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MISSING PERSON case solved by Google Maps... - MrBallen (64k) · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share three progressively more disturbing stories,
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Speaker 1: into today's stories. At one pm on November two, twenty twenty,
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Speaker 1: an older man named Marcel Terray stood in his backyard
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Speaker 1: hanging damp clothes on a clothesline. Marcel and his wife,
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Speaker 1: eighty three year old Paultte Landru, lived on a quiet
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Speaker 1: street in the small city of Unden, Belgium, and usually
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Speaker 1: their days were filled with household chores or visits from
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Speaker 1: their kids. But over the last few months, Marcel had
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Speaker 1: started to spend a lot more time taking care of
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Speaker 1: his wife because she had recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
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Speaker 1: Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia that causes memory
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Speaker 1: loss and confusion, and so Paulette needed help remembering to
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Speaker 1: eat or to take her medications on time, and sometimes
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Speaker 1: she would just wander off without telling Marcel, and Marcel
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Speaker 1: would have to go corral her and bring her back home.
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Speaker 1: For Marcel, watching his wife struggle with his disease was
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Speaker 1: absolutely heartbreaking, and so he did everything in his power
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Speaker 1: to make her life as comfortable and happy as he
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Speaker 1: possibly could. And so before he had come out to
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Speaker 1: hang up the laundry, he had made sure to set
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Speaker 1: his wife up in front of the TV with a
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Speaker 1: nice lunch so she could eat and watch her favorite show.
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Speaker 1: And so Marcel hung up the last piece of clothing
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Speaker 1: and then picked up the empty laundry basket and headed
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Speaker 1: back towards the house. When he went inside, he expected
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Speaker 1: to see his wife still sitting on the couch watching TV,
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Speaker 1: but she wasn't there anymore. Marcell immediately began calling out
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Speaker 1: his wife's name, but she didn't call back, and then
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Speaker 1: he searched the whole house and he couldn't find her,
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Speaker 1: and so, starting to panic, he went outside. He searched
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Speaker 1: the outside of the house. She wasn't there. He even
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Speaker 1: knocked on some neighbor's doors, but they hadn't seen her.
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Speaker 1: And so at this point Marcel was very scared, given
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Speaker 1: the fact that his wife had Alzheimer's and could easily
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Speaker 1: wander off and put herself in a very dangerous situation
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Speaker 1: without even knowing, and so instead of waiting any longer
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Speaker 1: to just hope she showed up again, he picked up
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Speaker 1: the phone and he called the police. Less than an
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Speaker 1: hour later, Marcel stood outside of his house looking at
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Speaker 1: helicopters flying overhead, and he knew at least half a
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Speaker 1: dozen officers were spread out around the neighborhood, knocking on
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Speaker 1: neighbor's doors. There were canine units searching the surrounding area.
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Speaker 1: This huge search, it was all for Paulette. Marcel was
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Speaker 1: glad to see that clearly the police had taken the
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Speaker 1: search very seriously, and so he was confident that they
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Speaker 1: would find his wife and that hopefully she'd be okay.
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Speaker 1: But the hours kept ticking by, and as the sun
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Speaker 1: began to go down, there still was no sign of Paulette.
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Speaker 1: A police officer told Marcel that they would keep on
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Speaker 1: investigating and hopefully find his wife as soon as possible.
