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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. At seven to twenty pm
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Speaker 1: on Friday, January twelfth, two thousand and seven, nineteen year
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Speaker 1: old college freshman Wade Stephie walked into Ford Dining Hall,
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Speaker 1: which is one of five dining halls on Purdue University's campus.
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Speaker 1: Purdue is a prestigious America university located in Indiana that
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Speaker 1: is known for its excellent athletics and academics. Wade, who
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Speaker 1: was an aviation technology student and was at Purdue on
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Speaker 1: a full academic scholarship, grabbed some food and then sat
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Speaker 1: down at a table with some friends. This was the
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Speaker 1: first Friday of the two thousand and seven spring semester,
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Speaker 1: and so Wade and his friends at the table, and
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Speaker 1: the hundreds of other students that were sitting all around
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Speaker 1: them were buzzing with excitement about what they were up
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Speaker 1: to that night and what they were up to that weekend.
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Speaker 1: And so Wade and his friends they sat there chatting
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Speaker 1: about their plans for about an hour, and then at
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Speaker 1: around eight twenty pm, Wade realized he needed to leave,
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Speaker 1: and so he stood up, he said goodbye to his friends,
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Speaker 1: He carried his tray to the trash can, and then
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Speaker 1: he made his way out of the doors he came
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Speaker 1: in on. And so once he was outside of the
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Speaker 1: Dining Hall, he immediately turned right and walked the very
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Speaker 1: short distance to the building that was right next to
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Speaker 1: Fort Dining Hall. And so that building was called Owen Hall,
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Speaker 1: and it was a dormitory. Now this was not Wade's dormitory.
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Speaker 1: He actually lived in a different dorm called Carrie Quad West,
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Speaker 1: which was located on the other side of Ford Dining Hall.
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Speaker 1: And so Wade goes inside of Owen Hall because he
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Speaker 1: has some friends in there, and he makes his way
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Speaker 1: to their room, and when he goes inside, he sees
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Speaker 1: they're all kind of sitting around chatting and drinking some
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Speaker 1: alcoholic drinks, and so Wade sits down and he has
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Speaker 1: a couple of drinks and he just hangs out with
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Speaker 1: his friends for about an hour. And so around nine
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Speaker 1: to thirty pm, Wade and the other people he was
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Speaker 1: with in this room they left Owen Hall and they
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Speaker 1: walked the half mile away from campus to the west
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Speaker 1: to this huge party at a fraternity. And so Wade
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Speaker 1: would stay at this fraternity for several hours until about midnight,
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Speaker 1: at which point he pulled one of his friends aside
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Speaker 1: and he told them that he just remembered he had
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Speaker 1: left his jacket inside of Owen Hall, and so he
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Speaker 1: wanted to go back and retrieve it. The dorms on
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Speaker 1: produced campus all lock at night, and so the only
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Speaker 1: way you can get inside is if you live there
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Speaker 1: you have a key, or if you know someone who
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Speaker 1: lives there who will open the door for you. And
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Speaker 1: so during his walk back to Owen Hall, Wade would
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Speaker 1: make six phone calls in an attempt to get someone
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Speaker 1: in Owen Hall to open the door for him, but
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Speaker 1: four of his phone calls would just be the wrong number,
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Speaker 1: and so the people that were picking up and he
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Speaker 1: was asking to open the door, they didn't know what
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Speaker 1: he was talking about, and so they hung up. But
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Speaker 1: he did call two people that did live inside of
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Speaker 1: Owen Hall. However, they didn't answer their phones. And so
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Speaker 1: around twelve thirty am, Wade arrived at Owen Hall. He
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Speaker 1: put his phone back in his pocket and he just
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Speaker 1: walked up to the doors, which were locked, and he
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Speaker 1: just started knocking. And eventually a resident of Owen Hall
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Speaker 1: who didn't know Wade, and Wade didn't know them, they
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Speaker 1: heard the knocking and they came out to the door
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Speaker 1: to see what was going on, and they looked through
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Speaker 1: the glass and they saw Wade, and apparently they decided
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Speaker 1: that Wade looked too intoxicated to let into the building,
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Speaker 1: and so they refused him entry, and so Wade apparently
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Speaker 1: he stood there. He kept knocking for a little bit,
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Speaker 1: but he eventually just kind of gave up. He turned
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Speaker 1: around and he walked away. Fast forward a few days
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Speaker 1: to Tuesday, January sixteenth, and Wade's roommate, who had actually
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Speaker 1: been gone all the past weekend, he returned, and the
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Speaker 1: first thing he noticed when he got back to his
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Speaker 1: dorm was that Wade was not in the dorm, and
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Speaker 1: so he called and texted Wade, but he didn't get
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Speaker 1: a response, and so the roommate went out around the
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Speaker 1: floor that they lived on to ask people if they
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Speaker 1: had seen Wade, and no one had seen him since
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Speaker 1: the previous Friday, and so starting to get pretty concerned,
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Speaker 1: the roommate called Wade's family to see if maybe they
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Speaker 1: knew what was going on with him, but his family
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Speaker 1: had no idea, and so by the end of that day,
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Speaker 1: the police had been contacted about Wade potentially being missing,
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Speaker 1: and they in turn contacted Wade's cell phone provider and
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Speaker 1: they were able to determine that Wade's cell phone was
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Speaker 1: still showing up somewhere on produced campus, although they couldn't
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Speaker 1: figure out exactly ware, so that evening, a massive campus
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Speaker 1: wide search was launched with hundreds of police officers and volunteers.
