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Top 3 Strange But True • Careful what you eat · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today we're
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  Speaker 1: going to look at three stories that demonstrate that. But
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  Speaker 1: One day in March of twenty twelve, a five year
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  Speaker 1: old girl named Maria sat on the floor of her
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  Speaker 1: kitchen in a city in northeast Brazil, eating an ampata
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  Speaker 1: and watching her aunt cook some stew. And ampata is
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  Speaker 1: very similar to the empanada, and that it is a
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  Speaker 1: pie filled with meat, but the empota is the Brazilian
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  Speaker 1: version of that pie. Maria's family was actually known for
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  Speaker 1: their cooking, specifically their empotas. In fact, at this very moment,
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  Speaker 1: Maria's mother was out selling their famous empotas on street
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  Speaker 1: corners and in bars and local restaurants. Now, the family
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  Speaker 1: got by okay this way, but despite their notoriety around
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  Speaker 1: these empatas, they really wanted more. They wanted their family
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  Speaker 1: name to be respected, to be powerful, and so to
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  Speaker 1: try to make that happen, Maria's family basically worked twenty
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  Speaker 1: four to seven, not just on making impatas, but basically
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  Speaker 1: in looking for ways to kind of grow and expand
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  Speaker 1: the family name. In fact, while Maria was sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen floor, she could hear her father in the
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  Speaker 1: other room working, And the reason she knew he was
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  Speaker 1: working is because periodically she could hear him yell out
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  Speaker 1: with excitement. He was basically sitting there coming up with
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  Speaker 1: ideas of how he could make the family name even
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  Speaker 1: bigger and better. And when he had a good idea,
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  Speaker 1: he would shout out and be like, oh, I found it.
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  Speaker 1: And in addition to constantly sort of brainstorming for ideas
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  Speaker 1: of how to become rich and powerful, Maria's father also
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  Speaker 1: was an author and he was writing a book that
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  Speaker 1: he was convinced was going to be another thing that
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  Speaker 1: would kind of ratchet their family up the social hierarchy.
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  Speaker 1: But because Maria's mother and father and basically everybody in
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  Speaker 1: her family were so completely immersed in work all the time,
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  Speaker 1: it meant they didn't really pay much attention to her,
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  Speaker 1: and so most of the time Maria was just kind
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  Speaker 1: of on her own, usually playing in the kitchen or playing.
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  Speaker 2: In the backyard.
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  Speaker 1: Just then, the front door opened and in walked Maria's mother,
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  Speaker 1: and she was grinning ear to ear, not only because
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  Speaker 1: she now had an empty tray, meaning she had sold
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  Speaker 1: all her impatas, but also she had brought someone along
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  Speaker 1: that she was really excited to introduce to Maria. Maria's
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  Speaker 1: mom stepped all the way into the kitchen and right
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  Speaker 1: behind her was this young woman, and Maria's mother pointed
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  Speaker 1: at this young woman and then gestured for Maria to
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  Speaker 1: come over and say hi. And she told Maria that
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  Speaker 1: this young woman wants to become her new nanny, and
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  Speaker 1: so you guys can play together all the time while
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  Speaker 1: me and your father are out doing our work. Maria
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  Speaker 1: stood up and gave a shy smile to the young woman,
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  Speaker 1: but she wasn't sold that this woman actually would become
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  Speaker 1: her nanny, because in the past there had been other
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  Speaker 1: women who had come by to be her nanny, and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't seem to last very long, and so Maria
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  Speaker 1: was not getting her hopes up. Still, Maria wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be friendly, so she walked over and as a gesture
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  Speaker 1: of goodwill, she handed this woman her half eaten empoda,
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  Speaker 1: and the young woman took the empoda and laughed and
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  Speaker 1: said thank you. After that, Maria's mother told her to
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  Speaker 1: head on out back and go play by herself for
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  Speaker 1: a bit while she and this new nanny hammered out
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  Speaker 1: the details of her new job.
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  Speaker 2: And she told Maria that as soon.
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  Speaker 1: As they were done, the new nanny would come outside
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  Speaker 1: and join her and they could play together. And so Maria,
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  Speaker 1: who was always very obedient, did as she was told,
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  Speaker 1: and she headed out back and entertained herself. And the
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  Speaker 1: whole time as she's just kicking rocks around and pulling
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  Speaker 1: grass up and just kind of doing what kids do,
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  Speaker 1: she kept looking back at the house waiting for the
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  Speaker 1: nanny to come outside, but she didn't. And after a
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  Speaker 1: whole hour had passed by and still this new nanny
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  Speaker 1: had not come outside, Maria felt really bored, and so
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  Speaker 1: she went inside to go look for her. A month later,
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  Speaker 1: Maria was out in her backyard playing by herself, like usual,
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  Speaker 1: when she heard a commotion happening inside.
