaker 1: the door to this woman's apartment flew open, and the
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Speaker 1: woman rushed outside and began screaming incoherently. And so this
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Speaker 1: teenage girl she whips around and sees this woman, and instinctively,
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Speaker 1: what this girl thought was, oh, my goodness, this woman
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Speaker 1: is being attacked, you know, she's running away from somebody
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Speaker 1: in her apartment or something. But then very quickly it
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Speaker 1: became apparent that this woman was not being attacked. She
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Speaker 1: was attacking the teenage girl. So this woman she looks
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Speaker 1: at the girl and her eyes go wide, and she
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Speaker 1: kind of curls her hands into claws, and then she
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Speaker 1: began running down the hall towards this girl. And so
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Speaker 1: the girl she begins to scream, and she turns and
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Speaker 1: she runs down the hall, and she manages to pound
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Speaker 1: on her friend's door, and her friend happened to be
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Speaker 1: right behind the door. They opened it up. The girl
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Speaker 1: ran inside, and they shut and locked the door right
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Speaker 1: as this woman came barreling into the door. And this
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Speaker 1: behavior from this woman on the fifteenth floor was just
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Speaker 1: the beginning. Following this first attack, the woman on the
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Speaker 1: fifteenth floor would routinely barge out of her apartment and
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Speaker 1: chase down young women and teenage girls that were walking
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Speaker 1: past her door. Now, this woman never actually hurt anyone
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Speaker 1: that she chased down and even reached in time, she
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Speaker 1: just kind of scared them. And so, as a result,
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Speaker 1: the residents of this apartment building, including the women and
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Speaker 1: young girls who had been attacked by this woman, their
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Speaker 1: reaction to this was not anger or resentment, or you know,
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Speaker 1: some desire to go call the police and have this
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Speaker 1: woman arrested. Instead, the residence of this building just kind
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Speaker 1: of felt bad for this woman. It seemed very obvious
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Speaker 1: that she was mentally unwell and probably very lonely, and
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Speaker 1: so they kind of collectively decided to not call the
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Speaker 1: police and instead just kind of ignore her. But sometime
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Speaker 1: in early February, this woman's random attacks on young women
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Speaker 1: and girls just kind of stopped. And at first, residents,
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Speaker 1: especially of the fifteenth floor of this apartment building, were
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Speaker 1: just relieved because all of a sudden, you could walk
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Speaker 1: down that hallway in peace again. But by the end
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Speaker 1: of February, it dawned on people who lived in this
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Speaker 1: apartment building that not only had this woman stopped her
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Speaker 1: random attacks, but also now they couldn't even hear her
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Speaker 1: inside of her apartment talking to herself, because that was
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Speaker 1: something people always heard, and now her apartment was totally silent,
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Speaker 1: and so pretty quickly people became kind of worried about
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Speaker 1: this woman, but nobody was willing to go knock on
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Speaker 1: her door and actually make sure she was okay, because again,
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Speaker 1: this woman was viewed as being kind of dangerous. I mean,
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Speaker 1: she was literally jumping out of her apartment and attacking
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Speaker 1: random passerbys, and so people just continued to keep their
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Speaker 1: distance from this woman, and so as people did that,
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Speaker 1: they began to tell themselves that you know, probably she
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Speaker 1: just moved out without anybody noticing, and that's why she's
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Speaker 1: gone quiet. But it would turn out that was not
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Speaker 1: the case. Right around the time the woman on the
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Speaker 1: fifteenth floor stopped her attacks and went silent, sometime in
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Speaker 1: early February, an elevator inside of this apartment building broke
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Speaker 1: down between floors eleven and ten, and so a maintenance
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Speaker 1: crew was called out to fix the elevator. But when
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Speaker 1: they got there, they realized they didn't have the supplies
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Speaker 1: or the manpower to actually make the fix, and so
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Speaker 1: a decision was made to just cut the power to
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Speaker 1: this individual elevator car, and then the work crew said
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Speaker 1: they'd come back in about a month when they had
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Speaker 1: the right supplies and people, And sure enough, a month later,
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Speaker 1: this crew came back with what they needed and they
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Speaker 1: were able to lower the broken elevator car down to
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Speaker 1: floor ten, and then they opened up the doors and
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Speaker 1: they were absolutely horrified at what they saw inside of
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Speaker 1: that car. It's believed that shortly after this woman on
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Speaker 1: the fifteenth floor had one of her outbreaks and chased
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Speaker 1: someone down the hall, she got into the elevator and
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Speaker 1: began traveling down and when the elevator car got between
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Speaker 1: floors eleven and ten, it came to a lurching stop.