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Speaker 1: But over the next few days and weeks, Paulette didn't
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Speaker 1: turn up. Nobody had any idea where she was, and
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Speaker 1: before long, weeks turned into months, and then months turned
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Speaker 1: into two full years that nobody had seen Paulette, and
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Speaker 1: by that point Marcel had basically resigned himself to the
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Speaker 1: fact that he very likely would die without ever figuring
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Speaker 1: out what happened to his wife. But then one day,
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Speaker 1: in early October of twenty twenty two, so two years
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Speaker 1: after Paulette went missing, one of Marcel and Paulette's neighbors
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Speaker 1: was at home on their computer looking at a particular website,
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Speaker 1: and as they were scrolling through this website, they happened
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Speaker 1: upon an image that as soon as they saw it,
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Speaker 1: they froze because this neighbor was very well aware of
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Speaker 1: the fact that Paulette had gone missing and nobody had
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Speaker 1: found her. But now they're seeing this image on this
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Speaker 1: website that basically gives away what happened to her, and
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Speaker 1: so totally shocked that they had even found this image,
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Speaker 1: the neighbor screenshoted it and brought it to the police
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Speaker 1: so it would turn out that neighbor was looking at
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Speaker 1: Google street View, which is a feature of Google Maps
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Speaker 1: that basically allows you to see three hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: degree views of basically anywhere on the planet. To create
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Speaker 1: these images, Google literally sends out these special vehicles all
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Speaker 1: over the world that have cameras that sit on top
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Speaker 1: of the cars, and these cars drive down basically all
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Speaker 1: the streets all over the place, constantly taking pictures all
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Speaker 1: around them. And it just so happened on the exact
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Speaker 1: day that Paulette went missing in twenty twenty, there happened
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Speaker 1: to be a Google car driving down the road that
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Speaker 1: captured a picture of her. And so, as you can
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Speaker 1: see in the picture of her, you see Paulette on
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Speaker 1: the left side of the image walking across the street
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Speaker 1: away from her home which is on the right side,
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Speaker 1: and on the right side you can actually see Marcel
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Speaker 1: in the backyard hanging up laundry on the clothesline. And
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Speaker 1: so the police, after getting this image, they basically followed
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Speaker 1: the projected route Paulette was on, which is basically bee
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Speaker 1: lining straight across the road, and they found that across
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Speaker 1: the street was the steep hill that led down to
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Speaker 1: this thick bramble bush, and inside that bramble bush was Paulette,
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Speaker 1: and she was deceased, and so very likely Paulette, in
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Speaker 1: her confused state, walked straight across the street as we
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Speaker 1: see in the image, and then fell down that hill
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Speaker 1: and got trapped at the bottom inside of that bramble
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Speaker 1: bush and couldn't move, And so when that huge search
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Speaker 1: for her was going on, very likely she was just
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Speaker 1: trapped down there but didn't understand what was going on,
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Speaker 1: couldn't necessarily yell up to communicate with anybody, and so
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Speaker 1: she stayed down there and died. And unfortunately it would
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Speaker 1: take two more full years and a random image on
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Speaker 1: Google street View before Marcel could finally get the closure
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Speaker 1: back to the story. Around ten am on July twenty sixth,
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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, a thirty one year old mom named Xiang
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Speaker 1: lu Juan and her husband chase their two year old
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Speaker 1: son around a brand new indoor playground. This playground was
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Speaker 1: on the sixth floor of a mall in Jingjo City,
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Speaker 1: which is in central China, and so Xiang and her
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Speaker 1: husband had come to the small today just so their
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Speaker 1: son could basically enjoy this playground, and currently he was
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Speaker 1: running around in circles and laughing hysterically. He thought it
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Speaker 1: was great. Xieong caught up to her son and scooped
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Speaker 1: him up and then placed him at the top of
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Speaker 1: a slide and he happily slid down to the bottom.
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Speaker 1: And when he reached the bottom, Xiong was waiting for
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Speaker 1: him and the son. He just stopped and looked past
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Speaker 1: her and pointed and started saying ride, Ride, and so
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Speaker 1: Xiong she turned around and she saw right behind them
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Speaker 1: were these two escalators, one going up and one going down,
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Speaker 1: and so Jeong realized her son clearly thought these escalators
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Speaker 1: wanted to go use them. They were a fun attraction,
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Speaker 1: and so Jeong smiled and took her son's hand and
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Speaker 1: then told her husband, they're going to go ride the ride,
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Speaker 1: you know, the escalators, and then they began walking over.
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Speaker 1: Once Jiang and her son actually reached the escalator, suddenly
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Speaker 1: her son was not as keen to hop on board.
