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• 0:03
  Speaker 1: A young man's voice, recorded just after three in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: shaking and confused somewhere on a Manchester street. He was
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: trying to explain what had happened to him, but the
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  Speaker 1: words kept breaking apart. He slipped me something, and now,
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: in the morning, he's like, on top of me. He
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: was covered in blood. He had borrowed a stranger's phone
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  Speaker 1: to make the call, because his own was gone. and
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: he had no idea that the man he had just
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: escaped from had been doing exactly this to person after
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: person for nearly a decade. The case that followed that
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: single phone call would become one of the most disturbing
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  Speaker 1: criminal investigations in British history, not because of what happened
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: in one night, because of what the evidence showed had
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: been happening systematically in the same apartment for approximately 10 years.
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  Speaker 1: and the man at the center of it, have been
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: hiding in plain sight the entire time. There is something
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  Speaker 1: about this story that I kept returning to after I
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: first encountered the details. Not the scale of it, though
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: the scale is staggering. It was the simplicity of how
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: it started. One call, one door, and behind that door, 3.2
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  Speaker 1: terabytes of evidence that no one had ever thought to
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  Speaker 1: look for. Montana House. sits in the heart of Manchester's
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  Speaker 1: student district, a few minutes from the city center, in
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  Speaker 1: the kind of neighborhood where the streets are loud on
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  Speaker 1: Friday nights and quiet by Sunday afternoon. In 2017, the
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  Speaker 1: apartment block was unremarkable, one of dozens, but one unit
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  Speaker 1: on one of its upper floors had a particular geographic
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  Speaker 1: detail that would only become significant later. The queue for
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  Speaker 1: the Seneca Bar ran directly beneath the window On busy nights,
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  Speaker 1: people stood on that pavement for 20 or 30 minutes,
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  Speaker 1: waiting to get inside, looking at their phones, talking to friends,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes wandering off alone. They were, without knowing it, standing
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  Speaker 1: within meters of where Reinhard Sanaga lived. Sanaga had arrived
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  Speaker 1: in the United Kingdom in 2007 on a student visa.
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  Speaker 1: He was Indonesian, from a wealthy family. His father was
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  Speaker 1: described as a palm oil magnate. He had grown up
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  Speaker 1: in a strict Christian household where public statements against homosexuality
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: were not unusual, according to a former boyfriend who later
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: spoke to journalists. Sanaga had found Manchester the way some
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: people find a city they never want to leave. He
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  Speaker 1: could live openly as a gay man there. He cut
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  Speaker 1: his hair short every time he returned to Indonesia, then
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  Speaker 1: let it grow back the moment he arrived in England.
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  Speaker 1: Manchester was not just where he lived. It was where
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  Speaker 1: he had decided he was allowed to exist. He was
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  Speaker 1: known in the student community. Friendly, approachable, the kind of
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  Speaker 1: person who knew which bars were quiet on a Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: and which clubs had the longest queues on a Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: He moved through the nightlife district like someone who belonged
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  Speaker 1: to it, which, after ten years, he did. His method,
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  Speaker 1: when stripped of everything else, was built on a single observation.
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  Speaker 1: Drunk men, alone, in the cold waiting for a taxi
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  Speaker 1: or a bus, are looking for someone to trust. Sanaga
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  Speaker 1: gave them exactly that. He offered to charge a dead phone.
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  Speaker 1: He offered to help find a lost wallet. He offered
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  Speaker 1: his apartment as somewhere to warm up for a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes before the cab arrived. The offer was always small
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  Speaker 1: enough to accept. It was always reasonable. He had spent
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  Speaker 1: years perfecting the calibration of it. Once inside the flat,
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  Speaker 1: the drink came quickly. The victims described losing consciousness within minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them remembered almost nothing. A brief sensation of
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  Speaker 1: the room tilting. A moment of confusion. And then nothing
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  Speaker 1: until they woke up. Hours later, on the floor or
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  Speaker 1: a mattress, their clothing displaced. Their body telling them something
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  Speaker 1: had happened that their mind could not yet process. Some
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  Speaker 1: were kept for 14 to 16 hours. Some were rig-rugged.
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  Speaker 1: When they began to stir, what none of them knew
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  Speaker 1: was that Sanaga had positioned two mobile phones before they
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: lost consciousness. One angled from the side, one held close.
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  Speaker 1: He filmed everything. He had been filming for years. And
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: when the police eventually opened his devices, they would find
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  Speaker 1: not just recordings, but a kind of archive. 3.2 terabytes
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  Speaker 1: of data stored across two phones, multiple hard drives, and laptops.