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Speaker 1: But for some reason, when this happened, the woman did nothing.
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Speaker 1: She didn't yell for help, she didn't scream, she didn't
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Speaker 1: pound on the doors, she didn't press any buttons. She
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Speaker 1: just sat in the elevator car in absolute silence. And
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Speaker 1: so eventually it was discovered that one of the elevator
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Speaker 1: cars in this apartment building was broken, not because the
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Speaker 1: woman had called out, but probably because someone had tried
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Speaker 1: to hail the elevator and it didn't come down. And
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Speaker 1: so that maintenance crew was called out, but they couldn't
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Speaker 1: make the repair, and so they decided to cut the
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Speaker 1: power to that car and come back in a month. Now,
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Speaker 1: this elevator crew had no idea there was anybody inside
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Speaker 1: the elevator car, because again, this woman who was trapped
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Speaker 1: in there was totally silent throughout their attempts to try
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Speaker 1: to fix the car. And so after these workers cut
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Speaker 1: the power to this elevator car and left, this woman
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Speaker 1: was doomed. This woman just sat in silence in this
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Speaker 1: elevator car with no food and no water for several
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Speaker 1: days until she died of dehydration, which is one of
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Speaker 1: the most agonizing and slow ways to go. Now, at
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Speaker 1: some point this woman did attempt to free herself, because
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Speaker 1: there were scratch marks inside the elevator indicating that she
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Speaker 1: had tried to claw her way out, and her hands
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Speaker 1: were totally mutilated, suggesting she really had been clawing pretty hard.
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Speaker 1: But that was the only time she tried to save herself.
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Speaker 1: five twenty pm on August thirty first, two thousand and seven,
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Speaker 1: a young couple stepped onto the beautiful sand of Yelpo Beach,
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Speaker 1: which is located at the very southern tip of South Korea.
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Speaker 1: The couple grabbed each other's hands and smiled in excitement
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Speaker 1: as they looked out on the water and saw all
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Speaker 1: these fishing boats that dotted the horizon, and then behind
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Speaker 1: them were all these beautiful mountains. I mean, this was
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Speaker 1: a spectacular place. They couldn't believe that a place so
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Speaker 1: gorgeous and so remote was located only a one hour
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Speaker 1: train ride away from the busy city where they went
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Speaker 1: to college. The couple's names were Kim and Chu. Kim
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Speaker 1: was twenty one years old and he was an athlete
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Speaker 1: and a very dedicated student, and Chu she was twenty
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Speaker 1: years old and also very studious, but maybe unlike Kim,
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Speaker 1: she was a bit more reserved and shy. In fact,
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Speaker 1: Kim was Chow's very first serious boyfriend and she absolutely
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Speaker 1: adored him. And in fact, this was going to be
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Speaker 1: the couple's kind of big first trip that they would
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Speaker 1: take together. It was a Friday, and Kim and Chew
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Speaker 1: planned to spend the entire weekend exploring this place called
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Speaker 1: Yelpo Beach. Yelpo Beach is located right against this quaint
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Speaker 1: little fishing village, and it's famous for its beautiful silver
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Speaker 1: colored sand. In fact, the beach is so famous lots
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Speaker 1: of people come out here and just camp out on
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Speaker 1: the beach because it's just so beautiful. There's also a
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Speaker 1: very busy open air seafood market right nearby, which is
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Speaker 1: really cool because all the fishermen come in and literally
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Speaker 1: offload their catch right onto the table and they sell
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Speaker 1: it to people coming by. And also up in the mountains,
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Speaker 1: you could see these beautiful bright green crops which were
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Speaker 1: tea plantations that made the air in Yelpo Beach kind
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Speaker 1: of floral and sweet smelling. But before Kim and Chu
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Speaker 1: began exploring all the kind of main tourist attractions, they
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Speaker 1: wanted to go check out the fishing pier, which was
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Speaker 1: not really a touristy attraction. It was just a regular
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Speaker 1: fishing pier. But you know, Kim and Chew had been
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Speaker 1: on this hour long train and they wanted to stretch
