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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to tell you three stories that demonstrate that. But
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  Speaker 1: On the morning of February twentieth, eighteen eighty one, a
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  Speaker 1: police officer led a search party through the woods in
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  Speaker 1: Hill County, Texas, which at the time was very rural
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  Speaker 1: farming community with lots of dense, undeveloped woodland. The officer
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  Speaker 1: and the search party were looking for a father of
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  Speaker 1: seven named George Arnold, who had vanished from his home
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  Speaker 1: two days earlier. The day that George had gone missing
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  Speaker 1: was a Sunday, and he, his wife, and their kids
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  Speaker 1: always went to church together on Sundays. But on that morning,
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  Speaker 1: George had told his family, for reasons unknown, that he
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  Speaker 1: actually wanted to stay.
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  Speaker 2: Home, which was very out of character for him.
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  Speaker 1: Nonetheless, his wife and kids had gone to church without him,
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  Speaker 1: and then when they had returned.
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  Speaker 2: George was gone.
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  Speaker 1: Now there was no sign of a struggle or any
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  Speaker 1: issues at the house. The only clue as to where
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  Speaker 1: George may have gone was a letter he left behind
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  Speaker 1: for his wife, and in this letter he said he
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  Speaker 1: had gone off into the woods and that she should
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  Speaker 1: not follow him. And so again, that was two days ago,
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  Speaker 1: and so now the police officer and the search party
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  Speaker 1: were searching the forest near the home where George lived.
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  Speaker 1: The lead officer is trudging through the woods. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're way off the beaten path. At this point. They
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  Speaker 1: eventually came to this pretty decent sized clearing and in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the clearing is this one huge tree,
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  Speaker 1: and at the base of the tree was George. So
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  Speaker 1: at this point you need to understand that there was
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  Speaker 1: some nuance to the letter that George left behind for
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  Speaker 1: his wife. He didn't just say I'm going into the woods,
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  Speaker 1: don't follow me. He said I have to go into
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  Speaker 1: the woods. And the way the letter ended was George
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  Speaker 1: saying how much he loved his family and wished.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't have to do this, but he'd given it
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  Speaker 2: some thought and it had to be done.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the woods, the main police officer and the
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  Speaker 1: search party they see George at the base of this
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  Speaker 1: tree and they hustle over to him. But even before
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  Speaker 1: they were right on top of him, it was obvious
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  Speaker 1: he was dead. However, that wasn't the main sentiment as
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  Speaker 1: they're walking over that, oh my gosh, George is dead. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: it was like, what happened here? George was chained by
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  Speaker 1: his ankle to the tree he was sitting next to.
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  Speaker 1: There was a padlock on the chain, there was no
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  Speaker 1: way to get it off. George was also completely naked,
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  Speaker 1: but his clothes were sort of tattered up and sitting
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  Speaker 1: in a pile right next to him, and George was
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  Speaker 1: covered in all these scrapes and cuts, and they looked
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  Speaker 1: like teethmarks, but not teethmarks from animals, teethmarks from a
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  Speaker 1: human's mouth. And then next to him on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: along with his clothes were all these little like white stones.
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  Speaker 1: But when the officers walked over and looked more closely,
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  Speaker 1: they realized the white stones were actually teeth, George's teeth,
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  Speaker 1: and the tree that he was lying up against had
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  Speaker 1: all these deep gouges in it that sort of looked
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  Speaker 1: like if you took your own teeth and began biting
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  Speaker 1: into the wood to the point where you were breaking
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  Speaker 1: your teeth off, which is apparently what George was doing.
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  Speaker 1: And then also scattered amongst his teeth were many of
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  Speaker 1: George's fingernails, because apparently George had also been raking his
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  Speaker 1: fingernails against this tree until he tore out his nails.
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  Speaker 1: And so the officers and the search party are looking
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  Speaker 1: at this thinking why would he do this? This all
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  Speaker 1: basically looks self inflicted. What's going on? Well, it would
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  Speaker 1: turn out quite recently, something very bad happened to George.
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  Speaker 1: He was bit by a dog who was carrying rabies. Now, today,
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  Speaker 1: if you're bit by an animal that has rabies, you
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  Speaker 1: just get a raby shot.