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  Speaker 1: the equivalent of 330 DVDs. He also collected objects, wallets, watches,
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  Speaker 1: belt buckles, credit cards, business cards, identification documents, passports, and
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  Speaker 1: something else. While the victims lay unconscious, Senaga searched for
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  Speaker 1: their Facebook profiles on his phone and photographed their pictures
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  Speaker 1: off the screen. He wanted to know who they were.
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  Speaker 1: He kept that too. The queue outside the Seneca kept moving.
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  Speaker 1: The students kept waiting on the pavement below his window,
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  Speaker 1: and Sanaga kept going out, night after night, to find
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  Speaker 1: the next one. The flat at Montana House sat above
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  Speaker 1: the queue line for the Seneca Bar on busy nights.
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  Speaker 1: Men waiting to get inside stood directly beneath Sanaga's window.
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  Speaker 1: They were already in his orbit before he ever left
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  Speaker 1: the building. Sanaga's method had a rhythm to it. He
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  Speaker 1: would walk out around midnight, sometimes later, Moving through the
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  Speaker 1: smoking areas and the overflow crowds outside the clubs, he
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  Speaker 1: was not loud. He did not press. He would identify
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  Speaker 1: a man who had drifted away from his group, someone
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  Speaker 1: checking his phone for a cab, someone who had lost
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  Speaker 1: his friends in the crowd, someone standing in the cold,
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  Speaker 1: looking uncertain. Then he would approach, quietly, helpfully. He offered
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  Speaker 1: small things, a phone, charge, help finding a missing wallet,
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  Speaker 1: A warm place to sit for a few minutes before
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  Speaker 1: heading home. Men accepted, because there was no reason not to.
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  Speaker 1: Manchester's student district was a social place. People looked out
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  Speaker 1: for each other. Sanaga looked to every person who encountered
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: him like someone doing exactly that. Inside the flat, he
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  Speaker 1: offered drinks. The victims described the liquid as clear, with
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  Speaker 1: a faint taste of alcohol. Something like sambuca. Something like vodka.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing alarming. They took the drink. Within minutes. They were unconscious.
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  Speaker 1: GHB is colorless. It is nearly tasteless at low concentrations.
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  Speaker 1: It metabolizes quickly, leaving almost no trace in the blood
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  Speaker 1: after a few hours. A man who woke up confused
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  Speaker 1: and sick the next morning had very little biological evidence
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  Speaker 1: that anything had happened to him at all. That was
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  Speaker 1: not an accident. Sanaga understood exactly what the drug did
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  Speaker 1: and exactly how long he had. Some victims were held
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  Speaker 1: for 14 to 16 hours. When the drug began to
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: wear off and a man showed signs of waking, Sanaga
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  Speaker 1: administered another dose. The recordings show this. They show him
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  Speaker 1: monitoring the men, adjusting, managing the unconsciousness as though it
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  Speaker 1: were a variable he could control. Because it was The
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  Speaker 1: filming was systematic in a way that took investigators time
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  Speaker 1: to fully absorb. Sanaga used two phones simultaneously. One was
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  Speaker 1: positioned laterally, capturing a wider view. The second was held close,
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: recording specific details. Both phones were running from the moment
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  Speaker 1: an attack began. He had done this so many times
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  Speaker 1: that the setup was automatic. The camera angles did not
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  Speaker 1: vary much from recording to recording. He had found positions
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  Speaker 1: that worked, and he repeated them. When police began processing
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: the material recovered from the flat, the scale became visible,
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: only gradually, 3.2 terabytes. Two phones, multiple hard drives, multiple laptops,
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  Speaker 1: the equivalent of 330 DVDs. Analysts would spend months working
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  Speaker 1: through the files. Each file was a separate attack. Each
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  Speaker 1: attack had a victim. The files were dated and organized.
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  Speaker 1: That organization is one of the details that stopped investigators cold.
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  Speaker 1: This was not a chaotic archive. Sanaga had structured it.
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  Speaker 1: He knew what he had. He kept it. The trophies
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  Speaker 1: extended beyond the recordings. In the flat, police found wallets, watches,
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  Speaker 1: belt buckles, credit cards, business cards, identification documents, and passports.
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  Speaker 1: These were not forgotten items. They were kept deliberately, but
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  Speaker 1: the trophies that revealed the most about how Sanaga understood
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  Speaker 1: what he was doing were the digital ones. While his
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  Speaker 1: victims were unconscious beneath him, he would pick up a
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  Speaker 1: third device and search their names on Facebook. He would
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  Speaker 1: photograph their profile images off the screen. He archived who
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  Speaker 1: they were alongside recordings of what he had done to them.
