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The Pinching Man · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. In twenty fourteen, a young
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Speaker 1: woman named Jen was sitting in her sister's living room
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Speaker 1: looking out their back window where her son and her
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Speaker 1: two nephews were playing. And as she's watching them, one
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Speaker 1: of her nephews, named Harrison, walked over to this tree
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Speaker 1: and began peeling the bark off of the tree, and
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Speaker 1: for Jen, this brought back a very strange childhood memory
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Speaker 1: that she hadn't thought about in decades, and without meaning to,
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Speaker 1: actually say the words out loud. Jen kind of blurted
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Speaker 1: out what was going through her head, which was so weird,
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Speaker 1: and her mother, who was in the other room, heard
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Speaker 1: her say that, and she yells into the room, Hey, Jen,
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Speaker 1: is everything okay? What's so weird? And Jen, feeling a
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Speaker 1: little bit embarrassed that she just said that out loud
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Speaker 1: and that her mom heard her, is quick to try
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Speaker 1: to dismiss it by saying, oh, no, sorry, it's nothing.
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Speaker 1: I didn't mean to say that. But as she's trying
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Speaker 1: to dismiss it, her mom had walked into the living
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Speaker 1: room where Jen was and saw Jen was looking out
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Speaker 1: the back window towards the boys, and so her mom
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Speaker 1: walked right up next to Jen and goes, what are
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Speaker 1: the boys doing out there? That's so weird? Are they
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Speaker 1: doing something they shouldn't be doing? And Jen's like, no, no,
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Speaker 1: it has nothing to do with the kids. I just
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Speaker 1: saw Harrison who was doing something that reminded me of
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Speaker 1: some weird thing that happened to me, and I blurted
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Speaker 1: out my reaction to it, that's all. And Jen's mom
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Speaker 1: looks at her and says, well, now you got to
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Speaker 1: tell me the memory because I'm totally intrigued. Jen says, Okay, mom,
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you the story. I don't know if Frankie's
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Speaker 1: mom ever told you this or not, But when I
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Speaker 1: was eight years old, I spoke to Frankie and he
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Speaker 1: was doing some homework and he told me to come
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Speaker 1: meet him outside of his house and that when he
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Speaker 1: was done, we could meet up and go play together.
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Speaker 1: Then so I walked over to his house and I
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Speaker 1: was standing across the street in front of that small
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Speaker 1: group of trees that we called the pine Cone Forest,
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Speaker 1: even though it was just a handful of trees, but
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Speaker 1: we all called it that. Anyways. I was standing over
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Speaker 1: there and I was just kind of mindlessly peeling the
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Speaker 1: bark off of the tree. I don't even remember consciously
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Speaker 1: deciding to do it. And so as I'm peeling the
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Speaker 1: bark off the tree, watching Frankie's house, waiting for him
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Speaker 1: to come outside, I noticed to my right there's this
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Speaker 1: guy walking through the forest towards me. And then I
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Speaker 1: look at him and I've never seen him before. And
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Speaker 1: before he got even within ten feet of me, I
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Speaker 1: could smell cigarettes. He reeked of cigarettes, and his teeth
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Speaker 1: were very yellow. He's missing a number of teeth, and
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Speaker 1: I noticed right away when I looked at his hands.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why I was looking at his hands,
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Speaker 1: but I looked at his hands and he had these
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Speaker 1: pointy yellow fingernail that almost looked like he was intentionally
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Speaker 1: growing them out to be long and jagged. And he
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Speaker 1: comes walking up to me and stops completely in my
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Speaker 1: personal space, and instead of looking at me, he looks
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Speaker 1: at the spot on the tree where I had been
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Speaker 1: peeling the bark off. And he's literally like one foot
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Speaker 1: away from me, so close that I had to lean
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Speaker 1: back because I didn't want to be rude and run away.
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Speaker 1: So I'm leaning back to avoid being right next to
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Speaker 1: this guy, and all I can smell is cigarette smoke.
