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British Intelligence couldn't believe what he found... - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: On July 4th, 2018, a paramedic was hurrying through a
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  Speaker 1: hospital in England when a supervisor flagged him down looking
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  Speaker 1: very concerned. She asked him if he had been one
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  Speaker 1: of the paramedics on a very specific call.
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  Speaker 2: A few days earlier. Surprised, the paramedic said yes.
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  Speaker 1: The call had been completely typical, so he didn't really
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  Speaker 1: understand why this particular call mattered so much. But the
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  Speaker 1: instant he confirmed he had been there, His supervisor said
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  Speaker 1: she would explain in a minute, but for right now,
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  Speaker 1: he had to take off all of his gear, like
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  Speaker 1: all of it, right now. Because there was a chance
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  Speaker 1: On the afternoon of June 29, 2018, a 44-year-old woman
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  Speaker 1: named Dawn Sturgis sat on a blanket in a park
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  Speaker 1: in Salisbury, England, drinking some wine with a few friends
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  Speaker 1: and her boyfriend Charlie Rowley. It was Dawn's favorite way
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  Speaker 1: to spend a Friday, especially since it involved Charlie. So
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  Speaker 1: they'd been dating for 16 months, and she was completely
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  Speaker 1: in love with him, primarily because Charlie was truly like
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  Speaker 1: the lone bright spot in Dawn's otherwise really difficult life.
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  Speaker 1: So Dawn was an alcoholic who had struggled with an
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  Speaker 1: undiagnosed case of bipolar disorder for years.
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  Speaker 2: And so she had a hard time finding work.
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  Speaker 1: And for the last two years, she'd actually lived in
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  Speaker 1: a therapeutic group home. But it was a little after
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  Speaker 1: she had moved in there that she had very fortunately
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  Speaker 1: met Charlie. Now, on paper, Dawn and Charlie did not
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  Speaker 1: seem like they would be good.
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  Speaker 2: For each other.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie was addicted to heroin. He also didn't have a job.
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  Speaker 1: And he was frequently in trouble with the law. And
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  Speaker 1: so when they first got together, people in Dawn's life
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  Speaker 1: worried that Charlie ultimately was just going to pull her
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  Speaker 1: down even further.
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  Speaker 2: Into her own problems.
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  Speaker 1: But they did make each other really happy. And so
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  Speaker 1: they spent basically all of their time together, going between
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  Speaker 1: each other's apartments and visiting the park and hanging out
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  Speaker 1: with their friends. And for Dawn, this taste of happiness
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  Speaker 1: had made her want to make some positive changes in
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  Speaker 1: her life.
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  Speaker 2: Now, she still drank alcohol.
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  Speaker 1: But she finally got her bipolar disorder diagnosed and properly medicated.
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  Speaker 1: And she was feeling stable for the first time in years.
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  Speaker 1: She was even planning to move out of that group
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  Speaker 1: home and into a new apartment soon and hope that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that would give her a chance for a
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  Speaker 1: true fresh start. And because of all these changes, Dawn
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  Speaker 1: had planned a get-together with her family to show them
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  Speaker 1: how well she was doing. It was in a few days,
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  Speaker 1: and she'd really wanted Charlie to come with her since
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  Speaker 1: their relationship, at least in her mind, was a huge
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  Speaker 1: reason she'd been so motivated.
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  Speaker 2: To turn this corner.
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  Speaker 1: Except, despite how much she adored Charlie and really was
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  Speaker 1: excited for her life with him, at the current moment
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  Speaker 1: as they sat in the park on this Friday, she
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  Speaker 1: actually was really mad at him.
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  Speaker 2: So before arriving at the park, Charlie and their.
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  Speaker 1: Friends had done some heroin and some other drugs, and
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  Speaker 1: being under the influence of these substances was making Charlie
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  Speaker 1: act like a total jerk. Dawn had just bought some
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  Speaker 1: new hair dye to give herself a new look for
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  Speaker 1: this get-together with her family. And now Charlie, high on drugs,
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  Speaker 1: was wasting it by putting it in his beard and
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  Speaker 1: his eyebrows as a joke. And so Dawn ultimately was
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  Speaker 1: really mad, not so much because he was wasting the dye,
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  Speaker 1: but because by dyeing your beard and eyebrows and all that,
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  Speaker 1: that Charlie was going to look like a total deranged mess.
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  Speaker 1: when he met her family for the first time in
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  Speaker 1: a few days. And so when she expressed her concerns
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  Speaker 1: to Charlie, he did go and, you know, wash out
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  Speaker 1: the dye from his face, and he got most of
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  Speaker 1: it out. But even after, you know, Don still felt
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  Speaker 1: just so annoyed by the whole thing. It's like he
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  Speaker 1: knew how important this meeting with her family was going
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you jeopardize that?
