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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. On the evening of March
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Speaker 1: twenty second, nineteen ninety four, a forty year old very
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Speaker 1: experienced airline pilot named Andre Dan walked into the cockpit
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Speaker 1: of a huge airplane that he was about to fly
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Speaker 1: out of Moscow. Once he was in the cockpit, he
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Speaker 1: said hello to the two other pilots he'd be flying
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Speaker 1: with that night, and then Andre took a seat in
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Speaker 1: the captain's chair. Now, this flight tonight was going to
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Speaker 1: be a very routine thirteen hour trip to Hong Kong,
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Speaker 1: something Andre and these other two pilots had done many
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Speaker 1: times before. But this night, Andre was totally dreading this
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Speaker 1: trip because one of the pilots he'd be flying with
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Speaker 1: that night was a guy that Andre just could not stand.
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Speaker 1: His name was Yarislav Kadrinsky, and he was going to
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Speaker 1: be the relief pilot that night. So Andre is the
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Speaker 1: captain and the primary pilot. He has a co pilot
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Speaker 1: or first officer, who sits right next to him, and
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Speaker 1: then behind those two would be Yarislav, the relief pilot,
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Speaker 1: who basically is just there in case the captain or
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Speaker 1: first officer needed a break. And so basically Andre was
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Speaker 1: going to be forced to interact with Yarislav all night long.
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Speaker 1: And so as passengers made their way onto the plane
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Speaker 1: and as Andre went through his pre check procedures to
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Speaker 1: get ready for this flight, Yarislav just started yapping away
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Speaker 1: about how amazing he was and what a great dad
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Speaker 1: he was because he brought his kids on this flight.
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Speaker 1: You know, they hadn't done a big international flight before,
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Speaker 1: and so he was letting them fly with him that night.
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Speaker 1: And then also Yarslav began talking about this big surprise
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Speaker 1: he had for his kids that was really going to
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Speaker 1: show what an incredible father he really was. Now Andre
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Speaker 1: and the first officer were listening to Yarislav, but they
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Speaker 1: were basically just completely ignoring him. They're not responding to him,
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Speaker 1: they're not feeding into what he's saying. But Yarslav didn't care.
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Speaker 1: He just kept on rambling on and on and on
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Speaker 1: about how amazing he was. And so finally Andre got
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Speaker 1: clearance to take off, and so even though Yarislav was
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Speaker 1: totally annoying him, he was able to take off, and
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Speaker 1: they went up to their cruising altitude and they began
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Speaker 1: making their way towards Hong Kong, and the whole time,
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Speaker 1: you know, Yarslav's just going on and on and on,
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Speaker 1: and finally, five hours into this trip, Yarislav is still
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Speaker 1: just going on and on and on, and Andre has
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Speaker 1: just had it. He cannot stand to be around the
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Speaker 1: sky anymore. And so finally Andre turned around and just
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Speaker 1: cut off Yarislav, who was mid sentence about some anecdote
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Speaker 1: about how strong his son was and what a talented
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Speaker 1: wrestler he was, And so Andre just cuts him off
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Speaker 1: and is like, Yaroslav take over. I'm taking a break.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go sleep for a bit. And so Yarslav
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Speaker 1: would stop what he was doing, he would stand up,
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Speaker 1: he would take his seat in the captain's chair, and
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Speaker 1: he would take over flying the plane. And so Andre
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Speaker 1: got up, he left the cockpit. He went to the
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Speaker 1: very back of the plane, in the main cabin, to
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Speaker 1: this row of seats that was reserved for him and
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Speaker 1: the other pilots. And he got in there and he
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Speaker 1: laid down and he closed his eyes. But just a
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Speaker 1: couple of minutes after closing his eyes, Andrea began to
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Speaker 1: feel the plane begin to bang hard to one side.
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Speaker 1: Now Andre couldn't really remember if this was the time
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Speaker 1: they were supposed to be turning or not, but it
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Speaker 1: just felt like this turn was more aggressive than anything
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Speaker 1: he anticipated at any point in this journey. But Andre
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Speaker 1: knew this plane was brand new, and so if there
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Speaker 1: were any kind of minor mistakes that Yarislav was making
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Speaker 1: flying the plane, well, the autopilot feature, which was state
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Speaker 1: of the art in this plane, would easily correct those
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Speaker 1: small errors and keep the plane going towards its destination.