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Speaker 1: And he turns from the tree to me and he goes,
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Speaker 1: what do you think you're doing? And I'm like this,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, I'm waiting for my friend, and he says, no,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing to the tree? And I remember
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Speaker 1: looking at him and then the tree and saying, peeling
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Speaker 1: the bark off. And that's when he raised his hand
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Speaker 1: up and pinched my arm with his nails, not with
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Speaker 1: the pads of his fingers, but he was using his nails,
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Speaker 1: and he's pinching down on my skin, and through gritted teeth,
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Speaker 1: he says, how would you like it if someone peeled
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Speaker 1: your skin off? I remember, as he's pinching me, I
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Speaker 1: was so terrified that I didn't do anything. I was
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Speaker 1: like in a trance and just stood there looking at him,
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Speaker 1: wondering what's about to happen. And then, as luck would
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Speaker 1: have it, Frankie's mom just happened to come outside and yelled, Hey,
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Speaker 1: come on inside, Frankie's done with his homework, And so
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Speaker 1: that kind of broke me out of my trance. I
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Speaker 1: pulled my arm away and I began running away from
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Speaker 1: him across the street towards Frankie's house, and I turned
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Speaker 1: around once, kind of expecting him to be chasing me,
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Speaker 1: but he wasn't. He was still standing next to the
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Speaker 1: tree that I had pulled the bark off of, except
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Speaker 1: now he was watching me. And I ran up onto
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Speaker 1: the porch and ran inside, and that was that. I
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Speaker 1: remember wanting to tell you about it when I got home,
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Speaker 1: but for some reason I didn't. And then days turned
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Speaker 1: into weeks turn into months, and before long it was
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Speaker 1: just a distant memory, and I never really thought about it,
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Speaker 1: and at some point did forget about it until just
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Speaker 1: now when I saw Harrison peeling the bark off of
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Speaker 1: the tree, and it brought it back. And that's why
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Speaker 1: you heard me say so weird. That was my reaction
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Speaker 1: to it, because I'm wondering who was that guy and
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Speaker 1: what happened to him, Like that's so creepy. After Jen
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Speaker 1: told her mother the story, she was expecting her mom
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Speaker 1: to be a little bit horrified by it because it
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Speaker 1: is a pretty startling about her own child. But Jen's thinking,
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Speaker 1: it's been so long since this happened and nothing came
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Speaker 1: of it, that her mom would probably quickly move on
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Speaker 1: from it. But Jen noticed her mom looked very concerned,
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Speaker 1: and she turned to her and she goes, mom, this
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Speaker 1: happened like two decades ago, like this is not a
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Speaker 1: big deal. And her mom looks down for a second
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Speaker 1: and then looks up and she has this look of
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Speaker 1: guilt on her face and she says to her daughter, Jen,
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Speaker 1: I should have told you this when it happened, but
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Speaker 1: you were so young, and I felt like I was
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Speaker 1: going to ruin your childhood, and so I just didn't
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Speaker 1: tell you. And it seemed like you forgot about it,
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Speaker 1: but obviously you didn't, and so I guess, I guess
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Speaker 1: you got to hear the full story. Now Jen's confused
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Speaker 1: at this point, and she says, what are you talking about?
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Speaker 1: And her mother, who now looks really uncomfortable, you know,
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Speaker 1: she's touching her face and she looks very anxious, she
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Speaker 1: says to Jen, it's time you learned who that man
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Speaker 1: really was. Before Jen could ask any more questions, her
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Speaker 1: mom just says, honey, to sit down and I will
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Speaker 1: explain everything to you. So they sit down, and Jen's
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Speaker 1: mom is still acting pretty comfortable. This is obviously a
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Speaker 1: difficult subject for her, and she starts by saying, okay,
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Speaker 1: so do you remember how in our neighborhood where you
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Speaker 1: grew up, everybody seemed to know each other, you know,
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Speaker 1: it was a really tight community of people. And Jen's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I remember that, and her mom was like, well, because
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Speaker 1: of that, it made it really easy to spot people
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Speaker 1: that were, you know, outsiders that didn't live in the neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: And so if a car came down the street and
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Speaker 1: I didn't recognize it, I would find myself looking out
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Speaker 1: the window then and watching the car to see where
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Speaker 1: it was going because there's no reason to be in
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Speaker 1: this neighborhood unless you're a visitor or you live here.
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Speaker 1: And so I was in the habit of people watching
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Speaker 1: anybody that showed up that I didn't recognize, and I
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Speaker 1: know a bunch of the other mothers in the neighborhood
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Speaker 1: did the same thing, one of them being Frankie's mom. Anyways,
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Speaker 1: on the same day that that creep came up to
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Speaker 1: you and pinched your arm when you were eight years
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Speaker 1: old in nineteen ninety five, well that morning, Frankie's mom, Sonya,
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Speaker 1: she happened to look out her front window and she
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Speaker 1: saw a vehicle she didn't recognize, and it was a
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Speaker 1: work fan, a white workvan. It didn't have windows in
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Speaker 1: the back, and it was parked across the street near
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Speaker 1: the pine cone forest, and so she assumed it must
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Speaker 1: be a work truck. And whoever had brought it here was,
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Speaker 1: you know, working on one of the houses in the neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: But where it was parked, it was not close to
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Speaker 1: any one particular house, and there was lots of places
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Speaker 1: you could have parked on the street, so it seemed
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Speaker 1: odd if you're going to be doing work on a house,
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Speaker 1: that you wouldn't just park in front of the house,
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Speaker 1: like why would you park, you know, inconveniently farther away
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Speaker 1: in front of this random forest. And so that got
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Speaker 1: her thinking that something's up with this van, but she
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Speaker 1: she didn't think it was bad. She just was trying
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Speaker 1: to make sense of it. And so all morning she
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Speaker 1: found herself go into the window and looking out to
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Speaker 1: see if someone was going to claim this van. But
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Speaker 1: she never saw anybody go near it. She didn't see
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Speaker 1: workers going in and out of it. She didn't see
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Speaker 1: any activity that was related to the van. It was
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Speaker 1: just this empty van parked randomly across the street. And
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Speaker 1: by the afternoon, when still no one had claimed this vehicle,
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Speaker 1: she was getting ready to call the police. So that
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Speaker 1: same day, you and Frankie had spoke on the phone
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Speaker 1: and planned to meet up at the pine Cone Forest
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Speaker 1: after he was don with his homework, and he didn't
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Speaker 1: tell his mom about these plans, and so she didn't
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Speaker 1: know that you would be very close to this van.