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Speaker 1: Even the school's equestrian club came out with their horses
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Speaker 1: to search the nearby woods. But despite this huge search
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Speaker 1: effort that would go on for several weeks, the only
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Speaker 1: thing they would find of Wades was one of his shoes.
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Speaker 1: It was found on January twentieth, so just four days
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Speaker 1: into the search, and it was located right outside of
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Speaker 1: an exterior door that led into a maintenance room inside
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Speaker 1: of Owen Hall. But when they searched this maintenance room,
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Speaker 1: Wade wasn't in there. Finally, after nearly a month of searching,
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Speaker 1: when they still had not found Wade, the official search
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Speaker 1: was called off. On March nineteenth, roughly two months after
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Speaker 1: Wade had been reported missing. A maintenance worker was downstairs
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Speaker 1: in the laundry room of Owen Hall when they heard
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Speaker 1: a strange popping sound. At first, the worker thought it
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Speaker 1: was actually coming from one of the washers or dryers
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Speaker 1: that was on, and you know, maybe there's a loose
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Speaker 1: coin or some piece of meta that was inside of
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Speaker 1: the washer or dryer that's getting banged around inside and
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Speaker 1: that's making the sound. And so this worker began walking
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Speaker 1: around the laundry room kind of listening in to each
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Speaker 1: of the washers and dryers that were on to see
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Speaker 1: if they were making this sound. And so as he's
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Speaker 1: doing this, he hears the popping sound again, but it's
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Speaker 1: clearly not coming from any of the washers and dryers.
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Speaker 1: In fact, it's not even coming from inside the laundry room.
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Speaker 1: It's coming from somewhere out in the hall. Curious, he
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Speaker 1: leaves the laundry room and he goes out into the hall,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as he's standing in the hall, he
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Speaker 1: hears the popping sound again, and this time it was
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Speaker 1: obvious that it was coming from behind the closed door
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Speaker 1: that was directly opposite the laundry room. So the worker
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Speaker 1: pulled out his big set of keys, he opened the
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Speaker 1: door that was directly in front of him, and he
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Speaker 1: stepped inside. Moments later, he would make a big discovery.
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Speaker 1: Based on that discovery and the investigation that would follow it,
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Speaker 1: this is a reconstruction of what happened to Wade Stephie
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Speaker 1: in the early morning hour of January thirteenth, right after
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Speaker 1: Wade had been denied entry into Owen Hall because the
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Speaker 1: student who was in there, who didn't know him, thought
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Speaker 1: he was too intoxicated. Right after that happened, Wade left
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Speaker 1: the front doors and made his way around to the
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Speaker 1: left side of the building to look for another way inside.
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Speaker 1: And when he got to the left side of the building,
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Speaker 1: he found another door. Now, even though this door did
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Speaker 1: not have a sign on it that said keep out.
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Speaker 1: It was fairly obvious that this door was not designed
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Speaker 1: for students to use. There was a metal railing that
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Speaker 1: lined the outside of this door, clearly to prevent pedestrians
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Speaker 1: from getting to the door, and the door itself was
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Speaker 1: actually not built at ground level. It basically was built
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Speaker 1: at basement level, So you'd be standing at this railing
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Speaker 1: looking down at the door, and down in front of
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Speaker 1: the door was a slab of cement right out in
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Speaker 1: front of it that gave the door enough clearance to
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Speaker 1: be able to open. And so there was a railing
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Speaker 1: around a pit and that was where the door was.
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Speaker 1: The proper way to get to this door was to
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Speaker 1: literally climb over that railing and jump down into this pit.
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Speaker 1: And then you need a key to open the store
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Speaker 1: because it was always locked, well, it was supposed to
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Speaker 1: always be locked. And so when Wade saw this clearly
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Speaker 1: off limits door on the side of Owen Hall in
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Speaker 1: his drunken state, he decided it would be a good
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Speaker 1: idea to try to go into it, because in his mind,
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Speaker 1: he thought, you know, whatever is behind the store doesn't
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Speaker 1: really matter. As long as I can just get inside
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Speaker 1: of some part of Owen Hall, I can find my
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Speaker 1: way up to my friend's room and I can get
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Speaker 1: my jacket, and so he rushes over to the railing,
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Speaker 1: he climbs over, he leaps down into that pit area.
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Speaker 1: He grabs the doorknob of this off limit stoor and
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Speaker 1: he pulls on it and it's open, so he opens
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Speaker 1: it up. He steps inside, and it's totally pitch black,
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Speaker 1: and all he can hear is the sound of machines
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Speaker 1: humming and whirring in the darkness. And again, in his
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Speaker 1: drunken state, he decides this is still a good idea.
