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  Speaker 1: weekly uploads. Okay, let's get into today's stories. On February fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and four, two police officers drove down a
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  Speaker 1: quiet street in a little English village called Murreau, and
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  Speaker 1: they pulled over in front of this little brick bungalow.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier that day, a neighbor who lived on the street
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  Speaker 1: had called the police to report hearing a strange digging
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  Speaker 1: sound coming from inside of this bungalow, and so these
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  Speaker 1: officers had been sent out to see what the sound
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  Speaker 1: was and make sure the occupants of this home were okay. Now,
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  Speaker 1: these two officers were not particularly worried about the occupants
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  Speaker 1: of this house. They assumed that some wild animal must
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  Speaker 1: have snuck in while the owners were away, and that
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  Speaker 1: was all this was, But as they would quickly learn,
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  Speaker 1: that was not the case. After climbing out of their car,
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  Speaker 1: the two officers just stopped and listened for a second
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  Speaker 1: to see if they could hear this digging sound. But
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  Speaker 1: the bungalow was quiet, The street was quiet, and so
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  Speaker 1: the two officers shut their car doors and made their
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  Speaker 1: way up to the front porch of this bungalow and
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  Speaker 1: knocked on the front door. After a few moments, when
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  Speaker 1: nobody answered, one of the officers reached down and tried
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  Speaker 1: the handle and found it was unlocked, and so he
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  Speaker 1: opened the door just a crack, and he called out
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  Speaker 1: through this opening in the door into the bungalow, saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's police. We're here to check on you.
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  Speaker 1: But when no one called back to them, the officer
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  Speaker 1: opened the door the rest of the way, and immediately
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  Speaker 1: both officers saw there was a huge problem inside of
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  Speaker 1: this house. The entire first floor was flooded with several
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  Speaker 1: inches of water, and they could hear from somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: the back of the property the sound of running water,
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  Speaker 1: and so again both officers called out into this house
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  Speaker 1: to try to get the attention of anyone who might
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  Speaker 1: be inside, and when again they were met with silence,
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  Speaker 1: the officers walked into the flooded house and began walking
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  Speaker 1: straight back towards this running water sound, and eventually, after
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  Speaker 1: walking through the living room, they entered this hallway that
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  Speaker 1: went right to the back of the property. And as
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  Speaker 1: soon as they were in it, they could see there
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  Speaker 1: was an open door at the end of the hallway
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  Speaker 1: on the left, and it seemed like the running water
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  Speaker 1: sound was coming out of that room. And so the
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  Speaker 1: two officers one by one sloshed down this hallway to
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  Speaker 1: this room. They turned left, looked inside, and what they
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  Speaker 1: saw completely shocked them and immediately sprung them into action.
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  Speaker 1: Two months before these officers came to this bungalow and
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  Speaker 1: found it flooded with water. The owner of this bungalow,
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  Speaker 1: fifty one year old Ronald mcleaygish, had broken up with
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  Speaker 1: his girlfriend. And this breakup was really hard on Ronald.
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  Speaker 1: He was already divorced, He was totally broke. He had
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  Speaker 1: loads of health issues like bad asthma, he had some
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  Speaker 1: liver issues, and just generally he was someone who was
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  Speaker 1: kind of physically frail, and so this girlfriend had been
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  Speaker 1: one of the very few good things in his life,
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  Speaker 1: and now she was gone and he was alone again,
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  Speaker 1: And so very quickly after this breakup, Ronald fell into
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  Speaker 1: a very dark depression. And so for six weeks after
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  Speaker 1: they broke up, Ronald for the most part, just stayed
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  Speaker 1: in bed and kind of moped around his bungalow, kind
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  Speaker 1: of feeling bad for himself. But then finally at the
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  Speaker 1: end of those first six weeks after the breakup, Ronald
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  Speaker 1: decided he wanted to get his life back together and
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  Speaker 1: just move on. So on Janquary first, two thousand and four,
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  Speaker 1: so roughly two weeks before those two officers would come
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  Speaker 1: to his bungalow because of this digging sound, Ronald would
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  Speaker 1: wake up feeling determined to start anew and the first
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  Speaker 1: thing he was going to do was purge his bungalow
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  Speaker 1: of anything that was his ex girlfriends. She left a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things behind when they broke up, she had
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  Speaker 1: not collected them, and so now they were just kind
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  Speaker 1: of sources of pain, and where most of her stuff
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  Speaker 1: was inside of Ronald's bungalow, was in this closet in
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  Speaker 1: one of the bedrooms at the end of the hall.
