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They are hiding a dark secret... - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today's three stories show that no matter how harmless and
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Speaker 1: trustworthy a person might look, you have no idea who
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Speaker 1: they really are beneath the surface until it's too late.
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. On the evening of May fifth,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, a student named Jung You Jung sat
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Speaker 1: at her desk in her bedroom inside the house where
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Speaker 1: she lived with her grandfather in Busan, which is the
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Speaker 1: second largest city in South Korea. Jung was hunched over
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Speaker 1: with her head in a book, studying for a really
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Speaker 1: important test that she had coming up, But like the
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Speaker 1: words on the page just kind of jumbled together and
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Speaker 1: she couldn't focus, and Jung just felt really frustrated because
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Speaker 1: she knew like she needed to consume this material and
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Speaker 1: internalize it, but the way she was doing it clearly
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Speaker 1: wasn't working. She really needed help. However, Jung had previously
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Speaker 1: tried to find a tutor like to get help, but
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Speaker 1: finding the right tutor had proven to be very challenging.
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Speaker 1: So Jung had recently signed up for this mobile app
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Speaker 1: that was supposed to connect high school students to tutors,
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Speaker 1: and she had reached out to over fifty people asking
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Speaker 1: them if they could help her prepare for this really
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Speaker 1: major exam in her ninth grade English class. But everyone
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Speaker 1: she had spoken to either was not available or just
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Speaker 1: wasn't a good fit. But on this night, as Jung
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Speaker 1: stared down at her book, desperately trying to parse through
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Speaker 1: the words on the page, she suddenly heard her phone
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Speaker 1: buss and so Jung, who was sort of eager for
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Speaker 1: a distraction here, she grabbed her phone and she saw
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Speaker 1: there was a notification from that mobile app, the tutoring app.
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Speaker 1: So Jung she opened up the app and she read
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Speaker 1: the message, and she broke into a smile because the
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Speaker 1: reply was from a potential tutor that she'd contacted earlier.
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Speaker 1: That day that she had been you know, sort of
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Speaker 1: optimistic about. According to this tutor's profile, her name was
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Speaker 1: chay Un, she was a twenty six year old college student,
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Speaker 1: and she spoke fluent English and now. In her reply,
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Speaker 1: chay Yun told Jung that she would be more than
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Speaker 1: happy to help her and was actually available to start
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Speaker 1: as soon as the day after tomorrow. There was just
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Speaker 1: one downside. Chay Un tutored exclusively out of her own apartment,
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Speaker 1: which was on the far north side of the city,
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Speaker 1: so it would be pretty inconvenient for Jung to just
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Speaker 1: get there. And then also she knew her grandfather would
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Speaker 1: definitely worry about her traveling that far alone. But after
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Speaker 1: having searched for a tutor for so long with no success,
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Speaker 1: Jung just did not want to pass up this opportunity.
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Speaker 1: She immediately messaged back that she couldn't wait to get started,
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Speaker 1: and then she and chay Un set up their first meeting.
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Speaker 1: Two days later. On the evening of May twenty seventh,
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Speaker 1: Jung walked up to the tutor's apartment complex. It had
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Speaker 1: taken her almost an hour to get here on the bus,
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Speaker 1: and she'd been lugging this huge bag with her full
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Speaker 1: of her study materials. The whole time, she had brought
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Speaker 1: along basically all of her stuff just in case they
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Speaker 1: actually got to studying today, which realistically, Jung didn't know
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Speaker 1: if they would. This is like their first meeting. She
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Speaker 1: didn't really know what to expect, but either way, Jung
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Speaker 1: was glad to be here. I mean this represented progress.
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Speaker 1: So Jung, along with her big old bag, went up
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Speaker 1: to the door with the apartment number that Chayn had
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Speaker 1: given her, and she knocked. A few seconds later, the
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Speaker 1: door swung open, and Jung saw chey Un standing there
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Speaker 1: with a big smile on her face, and she looked
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Speaker 1: exactly like she did in her profile picture on the app.
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Speaker 1: Chay Un then introduced herself and shook Chung's hand and
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Speaker 1: welcomed her inside. Jung walked in and had a quick
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Speaker 1: look around, and she saw how the apartment was pretty small.
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Speaker 1: It was a studio apartment. There was a bed and
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Speaker 1: a couch in the same main area, and there was
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Speaker 1: a kitchen and bathroom sort of branching off from there.
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Speaker 1: Just then Jung heard Cheon shut the door, and then
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Speaker 1: she walked right past Jung and she took a seat
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Speaker 1: on the couch and then she sort of beckoned Jung
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Speaker 1: to come have a seat next to her and come chat,
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Speaker 1: and so Jung she smiled, and she's got her bag
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Speaker 1: and she walks over and she sits down next to
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Speaker 1: Cheon and the pair just start chatting, and you know,
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Speaker 1: Cheon asked her to explain again, sort of like what
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Speaker 1: are your main goals here? What can I help you with?