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Speaker 1: His only concern was he couldn't find a light switch,
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Speaker 1: and it really was basically pitch black in here, and
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Speaker 1: he was worried once the door shut, not only would
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Speaker 1: his only light source be totally cut off, but it
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Speaker 1: might actually lock behind him, and then he'd be trapped
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Speaker 1: inside of this room. And so he took off one
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Speaker 1: of his shoes and he tucked it in the door
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Speaker 1: jam of the door he came in on to keep
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Speaker 1: it open. And so with the door propped open behind him,
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Speaker 1: he began walking into this room and pretty much right
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Speaker 1: away he bumped into this big metal structure. He couldn't
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Speaker 1: see what it was because again it was too dark,
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Speaker 1: but he could feel it and he could tell, you know,
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Speaker 1: it was a flat metal structure. It felt like a
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Speaker 1: machine of some kind, and he could hear that it
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Speaker 1: was one of the machines that was buzzing and worrying,
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Speaker 1: and so he just decided he would try to walk
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Speaker 1: around it, because again, his goal is just to get
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Speaker 1: through this room and find another door somewhere and kind
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Speaker 1: of continue his journey up into the dorm. And so
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Speaker 1: Wait began moving his way left along this machine, kind
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Speaker 1: of believing it was going to come to a stop
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Speaker 1: at some point and then he could walk around it.
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Speaker 1: But it would turn out this machine was very big,
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Speaker 1: very wide, and so by the time he actually got
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Speaker 1: to the left edge of this machine, he was practically
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Speaker 1: right up against the wall of the room he was in.
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Speaker 1: And when he got there, he realized the space between
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Speaker 1: the side of the machine and the wall of the
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Speaker 1: room was big enough that if he turned sideways, he
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Speaker 1: could basically squeeze his way past it. Now, he had
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Speaker 1: no idea how far into the room this strange machine went,
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Speaker 1: but in his drunken state, he decided it was a
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Speaker 1: good idea, and so he turned sideways. So his back
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Speaker 1: as to the wall of the room, and his chest
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Speaker 1: is going to be facing the machine, and he begins
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Speaker 1: pushing himself into that narrow space. And so as he's
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Speaker 1: making his way, his hands are up kind of protecting
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Speaker 1: his face and neck, and at some point he kind
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Speaker 1: of begins to trip. Now he didn't actually fall, because
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Speaker 1: he's basically wedged into this tight space, but for a
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Speaker 1: second he reflexively grabbed with his hands onto this machine
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Speaker 1: right in front of him, and just by chance, his
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Speaker 1: left ring finger slipped into a very narrow hole that
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Speaker 1: was about two inches deep. The room that Wade was
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Speaker 1: inside of was called an electrical vault, and it contained
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Speaker 1: six large transformers, one of which Wade's finger had just
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Speaker 1: stuck inside of the job of these six transformers is
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Speaker 1: to take the high voltage they received from the main
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Speaker 1: power grid and then transform it, hence the name, into
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Speaker 1: lower usable voltage that gets dispersed into Owen Hall for
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Speaker 1: residents and teachers. Even though the outside of these transformers
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Speaker 1: had mostly been covered with protective materials that mitigated the
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Speaker 1: electrocution risk, there were still several parts of these machines
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Speaker 1: that there was just nothing you could do. They just
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Speaker 1: presented a really high electrocution risk, and one of those
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Speaker 1: sections you needed to be extra care was that two
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Speaker 1: inch hold that Wade's finger slipped inside of. At the
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Speaker 1: back of that hole was an exposed electrical conductor, and
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Speaker 1: the second the tip of his finger touched that conductor,
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Speaker 1: between two thousand and four thousand volts of electricity were
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Speaker 1: pumped into his body. For reference, when people get executed
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Speaker 1: via the electric chair, they are electrocuted with two thousand
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Speaker 1: volts of electricity. Wade likely died instantly, but because of
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Speaker 1: the fact that he was kind of wedged between the
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Speaker 1: transformer and the wall, after he died, he didn't just
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Speaker 1: slump onto the ground. Instead, he remained in a semi
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Speaker 1: upright position with his finger still stuck inside of that hole.
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Speaker 1: And so for the next two months, his body just
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Speaker 1: continued to be electrocuted every second. Finally, sometime in March,
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Speaker 1: as a result of Wade's body fluids draining out of him,
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Speaker 1: the electrical current that was being pumped into him altered
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Speaker 1: its course and began snapping outside of his skin into
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Speaker 1: the ground, and so the sound of the electrical current
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Speaker 1: actually striking the ground was that popping sound that the
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Speaker 1: maintenance worker heard. The door that the maintenance worker opened
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Speaker 1: in order to investigate the sound was the only other
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Speaker 1: door that led into the electrical vault, the other being
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Speaker 1: the exterior door that Wade had gone in on. Initially,
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Speaker 1: when the worker opened that door and looked inside of
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Speaker 1: the vault, he actually didn't see Wade, but he smelled
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Speaker 1: something funny and that was what led him to walk
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Speaker 1: into the room and make his way around, and that's
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Speaker 1: when he spotted Wade's body. Earlier, on January twentieth, when
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Speaker 1: they found Wade's shoe, which at some point had just
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Speaker 1: slipped out of the door jam, so it was not
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Speaker 1: propping open the exterior door when it was found. It
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Speaker 1: was just sitting in that pit area and the exterior
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Speaker 1: door was shut. And so when they found that shoe,
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Speaker 1: the police, they did go inside of the electrical vault,
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Speaker 1: but they didn't go in through the exterior door. They
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Speaker 1: went around and went in the sale door that the
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Speaker 1: maintenance worker opened from right across the hall from the
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Speaker 1: laundry room, and when they opened it up, they just
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Speaker 1: looked into the room. They didn't walk into the room.
