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Speaker 1: At one pm on November two, twenty twenty, an older
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Speaker 1: man named Marcel Terray stood in his backyard hanging damp
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Speaker 1: clothes on a clothesline.
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Speaker 2: Marcel and his.
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Speaker 1: Wife, eighty three year old Paulette Landreu, lived on a
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Speaker 1: quiet street in the small city of Unden, Belgium, and
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Speaker 1: usually their days were filled with household chores or visits
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Speaker 1: from their kids. But over the last few months, Marcel
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Speaker 1: had started to spend a lot more time taking care
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Speaker 1: of his wife because she had recently been diagnosed with
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Speaker 1: Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia that
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Speaker 1: causes memory loss and confusion, and so Paulette needed help
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Speaker 1: remembering to eat or to take her medications on time,
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Speaker 1: and sometimes she would just wander off without telling Marcel,
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Speaker 1: and Marcel would have to go corral her and bring
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Speaker 1: her back home.
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Speaker 2: For Marcel, watching.
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Speaker 1: His wife struggle with this disease was absolutely heartbreaking, and
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Speaker 1: so he did everything in his power to make her
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Speaker 1: life as comfortable and happy as he possibly could.
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Speaker 2: And so before he.
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Speaker 1: Had come out to hang up the laundry, he had
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Speaker 1: made sure to set his wife up in front of
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Speaker 1: the TV with a nice lunch so she could eat
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Speaker 1: and watch her favorite show. And so Marcel hung up
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Speaker 1: the last piece of clothing and then picked up the
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Speaker 1: empty laundry basket and headed back towards the house. When
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Speaker 1: he went inside, he expected to see his wife still
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Speaker 1: sitting on the couch watching TV, but she wasn't there anymore.
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Speaker 1: Marcell immediately began calling out his wife's name, but she
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Speaker 1: didn't call back, and then he searched the whole house
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Speaker 1: and he couldn't find her, and so, starting to panic,
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Speaker 1: he went outside. He searched the outside of the house.
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Speaker 1: She wasn't there. He even knocked on some neighbor's doors,
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Speaker 1: but they hadn't seen her. And so at this point
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Speaker 1: Marcel was very scared, given the fact that his wife
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Speaker 1: had Alzheimer's and could easily wander off and put herself
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Speaker 1: in a very dangerous situation without even knowing, And so
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Speaker 1: instead of waiting any longer to just hope she showed
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Speaker 1: up again, he picked up the phone and he called
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Speaker 1: the police. Less than an hour later, Marcel stood outside
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Speaker 1: of his house looking at helicopters flying overhead, and he
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Speaker 1: knew at least half a dozen officers were spread out
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Speaker 1: around the neighborhood, knocking.
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Speaker 2: On neighbor's doors.
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Speaker 1: There were canine units searching the surrounding area. This huge search,
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Speaker 1: it was all for Paulette. Marcell was glad to see
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Speaker 1: that clearly the police had taken the search very seriously,
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Speaker 1: and so he was confident that they would find his
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Speaker 1: wife and that hopefully she'd be okay. But the hours
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Speaker 1: kept ticking by, and as the sun began to go down,
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Speaker 1: there still was no sign of Paulette. A police officer
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Speaker 1: told Marcel that they would keep on investigating and hopefully
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Speaker 1: find his wife as soon as possible. But over the
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Speaker 1: next few days and weeks, Paulette didn't turn up. Nobody
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Speaker 1: had any idea where she was, and before long, weeks
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Speaker 1: turned into months, and then months turned into two full
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Speaker 1: years that nobody had seen Paulette, and by that point
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Speaker 1: Marcel had basically resigned himself to the fact that he
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Speaker 1: very likely would die without ever figuring out what happened
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Speaker 1: to his wife. But then one day, in early October
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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, so two years after Paulette went missing,
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Speaker 1: one of Marcel and Paulette's neighbors was at home on
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Speaker 1: their computer looking at a particular website, and as they
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Speaker 1: were scrolling through this website, they happened upon an image
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Speaker 1: that as soon as they saw it, they froze because
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Speaker 1: this neighbor was very well aware of the fact that
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Speaker 1: Paullette had gone missing and nobody had found her. But
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Speaker 1: now they're seeing this image on this website that basically
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Speaker 1: gives away what happened to her, and so totally shocked
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Speaker 1: that they'd even found this image, the neighbor screenshoted it
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Speaker 1: and brought it to the police so it would turn
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Speaker 1: out that neighbor was looking at Google street View, which
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Speaker 1: is a feature of Google Maps that basically allows you
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Speaker 1: to see three hundred and sixty degree views of basically
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Speaker 1: anywhere on the planet. To create these images, Google literally
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Speaker 1: sends out these special vehicles all over the world that
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Speaker 1: have cameras that sit on top of the cars, and
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Speaker 1: these cars drive down basically all the streets all over
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Speaker 1: the place, constantly taking pictures all around them. And it
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Speaker 1: just so happened on the exact day that Paulette went
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Speaker 1: missing in twenty twenty, there happened to be a Google
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Speaker 1: car driving down the road that captured a picture of her.