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Speaker 1: their legs and the sun was starting to go down,
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Speaker 1: and so they figured they could walk out on the pier,
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Speaker 1: have a beautiful view of the water, then watch the sunset,
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Speaker 1: and then after that they could go kind of explore
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Speaker 1: the main areas. And so Kim and Chu, still holding hands,
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Speaker 1: began walking on the Silver Sandy Beach in the direction
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Speaker 1: of this fishing peer off in the distance. And as
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Speaker 1: they were walking, Chu pulled out her camera and was
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Speaker 1: taking all these pictures. But then at some point Kim,
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Speaker 1: who again is holding Choo's hand, he just abruptly stops
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Speaker 1: and kind of squints his eyes and looks off in
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Speaker 1: the distance towards the fishing pier and Chew. She puts
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Speaker 1: her camera down and asks Kim, you know what's going on,
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Speaker 1: But Chu, without even saying anything to her, just raises
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Speaker 1: his hand and points, and then seconds later Kim and
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Speaker 1: Chew were running down the beach. The next day, Chu
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Speaker 1: was supposed to call her mother and check in about
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Speaker 1: how the trip was going so far, but she never did,
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Speaker 1: and so her mother eventually tried calling Chew later in
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Speaker 1: the day, but it went straight to voicemail. And then
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Speaker 1: also when Choo's mother called Ki, Kim was also not
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Speaker 1: answering his phone. And so by the end of this day,
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Speaker 1: when Kim and Choose parents had not heard from their child,
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Speaker 1: they did not wait for any more information. They knew
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Speaker 1: this was so uncharacteristic of these two to go completely
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Speaker 1: radio silent with no reason, that the parents just went
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Speaker 1: straight to the police and filed missing person reports. The
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Speaker 1: police would launch an investigation very quickly, but they didn't
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Speaker 1: have much to go on. All they knew was two
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Speaker 1: adults were not answering their phone, but that was it,
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Speaker 1: and so they started by trying to locate Kim and
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Speaker 1: Choose phones, but neither phone was giving off a signal,
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Speaker 1: so they couldn't find them. And so next the police
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Speaker 1: went to Yelpo Beach and began talking to people who
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Speaker 1: were there on the day that Kim and Chew were
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Speaker 1: to ask them if they had noticed anything funny, if
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Speaker 1: they had seen the couple, you know, did you notice
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Speaker 1: them fighting? Were they talking to anyone unusual? I mean anything?
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Speaker 1: But nobody remembered anything out of the ordinary. And the
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Speaker 1: few people who had seen Kim and Chew on the
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Speaker 1: day they were at Yelpo Beach, they said they seemed
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Speaker 1: like a very happy, normal couple. That were not fighting
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Speaker 1: at all and were just enjoying their time in Yelpo Beach,
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Speaker 1: and so over the course of that weekend, the police
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Speaker 1: tried everything they could to try to locate Kim and
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Speaker 1: Chew and figure out what happened, but they really made
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Speaker 1: no progress whatsoever, and Kim and Chu never checked in
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Speaker 1: by the end of that weekend. But everything would change
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Speaker 1: on that Monday, September third. On that day, a fisherman
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Speaker 1: spotted a body floating in the water near Yelpo Beach
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Speaker 1: and it was Choo's body. And then two days after that,
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Speaker 1: on September fifth, Kim's body washed up at a dock
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Speaker 1: at a nearby fishing village. Both Kim and Chu were
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Speaker 1: totally unrecognizable after being submerged in water for as long
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Speaker 1: as they had been. Autopsies would show that Kim and
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Speaker 1: Chu also had lots of bone fractures, but it wasn't
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Speaker 1: clear if they were beaten by someone or something and
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Speaker 1: that's what caused the fractures, or if they were just
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Speaker 1: a product of being in the water for so long
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Speaker 1: and smashing into rocks and boats and that kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: But the police thought, you know, this looks like there
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Speaker 1: could be foul plays involved, you know, maybe they were murdered.