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  Speaker 1: And so in the end, even after he had cleaned
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  Speaker 1: himself up, Don just got up and stormed off, leaving
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  Speaker 1: Charlie and the friends to pack everything up.
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  Speaker 2: She was done.
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  Speaker 1: Hours later, around 10 p.m. that night, Dawn lay on
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  Speaker 1: the couch in Charlie's living room, listening to Charlie and
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  Speaker 1: their friend, Sam Hobson, talk about life, and how unpredictable
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  Speaker 1: and how unfair it could be. Now, Dawn was still
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  Speaker 1: feeling annoyed at Charlie, but overall, she was mostly back
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  Speaker 1: to being in a pretty good mood. After she had
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  Speaker 1: stormed away from the park, she had gone to her place,
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  Speaker 1: and she had dyed her hair with the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the dye that was left, and then she had called
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  Speaker 1: her mom. Dawn actually had three kids of her own, and.
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  Speaker 2: Two of them were adults.
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  Speaker 1: But her own mother, so Dawn's mother, had custody of
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  Speaker 1: the youngest child. And Dawn was hoping that maybe they
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  Speaker 1: could all see each other tomorrow at the skit together.
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  Speaker 1: And her mother had said yes. So Dawn was really
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to that. But at this exact moment, all
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  Speaker 1: Dawn really wanted to do was just go to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: So she got up off the couch to go grab
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  Speaker 1: her nightly medication out of the bathroom. And just to
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  Speaker 1: get there, she had to carefully step around all the
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  Speaker 1: junk and just sort of random items that were laying
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  Speaker 1: strewn about all over Charlie's apartment. Charlie was always going
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  Speaker 1: out and finding things out on the street or even
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  Speaker 1: in dumpsters and bringing those things back home. Sometimes he
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  Speaker 1: would sell these things afterwards, but a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: things he just sort of kept around.
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  Speaker 2: So the apartment was very cluttered.
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  Speaker 1: But Dawn successfully navigated the pathway to the bathroom. She
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  Speaker 1: grabbed her pills and then went back to the couch,
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  Speaker 1: swallowed the medication, and then she lay back into the cushions.
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  Speaker 2: Then minutes later, she was asleep.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, Dawn woke up on Charlie's couch a
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  Speaker 1: little bit before 9.30 a.m. She did have a small hangover,
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  Speaker 1: just a little headache, but by her standards, that was
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  Speaker 1: not so bad. She had not drank a ton the
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  Speaker 1: day before, so this was a good start to her day.
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  Speaker 1: Just a few minutes later, Charlie came into the room
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  Speaker 1: and he sat on the couch next to her and
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  Speaker 1: said good morning. And between Dawn not feeling that great
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  Speaker 1: physically and remembering how obnoxious Charlie had been yesterday with
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  Speaker 1: the hair dye, Dawn really didn't feel like talking to
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  Speaker 1: him right now. But before she could say as much,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie's eyes lit up and he said he'd almost forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: He actually had a present for her that he'd gotten
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  Speaker 1: a few days ago. And then Charlie, he jumped up
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  Speaker 1: and he disappeared into the kitchen. And then he came
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  Speaker 1: back with a box, which he said was for her.
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  Speaker 1: It was her gift. And this made Dawn forget all
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  Speaker 1: about her irritation with him. Dawn didn't get very many gifts.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she had a lot of friends in her
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  Speaker 1: life who, you know, wanted to give her gifts. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they, much like her and Charlie... didn't have
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  Speaker 1: much money, and so gifts were not a common thing
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  Speaker 1: in her life. And so to be receiving this gift
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  Speaker 1: right now was really exciting. And so Dawn smiled widely,
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  Speaker 1: and she opened up the box's lid, and inside was
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  Speaker 1: this clearly very expensive bottle of perfume.
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  Speaker 2: And she gasped when she saw it. It was brand new.
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  Speaker 2: She would never have.
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  Speaker 1: Been able to afford something like this. And she was shocked, frankly,
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  Speaker 1: that Charlie had managed to get it for her. Like,
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  Speaker 1: how could he have gotten this? Dawn gave Charlie a
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  Speaker 1: very excited hug, and she told him she absolutely loved it.