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Speaker 1: And Junk said, well, you know, I have this this
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Speaker 1: big test coming up from my English class, and you know,
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Speaker 1: I was hoping you could help me with that, and
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Speaker 1: Cheon said, yeah, of course, of course I can. I'm
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Speaker 1: fluent in English. I've worked with many people on you know,
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Speaker 1: similar testing material, so you know this is going to
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Speaker 1: be great. And so Jung, you know, she's thrilled and
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Speaker 1: she says to her tutor, well like, hey, I brought
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Speaker 1: my stuff. Can can we just like start the lesson
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Speaker 1: right now? And Chaon was sort of maybe taken a
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Speaker 1: little bit of back. This is their first interaction, but
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Speaker 1: she's like, okay, yeah, let me just let me just
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Speaker 1: get a drink of first, and so Cheon she wanders
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Speaker 1: off into the kitchen and disappears to get her water,
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Speaker 1: and John unzips her bag and begins fishing out her
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Speaker 1: studying materials. A few hours later, a taxi driver was
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Speaker 1: driving through the northern part of Bussan, scanning the sidewalk
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Speaker 1: for potential customers, and at some point, as he looked around,
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Speaker 1: he eventually saw this woman who appeared to be maybe
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Speaker 1: in her twenties, standing outside of an apartment complex Cheon's
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Speaker 1: apartment complex. And this woman, she had this large, very
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Speaker 1: heavy looking black suitcase by her side, and she was
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Speaker 1: waving to the cab driver, clearly trying to hail him down.
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Speaker 1: So the driver pulled up alongside the kirby, rolled down
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Speaker 1: this window, and he called out to her and asked
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Speaker 1: where she needed to go, and the woman told him
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Speaker 1: that she needed to go to the Nakdong River. And
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Speaker 1: this immediately struck the driver as being a little weird
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Speaker 1: because the Nakdong River was in a very isolated area
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Speaker 1: far outside the city. It was like a really odd
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Speaker 1: place for a young woman to go along, especially this
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Speaker 1: late at night. But the driver also knew that he
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Speaker 1: could charge the woman a pretty high fare for taking
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Speaker 1: her all that way, so he said okay. Then he
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Speaker 1: popped the trunk of his cab and asked if she
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Speaker 1: needed help. With her suitcase, but she immediately said no, no,
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Speaker 1: she had it. So the driver just shrugged and he
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Speaker 1: waited while this woman lugged this heavy suitcase to the
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Speaker 1: back of his cab and she hoisted it into the trunk.
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Speaker 1: She shut the trunk and then she climbed inside, and
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Speaker 1: then the driver pulled away from the curb and started
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Speaker 1: heading out of the city and it was a long,
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Speaker 1: quiet ride, but eventually he pulled up to the entry
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Speaker 1: point for Knackedong River, which was basically a trailhead surrounded
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Speaker 1: by bushes that led into this sort of semi forested area.
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Speaker 1: At this point, the driver parked and the woman asked
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Speaker 1: him how much she owed him, and he told her,
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Speaker 1: and so she pulled out her money and she quickly
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Speaker 1: paid him, and then just out of habit, the driver
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Speaker 1: asked the woman again if she needed help getting her
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Speaker 1: suitcase out of the cab, but again the woman very
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Speaker 1: quickly said no, she would handle it on her own,
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Speaker 1: but thank you, So again the driver just shrugged and
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Speaker 1: popped the trunk and then he waited as this woman
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Speaker 1: got out and pulled the suitcase out of the back.
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Speaker 1: Now at this point, the driver knew like his job
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Speaker 1: is done here. It's not his business what she's doing here,
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Speaker 1: but you know, it's almost midnight, and he couldn't help
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Speaker 1: but feel sort of concerned about dropping this woman off
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Speaker 1: here basically in the middle of nowhere, so late at night,
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Speaker 1: and he just wanted to make sure that she was okay.
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Speaker 1: So instead of just driving away, he just continued to
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Speaker 1: watch as she walked towards the trailhead, And as he
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Speaker 1: watched her, he noticed that she was really struggling to
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Speaker 1: move her suitcase. I mean, it looked like it was
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Speaker 1: it was so heavy that she could barely drag it
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Speaker 1: through the dirt. And it was at this point that
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Speaker 1: the driver couldn't help but feel like something's off here,
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Speaker 1: like this is not typical behavior. Everything about this just
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Speaker 1: feels weird, like what's going on. So, because he had
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Speaker 1: this sort of gut feeling that something was off with
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Speaker 1: this lady, instead of just leaving all together and continuing
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Speaker 1: it night, he just drove a little ways away from
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Speaker 1: where he dropped her off and then stopped and he
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Speaker 1: turned and he just watched the trailhead to see if
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Speaker 1: the woman would come back out, or if anybody else
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Speaker 1: would show up. And so he just continued to watch
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Speaker 1: and nothing happened for a while, but after about twenty
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Speaker 1: minutes he saw some movement and out of the woods
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Speaker 1: come to this woman and she still has the suitcase.
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Speaker 1: But now it's plainly obvious that the suitcase is empty
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Speaker 1: or whatever was really heavy inside of the suitcase has
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Speaker 1: been removed because she's moving the suitcase no problem, whereas
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Speaker 1: before she could barely get it through the dart. In
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Speaker 1: the driver he couldn't help but think, like, what was
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Speaker 1: in that suitcase, because clearly she has come here to
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Speaker 1: dump it somewhere out in this very isolated part of
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Speaker 1: this area. Like this just feels really bad. I don't
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Speaker 1: even want to know what she's doing. Somebody needs to
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Speaker 1: investigate this though. This just feels wrong, And so he
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Speaker 1: turned around he started driving away. He pulled out his
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Speaker 1: phone and he called the police. A few minutes later,
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Speaker 1: the woman with the suitcase stood at the trailhead that
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Speaker 1: another taxi might pass by soon and she could hitch
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Speaker 1: a ride home. And at some point she saw headlights
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Speaker 1: approaching in the darkness, and for a second she felt
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Speaker 1: really hopeful and she waved her hand like, you know, hey,
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Speaker 1: I need a ride. But when the vehicle finally pulled up.