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Speaker 1: And so, as you can see in the picture of her,
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Speaker 1: you see Paulette on the left side of the image
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Speaker 1: walking across the street away from her home which is
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Speaker 1: on the right side, and on the right side you
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Speaker 1: can actually see Marcel in the backyard hanging up laundry
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Speaker 1: on the clothesline. And so the police, after getting this image,
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Speaker 1: they basically followed the projected route Paulette was on, which
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Speaker 1: is basically be lining straight across the road, and they
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Speaker 1: found that across the street was the steep hill that
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Speaker 1: led down to this thick bramble bush, and inside that
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Speaker 1: bramble bush was Paulette, and she was deceased, and so
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Speaker 1: very likely Paulette, in her confused state, walked straight across
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Speaker 1: the street as we see in the image, and then
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Speaker 1: fell down that hill and got trapped at the bottom
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Speaker 1: inside of that bramble bush and couldn't move, And so
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Speaker 1: when that huge search for her was going on, very
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Speaker 1: likely she was just trapped down there but didn't understand
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Speaker 1: what was going on, couldn't necessarily yell up to communicate
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Speaker 1: with anybody, and so she stayed down there and died.
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Speaker 1: And unfortunately it would take two more full years and
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Speaker 1: a random image on Google street View before Marcel could
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Speaker 1: Around ten am on July twenty sixth, twenty fifteen, a
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Speaker 1: thirty one year old mom named Xiang lu Juan and
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Speaker 1: her husband chase their two year old son around a
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Speaker 1: brand new indoor playground. This playground was on the sixth
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Speaker 1: floor of a mall in Jingjo City, which is in
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Speaker 1: central China, and so Xiang and her husband had come
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Speaker 1: to the mall today just so their son could basically
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Speaker 1: enjoy this playground, and currently he was running around in
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Speaker 1: circles and laughing hysterically.
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Speaker 2: He thought it was great.
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Speaker 1: Xieong caught up to her son and scooped him up
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Speaker 1: and then placed him at the top of a slide
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Speaker 1: and he happily slid down to the bottom. And when
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Speaker 1: he reached the bottom, Xiong was waiting for him and
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Speaker 1: the son. He just stopped and looked past her and
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Speaker 1: pointed and started saying ride, ride, and so Jeong she
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Speaker 1: turned around and she saw right behind them were these
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Speaker 1: two escalators, one going up and one going down, and
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Speaker 1: so Jeong realized her son clearly thought these escalators were
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Speaker 1: maybe a part of this playground, and so he wanted
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Speaker 1: to go use them.
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Speaker 2: They were a fun attraction, and so.
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Speaker 1: Xiong smiled and took her son's hand and then told
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Speaker 1: her husband, they're going to go ride the ride, you know,
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Speaker 1: the escalators, and then they began walking over. Once Jiang
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Speaker 1: and her son actually reached the escalator, suddenly, her son
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Speaker 1: was not as keen to hop on board.
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Speaker 2: He was nervous.
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Speaker 1: But Jiong, who had ridden escalators many times before, you know,
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Speaker 1: told her son it's totally safe, and she kind of
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Speaker 1: coaxed him to do it, and eventually he stepped on
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Speaker 1: right alongside her, holding her hand, and about halfway up
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Speaker 1: the escalator, when she was confident her son would be okay,
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Speaker 1: Xiang turned around and looked up towards the top of
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Speaker 1: the escalator the seventh floor where they were going, and
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Speaker 1: she saw three mall employees at the top of the
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Speaker 1: escalator on the seventh floor where they were going, and
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Speaker 1: they were clearly looking at Jiang with a very serious look.
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Speaker 1: On their faces, and they were gesturing at something towards
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Speaker 1: the top of the escalator. It seemed like they could
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Speaker 1: be warning her about something or simply pointing something out.
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Speaker 2: She wasn't really sure, and so she looked up at.