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Speaker 1: And so even though again, there's still in this pretty
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Speaker 1: sharp turn here. Andre dis closed his eyes again and
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Speaker 1: tried to go to sleep. But a couple of minutes later,
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Speaker 1: they were still banking, and in fact, the bank was
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Speaker 1: starting to get even more aggressive, to the point where
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Speaker 1: Andre opened his eyes and he's thinking to himself, what
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Speaker 1: is Yarislav doing up there? Like we're basically going in
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Speaker 1: a circle at this point, we're spiraling mid air. And
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Speaker 1: so right as Andrea was about to get up and
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Speaker 1: go see what the heck was going on, the plane
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Speaker 1: began to shake really violently, and suddenly Andre realized, oh
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Speaker 1: my goodness, the plane could be stalling right now. There
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Speaker 1: could be a real issue in the cockpit, and this
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Speaker 1: is not some minor error. And so as passengers on
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Speaker 1: the plane are starting to sense that something could be
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Speaker 1: wrong here. I mean, the plane is like hard to
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Speaker 1: the side and shaking. So people are starting to scream
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Speaker 1: and cry. People are nervous, and so Andre he begins
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Speaker 1: to stand up to go to the cockpit, when suddenly
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Speaker 1: the plane goes from just shaking and banking to basically
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Speaker 1: rolling completely on its side. So all the windows are
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Speaker 1: now on the ground and everybody's on their side Andre
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Speaker 1: knew he could not go to the cockpit. There was
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Speaker 1: no way to do that, and so all he could
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Speaker 1: do was just hold on to his seat and pray
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Speaker 1: they got out of this. And then just as quickly
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Speaker 1: as all this started, it stopped. The plane kind of
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Speaker 1: went back to level, it stopped shaking, and then Andre
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Speaker 1: heard the sound of the twin engines out on the
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Speaker 1: wings roar, as if the plane was kind of getting
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Speaker 1: back up to speed, and for a second it seemed
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Speaker 1: like everything was okay, and so andreas sensing that this
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Speaker 1: was his chance to get back to the cockpit, and
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Speaker 1: frankly just reassumed command because whatever was going on in there,
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Speaker 1: it was not okay. And so Andre he got up
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Speaker 1: and began running down the aisle to get to the cockpit.
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Speaker 1: But right as he was about to grab the door,
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Speaker 1: the plane suddenly tilted upward and rocketing up into the
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Speaker 1: sky so strong that Andre was pinned to the carpet,
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Speaker 1: and so for a couple of seconds, Andre couldn't do anything.
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Speaker 1: But then he began to hear the sound of the
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Speaker 1: actual frame of the plane beginning to crack from all
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Speaker 1: the pressure of accelerating so quickly up into the sky.
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Speaker 1: And so with all of his strength, Andre reached up,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's on his hands and knees, and he
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Speaker 1: grabs the door handle to the cockpit and he opens
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Speaker 1: it up, and the second he looks into the cockpit,
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Speaker 1: he would have known exactly what was wrong. It would
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Speaker 1: turn out Yarislav's big surprise for his kids that he
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Speaker 1: promised Andre and the first officer would demonstrate what an
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Speaker 1: amazing father he was, was that he was going to
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Speaker 1: let his kids fly the plane just for a second.
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Speaker 1: But these are untrained children that have no idea how
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Speaker 1: to fly a plane. And so when Andre got up
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Speaker 1: and went to go take a nap and Yaroslav took over, well,
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Speaker 1: Yarislav called up his kids who were in the main cabin,
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Speaker 1: a teenage son and daughter, and they went into the
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Speaker 1: cockpit and they said, down in the captain's chair, and
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Speaker 1: they began to fly the plane. And the daughter took
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Speaker 1: the seat first in the captain's chair, and she was
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Speaker 1: very careful not to touch any of the controls, even
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Speaker 1: though Yarislav was kind of encouraging her, you know, to
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Speaker 1: take the wheel and really see what it feels like.
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Speaker 1: But she was nervous and so she really didn't touch anything.
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Speaker 1: But then Yaroslav's son, when he sat down in the
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Speaker 1: captain's chair, he did grab the controls and he pulled
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Speaker 1: on the wheel hard enough that he somehow disengaged the
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Speaker 1: autopilot feature and nobody noticed. And so as Yaroslav's son
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Speaker 1: is yanking forward and backwards on the yoke so the
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Speaker 1: steering wheel of the plane, the plane began going in
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Speaker 1: all these crazy directions because there was no autopilot to
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Speaker 1: stop it. And by the time he had figured out
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Speaker 1: what was wrong, it was too late, because the plane
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Speaker 1: had entered into an unrecoverable stall and it crashed into
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Speaker 1: the foothills of Siberia, killing all seventy five people on board.