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  Speaker 1: And so she pulled it out, and she sprayed some
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  Speaker 1: on her wrist, and she rubbed them together, and she
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  Speaker 1: thought it smelled so good. And then she handed the
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  Speaker 1: bottle to Charlie and told him to please put this
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  Speaker 1: somewhere safe. Then she stood up from the couch with
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  Speaker 1: a big smile on her face, and she went to
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  Speaker 1: get her makeup to go get ready for the day.
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  Speaker 1: About five minutes later, Dawn was sitting back on the
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  Speaker 1: couch with her makeup bag now in her lap, and
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  Speaker 1: she was applying foundation to her face and telling Charlie...
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  Speaker 1: about how she was thinking about putting more dye in
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  Speaker 1: her hair, maybe a blue streak this time. But as
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  Speaker 1: she finished her foundation and reached for her powder, she
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  Speaker 1: felt her headache suddenly intensify. She winced, hoping it would pass,
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  Speaker 1: but pretty soon she started feeling pretty lightheaded and realized
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  Speaker 1: she was sweating quite a bit. She stopped talking about
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  Speaker 1: her hair and told Charlie she was feeling really weird.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie seemed worried and asked if she wanted some pain relievers,
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  Speaker 1: but Dawn just shook her head. She'd already taken her
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  Speaker 1: meds that day and didn't want to take more pills because.
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  Speaker 2: It could upset her stomach.
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  Speaker 1: Instead, she handed her makeup bag to Charlie and asked
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  Speaker 1: him to go put it back in the bedroom. And
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  Speaker 1: then she hurried to the bathroom to splash some water
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  Speaker 1: on her face. And by the time she got in
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  Speaker 1: there and actually began putting the water on her face,
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  Speaker 1: it was like her whole body felt like it was
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  Speaker 1: on fire.
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  Speaker 2: She was sweating so much.
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  Speaker 1: To the point where she felt like this water wasn't enough.
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  Speaker 1: And so she actually just climbed into the empty bathtub
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  Speaker 1: and just figured the cold tile of the tub was
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  Speaker 1: would feel good.
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  Speaker 2: Against her hot skin. But as soon as she climbed
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  Speaker 2: in and laid.
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  Speaker 1: Down, she felt her breath start to catch in her chest.
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  Speaker 1: From the living room, Charlie heard Dawn in the bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: and he heard the sound of the water turning on
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  Speaker 1: and then off, and then the sound of Dawn rustling
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  Speaker 1: around in there. Now, he was somewhat worried about her,
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  Speaker 1: but he also knew she regularly had hangovers, and she
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  Speaker 1: clearly had one now, and so he figured, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's what this was. He also really wanted to leave
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  Speaker 1: right now and go meet up with his friend Sam
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  Speaker 1: to shoot up some more heroin.
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  Speaker 2: Because that would take the edge off his headache and
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  Speaker 2: his nausea.
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  Speaker 1: However, before he could do that, he heard a weird
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  Speaker 1: sound coming out of the bathroom where Don was. At first,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't even sure what it was. But then he
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  Speaker 1: realized it was a gurgling sound. And so at this point,
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  Speaker 1: he jumped to his feet and he hurried to the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom door. And as soon as he opened it, he
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  Speaker 1: gasped because Don was laying there in the empty bathtub,
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  Speaker 1: fully clothed, and frothing at the mouth. Charlie had no
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  Speaker 1: idea what was happening, but he instinctively ran over to her,
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  Speaker 1: pulled her out of the tub, and he laid her
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  Speaker 1: on the floor. And he could tell that she was
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  Speaker 1: basically unconscious and she was limp. And in fact, when
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  Speaker 1: he listened closely to her mouth, he couldn't even tell
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  Speaker 1: if she was breathing. And so Charlie's thinking, this is
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  Speaker 1: not a hangover.
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  Speaker 2: This is something way more serious.
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  Speaker 1: So he ran and got a phone and he called
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  Speaker 1: the emergency line. And when the dispatcher picked up, Charlie
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  Speaker 1: frantically explained what was going on, that You know, Don,
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  Speaker 1: his girlfriend, had just collapsed in the bathtub out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 1: The operator got his address and said they would send
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  Speaker 1: a paramedic. But they also told Charlie he would have
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  Speaker 1: to do CPR on Don while he waited. And so
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  Speaker 1: they explained to him how to do that over the phone.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie was horrified, but he tried to take a deep
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  Speaker 1: breath and do what they said so he could help Don.
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  Speaker 1: So he kept the phone by his side while he
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  Speaker 1: straddled Don and gave her chest compressions. It would take
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  Speaker 1: an agonizing 19 minutes before a single paramedic finally arrived.
