Latest / Weeknight Mysteries Podcast / Ep. 106 | Bloodsucking Murderers Who Believed They & Chilling Audio Recordings Moments Before

Transcript

Ep. 106 | Bloodsucking Murderers Who Believed They & Chilling Audio Recordings Moments Before · Weeknight Mysteries Podcast

0:00
Speaker 1: The term vampire emerged in Germanic folklore sometime in the
0:03
Speaker 1: 18th century. But in actual fact vampires have existed in
0:08
Speaker 1: almost all cultures dating back thousands of years. Tales of
0:12
Speaker 1: blood-drinking undead entities have been told for millennia. It's hard
0:16
Speaker 1: to find an ancient culture that doesn't have some form
0:19
Speaker 1: of vampire among its legends. The Romans had their Strixes,
0:23
Speaker 1: the Chinese had their Yangshir, the Sassabonsum emerged in Africa,
0:27
Speaker 1: and the Aluka appeared in Hebrew legend. I've always find
0:31
Speaker 1: it interesting when stories recur over and over again throughout history.
0:36
Speaker 1: Does it mean that they have some kind of basis
0:38
Speaker 1: in reality, or is it simply a powerful metaphor, a
0:42
Speaker 1: universal truth that has endured for thousands of years? Maybe
0:46
Speaker 1: it's similar to how we use the term leech to
0:48
Speaker 1: describe someone who draws on others for financial or emotional
0:51
Speaker 1: support whilst giving nothing in return. These stories could just
0:56
Speaker 1: be an elaborate way of describing this kind of person.
0:59
Speaker 1: Then again, maybe it would be unwise to write off
1:02
Speaker 1: these stories as mere allegory. David Ait, for example, believes
1:07
Speaker 1: the world is controlled by an elite bloodline of shape-shifting,
1:10
Speaker 1: satanic reptiles that drink human blood to sustain their life force.
1:15
Speaker 1: So far I've not seen any of them deny it,
1:18
Speaker 1: and how do these celebrities explain these photographs that showed
1:21
Speaker 1: that they haven't aged for hundreds of years? If we
1:24
Speaker 1: wanted to take a more scientific approach... there have been
1:27
Speaker 1: some physiological conditions attributed to vampire legends. In more superstitious times,
1:33
Speaker 1: a corpse would be exhumed to show that its nails
1:36
Speaker 1: and teeth had continued to grow after death. It was
1:39
Speaker 1: a sure sign that the corpse was rising at night
1:42
Speaker 1: to the feast on the blood of the living. In
1:45
Speaker 1: actual fact, the flesh of the fingers and gums will
1:48
Speaker 1: shrink as the body decays, causing the nails and teeth
1:51
Speaker 1: to appear as if they've grown longer. There's also a
1:55
Speaker 1: condition called putheria. In severe cases, it causes an extreme
2:00
Speaker 1: sensitivity to sunlight, as well as strange mental changes like
2:04
Speaker 1: paranoia and delusions. Sufferers can have their symptoms alleviated through
2:09
Speaker 1: an infusion of hematin, an enzyme found in human blood.
2:13
Speaker 1: It was thought that this might cause some Potheria sufferers
2:16
Speaker 1: to crave human blood, and this might be the origin
2:19
Speaker 1: of vampiric stories. But that theory has been mostly debunked.
2:24
Speaker 1: Things can't be absorbed into the body through the drinking
2:27
Speaker 1: of blood. It has to be administered intravenously, so it
2:31
Speaker 1: seems unlikely that 18th century Potheria sufferers were the vampires
2:35
Speaker 1: of legend. That being said, there are blood drinkers that
2:39
Speaker 1: walk among us. Along with the usual blood fetishists and
2:43
Speaker 1: vampire roleplayers, there's a mental condition that gives people the
2:47
Speaker 1: urge to drink blood. The condition has been dubbed Renfield Syndrome,
2:51
Speaker 1: after the character in Bramstoke's novels. but it's also known
2:55
Speaker 1: as clinical vampirism. People with Renfield syndrome are driven by
3:00
Speaker 1: an irrational desire to drink the blood of animals or people.
3:04
Speaker 1: They often get sexually aroused by the taste of blood,
3:07
Speaker 1: and they can't control the desire to satisfy their urge.
3:11
Speaker 1: A number of real-life murders have been carried out by
3:14
Speaker 1: people with a desire to drink blood. Now, these people
3:18
Speaker 1: might not have the ability to turn into a bat,
3:21
Speaker 1: but that doesn't make them any less scary. These vampires
3:25
Speaker 1: can't be scared away with garlic or crucifix, and they
3:28
Speaker 1: don't need an invitation to enter your home. In 2003,
3:32
Speaker 1: Edinburgh man Alan Mendez was given life imprisonment for the
3:35
Speaker 1: murder of his friend Thomas McKendrick. Alan Mendez was obsessed
3:40
Speaker 1: with the vampire film Queen of the Damned, having watched
3:43
Speaker 1: it at least a hundred times. Unemployed and suffering from
3:47
Speaker 1: mental health problems, he would spend hours lying in a
3:50
Speaker 1: darkened room watching the films. The movie began to take
3:54
Speaker 1: on a special significance for him, a way out of
3:56
Speaker 1: the dead-end drudgery of his mortal life. He started to
4:00
Speaker 1: fantasize that the character Akasha, the mother of all vampires,
4:04
Speaker 1: was speaking to him from inside the movie. She told
4:08
Speaker 1: him that he could become a vampire too. He just
4:11
Speaker 1: had to provide her with human souls. One night in
4:15
Speaker 1: December 2002, Alan Mendez and Thomas McKendrick were watching Queen
4:19
Speaker 1: of the Damned together. McKendrick made an offhand comment about
4:24
Speaker 1: Akasha that Mendez found insulting. In order to defend the
4:28
Speaker 1: honor of his vampire queen, he took a hammer and
4:31
Speaker 1: beat McKendrick over the head, knocking him days to the floor.
4:35
Speaker 1: Once incapacitated, he was then stabbed 48 times with a knife.
4:40
Speaker 1: Mendez drank heavily at the blood that flowed from the
4:43
Speaker 1: wounds in McKendrick's dying body, and then ate part of
4:46
Speaker 1: his head. He later told court that he believed this
4:49
Speaker 1: act would make him immortal. From inside prison, he wrote
4:53
Speaker 1: letters addressed to his home and directed at the character Akasha.