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Speaker 1: Them, like, what's going on here? But the three mall
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Speaker 1: employees just didn't do a good job communicating whatever was
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Speaker 1: going on or whatever issue they were dealing with, and
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Speaker 1: so as a result, Xiang and her son just continued
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Speaker 1: riding up the escalator, and as they got closer and closer,
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Speaker 1: these mall employees continued to gesture at something happening on
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Speaker 1: the seventh floor just beyond the escalator, and Jiang still
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Speaker 1: totally confused. And then finally, when Jiang and her son
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Speaker 1: reached the top and stepped off, Jeong suddenly understood what
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Speaker 1: these employees were referencing, but by now it was too late.
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Speaker 1: Moments later, Xiong's husband, who was still down below on
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Speaker 1: the sixth floor at the playground, he heard the sound
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Speaker 1: of his wife and son screaming over near the escalator,
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Speaker 1: and so instinctively he bolted over to the escalator. He
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Speaker 1: didn't see his wife, didn't see his son, and he
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Speaker 1: began going up the escalator when someone at the top
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Speaker 1: screamed at him to stop and get off the escalator,
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Speaker 1: and so he did, and right then a mall employee
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Speaker 1: came running down the other side carrying his son, and
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Speaker 1: this person handed the sun over to Jeong's husband, and
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Speaker 1: this employee, who clearly was completely shocked by whatever had
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Speaker 1: happened up above, just shook their head. It would turn
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Speaker 1: out earlier that day, those mall employees who were at
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Speaker 1: the top gesturing to Xiang, they had discovered a defect
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Speaker 1: with the metal platform that sits right at the top
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Speaker 1: of the escalator on the seventh floor. Basically when you
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Speaker 1: get off this escalator, it's the platform you step on
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Speaker 1: to First, they had found there was something wrong with it.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't stable, But instead of immediately blocking off the
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Speaker 1: escalator to make sure nobody walked on it and then
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Speaker 1: go get it repaired, these employees just kind of schalanty
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Speaker 1: allowed the escalator to continue, you know, stationed a couple
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Speaker 1: of them at the top to make sure nobody, you know,
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Speaker 1: used the escalator, and then called for a repairman. But
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Speaker 1: the repairman hadn't shown up and fixed this problem by
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Speaker 1: the time Jiang and her son boarded the escalator, and
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Speaker 1: these employees at the top knew there's this huge issue
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Speaker 1: with the platform. They're going to step on the second
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Speaker 1: thing get off, but they failed to communicate the danger
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Speaker 1: to Xiang and her son as they were coming up.
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Speaker 1: They just kind of broadly gesticulated that there was some
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Speaker 1: issue up here and to sort of watch out for it.
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Speaker 1: But Chiong had no idea, and so by the time
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Speaker 1: she got to the top and stepped off the escalator
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Speaker 1: onto that platform, well, the defect with the platform is
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Speaker 1: that it caved in with any weight, and so she
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Speaker 1: fell into the escalator with the teeth of the escalator
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Speaker 1: was rotating and as she was getting pulled in to
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Speaker 1: her death. Her final moment captured on video as she
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Speaker 1: took her son and thrusted him to the employees, saving
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Speaker 1: his life before she disappeared and died inside the inner
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Speaker 1: workings of the escalator. Following Jeong's death, there was a
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Speaker 1: full scale investigation and quickly there were massive safety failures
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Speaker 1: identified on the part of the company who made the escalator,
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Speaker 1: and also on the mall itself. Two people were ultimately
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Speaker 1: arrested in connection with Jeong's death and the safety failures,
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Speaker 1: and the mall reportedly offered to pay some settlement to
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Speaker 1: Xiong's family. However, the details of that settlement have not
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Speaker 1: been made public. One morning in November of nineteen ninety seven,
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Speaker 1: a police captain named Jeffrey Lewis, along with his partner,
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Speaker 1: parked their squad car near the Manatee River in Bradenton, Florida,
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Speaker 1: which is a small city just south of Tampa. A
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Speaker 1: few minutes earlier, the Bradenton Police Department had received a
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Speaker 1: call from this frantic man who had said he had
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Speaker 1: found something suspicious that had washed up on the shore
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Speaker 1: of this river. And so Captain Lewis and his part
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Speaker 1: were there to investigate. And so as soon as they
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Speaker 1: got out of their squad car, this man who had
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Speaker 1: called the police, he saw them and waved them down,
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Speaker 1: and he was pointing at something in the sand, and
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Speaker 1: so Captain Lewis and his partner they walked over and
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Speaker 1: before they even talked to the sky, they just looked
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Speaker 1: down at what he was pointing at, and right away
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Speaker 1: they could see why he called the police, because there
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Speaker 1: sitting on the sand was a severed human hand. And