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  Speaker 1: So that morning Ronald headed down the hall, he turned
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  Speaker 1: left into the bedroom, he opened up the closet. He
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  Speaker 1: went inside, and with the trash bag in hand, he
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  Speaker 1: began rifling through everything in this closet and anything that
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  Speaker 1: was hers he would take it and put it right
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  Speaker 1: into the trash bag. And at some point, when Ronald
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  Speaker 1: was almost done pulling the last few things of his
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  Speaker 1: girlfriends out and into the trash bag, from behind him,
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  Speaker 1: he heard the strange sound coming from the bedroom instead,
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  Speaker 1: like wood bending or creaking. But before he could turn
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  Speaker 1: around to see what the sound was, the door to
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  Speaker 1: the closet he was in slammed shut with incredible force,
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  Speaker 1: and suddenly Ronald was trapped inside of this closet in
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  Speaker 1: total darkness. Now Ronald was likely shocked at first, but
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  Speaker 1: he would have reached and tried for the handle and
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  Speaker 1: found that no matter what he did, he could not
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  Speaker 1: open this closet again, and so Ronald began screaming for
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  Speaker 1: help and pounding on the door, but nobody came to
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  Speaker 1: help him. The closet that Ronald was in was fairly tall,
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  Speaker 1: but it was only two feet wide by about two
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  Speaker 1: feet deep, which meant Ronald could only stand inside of
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  Speaker 1: this closet. He couldn't sit down, he couldn't bend down.
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  Speaker 1: He literally was trapped standing. And Ronald didn't have water,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't have food. He knew that no one was
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  Speaker 1: going to be checking on him anytime soon. And even
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  Speaker 1: though his bungalow was kind of small and shabby, it
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  Speaker 1: was built out of brick, and so the likelihood that
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  Speaker 1: his calls for help were pennising outside loud enough that
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  Speaker 1: people could hear them and that they would come in
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  Speaker 1: and rescue him was pretty slim. And so at some
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  Speaker 1: point that evening, Ronald realized he needed to do something
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  Speaker 1: different if he was going to get out of this closet.
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  Speaker 1: And so above him were a series of pipes across
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  Speaker 1: the ceiling, and so he reached up and he grabbed
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  Speaker 1: one of them, and he broke it off. He was
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  Speaker 1: likely thinking that with this pipe, maybe he can burrow
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  Speaker 1: a hole in the wall and crawl through to another room,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe he can punch a hole in the door
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  Speaker 1: and somehow unlock it, or at a minimum, with the
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  Speaker 1: metal pipe, smashing it against the wall or the door
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  Speaker 1: would be louder than any noise he could make by yelling. However,
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  Speaker 1: the second he broke that pipe off the ceiling, something
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  Speaker 1: horrible happened. The pipe he broke was a water pipe,
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  Speaker 1: and as soon as it was broken, icy cold water
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  Speaker 1: began pouring down directly on top of Ronald's head and face.
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  Speaker 1: And again, because he can only stand basically in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of this closet, he couldn't get out of the
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  Speaker 1: way of this water. It was like he was under
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  Speaker 1: a waterfall and couldn't go anywhere, and so he likely
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  Speaker 1: tried to ignore the water and tried to use the
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  Speaker 1: pipe and screamed and do anything he could to get
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  Speaker 1: someone to know he was in here, but no one
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  Speaker 1: could hear him. And so it was like he was
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  Speaker 1: being tortured with this freezing water, and he's in this tight,
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  Speaker 1: claustrophobic space. It's total darkness, and he's totally panicking. And
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  Speaker 1: for days and days that would be Ronald's nightmarish reality.