4:58
Speaker 1: One letter read, Dear Akasha, everything is going as planned,
5:02
Speaker 1: I will kill for you again soon. These humans are
5:05
Speaker 1: nothing but animals, fodder for us. He signed a letter
5:09
Speaker 1: as a vamp and he had written it in his
5:11
Speaker 1: own blood. He was later found dead in his cell.
5:15
Speaker 1: It seems his blood sacrifice hadn't earned him immortality after all.
5:19
Speaker 1: In 1998, The homeless population of San Francisco were terrorized
5:25
Speaker 1: by a spate of throat-slashing attacks. Victims would be held
5:29
Speaker 1: down and have their necks cut open while I slept
5:31
Speaker 1: in doorways. Most of these attacks were non-fatal and although
5:35
Speaker 1: they survived, an accurate description of the assailant could never
5:39
Speaker 1: be given. Some victims said he awoke to find his
5:42
Speaker 1: throat had been slashed and a man was kneeling over
5:45
Speaker 1: him drinking the blood as it gushed forth. There was
5:48
Speaker 1: also the strange detail of the Chinese symbol for death
5:51
Speaker 1: written in a victim's own blood left behind at each
5:54
Speaker 1: crime scene. It was only when a woman named Shirley
5:57
Speaker 1: Dilla Hunty died from one of these throat slashings that
6:00
Speaker 1: the police were able to capture the perpetrator. The man
6:04
Speaker 1: was named Joshua Rudy Gia. He claimed that he was
6:07
Speaker 1: a 2000-year-old samurai vampire and that it was his mission
6:11
Speaker 1: to kill bad people. He said that he needed to
6:14
Speaker 1: drink human blood to maintain his vitality and that he
6:17
Speaker 1: hadn't intended to kill anyone. Joshua had a troubled and
6:21
Speaker 1: abusive childhood moving between various foster homes and mental institutions.
6:26
Speaker 1: As a teenager, whilst in Napa State Psychiatric Hospital, he
6:30
Speaker 1: would sneak out to bed at night to lick the
6:32
Speaker 1: chests of other patients. He told one nurse that this
6:36
Speaker 1: was because he was a vampire and that he was
6:38
Speaker 1: going to suck out their blood. Rudy Gia was diagnosed
6:42
Speaker 1: with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Despite this lifelong history of
6:47
Speaker 1: mental illness, his insanity plea was rejected in court. Instead
6:52
Speaker 1: of being sent to a mental institution to receive the
6:54
Speaker 1: help he probably needed, he was tried for second-degree murder
6:58
Speaker 1: and jailed for 28 years. Matthew Hardman appeared to be
7:02
Speaker 1: a fairly normal and well-managed teenager, growing up in the
7:05
Speaker 1: sleeping North Wales town of Flanthia, Puckwinoth. He did however
7:10
Speaker 1: have a secret obsession with vampires and the occult. A
7:14
Speaker 1: later search revealed a stash of books and magazines on
7:17
Speaker 1: his subject, hidden in his bedroom. The first hints that
7:21
Speaker 1: there was something wrong happened in September of 2001. A
7:25
Speaker 1: German exchange student was staying with him. Hardman told that
7:29
Speaker 1: he believed that she was part of a secret German
7:32
Speaker 1: community of vampires. He held it down on a bed
7:35
Speaker 1: and pushed his neck against their mouth and begged the debiting.
7:39
Speaker 1: He also told that the vampire Pukwinath was a perfect
7:42
Speaker 1: place for a vampire, as there were so many old
7:45
Speaker 1: people there that a vampire could kill wantonly and it
7:47
Speaker 1: would be assumed that they all died of old age.
7:51
Speaker 1: In fact he knew the elderly population of the town
7:53
Speaker 1: fairly well. He had a paper round that took him
7:57
Speaker 1: to many of the secluded houses of vulnerable elderly people.
8:01
Speaker 1: It seems a planet already formulated in his vampire-obsessed mind.
8:06
Speaker 1: Two months after the incident with a German exchange student,
8:09
Speaker 1: Hardman broke into the home of 90-year-old widow, Mabel Lackin.
8:14
Speaker 1: Mabel was watching TV sat in her armchair as Hardman
8:17
Speaker 1: snuck up behind her. He stabbed her 22 times with
8:21
Speaker 1: a pocket knife. As she lay dying in the chair,
8:24
Speaker 1: he brought a saucepan from the kitchen and laid it
8:27
Speaker 1: at her feet. He made three deep incisions into her legs,
8:31
Speaker 1: draining her blood into the saucepan. He then cut open
8:35
Speaker 1: her chest, removed her heart and placed it on a
8:37
Speaker 1: silver platter. He took two pokers from the fireplace and
8:41
Speaker 1: arranged them in the shape of a cross at her feet.
8:45
Speaker 1: Then he placed a red candle on the mandelpiece near
8:47
Speaker 1: her head. Once the ritual was complete, he drank deeply
8:52
Speaker 1: the blood that he'd collected in the saucepan before fleeing
8:55
Speaker 1: the scene. Holly swore able to link Hardman by a
8:58
Speaker 1: DNA left at the scene and they discovered a bloody
9:01
Speaker 1: knife in his bedroom. An inquiry found that he had
9:04
Speaker 1: become obsessed with the idea of achieving immortality through vampirism.
9:08
Speaker 1: but they found it mentally competent enough to stand trial
9:11
Speaker 1: for murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in August
9:15
Speaker 1: 2002 and apparently described going to prison as the most
9:18
Speaker 1: exciting thing that ever happened to him. Another ritualistic killing
9:22
Speaker 1: was carried out by a Russian man named Boris Kondrashin.
9:27
Speaker 1: He believed himself to be part of a noble bloodline
9:29
Speaker 1: of vampires. In 1998, at the age of 16, Boris
9:35
Speaker 1: invited a classmate called Ilya to his home. That night
9:39
Speaker 1: he spiked Ilya with a lethal dose of tranquilizers and
9:42
Speaker 1: proceeded to mutilate the body. He cut up the corpse
9:45
Speaker 1: of a hacksaw, then removed his heart and one of
9:48
Speaker 1: his eyes. He drained blood from the body into a
9:51
Speaker 1: specially prepared silver goblet. After casting a spell over the
9:56
Speaker 1: blood-filled goblet, he drank the content, completing the ritual. He
10:01
Speaker 1: didn't dispose of the body very well, just dumping it
10:04
Speaker 1: on ground near his house. The corpse was soon found
10:08
Speaker 1: and Boris was easily linked to the crime. He told
10:11
Speaker 1: police that Satan himself had spoken to him and demanded
10:14
Speaker 1: a blood sacrifice in exchange for immortality. Boris spent the
10:19
Speaker 1: next 10 years in a mental institution, but in 2009
10:22
Speaker 1: he was declared fit and well and was allowed to
10:24
Speaker 1: return to his former life. But the story doesn't end here.
