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His skull was melting... and no one knew why - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you three medical mysteries, and
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  Speaker 1: all of these stories end with diagnoses that are so
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  Speaker 1: bizarre to leave you thinking I didn't even know that
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  Speaker 1: was possible. But before we get into today's stories, if
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  Speaker 1: One morning in twenty seventeen, a twenty five year old
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  Speaker 1: man named Watsonabe Takuya stumbled into the Kiyo University Hospital
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  Speaker 1: in Tokyo, Japan. Takuya felt sweaty and feverish, and his
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  Speaker 1: head was pounding, and he also had one hand kind
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  Speaker 1: of cupped over his right ear because his ear was
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  Speaker 1: literally leaking fluid. But Takuya was not scared by these symptoms. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he actually felt sort of annoyed. Because this was actually
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  Speaker 1: not the first time.
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  Speaker 2: These symptoms had happened to him.
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  Speaker 1: So Takuya had this long history of something known as
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  Speaker 1: cholestio tuma, which is basically a recurring cyst that grows
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  Speaker 1: deep inside the ear canal. When he was a teenager,
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  Speaker 1: he'd had multiple surgeries to have the cyst removed and
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  Speaker 1: keep it from coming back, and for almost a decade
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  Speaker 1: now that it seemed like the surgeries had worked because
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  Speaker 1: the cyst had stayed gone, But about two weeks earlier,
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  Speaker 1: he'd begun having this constant drainage coming out of his ear,
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  Speaker 1: which was a sign that the cyst was back.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: When this began happening, initially he had sort of put
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  Speaker 1: off going back to the hospital, but now he was
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  Speaker 1: pretty sure the cyst had caused him to develop an
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  Speaker 1: ear infection, which would now explain his fever and his headache,
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  Speaker 1: and so here he was. So Takuya made his way
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  Speaker 1: to the checking desk at the hospital with one hand
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  Speaker 1: still keeping the liquid in his ear, and as he's
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  Speaker 1: standing there, he explained his symptoms and his medical history
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  Speaker 1: to the perceptionist, who nodded, you know, took down all
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  Speaker 1: of his information and quickly admitted him to.
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  Speaker 2: The emergency room.
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  Speaker 1: About half an hour later, Takuya was laying in his
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  Speaker 1: emergency room bed with his eyes closed because the light
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  Speaker 1: in the room was so intense it was making his
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  Speaker 1: headache worse. But even with his eyes closed, he knew
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  Speaker 1: there was a hospital doctor standing right beside his bed,
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  Speaker 1: and he listened as the doctor went over the results
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  Speaker 1: of some of the tests they had run. The doctor
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  Speaker 1: said that based on Takuya's medical history and the fluid
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  Speaker 1: clearly leaking out of his ear, they were pretty sure
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  Speaker 1: that he was right and that his cyst had returned
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  Speaker 1: and led to what was now a severe ear infection.
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  Speaker 1: He said that very likely Takuya would have to have
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  Speaker 1: another surgery to get rid of the cyst again, but
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  Speaker 1: the doctor didn't want to operate just yet, because he
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  Speaker 1: said they had an even bigger problem to deal with first.
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  Speaker 1: Based on the preliminary blood tests, the doctor said, it
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  Speaker 1: looked like Toakuya's ear infection had gotten so bad that
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  Speaker 1: the infection had actually spread to the tissue surrounding his brain,
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  Speaker 1: and this was obviously extremely dangerous, primarily because it could
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  Speaker 1: lead to permanent brain damage and even death. And when
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  Speaker 1: Takuya heard this, I mean on one hand, he was
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  Speaker 1: obviously shocked. I mean, this was more than he expected,
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  Speaker 1: of course, But more than that, he just felt mad
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  Speaker 1: at himself because he knew that if he hadn't waited
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  Speaker 1: so long to come to the hospital, this infection likely
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have gotten this bad. I mean, he's known about
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  Speaker 1: this for two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: He just kind of didn't want.
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  Speaker 1: To deal with it, and now it was obviously much worse.