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Speaker 1: She saw that it was not a taxi, it was
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Speaker 1: a police cruiser. And this cruiser came to a stop
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Speaker 1: right next to her, and then an officer stepped out
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Speaker 1: of the car and asked her what she was doing
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Speaker 1: out here so late, and in a very calm voice,
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Speaker 1: the young woman just said she had come out here
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Speaker 1: to drop off some trash because the dumpster at her
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Speaker 1: apartment complex was fault. But the officer didn't really seem
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Speaker 1: to be listening to her. He was actually just staring
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Speaker 1: at her big black suitcase and he actually just asked her,
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Speaker 1: can I see what's inside of that? And this made
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Speaker 1: the woman very nervous, but she also knew that the
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Speaker 1: best thing she could do right now was just continue
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Speaker 1: to stay calm and cooperate. So she nodded and said, sure,
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Speaker 1: have a look. And so the officer walked up and
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Speaker 1: he unzipped the suitcase and flipped it open, and he
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Speaker 1: shined his flashlight inside and it was empty, but it
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Speaker 1: was covered in blood, like the blood had soaked into
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Speaker 1: the lining all across the inside of the suitcase. But
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Speaker 1: the woman knew this was going to happen. I mean,
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Speaker 1: she knew what was in there, and she'd prepared for this.
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Speaker 1: She told the officer that she was simply on her
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Speaker 1: period and the blood he was seeing was nothing more
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Speaker 1: than menstrual blood. But the look on the officer's face
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Speaker 1: made it very clear that he did not believe anything
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Speaker 1: she was saying. And at that moment, the woman's world
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Speaker 1: came crashing down because she knew that despite all the
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Speaker 1: months of studying she had done, she had just failed
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Speaker 1: her test. It would turn out that Jung yu Jung
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Speaker 1: was not a ninth grade student studying for an English exam.
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Speaker 1: She was actually a twenty three year old woman masquerading
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Speaker 1: as a high schooler, and her very important test was
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Speaker 1: one she had actually created for herself. She wanted to
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Speaker 1: see if she could commit the perfect murder. She had
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Speaker 1: spent months obsessively study, seeing true crime books and documentaries,
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Speaker 1: coming up with what she thought was a full proof
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Speaker 1: murder plan. And so after coming up with this plan,
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Speaker 1: she posed as a ninth grader and hired a private tutor, Cheyun.
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Speaker 1: But when she went to Cheon's apartment, she wasn't carrying
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Speaker 1: books in a backpack. She was carrying a knife inside
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Speaker 1: of a suitcase. After Jung told Cheyun that she wanted
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Speaker 1: to start her lesson. Chaun got up, she went into
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Speaker 1: the kitchen, she got some water, and when she came back,
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Speaker 1: Jung had gotten out her knife and she proceeded to
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Speaker 1: stab Cheyun to death. And then after that she dismembered
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Speaker 1: Cheon's body put the pieces inside of that suitcase, and
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Speaker 1: then Jung attempted to dispose of the body in the
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Speaker 1: woods by the Naktong River, but her full proof plan
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Speaker 1: did not work because she was ultimately arrested before she
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Speaker 1: even made it home. That night, Jung Yu Jung was
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Speaker 1: found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
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Speaker 1: On the evening of January thirty first, twenty twelve, a
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Speaker 1: seventy two year old retired high school teacher named Norm
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Speaker 1: Johnson was playing the piano in his home in the
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Speaker 1: tiny town of Madison, South Dakota, when his doorbell rang
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Speaker 1: and Norm was surprised. I mean not because you know,
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Speaker 1: just somebody had shown up at his house. I mean
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Speaker 1: the reality was is getting unannounced visitors was not totally
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Speaker 1: unusual in his household, but tonight in particular, it was
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Speaker 1: odd because the Madison High School basketball team had a
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Speaker 1: big game that night, and pretty much the whole town
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Speaker 1: was there cheering them on. Like, who isn't at the
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Speaker 1: game ringing my doorbell right now? Who would that be? Now?
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Speaker 1: Usually Norm would be at the basketball game too, not
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Speaker 1: only had he coached several sports at the high school
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Speaker 1: during the years he had taught there, but also he
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Speaker 1: had grown up in Madison, and he had gone to
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Speaker 1: the high school, and he had played on the football
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Speaker 1: team and been on the track team, and you know,
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Speaker 1: those had really been, in some ways, some of the
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Speaker 1: best years of his life. And I mean, even now
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Speaker 1: as an adult, he still had such strong feelings and
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Speaker 1: such a strong affinity for Madison High. It was like
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Speaker 1: a home away from home. But despite all that, Norm
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Speaker 1: had chosen not to go to the game tonight because
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Speaker 1: he had just had a long day of meetings for
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Speaker 1: the local boards that he volunteered on, and just in general,
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Speaker 1: he felt like he just needed some time home to relax.