10:30
Speaker 1: Upon leaving hospital, Boris Kondrashin somehow acquired a fake medical diploma,
10:35
Speaker 1: which enabled him to work as a GP for many years.
10:39
Speaker 1: Somehow this deception went completely unnoticed until last year, when
10:43
Speaker 1: one of his patients recognized him as the vampire murderer.
10:47
Speaker 1: This case is still ongoing as far as I can tell.
10:50
Speaker 1: He was arrested for practicing medicine without proper qualifications, and
10:54
Speaker 1: apparently police were looking into his list of patients to
10:57
Speaker 1: see if there were any suspicious deaths. From what I
11:01
Speaker 1: can find online, this all hit the headlines last February
11:04
Speaker 1: and I haven't seen any updates on it since, so
11:07
Speaker 1: there may be more facts to emerge from this case
11:09
Speaker 1: in the near future. Richard Chase is probably the most
11:13
Speaker 1: well-known and prolific killer vampire. Known as the Vampire of Sacramento,
11:18
Speaker 1: he killed six people in one month. Chase had a
11:22
Speaker 1: long history of drug abuse and mental issues. His blood
11:26
Speaker 1: obsession started at a very young age when he started
11:29
Speaker 1: to abuse small animals. As he grew older, a delusion
11:33
Speaker 1: started to form his mind. He began to think that
11:37
Speaker 1: his heart was shrinking and that it would stop beating
11:39
Speaker 1: for long periods of time. The only way he could
11:43
Speaker 1: regenerate his heart was to drink blood. He began catching
11:47
Speaker 1: birds and mice and blending them up with Coca-Cola to
11:49
Speaker 1: make a sort of blood smoothie that he would then drink.
11:53
Speaker 1: In 1973, he was hospitalized after injecting himself with rabbit's blood.
11:59
Speaker 1: In hospital, he would be diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and institutionalized.
12:05
Speaker 1: The nurse is nicknamed in Dracula because of his obsession
12:08
Speaker 1: with blood. He would catch birds, break their necks and
12:12
Speaker 1: drink the blood from their bodies. Occasionally, Therapy dogs would
12:17
Speaker 1: be brought into the hospital to spend time with patients.
12:21
Speaker 1: But Chase was forbidden from interacting with them after it
12:23
Speaker 1: was discovered he was draining the dog's blood with a
12:26
Speaker 1: stolen syringe. In 1976, he was released from hospital but
12:31
Speaker 1: he immediately began capturing neighborhood pets and killing them to
12:34
Speaker 1: drink their blood. He became obsessed with the notion that
12:38
Speaker 1: Nazis and UFOs were trained to kill him with poison soap.
12:42
Speaker 1: According to him, the poison was turned as blood to
12:45
Speaker 1: powder and the only way to counteract this poisoning would
12:48
Speaker 1: be to drink blood to replenish it. He became preoccupied
12:52
Speaker 1: with reading about the crimes of the Hillside Strangler and
12:55
Speaker 1: was convinced that the Strangler was also a victim of
12:57
Speaker 1: the Nazi UFO death plot. In 1977, he got hold
13:02
Speaker 1: of a handgun and this is where his killing spree began.
13:06
Speaker 1: His first kill was a sort of test run, a
13:08
Speaker 1: drive-by shooting of 51-year-old Ambrose Griffin as he was bringing
13:12
Speaker 1: in the groceries. After that, Chase began to wander the neighborhood,
13:17
Speaker 1: trying people's doors. He said that he saw locked doors
13:21
Speaker 1: as a sign that he shouldn't go inside but unlocked
13:24
Speaker 1: doors were an invitation for him to enter. Chase discovered
13:28
Speaker 1: the door of Teresa Wallens was unlocked and entered, surprising
13:31
Speaker 1: her in the middle of taking out the garbage. He
13:34
Speaker 1: shot a dead and dragged her body into a bedroom
13:37
Speaker 1: where he sodomized the corpse while stabbing it with a
13:39
Speaker 1: butcher's knife. When he was done, he sliced open her
13:43
Speaker 1: abdomen and removed several internal organs. Then he drained her
13:48
Speaker 1: blood into a bucket. He took the blood into the
13:51
Speaker 1: bathroom and smeared it all over his body. Next, he
13:55
Speaker 1: sliced off one of her nipples and used an empty
13:58
Speaker 1: yogurt container to collect her blood as it poured from
14:00
Speaker 1: the wounds. Then he drank the blood. As a final
14:05
Speaker 1: desecration of the corpse, he took dog feces from the
14:08
Speaker 1: backyard and forced it down to Teresa's dead throat. Sixteen
14:12
Speaker 1: days later, Richard Chase committed his most atrocious murder. On
14:17
Speaker 1: the 27th of January, 1978, Evelyn Miroth was at home
14:22
Speaker 1: with her neighbor Dan Meredith, her six-year-old son Jason and
14:25
Speaker 1: her nephew's 22-month-old baby David. Richard Chase entered, again through
14:31
Speaker 1: an unlocked door. He quickly shot Dan, Jason and David
14:35
Speaker 1: a plunk blank range in their heads, killing them instantly.
14:39
Speaker 1: Evelyn was taking a bath and she didn't have time
14:42
Speaker 1: to react before Chase entered the bathroom and shot her
14:45
Speaker 1: as well. Following a similar pattern to his previous murder,
14:49
Speaker 1: he dragged the body into the bedroom and sodomized her
14:52
Speaker 1: while drinking blood from slits that he had carved in
14:54
Speaker 1: the back of her neck. He stabbed the torso in
14:57
Speaker 1: such a way that the blood would pull in a belly.
15:01
Speaker 1: He then slit the belly open and drained the blood
15:03
Speaker 1: into a bucket. Once the bucket was full, he smid
15:07
Speaker 1: the blood on himself and drank heavily of the contents.
15:11
Speaker 1: When he was finished with Evelyn's body, he took the
15:13
Speaker 1: corpse of 22-month-old David, carried it into the bathroom and
15:17
Speaker 1: split open his skull to eat his brains. He took
15:20
Speaker 1: the baby's corpse back home to his house so that
15:23
Speaker 1: he could continue uninterrupted. One of the most depraved acts
15:27
Speaker 1: he carried out was to cut off the boy's penis
15:29
Speaker 1: and use it as a straw to suck the blood
15:31
Speaker 1: from the body. He also removed various internal organs and
15:36
Speaker 1: made one of his blood smoothies from them. Fortunately, he'd
15:40
Speaker 1: left a perfect handprint at the last crime scene and
15:43
Speaker 1: please quickly apprehended him. In his house they found a
15:46
Speaker 1: fridge stocked with various animal and human organs wrapped in
15:49
Speaker 1: foil along with a diagram of the human body laid
15:52
Speaker 1: out on the kitchen table. Chase defended himself in court,
15:56
Speaker 1: claiming that the UFO Nazis had telepathically commanded him to kill.
