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WorkDeath Balance Top 3 Places You Can't Go · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, we're going to look at three places you can't
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  Speaker 1: go and people who went there anyways. But before we
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  Speaker 1: At ten thirty am on October thirtieth, two thousand and five,
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  Speaker 1: a thirty three year old pastor named Kyle Lake stood
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  Speaker 1: on a stage inside of the University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Kyle had just finished delivering that morning sermon to his congregation,
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  Speaker 1: which included about eight hundred people, and now he was
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  Speaker 1: about to welcome a new member, a young woman. So
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  Speaker 1: Kyle had been the pastor of this church for the
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  Speaker 1: last seven years, and over that time the church had
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  Speaker 1: really grown and evolved, really directly because of Kyle's leadership.
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  Speaker 1: He was known as being a very thoughtful and educated
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  Speaker 1: pastor who was also known to be quite fun and progressive.
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  Speaker 1: He often would play pranks on the congregation and keep
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  Speaker 1: things really light even if.
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  Speaker 2: He was in the middle of a very important sermon,
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  Speaker 2: and people like that. It made him relatable.
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  Speaker 1: And so because of Kyle's youthful energy that he clearly
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  Speaker 1: gave off, he had sort of gradually shifted the congregation.
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  Speaker 2: To being a much more young crowd.
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  Speaker 1: Predominantly the folks who attended the church were college kids
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  Speaker 1: or roughly that age. And also his wife was an
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  Speaker 1: attendee at the church, as were his three little kids,
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  Speaker 1: who at the moment as he was up on stage,
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  Speaker 1: they were across the hall attending kids Bible study. Now,
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  Speaker 1: for Kyle, welcoming a new member into this church had
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  Speaker 1: become a very big deal for him. He in fact,
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  Speaker 1: had this special ceremony he would perform for each and
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  Speaker 1: every new member, and really the whole congregation got behind
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  Speaker 1: this ceremony. And so today Kyle was about to do
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  Speaker 1: this ceremony with this new member, this young woman, and
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  Speaker 1: so Kyle, you know, in front of the whole congregation,
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  Speaker 1: he calls this woman up you know, come on up,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to do the ceremony to welcome you to
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  Speaker 1: the church. And so the woman she gets up, and
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  Speaker 1: she walks up to the front of the stage and
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  Speaker 1: she smiles, and Kyle says hello to her and sort
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  Speaker 1: of introduces himself, and the whole church is listening. And
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  Speaker 1: then Kyle, as part of this ritual, moved to the
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  Speaker 1: very center of the stage where the actual ceremony was
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  Speaker 1: going to take place, and he was about to call
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  Speaker 1: the woman up to join him in the center of
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  Speaker 1: the stage when there was a malfunction. Now, the malfunction
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  Speaker 1: itself was not really a huge deal. All it did
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  Speaker 1: was just stop Kyle for a second and he had
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  Speaker 1: to stop talking to the new member, and he had
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  Speaker 1: to figure out what he was going to do. But
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  Speaker 1: quickly he saw a fix that didn't even require him
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  Speaker 1: to leave the stage. However, the instant he actually made
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  Speaker 1: the fix when he fixed the malfunction, as he was
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  Speaker 1: about to start talking to the whole audience.
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  Speaker 2: He just began to scream.
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  Speaker 1: Now, at first, nobody took the seriously because their pastor
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  Speaker 1: was known for playing pranks on the congregation, and so
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  Speaker 1: everybody just thought it was a prank, albeit a strange one.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's screaming at the top of his lungs,
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  Speaker 1: but everyone's sort of looking around like this is a prank, right,
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  Speaker 1: But then Kyle's screams began to include words. He began screaming, help,
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  Speaker 1: help me, And at that point it sort of clicked
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  Speaker 1: for the whole congregation that this was not a joke.
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  Speaker 2: Something was terribly wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Even though they're looking up at him and nothing appeared
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  Speaker 1: to be wrong, nothing made sense, and so immediately it
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  Speaker 1: was like the church spiraled into chaos and confusion. People
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  Speaker 1: are bowing their heads, praying as fiercely as they could,
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  Speaker 1: praying for a safety. Others are sprinting out of the church,
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  Speaker 1: not even knowing what to do. And still more, we're
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  Speaker 1: calling nine one one, like several people calling nine one one.