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Speaker 1: And so before he got up, Norm called out to
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Speaker 1: his wife, Barb, who was in their kitchen, and he
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Speaker 1: just asked, like, Hey, do you have any idea who's
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Speaker 1: at the door right now? She yelled back like, now,
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Speaker 1: I have no idea. So Norm got up from the
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Speaker 1: piano and went to the door to answer it. When
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Speaker 1: he opened the door, he saw a very unassuming man
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Speaker 1: with gray hair and a beard who was standing out
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Speaker 1: on the doorstep. Norm didn't know who this guy was,
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Speaker 1: which was also just kind of odd, because again, Madison
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Speaker 1: is like a really small town. Pretty much everybody knew
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Speaker 1: each other. But before Norm could ask him who he
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Speaker 1: was or what he wanted, this guy asked Norm. Are
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Speaker 1: you Norm Johnson? And Norm said yeah, without another word,
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Speaker 1: the man raised a pistol he was holding, and he fired.
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Speaker 1: An hour later, Madison Police Sergeant Justin Meyer parked his
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Speaker 1: car outside of a little brown house that was now
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Speaker 1: cordoned off with crime scene tape. Meyer had been totally
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Speaker 1: shocked when the dispatcher had called him to tell him
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Speaker 1: what had happened here, both because there hadn't been a
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Speaker 1: murder in Madison in almost one hundred years, and because
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Speaker 1: Sergeant Meyer knew the victim, Norm Johnson. And so now
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Speaker 1: Meyer walked up to the house and stepped over a
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Speaker 1: huge puddle of blood right inside the front door, and
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Speaker 1: then he found Norm's wife, Barb, sitting on the couch
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Speaker 1: with a blanket wrapped around her shoulders. I mean, she
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Speaker 1: looked like she was clearly in shock a round Barb.
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Speaker 1: On the walls were all these old photos of her
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Speaker 1: and Norm, and some of these photos clearly dated back
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Speaker 1: to the nineteen fifties when they had been high school sweethearts.
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Speaker 1: Norm had been the star running back on the football
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Speaker 1: team and Barb had been a cheerleader. Meyer took a
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Speaker 1: deep breath, and then he walked over and sat down
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Speaker 1: next to Barb, and he asked her what happened, and
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Speaker 1: she just said she didn't know. She didn't she didn't understand.
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Speaker 1: She said that Norm had just gone to answer the door,
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Speaker 1: and then seconds later she heard what sounded like two gunshots.
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Speaker 1: And then as Barb sort of choked back tears, she
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Speaker 1: said that she had she had run over and she
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Speaker 1: had found Norm lying on the floor with blood pouring
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Speaker 1: out of his face, and through the doorway she happened
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Speaker 1: to see this gray haired man that she didn't recognize,
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Speaker 1: calmly just walking away down their walkway towards his car,
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Speaker 1: and then he just drove off. And Sergeant Meyer when
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Speaker 1: he heard this, I mean, he really couldn't believe it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, in many ways, he was just as baffled
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Speaker 1: as Barb was about how in the world something like
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Speaker 1: that could have happened, especially in this town. Like what
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Speaker 1: Barb was describing sounded like a premeditated hit, like an assassination,
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Speaker 1: but Meyer just couldn't imagine who would want to do
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Speaker 1: that to Norm, Like Norm was beloved by the whole
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Speaker 1: community and he had been for decades. And so eventually
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Speaker 1: Meyer left the house and began to speak to all
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Speaker 1: the neighbors, but as he discovered, pretty much none of
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Speaker 1: them were home at the time of the shooting because
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Speaker 1: they were all out at that basketball game. And then
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Speaker 1: also Meyer discovered that nobody in the area had security
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Speaker 1: cameras outside their houses, and so nobody had captured any
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Speaker 1: images or video of the crime because, after all, I mean,
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Speaker 1: Madison was typically a very safe area. And so by
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Speaker 1: the time Meyer went home for the night, he was
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Speaker 1: already starting to worry that he might not be able
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Speaker 1: to solve this. However, the very next morning, Meyer got
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Speaker 1: a call from a tipstar, and this tipster said that
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Speaker 1: there actually was one person in the area who definitely
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Speaker 1: had a problem with Norm. That was a seventy three
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Speaker 1: year old man named Carl Ericksson. And at first, when
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Speaker 1: Meyer began asking some basic follow up questions, he just
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Speaker 1: couldn't understand how this Carl guy could even be a suspect.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he lived over an hour away in a
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Speaker 1: different town. He was like a retired insurance officer with
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Speaker 1: no criminal record. How in the world would he be
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Speaker 1: the guy that's, you know, assassinating Norm. That just didn't
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Speaker 1: make any sense. There was no clear connection. And then
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Speaker 1: also there was just the fact that as people, they
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Speaker 1: couldn't have been more different, Like they definitely would not
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Speaker 1: have overlapped in society. You have Norm, who's like very
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Speaker 1: outgoing and social and beloved, and you have Carl, who's
18:21
Speaker 1: totally alner, keeps to himself and for the most part,
18:24
Speaker 1: was kind of rude and just people didn't really like him.
18:26
Speaker 1: So like, there's just no reason that these two would
18:30
Speaker 1: come together. But Meyer had very little to go on here,
18:33
Speaker 1: and so he needed to follow up on any lead
18:35
Speaker 1: he really got, so that evening he brought Carl in
18:38
Speaker 1: for questioning, and very quickly he realized that actually, Norman
18:43
Speaker 1: Carl do have one thing in common. It would turn
18:46
Speaker 1: out Carl and Norm had gone to the same high school.
18:50
Speaker 1: Carl had grown up in Madison before he moved away.