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Speaker 1: And so the police went back and began scouring all
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Speaker 1: the footage from all the cameras at Yelpo Beach to
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Speaker 1: see if maybe they could find some clip that would
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Speaker 1: show what happened to this couple. And eventually one of
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Speaker 1: the detectives who was looking through all this footage found
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Speaker 1: something really interesting. He found a very short clip of
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Speaker 1: the couple over at that fishing pier that they had
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Speaker 1: been walking towards. However, they were not up on the
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Speaker 1: fishing pier like you would expect. They were below the
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Speaker 1: fishing pier on the sand, and they were kind of
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Speaker 1: standing next to each other, holding each other close, and
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Speaker 1: there was nobody else around them. It was like, this
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Speaker 1: totally weird thing. Now, as weird as this was, because
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Speaker 1: it made no sense for them to be below the
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Speaker 1: fishing pier. There didn't appear to be any hazards or
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Speaker 1: other people or anything near them. It was like they
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Speaker 1: just chose to be under there for some reason. But regardless,
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Speaker 1: the police would actually use this video clip to close
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Speaker 1: the case. The police would say that, you know, based
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Speaker 1: on this clip, it appears that this was the final
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Speaker 1: moment of the couple, you know, underneath this pier, and
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Speaker 1: then something happened, either an accident. They might have fallen
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Speaker 1: in the water or something and they drowned or maybe
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Speaker 1: you know, this couple elected to take their lives together.
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Speaker 1: And while Kim and Choo's families vehemently disagreed with the
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Speaker 1: police assessment, there was nothing they could do. The case
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Speaker 1: was now closed. Nobody was trying to figure out what
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Speaker 1: happened to Kim and Chew. That is until four weeks later,
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Speaker 1: on September twenty sixth, two thousand and seven, when two
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Speaker 1: more bodies, two young women, washed up on shore right
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Speaker 1: around the same area where Kim and Chew had. The
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Speaker 1: two young women had a lot of similarities to Kim
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Speaker 1: and Chew. They were in their early twenties, they were
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Speaker 1: taurists at Yelpo Beach, and their autopsies discovered that they
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Speaker 1: had several bone fractures. And so this was enough for
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Speaker 1: the police to launch a much bigger investigation into what
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Speaker 1: was going on at Yelpo Beach, which included reopening the
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Speaker 1: Kim and chewcase, and so a detective was assigned to
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Speaker 1: go back through all the evidence in the Kim and
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Speaker 1: chewecase and kind of re examine it. And so this
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Speaker 1: detective did look through all these pictures and he would
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Speaker 1: find one picture that broke the case wide open. Back
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Speaker 1: on the night that Kim and Chew were at Yelpo
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Speaker 1: Beach and they began walking towards the fishing pier, Kim
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Speaker 1: had abruptly stopped and raised his finger and pointed at something,
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Speaker 1: and then seconds later he and Chu were running in
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Speaker 1: that direction. Well, what Kim had spotted was a fisherman
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Speaker 1: who was standing below the fishing pier, and he was
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Speaker 1: very obviously making his way over to his fishing boat
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Speaker 1: to go back out on the water, and Kim just
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Speaker 1: felt like it would be really cool to go ask
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Speaker 1: that fisherman if they could join him and go out
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Speaker 1: on the water with him on his fishing boat to
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Speaker 1: get a view of Yelpo Beach that way. And Chew,
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Speaker 1: when she heard this idea, thought it was a great idea,
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Speaker 1: and the two of them ran to the pier to
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Speaker 1: try to catch this fisherman before he took off, And
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Speaker 1: so that was why there was footage of the couple
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Speaker 1: standing underneath the fishing pier. They were actually talking to