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  Speaker 2: And then by the time the.
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  Speaker 1: Paramedics showed up, it was like people still had no
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  Speaker 1: idea what actually was happening. Fact, honestly, the paramedics didn't.
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  Speaker 2: It was like what is this?
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  Speaker 1: But within a few days they were able to figure
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  Speaker 1: out what happened and it surprised everyone. So the special
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  Speaker 1: ceremony that Kyle would perform for every new member was
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  Speaker 1: a baptism, and so when Kyle moved to the very
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  Speaker 1: center of the stage and he actually called up the
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  Speaker 1: woman to join him in the center of the stage,
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  Speaker 1: he actually was stepping into the baptismal pool. Picture like
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  Speaker 1: a hot tub, waste high water, it's warm water, and
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  Speaker 1: so Kyle literally stepped into the hot tub and he's
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  Speaker 1: calling up this woman to join him in the pool
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  Speaker 1: so she can be baptized. However, before this woman actually
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  Speaker 1: got to the pool, Kyle has this malfunction and all
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  Speaker 1: it was is his lapel mic shut off.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't working anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And because the church he was in was huge and cavernous,
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  Speaker 1: sound really.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't travel well.
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  Speaker 1: He needed a microphone to project his voice, and so
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  Speaker 1: he had to stop the ceremony for a second and
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  Speaker 1: find another microphone. Luckily, there was a stand with a
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  Speaker 1: microphone in it right within arm's reach, and so Kyle
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  Speaker 1: grabbed it. However, what Kyle didn't know was there actually
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  Speaker 1: was a second malfunction that had happened, either at this
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  Speaker 1: instant or just before. But either way, there was another
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  Speaker 1: malfunction that he had no idea about, and that was
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  Speaker 1: that the heaters of the baptismal pool that kept the
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  Speaker 1: water warm were damaged, and as a result of this damage,
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  Speaker 1: the water in that pool had become electrically charged, and
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  Speaker 1: so the instant Kyle grabbed that microphone, he grounded the
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  Speaker 1: electricity in the pool. Basically, he created a pathway for
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  Speaker 1: the electricity to travel through his body. When he began
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  Speaker 1: to scream, that was him being electrocuted. Despite the efforts
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  Speaker 1: of first responders and the medical staff at the hospital,
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  Speaker 1: Kyle unfortunately did not survive. As for Kyle's wife, who
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  Speaker 1: literally watched this happen from the front row of the church,
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  Speaker 1: she watched her husband be killed. She ultimately sued the
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  Speaker 1: electrical company that installed those heaters in the baptismal pool,
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  Speaker 1: and she would settle for an undisclosed amount of money.
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  Speaker 1: Around five pm on Sunday, August fifteenth, nineteen seventy one,
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  Speaker 1: a twenty three year old man named Michael was sitting
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  Speaker 1: inside of his living room in rural Ontario, Canada, Michael
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  Speaker 1: was flipping through a photo album that showed pictures of
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  Speaker 1: him scuba diving and mountain biking and doing all these
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  Speaker 1: really high adrenaline activities because Michael really lived for adventure.
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  Speaker 1: And so as he's flipping through this album, here's a
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  Speaker 1: knock on the door.
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  Speaker 2: So he stops what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: If he goes to the door, he opens it up
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  Speaker 1: and there's this police officer who's totally frantic and is
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  Speaker 1: speaking a mile a minute and he tells Michael, hey,
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  Speaker 1: so we had this guy who was swimming in.
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  Speaker 2: A lake nearby and he went missing. He's been gone for.
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  Speaker 1: Over an hour now we don't know where he is.
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  Speaker 1: And we were asking around, you know, does anybody have
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  Speaker 1: any scuba diving equipment or experience because we need to
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  Speaker 1: get in there and look for this guy in the lake.