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Speaker 1: They just looked from the doorway, and from their perspective,
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Speaker 1: they couldn't see Wade, and so that was why initially
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Speaker 1: they had said, you know, Wade is not inside of
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Speaker 1: that room. Ultimately, because that exterior door to the electrical
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Speaker 1: vault was supposed to be locked at all times, and
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Speaker 1: clearly it was not. Because that's how Wade got in.
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Speaker 1: Purdue was found to be negligent, and so they agreed
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Speaker 1: to pay Wade's family five hundred thousand dollars and they
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Speaker 1: where Robert was all the way south one hundred and
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Speaker 1: forty miles to its southern entrance. And this road is
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Speaker 1: actually basically a straight line. But off of this very
19:09
Speaker 1: straight road are literally hundreds of miles of unpaved roads
19:13
Speaker 1: that splinter off in all directions across the desert, and
19:16
Speaker 1: these roads bring people to other points of interest, like,
19:19
Speaker 1: for example, the Newdiest resort that Robert wanted to go to.
19:22
Speaker 1: So after Robert hopped onto the Death Valley Road at
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Speaker 1: its northern entrance, he began driving south for about an hour,
19:29
Speaker 1: and then he began looking for the turnoff to the
19:31
Speaker 1: unpaved road that would take him the last fifty miles
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Speaker 1: to the newdest resort, and so eventually Robert believes he's
19:38
Speaker 1: found this turnoff, and so he gets onto this unpaved
19:41
Speaker 1: road and he starts driving for a while, and then
19:43
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, his car just sinks down into
19:46
Speaker 1: the ground and it won't budge. It would turn out
19:48
Speaker 1: Robert had made a mistake. He had not turned onto
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Speaker 1: the correct unpaved road. Instead, he had picked a road
19:55
Speaker 1: that led right out onto the salt flat. And so
19:58
Speaker 1: to the naked eye, it would have looked like the
20:00
Speaker 1: round in front of him was totally flat and hard packed,
20:03
Speaker 1: and you could easily walk on or drive on it.
20:06
Speaker 1: But in reality, the surface of the salt flat is
20:09
Speaker 1: very brittle, and underneath that brittle surface is this thick
20:13
Speaker 1: section of mud. And so before Robert could realize his mistake,
20:17
Speaker 1: he had broken through the surface layer of the salt
20:20
Speaker 1: flat and got stuck in that mud. After trying unsuccessfully
20:23
Speaker 1: to get his van back out again, Robert realized he
20:26
Speaker 1: was in a really bad situation. His cell phone had
20:29
Speaker 1: no reception, so he couldn't contact anyone, and he was
20:32
Speaker 1: too far away to attempt to walk to the nearest
20:35
Speaker 1: civilization to try to get help. But luckily he had
20:39
Speaker 1: packed lots and lots of water that was in his van,
20:42
Speaker 1: and so he decided the only thing he could do
20:44
Speaker 1: was just sit tight at his van, ration out his water,
20:47
Speaker 1: and wait for someone on Death Valley Road to look
20:50
Speaker 1: out and see him and come to his rescue. But
20:53
Speaker 1: after waiting for six days, no one saw him, and
20:57
Speaker 1: now his water supply was dwindling, and decided his only
21:01
Speaker 1: option was to abandon his van and make the walk
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Speaker 1: to civilization, and so he packed up all the water
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Speaker 1: he could. He threw it on his back, and he
21:09
Speaker 1: began to walk, and just like the Lost Pioneers of
21:13
Speaker 1: eighteen forty nine, at the very last second, Robert was
21:17
Speaker 1: rescued as he stumbled across the desert, his canteen empty.
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Speaker 1: This group of teenage boys and a few adults who
21:24
Speaker 1: were part of this group called the League of Venturers,
21:27
Speaker 1: were out in Death Valley doing search and rescue training,
21:32
Speaker 1: and so they literally turned onto the same road that
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Speaker 1: Robert accidentally turned onto and then got stuck on, and
21:39
Speaker 1: so they came down and found Robert and Robert when
21:42
Speaker 1: he saw them, he was hysterical, he was crying tears
21:45
Speaker 1: of joy. He really believed he was gonna die, probably
21:48
Speaker 1: that day, and so the League of Venturers they take
21:51
Speaker 1: Robert into their van and they drive him eighty miles
21:54
Speaker 1: to the nearest ranger station. And as soon as Robert
21:57
Speaker 1: got out of the car, he dropped to his knees
21:59
Speaker 1: and he kissed the ground in appreciation. I mean, this
22:02
Speaker 1: guy really was that close to death. That evening Robert
22:05
Speaker 1: would hitch a ride from the ranger station back to Bishop, California.
22:10
Speaker 1: And the next morning Robert spoke with a local towing
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Speaker 1: company and they agreed to drive him out into Death
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Speaker 1: Valley to locate his van and tow it back out again.
