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Top 3 photos with DISTURBING backstories Part 4 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share with you three progressively more
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  Speaker 1: disturbing stories, and at the end of each of them,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to share with you the picture of this
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  Speaker 1: famously associated with them. But before I get into today's stories,
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  Speaker 1: In September two thousand and six, twenty six year old
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  Speaker 1: Jody Arius met twenty nine year old Travis Alexander had
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  Speaker 1: a big business convention in Las Vegas. The two hit
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  Speaker 1: it off immediately, with Travis on the same day he
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  Speaker 1: met her, inviting Jody to be his guest at his
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  Speaker 1: company's formal dinner that night.
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  Speaker 2: After the dinner was over, Travis and.
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  Speaker 1: Jody stayed up all night chatting with each other, and
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  Speaker 1: the next day, Travis was telling his friends at this
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  Speaker 1: convention that he had quote found his wife after the
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  Speaker 1: convention was over, Travis and Jody would continue to see
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  Speaker 1: each other, even.
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  Speaker 2: Though it was a long distance relationship.
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  Speaker 1: Travis lived in Arizona and Jody lived in California, but
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  Speaker 1: they would meet up and they would travel and take
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  Speaker 1: beautiful pictures and post to social media. It just seemed
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  Speaker 1: like they were a dream couple that were so happy together.
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  Speaker 1: While the couple's social media posts might have made it
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  Speaker 1: seem like they were this perfect couple, Travis's friends began
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  Speaker 1: to notice some very strange behavior by Jody early on
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  Speaker 1: in their relationship. Jody just seemed totally obsessed with Travis.
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  Speaker 1: She could not keep her hands off of him. Travis
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  Speaker 1: would be talking to his friends and Jody would come
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  Speaker 1: up beside him and literally grab on to him and
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  Speaker 1: cling to him, and Travis would try to push her
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  Speaker 1: off of him, and she would just come right back
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  Speaker 1: and grab on to him. But it wasn't playful and
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  Speaker 1: jokey and funny. It was like she literally needed to
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  Speaker 1: be holding on to Travis. Jody would get really upset
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  Speaker 1: anytime Travis was interacting with a female, didn't matter their
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  Speaker 1: age or their relationship. To Travis, it was like she
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  Speaker 1: just could not hack any other females in his life.
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  Speaker 1: She would follow Travis anytime he went to the bathroom
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  Speaker 1: and she would put her ear to the door and
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  Speaker 1: try to eavesdrop in case there was somebody else in
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom that Travis could have been talking to. She
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  Speaker 1: began showing up to Travis's house totally unannounced at all hours,
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  Speaker 1: and one time, when the house was locked and Travis
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even home, she snuck into the house through the
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  Speaker 1: doggy door. Initially, Travis's friends just thought it was weird behavior,
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  Speaker 1: but over time they started to feel like Jody might
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  Speaker 1: actually be dangerous, and so they sat him down one
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  Speaker 1: day and they kind of had like an intervention, and
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  Speaker 1: they said, hey, Travis, there is something off about Jody.
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  Speaker 1: Her behavior is just totally weird, and it seems like
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  Speaker 1: she is just never gonna let you go. I think
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  Speaker 1: you need to break this off and just find a
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  Speaker 1: way to cut ties with this woman. As there's to him,
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  Speaker 1: they hear something outside of the room they're in, which
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  Speaker 1: had all the doors closed, and Travis stands up, walks over,
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  Speaker 1: opens the door, and standing right there is Jody. She
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  Speaker 1: was eavesdropping, and she was furious and she looked in
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  Speaker 1: at all of them and gave them absolute death stairs
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  Speaker 1: and stormed off. Shortly after this intervention, Travis takes his
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  Speaker 1: friend's advice and he does break it off with Jody,
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  Speaker 1: and he kind of moves on with his life.
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  Speaker 2: Now. Remember he lives in Arizona and Jody lives.
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  Speaker 1: In California, so you think it would be pretty easy
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  Speaker 1: to break up because you're never going to run into
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  Speaker 1: each other, and that's what Travis was kind of banking on,
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  Speaker 1: that he could get a fresh start and never see
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  Speaker 1: her again. But about two weeks after they broke up,
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  Speaker 1: Jody moved to Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: Around the same time, Travis starts.