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Speaker 1: this fisherman who could not be seen in frame. The
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Speaker 1: fisherman was a seventy year old man named Wu June
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Speaker 1: Gwen and he made his living selling octopus. And at first,
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Speaker 1: when Kim and Chu approached Wu and asked to go
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Speaker 1: with him on his boat, he said, no, I don't
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Speaker 1: want you to come with me, but Kim and Chu
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Speaker 1: seemed really desperate to go out with him. Then finally
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Speaker 1: he relented and said, okay, you can tag along. Wu
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Speaker 1: was very thin and short, but he had been working
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Speaker 1: on fishing boats since he was a child, and so
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Speaker 1: despite his appearance of being this kind of small, frail guy,
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Speaker 1: he was actually really physically strong. And despite Wu's kind
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Speaker 1: of harmless seeming exterior, inside Wu was a very very
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Speaker 1: disturbed person. The reason Wu did not want to bring
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Speaker 1: Kim and Chu with him out on this boat is
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Speaker 1: he knew he would have an urge that he would
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Speaker 1: not be able to control. But when they kept begging
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Speaker 1: him over and over again to go with him, he
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Speaker 1: finally just accepted that this was going to happen. He
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Speaker 1: allowed them on his boat, He brought them out onto
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Speaker 1: the water, and sure enough, he would act on those urges.
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Speaker 1: Once Wu's boat was out on the water far away
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Speaker 1: from the beach. He immediately pushed Kim overboard, and so
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Speaker 1: Kim falls into the water, and then Wu grabbed this
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Speaker 1: long metal grappling hook and began beating Kim in the
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Speaker 1: water on his face, his arms, his hands as Kim
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Speaker 1: desperately tried to climb back in the boat, and eventually
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Speaker 1: Wu literally beat Kim to death. And at the same time,
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Speaker 1: Chu is on this boat watching this happening, and so
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Speaker 1: after her boyfriend has been beaten to death, Wu turns
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Speaker 1: on Chew and does the same thing to her. He
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Speaker 1: chucks her overboard and beats her until she dies from
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Speaker 1: this grappling hook. And then afterward Wu just got back
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Speaker 1: behind the wheel, putted back to shore, and sold his
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Speaker 1: octopus like nothing had happened. And Wu very likely would
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Speaker 1: have gotten away with these first two murders, except four
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Speaker 1: weeks later, it just so happened that two more taurists,
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Speaker 1: those two young women just happened to ask Wu the
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Speaker 1: same question, can we go out with you on your boat?
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Speaker 1: And he would kill them the same way he killed
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Speaker 1: Kim and Chu, except one of those two young women
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Speaker 1: while they were out on the water in his boat
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Speaker 1: before they were attacked, she sent something was wrong, and
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Speaker 1: she sent a text message saying she was in trouble
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Speaker 1: on a boat. And when the police found these two
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Speaker 1: women's bodies and found that text message, they immediately searched
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Speaker 1: the registry that listed all the boats that had been
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Speaker 1: out on the water near Yelpo Beach that day, and
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Speaker 1: because it was a holiday, there was nobody out on
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Speaker 1: the water except for one boat. That boat was Wu's boat.
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Speaker 1: And this is where that photo the detective found on
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Speaker 1: Choo's camera roll. When finally somebody looked through the photos,
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Speaker 1: that's where that photo comes into play. The last picture
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Speaker 1: that Chu took is of Wu. Wu is right in
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Speaker 1: front of her. He's piloting the boat out into the
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Speaker 1: open ocean, and chw just took a picture of him,
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Speaker 1: not knowing what was actually happening, that this guy was
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Speaker 1: driving her out to her death. Ultimately, Wu would be
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Speaker 1: convicted of the murders, even though he didn't really offer
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Speaker 1: up any clear explanation as to why he killed these people.