18:53
Speaker 1: In the past fifty years of both of their lives
18:56
Speaker 1: had largely been defined by who they were as teenagers
19:01
Speaker 1: in high school. But while high school had been Norm's
19:04
Speaker 1: glory days, Carl had a very different experience. He had
19:09
Speaker 1: been an outcast who basically, at best, nobody really paid
19:12
Speaker 1: attention to. And so while Norm is like the star
19:15
Speaker 1: of the football team dating the cheerleader, Carl had actually
19:19
Speaker 1: served as the football team's student manager, who basically ran
19:23
Speaker 1: errands for the coach and assisted from the sidelines. Deep down,
19:26
Speaker 1: Carl was deeply jealous of Norms specifically, I mean, he
19:30
Speaker 1: was popular, He's this jock, He's got all the things
19:33
Speaker 1: that he wanted but really couldn't achieve. And then one
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Speaker 1: fateful day in the locker room after a practice, someone
19:40
Speaker 1: had come up behind Carl and put a jockstrap on
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Speaker 1: his head as a kind of awful prank. And you know,
19:47
Speaker 1: Carl was not totally sure who did it, but over
19:50
Speaker 1: time he became convinced it was Norm. Now, over time,
19:55
Speaker 1: the people who were involved in that prank, the football players,
19:58
Speaker 1: they just kind of forgot about it. In fact, many
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Speaker 1: of them sort of forgot about Karl himself. But Carl
20:04
Speaker 1: never forgot the humiliation. He stood about it for more
20:07
Speaker 1: than fifty years before his anger finally boiled over and
20:11
Speaker 1: he decided it was time to get his revenge. So
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Speaker 1: on January thirty first, twenty twelve, he drove to Norm's
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Speaker 1: home and he shot him in the face. A few
20:20
Speaker 1: months later, Carl pled guilty to second degree murder and
20:23
Speaker 1: he was sentenced to life in prison. On the afternoon
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Speaker 1: of August tenth, twenty eleven, Detective Inspector John Finch of
20:45
Speaker 1: the London Metropolitan Police walked through the courtyard of the
20:48
Speaker 1: Radisson Edwardian Hotel in London. This was a massive luxury
20:53
Speaker 1: hotel with more than four hundred rooms. Finch navigated past
20:57
Speaker 1: the beautiful greenery and the Koi pond and the multiple
21:01
Speaker 1: restaurants until he found the door he was looking for,
21:04
Speaker 1: which was roped off by crime scene tape with a
21:06
Speaker 1: uniformed officer standing in front of it. Through the doorway,
21:09
Speaker 1: Finch could see there were forensic technicians taking photographs and
21:13
Speaker 1: putting down evidence markers. This was a section of the
21:16
Speaker 1: hotel where members of the staff lived in small apartments,
21:20
Speaker 1: and the police had been called here by hotel management
21:23
Speaker 1: because the bodies of two workers have been discovered inside
21:27
Speaker 1: and a third worker was missing. Finch had already been
21:30
Speaker 1: briefed on the basics. The two dead were a woman
21:33
Speaker 1: named Alice Adams who was twenty, and a man named
21:36
Speaker 1: t Boor Vass who was also aged twenty, and they
21:39
Speaker 1: both had been at the same party in the apartment
21:42
Speaker 1: they were found in the night before. T Boor actually
21:45
Speaker 1: lived in this apartment and it was actually his roommate,
21:49
Speaker 1: a thirty one year old man named Attilaban, who was
21:51
Speaker 1: the missing third worker. And this was basically all the
21:55
Speaker 1: police knew at this point. They didn't even have a
21:58
Speaker 1: theory yet on whether the missing at till was another
22:00
Speaker 1: victim or the killer. They really just didn't know. And
22:03
Speaker 1: so now Finch greeted the officer who was at the
22:05
Speaker 1: door and introduced himself and showed his credentials, and then
22:08
Speaker 1: he ducked under the crime scene tape and before long
22:11
Speaker 1: he found himself standing in this small living room type
22:13
Speaker 1: area where the first victim, Alice, was lying in this
22:18
Speaker 1: massive pool of blood on the carpet. She was wearing
22:21
Speaker 1: a shirt but no pants, but she did have underwear on,
22:24
Speaker 1: and she had a couch cushion that was placed over
22:26
Speaker 1: her face, and there were stab wounds all over her body.
22:29
Speaker 1: One of the forensics techs warned Finch to be careful
22:32
Speaker 1: where he stepped because there was so much blood all
22:35
Speaker 1: over the floor, you know, they didn't want Finch to
22:37
Speaker 1: step in it, so very carefully Finch moved around the
22:40
Speaker 1: outside of the room and made his way into the kitchenette,
22:43
Speaker 1: where another forensics tech was picking up items one by
22:46
Speaker 1: one and dusting them for fingerprints and then setting them
22:49
Speaker 1: back down exactly where they were. And among sort of
22:52
Speaker 1: all the items scattered about the kitchenette, Finch noticed there
22:56
Speaker 1: were lots of pill and alcohol bottles, and so now
23:00
Speaker 1: he began to formulate his first theory that this party
23:03
Speaker 1: they had all been to the night before had gotten
23:05
Speaker 1: way out of hand, and Alice had been attacked in
23:09
Speaker 1: a sudden rage by somebody who very likely knew her.