22:19
Speaker 1: But when they got out there and they found his van,
22:22
Speaker 1: the towing company saw that the van was not in
22:25
Speaker 1: good shape. It had two flat tires, and there were
22:27
Speaker 1: several other mechanical issues with it, and they told Robert, look,
22:30
Speaker 1: we can't tow it out until the repairs are made,
22:33
Speaker 1: and we can't make those repairs right now, and so
22:36
Speaker 1: they left the van where it was and they drove
22:38
Speaker 1: Robert back to Bishop. And then when they got there, Robert,
22:41
Speaker 1: who was quite handy with his van, decided he would
22:44
Speaker 1: just make the repairs himself. And so he went around town,
22:46
Speaker 1: he gathered up all the supplies he would need, and
22:48
Speaker 1: then that evening he got a local young couple to
22:51
Speaker 1: give him a ride back into Death Valley. Robert had
22:54
Speaker 1: told his family right before he left that his plan
22:57
Speaker 1: was to go and fix his van and then that
23:00
Speaker 1: night come back to Bishop, and then the next day
23:02
Speaker 1: he would contact the towing company again and they could
23:05
Speaker 1: come out and they could get his van out. But
23:08
Speaker 1: that night Robert did not come back to Bishop, and
23:11
Speaker 1: the next morning, when his family still had not heard
23:13
Speaker 1: from him or seen him, they contacted authorities. It would
23:17
Speaker 1: take a few days, but the authorities would eventually figure
23:20
Speaker 1: out what happened to Robert. The young couple that gave
23:23
Speaker 1: Robert a ride back into Death Valley they dropped him
23:26
Speaker 1: off at this intersection right off of Death Valley Road,
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Speaker 1: where they and Robert believed was only about a mile
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Speaker 1: away from that nudist resort that Robert had originally wanted
23:37
Speaker 1: to go to. Robert had told the couple that his
23:39
Speaker 1: plan was just to walk from that point. He would
23:41
Speaker 1: go to that resort and he would recruit somebody else
23:44
Speaker 1: to drive him the rest of the way to the van.
23:46
Speaker 1: He could make the repairs, and that person would drive
23:48
Speaker 1: him back and that would be it. So Robert got out.
23:51
Speaker 1: He said thank you to the couple, and he waved
23:52
Speaker 1: to them as they drove off, and then he stashed
23:55
Speaker 1: his fan supplies and then turned away from Death Valley
23:58
Speaker 1: Road and began walking along this unpaved road into the desert. However,
24:02
Speaker 1: unbeknownst to Robert or to the couple, the spot he
24:06
Speaker 1: was dropped off was the wrong spot. He was not
24:08
Speaker 1: a mile or less away from this resort. He was
24:11
Speaker 1: about fifteen miles away from this resort, and the path
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Speaker 1: was fairly circuitous, so even if he knew the distance,
24:18
Speaker 1: he likely would not have been able to even navigate
24:21
Speaker 1: his way there. And so after wandering down this unpaved
24:24
Speaker 1: road for about ten miles, Robert left the unpaved road
24:28
Speaker 1: and began heading out into open desert, likely seeking water.
24:32
Speaker 1: Robert would eventually collapse and die just four days after
24:37
Speaker 1: he had been rescued from the exact same situation. When
24:41
Speaker 1: his body was found, he didn't have a GPS or
24:43
Speaker 1: a map, or even a container for water. In late
24:53
Speaker 1: two thousand and two, twenty five year old Jason Chase
24:56
Speaker 1: worked as a sheep shearer in an area called Gisborne,
24:59
Speaker 1: which is located in the northeastern section of New Zealand.
25:03
Speaker 1: When Jason wasn't working, he was often on his bike,
25:05
Speaker 1: cycling up and down the coast preparing for his next
25:08
Speaker 1: road race. In early December of that year, Jason contacted
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Speaker 1: his family, who lived in a small town called Danaburg,
25:15
Speaker 1: which is located about two hundred miles southwest of Gisborne,
25:19
Speaker 1: and he told them that he wanted to come visit
25:21
Speaker 1: them for Christmas. However, he didn't know exactly when he
25:24
Speaker 1: would actually arrive at their house because his training and
25:27
Speaker 1: work schedule were fairly hectic, but he told them, don't worry,
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Speaker 1: I will be there at least on Christmas Day, December
25:33
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, or a couple of days earlier. His family
25:36
Speaker 1: was thrilled and they said, no problem, we can't wait
25:39
Speaker 1: to see you whenever that is. And so by the
25:41
Speaker 1: time mid December rolled around and Jason still had not
25:44
Speaker 1: arrived at his family's home in Danaburk, his family wasn't
25:48
Speaker 1: concerned at all. However, that would soon change. On December thirteenth,
25:52
Speaker 1: a hunter was driving along the many winding back roads
25:55
Speaker 1: of the Ruaheen Mountain Range. This mountain range, which is
25:58
Speaker 1: located about eight miles north of Danaverrk, is a very
26:02
Speaker 1: isolated and rugged wilderness area that's full of steep gorges
26:06
Speaker 1: and gullies and very thick brush. And so as this
26:09
Speaker 1: hunter rounds the turn on this road, he looks up
26:12
Speaker 1: ahead and he sees there's a car parked on the
26:14
Speaker 1: side of the road. And so this hunter pulls up
26:16
Speaker 1: right alongside this car and he looks over and he
26:19
Speaker 1: can tell you know, there's no one inside of it.