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  Speaker 1: And everybody said, you're the guy. You have scuba equipment,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe you might be able to lend it to
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  Speaker 1: us so that, you know, the police could go in
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  Speaker 1: there and look for this guy.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Michael was kind of caught off guard by all this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this was not a typical occurrence to have
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  Speaker 1: police show up and have this type of request. But
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  Speaker 1: Michael immediately felt this sense of responsibility.
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  Speaker 2: He did note that he was.
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  Speaker 1: Sort of the top dog in scuba diving in rural Ontario, Canada,
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  Speaker 1: and he's hearing this police officer say what he's saying.
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  Speaker 1: But he's thinking, even if I give you my equipment,
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  Speaker 1: you can't just put the stuff on and safely conduct dives.
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  Speaker 1: You need the training as much as you need the equipment.
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  Speaker 1: And so Michael just kind of instinctively said, hey, look, look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just going to give you the equipment because
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm setting you up for failure.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: What if I come with you. I'll put the equipment
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  Speaker 1: on and I'll go look for the sky. I know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm doing, I know how to use the equipment.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be way safer and more efficient.
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  Speaker 2: And the cops said, thank you so much, that would
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  Speaker 2: be great.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go, and so Kyle he went and got a
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  Speaker 1: scuba equipment and before long he had thrown it in
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  Speaker 1: the police cruiser and the two of them were flying
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  Speaker 1: towards the lake. About thirty minutes later, Michael and the
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  Speaker 1: police officer pull into this parking lot, This wooded lot
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  Speaker 1: with trees everywhere, and straight ahead of them, through the trees,
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  Speaker 1: they can see down below is this big lake, and
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  Speaker 1: then to the left of the lake is a big dam,
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  Speaker 1: and then beyond that, over to the left side of
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  Speaker 1: that is a river. And so where the swimmer had
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  Speaker 1: gone missing was in the lake portion. And so Michael
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  Speaker 1: quickly hopped out of the car, he grabbed a scuba gear,
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  Speaker 1: and then he and the officer took off running through
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  Speaker 1: the trees down to the lake. And when they got
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  Speaker 1: down there, Michael scanned the area and he saw there
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  Speaker 1: were all these police officers and park employees. There were
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  Speaker 1: other people who clearly had just come to the lake
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  Speaker 1: that day, like taurists, and everybody's kind of scanning the lake.
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  Speaker 1: No one's really in the water, but everyone's sort of
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  Speaker 1: walking around the perimeters, like hoping they can just see
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  Speaker 1: this missing swimmer somewhere. And also Michael noticed clearly the
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  Speaker 1: family of this missing man was, you know, off to
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  Speaker 1: the side, and many of them were crying. But it
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  Speaker 1: definitely seemed like no serious search effort had really happened yet.
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  Speaker 1: It's like everybody was just kind of waiting for something
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  Speaker 1: to happen, and so when Michael shows up with all
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  Speaker 1: his Scoopa gear, it was like everybody looked at him
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  Speaker 1: as like, oh my goodness, thank you, like get in there,
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  Speaker 1: find him, Like I bet he's okay, Like get out there.
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  Speaker 1: And Michael, you know, he's thinking to himself that he
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  Speaker 1: hadn't done a search like this before, but the fact
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  Speaker 1: somebody was missing for that long already did not bode well.
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  Speaker 2: But he thought, you know what, I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: in there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it my best shot, and I hope
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  Speaker 1: we find this guy still alive.
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  Speaker 2: And so Michael put on all.
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  Speaker 1: His equipment right on the shore side, and everyone's waiting,
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  Speaker 1: kind of watching, anxious about what's going to happen next.
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  Speaker 1: And once he had donned his equipment, Michael stood up
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  Speaker 1: and just began scanning the lake, looking for, you know,
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  Speaker 1: any sign of where to begin the search, because it's
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  Speaker 1: just one man and.
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  Speaker 2: This huge body of water. He needs sort of a
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  Speaker 2: starting point.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's quiet, everyone's just kind of watching Michael
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  Speaker 1: as Michael's looking around the lake. And then at some
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  Speaker 1: point he looked out and he saw there was this
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  Speaker 1: little ripple sort of right in the middle of the lake.