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Speaker 1: He was nervous. But Jieong, who had ridden escalators many
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Speaker 1: times before, you know, told her son it's totally safe,
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Speaker 1: and she kind of coaxed him to do it, and
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Speaker 1: eventually he stepped on right alongside her, holding her hand,
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Speaker 1: and about halfway up the escalator, when she was confident
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Speaker 1: her son would be okay, Xiong turned around and looked
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Speaker 1: up towards the top of the escalator the seventh floor
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Speaker 1: where they were going, and she saw three mall employees
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Speaker 1: at the top of the escalator on the seventh floor
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Speaker 1: where they were going, and they were clearly looking at
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Speaker 1: Jiang with a very serious look. On their faces, and
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Speaker 1: they were gesturing at something towards the top of the escalator.
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Speaker 1: It seemed like they could be warning her about something
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Speaker 1: or simply pointing something out. She wasn't really sure, and
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Speaker 1: so she looked up at them, like, what's going on here?
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Speaker 1: But the three mall employees just didn't do a good
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Speaker 1: job communicating whatever was going on or whatever issue they
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Speaker 1: were dealing with, and so as a result, Xiang and
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Speaker 1: her son just continued riding up the escalator, and as
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Speaker 1: they got closer and closer, these mall employees continued to
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Speaker 1: gesture at something happening on the seventh floor just beyond
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Speaker 1: the escalator, and Jiang still totally confused. And then finally,
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Speaker 1: when Jiang and her son reached the top and stepped off,
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Speaker 1: Giong suddenly understood what these employees were referencing, but by
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Speaker 1: now it was too late. Moments later, Jiang's husband, who
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Speaker 1: was still down below on the sixth floor at the playground,
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Speaker 1: he heard the sound of his wife and son screaming
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Speaker 1: over near the escalator, and so instinctively he bolted over
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Speaker 1: to the escalator. He didn't see his wife, didn't see
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Speaker 1: his son, and he began going up the escalator when
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Speaker 1: someone at the top screamed at him to stop and
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Speaker 1: get off the escalator, and so he did, and right
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Speaker 1: then a mall employee came running down the other side
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Speaker 1: carrying his son, and this person handed the sun over
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Speaker 1: to Jeong's husband, and this employee, who clearly was completely
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Speaker 1: shocked by whatever had happened up above, just shook their head.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out earlier that day, those mall employees
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Speaker 1: who were at the top gesturing to Xiang, they had
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Speaker 1: discovered a defect with the metal platform that sits right
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Speaker 1: at the top of the escalator on the seventh floor.
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Speaker 1: Basically when you get off this escalator, it's the platform
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Speaker 1: you step on to First, they had found there was
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Speaker 1: something wrong with it. It wasn't stable, But instead of
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Speaker 1: immediately blocking off the escalator to make sure nobody walked
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Speaker 1: on it and then go get it repaired, these employees
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Speaker 1: just kind of on chalanty allowed the escalator to continue,
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Speaker 1: you know, stationed a couple of them at the top
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Speaker 1: to make sure nobody you know, used the escalator, and
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Speaker 1: then called for a repairman. But the repairman hadn't shown
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Speaker 1: up and fixed this problem by the time Jiang and
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Speaker 1: her son boarded the escalator, and these employees at the
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Speaker 1: top knew there's this huge issue with the platform. They're
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Speaker 1: gonna step on the second thing get off, but they
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Speaker 1: failed to communicate the danger to Xiang and her son
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Speaker 1: as they were coming up. They just kind of broadly
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Speaker 1: gesticulated that there was some issue up here and to
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Speaker 1: sort of watch out for it. But Chiong had no idea,
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Speaker 1: and so by the time she got to the top
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Speaker 1: and stepped off the escalator onto that platform, well, the
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Speaker 1: defect with the platform is that it caved in with
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Speaker 1: any weight, and so she fell into the escalator with
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Speaker 1: the teeth of the escalator was rotating and as she
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Speaker 1: was getting pulled in to her death. Her final moment
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Speaker 1: captured on video as she took her son and thrusted
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Speaker 1: him to the employees, saving his life before she disappeared
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Speaker 1: and died inside the inner workings of the escalator. Following
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Speaker 1: Jeong's death, there was a full scale investigation and quickly
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Speaker 1: there were massive safety failures identified on the part of
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Speaker 1: the company who made the escalator, and also on the
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Speaker 1: mall itself. Two people were ultimately arrested in connection with
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Speaker 1: Jeong's death and the safety failures, and the mall reportedly
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Speaker 1: offered to pay some settlement to Jong's family. However, the
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Speaker 1: details of that settlement have not been made public. One
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Speaker 1: morning in November of nineteen ninety seven, a police captain
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Speaker 1: named Jeffrey Lewis, along with his partner, parked their squad
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Speaker 1: car near the Manatee River in Bradenton, Florida, which is
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Speaker 1: a small city just south of Tampa. A few minutes earlier,
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Speaker 1: the Bradenton Police Department had received a call from this
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Speaker 1: frantic man who had said he had found something suspicious
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Speaker 1: that had washed up on the shore of this river.