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  Speaker 1: Dating a new woman named Lisa, and almost immediately Jody
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  Speaker 1: starts stalking Lisa, showing up her house, tapping on her windows,
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  Speaker 1: and running away. She starts slashing Travis's tires. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: she was a total menace. She was trying to break
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  Speaker 1: them up. But a few months after she arrived in Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: Jody ultimately packed up and heads back to California in
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  Speaker 1: April of two thousand and eight, and Travis, Lisa, his girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: and all of Travis's friends are so relieved.
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  Speaker 2: They felt like now the breakup is final.
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  Speaker 1: Two months after Jody leaves Arizona and goes back to California,
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  Speaker 1: Travis misses a really big business meeting and at first
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  Speaker 1: his friends are calling him and kind of giving him
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  Speaker 1: a hard time about missing this meeting, but he wasn't responding,
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  Speaker 1: and after a couple of days, his friends decided they
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  Speaker 1: needed to go do a welfare check and make sure
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  Speaker 1: he really was okay.
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  Speaker 2: They go to his house.
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  Speaker 1: They open it up, and immediately when they walk in,
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  Speaker 1: they see blood on the carpet and they're calling out
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  Speaker 1: for Travis. Travis is nowhere to be found. They walk
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  Speaker 1: through the house and they discover in the bathroom Travis's body.
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  Speaker 1: He was dead and laying in the tub. They call
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  Speaker 1: the police, who come over and immediately suspect Jody Arrius,
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  Speaker 1: who denies that she was ever there, that she had
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  Speaker 1: left she was in Arizona, that she had nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with this. But during the investigation, they find a
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  Speaker 1: camera inside of the washing machine inside of travis His house.
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  Speaker 1: They were able to dry it off and extract the
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  Speaker 1: last few pictures that were taken on the camera. The
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  Speaker 1: first few pictures are of Jody herself. She's clearly inside
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  Speaker 1: of Travis's house, and then at some point she goes
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  Speaker 1: into the bathroom where Travis was he's taking a shower.
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  Speaker 1: She takes this picture, and then immediately following this picture,
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  Speaker 1: she proceeds to stab Travis to death. In May of
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, Jody Arius was found guilty of first degree
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  Speaker 1: murder and was sentenced to life in jail without parole.
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  Speaker 1: By September of nineteen eighty five, the Nevado del Ruiz
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  Speaker 1: volcano in Columbia was starting to show signs of significant activity.
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  Speaker 1: The tremors had become so powerful that the citizens of
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  Speaker 1: a nearby town called a Marrow that was home to
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  Speaker 1: thirty one thousand people, they started to become very concerned.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if this thing were to go off, we're
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  Speaker 2: only thirty miles away, we'd be leveled.
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  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, just a couple of months later, on November thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, the volcano would erupt and it would
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  Speaker 1: create a massive mu mudslide that would just devastate a Marrow.
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  Speaker 1: The mudflow covered eighty five percent of this town and
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  Speaker 1: heavy thick sludge destroyed buildings and bridges, and it killed
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  Speaker 1: twenty five thousand people. Remember, there's only thirty one thousand
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  Speaker 1: people in this village to begin with, so eighty percent
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  Speaker 1: of the population has been killed by this mudslide. Because
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  Speaker 1: of how big of a disaster this was, it took
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  Speaker 1: a while for the rescue efforts to mobilize, and so
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  Speaker 1: anybody that was on the fringe of being saved unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: perished because no one was there to rescue them in time.
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  Speaker 1: And then when rescue crews did get out and did
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  Speaker 1: start helping people, there just wasn't enough. There weren't enough
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  Speaker 1: people to help, and so hundreds of people that could
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  Speaker 1: have been saved were just trapped and no one could
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  Speaker 1: get to them in time. Photojournalist Frank Fournier arrived in
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  Speaker 1: Columbia two days after this eruption with the intent to
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  Speaker 1: photograph the ground rescue that was going on inside of
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  Speaker 1: a mara. When he actually arrived in a marrow, he
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  Speaker 1: was really shocked to see just how completely destroyed this
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  Speaker 1: town was and how totally ineffective the rescue efforts were.
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  Speaker 1: It was just totally chaotic. It wasn't really clear who
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  Speaker 1: was helping who. There were people literally dying all over
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  Speaker 1: the place. It just seemed crazy that this was not
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  Speaker 1: being handled better. Amid this chaos, a farmer approached Frank
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  Speaker 1: and told him he needed to come over and try
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  Speaker 1: to help this girl who was trapped under her house.