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  Speaker 1: But regardless, you know, it was too late now. So Takuyah,
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  Speaker 1: despite the light, opened up his eyes and he asked
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  Speaker 1: the doctor, you know, what could they do? And the
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  Speaker 1: doctor said they were going to have to admit him
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  Speaker 1: to the hospital, not just the emergency room, and start
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  Speaker 1: him on a very powerful dose of antibiotics. Two weeks later,
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  Speaker 1: Takuya was still in the hospital, and at this point
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  Speaker 1: he was actually lying on his back and he was
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  Speaker 1: being basically rolled inside of a CT machine, which basically
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  Speaker 1: is like this big white ring that goes over your
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  Speaker 1: head and it scans the inside of your head. So,
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  Speaker 1: by this point, the antibiotics he'd been prescribed had worked
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  Speaker 1: and Takuya's infection had been cured. But despite that, his
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  Speaker 1: ear was still leaking fluid on and off, not constantly,
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  Speaker 1: but it was definitely still happening. So because of that,
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  Speaker 1: hospital doctors had ordered this CT scan specifically so they
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  Speaker 1: could look inside of Takuya's head and basically map out
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  Speaker 1: exactly how they were going to operate on his ear.
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  Speaker 2: Takuya laid perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: Still for about five minutes while the CT scan machine
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  Speaker 1: took pictures of the inside of his head, and then
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  Speaker 1: when it was done, a nurse pulled him out and
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  Speaker 1: then led him back to his hospital room, and then
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  Speaker 1: a little while later a hospital doctor came into the
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  Speaker 1: room holding some papers, and the doctor told Takuya that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, based on the CT scan he had just done,
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  Speaker 1: he actually didn't need another surgery on his ear. And
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  Speaker 1: immediately Takuya felt so happy and so relieved because he thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know, another surgery was practically inevitable. But that happy
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  Speaker 1: feeling only lasted for about a second because then the
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  Speaker 1: doctor who you know just delivered this news sort of
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  Speaker 1: shifted and had this really troubled look come over his face,
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  Speaker 1: and they told Takuya that, well, the reason you don't
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  Speaker 1: need another surgery is because there is no cyst in
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  Speaker 1: your ear at all. The real problem that was causing
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  Speaker 1: all of your symptoms was much much worse than from
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  Speaker 1: his stack of papers. The doctor handed to Kuya an
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  Speaker 1: image from the CT scan, and when Takuya looked at it,
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  Speaker 1: he could.
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  Speaker 2: Not believe what he saw.
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  Speaker 1: It would turn out Takuya had an extremely rare condition
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  Speaker 1: called gorum stout disease, which is more commonly known as
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  Speaker 1: vanishing bone disease. It happens when a person's body just
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  Speaker 1: randomly starts breaking down and consuming their own bones.
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  Speaker 2: And in Takuya's case.
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  Speaker 1: His skull was now literally disappearing, almost like a melting
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  Speaker 1: ice cube, and that fluid that was leaking out of
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  Speaker 1: his ear was brain fluid that was now basically flowing
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  Speaker 1: through the holes in his skull. Now, unfortunately, at the
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  Speaker 1: time of the story and still today, there is no
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  Speaker 1: known cure for gorum' stout disease. The best doctors can
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  Speaker 1: do is basically plug up the holes where they begin
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  Speaker 1: to disintegrate, and that's exactly what they did for Takuya.
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  Speaker 1: They used this special glue and literally kind of plugged
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  Speaker 1: up the holes in his skull. But amazingly, it sort
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  Speaker 1: of worked, because Takuya's doctors monitored him for bone loss
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  Speaker 1: and fluid leakage after they did this and as of
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  Speaker 1: his most recent checkup in twenty eighteen, at least in
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  Speaker 1: terms of what's been publicly released, he appeared to.
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  Speaker 2: Be doing quite well.
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  Speaker 1: One afternoon in late January of twenty eighteen, a father
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  Speaker 1: named Dan Levitis stood inside the bathroom that his three
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  Speaker 1: kids shared inside of his house in Madison, Wisconsin. Dan
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  Speaker 1: grabbed his kid's toothbrushes and threw them right in the garbage.
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  Speaker 1: Then he sprayed the counters, the sink, the mirror, basically
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  Speaker 1: every surface he could see with disinfectant and began wiping
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  Speaker 1: everything down.
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  Speaker 2: So Dan was doing this because.