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  Speaker 1: Approximately 198 photos. Distinct victims appeared in the files. Around
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  Speaker 1: 50 were eventually identified. The remaining 150 were not. Here
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  Speaker 1: is where the rational accounting breaks down completely. 150 men
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  Speaker 1: whose faces and voices are preserved in those recordings, have
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  Speaker 1: no idea they are in them. They went home that night, confused,
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  Speaker 1: possibly ill, possibly assuming they had drunk too much. Some
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  Speaker 1: of them have spent years with a gap in their
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  Speaker 1: memory they could not explain. Some of them are still
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  Speaker 1: living with that gap right now. In June of 2017,
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  Speaker 1: an 18-year-old man left a night out with friends and
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  Speaker 1: lost them inside the factory club. He waited outside for
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  Speaker 1: 15 to 20 minutes in the cold. Sanaga approached him
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  Speaker 1: and invited him up to the flat to warm up
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  Speaker 1: before heading home. Inside, Sanaga prepared two shots. The victim
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  Speaker 1: went to the bathroom. When he returned, Both shots were
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  Speaker 1: already poured. He took the second one. The liquid was clear,
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  Speaker 1: tasted faintly of Sambuca. He does not remember anything after that.
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  Speaker 1: Five hours later, he woke on the floor, face down,
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  Speaker 1: his jeans and underwear pulled to his knees. Sanaga was
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  Speaker 1: on top of him. The victim fought. Sanaga tried to
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  Speaker 1: prevent him from calling his friends, took his phone. When
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  Speaker 1: the victim tried to reach the door, Sanaga bit him,
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  Speaker 1: struck him. and head-butted him. The victim threw him off
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  Speaker 1: and found the emergency exit. He was in the street,
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  Speaker 1: covered in blood, with no phone. He asked a stranger
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  Speaker 1: for their phone. He called the police. That call was
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  Speaker 1: made at approximately three in the morning, and in it,
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  Speaker 1: he tried to describe something he did not yet have
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  Speaker 1: words for. He knew something had happened to him. He
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  Speaker 1: knew Sanaga had been on top of him. He did
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  Speaker 1: not yet understand that he had been unconscious For five
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  Speaker 1: hours before waking to that moment, the police took him
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  Speaker 1: to Long Sight Station. Then, something happened that tells you
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  Speaker 1: exactly how difficult this case would have been if Sanaga
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  Speaker 1: had not made a single mistake. The victim, the 18-year-old
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  Speaker 1: who had escaped covered in blood, was arrested for assault.
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  Speaker 1: Because Sanaga had been beaten badly enough to require hospitalization
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  Speaker 1: and intensive care, and because the victim had visible injuries
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  Speaker 1: that suggested a fight. Rather than an attack, the initial
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  Speaker 1: frame was one of mutual violence. For a period of
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  Speaker 1: time that weekend, the survivor was the suspect. Sanaga was
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  Speaker 1: in a hospital bed. And in that hospital bed, he
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  Speaker 1: made the only clear error he made in nearly ten
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  Speaker 1: years of operation. He became agitated. Not about his injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Not about the police presence. about his phones. He kept
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  Speaker 1: asking about them, kept trying to establish where they were,
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  Speaker 1: kept pressing nurses and officers about whether they had been recovered.
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  Speaker 1: The agitation was so pronounced that officers flagged it. That
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  Speaker 1: detail changed everything. The flat was searched, the phones were found,
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  Speaker 1: the hard drives were found, and what was on them
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  Speaker 1: was so far outside what anyone had prepared for that.
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  Speaker 1: The investigation that followed would take years and require... four
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  Speaker 1: separate trials. The rational explanation for Sanaga's anxiety's anxiety in
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  Speaker 1: that hospital bed was that he was disoriented from his injuries.
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  Speaker 1: That explanation lasted approximately as long as it took to
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  Speaker 1: unlock the first phone. There is no version of this
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  Speaker 1: story where the ten years before that night make sense
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  Speaker 1: as anything other than what they were. Investigators found evidence
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  Speaker 1: of a systematic operation, so refined that it had its
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  Speaker 1: own internal logic. its own archive structure, its own trophy system.
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  Speaker 1: Sanaga had not stumbled into this. He had built it,
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  Speaker 1: and he had run it with the patience of someone
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  Speaker 1: who believed he would never be found. The one thing
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  Speaker 1: he had not accounted for was an 18-year-old who woke
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  Speaker 1: up five hours in. At Manchester Crown Court, Sanaga entered
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  Speaker 1: his defense with complete consistency. He maintained, across all four trials,
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  Speaker 1: that every man in every recording had consented to participate
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  Speaker 1: in a sexual fantasy involving simulated unconsciousness. Involving simulated unconsciousness.
