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Four Mexican sisters known as Las Poquianchis killed more than 150 people · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: Okay, get ready, because today we're going deep, deep into
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  a truly dark chapter of history.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this one's gonna be uh pretty heavy.
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  Speaker 1: It's the story of Los Pokeioncis.
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  Speaker 2: Ah. Yeah, I've heard of them. Pretty grim stuff, right, four.
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  Speaker 1: Sisters from Mexico, Delfina Carmen, Maria Luisa, and Maria Dizizis.
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  Speaker 2: Four sisters. Wow, and they ran, get this, a massive
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  prostitution ring.
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  Speaker 1: For over a decade. It went on for so long.
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  Speaker 2: Jeez, A whole decade of that must have been.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it's actually even worse than you're probably imagining. Really,
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  how so, the Guinness World Records has them down as
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  and this is a direct quote, the most prolific murder.
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  Speaker 2: Partnership, No kidding, most prolific murder partnership.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. That's uh, that's chilling.
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  Speaker 2: It's absolutely wild, right, Like, how do four seemingly ordinary
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  women go from I don't know, living normal lives to
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  becoming the masterminds behind something so horrific?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? What takes someone to that level of well evil?
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  Speaker 2: Really, we're going to explore to day, and trust me,
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  it's a story full of contradictions.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm all ears. Well, we have to start at
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  the beginning, right, their childhood, and it was not great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was reading that their father was really strict,
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  like really controlling.
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  Speaker 1: Oh he was way more than strict. The guy was
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  a policeman and apparently ruled their house like it was
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  his own personal.
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  Speaker 2: Jail, like actually locked them up.
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  Speaker 1: Dead serious if they broke any of his rules, boom
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  straight into a cell he built in their house.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, talk about an iron fist.
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  Speaker 1: Huh. Yeah. I mean this guy was violent too. I
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  mean he ended up killing a man and that's actually
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  what forced the family to relocate.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, so their own father was a killer. That's
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  a I mean, talk about a dark foreshadowing, right, like
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  a twisted premonition of what their lives would become.
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  Speaker 1: Right. It's kind of eerie how it all, you know,
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  kind of lines up, and it's like that violent upbringing,
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  the need to escape their father, it kind of fueled
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  their desire for independence, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get that. It's like they were so desperate
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  to break free exactly.
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  Speaker 1: They even tried to make it on their own. They
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  opened a bar, hoping to escape poverty and of course
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  their father's control.
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  Speaker 2: So like a classic entrepreneurial story, right, But with a
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  very dark twist.
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  Speaker 1: You got, the bar failed miserably.
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  Speaker 2: And that's when things went south big time.
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  Speaker 1: That failure pushed them into well, prostitution.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, so they turned their bar into.
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  Speaker 1: A brothel pretty much, and get this, it actually worked
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  like it was successful tragically, So, I mean their success
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  just fueled their ambition, made them even more ruthless. They
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  started expanding their operation across multiple states Jalisco, Juanjuato, then Correcchro,
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  Bigger and Boulder with each move.
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  Speaker 2: So hold on, we're talking mid twentieth century Mexico, right,
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  What was it about that time about Mexican society that
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  allowed this whole empire of exploitation to thrive.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great question, and honestly a crucial one. I mean,
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  we're talking about a time when poverty was widespread, opportunities
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  for women were like non existent, and corruption within law
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  enforcement it was rampant.
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  Speaker 2: So it's kind of the perfect storm, right, like all
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  these factors came together and allowed their their I don't
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  even know what to call it, their their empire of
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  evil to just take root and grow.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I mean, it's scary, but it's a real reminder
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  that monsters don't just appear out of thin air. You know.
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  They thrive in environments where they can exploit vulnerable people,
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  where they can operate without consequences.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a chilling thought. So how did this all
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  come crashing down?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it all started to unravel with the arrest of
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  a woman named Jusephina Gutierrez. She was involved in trafficking
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  young girls, bringing him into this whole mess.
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  Speaker 2: Uh okay, I guess she finally flipped and gave them up.
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  Speaker 1: You got it. During interrogation she named names, specifically, she
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  pointed the finger at the Gonzales sisters.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, so finally the sisters were exposed.
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  Speaker 1: What happened? Then police raided the sisters properties, and well
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  what they found was absolutely horrific.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this can't be good.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't. They'd uncover a mass.
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  Speaker 2: Grave, a mass grave, oh god, containing.
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  Speaker 1: The remains of eighty women, eleven men, and several fetuses.
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  I mean, try and wrap your head around that.
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  Speaker 2: Eighty women and men and fetuses. Oh my god, that's
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  that's just unimaginably. I mean, the scale of it, the
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  sheer depravity.
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  Speaker 1: I know, it's almost too much to comprehend. Even just
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  thinking about those police officers unearthing all those bodies. It's
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  just it's a nightmare, and it begs the question, how
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  in the world did they manage to lure so many victims.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I was thinking too, Like, how do
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  you convince that many people to, you know, walk into
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  such a horrible situation.