16:01
Speaker 1: He was found guilty of six counts of first-degree murder
16:04
Speaker 1: and sentenced to death row. Three years into his imprisonments,
16:09
Speaker 1: whilst awaiting the gas chamber, he took an overdose and
16:12
Speaker 1: killed himself. There's quite a lot of other vampire murders
16:16
Speaker 1: that I could go into. For example, the vampire cult
16:20
Speaker 1: leader Rod Farrell. He killed two people with a crowbar
16:24
Speaker 1: and although he did engage in consensual blood drinking with
16:27
Speaker 1: his cult members, as far as I know he didn't
16:29
Speaker 1: drink the blood of his murder victims, I could be
16:32
Speaker 1: wrong there but none of the report indicate that he did.
16:35
Speaker 1: For this case I tried to stick to people who
16:37
Speaker 1: killed specifically to drink the blood of their victims as
16:40
Speaker 1: some kind of a culture ritual. There was also various
16:44
Speaker 1: murders who were given vampiric nicknames but probably killed for
16:47
Speaker 1: different reasons. For example Peter Kurden who was dubbed the
16:51
Speaker 1: vampire of Dusseldorf. He would drink the blood of his
16:55
Speaker 1: victims but I feel like he falls more into the
16:57
Speaker 1: category of cannibal or blood fetishist killer rather than drinking
17:01
Speaker 1: blood for some sort of vampiric reason. And anyway I
17:04
Speaker 1: think I want to say Kurden for an entire video
17:07
Speaker 1: just to himself. There is one case that is a
17:10
Speaker 1: real mystery. In 1932 in the Atlas neighborhood of Stockholm
17:15
Speaker 1: Sweden a prostitute named Lily Lindström was found dead in
17:18
Speaker 1: a bedroom. A semen-filled condom was found still inside her anus.
17:24
Speaker 1: Her skull had been caved in with a blunt object
17:27
Speaker 1: and a blood-covered saucepan and ladle were found next to
17:30
Speaker 1: her body. Her corpse had been entirely drained of blood.
17:35
Speaker 1: There was no sign of the missing blood except for
17:37
Speaker 1: a few blood stains on the bed and the saucepan.
17:41
Speaker 1: It seemed that whoever had killed her had also drank
17:43
Speaker 1: her blood and this would be a huge quantity for
17:46
Speaker 1: any normal person to drink. The killer has never been
17:49
Speaker 1: caught and it's not known whether he killed anyone else.
17:53
Speaker 1: It happened so long ago that he's most likely dead
17:56
Speaker 1: now unless of course this one really was a vampire.
17:59
Speaker 1: In which case the Atlas vampire could still be out
18:02
Speaker 1: there somewhere. And so the vampire legends endure and perhaps
18:07
Speaker 1: these killers did achieve immortality in a way. The crimes
18:11
Speaker 1: were so horrible that they'll be told in stories. Perhaps
18:15
Speaker 1: over time the facts of these stories will become twisted
18:18
Speaker 1: and they'll become the vampires of folklore. And in turn
18:21
Speaker 1: these stories of vampires will go on to inspire other
18:24
Speaker 1: people to commit atrocious blood-drinking crimes. And vampire doesn't need
18:29
Speaker 1: to bite someone else to turn them into a vampire.
18:33
Speaker 1: They merely need to infect the mind of another person.
18:37
Speaker 1: Someone vulnerable to such influences. It's only when these tales
18:41
Speaker 1: are filtered through the murky shadows of superstition that they
18:44
Speaker 1: take on their power and they only lose their power
18:47
Speaker 1: by exposing them to the sunlit of reason. I hope
18:50
Speaker 1: you found it informative. I've just added a new design
18:54
Speaker 1: to the merch store. In today's investigation we're going to
18:58
Speaker 1: be exploring a very disturbing topic. Audio recordings of people's
19:02
Speaker 1: final moments. So let's just jump into it. I've got
19:07
Speaker 1: three different cases to look at today. Number 1, The
19:11
Speaker 1: Last Voicemail of Jewel Phillips. The High Tread International Tire
19:16
Speaker 1: Recycling Plant spans 20 acres and it's located in Lockport,
19:20
Speaker 1: near New York. By 2016 it was largely inoperative and abandoned.
19:26
Speaker 1: The place wasn't completely cleared out though. There were many
19:30
Speaker 1: objects that were just left behind when the plant closed.
19:34
Speaker 1: The facility had been securely locked up but local teenagers
19:37
Speaker 1: soon discovered that they could access the office buildings by
19:40
Speaker 1: climbing the fire escape ladder onto the roof and then
19:43
Speaker 1: jumping inside. It's not surprising then that the abandoned high
19:47
Speaker 1: tread tire recycling plants quickly became a popular hangout spot
19:51
Speaker 1: for local youths. Later one afternoon on Wednesday, August 10, 2016,
19:58
Speaker 1: 14-year-old Jewel Phillips and his 13-year-old friend whose name has
20:01
Speaker 1: never been revealed at public were exploring the high tread
20:04
Speaker 1: international office building. The boys captured their adventure on a
20:08
Speaker 1: mobile phone. After gaining entry into the office space via
20:12
Speaker 1: the roof, the footage reveals some charred stacks of paper
20:15
Speaker 1: showcasing the boys' habit of setting fire to various items
20:19
Speaker 1: during their visits. Only small segments of the recording is
20:23
Speaker 1: available online. They show one of the boys navigating dark
20:27
Speaker 1: rooms with a makeshift torch crafted from rolled office paper.