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  Speaker 1: Every single one of them. He said they had agreed
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  Speaker 1: to pretend to be asleep. He said this was a
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  Speaker 1: known arrangement, communicated in advance. He said it every time.
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  Speaker 1: The recordings do not support this in any frame. They
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  Speaker 1: show men who are not breathing the way sleeping people breathe.
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  Speaker 1: They show men who snore, who vomit slightly, who shift
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  Speaker 1: in ways that have no coordination or intention behind them.
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  Speaker 1: They show a man who, in the middle of an assault,
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  Speaker 1: says the word, no, he did not remember saying it.
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  Speaker 1: He had not known until he sat in a courtroom
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  Speaker 1: and watched the footage that any of this had happened
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  Speaker 1: to him. The defense collapsed against its own evidence, but
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Sinaga maintained it anyway. and observers in the courtroom noted
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: something that was difficult to set aside. When the recordings
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  Speaker 1: were played, Sanaga watched them. He did not look away.
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  Speaker 1: He did not appear distressed. Court observers described him as attentive.
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  Speaker 1: At certain moments, something closer to engaged. When the first
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  Speaker 1: verdict was delivered, he yawned. When the sentence was read,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: he received it with a faint expression that several observers described. Independently,
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  Speaker 1: As a smile, he was led away, and that was
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  Speaker 1: the last image most people in that courtroom had of him.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators who studied the full archive eventually reached a conclusion
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  Speaker 1: that the evidence supports, but does not fully resolve. The
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  Speaker 1: 198 victims in the files represent only the attacks Sinaga
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: chose to record, or managed to record, completely. There is
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  Speaker 1: no confirmed floor for the total number. Police noted that
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: additional devices may have existed and been destroyed. The transcript
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: of the investigation explicitly describes the figure of nearly 200
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  Speaker 1: as likely conservative. The only person who knows the actual
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  Speaker 1: number is Reinhardt Sinaga. He is serving a life sentence
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  Speaker 1: in Stringsway's prison in Manchester. He has refused to cooperate
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  Speaker 1: with detectives, with psychologists, and with parole officials. He has
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  Speaker 1: given no explanation for the scale of what he did.
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  Speaker 1: He has offered nothing to the men whose lives he
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: moved through as though they were objects in an archive.
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  Speaker 1: Among those trophies recovered from the flat, the wallets, the watches,
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  Speaker 1: the passports, there are items that have never been matched
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  Speaker 1: to a named person. They sit in evidence. The people
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  Speaker 1: they belong to have not come forward or do not
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  Speaker 1: know they have a reason to somewhere A man is
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  Speaker 1: missing a watch or a belt buckle and has a
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  Speaker 1: memory gap. He has explained to himself in some other way.
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  Speaker 1: He may never know differently. Sanaga made sure of that.
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  Speaker 1: Four trials. That is how long it took to process
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  Speaker 1: the full scale of what Raynard Sanaga had done. Manchester
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  Speaker 1: Crown Court ran each one separately because the volume of evidence,
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  Speaker 1: the recordings, the archived files, the catalogued objects, was too
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  Speaker 1: vast for a single proceeding. By the end of the
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  Speaker 1: fourth trial, he had been convicted on 159 charges. The judge,
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  Speaker 1: delivering the final sentence, called him a monster. Sanaga yawned
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  Speaker 1: when officers led him away. Witnesses in the courtroom said
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  Speaker 1: he smiled faintly, not smugly, not defiantly, just lightly as
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  Speaker 1: if the proceedings had been mildly entertaining. He was sentenced
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  Speaker 1: to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 30 years.
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  Speaker 1: He is currently held at Strangways Prison in Manchester. He
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  Speaker 1: has refused to cooperate with detectives, with prison psychologists, and
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  Speaker 1: with parole officials. He has not explained his methods. He
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  Speaker 1: has not named additional victims. He has offered no account
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  Speaker 1: of what happened before the cameras were rolling. That silence
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  Speaker 1: is the center of everything that remains unresolved. Approximately 198
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  Speaker 1: victims appear in his archived files. Of those, roughly 50
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  Speaker 1: have been identified and notified. The remaining 150 are names
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  Speaker 1: that do not yet exist in any official record. People
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  Speaker 1: who may still believe that a strange night in Manchester
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  Speaker 1: was simply a gap in their memory, a bad hangover,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: a blackout they have quietly tried to forget. Some of
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  Speaker 1: the men who were notified did not believe it at first.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators had to show them still images from Sinaga's recordings.