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  Speaker 1: Now the surface of the lake had basically been glass
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  Speaker 1: like because nobody was really in the water save for
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  Speaker 1: like the very perimeter of the lake, and so the
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  Speaker 1: water was very calm.
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  Speaker 2: But he sees there's this little ripple sort of.
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  Speaker 1: Right in the middle, and so Michael points out the
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  Speaker 1: ripple to the other officer he was with and sort
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  Speaker 1: of anybody who could listen, and he said, Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go in there and start searching right there.
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  Speaker 1: And so Michael goes into the water, kind of wades
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  Speaker 1: in till about his waist and then he kind of
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  Speaker 1: looked around one more time, put on his mask, and
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  Speaker 1: went under the water. About fifteen minutes later, the police
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  Speaker 1: officer who had originally gone and gotten Michael and driven
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  Speaker 1: with him to the lake. He was still just standing
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  Speaker 1: on the lake shore along with the missing swimmers family
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  Speaker 1: and other searchers and pretty much everybody was just kind
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  Speaker 1: of waiting for Michael to give some sort of report
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  Speaker 1: about how the search was going. Now, Michael easily had
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  Speaker 1: enough air in his tanks to be out there for
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  Speaker 1: quite some time to do a pretty they're a search
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  Speaker 1: and they're only fifteen minutes in, so they don't.
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  Speaker 2: Really know if this is too early to expect feedback
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  Speaker 2: from Michael. But it's just tense. Everybody's just waiting, you know,
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  Speaker 2: waiting to see what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: But at some point, as this officer is just standing there,
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  Speaker 1: one of the volunteer searchers comes bombing along the shore
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  Speaker 1: from up near the dam. They ran right down to
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  Speaker 1: this officer and said, hey, you got to come with me.
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  Speaker 1: We found something over there in the river. And so,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at this point, the police officer is thinking,
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  Speaker 1: I bet they found the missing swimmer. You know, they're
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  Speaker 1: probably not in this lake. Maybe they found them over
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  Speaker 1: in the river. And he's thinking the worst, right, so
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  Speaker 1: he runs with the searcher. He goes to the dam.
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  Speaker 1: He goes to the river side on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the dam, and there's this crowd of searchers and
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  Speaker 1: police that are all.
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  Speaker 2: Along the shore of the river.
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  Speaker 1: And so this police officer pushes through the crowd, expecting,
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  Speaker 1: frankly at this point to see a dead body, to
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  Speaker 1: see the missing swimmer. But when he parts the crowd
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  Speaker 1: and sees what they're all looking at, he realizes there
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  Speaker 1: has been a terrible mistake. So two hours earlier, when
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  Speaker 1: this missing swimmer first went me, This is like before
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  Speaker 1: Michael was ever contacted, you know, before he was out
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  Speaker 1: there searching for him. This is like the initial wave
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  Speaker 1: of panic that we have a person who is missing
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in this water well. A park employee had been
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  Speaker 1: really motivated to try to help with this search, and
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  Speaker 1: so without really telling anybody, they ran into the control
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  Speaker 1: room of the dam and in there they turned a
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  Speaker 1: valve and this particular valve opened up a pipe that
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  Speaker 1: spanned from the lake back through to the river.
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  Speaker 2: And when this valve was turned and.
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  Speaker 1: The pipe was opened up, water from the lake would
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  Speaker 1: go back into the river, basically draining the lake. This
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  Speaker 1: employee was thinking, if I drain the lake, it'll make
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  Speaker 1: it easier to search the lake where we believe this
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  Speaker 1: man has gone missing, Like this will make it easier
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  Speaker 1: to search the lake. And so this pipe has been
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  Speaker 1: opened up, this two foot in diameter, thirty foot long
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  Speaker 1: pipe connecting river and lake, and it's sucking water like
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  Speaker 1: mad from the lake into that river. Nobody had really
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  Speaker 1: gone into the lake to look for this missing swimmer,
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  Speaker 1: believe it or not. So the lake really hadn't been
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  Speaker 1: touched as soon as this valve was turned. So the
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  Speaker 1: first person who went into the lake once that was
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  Speaker 1: opened up was Michael with a scuba gearon.