20:12
Speaker 1: He just kind of acted on these urges, so to speak,
20:15
Speaker 1: and he would be sentenced to death and he would
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Speaker 1: become the oldest death row inmate in South Korea. On
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Speaker 1: the morning of June twenty fifth, two thousand and seven,
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Speaker 1: a twenty eight year old man named Mike Barnett woke
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Speaker 1: up to the sound of pounding rain on the roof
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Speaker 1: of his home, which was located in Hall, which is
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Speaker 1: a city in northern England. Mike groaned as he rolled
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Speaker 1: out of bed. It had been raining like this for
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Speaker 1: the past month and he and the rest of the
20:48
Speaker 1: people in Hall were just totally over it. But another
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Speaker 1: reason he groaned is he knew that he would have
20:54
Speaker 1: to go to his job at a tropical fish store,
20:57
Speaker 1: even though he was not scheduled to work that day.
20:59
Speaker 1: There was a street right behind the tropical fish store
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Speaker 1: that always completely flooded out from all these debris getting
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Speaker 1: clogged in the drain, and the owner of the tropical
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Speaker 1: fish store, so Mike's boss, who was an elderly guy,
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Speaker 1: he would always go out and try to clear the
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Speaker 1: debris himself, and Mike just knew, you know, he really
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Speaker 1: needed help. And today he knew his boss would be
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Speaker 1: out there, and so he just felt like it was
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Speaker 1: his responsibility to go in and help him clear out
21:24
Speaker 1: the debris. So Mike got dressed. He had some breakfast,
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Speaker 1: and then as quietly as he could, he slipped out
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Speaker 1: the front door. Mike was careful not to make too
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Speaker 1: much noise because he didn't want to wake his dad,
21:34
Speaker 1: who he lived with. Mike and his dad had always
21:36
Speaker 1: been very close, but after the death of Mike's mother,
21:39
Speaker 1: he and his father had become even closer, and so
21:42
Speaker 1: they actually really enjoyed living together. But Mike also knew
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Speaker 1: that his dad was very protective of him and very
21:49
Speaker 1: likely would not like the idea of Mike going out
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Speaker 1: in this horrible storm to go try to clear debris
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Speaker 1: in a flooded out street. It just was too dangerous
21:58
Speaker 1: and Mike just didn't want to do with that right now,
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Speaker 1: and so he was able to slip out without waking
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Speaker 1: up his dad. Mike hopped in his car and he
22:05
Speaker 1: drove to the fish store, and as soon as he
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Speaker 1: got there, he hopped out. He went around to the
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Speaker 1: backside of the shop, and sure enough, the entire street
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Speaker 1: out back was totally flooded. Clearly debris had blocked the
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Speaker 1: drainage system. Now, Mike's boss was not out there yet,
22:19
Speaker 1: I could see him inside the shop kind of going
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Speaker 1: about his morning, and so Mike without even going inside,
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Speaker 1: just began wading into the water to begin clearing debris.
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Speaker 1: The drain that was clogged by all this debris was
22:31
Speaker 1: located just off to the side of the sidewalk. It
22:33
Speaker 1: was down in a culvert, and so Mike very carefully
22:36
Speaker 1: walked off that sidewalk into this very cold, muddy water,
22:40
Speaker 1: and he began moving in the direction of where he
22:42
Speaker 1: knew the drain was. And so as he's walking, you know,
22:45
Speaker 1: the water is down to his ankles, maybe up to
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Speaker 1: his knees at some point, but he gets closer and
22:49
Speaker 1: closer to where he knows this drainage is down in
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Speaker 1: this culvert, and suddenly Mike begins feeling this unbelievable suction
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Speaker 1: at his feet that began pulling him basically right down.
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Speaker 1: Mike tried to move, but his feet were anchored to
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Speaker 1: the ground, and then before long he began getting pulled
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Speaker 1: forward towards this drain and then down he went. And
23:09
Speaker 1: as he went all the way down to his neck
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Speaker 1: in the water, he felt this unbelievable pain in his thigh.