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  Speaker 1: He, his wife, and their three kids all had strep throat,
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  Speaker 1: and according to their doctor, the best way to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of it was basically to have everybody take antibiotics
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  Speaker 1: and to deep clean the house to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: all the bacteria that had caused the infection. However, as
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  Speaker 1: Dan followed protocol and scrubbed down the bathroom counters, he
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  Speaker 1: felt sort of frustrated because this was not actually the
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  Speaker 1: first time that his whole family had come down with strap.
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  Speaker 1: Over just the last four months, his whole family had
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  Speaker 1: gotten strap six times, and no matter how many antibiotics
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  Speaker 1: they took or how many times they deep cleaned the
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  Speaker 1: house and all the bathrooms, it's like they always got
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  Speaker 1: sick again. And this was really baffling to Dan because
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  Speaker 1: he was actually a biologist, and so he knew a
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  Speaker 1: lot about bacteria, and he'd already explored practically every option
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  Speaker 1: for where this repeated strap infection could be coming from.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody else at his or his wife's work was getting sick,
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  Speaker 1: and neither was anybody at his kid's school or daycare,
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  Speaker 1: so he knew it couldn't be coming from any of
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  Speaker 1: those places.
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  Speaker 2: But this didn't make any sense either.
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  Speaker 1: Because each time they got strap, all six times, Dan
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  Speaker 1: and his wife, you know, systematically disinfected like the entire house,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, really overboard, cleaning every surface. So if there
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  Speaker 1: was bacteria somewhere in the house, it had to have
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  Speaker 1: been cleaned up by now.
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  Speaker 2: But it was like somehow.
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  Speaker 1: The bacteria was surviving the disinfecting. He just didn't know
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  Speaker 1: where it could be. But regardless, Dan still dutifully went about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, disinfecting the bathroom for the sixth time here.
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  Speaker 1: Then when he was done, he went into the kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: where he had his whole family's antibiotic prescriptions stacked up
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  Speaker 1: on the counter. Dan took his own and then also
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  Speaker 1: grabbed doses for everybody else. Dan brought antibiotics to his
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  Speaker 1: two daughters, who were six and three years old, and
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  Speaker 1: who were also both lying in their beds, looking completely miserable.
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  Speaker 1: Then he went into his and his wife's room, where
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  Speaker 1: he found his wife sitting up in bed, cuddling with
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  Speaker 1: their very sick one year old son. Dan handed his
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  Speaker 1: wife the antibiotics and then looked down at his son.
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  Speaker 1: He looked so small and vulnerable, and it just killed
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  Speaker 1: Dan and how many times this poor kid had been sick,
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  Speaker 1: and how powerless he was to help him. Dan didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what else to do here. He and his wife
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  Speaker 1: were following doctor's orders here, but this is again the
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  Speaker 1: sixth time, and clearly nothing's changing, so the.
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  Speaker 2: Advice is not really helping.
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  Speaker 1: It just sort of felt like they were trapped and
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get out of this awful situation. But then, as
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  Speaker 1: Dan was standing there feeling sort of defeated, he thought
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  Speaker 1: of something. His mother was a retired pediatrician. And she
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  Speaker 1: might have different advice for how to handle this. So
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  Speaker 1: he sat down in bed, took out his phone, and
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  Speaker 1: he called his mom to ask for help. And Dan's
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  Speaker 1: mom actually did have a theory about where this strep
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  Speaker 1: bacteria was.
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  Speaker 2: Coming from and how to get rid of it.
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  Speaker 1: But because Dan was a biologist and really understood how
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  Speaker 1: bacteria functioned, he knew her theory was sort of out there.
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  Speaker 1: Like most scientists and medical professionals for that matter, would
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  Speaker 1: say that his mom's theory was basically not possible. But
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  Speaker 1: at this point, Dan and his family were desperate enough
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  Speaker 1: that they were all ready to try something new.
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  Speaker 2: So Dan decided he would.
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  Speaker 1: Try out his mother's theory, and so he began looking
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  Speaker 1: for an expert to help him do that. But all
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  Speaker 1: the experts Dan got in touch with when they heard
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  Speaker 1: about what this theory really entailed, they turned it down,
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  Speaker 1: like nobody was prepared to do this, And so for Dan,
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  Speaker 1: it felt like he was right on the cusp of
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  Speaker 1: maybe finding the answer here and maybe curing his family
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  Speaker 1: of this horrible problem, but no medical professionals would even
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  Speaker 1: entertain it as a possibility.