20:31
Speaker 1: The recording then shows the boys igniting office papers and
20:34
Speaker 1: cardboard on the office floor. Although the footage is incomplete,
20:39
Speaker 1: it generally suggests that the boys had started multiple fires
20:42
Speaker 1: within the building and it appears that this time they're
20:44
Speaker 1: trying to create a larger fire than in their previous exploration. Unfortunately,
20:50
Speaker 1: one of the fires that they started eventually slipped out
20:53
Speaker 1: of control. When they realized the gravity of the situation,
20:57
Speaker 1: Jules' friend ran outside, allegedly he was going to fetch
21:00
Speaker 1: some water. Meanwhile, Jules stayed behind and attempted to smother
21:05
Speaker 1: the flames first by stamping on them and then by
21:08
Speaker 1: using a shirt. Tragically, this was the last time that
21:11
Speaker 1: Jewel Phillips was seen alive. One be notes to both boys,
21:16
Speaker 1: the office building that they were setting fires in was
21:19
Speaker 1: right next to a vast warehouse. This warehouse contained over
21:23
Speaker 1: 8 million pounds of highly flammable, pulverized tires, the fire
21:27
Speaker 1: that they'd started managed to spread to the warehouse. Once outside,
21:32
Speaker 1: Jewel's friend saw the blaze spreading to the warehouse and
21:35
Speaker 1: he quickly realized that no amount of water would help
21:37
Speaker 1: put out the fire. The blaze was spreading extremely rapidly
21:42
Speaker 1: and producing enormous amounts of thick black smoke. Allegedly at
21:46
Speaker 1: this point, he believed that Jewel had already left the facility,
21:50
Speaker 1: overwhelmed by panic, instead of calling 911, he ran back
21:54
Speaker 1: to another friend's house. He and his friend debated over
21:58
Speaker 1: whether to inform anyone about the situation. It was around
22:02
Speaker 1: this time that local residents began noticing a massive black
22:05
Speaker 1: plume of smoke rising from the recycling center and it
22:08
Speaker 1: was at this point that the first calls were made
22:10
Speaker 1: to the fire department. The fire became so massive and
22:14
Speaker 1: the smoke so toxic that over 200 families had to
22:17
Speaker 1: be evacuated from their homes. The blaze also inflicted substantial
22:22
Speaker 1: financial damage, soaring to over $ 13 million and the intense
22:26
Speaker 1: heat generated by the inferno was powerful enough to melt
22:29
Speaker 1: plastic garden chairs in nearby backyards. Over 40 fire departments
22:34
Speaker 1: had to be mobilized to try and put down the
22:36
Speaker 1: fire and it took them three days to finally get
22:38
Speaker 1: it under control. During this whole time, there was no
22:42
Speaker 1: sign of Jewel. Initially, Jewel's family held on to hope
22:47
Speaker 1: that he'd survived the fire and had gone into hiding,
22:50
Speaker 1: afraid of the consequences that he would face. Sadly, this
22:54
Speaker 1: wasn't the case and his horribly burned body was later
22:57
Speaker 1: found in the facility grounds. During the following court case,
23:01
Speaker 1: the majority of the blame for the fire was placed
23:04
Speaker 1: on Jewel Phillips. The family of the other boy presented
23:07
Speaker 1: the recordings that were recorded during the escapade which showed
23:10
Speaker 1: that Jewel had played a key role in setting the
23:13
Speaker 1: fires himself. One other disturbing piece of media was presented.
23:18
Speaker 1: A voicemail that Jewel Phillips had sent to his friend
23:21
Speaker 1: shortly after his friend left the facility. Now it was
23:24
Speaker 1: a little bit unclear as to which point Jewel's friend
23:27
Speaker 1: actually heard this recording. During the court case, he said
23:31
Speaker 1: that he was unaware of it until much later, but
23:34
Speaker 1: Jewel's mother wasn't convinced. During an interview, she stated that
23:38
Speaker 1: her son's friend had ignored this last phone call. She
23:42
Speaker 1: said that he saw Jewel in that burning building. He
23:46
Speaker 1: knew it was burning and he ran out. She said,
23:49
Speaker 1: you can't tell me that you didn't get that phone
23:51
Speaker 1: call until later, that you didn't know, you did know
23:55
Speaker 1: and you left him there. I think most of us
23:58
Speaker 1: have wondered at some point in our lifetime what we
24:00
Speaker 1: would do when faced with our own inevitable deaths. I
24:04
Speaker 1: found Jewel Phillips's last words disturbing because he sounds so
24:07
Speaker 1: resigned to his fate. But here it is, Jewel Phillips's
24:11
Speaker 1: final words. What a fuck, what the fuck. I'm doing
24:16
Speaker 1: this right. I'm doing this right. I'm doing this right.
24:22
Speaker 1: I'm doing this right. I'm doing this right. I'm doing
24:26
Speaker 1: this right. Number two, the Deborah Stevens 911 call. On
24:32
Speaker 1: August 24, 2019, 47-year-old Deborah Stevens got up early. As
24:39
Speaker 1: had been her routine for the past 21 years, she
24:42
Speaker 1: set out in her great SUV to deliver newspapers. That morning,
24:47
Speaker 1: the city of Fort Smith, USA, was experiencing exceptionally heavy
24:51
Speaker 1: rainfall which led to flash flooding in parts of the
24:54
Speaker 1: city and they had numerous road closures. Despite the warnings
24:58
Speaker 1: from authorities, the water levels rose so quickly that many drivers,
25:02
Speaker 1: including Deborah, were caught completely off guard. Around 4.30 a.m.,
25:08
Speaker 1: whilst driving her usual route, Deborah failed to realize that
25:11
Speaker 1: the road that she was on was literally turning into
25:14
Speaker 1: a river. It's unclear whether she decided to just push
25:18
Speaker 1: through the water, hoping to get across, or she simply
25:21
Speaker 1: realized far too late how serious the situation was. Nevertheless,
25:26
Speaker 1: the sheer volume of the water and the strong current
25:29
Speaker 1: swept her SUV off the road and into an unfamiliar
25:32
Speaker 1: neighborhood where it became stuck at the end of a
25:34
Speaker 1: flooded parking lot. Surrounded by water on all sides and
25:38
Speaker 1: completely unsure what to do, Deborah initially called her mother-in-law
25:42
Speaker 1: who was also delivering papers in the area. Unfortunately, Her
25:47
Speaker 1: mother-in-law was dealing with her own flood-related issues and she
25:50
Speaker 1: couldn't help at all. She advised Deborah to immediately dial
25:55
Speaker 1: 911 and Deborah did this at 4.36 a.m. On the
25:59
Speaker 1: other side of Ken Gated, a very hinder Ken Gated
26:02
Speaker 1: Street goes in the car, and I thought, I'm going
26:05
Speaker 1: to have a dark blue car, is what I'm asking you.