23:12
Speaker 1: Her missing pants suggested a possible sexual element, and the
23:16
Speaker 1: sheer number of stab wounds on her body and the
23:19
Speaker 1: amount of blood spatter really did suggest the killer was
23:22
Speaker 1: in some sort of a frenzy. The cushion that was
23:24
Speaker 1: found over Alice's face suggested that after the killer had
23:28
Speaker 1: sort of calmed down after the murder, maybe they had
23:31
Speaker 1: felt guilty and couldn't bear to look at what they
23:33
Speaker 1: had done, and so they covered her up. To Finch,
23:36
Speaker 1: this basically felt like a substance fueled crime of passion. However,
23:40
Speaker 1: when he stepped into the bedroom, the scene inside of
23:43
Speaker 1: there told a totally different story. On the bed was
23:47
Speaker 1: t Borvas, the second victim, and he was completely naked,
23:52
Speaker 1: and he had been very carefully posed in this strange
23:55
Speaker 1: position where he was on his back and his knees
23:58
Speaker 1: were bent. It was immediately obvious to Finch that t
24:00
Speaker 1: Boar had not been killed here on this bed. There
24:04
Speaker 1: was only a tiny bit of blood on the sheets,
24:06
Speaker 1: and Teboar's body itself was perfectly clean, like it had
24:09
Speaker 1: been washed, you know, before being arranged on the mattress.
24:13
Speaker 1: And then when Finch walked over to get a better
24:15
Speaker 1: look at Teboar's body, he saw that the man's injuries
24:19
Speaker 1: were much neater than Alice's. T Boar only had two
24:23
Speaker 1: stab wounds, at least that Finch could see, and both
24:26
Speaker 1: of them were directly to his heart. So this was
24:28
Speaker 1: a very efficient murder. And so after a minute or two,
24:32
Speaker 1: Finch sort of backed up and just you know, found
24:34
Speaker 1: himself feeling really confused because even though he was in
24:38
Speaker 1: one crime scene, you know, there are two victims one crime,
24:41
Speaker 1: it almost felt like it was two totally different crimes.
24:45
Speaker 1: Like the murder that took place out there with Alice
24:49
Speaker 1: had been messy and very impulsive seeming, and possibly was
24:52
Speaker 1: because the murderer was, you know, heavily intoxicated. And then
24:56
Speaker 1: this murder of te Boar, it seemed like it was
24:59
Speaker 1: commit by somebody who was much more methodical and potentially
25:03
Speaker 1: even sober. And so Finch couldn't help but wonder, like,
25:07
Speaker 1: how does this missing roommate, Attila band fit into this picture,
25:11
Speaker 1: because clearly like that's the piece that seems to be
25:13
Speaker 1: missing and likely would sort of answer all of his questions.
25:16
Speaker 1: And so at this point, what Finch decided he would
25:18
Speaker 1: do is he would go track down the other hotel
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Speaker 1: workers who had been at this party the night before,
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Speaker 1: you know, see if they knew where Atilla was or
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Speaker 1: what happened to Attila, or why any of this happened.
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Speaker 1: You know, they were there, maybe they knew something. And
25:31
Speaker 1: so Finch she turned around and he left the bedroom,
25:33
Speaker 1: and he very carefully navigated back across the living room,
25:36
Speaker 1: being careful not to step in any blood, and then
25:39
Speaker 1: he left the apartment and as he did, he sort
25:43
Speaker 1: of noticed something strange. But right now he knew. The
25:47
Speaker 1: most important thing was going and speaking to those other
25:50
Speaker 1: workers to see what they knew. And so for now
25:52
Speaker 1: he sort of forgot this strange element he thinks he's discovered,
25:56
Speaker 1: put it over here and just said I'll deal with
25:57
Speaker 1: that later, and off he went to go find the
25:59
Speaker 1: other workers. Over the next few hours, Finch spoke to
26:02
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of hotel workers and they were able
26:05
Speaker 1: to tell him a lot about Alice, te Boor, and Attila. Basically,
26:09
Speaker 1: they were all good friends, they all worked together, and
26:12
Speaker 1: they were known for being very responsible and very hard working.
26:16
Speaker 1: Alice apparently had only just begun working at the hotel
26:19
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, and coworkers said that she and
26:22
Speaker 1: te Boor seemed to have some chemistry, but no one
26:25
Speaker 1: was sure whether their relationship went beyond a platonic friendship,
26:29
Speaker 1: because Alice actually did have a boyfriend and te Boar's roommate, Attila,
26:33
Speaker 1: the one who was missing, was apparently a hotel manager
26:36
Speaker 1: and recently he'd been named employee of the Year, and
26:40
Speaker 1: everybody seemed to really love working with him. Finch also
26:42
Speaker 1: learned more about the party that te Boor and Attila
26:45
Speaker 1: had hosted in their apartment the night before, you know,
26:48
Speaker 1: during which the murders, you know, must have happened. And
26:51
Speaker 1: apparently it was really just a small gathering to celebrate
26:54
Speaker 1: te Boar getting into college, and the only people in
26:57
Speaker 1: attendance were te boor Attila, Alice, and then to other coworkers.
27:01
Speaker 1: Finch had interviewed those two other coworkers and they would
27:05
Speaker 1: say that, you know, during this this party, this gathering,
27:08
Speaker 1: everybody had been drinking really heavily, but they insisted that
27:12
Speaker 1: it was a calm night without any conflicts or fights.
27:15
Speaker 1: And they both said that when they left the party,
27:19
Speaker 1: Alice and t Boar and Attila were all alive, awake
27:23
Speaker 1: and totally fine. And so this information certainly seemed to
27:26
Speaker 1: suggest that Attila did it. I mean, he was the
27:29
Speaker 1: most obvious one that could have committed these murders. The
27:32
Speaker 1: three were left alone, two wind up dead, the third
27:35
Speaker 1: is missing, you know, Attila. But Attila, you know, despite
27:38
Speaker 1: the fact he was missing, which did sort of make
27:40
Speaker 1: him very suspicious. Beyond that, he was like this unbelievably
27:44
Speaker 1: sweet guy who had no problems with anyone. He was
27:47
Speaker 1: like the employee of the year, Like it just didn't track.