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  Speaker 2: And when he went.
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  Speaker 1: Into the water and actually flagged the ripple on the
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  Speaker 1: surface of the water. He didn't realize this, but that
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  Speaker 1: ripple represented this deadly undercurrent of all the water being
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  Speaker 1: sucked into this pipe, and so as soon as he
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  Speaker 1: went out and went under the water, the current pulled
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  Speaker 1: him so quickly and so hard that he couldn't resurface.
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  Speaker 1: All his equipment got yanked off his body and he
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  Speaker 1: was thrust into this pipe, and in the pipe, he
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  Speaker 1: got stuck, and he drowned inside of the pipe before
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  Speaker 1: eventually being forced out the other end, where his body
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  Speaker 1: spilled out onto the shore of the river.
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  Speaker 2: That's what everybody was crowded.
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  Speaker 1: Around once they got up to the riverside Michael's dead body.
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  Speaker 1: Four hours after Michael's body was found, they would find
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  Speaker 1: the missing swimmer. His body was located about one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty yards away from where Michael had first entered
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  Speaker 1: the lake. His body was found on the shore of
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  Speaker 1: the lake, and so Michael had sort of been close,
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  Speaker 1: but unfortunately that current had pulled him under and killed him. Today,
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  Speaker 1: the lake has been permanently drained in part because of
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  Speaker 1: this tragedy. At five am on June twenty eighth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight, a twenty five year old man named Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Link stood in the supply room of a small factory
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  Speaker 1: in Auburn, Indiana. He reached up and he grabbed a
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  Speaker 1: container on the shelf, and then with it in hand,
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  Speaker 1: he turned left the supply room and walked out into
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  Speaker 1: the main factory area.
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  Speaker 2: So the factory where Jeffrey worked was called.
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  Speaker 1: Bastion Plating Company, and what they did is they made
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  Speaker 1: chrome plated parts for cars. And Jeffrey's specific job was
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  Speaker 1: being a machine operator, which meant he basically kept a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of these machines running and periodically had to do
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  Speaker 1: maintenance on them. And in fact today he was doing that.
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  Speaker 1: He was doing maintenance.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: In general, this job that Jeffrey did was actually pretty dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: The machines they worked on were big industrial machines that
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  Speaker 1: often got really, really hot. In fact, it was not
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  Speaker 1: uncommon for Jeffrey and his colleagues to come home with
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  Speaker 1: burns on their body just from you know, touching these
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  Speaker 1: different machines. But it was just part of the job,
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  Speaker 1: and Jeffrey didn't mind it. The pay was pretty good,
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  Speaker 1: and overall, the thing he liked the most about his
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  Speaker 1: job was just the camaraderie the other people that worked there.
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  Speaker 1: There was about maybe three dozen employees who worked at
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  Speaker 1: this factory, and it was like a tight knit family,
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  Speaker 1: and so it was like they struggled together. You know.
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  Speaker 1: The job was kind of gritty and difficult, but it
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  Speaker 1: felt worth it. So on this particular day, Jeffrey walked
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  Speaker 1: along this walkway in the main factory area and as
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  Speaker 1: he passed by his colleagues, he said, hello, you know again,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's friends here. And eventually Jeffrey reached the machine that
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  Speaker 1: he was going to be performing maintenance on.
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  Speaker 2: And this machine was huge, and the only way.
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  Speaker 1: For him to actually perform maintenance was to get inside
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  Speaker 1: of the machine.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, to Jeffrey and to his colleagues, this
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  Speaker 2: type of thing was completely routine. This is not a
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  Speaker 2: big deal.
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  Speaker 1: So as soon as he got to the machine, Jeffrey,
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  Speaker 1: with this container he had gotten from the supply room,
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  Speaker 1: stepped inside. A few seconds later, one of Jeffrey's colleagues,
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  Speaker 1: who was standing on that same walkway Jeffrey had walked
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  Speaker 1: across to get to the machine he was working on.
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  Speaker 1: This guy hears a loud thud sound.
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  Speaker 2: Coming from over here, over where Jeffrey is, and he.