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  Speaker 1: And by that time, Don had begun to turn blue.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie paced around anxiously inside of his apartment while the
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  Speaker 1: paramedic took over chest compressions. Charlie could hear the paramedic
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  Speaker 1: calling for more help.
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  Speaker 2: On his radio.
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  Speaker 1: And sure enough, a few minutes later, more paramedics streamed inside.
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  Speaker 1: And at first, this made Charlie feel hopeful, like more
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  Speaker 1: medical support meant that Don was going to be okay here.
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  Speaker 1: But then, from his spot out in the living room,
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  Speaker 1: he heard one of the paramedics say something about drugs,
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  Speaker 1: like this could be an overdose or something. Charlie heard
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  Speaker 1: that and he called out that Don didn't do drugs,
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  Speaker 1: but the paramedics did not seem to hear him. And
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  Speaker 1: a second later, their voices got more urgent. They were
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  Speaker 1: using a lot of medical terminology that Charlie didn't understand,
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  Speaker 1: but he did catch one thing.
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  Speaker 2: Don's heart had apparently stopped.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the paramedics were actually able to get her heart
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  Speaker 1: beating again, but it took them more than an hour
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  Speaker 1: to get her stable enough to move her from Charlie's apartment.
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  Speaker 2: To the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: And Charlie, he just watched in panic and despair as
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  Speaker 1: they loaded his girlfriend on a stretcher, and then he
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  Speaker 1: followed them out of the apartment to stay with Dawn
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  Speaker 1: for as long as he could. And then before they
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  Speaker 1: put her into the ambulance, he leaned in and he
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  Speaker 1: told her he would meet her at the hospital. As
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  Speaker 1: the ambulance doors closed and the sirens came on, Charlie's friend, Sam, appeared,
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  Speaker 1: looking very shocked by the commotion. They'd had plans to
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  Speaker 1: go to a church event that day that had free food,
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  Speaker 1: which Charlie had totally forgotten about. But Charlie told Sam
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  Speaker 1: everything that had happened and said he had to skip
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  Speaker 1: out on that event because he needed to go to
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  Speaker 1: the hospital as fast as he could to meet Don.
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  Speaker 1: But even as he was saying this out loud, he
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  Speaker 1: knew he really couldn't do that. Because if he went
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  Speaker 1: to the hospital right now, he had no idea how
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  Speaker 1: long he'd be there. And since he was addicted to heroin,
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  Speaker 1: he would start to get sick from withdrawal if he
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  Speaker 1: didn't get some drugs in his system first. And so
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  Speaker 1: Charlie felt trapped. He really didn't know what to do here.
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  Speaker 1: And he sort of felt like he was on the
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  Speaker 1: verge of breaking down. You know, this was just so much.
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  Speaker 1: But then he remembered he had a methadone prescription at
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  Speaker 1: the local pharmacy. Methadone is a drug that's often given
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  Speaker 1: to people who are addicted to heroin, who are, you know,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get clean. And this drug is used to
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  Speaker 1: help them with addiction and withdrawal symptoms. It sort of
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  Speaker 1: closely mimics what the body would feel if it shot
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  Speaker 1: up the drug, but without, you know, the euphoria and
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  Speaker 1: the actual high sensation of using the drug. Now, Charlie
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  Speaker 1: had not actually filled his methadone prescription yet, mostly because
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  Speaker 1: he was not focused on getting clean. But as he's
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  Speaker 1: thinking about needing to be at the hospital all day
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  Speaker 1: and needing to be, you know, coherent and being able
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  Speaker 1: to talk to doctors and nurses and Dawn, he thought, well, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go fill my methadone prescription.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take that.
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  Speaker 1: It'll keep me, you know, from getting sick, but I'll
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  Speaker 1: also be clear-minded so I can be.
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  Speaker 2: In the hospital and helped on.
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  Speaker 1: So Charlie asked Sam if he would come with him
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  Speaker 1: on a different outing, to go to the pharmacy to
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  Speaker 1: get his methadone. A couple of hours later, at around 3.30 p.m.,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie got back to his apartment with Sam. It had
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  Speaker 1: been incredibly hot outside, and walking around for that long,
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  Speaker 1: they now were both dripping with sweat. After they had
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  Speaker 1: gone to the pharmacy, Charlie and Sam had actually gone
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  Speaker 1: by that church event But not really to get food,
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  Speaker 1: but instead to literally go say a prayer for Dawn.
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  Speaker 1: Now they were back at his place to pack up
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  Speaker 1: a bag both for himself and also for Dawn that
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  Speaker 1: they would bring to her at the hospital. And then
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  Speaker 1: Charlie didn't really know how long he would be there.
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  Speaker 1: But he now had his methadone and figured he'd be okay.