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Speaker 1: so the instant Captain Lewis saw this, his first thought
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Speaker 1: was actually just alligators, because there were alligators that swam
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Speaker 1: in the Manatee River and people were told about them
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Speaker 1: and were told, you know, not to go swimming here,
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Speaker 1: but people still did, and so his thought was, well,
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Speaker 1: maybe one of the alligators got a swimmer. However, when
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Speaker 1: Captain Lewis looked at the hand more closely, he could
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Speaker 1: tell right away that that probably did not happen because
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Speaker 1: where the hand had been cut off from the body,
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Speaker 1: the cut was almost surgical. It was very very neat,
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Speaker 1: whereas if an alligator had ripped the hand off it
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Speaker 1: would be rough, but this almost looked like a surgeon
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Speaker 1: had carefully removed the hand. And so what this signal
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Speaker 1: to Captain lewi Us is this hand very likely represented
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Speaker 1: a murder victim. Somebody who killed this person, cut their
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Speaker 1: body up, and you know, one of their body parts
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Speaker 1: is now washed ashore. And so Captain Lewis turned to
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Speaker 1: his partner and told him to call for backup, and
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Speaker 1: within an hour police officers were scouring the Manatee River
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Speaker 1: looking for the body that belonged to this hand. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: the captain bagged this hand as evidence and brought it
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Speaker 1: to the County Sheriff's crime lab, hoping that forensic experts
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Speaker 1: could potentially figure out who the victim was using fingerprints. However,
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Speaker 1: when he actually handed over the hand to these forensic technicians,
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Speaker 1: they told Captain Lewis that it was very likely going
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Speaker 1: to be impossible to try to pull prints from this
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Speaker 1: hand because the hand was very badly decomposed and water damaged.
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Speaker 1: But they told Captain Lewis that despite this being a
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Speaker 1: total long shot, they would still give it a try.
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Speaker 1: And so, really all Captain Lewis had was this hand,
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Speaker 1: and so he just kind of waited for information from
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Speaker 1: the crime lab about the fingerprints, and before long the
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Speaker 1: waiting went from days to weeks, two months with no fingerprints. So,
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Speaker 1: with no fingerprints and no other breakthroughs in this case,
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Speaker 1: Captain Lewis moved on to other cases. That is until
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Speaker 1: June of nineteen ninety eight, when Captain Lewis was sitting
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Speaker 1: in his office doing some work when he suddenly got
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Speaker 1: a call from the crime lab about the hand. An
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Speaker 1: employee told Captain Lewis they had finally made a breakthrough
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Speaker 1: when they couldn't get the prints off this hand. At first,
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Speaker 1: they had moved to this very complicated technique where basically
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Speaker 1: they would peel individual layers of skin off the hand
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Speaker 1: and sort of pieced together all the information to get
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Speaker 1: a print. And amazingly, this technique worked, and so not
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Speaker 1: only did they now have this print, but they had
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Speaker 1: also already run this print through the Florida State database
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Speaker 1: and they had gotten a match. The hand belonged to
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Speaker 1: a man named Willie Suttle. As soon as he hung up,
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Speaker 1: Captain Lewis opened up a new tab on his computer
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Speaker 1: and began researching Willie Suttle to figure out who this
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Speaker 1: person was, and he quickly found through public employment records
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Speaker 1: that Willy had been a retired garbage collector, and then
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Speaker 1: also Captain Lewis looked at police records and discovered that
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Speaker 1: Willie had a minor criminal history. But what really stood
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Speaker 1: out in his research about Willie was that Willie had
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Speaker 1: never been reported missing. Willie had instead been reported dead.
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Speaker 1: Right there in the public records that Captain Lewis was
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Speaker 1: looking at, he found Willy's death certificate, and this document
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Speaker 1: said Willie had died of natural causes five months prior
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Speaker 1: to his hand washing up on shore, and also it
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Speaker 1: said Willie had been buried in a local cemetery, and
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Speaker 1: no police had ever been involved in his death because
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Speaker 1: no crime had been committed, And so Captain Lewis was baffled.
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Speaker 1: None of this made any sense. If Willie had died
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Speaker 1: of natural causes and been buried over a year ago,
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Speaker 1: then how did his hand as severed hand, wind up
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Speaker 1: on the shore of the Manatee River. The next day,
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Speaker 1: which was Friday, June twenty sixth, Captain Lewis, along with
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Speaker 1: a few other police officers, went to the cemetery where
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Speaker 1: Willie had been buried, and they exhumed his casket and
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Speaker 1: when they opened it up, they actually expected it to
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Speaker 1: be empty, considering his hand was already missing, so probably
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Speaker 1: his whole body was gone. But no, when they opened
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Speaker 1: it up, there was Willie missing his left hand.