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Speaker 1: And so Captain Lewis and his part were there to investigate.
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Speaker 1: And so as soon as they got out of their
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Speaker 1: squad car, this man who had called the police, he
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Speaker 1: saw them and waved them down, and he was pointing
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Speaker 1: at something in the sand, and so Captain Lewis and
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Speaker 1: his partner they walked over, and before they even talked
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Speaker 1: to the guy, they just looked down at what he
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Speaker 1: was pointing at, and right away they could see why
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Speaker 1: he called the police, because there sitting on the sand
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Speaker 1: was a severed human hand. And so the instant Captain
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Speaker 1: Lewis saw this, his first thought was actually just alligators,
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Speaker 1: because there were alligators that swam in the Manatee River
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Speaker 1: and people were told about them and were told, you know,
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Speaker 1: not to go swimming here, but people still did, and
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Speaker 1: so his thought was, well, maybe one of the alligators
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Speaker 1: got a swimmer. However, when Captain Lewis looked at the
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Speaker 1: hand more closely, he could tell right away that that
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Speaker 1: probably did not happen because where the hand had been
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Speaker 1: cut off from the body, the cut was almost surgical.
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Speaker 1: It was very very neat, whereas if an alligator had
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Speaker 1: ripped the hand off it would be rough, but this
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Speaker 1: almost looked like a surgeon had carefully removed the hand.
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Speaker 1: And so what this signaled to Captain leewi UIs is
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Speaker 1: this hand very likely represented a murder victim. Somebody who
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Speaker 1: killed this person, cut their body up, and you know,
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Speaker 1: one of their body parts is now washed ashore. And
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Speaker 1: so Captain Lewis turned to his partner and told him
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Speaker 1: to call for backup, and within an hour police officers
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Speaker 1: were scouring the Manatee River looking for the body that
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Speaker 1: belonged to this hand. Meanwhile, the captain bagged this hand
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Speaker 1: as evidence and brought it to the County Sheriff's crime lab,
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Speaker 1: hoping that forensic experts could potentially figure out who the
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Speaker 1: victim was using fingerprints. However, when he actually handed over
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Speaker 1: the hand to these forensic technicians, they told Captain Lewis
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Speaker 1: that it was very likely going to be impossible to
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Speaker 1: try to pull prints from this hand because the hand
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Speaker 1: was very badly decomposed and water damaged. But they told
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Speaker 1: Captain Lewis that despite this being a total long shot,
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Speaker 1: they would still give it a try. And so, really
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Speaker 1: all Captain Lewis had was this hand, and so he
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Speaker 1: just kind of waited for information from the crime lab
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Speaker 1: about the fingerprints, and before long the waiting went from days,
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Speaker 1: two weeks, two months with no fingerprints. So, with no
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Speaker 1: fingerprints and no other breakthroughs in this case, Captain Lewis
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Speaker 1: moved on to other cases. That is until June of
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, when Captain Lewis was sitting in his
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Speaker 1: office doing some work when he suddenly got a call
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Speaker 1: from the crime lab about the hand. An employee told
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Speaker 1: Captain Lewis they had finally made a breakthrough when they
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Speaker 1: couldn't get the prints off this hand. At first, they
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Speaker 1: had moved to this very complicated technique where basically they
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Speaker 1: would peel individual layers of skin off the hand and
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Speaker 1: sort of pieced together all the information to get a print.