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  Speaker 1: But as Charlie was doing this, it was like he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't think straight. He had this really intense headache. And
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  Speaker 1: even though it had been hot outside, it was like
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  Speaker 1: he just couldn't stop sweating. And so Charlie was thinking
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  Speaker 1: to himself, you know, maybe it's the methadone. He had
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  Speaker 1: never done it before, and maybe this is like a byproduct.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe these are symptoms from taking methadone. So he decided
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  Speaker 1: he would just take a shower, thinking that would kind of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, clear out these symptoms and he'd be back
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  Speaker 1: to normal. But after the shower, he felt even worse.
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  Speaker 1: And when he looked in the mirror, he saw his
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  Speaker 1: pupils were now constricted to little pinpricks. But he still
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  Speaker 1: tried to press on here, and he went into his
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  Speaker 1: room to get dressed and to finish packing Don's bag.
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  Speaker 1: But as just a couple of minutes went by, he
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  Speaker 1: noticed his heart began to race.
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  Speaker 2: And as it raced, it got faster and faster, like
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  Speaker 2: he couldn't calm it down.
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  Speaker 1: Now, over the past couple of days, between the methadone
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  Speaker 1: and heroin, you know, Charlie had basically used a lot
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  Speaker 1: of drugs. But he did drugs all the time, and
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  Speaker 1: he'd never felt this combination of symptoms before. And so Charlie,
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  Speaker 1: he leaves the bedroom, and he goes into the living room,
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  Speaker 1: and he just sits down on the couch, feeling completely awful...
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  Speaker 1: And he has this thought come to him. He's thinking, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's the drugs because I always do
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  Speaker 1: drugs and this is not it. I've never felt this way.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: And he looks over at Sam, his friend, and he
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: has this weird thought that it's like, what if Sam
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: poisoned me?
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: What if that's what's going on here? What if I've
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: been poisoned?
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: And without really thinking through how or when this could
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: have happened or why, he Charlie began berating.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Sam, saying, you poisoned me. Why did you do this
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: to me?
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: And Sam was so caught off guard that he was like,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: what are you talking about? And he began backing away.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: And Charlie, he just jumped up off the couch and
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: began to pursue Sam like he was going to attack him.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: But after only taking a couple of steps away from
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: the couch, Charlie's mouth filled up with so much saliva
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: that that he stopped being able to speak clearly. All
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: he could do was kind of gurgle and spit out
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: this froth, and then his legs got so weak and
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: wobbly that he had to lean against the wall just
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: to keep from falling down. And then he felt his
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: whole body begin to seize up, and then the last
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: thing Charlie was aware of was his friend Sam grabbing
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: a phone and calling for an ambulance. About an hour later,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: inside of the emergency room of the Salisbury District Hospital,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: The on-call doctor stood in Charlie Rowley's treatment room while
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: a nurse at his bedside took his blood. The doctor
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: had just finished examining Charlie, who was now unconscious. He'd
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: clearly had a seizure, and now he had a fever.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: He had constricted pupils, and he.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Had labored breathing.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: So, clearly, to the doctor, Charlie's condition was very serious.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: But the doctor was sure he knew exactly what had
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: caused it. Charlie had overdosed on drugs. And the doctor
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: really felt strongly about this... because Charlie's girlfriend, Dawn, had
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: been treated that morning for the exact same thing. She'd
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: been brought in after her heart stopped, and she'd had
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of the same symptoms as Charlie. Now, they
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: had stabilized her, but she'd been admitted to the intensive
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: care unit and was still listed in critical condition. And
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: so the doctor felt really confident in his diagnosis of
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: both Dawn and Charlie, because the symptoms fit. And the
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: officer in charge of both cases had confirmed that Charlie,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: at least, was a known drug user. and the apartment
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: where they'd both been found had been full of needles
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: and other drug paraphernalia. Over the next 24 hours, neither
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Dawn nor Charlie got any better.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: In fact, they both got much worse.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Their nervous systems began to completely break down, meaning that
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: essential body functions like breathing were beginning to fail. Dawn
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: was literally in a coma and being kept alive by
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: a life support machine, And Charlie was also still unconscious,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: and his breathing had declined to the point where they
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: had to put him on a ventilator. He'd also been
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: moved to the intensive care unit, same as Don. And
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: so at this point, Charlie and Don no longer looked
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: like they had simply overdosed on drugs. You know, it
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: seemed like maybe they actually took a bad drug, like
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: there was poison in the drugs they took, perhaps, or
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: something completely different. But none of the medical staff could
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: figure out what was actually wrong.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: It was totally anomalous.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: By the afternoon of July 3rd, so three days after
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Don and Charlie were hospitalized, one of the doctors in
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the intensive care unit where they were, his name was
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Stephen Jukes, he had officially taken over both of their cases. Dr.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Jukes had seen the results from the initial toxicology screenings,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: and they showed that while Charlie did have a significant