27:50
Speaker 1: Nobody thought Attila could have done this. Nobody The fact
27:53
Speaker 1: that Alice had a boyfriend but apparently was you know,
27:57
Speaker 1: getting close to t Boor and you know, sort of
27:59
Speaker 1: going be on being just platonic. That was intriguing to Finch.
28:04
Speaker 1: Coworkers said, Alice, you know, flirted with t Boar a lot,
28:07
Speaker 1: and Finch thought it was definitely possible that maybe the
28:09
Speaker 1: boyfriend had come to the apartment and found Alice and
28:13
Speaker 1: Teboar together being sort of inappropriate and killed them out
28:17
Speaker 1: of jealousy. It felt like a very possible theory. However,
28:21
Speaker 1: you know, that would explain why Alice's body was in
28:23
Speaker 1: the state it was in, but that theory would not
28:26
Speaker 1: explain why Teboar's body had been posed in such a
28:29
Speaker 1: bizarre way, or also what happened to Attila, like where's
28:33
Speaker 1: Atilla now. Finch knew that all day his team had
28:36
Speaker 1: been pulling surveillance video from around the hotel, so in
28:39
Speaker 1: the evening, around seven pm, he went back to the
28:42
Speaker 1: station to start combing through the footage. He wanted to
28:45
Speaker 1: get his eyes on every single person who entered and
28:49
Speaker 1: left the employee housing area on the night of the killings.
28:53
Speaker 1: The hotel really was covered in cameras, and odds were
28:56
Speaker 1: the killer would be somewhere on those tapes. But later
28:59
Speaker 1: that night, when Finch finally got to the end of
29:02
Speaker 1: all the footage he was given, he was baffled. So
29:05
Speaker 1: the surveillance video didn't actually show the doorway to te
29:09
Speaker 1: Boar and Attila's apartment. It just showed the area around
29:12
Speaker 1: the building that contained the apartment, so Finch could only
29:15
Speaker 1: see who entered and left the building, not the individual apartment,
29:19
Speaker 1: so that was a limitation. But he could see Tee
29:22
Speaker 1: Boar and Attila and Alice and those other two party
29:25
Speaker 1: guests enter the building before the party, and he could
29:30
Speaker 1: see those same two party guests leave hours later, at
29:34
Speaker 1: almost the exact time they had told him they left.
29:37
Speaker 1: There was no sign of Alice's boyfriend at all, which
29:40
Speaker 1: meant he very likely was not the killer. Otherwise you'd
29:43
Speaker 1: see him somewhere on this tape, and he just was
29:45
Speaker 1: not there. And so as disappointing as that was, it
29:48
Speaker 1: made sense and it at least sort of progressed the case.
29:51
Speaker 1: But Finch is also thinking, like the thing the footage
29:54
Speaker 1: also doesn't show is what happened to Attila. Where is
29:59
Speaker 1: a til on the morning of August twelfth, so two
30:02
Speaker 1: days after the bodies were found, Detective Finch went back
30:05
Speaker 1: to the apartment now with his team of detectives. Attila
30:09
Speaker 1: at this point was still missing. Nobody knew what happened
30:12
Speaker 1: to him, and that was actually why Finch was back
30:14
Speaker 1: here with his team. He wanted to take a second
30:16
Speaker 1: look around, not just the building and the apartment, but
30:19
Speaker 1: really the whole area because they had traced Attila's phone
30:23
Speaker 1: and it was pinging off a cell tower right next
30:26
Speaker 1: to the hotel as if he was like still here.
30:28
Speaker 1: But you know, keep in mind, by this point, police
30:30
Speaker 1: have searched the whole grounds, including every room, you know,
30:34
Speaker 1: all the closets, all the utility areas. They've looked everywhere
30:37
Speaker 1: on this property, and they have not found a trace
30:39
Speaker 1: of him. But Finch thinks, like, what else can I
30:42
Speaker 1: do but just keep on looking. So now Finch and
30:44
Speaker 1: his team greeted the officer who was still standing guard
30:47
Speaker 1: by the crime scene door, and the officer let Finch
30:50
Speaker 1: and the other investigators in and pretty much the second
30:53
Speaker 1: Finch stepped back inside this apartment. Now for the second time,
30:57
Speaker 1: he knew something was off. Been staring at crime scene
31:01
Speaker 1: photos for the past two days obsessively, and as a result,
31:05
Speaker 1: he really had a good feel for how this place
31:08
Speaker 1: had been left, because remember when they take photos and
31:11
Speaker 1: when they you know, dust for prints and all that,
31:13
Speaker 1: they try to leave the scene exactly the way it
31:15
Speaker 1: is because it's all evidence until you know the case
31:17
Speaker 1: is solved. But as soon as he walked in, he
31:20
Speaker 1: saw there was a vodka bottle that clearly had been moved,
31:23
Speaker 1: and his first thought is, like, are you kidding me?
31:25
Speaker 1: Like is this us? Are one of our techts moving
31:28
Speaker 1: stuff and not putting it back? Like are we tampering
31:31
Speaker 1: with our own evidence? Or worse, has somebody somehow broken
31:34
Speaker 1: in here and like moved things around, you know, without
31:38
Speaker 1: our own guards knowing about it. Like what's going on here?