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  Speaker 2: Of her house.
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  Speaker 1: She looked over at the house and couldn't really tell
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  Speaker 1: what was going on, And then she heard the sound
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  Speaker 1: of her mother and her father and her aunt raising
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  Speaker 1: their voices like they were fighting with somebody. And then
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, these uniform police officers came charging
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  Speaker 1: out the back door towards Maria.
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  Speaker 2: One of the officers came right up to her and
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  Speaker 2: asked her what.
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  Speaker 1: Her name was, and Maria was so scared, remember she's
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  Speaker 1: five years old here, that she didn't even know what
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  Speaker 1: to say, so she just stood there staring, being totally terrified.
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  Speaker 1: She had no idea what was going on, but as
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  Speaker 1: these police officers would soon tell her, it would turn
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  Speaker 1: out her entire life was one big horrific lie. Maria's father,
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  Speaker 1: George Silvera, was not actually her father, nor was Maria's mother,
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  Speaker 1: Isabelle Silvera, her actual mother, nor was her aunt, Bruna
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  Speaker 1: Silva actually her aunt. In reality, those three people were
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  Speaker 1: not related to Maria. They were instead members of a
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  Speaker 1: cult called the Cartel Sect. And all these three cult
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  Speaker 1: members cared about was impressing the members of the cult.
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  Speaker 2: When they thought about you know, making it.
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  Speaker 1: Big there, their so called family name, becoming bigger and
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  Speaker 1: more powerful. That was all in relationship to the Cartel sect.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted the members of this cult to look at
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  Speaker 1: them as the most powerful and important members of that cult.
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  Speaker 1: And the way they tried to do that was by
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  Speaker 1: performing the duties of this cult to the best of
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  Speaker 1: their abilities, better than anybody else in the cult. And
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  Speaker 1: so what did this cartel care about? Well, the literal
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  Speaker 1: purpose of the Cartel sect was to eliminate women they
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  Speaker 1: deemed unclean in order to reduce and purify the world's population.
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  Speaker 1: And Maria's family, the mother, the father, and the aunt
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  Speaker 1: had become very well versed at doing this. All those
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  Speaker 1: nannies that came around to see Maria, well, the reason
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  Speaker 1: they kept vanishing is because shortly after the mother, the father,
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  Speaker 1: and the aunt introduced them to Maria and said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: she's going to be your new nanny, they would show
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  Speaker 1: Maria out into the backyard and then they would murder
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  Speaker 1: the nanny because this person had been deemed unclean. They
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  Speaker 1: would cut their throats and stab them to death. But
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't all. That wasn't enough cleansing. After they murdered
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  Speaker 1: these women. They would then butcher them and stuff the
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  Speaker 1: human meat into their famous empatas and sell them to
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  Speaker 1: the people in town. They literally were feeding people in
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  Speaker 1: this city human meat. But the cult and the cannibalism
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  Speaker 1: and the murders were not actually the biggest shock of
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  Speaker 1: the story. The biggest shock of the story is actually
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  Speaker 1: the real identity of little five year old Maria. She
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  Speaker 1: was actually the daughter of the very first victim of
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  Speaker 1: the cartel sect, the mother along with Maria. Three and
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  Speaker 1: a half years earlier, when Maria was just a year
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  Speaker 1: and a half, they had been lured to this very
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  Speaker 1: house where her mother was murdered right in front of Maria.
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  Speaker 1: And then after her mother was killed, they hooked her
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  Speaker 1: mother and fed pieces of the mother to Maria, and
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  Speaker 1: ever since they had just kept Maria and treated her
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  Speaker 1: like she was a member of the family, basically turning
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  Speaker 1: her into an unwitting cannibal. The existence of the cult
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  Speaker 1: and their hideous murders were ultimately discovered after they used
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  Speaker 1: one of the credit cards of their victims sometime in
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  Speaker 1: the spring.
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  Speaker 2: Of twenty twelve.
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  Speaker 1: That's when all the cops rushed into the backyard and
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  Speaker 1: confronted Maria, George, Isabel and Brunna, Maria's fake family, were
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  Speaker 1: convicted of three murders, including the murder of Maria's real mother,
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  Speaker 1: and they are currently serving what amounts to life sentences
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  Speaker 1: in Brazil. Police believe the actual number of women that
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  Speaker 1: they murdered is as many as eight. As for Maria,
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  Speaker 1: according to recent news articles, she was reunited with distant family.