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  Speaker 1: But despite how terrible his circumstances were, Ronald continued to
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  Speaker 1: use that pipe to both smash the walls to make
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  Speaker 1: loud sounds. He also began burrowing into the walls trying
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  Speaker 1: to make a hole, but Ronald was getting weaker and weaker.
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  Speaker 1: He became very sick, and also because the water was
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  Speaker 1: constantly hitting his head and face, his skin got so
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  Speaker 1: saturated that literally his skin started falling off. It basically
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  Speaker 1: opened up into these sores and began to sag, and
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  Speaker 1: the water began brushing his skin off. And so finally,
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  Speaker 1: after about a week of being trapped in this closet
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  Speaker 1: in these terrible conditions, Ronald realized help was not going
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  Speaker 1: to come in time, and so he put his pipe down.
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  Speaker 1: He kind of slumped up against the wall and then
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  Speaker 1: closed his eyes. Ronald's neighbor who called the police, actually
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  Speaker 1: did hear Ronald using that pipe to try to dig
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  Speaker 1: a hole in his wall, And she heard Ronald smashing
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  Speaker 1: the pipe on his door, and she must have heard
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  Speaker 1: muffled shrieks and yells, but she didn't know what they
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  Speaker 1: were and kind of just decided it wasn't her business.
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  Speaker 1: But when Ronald's house went from all these strange sounds
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  Speaker 1: to silence, that was when she called the police and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I had heard some digging sounds coming from the bungalow,
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  Speaker 1: and now I don't And so when those two police
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  Speaker 1: officers arrived at Ronald's bungalow. They went inside, they went
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  Speaker 1: down the hallway, they went into the bedroom where Ronald
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  Speaker 1: had gone, and they saw this huge wardrobe, which is
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  Speaker 1: a big wooden piece of furniture, toppled over right in
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  Speaker 1: front of the closet, and at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: closet they saw two human feet protruding from underneath that
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  Speaker 1: little space at the bottom of the closet. Those feet
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  Speaker 1: belonged to Ronald. He had managed to force his feet
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  Speaker 1: underneath the closet, but of course he could not have
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  Speaker 1: fit underneath the closet door. And so the two police
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  Speaker 1: officers rushed over and together they barely were able to
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  Speaker 1: get this wardrobe off of the closet door. And when
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  Speaker 1: they opened the door up, Ronald was in there. He
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  Speaker 1: was deceased. His body was still in a standing position,
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  Speaker 1: kind of rigid and propped up against the wall, and
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  Speaker 1: freezing water was still pouring down onto his head. It
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  Speaker 1: would turn out no one had intentionally trapped Ronald. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: his wardrobe was just unstable, and it happened to topple
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  Speaker 1: over at the worst possible moment. On Thanksgiving morning in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen hundred, An eighteen year old named Thomas Pedler told
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  Speaker 1: his mother that he was going out for a bit,
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  Speaker 1: but he'd be back in time for turkey that afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: and then he grabbed his jacket and his coat and
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  Speaker 1: he headed out the door. Thomas lived in a very
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  Speaker 1: working class neighborhood in San Francisco, California, where generally speaking,
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  Speaker 1: nothing big really ever happened. It was kind of a
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  Speaker 1: place where people just worked and that was it. But
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  Speaker 1: on this day, something huge was happening in Thomas's neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: The big football game between Stanford University and the University
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  Speaker 1: of California was taking place at the stadium in Thomas's district,
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  Speaker 1: and they were expecting over twenty thousand people to cram
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  Speaker 1: into this stadium, and so Thomas was not about to
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  Speaker 1: miss this incredible spectacle, even though he didn't have enough
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  Speaker 1: money to buy a ticket, but he knew he would
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  Speaker 1: find a way to watch this game. And so Thomas
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  Speaker 1: leaves his house and he runs to the stadium, which
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  Speaker 1: was not far from his house, and he waited in
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  Speaker 1: front of the front gate where all these people are
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  Speaker 1: streaming in to go into the state. And around eleven am,
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  Speaker 1: Thomas's very close friend Charles, who was also a young man,
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  Speaker 1: made his way to the front gate. The two met up,
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  Speaker 1: and at first their plan was to try to sneak
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  Speaker 1: in with the horde of people that were making their
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  Speaker 1: way into the stadium. But even though they were still
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  Speaker 1: hours away from the opening kickoff of this big game
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  Speaker 1: it was at two thirty PM, the stadium was packed.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there was nowhere to sit, there was nowhere
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  Speaker 1: to stand. People that had tickets who were going in
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  Speaker 1: are looking around thinking, you know, where are we going
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  Speaker 1: to watch this game? And so Thomas and Charles are
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  Speaker 1: kind of like, well, what's the point of sneaking in
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  Speaker 1: if there's nowhere to watch? And so they decided, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we need to find another way to watch this game.
