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When DEATH has your number... - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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