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  Speaker 2: About a month later, in early March, Dan was inside
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  Speaker 2: of a hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Room, sitting next to his wife, and they were both
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  Speaker 1: staring down at their three year old daughter. She was
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  Speaker 1: lying in a hospital bed, hooked up to an IV
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  Speaker 1: and an oxygen mask because she'd got in strapped throat
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  Speaker 1: for a seventh time, and this time she'd gotten so
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  Speaker 1: sick she'd also developed pneumonia, and so realistically, at this point,
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  Speaker 1: Dan and his wife weren't even sure if she was
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  Speaker 1: going to survive. And for Dan, I mean, he was
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  Speaker 1: on the verge of a complete breakdown here. He was
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  Speaker 1: convinced that the only way to protect his kids was
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  Speaker 1: to find somebody who would test.
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  Speaker 2: His mother's theory.
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  Speaker 1: But Dan and his wife had already been turned down
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  Speaker 1: by basically every expert in the entire state, and so
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  Speaker 1: Dan really didn't know who to turn to at this point.
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  Speaker 1: But as they sat in the hospital room watching their
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  Speaker 1: toddler fight for her life, Dan's wife suddenly turned to
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  Speaker 1: him and said, what if instead of asking medical professionals
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  Speaker 1: for help, what if we try asking medical students. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: a student would be more willing to test out this theory.
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  Speaker 1: You know, even if it did seem kind of crazy,
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  Speaker 1: Dan agreed at this point, it was definitely worth a try,
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  Speaker 1: so they reached out to the University of Wisconsin and
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  Speaker 1: this final hail Mary actually worked. On April fourth, twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: so about six months after the first step outbreak in
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  Speaker 1: their house, Dan and his wife took one very specific
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  Speaker 1: thing from their home and brought it to the University
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  Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. The student they'd contacted then analyzed this thing
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  Speaker 1: and was determined after their analysis that Dan and his family's.
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  Speaker 2: Crazy theory was correct.
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  Speaker 1: It would turn out Dan, his wife, and their three
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  Speaker 1: kids were not the only ones in their home suffering
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  Speaker 1: from strep throat. There was actually a sixth victim, their
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  Speaker 1: pet cat. Now, most veterinarians didn't believe that cats could
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  Speaker 1: even catch strap, let alone transmit it to humans, so
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  Speaker 1: they all refused to test the family's cat.
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  Speaker 2: That's why they kept saying no.
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  Speaker 1: It was not until Dan contacted the University of Wisconsin
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  Speaker 1: veterinary school that a student finally agreed to do it,
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  Speaker 1: and lo and behold, the test came back positive for
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  Speaker 1: the exact same strain that the family kept on catching their.
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  Speaker 2: Cat kept giving them strap.
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  Speaker 1: Dan's three year old daughter would make a full recovery
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  Speaker 1: from her pneumonia, and after another round of antibiotics and
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  Speaker 1: including antibiotics for the cat, and one more deep clean
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  Speaker 1: of the house, the family strep throat finally went away
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  Speaker 1: for good. On September thirtieth, nineteen sixty four, a forty
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  Speaker 1: four year old woman named Charlotte Lawrence stood with her
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  Speaker 1: husband outside the door to her parents' apartment in a
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  Speaker 1: little city in southwestern Germany. Charlotte took a deep, shaky
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  Speaker 1: breath and then unlocked the door and stepped slowly into
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  Speaker 1: her parents' home. So Charlotte was here because both of
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  Speaker 1: her parents had suddenly died just a few days ago.