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  Speaker 1: And so they began looking around and they noticed there
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  Speaker 1: was a huge fence that lined the perimeter of the stadium,
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  Speaker 1: and they saw there was some people kind of climbed
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  Speaker 1: up on this fence trying to get a view down
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  Speaker 1: onto the field. And pretty quickly, when Thomas and Charles
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  Speaker 1: decided they would try to do that too, they saw
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  Speaker 1: that all the good spots on this fence were already taken.
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  Speaker 1: The spots that were open provided no view onto the field,
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  Speaker 1: and so that option as well didn't work, and so
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  Speaker 1: Thomas and Charles are frustrated. They're starting to worry that
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  Speaker 1: they will not see this big game. But when they
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  Speaker 1: walked back over to the front gates of the stadium,
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  Speaker 1: they happened to notice across the street was this group
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  Speaker 1: of people rushing over to this big white brick factory
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  Speaker 1: building and they were literally placing ladders up against the
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  Speaker 1: sides of this building and beginning to climb up it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a five story building and they
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  Speaker 1: are just basically free climbing the windows and the fire escapes,
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  Speaker 1: and Thomas and Charles realized that the top of this
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  Speaker 1: factory was flat and provided a perfect view down onto
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  Speaker 1: the field, and so all these people they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get a good seat to watch this game, and so
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  Speaker 1: without any hesitation, Thomas and Charles decide they're going to
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  Speaker 1: do that too. So they left the stadium, they ran
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  Speaker 1: across the street, and they began climbing up the ladders
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  Speaker 1: and climbing the windows and the fire escapes, until finally
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  Speaker 1: they made it onto the roof fifty five feet off
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  Speaker 1: the ground. And when they got up there, there wasn't
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  Speaker 1: that many people, and so Thomas and Charles were able
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  Speaker 1: to run right over to the front edge of this
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  Speaker 1: building and claim a spot with an absolutely perfect view
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  Speaker 1: of the game. A couple of hours later, at two
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  Speaker 1: thirty PM, when the game actually started, the rooftop that
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  Speaker 1: Thomas and Charles were on was now completely packed with people.
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  Speaker 1: Hundreds of people have climbed up onto this factory. There
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  Speaker 1: were some factory workers down below telling people do not
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  Speaker 1: do this, do not climb on top of this factory.
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  Speaker 1: It's not safe, but nobody listened to them, and the
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  Speaker 1: police either didn't notice this was happening or they didn't care.
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  Speaker 1: And so there's all these people that are on this roof.