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: amount of heroin and other drugs in his system, Don
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: did not. All her results showed was that she'd taken
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: some prescription psychiatric medication.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: And so Dr.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Jukes had sent more of their blood to another lab
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: to test for a wider range of drugs. So he
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: was waiting on those results. But admittedly, he was losing
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: faith that the results he was going to get would
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: give him his answer.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Now, by this point, Dr.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Jukes had ruled out some things that could have caused
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: their symptoms.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Like at one point, they believed that, you know, maybe
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: the two had been.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Exposed to a gas leak in Charlie's apartment because some
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: of the symptoms you get with the gas leak are
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: similar to what they had. But the main reason this
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: theory didn't really work out is Don and Charlie had
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: been in the apartment together that morning that Don was
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: brought into the hospital. But only Don was affected.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Charlie wasn't.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: And so presumably they were both being exposed at the
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: same time to you know, if there was a gas leak.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: But then Charlie, he leaves the house for several hours.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: So he's out completely unexposed to whatever was in there.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: He comes back into the apartment and then he feels sick.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: It just, it didn't really add up.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: If he got sick from a gas leak in the apartment,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: it should have happened at the same time as Don. Also,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: the first responders, when they were in there working on Dawn,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: they didn't report smelling anything odd. Now, of course, some
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: leaks like carbon monoxide, you wouldn't be able to smell that,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: but a typical gas leak, you would be.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Able to smell. It smells like rotten eggs.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Plus, you also have the fact that when Charlie got sick, Sam,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: his friend, was in the apartment as well, and he
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: did not get sick. So, all told, the gas leak
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: theory seemed to not be it. Dr. Jukes had also
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: briefly wondered if Maybe what had happened to Don and
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Charlie was connected to this strange toxin exposure case that
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: had come through the hospital a couple of months earlier. However,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the victims in that case were from out of the country,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: and Don and Charlie had not been out of England,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: so Dr.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Jukes had ruled that out as well. But Dr.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Jukes did have one theory he still thought was a
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: good one. Maybe this was pesticide poisoning. It matched with
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: their symptoms... And Dr. Jukes knew that sometimes street drugs
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: can be contaminated with pesticides. So if Don and Charlie
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: had both taken something that Dr. Jukes hadn't tested for yet,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: then they could have maybe been exposed that way. He
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: had told the police about this theory, and so they'd
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: issued a press release encouraging drug users to be extra
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: cautious in case, you know, there was this pesticide out there.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: But Dr.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Jukes also knew that drugs were not the only way
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: people could be exposed to pesticides. Simply eating, drinking, or
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: breathing in contaminated food or water or air could be fatal.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: And this was extremely troubling to Dr. Jukes and everybody
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: else involved with the case. Because if Don and Charlie
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: had been exposed to potentially deadly chemicals just by doing
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: normal things in their home or neighborhood, that meant that
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: basically everybody else in their neighborhood was also in danger
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: of getting sick too. Now, until Don or Charlie woke
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: up again, They were not going to be able to
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: figure out where they had been or what they had
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: touched or ingested before they got sick.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: So Dr.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Jukes felt like he needed to get that information from
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: somewhere else and fast. The next morning, July 4th, so
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: four days after Dawn and Charlie got sick, Dr.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Jukes pushed open a.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Door to a room where Dawn's mother, her three sisters,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and her son were all waiting. He'd heard they were
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: all here visiting Dawn, and so he had had one
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: of the nurses send them to one of these hospital
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: family rooms so he could speak to them.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: He was hoping that they.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Might be able to shed some light on where Dawn
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: had been and what she might have eaten or drank
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: before she got sick. Now, Dawn's family was staring at
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: him with anxious expressions on their faces. He barely got
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: out his introduction before they started lobbing questions at him
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: about what was going on and why the news was
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: describing Dawn as some kind of drug addict.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Dr.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Jukes just held up his hand to slow them down,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and once they were quiet, he explained that at first
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: they had believed this was an overdose because she had
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: all the symptoms for it. But now, based on how
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the symptoms had progressed, he knew overdose was very likely
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: not the case here. Then he told them his theory
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: about the pesticides and said he really needed their help
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: with it. He asked them to tell him everything they
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: could about Dawn, her habits, her health history, and the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: people she typically saw. Dawn's mother said she had spoken
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: to Dawn on the phone the night before all this started,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: and she said Dawn seemed fine. She had even asked