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  Speaker 1: Images of themselves, unconscious, taken by a man they had
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: trusted enough to follow up a staircase. Several men had
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: no physical memory of the night. They had woken up
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  Speaker 1: elsewhere and moved on, learning the truth. Years later, fractured
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: something that could not be put back. At least some
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: of those men attempted to take their own lives after
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: learning what had been done to them. That detail appears
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: in records connected to the case's aftermath. It is stated
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: here once, and it requires no elaboration. Then there is
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the man who posted on social media thanking Sanaga by
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: name for looking after him on a night out, calling
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: him a good person, saying he was grateful, someone had
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: been kind. He wrote that post without knowing. He found
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: out the same way many others did. The case went public.
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  Speaker 1: His face appeared in Sanaga's archive, and the thank you
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  Speaker 1: post was still live when investigators came to his door.
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  Speaker 1: The trophies found in the flat were eventually matched where
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: possible against victim identifications. Some items, a watch, a passport,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: a belt buckle, remain in evidence with no confirmed owner.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: They belong to someone. That person exists somewhere. They do
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: not know the case Bible prepared by investigators. After the
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: fourth conviction described the 198 figure as likely conservative, Sanaga
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: operated for approximately 10 years. The recordings only begin at
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: some point within that decade. What happened before the cameras,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: before the double phone setup, before the systematic archiving is
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: not documented anywhere. There is no confession. There is no cooperation.
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  Speaker 1: The only person who knows the actual number is in
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: a cell in Strangways, and he is not speaking. There
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: is one detail I have not been able to set
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  Speaker 1: aside since I first went through this material. It is
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: not the scale. though the scale is staggering. It is
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  Speaker 1: the thank you post, the idea that a man walked
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: out of that flat bruised and disoriented without knowing why
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  Speaker 1: and later sat down to write a public note of
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: gratitude to the person who had done it. That particular
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: inversion has stayed with me in a way that the
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  Speaker 1: larger numbers have not. It says something about how completely
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the method worked, not just the drug, the whole construction,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the kindness, the safety. the offer of help. Sanaga's arrest
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: in June of 2017 happened because an 18-year-old man fought
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: his way out of a flat and borrowed a stranger's
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  Speaker 1: phone on the street. That is the entire margin. One
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: person who woke up and resisted. One person who made
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: a call. Without that call, the archive would still be growing.
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  Speaker 1: The prosecutors who handled the four trials were explicit about
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: what the evidence showed and what it could not show.
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  Speaker 1: The recordings documented 198 victims. They documented nothing that came
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: before the recording system was established. They could not confirm
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  Speaker 1: whether other devices existed and had been destroyed. They stated
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  Speaker 1: in open court that the true number of victims is
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  Speaker 1: unknown and that 198 should be understood as a floor,
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  Speaker 1: not a ceiling. Sanaga's defense, that every man had consented
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  Speaker 1: to a simulated, unconsciousness fantasy was presented across all four
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  Speaker 1: trials and rejected each time. The recordings showed men who snored,
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  Speaker 1: who vomited, who were red-rugged when they began to stir.
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  Speaker 1: One man said the word no during an assault. He
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  Speaker 1: would later have no memory of saying the jury heard that.
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  Speaker 1: They saw the footage. They convicted. He is the most
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  Speaker 1: prolific convicted serial rapist in British legal history. possibly in
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  Speaker 1: European legal history, possibly in any jurisdiction where a case
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  Speaker 1: of this kind has reached trial. Those are not rhetorical comparisons.
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  Speaker 1: They are the terms used by the prosecution in their
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  Speaker 1: final submissions. The case produced no law named after it.
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  Speaker 1: No national campaign emerged from the convictions. The 150 victims
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  Speaker 1: who remain unidentified have no formal mechanism to come forward anonymously.
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  Speaker 1: and be told what happened to them. The only ongoing
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: fact is the silence from Strangways and the evidence bags
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  Speaker 1: that still contain objects with no confirmed name attached. The
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: flat at Montana House no longer belongs to him. The
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: queue for the Seneca Bar still forms on that street.
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  Speaker 1: Students still stand outside in the cold, waiting the way
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  Speaker 1: they always have. The only person who knows how many
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  Speaker 1: times that flat was used and how many names are
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  Speaker 1: missing from the archive, is Reinhard Sinaga. He is in prison.
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  Speaker 1: He is not talking. And the number, the real number,
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  Speaker 1: will almost certainly die with him. This show is made
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  Speaker 1: by Oboe Media.