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  Speaker 1: Maria is not her real name. That is a pseudonym
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  Speaker 1: On January twenty third, nineteen eighty nine, a mother was
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  Speaker 1: cooking dinner in her home in Rochester, New York, when
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  Speaker 1: her eleven year old daughter came into the kitchen. The
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  Speaker 1: daughter had just finished delivering newspapers along her delivery route
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  Speaker 1: in their quiet suburban neighborhood, and so her mother asked
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  Speaker 1: her the same nightly question, how was the route? And
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  Speaker 1: usually the daughter replied with just a good but tonight
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  Speaker 1: was different. Instead, her daughter said it's okay, and the
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  Speaker 1: mother pride, like, well, what do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: What happened?
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  Speaker 1: And the daughter said, well, I saw something strange. She
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  Speaker 1: told her mom that she delivered newspapers to this one
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  Speaker 1: particular old man. He was very nice and he always
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  Speaker 1: waved to her whenever she went by, and tonight was
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  Speaker 1: no different. He had waved to her, but there was
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  Speaker 1: just something off about the way he was sitting. The
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  Speaker 1: mother asked, you know, like what do you mean, and
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  Speaker 1: the daughter, she really struggled to articulate what she had seen.
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  Speaker 2: One it was dark.
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  Speaker 1: Two the man was sitting inside of a screened in
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  Speaker 1: porch that kind of obscured her view, and the awnings
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  Speaker 1: were pretty low, making it hard to look in. But
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  Speaker 1: she said, basically, when she had gone past, the man
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  Speaker 1: had waved to her like normal, but his legs appeared
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  Speaker 1: to be straight up in the air, like he was
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  Speaker 1: sitting on a chair, and his legs were like up
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  Speaker 1: vertical right in front of him. In fact, when he waved,
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  Speaker 1: it was like he was waving between his legs at her.
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  Speaker 1: And so when the mother heard this, she really didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what to make of it. I mean, the story
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  Speaker 1: didn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 2: She couldn't really.
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  Speaker 1: Understand how this guy was sitting where his legs would
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  Speaker 1: be straight up in the air like that. But at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, you know, she could tell her daughter
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  Speaker 1: was worried, and you know, she kind of figured that
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  Speaker 1: maybe her daughter's imagination had run wild here, and so
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  Speaker 1: she told her daughter, like, hey, look, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: he waved to you, then I'm sure everything is just fine.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: But the following night, when the girl came back from
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  Speaker 1: her route, once again, she was even more upset about
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  Speaker 1: this guy out in his porch. She told her mom
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  Speaker 1: that once again she looked in the porch, there he
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  Speaker 1: was sitting there with his legs straight up in the air.
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  Speaker 1: Except this time he didn't wave to her, including when
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  Speaker 1: she made a point to stop and wave at him,
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  Speaker 1: he did not wave back. Now, the girl told her
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  Speaker 1: mom that she was worried about him, and so she
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  Speaker 1: went right up to the door to go check on him.
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  Speaker 1: But the screened in porch was locked, so she couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get inside, and you know, her view was kind of
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  Speaker 1: obscured because of the screen, so she couldn't really see
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  Speaker 1: him in there. But you know, she didn't know what
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  Speaker 1: to do, so she just left. Now, this story, which
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  Speaker 1: was already weird, now did seem a whole lot weirder
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  Speaker 1: that two days in a row her daughter is seeing this.
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  Speaker 1: But the mother's thinking to herself, like, come on, this
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  Speaker 1: is just some older guy who loves this chair, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's falling asleep in some weird position here,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, my daughter's sort of exaggerating what she's seeing,
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  Speaker 1: like this can't be a big deal here. But again,
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  Speaker 1: seeing the concern on her daughter's face, she told her daughter, look,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry about it. I'm sure everything's fine. I will
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  Speaker 1: go by tomorrow morning and make sure he's okay. So
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  Speaker 1: the next morning, a little before eleven am, the mother
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  Speaker 1: arrived on this street where this old man lived, and
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  Speaker 1: as she was walking down the road towards the house,
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  Speaker 1: she actually spotted the mailman, and so before she went
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  Speaker 1: any farther, she flagged the mailman down and she asked him, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: is there anything weird going on with that old guy
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  Speaker 1: who lives right over there? But the mailman was like, no,
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  Speaker 1: he's just a nice older guy who waves at everybody
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  Speaker 1: who goes by. And so the mother thanked the mailman
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  Speaker 1: and did give some thought to just you know, taking
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  Speaker 1: what the mailman said and turn him back around and
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  Speaker 1: heading home and telling her daughter everything's fine. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: she knew her daughter was really worried about this guy,
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  Speaker 1: and so she decided she would just continue down the
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  Speaker 1: road and check on the sky for herself and just
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  Speaker 1: really make sure he's okay and then report back to
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  Speaker 1: her daughter. And also the mother was thinking, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's about twenty degrees outside. It's very cold. This is
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  Speaker 1: not really a good time for an older man to
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  Speaker 1: be outside so much so, what's he doing. Let's really
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  Speaker 1: make sure he's okay. And so the mother made her
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  Speaker 1: way down the road and she reached the old man's house,
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  Speaker 1: and sure enough, the screendon porch really did obscure, you know,
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  Speaker 1: whoever was inside of it. She could see a silhouette
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  Speaker 1: of what appeared to be this old man sitting there.