26:08
Speaker 1: What color is your vehicle? It's very SUV-like in the
26:12
Speaker 1: way of the water, the way of the window. As
26:15
Speaker 1: the call goes on, Debra becomes increasingly upset and she
26:19
Speaker 1: repeated the states that she can't swim. She became terrified
26:23
Speaker 1: as the water started to creep inside her car higher
26:26
Speaker 1: and higher, eventually reaching her chest. The fact that Debra
26:30
Speaker 1: didn't know her exact location complicated the situation quite a bit,
26:34
Speaker 1: she was unfamiliar with the neighborhood where her car had
26:37
Speaker 1: been swept away to, and the darkness combined with the
26:40
Speaker 1: high water levels made it extremely difficult to pinpoint her
26:43
Speaker 1: precise location. The emergency dispatcher, a woman named Donna Renault
26:48
Speaker 1: initially tries to calm Deborah down, assuring her that everything
26:51
Speaker 1: was going to be alright. However, as the water level
26:55
Speaker 1: inside the car continued to rise with no sign of
26:58
Speaker 1: help in sight, Deborah's panic intensifies. I need some light
27:03
Speaker 1: and help me on the screen. I'm in the vehicle. Yes,
27:07
Speaker 1: I'm the only one to use with all my papers
27:10
Speaker 1: for the help. Okay, listen to me. I'm going to
27:14
Speaker 1: send somebody out there to you, okay? Deborah's getting up
27:18
Speaker 1: to her man's car. I'm going to die, it's all
27:21
Speaker 1: over after my windows, I'm going to die. I get died.
27:27
Speaker 1: This is all you have to do for yourself. Meanwhile,
27:30
Speaker 1: the dispatch center becomes overwhelmed with a massive influx of
27:34
Speaker 1: flood-related calls. Deborah's call was the 15th received that morning,
27:39
Speaker 1: with 19 more callers waiting in the queue. A report
27:43
Speaker 1: published later described the situation as chaotic at best. Recognizing
27:48
Speaker 1: Deborah's panic, the emergency dispatcher prioritized her case, they dispatched
27:53
Speaker 1: a fire engine and a police patrol to assist her. However,
27:57
Speaker 1: help was delayed due to the fact that the police
28:00
Speaker 1: units in the area were quite tied up at that time.
28:03
Speaker 1: How long have you been here? Please, listen to me.
28:08
Speaker 1: I need you to calm down and hold on. I'm
28:11
Speaker 1: just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just hearing that you're scared,
28:16
Speaker 1: but there's nothing I can do sitting in the chair,
28:19
Speaker 1: so you're going to have to hold on and I'm
28:20
Speaker 1: going to send you somebody, okay? At 4.48 a.m., the
28:25
Speaker 1: fire engine en route to Deborah had to stop and
28:27
Speaker 1: turn around to rescue another person who was trapped in water.
28:31
Speaker 1: When the emergency services finally arrived on King Cade Avenue,
28:35
Speaker 1: where Deborah was trapped, they discovered that there were already
28:38
Speaker 1: several cars in the flooded parking lots. In the darkness,
28:42
Speaker 1: it was virtually impossible to identify which car Deborah was in,
28:46
Speaker 1: even though her indoor light was on. At this point,
28:50
Speaker 1: her car was almost entirely underwater. Her car horn had
28:55
Speaker 1: also died, so she couldn't use that to signal the firefighters.
28:59
Speaker 1: At this point, the water level inside the car was
29:02
Speaker 1: reaching up to her neck, despite her extreme distress. Deborah
29:07
Speaker 1: was doing her best to describe her location to the dispatcher,
29:10
Speaker 1: hoping that the emergency services would reach her quickly. I'm
29:14
Speaker 1: going to drive the car and beard off to the
29:16
Speaker 1: left and I'm behind these last standard apartments on the
29:19
Speaker 1: left and inside. I'm behind them. I guess it's a
29:23
Speaker 1: circle down there. I don't know how I never dreamed
29:27
Speaker 1: down on this part. I don't know where she was in.
29:31
Speaker 1: A minute later, a further disaster struck, pushed by the
29:34
Speaker 1: strong current, Deborah's car began to move. You're not hanging
29:39
Speaker 1: up because it's not one call it's helping me pin
29:42
Speaker 1: your location so don't hang up on me okay where
29:46
Speaker 1: are you moving to tell me where it's going i'm
29:50
Speaker 1: on the phone right now it is legit freaking out
29:55
Speaker 1: she said the vehicle is now moving in the water
29:57
Speaker 1: and she doesn't know which way it's going from the
29:59
Speaker 1: end I'm on the phone right now. It is legit
30:03
Speaker 1: freaking out. She said the vehicle is now moving in
30:07
Speaker 1: the water and she doesn't know which way it's going
30:09
Speaker 1: from the end. By this point, it's too late. Deborah
30:14
Speaker 1: is drowning. There is part of the phone call hasn't
30:18
Speaker 1: been made publicly available, specifically the very last moments at 4.59 a.m.
30:22
Speaker 1: At this moment, the dispatcher realizes that Deborah is drowning
30:27
Speaker 1: and is recorded speaking to the emergency services on the
30:30
Speaker 1: other line saying, oh my god, it sounds like she's
30:33
Speaker 1: underwater now. At 5.03 a.m., after receiving help from witness,
30:39
Speaker 1: a police officer was finally able to locate Deborah's car.
30:43
Speaker 1: It had wedged itself against some trees at the end
30:46
Speaker 1: of the parking lot. The police officer tired a rope
30:49
Speaker 1: around his waist and attempted to reach it, but unfortunately
30:52
Speaker 1: the water was just too deep by that point and
30:55
Speaker 1: the current was too strong to get anywhere near her
30:57
Speaker 1: submerged SUV. With no other options, they had to wait
31:01
Speaker 1: for a boat and this took almost an hour. The
31:05
Speaker 1: firefighters eventually managed to retrieve Deborah's body from a car,
31:09
Speaker 1: but despite administering CPR and there was nothing they could do,
31:12
Speaker 1: Deborah Stevens was pronounced dead. Her cause of death ruled
31:17
Speaker 1: as accidental drowning. Many who have listened to the entire
31:21
Speaker 1: call have argued that the dispatcher showed a remarkable lack
31:23
Speaker 1: of compassion towards Deborah. Deborah, you're in water. You can
31:29
Speaker 1: throw up. It's not going to matter if you have
31:32
Speaker 1: to rely yourself. They'll still help you. Deborah, I don't
31:37
Speaker 1: see how you didn't see it. You had to go
31:40
Speaker 1: right over it. No, I was in a drug. I
31:44
Speaker 1: was in a parking lot. I was in a water
31:47
Speaker 1: where I was at. The back side of these apartments
31:51
Speaker 1: over here, when these people are out begging all of them,
31:54
Speaker 1: they're all standing out. They want to know. Deborah, you're
31:59
Speaker 1: going to have to shut up. I'm sorry. Can you
32:03
Speaker 1: play with me? They heard me. Hello. I'm here. I
32:09
Speaker 1: can still hear everything you're saying to me. I have
32:13
Speaker 1: a question. Please, please, please. You go ahead and start
32:18
Speaker 1: the prayer. Now listen to you, I sure will. You're
32:23
Speaker 1: the one who's disturbing him here under the water. He's
32:27
Speaker 1: my friend, my dear father. He's one of his head
32:31
Speaker 1: that has a new seat. Father, just be with me.