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Speaker 1: Had she have known that, she would have told you
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Speaker 1: to not wait out there, but instead to come right
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Speaker 1: inside and don't go near this van. So at some
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Speaker 1: point in the afternoon, when Sonya's getting ready to call
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Speaker 1: the police, and you were actually already over at the
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Speaker 1: pine cone forest waiting for Frankie. Sonia's looking out the
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Speaker 1: window and she sees the back two doors fly open,
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Speaker 1: and that guy who pinched you jumps out of the
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Speaker 1: back and starts running into the pine cone forest. And
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Speaker 1: from where Sonya's looking, she can only see part of
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Speaker 1: the forest. The other portion of it is to the right,
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Speaker 1: that's out of her view through this window. And so
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Speaker 1: she turns and runs in her house to the side
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Speaker 1: window of her house, and she looks out at that
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Speaker 1: section of the pine cone forest where the sky has
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Speaker 1: run to, and she sees you standing in front of
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Speaker 1: the tree, and she sees this guy sprint right up
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Speaker 1: to you and sees him pinch you in the arm,
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Speaker 1: and he's talking to you. And that's when she ran
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Speaker 1: out onto the porch and yelled for you to come inside.
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Speaker 1: And she would tell me later that when she did that,
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Speaker 1: she tried to sound very natural. She was worried if
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Speaker 1: she sounded like this was an emergency, not only would
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Speaker 1: it frighten you, but it might trigger this stranger to
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Speaker 1: grab you or take you, because now he's been made
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Speaker 1: you know, someone realizes he's a bad guy and he
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Speaker 1: might take you. And so the whole time she's watching you,
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Speaker 1: she was watching him to see if he was going
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Speaker 1: to chase you. And so when you came inside, she
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Speaker 1: did her best to be totally calm and told you
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Speaker 1: to go play with Frankie. And as soon as you
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Speaker 1: were out of the room, she ran around the house
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Speaker 1: and locked all the doors, all the windows, and then
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Speaker 1: called me, and we decided it made sense to call
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Speaker 1: the police. Even though you were safely in the house.
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Speaker 1: We didn't know who this guy was, and it seemed
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Speaker 1: like he was intentionally targeting you, like he was waiting
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Speaker 1: for you the whole time. And so Sonya calls the
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Speaker 1: police and a police cruiser was sent over to our
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Speaker 1: neighborhood and they quickly found the white van that matched
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Speaker 1: the description. They pull up next to it and they
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Speaker 1: walked to the driver's side, and sitting inside the car
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Speaker 1: is a man that matches the description of what Sonya
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Speaker 1: gave and he's acting really weird. You know. He looked
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Speaker 1: like he was on drugs or maybe he was drunk,
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Speaker 1: or something was wrong with him. Something was off about him,
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Speaker 1: and so the officers had him step out of the
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Speaker 1: car and they searched his car and in the front
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Speaker 1: two seats there was nothing but cigarette butts and trash,
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Speaker 1: and there was a partition wall between the front two
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Speaker 1: seats and the back workspace of the van. They went
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Speaker 1: around to the back of the van and they see
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Speaker 1: this guy has screwed a latch onto the back of
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Speaker 1: the two doors right across the middle, and there's a
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Speaker 1: padlock through it, so there's an additional lock on this
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Speaker 1: back door. Clearly, he doesn't want anybody getting in the
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Speaker 1: back of this thing, and so the police turned to
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Speaker 1: this guy and they're like, we need to get in
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Speaker 1: the back of your truck. Can you please open this
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Speaker 1: And at first he was making excuses why he couldn't
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Speaker 1: open it, but finally he relented and pulled out a
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Speaker 1: special keychain he was carrying that had two distinct keys
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Speaker 1: on it, and he used one of them to undo
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Speaker 1: the padlock. He opened that up, and then he swung
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Speaker 1: open the doors and he backed up and the police
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Speaker 1: look inside and they can't believe what they're looking at.