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  Speaker 2: You're good. It's totally curable.
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  Speaker 1: But in eighteen eighty one, the cure didn't exist, and
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  Speaker 1: so if you got rabies it was a one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent death sentence, and so very likely shortly after getting
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  Speaker 1: bit by this dog, George would have begun to have
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  Speaker 1: early symptoms of rabies, he would have begun to feel
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  Speaker 1: sick and been very irritable, and also he would have
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  Speaker 1: very likely begun to have some hallucinations. And for George,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he apparently understood.
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  Speaker 2: What this all meant. He had rabies, and he knew.
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  Speaker 1: What was coming next, and he didn't want to put
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  Speaker 1: his family in harm's way. Now, George was a very
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  Speaker 1: religious guy, so he didn't believe in the idea of
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  Speaker 1: taking your own life, and so instead what he did
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  Speaker 1: is he wrote this letter to his wife that sort
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  Speaker 1: of broadly explained that I have to do this and
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. And then he went into the woods,
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  Speaker 1: chained himself there, and basically allowed himself to die this
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  Speaker 1: horrible death where he must have been in so much
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  Speaker 1: agony and pain that he's doing things like biting the
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  Speaker 1: tree until his teeth broke off and his nails fell off.
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  Speaker 1: His death must have been absolutely wretched and painful, but
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  Speaker 1: he did it to protect his family. Betterhelp is the
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  Speaker 1: October twelfth, eighteen eighty eight, a forty nine year old
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  Speaker 1: businessman named George Lusk walked into his upscale.
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  Speaker 2: Home in East London.
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  Speaker 1: He grabbed the mail that his housekeeper had set out
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  Speaker 1: on the table by the door, and he began sifting
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  Speaker 1: through it. And at first all he saw were a
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  Speaker 1: couple letters from friends, and he saw a couple of
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  Speaker 1: invitations to upcoming parties. And then he got to the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the mail pile and he stopped because at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the mail pile there was a postcard
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  Speaker 1: and letter. Over the past two months, four people had
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  Speaker 1: been killed in George's neighborhood, and in fact, the most
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  Speaker 1: recent victim was a middle aged woman who had been
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  Speaker 1: killed about two weeks ago, really not far from George's home,
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  Speaker 1: and on this mail, on these two pieces of mail,
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  Speaker 1: the return address was the name of this uncaught serial killer.
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  Speaker 1: George was so scared of this killer, as he should be,
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  Speaker 1: that he had formed this neighborhood watch group to go
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  Speaker 1: out and try to catch this killer. And in fact,
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  Speaker 1: just recently, when George was just looking out his front
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  Speaker 1: window onto the road, just kind of looking around, not
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  Speaker 1: part of his neighborhood watch group, but just kind of
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  Speaker 1: scanning the area, he had seen this kind of sketchy
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  Speaker 1: looking guy with a big, thick beard standing on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of the road, and he was kind of
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  Speaker 1: in this alleyway, and this guy it looked like he
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  Speaker 1: was staring right at George very intently, so, and George
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  Speaker 1: at first returned the stair, but then felt so uncomfortable
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  Speaker 1: that he drew the blinds and kind of hid from
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  Speaker 1: his window because again he's thinking, there is a killer
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  Speaker 1: on the loose, maybe that's him. George actually had been
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  Speaker 1: so scared at seeing this guy that he had actually
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  Speaker 1: gone to the police and filed a report and said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I think that guy could have been
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  Speaker 1: the killer. But the police really couldn't do anything because
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  Speaker 1: all they had was a sort of generic description of
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  Speaker 1: some guy standing on the road not doing anything.
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  Speaker 2: So nothing was ever done.
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  Speaker 1: And so George, even though he was scared, he opened
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  Speaker 1: up these letters and it was even more alarming than
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  Speaker 1: he could have thought, because whoever wrote this, whether it
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  Speaker 1: was the killer or not, they were basically taunting George, saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know you.