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: to see her young daughter the next day at the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: big family get-together they were planning. Aside from that, though,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the family said that, you know, Dawn struggled with alcoholism
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: and her mental health, and she didn't always tell them everything.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: And so they just didn't know much about Dawn's daily
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: life with Charlie or her friends in Salisbury, although they
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: were pretty sure that she rarely ever went outside of
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the city. But what the family primarily wanted to communicate
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: to Dr. Jukes was that Dawn was not just some
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: nobody the way the news had portrayed her. She was
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: a loving mother and sister and daughter and friend. And
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: she was really trying to do better. And she was
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: doing better.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: She didn't want much.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: She just wanted a place of her own and a
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: little more stability in her life. And that's the path
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: she was on. And so they begged him not to
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: give up on her. Dr. Jukes promised he would not.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: But as he left the room, he couldn't help but
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: feel disappointed. He was glad to know more about Dawn
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: as a person.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: She seemed wonderful.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: But he had been hoping for some kind of breakthrough
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: about what.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Exactly had happened to her. And he hadn't gotten that.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, none of them had been able to give
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: him any answer that could maybe even begin to explain
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: what was going on. And so at this point, he
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: really wasn't sure what else he could even do.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: But as Dr.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Jukes headed back towards his office to try to figure
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: out his next move... he saw a lab tech rushing
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: towards him down the hallway. The tech was holding a
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: piece of paper, and when he reached Dr. Jukes, he
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: shoved the paper into his hands. The tech was out
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: of breath, but told Dr. Jukes he had to read
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: this right now.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: So Dr.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Jukes, he looked at the paper, and he saw that
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: it was the lab results for Don and Charlie. And
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: when he scanned its contents, he could not believe what
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: he was reading. The new blood test that he had
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: ordered did not confirm the presence of pesticides or of
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: any other street drugs.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: But they did show something else.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Something so unexpected and so dangerous that Dr. Jukes now
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: knew for certain that Don and Charlie were not the.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Only ones at risk here. Everyone was. Like literally everyone.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: In Charlie's apartment building, everyone in Don and Charlie's neighborhood,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: all the paramedics, all the doctors, all the nurses that
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: had treated them, and all the patients in the hospital.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Literally everybody.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: In fact, it was even possible that everyone in the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: whole city was now in danger.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: And it might already be too late. And so Dr.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Jukes sprinted down the hall towards his office.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: He picked up the phone and he called the police.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: A few hours later, the deputy head of investigations for
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: one of England's counterterrorism units, Philip Murphy, stood on the
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: street outside of Charlie's apartment building. His team had completely
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: cordoned off the whole building and evacuated everybody who was inside.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: dozens of officers and crime scene technicians were going in
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: and out of the space wearing these big protective suits,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: and they were swabbing surfaces and collecting evidence. Because of
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: those tests that Dr. Jukes had run, Murphy knew exactly
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: what substance had sickened Don and Charlie, but he had
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: no idea how they could have come in contact with it.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: And answering that question was now a matter of international security. Now,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: not only was Murphy's counterterrorism unit involved... but so were
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: multiple other agencies, including the UK's Secret Service, which is
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: known as MI5.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: MI5 would deal with the.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Other countries outside of Europe that were now getting involved
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: in this. In addition to Charlie's apartment, the counterterrorism unit
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: had been deployed to the hospital and were making anyone
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: who visited Don and Charlie now wear protective gear. They
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: had contacted all the paramedics and all the officers who'd
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: interacted with Don and Charlie and made them bag up
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: their uniforms and equipment as biohazards. Some police officers were
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: now sifting through literally thousands of hours of CCTV footage
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: from all around the city from the past few weeks,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: looking for any signs of Don or Charlie. And others
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: were contacting Don and Charlie's friends to try to get
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: a sense of their recent movements. At least one friend
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: had already taken officers on a tour of a park
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: they'd all gone to the day before Don and Charlie
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: got sick. Murphy actually had a team headed there right
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: now to close it off and start taking more samples.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: He also had another team at Don's place doing the
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: same thing. And so, as Murphy stood there watching the
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: officers in suits go in and out of Charlie's apartment,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: he knew that really, as big as this was, this
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: was actually just the beginning. He was going to have
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: to be patient, because even though the situation was clearly urgent,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: he also knew it could take a long time to
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: figure out exactly what happened and why. And so at
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: this point, all Murphy, or anybody else for that matter,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: could do here was was just hope that, you know,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: the authorities found some answers before more people got hurt.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: But just four days later, on July 8th, Dawn was