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  Speaker 2: So he brings Frank over to this house that's been.
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  Speaker 1: Completely submerged in water and mud and clinging to a branch.
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  Speaker 1: Is this thirteen year old girl named Omayra Sanchez that's
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  Speaker 1: been trapped up to her neck in water.
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  Speaker 2: She's pinned by something in the water.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't know what it was, but she's been there
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  Speaker 1: for sixty hours. When Frank arrived, he spoke to the
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  Speaker 1: other rescuers that were there trying to get her out,
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  Speaker 1: and they said that she's been in great spirits and
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  Speaker 1: she's been joking.
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  Speaker 2: About how she doesn't want to be late for school.
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  Speaker 1: She's just been a really positive force, and we really
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  Speaker 1: want to get her out, but keeps rainings, the water
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  Speaker 1: keeps rising, and she's already up to her neck and
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  Speaker 1: she's just trapped.
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  Speaker 2: We can't get her out.
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  Speaker 1: Shortly after Frank arrives, Omaira went from chipper and lively
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  Speaker 1: and kind of making light of everything too, most likely
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  Speaker 1: realizing that she wasn't going to get out of the water.
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  Speaker 1: And so she began telling the rescue workers to let
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  Speaker 1: her be, to let her rest, and she propped herself
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  Speaker 1: over this branch and she just laid there, kind of
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  Speaker 1: allowing herself to pass away.
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  Speaker 2: Frank felt totally helpless. I mean, he's looking.
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  Speaker 1: At this poor girl that's going to die unless they
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  Speaker 1: can get her out of the water, but no one
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  Speaker 1: seems to be able to do it. And it just
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  Speaker 1: seemed totally impossible that we can't just find a way
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  Speaker 1: to get her out. But it would turn out that
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  Speaker 1: her foot was pinned under a brick door, and her aunt,
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  Speaker 1: who had passed away and was trapped under the rubble,
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  Speaker 1: had grabbed her ankle and had died that way. So
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  Speaker 1: it was like a death grip on her ankle, and so,
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  Speaker 1: not knowing what to do, Frank just did what he
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  Speaker 1: knew how to do, which was take pictures. And he
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  Speaker 1: knelt down and he took this picture of Omirah, and
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  Speaker 1: very shortly after this picture was taken, she would pass away.
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  Speaker 1: This picture would win the nineteen eighty six World Press
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  Speaker 1: Photo of the Year when it was published. It was
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  Speaker 1: so disturbing that this poor girl was not able to
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  Speaker 1: be rescued that it created an international backlash on Columbia's
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  Speaker 1: nearly non existent rescue efforts.
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  Speaker 2: Ed Gean was always a little bit off.
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  Speaker 1: His classmates and his teachers were called him being very shy,
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  Speaker 1: but at the same time having these strange mannerisms where
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden he would burst out hysterically laughing,
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  Speaker 1: usually at something he had been muttering to himself in class.
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  Speaker 1: The school blamed Ed's mother for Ed's kind of odd behavior,
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  Speaker 1: because Ed would admit that his mother punished him if
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  Speaker 1: he showed signs of having friends. So Ed's childhood was
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  Speaker 1: incredibly lonely and isolated. Ed's mother would confine he, along
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  Speaker 1: with his brother Henry, to their farm.
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  Speaker 2: He was basically never allowed to leave, with the exception
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  Speaker 2: of school, and when he was at the farm, his.
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  Speaker 1: Mother would regularly read from the Bible and would tell
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  Speaker 1: Ed and his brother Henry that basically everybody else in
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  Speaker 1: the world is evil. We are the only pure ones.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone is evil and you should stay away from them.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen forty four, when Ed was thirty eight years old,
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  Speaker 1: he and his brother Henry were burning away some marsh
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  Speaker 1: vegetation on their property, and at some point the fire
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  Speaker 1: got out of control. And the fire department had to
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  Speaker 1: be called in and after they put out the fire,
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  Speaker 1: Ed was okay, but they couldn't find Henry.
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  Speaker 2: He was just gone.
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  Speaker 1: That night, Henry's body was found face down in the
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  Speaker 1: marsh in that same area where the burn was going on.