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  Speaker 2: Stood up the neighborhood watch group.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. I can do whatever I want. I
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  Speaker 1: can kill with impunity. In fact, I'm gonna kill two
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  Speaker 1: people tomorrow night, and there's nothing you can do to
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  Speaker 1: stop me. George just gathered up the letter in the postcard.
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  Speaker 1: He left his house right away and literally ran to
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  Speaker 1: the police station. And when he got there, he showed
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  Speaker 1: them the letters and said, look, this is from the killer.
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  Speaker 1: It feels authentic. He's gonna kill two people tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 1: You got to do something. And so the police they
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  Speaker 1: took the letters and they read them, and they agreed
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  Speaker 1: that they did seem authentic. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: they're like, you know, there's really no way to tell
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  Speaker 1: if these are real. I mean, this could easily be
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  Speaker 1: a hoax. And even if this was real, what do
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  Speaker 1: we do. Who are the two people the killer is
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  Speaker 1: gonna go out after? How can we possibly protect them.
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  Speaker 1: George was told to go home and you know, just
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  Speaker 1: play it safe, stay home, stay inside, and let the
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  Speaker 1: police do their job. Over the next couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: George was basically sitting on pins and needles, waiting to
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  Speaker 1: find out that, sure enough, a double homicide was committed
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in the neighborhood, but there was no news of
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  Speaker 1: any homicides. Things were calm, there was no news of
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  Speaker 1: the killer anywhere, and so George told himself that, you
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  Speaker 1: know what he was overreacting. Clearly those letters he got
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  Speaker 1: must have been hoaxes. But then on October sixteenth, so
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  Speaker 1: four days after George received those two pieces of mail
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  Speaker 1: from the killer, he came home and he went inside,
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  Speaker 1: and like normal, his housekeeper had set the mail on
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  Speaker 1: the table right inside the house. In addition to all
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  Speaker 1: the paper mail, stacked on top of it was this
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  Speaker 1: little package and was wrapped in brown paper. If he
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  Speaker 1: picks up the box and very apprehensively he begins to
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  Speaker 1: unwrap it. Once it opens up, he sees there's a
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  Speaker 1: letter sitting on top of this box. In the letter
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  Speaker 1: at the top, it says from Hell that middle aged
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  Speaker 1: woman who had been murdered just a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: earlier right near George's house. While when she was found,
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  Speaker 1: one they identified that she clearly had been killed by
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  Speaker 1: the same serial killer that was still uncaught, but two,
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  Speaker 1: she was missing something, her kidney. The package that George
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  Speaker 1: received inside of that box itself included half of a kidney,
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  Speaker 1: and then the body of the letter explained that this
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  Speaker 1: was the other half of that woman's kidney because the
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  Speaker 1: killer had eaten the other half and this half was a.
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  Speaker 2: Gift for George.
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  Speaker 1: The letters and the box containing that half of a
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  Speaker 1: kidney are considered to be potentially the only authentic communications
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  Speaker 1: from Jack the Ripper. Around seven pm on May twenty first,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, a seventeen year old boy named Jason
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  Speaker 1: Finley sat on the edge of his bed in his
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  Speaker 1: grandmother's spare bedroom in the suburb of Scotch Plains, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: He took a deep breath and then grabbed the landline
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  Speaker 1: phone next to the bed and then punched in the
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  Speaker 1: number of the girl he had been seeing for the
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  Speaker 1: past couple of weeks. Jason really liked this girl. Her
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  Speaker 1: name was Kathy, and tonight he wanted to finally ask
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  Speaker 1: her to officially be his girlfriend. As the phone rang,
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  Speaker 1: Jason found himself staring out the window at the raging
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  Speaker 1: thunderstorm that was going on outside. In fact, it had
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  Speaker 1: been raining so hard that day that Jason and his
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  Speaker 1: twin cousins and his grandmother had all basically had to
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  Speaker 1: stay inside the whole day. Jason had actually admitted to
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  Speaker 1: them earlier in the week that he really wanted to
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  Speaker 1: call this girl Kathy and asked her to be his girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't have the nerve to do it, and
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  Speaker 1: they had immediately begun ridiculing him. So now stepping away
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  Speaker 1: to make this phone call was kind of like the
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  Speaker 1: first moment of peace for Jason. Jason heard Kathy pick
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  Speaker 1: up the phone, and when he heard her sweet voice,
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  Speaker 1: it was like all his thoughts of his annoying cousins
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  Speaker 1: disappeared from his mind, and suddenly Jason was overwhelmed with
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  Speaker 1: this urge to just blurt.