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: taken off life support and died in the hospital. And
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: of course, that was incredibly tragic. But specifically for Murphy,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: he was hoping to get a chance to speak to her.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: She was, you know, a potential treasure trove of information
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: about how this whole thing happened. And now, of course,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: he would never get that chance. On July 11th, So
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: 11 days after Don and Charlie first got sick, with
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Don now deceased and Charlie alive but still unable to talk,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the agencies working on the case had managed to eliminate
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: almost every location that Don and Charlie had visited as
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the source of this toxic substance, except for one. And
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: that was Charlie's apartment. And so Murphy sent the forensics
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: team back to the apartment to search it all over again.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: That afternoon, a lead officer with the forensics team stood
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: in the middle of Charlie's small apartment and alongside some
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: of his colleagues. This lead officer and his team were
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: all dressed in these very heavy-duty protective suits, so they
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: moved slowly around the cramped space as they took samples
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: of surfaces and bagged potential evidence. All the stuff, all
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the clutter in the apartment made it really hard to
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: get around.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: There were clothes on the floor and open.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Bags of fabric and dirty dishes stacked in the sink
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and on the counters and overflowing trash cans. And in
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: the bedroom, there was a bunch of makeup and some
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: hair dye boxes scattered on the floor, along with needles
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and other drug paraphernalia. There was not a ton of
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: furniture in the apartment, but it was all over the
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: place because paramedics had pushed it around during their response.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: And other areas of the place were littered with medical debris,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: like rubber gloves. and plastic wrappers and there was also
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: just some trash and just kind of like random objects
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: water bottles plastic toys piled up on the windowsills it
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: was almost like there was literally too much in the
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: apartment to even effectively test it all but as the
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: lead officer walked around doing his best to you know
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: identify things to be tested something on a counter caught
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: his eye. It was an object that looked very different
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: from anything else in the apartment. Now, to understand what
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: happened to Don and Charlie, you have to go back
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: in time to three and a half months before they
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: got sick, when an unrelated older man and a younger
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: woman were found unresponsive on a park bench in Salisbury
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and brought to the Salisbury District Hospital, the same one
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: that Don and Charlie would go to.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Now, this older man and the young woman, when they
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: came into the.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Hospital, they were experiencing seizures and they couldn't stop vomiting.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: But after being treated at the hospital, they actually both
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: fully recovered. And at first, the doctors there, including Dr. Jukes,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: thought this man and woman were just regular civilians who
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: had gotten sick, maybe from an overdose. But soon it
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: became clear that both of those things were not true.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Number one, they were not just regular civilians. The older
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: man was a Russian spy who had defected to England.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: And the young woman was his daughter. And they had
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: definitely not overdosed. They had been poisoned. An investigation discovered
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: that the substance that had been used to poison them
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: was this very rare and deadly chemical weapon created by
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Russia called Novichok, a kind of nerve agent. And so
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: three and a half months later, after Don and Charlie
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: were hospitalized and getting worse and worse... And then that
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: lab tech rushed down the hallway to show Dr. Jukes
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: their new lab results. It was Novichok, the deadly chemical
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: that Dr. Jukes saw printed on the paper. That was
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: in their system. Investigators in the spy poisoning case had
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: never been able to figure out exactly how the poison
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: had been administered to.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: The spy and his daughter.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: But the item that Murphy's forensics team had found on
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the counter in Charlie's apartment, the one that kind of
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: stood out and didn't really appear like it belonged in
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the space... was the item that ultimately solved that mystery.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: It would turn out, Charlie actually found the source of
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the poison.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Unintentionally.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: It was that brand new bottle of perfume that he
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: had given to Dawn on the morning they both got sick.
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  Speaker 1: Because Charlie hadn't actually bought this gift at a store,
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't have afforded it. Instead, he had found it
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  Speaker 1: in a dumpster during one of his many dumpster diving excursions.
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  Speaker 1: And that dumpster just so happened to be the exact
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  Speaker 1: same dumpster where a Russian agent had discarded the poison
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  Speaker 1: perfume after the attempted assassination. So when Dawn accepted Charlie's
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  Speaker 1: gift and sprayed it on her wrists in excitement, she
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  Speaker 1: had accidentally exposed herself and Charlie to the deadly nerve agent.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie would eventually recover from his exposure to Novichok. As
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  Speaker 1: for the three Russian agents that authorities suspect were involved
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  Speaker 1: in this thing, They went back to Russia and have
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  Speaker 1: never been prosecuted. And Russia has denied involvement in the poisoning.
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