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Speaker 1: Mike didn't know it, but his leg had been sucked
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Speaker 1: through the drainage gate that was all blocked up there
23:21
Speaker 1: was still some holes in it, and so his leg
23:23
Speaker 1: had gone through one of those holes, and it had
23:25
Speaker 1: pulled him all the way up to the top of
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Speaker 1: his thigh and brutally snapped his leg in the process.
23:31
Speaker 1: And so Mike is in blinding pain from his leg
23:35
Speaker 1: being shattered and run through this grate, and he's literally
23:38
Speaker 1: up to his neck in this frigid water, and the
23:41
Speaker 1: wind's blowing in, it's raining, and the water's going in
23:44
Speaker 1: his mouth, and so Mike begins to panic and he's
23:46
Speaker 1: trying to pull himself out. He can't, and then he
23:49
Speaker 1: begins screaming for help. And at that moment, the owner
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Speaker 1: of the fish store, who was still inside the store,
23:55
Speaker 1: looked out the window. Then he saw Mike flailing around,
23:59
Speaker 1: and instinctively, the the owner could tell just from the
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Speaker 1: panicked look on Mike's face that whatever was happening to
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Speaker 1: him was an emergency, and so the owner just picked
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Speaker 1: up the phone called the police, and after telling them
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Speaker 1: what was happening, the owner ran out to Mike. When
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Speaker 1: the first police officers arrived on the scene, Mike was
24:16
Speaker 1: still in the water up to his neck and the
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Speaker 1: shop owner was right next to him, and the police officers.
24:22
Speaker 1: You know, they assessed the situation in front of them,
24:24
Speaker 1: and they thought, okay, you know, clearly this guy, Mike
24:27
Speaker 1: is trapped in the water. This is serious, but we
24:30
Speaker 1: can pull him out, you know, that's the obvious solution here.
24:33
Speaker 1: And so the two officers walked up to Mike. They
24:35
Speaker 1: waded through the water and got on either side of him,
24:38
Speaker 1: kind of pushing the shop owner out of the way,
24:40
Speaker 1: and then the two officers grabbed Mike's shoulders. You know,
24:43
Speaker 1: these are strong police officers, and they began pulling on Mike,
24:47
Speaker 1: and as soon as they did, Mike let out this
24:50
Speaker 1: unbelievably loud scream of just pure agony. And in fact,
24:54
Speaker 1: his scream was so guttural that the two officers let go,
24:58
Speaker 1: and we're kind of startled by it. Very quickly, these
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Speaker 1: officers realized this situation is far worse than it appears,
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Speaker 1: because not only is this guy totally stuck and he
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Speaker 1: can't be moved, but you know, they're looking around and
25:10
Speaker 1: the rain is still coming down, and it's clear the
25:13
Speaker 1: water is still slowly rising, and because Mike's body was
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Speaker 1: situated over the grate, he himself was causing even more blockage,
25:22
Speaker 1: increasing how much the street was flooding, meaning the officers
25:25
Speaker 1: knew they had to get Mike out as soon as
25:28
Speaker 1: possible or he would drown. But over the next several hours,
25:33
Speaker 1: more police officers, firefighters, EMTs, good Samaritans, I mean, everybody
25:38
Speaker 1: showed up on the scene, and there were so many
25:41
Speaker 1: attempts to get Mike out of the water, ranging from
25:44
Speaker 1: trying to cut the grate, but the water was too
25:46
Speaker 1: muddy so nobody could see through it, and the water
25:48
Speaker 1: was so strong that nobody could set the bolt cutters
25:51
Speaker 1: on the actual grate, and that at one point they
25:54
Speaker 1: even tied a winch around Mike and tried to pull
25:57
Speaker 1: him out with a land rover, but every intervention failed.
26:01
Speaker 1: The rushing water that was pinning Mike to this great
26:04
Speaker 1: was so strong, and Mike's pain in his leg was
26:08
Speaker 1: so high it made it nearly impossible to move him.