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  Speaker 1: But the first thing she actually noticed was not him,
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  Speaker 1: but rather the two newspapers that were sitting right on
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  Speaker 1: his walkway uncollected. I mean, these are the newspapers that
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  Speaker 1: her daughter had left over the same period of time
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  Speaker 1: that she's seeing this weird thing happening with the sky.
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  Speaker 1: And so suddenly the woman's feeling like that's a pretty
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  Speaker 1: big red flag, and so she hustled her way right
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  Speaker 1: up towards the front, and as she did, she looked
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  Speaker 1: in into the screen porch and waved at this old
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  Speaker 1: man to try to get his attention, like, hey, are
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  Speaker 1: you okay in there? But the man did not wave back,
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  Speaker 1: and so the mother went right up to the door
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  Speaker 1: and she checked it, but like her daughter had said,
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  Speaker 1: it was locked. And so the mother she pressed her
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  Speaker 1: face up against the mesh screen that kind of had
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  Speaker 1: been obscuring her view from a distance, and she put
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  Speaker 1: her face right up against the screen where she would
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  Speaker 1: have a clear view inside. And when she did, and
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  Speaker 1: she saw the old man who was in fact right there,
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  Speaker 1: and he did in fact have his legs up when
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  Speaker 1: she saw him, she realized what was actually going on.
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  Speaker 1: And the second she did, she jumped back, turned around
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  Speaker 1: and ran away to go call the police. It would
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  Speaker 1: turn out the old man who lived there, whose name
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  Speaker 1: was Robert Ham, and he was seventy three years old,
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  Speaker 1: he was not just eccentric and sitting weirdly on his
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  Speaker 1: front porch. Instead, on January twenty third, right before that
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  Speaker 1: little girl had come home and told her mother that
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  Speaker 1: this man had been acting strangely. On that evening, Robert
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  Speaker 1: had come out onto a screened in porch and for
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  Speaker 1: whatever reason, he had attempted to sit down on this
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  Speaker 1: trash can that was out there on the porch, but
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  Speaker 1: the lid didn't hold, and so Robert fell but first
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  Speaker 1: into this trash can, folding him up into this V
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  Speaker 1: position where his legs were straight up in front of him,
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  Speaker 1: and Robert was too weak to get himself out of
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  Speaker 1: the trash can. And also because of being in this
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  Speaker 1: V position where his legs were pressed up against his
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  Speaker 1: torso it was restricting his ability to breathe and to
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  Speaker 1: make any sound, and so all he could do in
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  Speaker 1: this position was just wave at passerby, hoping they would
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  Speaker 1: see he was in trouble and.
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  Speaker 2: Go help him.
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  Speaker 1: But unfortunately, nobody could really tell what he was doing,
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  Speaker 1: including the little girl on the paper route. They just
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  Speaker 1: thought there was this guy sitting in his porch in
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  Speaker 1: this weird position waving to people, when in reality he
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  Speaker 1: was dying, And so, unfortunately, because nobody came to his aid,
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  Speaker 1: Robert did die. He would die of a heart attack,
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  Speaker 1: and in fact, by the time that little girl's mother
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  Speaker 1: arrived at his house and put her face up against
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  Speaker 1: the screen, Robert was already dead. At around seven thirty
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  Speaker 1: am on September twenty fifth, twenty twelve, a sixty nine
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  Speaker 1: year old farmer named Terry Garner stepped out of his
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  Speaker 1: house in rural Oregon to go feed his animals. He
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  Speaker 1: stopped first at his enclosed yard where he spread some
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  Speaker 1: seed on the ground for his chickens and turkeys, and
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  Speaker 1: then he headed over to his pen where he was
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  Speaker 1: raising four horned goats, which are goats that grow four
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  Speaker 1: horns instead of two, And after picking up some hay
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  Speaker 1: and toss in with the goats, Terry just stood there
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  Speaker 1: and smiled as he watched the animals eat.