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  Speaker 1: Turns and he looks into the opening of this machine
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  Speaker 1: where Jeffrey had gone, and he sees what appears to
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  Speaker 1: be Jeffrey just lying on the ground inside.
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  Speaker 2: Of this machine.
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  Speaker 1: And this co worker is just not really understanding what
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  Speaker 1: he's seeing. He knows he just sort of thud sound,
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  Speaker 1: and he's sort of putting it together. And as he's watching,
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  Speaker 1: another coworker runs into the machine where Jeffrey is. Clearly
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  Speaker 1: they've seen, you know, Jeffrey fall, and so they go
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  Speaker 1: in to try to help him, and the guy on
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  Speaker 1: the walkway's watching, and this second coworker who rushes into
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  Speaker 1: the machine with Jeffrey just suddenly collapses as well, right
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  Speaker 1: next to Jeffrey. And then two more colleagues come running over.
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  Speaker 1: They go into them, and they too collapse. All four
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  Speaker 1: people are just down inside of this machine. And so
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  Speaker 1: the co worker who's out on this walkway can tell
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  Speaker 1: clearly there's something bad over there. I don't know what's
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  Speaker 1: going on, and so they turn they run out of
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  Speaker 1: the factory and they call nine to one one when
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  Speaker 1: they come back inside to see what's happening in here.
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  Speaker 1: Before first responders have arrived here. This is just like
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  Speaker 1: seconds later. This coworker comes back to that walkway and
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  Speaker 1: he sees, now there's like twenty other of his coworkers
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  Speaker 1: that have sort of begun congregating in this area near
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  Speaker 1: this machine, and they're all stumbling around, they're all disoriented,
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  Speaker 1: people are vomiting. It's like all hell had broken loose
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  Speaker 1: inside of this factory and nobody knew why. And then
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  Speaker 1: the first responders become nauseated and disoriented and they're completely
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  Speaker 1: down for the count.
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  Speaker 2: It's like nobody could be.
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  Speaker 1: In this factory without losing their senses and collapsing. It
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  Speaker 1: would not be until later when authorities were able to
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  Speaker 1: go into this factory with proper protective equipment on that
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  Speaker 1: they could actually examine this machine that Jeffrey had been
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  Speaker 1: trying to do maintenance on, and also they examined the
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  Speaker 1: container that Jeffrey had brought with him into that machine.
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  Speaker 1: When they examined those two things.
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  Speaker 2: They figured out what happened.
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  Speaker 1: So the machine that Jeffrey was performing maintenance on, this
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  Speaker 1: big machine was a huge metal tank that had recently
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  Speaker 1: been used to store a chemical called zinc cyanide, and
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  Speaker 1: so it was going to be Jeffrey's job to go
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  Speaker 1: inside of this tank literally and clean the inside of it.
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  Speaker 1: And so that container he brought with him from the
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  Speaker 1: supply room was a chemical cleaning solution. However, the factory
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  Speaker 1: had two distinct types of chemical cleaning solutions, and it
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  Speaker 1: was very important which one you used depending on what
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  Speaker 1: you were cleaning. Jeffrey knew that he just accidentally grabbed
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  Speaker 1: the wrong one, and when this wrong chemical cleaning solution
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  Speaker 1: interacted with the residue of the zinc cyanide inside of
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  Speaker 1: that tank, it pretty much immediately created a cloud of
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: poisonous hydrogen cyanide gas. This gas immediately caused Jeffrey to
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  Speaker 1: pass out, and then each of the subsequent coworkers who
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  Speaker 1: rushed into that enclosed space were hit with this gas
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  Speaker 1: as well. They two passed out, and as the gas
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  Speaker 1: continued to grow and spread, and as more people showed
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  Speaker 1: up to see what was going on, the gas began
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  Speaker 1: causing other people to pass out and get sick all
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  Speaker 1: the way until first responders were there. It was like
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  Speaker 1: the whole factory was filled with this poison, and so
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: between the factory employees and all the first responders, in total,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: thirty nine people were hospitalized from this poisonous gas, and
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: of those thirty nine people, five people died, including Jeffrey,
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  Speaker 1: the three people who rushed in immediately to try to
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