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  Speaker 1: They're all super excited and the game has begun. It's
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  Speaker 1: two thirty and as soon as the game started, it
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  Speaker 1: was like the crowd in the stadium, which could be
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  Speaker 1: heard very easily from this rooftop, just kind of erupted
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  Speaker 1: and there were all these bands playing in the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was chaos down below and it really
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  Speaker 1: caught on on the All these guys, including Thomas and Charles,
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  Speaker 1: they're getting amped about this game. They're singing, they're chanting,
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  Speaker 1: they're screaming, they're yelling. I mean, it's total chaos. And
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  Speaker 1: Thomas and Charles loved it. But about twenty minutes into
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  Speaker 1: the game, as Thomas and Charles are enjoying themselves and
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  Speaker 1: the crowd is still going wild, a dull, cracking sound
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  Speaker 1: could be heard coming from one side of this roof,
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  Speaker 1: and so Thomas and Charles they kind of spun around
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  Speaker 1: to see where this cracking sound had come from. And
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  Speaker 1: when they began looking out across the sea of people,
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  Speaker 1: they noticed on the far side of the roof where
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  Speaker 1: the sound had kind of come from. They could see
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  Speaker 1: people scrambling to get off the roof. But before Thomas
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  Speaker 1: and Charles and the other people around them who were
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  Speaker 1: watching this happening could figure out what was going on,
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  Speaker 1: there was a much louder cracking sound, and suddenly the
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  Speaker 1: four underneath Thomas, Charles and everybody else collapsed, and immediately
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  Speaker 1: people on this roof fell all the way to the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of this factory fifty five feet below. There weren't
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  Speaker 1: loads of floors inside of this factory. Instead, it was
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  Speaker 1: basically just one big building fifty five feet high that
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  Speaker 1: housed this brick structure right in the center of the
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  Speaker 1: factory that was almost as tall as the entire factory.
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  Speaker 1: It was almost like the factory was a shell around
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  Speaker 1: this brick, smaller structure right in the middle that was
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  Speaker 1: like forty feet tall. And so after the ceiling collapses,
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  Speaker 1: Thomas he falls, but miraculously he lands on a wooden
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  Speaker 1: beam that stretched across the entire factory like a support beam,
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  Speaker 1: and he grabbed onto it, saving himself from falling all
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  Speaker 1: the way down. And so Thomas he only fell maybe
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  Speaker 1: five feet, so he was okay, but he didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a great grip on this beam. He was holding on
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  Speaker 1: but just barely. And so Thomas he turns and he's
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  Speaker 1: looking around at what's happened below him, and he's hearing
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  Speaker 1: people screaming, and he's hearing the sounds of people running
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  Speaker 1: around trying to help those who have hit the ground
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  Speaker 1: on the bottom. And Thomas immediately begins scanning for Charles,
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  Speaker 1: and he finds him. Charles was one of the other
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  Speaker 1: fairly lucky people, at least in Thomas's mind. Charles seemed
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  Speaker 1: lucky because instead of falling from the roof all the
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  Speaker 1: way to the ground, Charles and fifteen or twenty other
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  Speaker 1: people had fallen right onto that brick structure that kind
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  Speaker 1: of made up the main part of this factory. And
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  Speaker 1: so Charles had only fallen maybe ten or fifteen feet
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  Speaker 1: onto the structure. And so Thomas is thinking, Oh, Charles
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  Speaker 1: and these other people, they've survived this fall. They're okay. However,
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  Speaker 1: the second Charles and the others who supposedly were saved
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  Speaker 1: by landing on this brick structure, the second they hit
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  Speaker 1: that brick structure, despite not suffering catastrophic injuries like broken
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  Speaker 1: bones and horrible internal injuries, these people on the brick
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  Speaker 1: structure began letting out these primal screams, these just horrible
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  Speaker 1: blood curdling screams. And as they did, these loud, popping
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  Speaker 1: sounds began coming out of their body, and then their
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  Speaker 1: bodies began contorting forward, almost like a bug rolling up
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  Speaker 1: onto itself. It would turn out this factory was not
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  Speaker 1: a normal factory. This was a glass factory. And in
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  Speaker 1: order to make glass, you need to heat sand and
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  Speaker 1: some other chemicals up to extraordinarily high temperatures. You need
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  Speaker 1: a furnace that can literally burn hotter than lava. And
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  Speaker 1: so that brick structure that was housed in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of this five story tall factory was a glass furnace,