26:20
Speaker 1: There's no obvious damage to the car. And then the
26:23
Speaker 1: hunter began kind of scanning around the area to see
26:26
Speaker 1: if there was some obvious reasons someone would stop right
26:29
Speaker 1: at that particular spot. But when he looked around, all
26:31
Speaker 1: he saw was thick trees on either side, and the
26:34
Speaker 1: mountain kind of sloped down on either side, and so
26:37
Speaker 1: there was nothing unique about the spot. And so something
26:40
Speaker 1: just kind of struck the hunter as odd about this car.
26:43
Speaker 1: It just seemed totally out of place, and so, operating
26:46
Speaker 1: on a hunch, the hunter would leave the mountain range
26:49
Speaker 1: and head into Danaverk and he would contact police and
26:53
Speaker 1: he would tell them about this car and where it
26:54
Speaker 1: was located, because in the hunter's mind, you know, maybe
26:57
Speaker 1: someone had been reported missing in the area, maybe this
27:00
Speaker 1: car is connected. And so, after hearing about the car,
27:03
Speaker 1: the police did not know of any missing person cases
27:06
Speaker 1: that were connected to a car that matched the description
27:09
Speaker 1: the hunter had given. But just to be safe, the
27:11
Speaker 1: police hopped in their vehicles and they drove up into
27:14
Speaker 1: the Ruaheen Mountain Range and they went to the spot
27:17
Speaker 1: the hunter described and sure enough, off to the side
27:20
Speaker 1: of the road is this parked car and it's still unoccupied.
27:23
Speaker 1: After inspecting the vehicle, the police came to the same
27:26
Speaker 1: conclusion the hunter did, that there was no obvious signs
27:29
Speaker 1: of damage to the car that might have forced someone
27:31
Speaker 1: to abandon it. And then when they looked in the
27:34
Speaker 1: window at the gas gage, they saw the gauge was full.
27:37
Speaker 1: And so the police kind of wandered around the area,
27:39
Speaker 1: kind of doing an initial search to see if maybe
27:42
Speaker 1: the owner of this car was nearby, but you know,
27:44
Speaker 1: there was no one there. They're in this very isolated
27:46
Speaker 1: part of this wilderness area, and so the police just
27:50
Speaker 1: took down the license plate of the car and they
27:52
Speaker 1: went back to their station and when they got there,
27:54
Speaker 1: they ran the license plate number and it turned out
27:57
Speaker 1: the car belonged to Jason Chase. When Jason's fam was
28:00
Speaker 1: contacted about you know, why is Jason's car up in
28:03
Speaker 1: the Ruheen Mountains, you know, where's Jason, his family was
28:06
Speaker 1: pretty surprised. They explained to police that Jason had made
28:09
Speaker 1: plans to come visit them around Christmas time, and so
28:12
Speaker 1: they were expecting him to come this way. And you
28:15
Speaker 1: know the Rueheen Mountain Range, it is only eight miles
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Speaker 1: away from dana Urk So, you know, in theory, maybe
28:20
Speaker 1: he stopped there on the way to their house, but
28:23
Speaker 1: they told police that just didn't make any sense. So
28:26
Speaker 1: as a precaution, the police decided to launch a search
28:29
Speaker 1: for Jason, and unfortunately, despite hundreds of people on the
28:33
Speaker 1: ground searching the Ruheen Mountain Range and helicopters overhead flying
28:38
Speaker 1: all over the place, no trace of Jason was found,
28:41
Speaker 1: and so the official search was called off right before Christmas.
28:44
Speaker 1: But Jason's family and friends they continued to look for him,
28:48
Speaker 1: and on January third, they would find him. One of
28:51
Speaker 1: the family friends who had agreed to continue looking for
28:54
Speaker 1: Jason after the official search had shut down was a
28:58
Speaker 1: farmer who owned a plane, and on January third, as
29:01
Speaker 1: he did one of his passes over the foothills of
29:04
Speaker 1: the Ruheen Mountain Range, he looked down and he saw
29:07
Speaker 1: this bright red thing that looked totally out of place,
29:10
Speaker 1: and the pilot couldn't tell what it was, and so
29:12
Speaker 1: he took note of its location, and then when he landed,
29:16
Speaker 1: he passed those coordinates off to the ground team, and
29:19
Speaker 1: so the ground team they made their way over to
29:21
Speaker 1: this location, which was quite far away from where Jason's
29:24
Speaker 1: car had been, and after making their way through some
29:27
Speaker 1: very thick brush and some very steep sections, they eventually
29:30
Speaker 1: walked out to this big open clearing. It was a
29:33
Speaker 1: dry river bed, and right in front of them, in
29:35
Speaker 1: the middle of it was the bright red thing. It
29:38
Speaker 1: was Jason's shirt, and Jason was still wearing it. He
29:41
Speaker 1: was found lying on his left side with his legs
29:44
Speaker 1: stretched out. He had on his bright red rugby T shirt,
29:48
Speaker 1: some khaki shorts on, and he had no shoes or
29:51
Speaker 1: socks on. According to the searchers who first saw Jason
29:54
Speaker 1: in this dry creek bed, they would say the scene
29:57
Speaker 1: was very peaceful and it almost looked like Jason had
30:00
Speaker 1: lied down to fall asleep, but Jason was not sleeping.