32:35
Speaker 1: And protect me in the house. He's the one who's
32:38
Speaker 1: the only one. The dispatcher's cold and sometimes rude demeanor
32:43
Speaker 1: towards the terrifying Deborah would eventually bring this case to
32:46
Speaker 1: worldwide attention. According to authorities, In situations like this, it's
32:52
Speaker 1: important that the emergency dispatcher tries to make sure the
32:54
Speaker 1: person on the other end of the phone isn't panicking
32:57
Speaker 1: because this could put them into more danger. The dispatcher's
33:01
Speaker 1: cold tone could simply be aware of trying to keep
33:03
Speaker 1: Deborah calm. There was a petition raised to try and
33:07
Speaker 1: imprison Donna Renault, the dispatch caller, but she faced no
33:10
Speaker 1: legal consequences in the end. After a police investigation, it
33:15
Speaker 1: was found that the dispatcher had violated policy by being
33:18
Speaker 1: rude to Deborah at times, but she hadn't violated any
33:21
Speaker 1: laws and she'd performed her duties appropriately. If the dispatcher
33:26
Speaker 1: had been more polite to the Deborah, would the outcome
33:28
Speaker 1: have been any different? Would she have survived? I very
33:33
Speaker 1: much doubt it's, I don't think the dispatcher could have
33:36
Speaker 1: done much more in this situation. From the sounds of it,
33:40
Speaker 1: it was pretty hopeless and could she have made Deborah
33:42
Speaker 1: Stevens' last moments a bit more comfortable? Could she have
33:46
Speaker 1: made her feel slightly less alone? Possibly. Either way, you
33:51
Speaker 1: can't change the past and now all we have is
33:54
Speaker 1: this final disturbing recording. Number 3. The final recording of
33:59
Speaker 1: flight 5055 on the 9th of May, 1987, Polish Airlines
34:05
Speaker 1: flight number 5055 took off from the Frederick Chopin Airport
34:08
Speaker 1: in Warsaw. It was heading to New York. Initially, everything
34:13
Speaker 1: proceeded as normal, with the aircraft climbing to 18,000 feet.
34:19
Speaker 1: From there, it planned to climb to a cruising altitude
34:22
Speaker 1: of 31,000 feet. Before they could proceed any further though,
34:26
Speaker 1: Captain Zygmuntz Pavlogic was informed by flight control that their
34:30
Speaker 1: climb rate was too slow and he was advised to
34:33
Speaker 1: return to 16,000 feet. The slow climb of flight 5055
34:37
Speaker 1: wasn't too unusual. The aircraft fully loaded with fuel for
34:43
Speaker 1: its transatlantic journey weighed over 160 tons. Normally such a
34:48
Speaker 1: slower send wouldn't pose a problem, but on that particular day,
34:52
Speaker 1: military aircraft maneuvers were being conducted at an altitude of 17,000 feet.
34:58
Speaker 1: Since civilian flight control lacked the means to communicate with
35:01
Speaker 1: the military aircraft, they decided to keep flight 5055 at
35:06
Speaker 1: a lower altitude temporarily to avoid any risk of collision.
35:10
Speaker 1: It took approximately five minutes for the aircraft to clear
35:13
Speaker 1: the military exercise area. Once clear, Captain Pavlogic ordered the
35:18
Speaker 1: onboard mechanic to initiate a steeper climbing approach so that
35:22
Speaker 1: they could finally reach a cruising altitude. The mechanic increased
35:26
Speaker 1: all four engines to maximum power for about 30 seconds,
35:30
Speaker 1: which allowed the plane to gain altitude quickly. However, at 10.41 a.m.,
35:36
Speaker 1: there was a sudden explosion at the rear of the airplane,
35:39
Speaker 1: which triggered alarms in the cockpit. The aircraft was in
35:42
Speaker 1: a hurry to launch the aircraft. The aircraft was in
35:46
Speaker 1: a hurry to launch the aircraft. At this point the
35:50
Speaker 1: confused crew weren't sure exactly what had happened. They initially
35:54
Speaker 1: thought that they'd been struck by some external object but
35:57
Speaker 1: they soon realized that the cause had been an explosion
36:00
Speaker 1: in one of their engines. Burning fragments from their destroyed
36:04
Speaker 1: engine paced the aircraft's hull, causing depressurization. A fire then
36:09
Speaker 1: broke out in the luggage compartment and moments later a
36:12
Speaker 1: second engine caught fire. When they had figured out what
36:16
Speaker 1: exactly had happened, the captain updated the flight control on
36:19
Speaker 1: the situation and informed them that they'd switched off both
36:22
Speaker 1: damaged engines as the safety protocols dictated. A few minutes
36:26
Speaker 1: after this the fire suppression system activated, leading the crew
36:30
Speaker 1: to believe that the fire was under control. Unfortunately the
36:34
Speaker 1: fire hadn't been fully suppressed and the flames in the
36:37
Speaker 1: luggage compartment were slowly starting to spread. At this point
36:41
Speaker 1: 8 kilometers above the ground, the captain decided to abort
36:44
Speaker 1: the flight. Initially the crew considered landing in Gdansk which
36:49
Speaker 1: would have been the closest airport but eventually they changed
36:52
Speaker 1: their mind and decided to return to Warsaw. This is
36:55
Speaker 1: because before they landed they needed to jettison fuel. The
36:59
Speaker 1: plane was carrying 65 tons of fuel which meant that
37:02
Speaker 1: the plane was too heavy to land. Unfortunately it wasn't
37:06
Speaker 1: long after they made this decision that almost all the
37:09
Speaker 1: onboard systems began to malfunction one by one. Despite the
37:14
Speaker 1: situation growing more dire with every passing minutes, the crew
37:17
Speaker 1: remained calm and worked with the flight control providing as
37:20
Speaker 1: many details as possible about their situation in this recording.