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  Speaker 1: and it was on and so even though the inside
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  Speaker 1: of this furnace was the hottest place, it was over
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  Speaker 1: four thousand degrees fahrenheit, the outside of this furnace, where
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  Speaker 1: Charles and the others had landed, believing they were saved
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  Speaker 1: from this fifty five foot fall to their death, was
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  Speaker 1: still extremely hot, so hot that the factory workers couldn't
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  Speaker 1: even go near the furnace, even with special equipment on
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  Speaker 1: the way they worked with this furnace was with these
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  Speaker 1: long metal pokers. They would work the flames and the
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  Speaker 1: glass at a distance. And so the instant that Charles
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  Speaker 1: and the others landed on the top of this furnace,
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  Speaker 1: they began to light on fire. Those snapping sounds that
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  Speaker 1: were coming out of their bodies was the sound of
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  Speaker 1: them instantly igniting on fire. And so Thomas and the
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  Speaker 1: others who had initially survived this horrible collapse, watched as
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  Speaker 1: Charles and the others shrieked and shrieked, and their bodies
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: continued to contort, and they continued to burn and smolder,
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  Speaker 1: and Charles actually he would roll up so tightly that
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  Speaker 1: his body began to roll down the curved side of
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  Speaker 1: this furnace, and at some point his body slipped into
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  Speaker 1: a crack in the furnace and he actually fell into
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  Speaker 1: the flames inside, at which point he went silent. Around
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  Speaker 1: the time that Charles and the others stopped shrieking, a
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  Speaker 1: number of people just out on the road heard the
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  Speaker 1: commotion and they came inside, and one of them was
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  Speaker 1: Thomas's father, And in a terrible twist of fate, he
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  Speaker 1: actually looked up and saw his son clinging to the
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  Speaker 1: beam Thomas, except it was so hot inside of this
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  Speaker 1: factory that Thomas was sweating, he was losing his grip.
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  Speaker 1: It was really hard to hold onto this beam, and
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  Speaker 1: his father watched as Thomas lost his grip and fell
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  Speaker 1: the ten more feet down onto the furnace exterior. He
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  Speaker 1: landed feet first that he fell into his stomach and
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  Speaker 1: his face. He immediately ignited on fire, began shrieking, and
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  Speaker 1: then went silent. All told, twenty three people would be
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  Speaker 1: killed during this roof collapse, and dozens and dozens more
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  Speaker 1: would be horribly injured and disfigured. This collapse goes down
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  Speaker 1: as one of the very worst disasters in sports history. However,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: on this day, the crowd inside the stadium was so
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: caught up in the game that they actually didn't notice
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  Speaker 1: this horrible tragedy taking place just one hundred feet away
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: from where they were. It wasn't until the end of
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  Speaker 1: the game, when the winning team's fans carried their players
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  Speaker 1: in this kind of spontaneous parade out of the stadium
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: to celebrate, that they walked out on the street and
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  Speaker 1: saw all these burnt up, rolled up corpses of the
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: people who had landed on the furnace. In April of
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, a sixty nine year old woman named
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Monica Myers was appointed mayor of a little village called
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  Speaker 1: Betterton in the US state of Maryland. Betterton used to
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  Speaker 1: be this very fancy resort town on the water where
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: people from Baltimore and Philadelphia would come there for vacations.
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  Speaker 1: They had fancy hotels and restaurants and shops. But by
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  Speaker 1: the time Monica became Betterton's mayor, Betterton had kind of
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: gone downhill. People had stopped coming to Betterton. All the
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: hotels shut down or were abandoned or burned down. The
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  Speaker 1: summer homes of the rich people from the big cities.
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  Speaker 1: Those got sold off, and down at the beach, all
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: these glamorous boardwalks literally just kind of crumbled into the sea,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and in their place were all these shanty towns where
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: home people set up their camps. But Monica had grown
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  Speaker 1: up in Betterton, and so she really loved the town
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  Speaker 1: and wanted to improve it, and so when she became
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  Speaker 1: mayor in nineteen seventy nine, she really leaned into her
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  Speaker 1: new role way more than other mayors would. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: managing the village from an office like most mayors would do,
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  Speaker 1: Monica literally went out in town and just began doing
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: lots of jobs around the town for free. She would
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: ride around with the police and literally stop crimes in action.