30:03
Speaker 1: He was dead. Jason had no visible injuries, and there
30:07
Speaker 1: was no sign of a struggle in the area. In fact,
30:10
Speaker 1: it didn't even look like Jason had been in the
30:12
Speaker 1: wild for very long because his clothes were pristine and
30:16
Speaker 1: despite being barefoot, his feet were in great condition. Despite
30:19
Speaker 1: a lengthy search around the area where his body was discovered,
30:23
Speaker 1: his shoes and socks would not be recovered. The only
30:26
Speaker 1: thing they found in the area was a water bottle
30:29
Speaker 1: that belonged to Jason. Adding to the mystery of what
30:31
Speaker 1: happened to Jason were the results of his autopsy. The
30:35
Speaker 1: pathologist was unable to find any injuries. Jason also seemed
30:39
Speaker 1: well nourished because he had food in his stomach and
30:42
Speaker 1: he was hydrated because there was urine in his bladder.
30:45
Speaker 1: His toxicology report also came back negative for all drugs, medications,
30:50
Speaker 1: and a range of common poisons. The only odd thing
30:53
Speaker 1: the pathologist found during the autopsy was that Jason had
30:57
Speaker 1: two very small ulcers in his duo, which is the
31:01
Speaker 1: first part of the small intestine. According to this pathologist,
31:05
Speaker 1: these type of ulcers only appear from acute stress moments
31:09
Speaker 1: before death. However, these ulcers don't indicate what caused the stress. Typically,
31:15
Speaker 1: things like severe injury or septicemia, which is blood poisoning,
31:19
Speaker 1: will cause these stress ulcers, but Jason had neither of those,
31:24
Speaker 1: so at the end of the autopsy, the pathologist concluded
31:28
Speaker 1: that Jason had not been the victim of a homicide.
31:31
Speaker 1: He had not committed suicide. He had died from quote
31:34
Speaker 1: obscure natural causes. Interestingly, though, the pathologist was able to
31:39
Speaker 1: determine with some certainty that Jason died on or around
31:44
Speaker 1: December thirtieth, which means he was alive for the entirety
31:48
Speaker 1: of the official search for him, as well as the
31:51
Speaker 1: bulk of that private search conducted by friends and family.
31:54
Speaker 1: After the autopsy results came out, Jason's case was closed
31:58
Speaker 1: and his family, despite having lots of unanswered questions, was
32:02
Speaker 1: forced to just move on. Fifteen years later, the same
32:06
Speaker 1: pathologists that had conducted Jason's autopsy was talking to a
32:10
Speaker 1: colleague about Jason's case, and as he was describing where
32:14
Speaker 1: Jason was found, the colleague suddenly stopped the pathologist and said,
32:18
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I think I know what happened. To him,
32:21
Speaker 1: and it would turn out he did. The following is
32:23
Speaker 1: a reconstruction of what happened to Jason Chase on December thirteenth,
32:27
Speaker 1: two thousand and two. Jason left his home in Gisborne
32:31
Speaker 1: and began heading south towards Danavik, where his family lived.
32:35
Speaker 1: But before he got to his family's home, he took
32:37
Speaker 1: a detour up into the Ruheen Mountain Range, where he
32:40
Speaker 1: eventually parked his car on the side of the road.
32:43
Speaker 1: Once his car was stopped, he got out and collected
32:45
Speaker 1: his backpack and sleeping bag. Those were two items that
32:49
Speaker 1: were never discovered during the search or after his body
32:52
Speaker 1: was found, but it was later determined they were missing
32:54
Speaker 1: from his vehicle, and so after he has his pack
32:57
Speaker 1: and his sleeping bag, he also grabs a water bottle,
32:59
Speaker 1: and then he leaves the main road and begins walking
33:02
Speaker 1: into the woods, making his way down the mountain. He
33:05
Speaker 1: eventually would find a spot on the side of the
33:07
Speaker 1: mountain that he liked, and so he set up a campsite.