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  Speaker 1: They'd only been seventy and seventy six years old, and
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  Speaker 1: they had both been in good health. But her father
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  Speaker 1: had suffered a massive heart attack right in their kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: and when her mother found him, she also had a
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  Speaker 1: heart attack, apparently out of shock. Now Charlotte's mother had
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  Speaker 1: managed to call a doctor, but by the time the
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  Speaker 1: doctor arrived, both Charlotte's dad and mom were deceased. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte and her husband had flown into Germany that morning
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  Speaker 1: from Wisconsin, where they lived, and up until this point,
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte really had been holding her emotions together, but now
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  Speaker 1: standing in her parents' living room and looking around at
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  Speaker 1: all their belongings, it was like all of the grief
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  Speaker 1: just poured out of her and she just broke down
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  Speaker 1: and sobbed. So her husband, not really knowing what else
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  Speaker 1: to do, just turned on the TV and sort of
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  Speaker 1: guided Charlotte over to the couch and told her to
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  Speaker 1: sit down and rest for a bit before they had dinner.
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  Speaker 1: They actually had plans that evening with the next door neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: She was this elderly woman named Caroline, and Caroline had
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  Speaker 1: offered to come over and cook dinner for them, and
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  Speaker 1: also Charlotte's uncle, Dieter, planned to come over as well
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  Speaker 1: after dinner, since he lived nearby. About thirty minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte is still sitting on the couch, just kind of
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  Speaker 1: relaxing and watching TV. Caroline, the neighbor, showed up, and
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  Speaker 1: she showed up with two big bags of groceries, and
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  Speaker 1: she went right inside the house and right into the
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  Speaker 1: kitchen and began cooking, and pretty soon the entire apartment
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  Speaker 1: smelled like comfort food, which made Charlotte feel admittedly a
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  Speaker 1: lot better. Eventually, Caroline called out that dinner was almost ready,
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  Speaker 1: so at that point Charlotte got up, she went into
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen and sat down at the table next to
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  Speaker 1: her husband, and then after the food was served, they
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  Speaker 1: all ate dinner together while they waited for her uncle
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  Speaker 1: Dieter to arrive. Not long after, Uncle Dieter arrived and
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  Speaker 1: knocked on the front door of the apartment, but after
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  Speaker 1: a full minute, nobody came.
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  Speaker 2: To the door. So he knocked again, but there was
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  Speaker 2: still no answer.
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  Speaker 1: Dieter could hear the TV on in the living room,
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  Speaker 1: but he couldn't hear any voices inside or the sound
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  Speaker 1: of anybody moving around inside the apartment, and so after
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  Speaker 1: a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 2: He just decided he would let himself in.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: As Dieter walked through the living room, he began calling
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: out for Charlotte, her husband, and for Caroline, but still
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: nobody called back, and there was no sense of anybody
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: moving inside the apartment. It was just totally still, and
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: so Dieter he couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: like this is weird, Like where is everybody?
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: What's going on? They were expecting me.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: He walked out of the living room and into the kitchen,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: and there he saw Charlotte, her husband, and Caroline all
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: sitting at the table eating their food, but something was wrong.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: All three of them were just sitting at the table
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: and their plates were half eaten right in front of them,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: but nobody was moving. It was like they were all
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: just kind of stationary, just kind of staring straight ahead.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: And so Dieter he sort of he bent down and
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: he was like, Charlotte, what's going on?
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: What are you guys doing?
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: But when he got a good look at Charlotte's face
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and Caroline's face and Charlotte's husband's face, his stomach just
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: dropped and he backed away totally horrified. What Dieter saw
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: was so terrifying, so eerie, so awful. It actually made
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: international news, and that apartment.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Would even get a nickname, the death House.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Charlotte's parents did not just have spontaneous heart attacks.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: On the same day and die. That's not what happened.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: It would turn out that toxic sewer gas had been
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: leaking into the apartment through a broken pipe in the
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: kitchen sink. That gas poisoned both of Charlotte's parents and
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: caused their hearts to stop basically at the same time.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Now, nobody thought.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: To check for sewer gas poison, so Charlotte and her
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: husband came to stay at her parents' apartment without any
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: idea that the apartment was still full of this toxic gas,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: and so when Dietter finally came over for dinner, he
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: found Charlotte, her husband, and Caroline all sitting around the
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: kitchen table sort of frozen there because they were dead. Dieter, fortunately,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: after seeing this, immediately left the apartment to go call
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: the authorities, and it was that decision that ultimately saved
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: his life.
• 20:03
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• 20:05
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• 20:07
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• 20:10
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• 20:16
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• 20:20
  Speaker 2: All right, Until next time, see ya,