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Speaker 2: But that wasn't all.
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Speaker 1: At the bottom of Willie's casket were all of his
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Speaker 1: internal organs just sitting there in a rotting pile. And
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Speaker 1: so Captain Lewis is staring at this, having no idea
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Speaker 1: what to make a bit. But the first thought he
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Speaker 1: had was, Okay, you know, maybe somebody tried to rob
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Speaker 1: Willie's casket. But he's thinking, you know, if they did that,
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Speaker 1: why did they cut out his organs and stashed him
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Speaker 1: at the bottom of the casket, And also why did
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Speaker 1: they remove his left hand and chuck it in the river?
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Speaker 1: Like that doesn't make any sense. It felt like every
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Speaker 1: clue Captain Lewis found was only making this case harder
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Speaker 1: to solve. But he hoped when he sent off Willy's
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Speaker 1: body to the County Medical Examiner that they would be
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Speaker 1: able to provide him with some more answers as to
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Speaker 1: what happened here. Later that afternoon, the county medical examiner
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Speaker 1: would perform an autopsy on Willy's body, and the first
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Speaker 1: thing he noticed when he began was that, despite the
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Speaker 1: fact that Willy's organs clearly had been removed, that Willie's
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Speaker 1: abdomen did not appear sunken in It appeared full. So
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Speaker 1: not even close, and so the medical examiner just grabbed
18:19
Speaker 1: a camera took some pictures of Willy's midsection and sent
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Speaker 1: those pictures to Captain Lewis. The next day, Captain Lewis
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Speaker 1: sat inside of an interview room in the police station
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Speaker 1: across from a forty five year old woman named Paula
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Speaker 1: Green Albritton. Paula owned and operated a funeral home along
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Speaker 1: with the help of her son, and she had been
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18:39
Speaker 1: Lewis asked Paula about Willy's burial, and she would tell
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Speaker 1: him that Willy had actually died in poverty without any
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18:49
Speaker 1: Paula had found out about this, she said she had
18:51
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Speaker 1: sort of a community service. However, when Captain Lewis poked
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Speaker 1: and prodded and tried to ask for more information about
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Speaker 1: exactly what that meant, Paula would eventually concede that there
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Speaker 1: actually was slightly more to her rationale behind wanting to
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Speaker 1: Two days after this interview, police arrested both Paula and
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Speaker 1: happened to Willy finally came out. It would turn out
19:23
Speaker 1: Paula's funeral home business was really struggling, to the point
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Speaker 1: where if she couldn't start generating some real money, her
19:30
Speaker 1: business might go under, and she couldn't have that, and
19:33
Speaker 1: so Paula decided she would conduct a prosperity ritual to
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Speaker 1: write her business. But to perform this prosperity ritual, Paula
19:41
Speaker 1: needed a body. And so along comes Willy Suttle, who's
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Speaker 1: died in poverty and his family can't afford his funeral,
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Speaker 1: and Paula says, don't worry, I'll take him on for free.
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Speaker 1: But really what she needed was Willy's body. And once
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Speaker 1: Paula and her son had possession of Willy's body, they
19:57
Speaker 1: began the ritual, which started with Paula's son carefully cutting
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Speaker 1: off Willy's left hand, and then the two of them
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Speaker 1: cut Willy's midsection open, removed all his internal organs, and
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Speaker 1: then Paula got out all these voodoo dolls and she
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Speaker 1: wrote on pieces of paper the names of the other
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Speaker 1: funeral homes her competitors in the area, and she pinned
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Speaker 1: these pieces of paper to each of these voodoo dolls,
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Speaker 1: and then she took those voodoo dolls and jammed them
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Speaker 1: inside of Willy's abdomen in the empty cavity they had created,
20:28
Speaker 1: and then they stitched him back up. And then she
20:30
Speaker 1: took Willy's body and his organs and she chucked them
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Speaker 1: into a cheap casket and had him buried. And then
20:36
Speaker 1: she also took the hand that her son had removed.
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Speaker 2: Paula believed this voodoo ritual would.
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20:49
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Speaker 1: of Willy's body, that this ritual would literally cause all
20:55
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20:59
Speaker 1: businesses out of business, thereby leading to her business prospering
21:03
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Speaker 1: the hand that she had thrown into the river ultimately
21:14
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21:17
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21:20
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21:23
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21:31
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21:35
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21:38
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21:42
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21:45
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21:48
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21:52
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