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  Speaker 2: Out, will you be my girlfriend?
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  Speaker 1: He took a breath like he was about to tell her,
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  Speaker 1: about to finally ask her this question, but right before
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  Speaker 1: the words escaped his mouth, he felt this unbelievably shooting
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  Speaker 1: pain in the back of his head, and then everything
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  Speaker 1: went black. At the same time this was happening down
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  Speaker 1: the hallway in the kitchen, Jason's grandmother had just finished
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  Speaker 1: making dinner, and so she called out for Jason and
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  Speaker 1: the cousins to come set the table. The twins came
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  Speaker 1: into the kitchen, but a few moments went by and
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  Speaker 1: Jason hadn't shown up yet. So Jason's grandmother told the
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  Speaker 1: twins to, you know, go down there and see what
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  Speaker 1: he's doing and get him in here for dinner. They
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  Speaker 1: walked down the hall they went into the room where
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  Speaker 1: Jason was and then a moment later, Jason's grandmother heard screams.
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  Speaker 1: She rushed down the hallway. She goes into the bedroom
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  Speaker 1: and she find the twins standing over Jason, and Jason
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  Speaker 1: is slumped over in bed and the phone receiver is
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  Speaker 1: up against his ear, but he's not moving. It sort
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  Speaker 1: of looked like he was asleep, but when they would
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  Speaker 1: shake him and yell to him, he was totally unresponsive.
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  Speaker 1: She picked up the phone and she dialed nine to
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  Speaker 1: one one. Not long after, an ambulance arrived at the
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  Speaker 1: house and EMTs rushed in. They grabbed Jason, they put
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  Speaker 1: him on a stretcher, and they rushed him into the
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  Speaker 1: ambulance and back to the hospital. But when they got there,
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  Speaker 1: Jason was declared dead. Jason was seventeen years old and
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  Speaker 1: completely healthy, and doctors when they received him, they would
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  Speaker 1: say that there did not appear to be anything wrong
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  Speaker 1: with him, nothing medically anyways, And so basically Jason's heartbroken.
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  Speaker 2: Family was told we don't know what happened. He just died.
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  Speaker 1: But Jason's family could not accept that. The family pushed
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  Speaker 1: for a much more thorough forensic investigation into his death,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when things got weird. At first. The autopsy
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  Speaker 1: showed basically what the doctors at the hospital first thought,
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  Speaker 1: which is there isn't a clear reason for why he died.
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  Speaker 1: And although it's very tough to accept that, it is
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  Speaker 1: the case that people do sometimes just die, even perfectly
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  Speaker 1: healthy people. However, the forensic investigator that was doing this
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  Speaker 1: very thorough autopsy did discover one thing that the hospital
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  Speaker 1: didn't find, and that was that Jason had a ruptured
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  Speaker 1: ear drum. Now, generally speaking, this would not have been
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  Speaker 1: a big wow, we figured it out moment. However, the
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  Speaker 1: forensic investigator was trying to come up with all these
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  Speaker 1: different theories about what could have killed Jason, and when
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  Speaker 1: they found the ruptured ear drum, paired with something else
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  Speaker 1: they had sort of zeroed in on, which was the
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  Speaker 1: weather at the time of Jason's death, they put those
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  Speaker 1: things together realized they had figured it out. It would
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  Speaker 1: turn out, when Jason was on the phone speaking to Kathy,
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  Speaker 1: lightning struck the phone line outside. The electricity carried through
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  Speaker 1: the line through the phone into Jason's head killed him instantly.
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  Speaker 1: As for Kathy, she would later say that she could
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  Speaker 1: tell Jason was almost certainly going to ask her to
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  Speaker 1: be his girlfriend, and she said had he asked, she would.
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  Speaker 2: Have said yes.
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