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Speaker 1: And amazingly this technique worked, and so not only did
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Speaker 1: they now have this print, but they had also already
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Speaker 1: run this print through the Florida State database and they
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Speaker 1: had gotten a match. The hand belonged to a man
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Speaker 1: named Willie Suttle. As soon as he hung up, Captain
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Speaker 1: Lewis opened up a new tab on his computer and
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Speaker 1: began researching Willie Suttle to figure out who this person was,
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Speaker 1: and he quickly found through public employment records that Willy
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Speaker 1: had been a retired garbage collector. And then also Captain
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Speaker 1: Lewis looked at police for records and discovered that Willie
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Speaker 1: had a minor criminal history. But what really stood out
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Speaker 1: in his research about Willie was that Willie had never
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Speaker 1: been reported missing. Willie had instead been reported dead. Right
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Speaker 1: there in the public records that Captain Lewis was looking at,
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Speaker 1: he found Willie's death certificate, and this document said Willie
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Speaker 1: had died of natural causes five months prior to his
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Speaker 1: hand washing up on shore, and also it said Willie
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Speaker 1: had been buried in a local cemetery, and no police
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Speaker 1: had ever been involved in his death because no crime
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Speaker 1: had been committed, And so Captain Lewis was baffled. None
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Speaker 1: of this made any sense. If Willie had died of
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Speaker 1: natural causes and been buried over a year ago, then
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Speaker 1: how did his hand as severed hand, wind up on
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Speaker 1: the shore of the Manatee River. The next day, which
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Speaker 1: was Friday, June twenty sixth, Captain Lewis, along with a
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Speaker 1: few other police officers, went to the cemetery where Willie
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Speaker 1: had been buried, and they exhumed his casket and when
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Speaker 1: they opened it up, they actually expected it to be empty,
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Speaker 1: considering his hand was already missing, so probably his whole
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Speaker 1: body was gone. But no, when they opened it up,
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Speaker 1: there was Willie missing his left hand. But that wasn't all.
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Speaker 1: At the bottom of Willie's casket were all of his
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Speaker 1: internal organs just sitting there in a rotting pile. And
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Speaker 1: so Captain Lewis is staring at this, having no idea
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Speaker 1: what to make of it. But the first thought he
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Speaker 1: had was, Okay, you know, maybe somebody tried to rob
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Speaker 1: Willy's casket. But he's thinking, you know, if they did that,
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Speaker 1: why did they cut out his organs and stashed him
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Speaker 1: at the bottom of the casket, And also why did
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Speaker 1: they remove his left hand and chuck it in the river?
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Speaker 1: Like that doesn't make any sense. It felt like every
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Speaker 1: clue Captain Lewis found was only making this case harder
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Speaker 1: to solve. But he hoped when he sent off Willy's
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Speaker 1: body to the County Medical Examiner that they would be
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Speaker 1: able to provide him with some more answers as to
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Speaker 1: what happened here. Later that afternoon, the county medical examiner
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Speaker 1: would perform an autopsy on Willie's body, and the first
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Speaker 1: thing he noticed when he began was that, despite the
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Speaker 1: fact that Willy's organs clearly had been removed, that Willie's
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Speaker 1: abdomen did not appear sunken in it appeared. So the
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Speaker 1: medical examiner started the autopsy by cutting open Willy's abdomen
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Speaker 1: to see what was in there, and when he saw
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Speaker 1: what was inside of Willie, he just froze, having no
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Speaker 1: idea how to react to what he was looking at.