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Speaker 1: Inside of this van. All over every surface in the
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Speaker 1: back were pictures of you taped to the wa to
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Speaker 1: the ground to the back. I mean, everywhere you looked
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Speaker 1: there was a picture of you. And they weren't just
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Speaker 1: recent pictures of you. There was at least a couple
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Speaker 1: pictures of you when you were six years old, and
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Speaker 1: you were eight when he approached you, so we know
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Speaker 1: he was following you for at least two years. Also
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Speaker 1: in the back of the van were binoculars as well
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Speaker 1: as a camera that presumably he was using to take
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Speaker 1: these pictures of you. But that's not even the worst part.
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Speaker 1: After this guy got arrested, one of the officers pulled
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Speaker 1: out that keychain that had the key to the padlock
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Speaker 1: on the back of his van, and he noticed the
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Speaker 1: other key on the keychain was not just a duplicate
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Speaker 1: key to the same padlock, it was a different, unique key.
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Speaker 1: And so the police go over to this guy and
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Speaker 1: they show him the key and they say, what is
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Speaker 1: this too, And he says, to my storage locker. And
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Speaker 1: so the police track down a storage locker and they
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Speaker 1: go over there and they unlock the lock with the
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Speaker 1: key and they opened the door and what's inside is
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Speaker 1: straight out of a nightmare. The entire storage locker, the ceiling,
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Speaker 1: the floor of the walls, all of it was covered
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Speaker 1: in clear plastic wrap, and behind the plastic wrap you
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Speaker 1: could see on the walls were hundreds more pictures of you.
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Speaker 1: And in the middle of the storage locker was a
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Speaker 1: dentist chair that had been anchored to the ground. Next
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Speaker 1: to the dentist chair was this silver tray like you
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Speaker 1: would see in a dentist office, except on it were
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Speaker 1: all these knives, and they were not surgical or medical knives.
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Speaker 1: They were like meat cleavers and hunting knives, crude instruments.
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Speaker 1: And then next to that on a table was an
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Speaker 1: anatomy book where he had used printouts of you to
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Speaker 1: bookmark different parts of the book that he was taking
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Speaker 1: notes on and highlighting, all of which had to do
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Speaker 1: with the female anatomy. In the back of the locker
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Speaker 1: was a rotted mattress that was just sitting on the
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Speaker 1: ground and anchored in the back on the wall were
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Speaker 1: chains with handcuffs extending off of them, and then next
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Speaker 1: to the bed were dozens of empty five gallon drums.
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Speaker 1: When the police showed us pictures of the inside of
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Speaker 1: his van, we were very shaken up. It was just
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Speaker 1: so awful to imagine someone taking advantage of you in
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Speaker 1: that way, you know, watching you. But when they showed
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Speaker 1: us pictures of the chamber that he had created inside
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Speaker 1: of his storage locker, that's just something I'll never get over.
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Speaker 1: He clearly had plans for you. After hearing this story
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Speaker 1: from her mother, Jen is a mixture of angry with
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Speaker 1: her mom for not telling her sooner, but also sad
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Speaker 1: you know that her mom had to go through that
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Speaker 1: with her child, because now Jen is a mother and
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Speaker 1: she can only imagine how horrible that must have been
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Speaker 1: for her then and even still now. And so all
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Speaker 1: Jen could think to do was give her mom a hug.
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Speaker 1: After they embraced, Jen asked her mom, you know what
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Speaker 1: happened to this guy? You know where is he? Did?
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Speaker 1: He go to jail? And her mom told her that
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Speaker 1: he had confessed to stalking Gen, and he confessed that
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Speaker 1: everything they found in the storage locker in his van
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Speaker 1: was his and that he understood the implications, but he
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Speaker 1: never gave his real motives for it, or really what
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Speaker 1: his intentions were. He was ultimately put into a high
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Speaker 1: security mental institution for the criminally insane, and her mom
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Speaker 1: said she has no idea if he's still alive or
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Speaker 1: if he's been transferred, but that was the last she
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Speaker 1: knew of him, and so Jen wound up doing some
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Speaker 1: homework and figured out where he was being held, and
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Speaker 1: she asked to have a meeting with him because she
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Speaker 1: wanted to ask him to his face, what were you
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Speaker 1: planning to do to me? I want to know why
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Speaker 1: you did this? And he agreed to take this meeting,
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Speaker 1: but the day before they were supposed to have it,
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Speaker 1: he took his own life, and so Jen doesn't know
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Speaker 1: if that was brought on by their impending meeting. It
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Speaker 1: certainly seems likely, but unfortunately that's it. She doesn't get
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Speaker 1: any more answers, and it will end with a big
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