31:41
Speaker 1: And at the same time Finch has faced with this
31:43
Speaker 1: this new reality here. One of the other investigators pointed
31:46
Speaker 1: to the bedroom door, which was closed, and he said
31:50
Speaker 1: that he'd been here when the forensics team had left,
31:52
Speaker 1: and he was positive they had left that door open.
31:55
Speaker 1: And so Finch is like totally flabbergasted. He walks over
31:59
Speaker 1: to the door and he turns the doorknob and tries
32:01
Speaker 1: to open it, but clearly there is something blocking the door,
32:05
Speaker 1: like somebody puts something on the other side of the
32:08
Speaker 1: door to keep it from opening up all the way.
32:10
Speaker 1: And so at this point Finch and the other guys
32:13
Speaker 1: began basically ramming on this door until finally they were
32:16
Speaker 1: able to push it open just enough that they could
32:19
Speaker 1: look inside. And when they did, they find the missing
32:23
Speaker 1: third person, a Tillaban. He's lying face down on the bed.
32:27
Speaker 1: He was naked, and he was covered in blood. It
32:30
Speaker 1: would turn out the murders did take place during that party.
32:35
Speaker 1: The killer was there with Alice t Boar and Atilla,
32:40
Speaker 1: and the killer at some point during this party, after
32:44
Speaker 1: those other two guests had left, they saw Alice and
32:48
Speaker 1: Teboar kissing, and it drove them mad with jealousy, and
32:54
Speaker 1: they grabbed a knife, and for a short period they
32:57
Speaker 1: went into an absolute frenzy, repeatedly stabbing Alice brutally until
33:02
Speaker 1: she was dead, and then turning their attention and stabbing
33:05
Speaker 1: Taboor twice in the heart. And so they had brutally
33:08
Speaker 1: killed these two in a total fit of rage. But
33:12
Speaker 1: the killer knew there were some loose ends inside of
33:15
Speaker 1: this apartment, and so very carefully they slinked their way
33:19
Speaker 1: into the bedroom, and with that same knife they had
33:22
Speaker 1: just used to kill those two, they cut open the
33:25
Speaker 1: side of the mattress and they crawled inside and they waited.
33:29
Speaker 1: When Detective Finch first left the apartment, like that first
33:33
Speaker 1: time he was there, and he's leaving to go speak
33:36
Speaker 1: to the hotel workers. When he opened the apartment door
33:39
Speaker 1: and he began to leave, he stopped because he noticed
33:42
Speaker 1: something weird. He didn't pursue it right then and there
33:45
Speaker 1: because he wanted to prioritize the interviews. But what he
33:48
Speaker 1: noticed was there's so much blood inside of this apartment.
33:53
Speaker 1: It's everywhere, Like the texts are telling me to be
33:56
Speaker 1: careful where I stepped, so I don't track blood around.
33:59
Speaker 1: But he's looking down like he's just opened the door
34:01
Speaker 1: to the apartment and there's no blood leaving the apartment.
34:06
Speaker 1: All the blood is contained inside of the apartment. How
34:11
Speaker 1: is that possible? Well, the reason it was possible is
34:14
Speaker 1: because the killer never left the apartment. And so fast
34:18
Speaker 1: forward two days to August twelfth, the same day that
34:22
Speaker 1: Detective Finch and his team came back to the apartment
34:24
Speaker 1: to do another sweep. So earlier that same day, the
34:28
Speaker 1: killer is still inside the mattress. But they know now
34:32
Speaker 1: they have to deal with a tilla, and so very carefully,
34:36
Speaker 1: the killer slides out of the mattress they've masterfully been
34:39
Speaker 1: hiding in for the past two days undetected, and for
34:43
Speaker 1: reasons not fully understood, they ended up moving some things
34:46
Speaker 1: in the apartment, like that vod cabado that was moved.
34:49
Speaker 1: And then also they went back inside the bedroom with
34:51
Speaker 1: a tilla and they barricaded the door shut with something heavy.
34:55
Speaker 1: So they're barricaded inside the very room they've been hiding in.
34:59
Speaker 1: And now it's time to deal with Attila. And so
35:02
Speaker 1: the killer gets on the mattress and they take their
35:05
Speaker 1: own clothes off. Then they cut their wrists because it
35:10
Speaker 1: turns out the killer was Atilla. They are the same person.
35:15
Speaker 1: And Attila was madly in love with his roommate Tea Boar,
35:20
Speaker 1: and at that party, when he saw te Boar kissing Alice,
35:23
Speaker 1: he knew that his love was unrequited, and it threw
35:27
Speaker 1: him into a rage, and he stabbed and killed both
35:29
Speaker 1: of them, and then he sort of arranged Tea Bore
35:32
Speaker 1: his love in this sort of strange position, which probably
35:35
Speaker 1: was because he had such strong feelings for him, and
35:38
Speaker 1: then also when he attempted to take his own life
35:40
Speaker 1: two days later, when he staged his own death on
35:43
Speaker 1: the bed there he sort of arranged himself in the
35:46
Speaker 1: same pose, but again he didn't die. And so after
35:50
Speaker 1: Finch and his detectives broke into the room they found Attila.
35:54
Speaker 1: They were able to get him to a hospital and
35:56
Speaker 1: treat him, and then once he was stable, he was arrested,
36:00
Speaker 1: found guilty of the murders, and sentenced to twenty six
36:03
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