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  Speaker 2: He had died of asphyxiation.
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  Speaker 1: At first, the fire was blamed, but then authorities discovered
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  Speaker 1: that Henry had actually died before the fire started, and
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  Speaker 1: so all eyes turned to Ed, who was the only
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  Speaker 1: one with him at the time. But there was no
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  Speaker 1: hard evidence connecting Ed to Henry, and Ed said I
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it, so Henry's death remained labeled an accident,
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  Speaker 1: even though basically everyone believed that Ed must have been
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  Speaker 1: the guy that strangled his brother to death before the
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  Speaker 1: fire was set. Shortly after his brother's death, Ed's mother
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  Speaker 1: also died, leaving Ed alone in this farmhouse. Ed began
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  Speaker 1: to make some modifications to the farmhouse, not to improve
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  Speaker 1: it or to make it bigger and better, but rather
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  Speaker 1: to board off all of the rooms in the house
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  Speaker 1: that his mother ever used.
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  Speaker 2: He basically made them time capsules.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't touch them, he just sealed them off, and
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  Speaker 1: so he confined himself to a single room in this
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  Speaker 1: farmhouse that he did not take care of, and so
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  Speaker 1: filth is just piling up everywhere, and so he just
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  Speaker 1: kind of lived in the squalor in this one weird room.
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  Speaker 1: While living in seclusion, Ed became obsessed with cannibalism. He
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  Speaker 1: basically spent all his time reading about cannibalism inside of
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  Speaker 1: this tiny room in his boarded up farmhouse. And that's
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  Speaker 1: how he lived his life for the next ten years.
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  Speaker 1: No one really ever saw him. Then, in November of
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty seven, a local hardware store owner, her name
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  Speaker 1: was Bernice Warden, goes missing. When police show up at
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  Speaker 1: the store to have a look around, they find bloodstains
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  Speaker 1: all over the place, and they discover in the register
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  Speaker 1: that the.
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  Speaker 2: Last person to make a purchase inside of the store
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  Speaker 2: was Ed Gean.
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  Speaker 1: So they go to Ed Dean's house to interview him
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  Speaker 1: and see if he knows anything about Bernice Warden. And
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  Speaker 1: so they're bracing themselves for probably finding her body at
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  Speaker 1: Ed's house, but they were not prepared for what they
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  Speaker 1: actually found at his house.
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  Speaker 2: What they find would end up.
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  Speaker 1: Inspiring movies like Silence of the Lambs, Psycho and Texas
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  Speaker 1: Chainsaw massacre. Basically, inside of Ed's house was a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of human remains, but not in the way that
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  Speaker 1: you would imagine. Ed was taking human body parts and
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  Speaker 1: making things like kitchen utensils and bowls, and he was
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  Speaker 1: using skin to create seats and lamp shades and bedposts.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, his whole house was built of human bones
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  Speaker 1: and flesh. Bernice Warden's body was found as well, and
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  Speaker 1: she was kind of hung up as if she was
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  Speaker 1: next up to be made into some sort of kitchen
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  Speaker 1: utensil or chair or table. When questioned, Ed confessed to
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  Speaker 1: killing Bernice Warden, But as for the dozens of other
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  Speaker 1: bodies that were inside of the house, he claims they
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  Speaker 1: were from robbing graves, but no one really knew if
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  Speaker 1: that was true or not, and they weren't able to
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  Speaker 1: ever actually convict him for anything beyond the killing of
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  Speaker 1: Bernice Warden. As for his motive, he told investigators that
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  Speaker 1: what he really wanted to do, what he intended to
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  Speaker 1: do was build what he called a woman suit that
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  Speaker 1: would resemble his.
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  Speaker 2: Mother and it would allow him to quote crawl into
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  Speaker 2: his mother's skin.
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  Speaker 1: He was deemed unfit to stand trial, and he was
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  Speaker 1: sent to a mental hospital, where he stayed until his
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  Speaker 1: death in nineteen eighty four. Here is just a sampling
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  Speaker 1: of some of the things that ed Dean made using
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  Speaker 1: human body parts. What is not pictured here are things
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  Speaker 1: like his lampshade, his seat, as well as his gloves
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  Speaker 1: and his belt.
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  Speaker 2: If you feel so inclined, you can google those things.
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