33:10
Speaker 1: What happens next is very confusing because we don't actually
33:13
Speaker 1: know why Jason actually went camping in the first place
33:17
Speaker 1: or when he intended to leave, but we can make
33:20
Speaker 1: one assumption, whatever he was doing in the mountains, he
33:22
Speaker 1: planned on wrapping it up in time to still get
33:26
Speaker 1: to his family's house in dana verk On or before
33:29
Speaker 1: Christmas Day, December twenty fifth. So from December thirteenth, when
33:33
Speaker 1: he first got out of his car and entered the wilderness,
33:36
Speaker 1: until December twenty fifth, it's believed Jason was by choice
33:41
Speaker 1: out in the wilderness of the Ruaheen Mountain Range, and
33:44
Speaker 1: so as this huge search is launched for him in
33:47
Speaker 1: the area he is in, it's entirely possible that he
33:51
Speaker 1: either did not see any of the searchers. This is
33:53
Speaker 1: a very rugged and heavily forested area and so that's
33:57
Speaker 1: not totally outlandish. Or two, even if he did see
34:01
Speaker 1: the searchers, he may not have recognized that they were
34:04
Speaker 1: looking for him, because remember, during that timeframe, he didn't
34:07
Speaker 1: think he was in danger. He was out in the
34:09
Speaker 1: wilderness camping by choice. But sometime around December twenty fifth,
34:14
Speaker 1: or maybe a couple of days before, when he needed
34:17
Speaker 1: to leave and go back to Danavik to see his
34:19
Speaker 1: family after packing up his stuff, for whatever reason, he
34:23
Speaker 1: could not get back up to the road where his
34:26
Speaker 1: car was either there was some sort of physical boundary
34:29
Speaker 1: or maybe he got lost, but either way, instead of
34:32
Speaker 1: going back up the mountain we know, Jason actually turned
34:36
Speaker 1: and began going down the mountain, away from the road
34:38
Speaker 1: and away from his car. It's believed Jason actually just
34:41
Speaker 1: decided he would hike his way out of the mountains.
34:44
Speaker 1: He was in great shape, very healthy guy, and he
34:47
Speaker 1: probably figured he could just hike the eight miles to
34:49
Speaker 1: Danavik and then he could have someone drive him back
34:51
Speaker 1: up and retrieve his car at a later date. But
34:54
Speaker 1: on or around December thirtieth, Jason was still out in
34:58
Speaker 1: the mountains, and at this point he had abandoned his
35:02
Speaker 1: backpack and his sleeping bag, and had most likely removed
35:06
Speaker 1: his shoes and socks for reasons we don't know, but
35:08
Speaker 1: he had managed to get much closer to Danaburk. He
35:12
Speaker 1: just had to navigate a few more steep sections and
35:14
Speaker 1: then he'd be home free and so On or around
35:17
Speaker 1: December thirtieth, Jason began slowly making his way down the
35:20
Speaker 1: mountain side until he reached a decision point. He found
35:24
Speaker 1: himself standing at the top of two very steep gullies
35:28
Speaker 1: that both would bring him down to a dry stretch
35:30
Speaker 1: of riverbed, and so either option worked. It just became
35:34
Speaker 1: a matter of which one is safer. And so after
35:37
Speaker 1: making his assessment about which gully he should take, he
35:40
Speaker 1: made his choice, and he made his way down, and
35:42
Speaker 1: he reached the dry riverbed, and it was at this
35:44
Speaker 1: point that Jason would have begun to feel a pain
35:47
Speaker 1: in his stomach, and that pain would have gotten worse
35:50
Speaker 1: and worse and worse, to the point where Jason likely
35:53
Speaker 1: sat down on this dry riverbed kind of waiting for
35:56
Speaker 1: the pain to subside, but it wouldn't. It would only intensify.
36:00
Speaker 1: And so as he's sitting there kind of wondering what's
36:02
Speaker 1: going on, his vision would begin to blur, and then
36:04
Speaker 1: he would start to struggle breathing, and before he could
36:07
Speaker 1: deal with all of these strange symptoms that were coming on,
36:10
Speaker 1: really suddenly he lost the ability to move his body
36:13
Speaker 1: and he slumped over onto his left side, and there
36:16
Speaker 1: he would lay until he died. It would turn out
36:20
Speaker 1: the gully that Jason had chosen to go down when
36:22
Speaker 1: he was standing at the top and he had those
36:24
Speaker 1: two choices, the one he chose that one contained a
36:27
Speaker 1: plant called urtica feryx. This plant, which is endemic to
36:31
Speaker 1: New Zealand, grows leaves that are covered in little, rigid,
36:35
Speaker 1: stinging hairs that contain a toxin called trifidin, and trifidin
36:40
Speaker 1: in high enough doses not only causes stomach pain and
36:44
Speaker 1: blurred vision and trouble breathing, but it also causes total
36:47
Speaker 1: body paralysis and even death. Jason, who according to friends,
36:52
Speaker 1: would have known about the dangers this plant posed, likely
36:56
Speaker 1: just didn't see the cluster of plants when he was
36:59
Speaker 1: assessing which gully to go down, and so it wasn't
37:02
Speaker 1: until he was part way down the gully and was
37:05
Speaker 1: in these plants that he realized his mistake. But when
37:08
Speaker 1: he turned to go back up, it was just too steep,
37:11
Speaker 1: and so he was forced to trudge through these toxic plants,
37:15
Speaker 1: and because he was wearing shorts, his lower legs were
37:18
Speaker 1: exposed and they were stung repeatedly, and so he was
37:21
Speaker 1: dealt a lethal dose. The reason the pathologist was not
37:25
Speaker 1: able to identify this as Jason's cause of death is
37:28
Speaker 1: because the stingers on those plants they don't leave any
37:32
Speaker 1: marks on the human body, and it's poison. Triffidin is
37:36
Speaker 1: so rare that when they sent out that toxicology report
37:39
Speaker 1: they didn't include it. They did not test for triffidin,
37:42
Speaker 1: and so it wasn't until fifteen years later when the
37:45
Speaker 1: pathologist's colleague heard that Jason had been found in the
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