26:12
Speaker 1: And so finally, at the four hour mark that Mike
26:15
Speaker 1: has been trapped in this water, a decision was made
26:18
Speaker 1: amongst all the first responders to amputate. So the police
26:22
Speaker 1: called a doctor who was willing to perform the leg amputation,
26:26
Speaker 1: and then after doing it, Mike could sense something was up,
26:29
Speaker 1: you know, clearly it's not going well, and he began
26:32
Speaker 1: frantically asking the police and all the first responders, when
26:35
Speaker 1: are you going to get me out of here? When
26:37
Speaker 1: are you going to get me out of here? And
26:39
Speaker 1: they just kept telling him soon soon, Mike, hold on,
26:42
Speaker 1: It's going to be okay. Meanwhile, the owner of the
26:45
Speaker 1: shop at this point had called Mike's dad to tell
26:48
Speaker 1: him what was going on, And so as all these
26:50
Speaker 1: people are waiting for this doctor to show up to
26:53
Speaker 1: cut Mike's leg off, Mike's father shows up and basically
26:56
Speaker 1: barrels through the crowd and starts screaming, I'll get my
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Speaker 1: son out of here. But as soon as he saw
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Speaker 1: his son, he was totally taken aback. Mike was up
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Speaker 1: to his chin in water. There was a diver behind
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Speaker 1: him in the water with him holding him up, barely
27:12
Speaker 1: keeping his head above the water. Mike's face was totally pale,
27:15
Speaker 1: and his eyes were totally unfocused, and he had this weird,
27:19
Speaker 1: blank expression like he wasn't even there. And then a
27:22
Speaker 1: second later, a whole wall of police came running up
27:25
Speaker 1: to Mike's dad to stop him from getting any closer,
27:28
Speaker 1: and they told Mike's father they were doing everything they
27:30
Speaker 1: could to try to get his son out, and for now,
27:32
Speaker 1: they told him he just needed to go home. And so,
27:35
Speaker 1: even though Mike's dad did not want to abandon his son,
27:39
Speaker 1: he could tell with all these police standing there in
27:41
Speaker 1: front of him there was no way he was going
27:43
Speaker 1: to be able to go up there with the son,
27:46
Speaker 1: and so he would turn around and head back home
27:49
Speaker 1: without even speaking to his son. And then when Mike's
27:52
Speaker 1: dad got home, he turned on the news and the
27:55
Speaker 1: news was showing live coverage of his son trapped in
27:59
Speaker 1: that grate, and just a couple of minutes later, Mike's
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Speaker 1: dad would watch his son die on the news. By
28:05
Speaker 1: the time that doctor arrived with that special saw to
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Speaker 1: cut off Mike's leg, it was already too late. Mike
28:12
Speaker 1: had passed away from hypothermia. On a July day in
28:21
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, a man named Ray suddenly felt this
28:24
Speaker 1: unbelievable pain in his chest, and so Ray he grabbed
28:28
Speaker 1: his chest and he grimaced, and then the pain subsided. Now,
28:31
Speaker 1: Ray had never experienced any sort of pain like that before,
28:34
Speaker 1: but he knew he was getting older, and so things
28:37
Speaker 1: like heart attacks and heart disease were definitely on his mind,
28:40
Speaker 1: but he told himself that he was okay. You know,
28:42
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, he had gone to this
28:44
Speaker 1: big military veteran convention and he had stayed up late
28:47
Speaker 1: and had lots of food and lots of drink, and
28:49
Speaker 1: so he was telling himself that, you know, now he
28:51
Speaker 1: was paying for kind of letting loose. But after Ray
28:54
Speaker 1: lied down for a minute, thinking that might help him,
28:57
Speaker 1: he sat up suddenly because again the chest pain was bad,
29:00
Speaker 1: and so quickly Ray was rushed to the hospital and
29:02
Speaker 1: when he got there, he began coughing up all this
29:05
Speaker 1: pink froth, and the doctors had no idea why. This
29:09
Speaker 1: was not a heart attack, this was not heart disease,
29:11
Speaker 1: this was something else. And not long after Ray was
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Speaker 1: admitted to this hospital, all across the state more men
29:18
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29:21
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29:24
Speaker 1: doctors all across the state began to panic that this
29:27
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29:30
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