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Speaker 1: He had never seen anything like this in his entire career,
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Speaker 1: not even close, and so the medical examiner just grabbed
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Speaker 1: a camera took some pictures of Willy's midsection and sent
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Speaker 1: those pictures to Captain Lewis. The next day, Captain Lewis
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Speaker 1: sat inside of an interview room in the police station
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Speaker 1: across from a forty five year old woman named Paula
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Speaker 1: Green Albritton. Paula owned and operated a funeral home along
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Speaker 1: with the help of her son, and she had been
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Speaker 1: the one responsible for Willie Suttle's burial, and so Captain
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Speaker 1: Lewis asked Paula about Willy's burial, and she would tell
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Speaker 1: him that Willy had actually died in poverty without any
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Speaker 1: family members to help cover his burial expenses. However, when
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Speaker 1: Paula had found out about this, she said she had
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Speaker 1: agreed to do the burial anyways for no cost, as
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Speaker 1: sort of a community service. However, when Captain Lewis poked
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Speaker 1: and prodded and tried to ask for more information about
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Speaker 1: exactly what that meant, Paula would eventually concede that there
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Speaker 1: actually was slightly more to her rationale behind wanting to
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Speaker 1: do Willy's burial. It was not just for charity. Two
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Speaker 1: days after this interview, police arrested both Paula and her
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Speaker 1: son and at Paula's trial, the truth surrounding what happened
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Speaker 1: to Willy finally came out. It would turn out Paula's
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Speaker 1: funeral home business was really struggling, to the point where
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Speaker 1: if she couldn't start generating some real money, her business
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Speaker 1: might go under, and she couldn't have that, and so
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Speaker 1: Paula decided she would conduct a prosperity ritual to write
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Speaker 1: her business. But to perform this prosperity ritual, Paula needed
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Speaker 1: a body. And so along comes Willy Suttle, who's died
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Speaker 1: in poverty and his family can't afford his funeral, and
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Speaker 1: Paula says, don't worry, I'll take him on for free.
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Speaker 1: But really what she needed was Willy's body. And once
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Speaker 1: Paula and her son had possession of Willy's body, they
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Speaker 1: began the ritual, which started with Paula's son carefully cutting
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Speaker 1: off Willy's left hand, and then the two of them
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Speaker 1: cut Willy's midsection open, removed all his internal organs, and
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Speaker 1: then Paula got out all these voodoo dolls and she
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Speaker 1: wrote on pieces of paper the names of the other
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Speaker 1: funeral homes her competitors in the area, and she pinned
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Speaker 1: these pieces of paper to each of these voodoo dolls,
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Speaker 1: and then she took those voodoo dolls and jammed them
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Speaker 1: inside of Willy's abdomen in the empty cavity they had created,
20:28
Speaker 1: and then they stitched him back up. And then she
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Speaker 1: took Willy's body and his organs and she chucked them
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Speaker 1: into a cheap casket and had him buried. And then
20:36
Speaker 1: she also took the hand that her son had removed.
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Speaker 1: She put it inside of a plastic bag, added some
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Speaker 1: weight to it, and chucked it into the Manatee River.
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Speaker 1: Paula believed this voodoo ritual would literally cause the owners
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Speaker 1: of the other funeral homes whose businesses she wrote down
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Speaker 1: on the dolls and jammed inside of Willy's body, that
20:53
Speaker 1: this ritual would literally cause all of them to be
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Speaker 1: struck down and killed, putting their businesses out of business,
21:01
Speaker 1: thereby leading to her business prospering once again. However, none
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Speaker 1: of these things came to fruition. The ritual did not
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Speaker 1: work the way Paula intended it to. Instead, the hand
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Speaker 1: that she had thrown into the river ultimately washed ashore,
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Speaker 1: and before long the police figured out what Paula and
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Speaker 1: her son had done in nineteen ninety nine, so two
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Speaker 1: years after Willie's hand had washed up on shore, Paula
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Speaker 1: and her son were found guilty of desecrating Willy's corpse.
21:27
Speaker 1: Paula's son ultimately served one year in prison. As for Paula,
21:31
Speaker 1: her conviction was actually quickly overturned due to a technicality.
21:35
Speaker 1: It was discovered that during an interview with Paula that
21:38
Speaker 1: police detectives told her that she could not be convicted
21:42
Speaker 1: if this ritual was part of a religious practice, that
21:45
Speaker 1: she was protected under the US Constitution. And so Paula,
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Speaker 1: who confessed to doing this ritual, did so by saying
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Speaker 1: it was part of her religion. She practiced voodoo. I
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Speaker 1: am a louis that I'll have and that's the bottom avigations.
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Speaker 1: And so in court that confession was ruled and admissible,
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Speaker 1: and so she walked free. Here is a photo of
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