37:24
Speaker 1: The pilot mentions the number of passengers on board. As
37:28
Speaker 1: the altitude control ceased to function, the plane was still
37:32
Speaker 1: in the air and the plane was the altitude control
37:34
Speaker 1: ceased to function, the systems were responsible for fuel jetters
37:38
Speaker 1: and completely jammed and failed to operate. At this point
37:42
Speaker 1: the captain requested permission to land on the model in
37:44
Speaker 1: military airfield near Warsaw. They needed to land as quickly
37:49
Speaker 1: as possible because they were steadily losing altitude and they
37:52
Speaker 1: share way to the fuel which they couldn't drop meant
37:54
Speaker 1: that the two remaining engines weren't able to keep the
37:56
Speaker 1: heavy aircraft in the air. However, obtaining this permission wasn't
38:01
Speaker 1: straightforward at all, it involved several funless on the other end.
38:06
Speaker 1: Although emergency procedures were in place, they still required military
38:10
Speaker 1: approval and a process that consumed precious time and time
38:13
Speaker 1: that the crew didn't have. Finally though they received the
38:16
Speaker 1: green light and they were able to land, but as
38:19
Speaker 1: the captain and his crew gathered in the cockpit to
38:21
Speaker 1: assess their situation, they started to reconsider their options. The
38:26
Speaker 1: crew was close to the emergency service support. At this
38:30
Speaker 1: point the crew were aware that their landing gear was
38:32
Speaker 1: unresponsive and they would have to land without it. This
38:36
Speaker 1: meant that it would probably be an extremely rough landing
38:39
Speaker 1: and it was very likely that after landing some of
38:41
Speaker 1: the passengers would require immediate medical assistance, especially considering that
38:45
Speaker 1: there was a baby on board. At this point the
38:48
Speaker 1: crew made the difficult decision to change track. They now
38:53
Speaker 1: decided to go back to their original plan. They would
38:56
Speaker 1: fly to Frederick Chopin Airport in Warsaw where they could
38:59
Speaker 1: get all the necessary emergency backup. Soon after this there
39:03
Speaker 1: was another explosion on board the aircraft. Flight attendants reported
39:08
Speaker 1: seeing sparks at the rear of the plane and then
39:10
Speaker 1: the doors were blown off. They also discovered that one
39:14
Speaker 1: of the stewardesses was missing and it was feared that
39:17
Speaker 1: she'd been sucked out of the plane. At this point
39:20
Speaker 1: bits of the aircraft began to fall off and burning
39:22
Speaker 1: as they fell. witnesses in a village near Warsaw saw
39:26
Speaker 1: the massive plane struggling to stay airborne. The explosion and
39:30
Speaker 1: the fire had further damaged the aircraft rudder leaving only
39:33
Speaker 1: the trimmer being partially operational. Normally the trimmer was only
39:38
Speaker 1: used to adjust the aircraft's balance but now it had
39:40
Speaker 1: become the crew's only means of maneuvering the plane as
39:43
Speaker 1: it was approaching the airport. The tension and anxiety on
39:47
Speaker 1: board must have been unbearable. At one point the captain
39:51
Speaker 1: checks his radio communication with air traffic control. This seems
39:55
Speaker 1: to be less of an attempt to verify the radio's
39:58
Speaker 1: functionality and more of an effort to reach out to
40:00
Speaker 1: someone and break the overwhelming radio silence. Another fire appeared
40:05
Speaker 1: to break out on board. It's likely that this was
40:08
Speaker 1: the luggage compartment fire which had finally grown out of
40:11
Speaker 1: control to a point where the crew had become aware
40:14
Speaker 1: of it. By this point flames were visible outside the
40:17
Speaker 1: fuselage and could clearly be seen from the ground. Still
40:21
Speaker 1: though the crew didn't give up, they were determined to
40:24
Speaker 1: reach the airport which was just a few kilometers away
40:27
Speaker 1: and clearly visible. Tragically all the damage that the airplane
40:31
Speaker 1: had sustained eventually made it impossible to steer and the
40:34
Speaker 1: craft began to veer off course the crew completely lost control.
40:39
Speaker 1: At 12 minutes past 11 flight 5055 began to clip
40:43
Speaker 1: the tops of the trees in the Kabaki forest. They
40:47
Speaker 1: then crashed into the ground. They were just 40 seconds
40:50
Speaker 1: shy of reaching the airport. Flight 5055 hit the ground
40:56
Speaker 1: at a speed of 470 kilometers an hour. The shockwave
41:00
Speaker 1: knocked down everything within 50 to 60 meters of the
41:03
Speaker 1: crash and it shattered windows in nearby houses. Eyewitnesses noted
41:08
Speaker 1: that the pilots seemed to have done everything possible to
41:11
Speaker 1: avoid hitting nearby buildings by crashing directly into the forest.
41:15
Speaker 1: Firefighting units, numerous ambulances, police, military units, and the local
41:21
Speaker 1: militia squads arrived on the scene very quickly. Over 60
41:25
Speaker 1: hectares of forest had been engulfed in flames with fires
41:28
Speaker 1: that were so intense that rescuer attempts were completely impossible.
41:33
Speaker 1: Tragically everyone on board aircraft had perished on impact. When
41:37
Speaker 1: the fire was finally extinguished among the twisted, decimated bodies,
41:42
Speaker 1: they could only identify 121 people and these people were
41:45
Speaker 1: buried in their hometowns. The rest were buried in a
41:49
Speaker 1: mass grave. A series of investigations revealed several design flaws
41:54
Speaker 1: in the aircraft, particularly in the engines. It was found
41:58
Speaker 1: that in the late 1970s, as a cost-cutting measure, the
42:02
Speaker 1: safe operational life of the engines was doubled. This meant
42:06
Speaker 1: that the paperwork said that the engines were fine but
42:09
Speaker 1: many of the planes that had those engines were way
42:11
Speaker 1: overdue for service. I keep thinking about the captain's final words.
42:17
Speaker 1: They seemed strange to me. He was split seconds away
42:20
Speaker 1: from death and he just shouted out, we're dead, goodbye.
42:25
Speaker 1: I don't know why that's strange, I'm just that he
42:27
Speaker 1: felt the need to say goodbye. So me it sounds
42:31
Speaker 1: almost like he wasn't just speaking for himself but for
42:33
Speaker 1: everybody on board. Anyway that's the end of the recording,
42:38
Speaker 1: three disturbing final recordings. I hope you found the recording interesting.
42:43
Speaker 1: If you're in the mood for some more disturbing content
42:46
Speaker 1: then there should be some recordings in the archive now
42:48
Speaker 1: and check them out if you feel like it or
42:50
Speaker 1: you could just keep an eye out for me and
42:52
Speaker 1: you're recommended in the future.