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  Speaker 2: Terry loved his animals.
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  Speaker 1: He actually had previously been a butcher for most of
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  Speaker 1: his life, but six years earlier, when he had retired,
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  Speaker 1: he had kind of gone the opposite direction, basically housing
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  Speaker 1: all these animals and treating them basically like people. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he was so devoted to his animals that sometimes when
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  Speaker 1: the nearby river would flood, he would move all of
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  Speaker 1: his animals into this house he had built on his
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  Speaker 1: property just for the animals to make sure they were safe.
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  Speaker 1: And if he ever went to visit Terry at his property,
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty common to see a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: chickens and other birds just kind of hanging out on
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  Speaker 1: the front porch of Terry's house.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't care.
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  Speaker 1: He liked having them around. But of all the creatures
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  Speaker 1: that Terry took care of at his farm. The animal
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  Speaker 1: he loved the most were his pigs. Now, normally, when
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  Speaker 1: farmers raise pigs, they grow them to about two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty to three hundred pounds and then they sell
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  Speaker 1: them to butchers to be slaughtered.
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  Speaker 2: But that's obviously not what Terry was doing here. He
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  Speaker 2: loved these pigs.
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  Speaker 1: So much that he basically just fed them anytime they
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  Speaker 1: were hungry, and they were hungry all the time, which
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  Speaker 1: meant his pigs sometimes grew to be like seven hundred pounds.
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  Speaker 1: And at no point was Terry going to sell those pigs.
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  Speaker 1: He just wanted his pigs to live their best life.
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  Speaker 1: So on this morning, after he was done feeding his
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  Speaker 1: chickens and turkeys and the goats, he grabbed a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of food and began making his way over to
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  Speaker 1: his beloved pigs. A few hours later, a member of
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  Speaker 1: Terry's family arrived at Terry's property and knocked on his door.
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  Speaker 1: This family member had called Terry earlier in the day
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  Speaker 1: and Terry hadn't picked up.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that in and of itself was not that uncommon.
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  Speaker 1: Terry was a busy farmer, but Terry always called people back,
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  Speaker 1: and so far he hadn't, and so this family member
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  Speaker 1: was here just to check on him and make sure
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  Speaker 1: he was okay. And so after a few minutes, when
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  Speaker 1: Terry did not come to the door, the family member
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  Speaker 1: grew more concerned about Terry and decided they would just
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  Speaker 1: walk the whole property and just go find Terry and
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  Speaker 1: see what he was doing.
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  Speaker 2: And so the family.
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  Speaker 1: Member left the porch and walked all around the property.
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  Speaker 1: They saw where the chickens and turkeys were, they saw
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  Speaker 1: the goats, they saw the pigs, but that was it.
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  Speaker 2: All they saw were animals. Terry was nowhere to be found.
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  Speaker 2: It was like he was gone.
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  Speaker 1: And so the family member was just about to turn
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  Speaker 1: around and head back to Terry's house to see, if
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe he really wasn't there, when suddenly something
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  Speaker 1: caught their eye in the pig pen. Now, at first,
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  Speaker 1: what they were looking at just seemed impossible, like, how
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  Speaker 1: could that be there? That doesn't make any sense. But
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: when the family member walked over and got a closer look,
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  Speaker 1: they knew for sure what they were looking at. And
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  Speaker 1: as soon as that truth sunk in, they turned ran to.
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  Speaker 2: The house and called the police.
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  Speaker 1: It would turn out earlier that morning, when Terry had
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  Speaker 1: walked into the pig pen to feed his beloved enormous pigs.
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  Speaker 1: Somehow or another, he had wound up on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Now we don't know if he had a heart attack,
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  Speaker 1: or if he had some other medical event, or if
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  Speaker 1: he simply just tripped and couldn't get up again, but
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  Speaker 1: one way or another, he wound up on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and at some point his pigs devoured him. And so
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  Speaker 1: what that family member saw in the mud that caught
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  Speaker 1: their eye was not but Terry's false teeth grinning back
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  Speaker 1: at him. Those teeth, along with several pieces of his
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  Speaker 1: body and his clothes, were all that was left of Terry.
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  Speaker 1: One more haunting detail of this case is that officials
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  Speaker 1: were not able to actually figure out whether or not
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  Speaker 1: Terry was dead before he began being eaten, or if
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: he was just sort of incapacitated and very much alive
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