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  Speaker 1: One time she stumbled across someone looting a vacant hotel,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: and she personally got out, chased this person down, and
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: made them put everything back that they had taken. She
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: would pick up trash on the beach. She would do
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: random repairs on people's homes and businesses all over town,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: and sometimes she would just go door to door asking
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: people how they were doing. And so very quickly the
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: people of Betterton really grew to love Monica, and they
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: loved seeing her every single day just out and about
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: making Betterton a better place. And so on March twentieth,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty, roughly one year into Monica's tenure as mayor,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: it was immediately noticeable to the people of Betterton when
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Monica was nowhere to be seen. That day. She did
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: not go to the police station in the morning like
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: she normally did. She was not seen at the beach
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  Speaker 1: doing her trash pickup, and she didn't knock on anybody's door.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: And so by mid morning that day, the people of Betterton,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: all one hundred and twenty of them, were basically out
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: in force looking for Monica. And at eleven thirty am,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the police in Betterton got a call about Monica. It
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: was this guy who was totally panicked. He could barely
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  Speaker 1: make a sentence, and he basically just told the police,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: you got to get here now. And so the police
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: hopped in their cars and they sped to the address
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: this guy gave them, and when they got there, they
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: saw it was this very plain, boxy building that was
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: kind of tucked back in the woods. It was far
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: away from the town center, and really nobody ever went
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: over here, and the when they parked their cars, they
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: saw the guy who had called the police. The distraught
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: caller was standing outside of the front door. He was
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: obviously crying, and he was waving for them to come
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: over and follow him into this building. And so the
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  Speaker 1: police got out of their cars. They ran over to
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  Speaker 1: the sky and they're asking him, you know, what happened,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Where's Monica, What's going on? But the sky was so hysterical.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: He really could not describe what happened to Monica. He
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: just kept telling them to come on, come on, follow me,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: And so he led them into this building, and pretty
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: quickly they entered this huge warehouse. We're all across the
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: ceiling where these big metal catwalk areas that kind of
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: zigged and zagged all over this warehouse, and below them,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: all over the floor were these huge, industrial sized, fifteen
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: foot tall vats that contained something. And so this guy
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: who had led police here, he stops and he just
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: points at the nearest vat, and so the police, picking
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: up his cue, began walking towards this vat, and as
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: they got closer and closer, they were hit with this
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  Speaker 1: horrible smell that made them gag and cough, and before
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: long they had to stop and kind of compose themselves.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: The smell was so bad. It would turn out. This
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  Speaker 1: building that was kind of removed from the town center
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  Speaker 1: of Betterton was Betterton's sewage treatment plant, and that morning
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Monica had gone to the treatment plant to help clean
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  Speaker 1: some of these fifteen foot tall, industrial sized vats that
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: contained human waste. She had done this enough times that
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: when she was here she did not need any supervision,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and so that morning she was alone. She climbed up
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: onto one of the catwalks over one of these big vats,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: and she had reached down with her testing kit to
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: test the sewage to see how much cleaning it would need.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: And as she did that, she somehow slipped and fell
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: into the big vat of human waste. Now she would
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: not have immediately gone under. It was not like a liquid.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: It was more like clay or really thick mud. Where
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: at first she would have kind of been laying on
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: top of the sewage, but as soon as she tried
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: to move to get out of the sewage, the sewage
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: would have functioned more like quicksand where as soon as
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: a part of her body went under the surface, it
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: would not come up again. And so after the police
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: composed themselves, they climbed up onto the catwalk and they
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: looked down and they saw Monica who was face down,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: partially submerged inside of the spat, and she was deceased.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Her autopsy would reveal that she died of drowning, which
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: means she literally inhaled human waste. Two hundred and fifty
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• 25:52
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• 25:55
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• 26:01
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• 26:04
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• 26:10
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• 26:13
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