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  Speaker 1: It was all about deception. Yeah, they were masters of it.
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  They preyed on the vulnerable, you know, people desperate for work, for.
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  Speaker 2: A better life, what like, they were promising them good
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  jobs exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the women were lured in by ads for housemaids.
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  Speaker 2: Housemaids. Wow, so these women thought they were just going
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  to be cleaning houses, doing honest work.
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  Speaker 1: That's the truly sinister part. They exploited these women's hopes,
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  their dreams for a better life.
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  Speaker 2: It's just so messed up. And once they got these
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  women trapped, what happened then?
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  Speaker 1: It was like stepping into a nightmare. They were forced
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  into drug use, kept compliant and wealth. The abuse, I mean,
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  it's too horrific to even describe.
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  Speaker 2: So it was basically modern slavery. But even then, why
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  actually murder them? What was their thinking there?
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  Speaker 1: That's where it gets really chilling. It seems like it
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  was well, just cold hard pragmatism. It was all about
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  business for.
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  Speaker 2: Them, business like their lives meant nothing to them.
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  Speaker 1: It really seems that way. If a woman got sick,
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  lost what they considered her attractiveness, even if a customer
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  flashed too much cash and they thought he might be
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  a problem, boom, that was it a death sentence.
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  Speaker 2: God, how can people be so so heartless, so detacted.
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  Speaker 1: I know, there's this one quote from one of the sisters,
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  and it just chills me to the bone every time
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  I hear it. When asked about the debts, she just
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  shrug it off and said the food didn't sit well
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  with them.
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  Speaker 2: The food didn't sit well with them. I mean, how
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  do you even say something like that. It's like they
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  weren't even human to them, right.
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  Speaker 1: It's just pure detachment, no remorse, no guilt, just complete
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  indifference to the suffering they inflicted.
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  Speaker 2: So in the end, justice was served, right, I mean
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  they got what they deserved.
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  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, They were each sentenced to forty years in prison.
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  Speaker 2: Forty years good. I hope it was hell for them.
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  Speaker 1: Well. Their lives in prison actually took some interesting turns. Delfina,
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  for instance, died in a really bizarre accident.
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  Speaker 2: An accident in prison.
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  Speaker 1: What happened It's kind of murky. The details are still debated,
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  but yeah, a freak accident and Carmen she's come to cancer.
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  Speaker 2: So two down. What about the other two? Did they rot?
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  In prison?
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  Speaker 1: Maria Luisa is where things get really fascinating and kind
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  of creepy. She reportedly descended into madness, haunted by their crimes.
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  Speaker 2: Madness so like she finally cracked under the weight of
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  her guilt.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to say. Some people say it was genuine remorse,
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  you know, that she finally realized the horror she'd committed.
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  Others say it was all in act, a way to
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  get sympathy. Maybe even in early release.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, even in prison, their story manages to stay I
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  don't know, mysterious. I guess it's like we'll never really
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  know what went on in their.
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  Speaker 1: Minds, right, And that's part of what makes their story
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  so captivating and honestly so disturbing. It just goes to
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  show how complex, how messed up human nature can be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's stories inspired movies, books, you know,
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  they continue to fascinate people even after all these years.
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  It's like we're drawn to the darkness, try and understand
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  how something so awful could happen.
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  Speaker 1: It's a car crash. You can't look away, and I think,
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  I mean for me at least, it's because it forces
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  us to confront some really uncomfortable truths about ourselves. These
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  women they wanted escape, they wanted independence, which on its
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  own is admirable, but the path they chose, it was
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  paved with unimaginable cruelty.
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  Speaker 2: It really makes you think, doesn't it? Like, how can
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  someone go from being a victim themselves to becoming the
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  very monster they were trying to escape. It's like, is
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  there that much darkness in us all just waiting for
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  the right or I guess wrongs circumstances to come out.
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  Speaker 1: It's a question that's haunted me since I first learned
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  about this case. What are the tipping points? You know?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: How does someone cross that line into such darkness? And honestly,
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  there are no easy answers.
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  Speaker 2: Nope, no easy answers at all. But it's a question
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  we have to keep asking, keep grappling with. Maybe, just
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  maybe by understanding stories like this, by delving into the darkness,
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  we can learn to recognize the signs the societal factors
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  that create environments where these horrors can flourish.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, and maybe, just maybe, by shining a light on
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  even the darkest corners of humanity, we can work to
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  prevent these tragedies from happening. Again.
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  Speaker 2: It's a heavy topic, no doubt, but hey, that's what
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  we do here, right We dive deep.
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  Speaker 1: We dive deep, and sometimes we come up for air
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  feeling a little bit heavier, a little bit more introspective.
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  Speaker 2: But hopefully a little bit wiser, too.
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  Speaker 1: Wiser, and hopefully a little bit more determined to make
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  a difference. Thanks for joining me on this one. It
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  was a tough one, but an important.
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  Speaker 2: One absolutely, Until next time.
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  Speaker 1: Until next time, stay curious everyone, and stay vigilant.