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Speaker 1: so he put her in the car. He brought her
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Speaker 1: to the hospital, and now that he was here, he
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Speaker 1: so after Mark gave all the information to the nurse,
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Speaker 1: the nurse said that, okay, you know, Lynn needs to
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Speaker 1: be admitted to the hospital. And so after a short
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Speaker 1: wait and Orderly came over and pushed Lynn's wheelchair up
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Speaker 1: to the fifth floor where she'd be staying, and Mark
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Speaker 1: went with them, and then once in the room, Mark
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Speaker 1: helped Lynn get settled in her bed, and again Lynn
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Speaker 1: is just kind of staring off into space, not really
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Speaker 1: paying attention. And then a whole team of nurses and
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Speaker 1: doctors came in and hooked Linn up to ivs and
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Speaker 1: different machines to make sure they could monitor her. And
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Speaker 1: And so Mark said, okay, that sounds great, and then
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Speaker 1: all day Mark sat right next to Lynn and held
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Speaker 1: her hand as the medical team came in and out
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Speaker 1: of the room running all these tests. The following day,
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Speaker 1: the medical team still didn't know what was wrong with Lynn.
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Speaker 1: Lynn in her hospital room? Because on this second day
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Speaker 1: that Lynn was at the hospital, despite being very despondent,
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Speaker 1: still any chance she got she was getting out of
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Speaker 1: her bed and trying to escape her room, and so
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Speaker 1: the medical team they kept having to go find her
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Speaker 1: and bring her back to a room, and they tried
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Speaker 1: to explain to her, like, Lynn, you're sick, that's why
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Speaker 1: you're here. You need to stay in your room. But
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Speaker 1: Lynn clearly was just not getting it. She was just
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Speaker 1: not there, and she would just say to the team,
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Speaker 1: I want to go home. I just want to go home.
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Speaker 1: I want to go home, and they would say, well, Lynn,
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Speaker 1: you've got to get better first and then you can
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Speaker 1: go home now. Mark, like the medical staff, was also
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Speaker 1: concerned about Lynn's behavior. It was not safe for her
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Speaker 1: to get up and flee her hospital room. But Mark
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Speaker 1: kind of secretly thought, you know, maybe this is a
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Speaker 1: good sign because the day before Lynn couldn't even walk
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Speaker 1: on her own, and now today she's walking around on
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Speaker 1: her own trying to escape the hospital, which is bad,
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Speaker 1: but you know she's ambulatory. That's going to be a
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Speaker 1: good sign. And also Mark was thinking that because Linn
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Speaker 1: was fleeing her room over and over again, she's going
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Speaker 1: to get even better medical care because the staff has
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Speaker 1: to be super focused on her. And so Mark was
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Speaker 1: feeling kind of optimistic that Lynn was on the road
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Speaker 1: to recovery the next morning. So now Lynn has been
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Speaker 1: at the hospital for two days at this point. A
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Speaker 1: nurse went into Lynn's room to check on her at
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Speaker 1: about ten fifteen am, and she walked up to Lynn,
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Speaker 1: who was in her bed, and Lynn immediately told the
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Speaker 1: nurse that she wanted to go home, and the nurse said, sorry, Lynn,
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Speaker 1: we still don't know what's wrong with you. You've got
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Speaker 1: to stay here for now. But again it was pretty
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Speaker 1: clear Lynn did not understand what the nurse was saying,
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Speaker 1: and so Lynn was not agitated. She was laying in
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Speaker 1: bed and did not appear to, you know, want to
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Speaker 1: flee the room anytime soon. And so the nurse took
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Speaker 1: Lynn's vitals. They were all basically normal, and then the
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Speaker 1: nurse wrote down on Lynn's chart that her condition as
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Speaker 1: of this moment was fair, and then the nurse left
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Speaker 1: the room. And once this nurse was gone, Lynn laid
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Speaker 1: in bed for a second, and then when nobody else
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Speaker 1: came in the room, she sat up, she hopped off
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Speaker 1: the bed, and she took off her hospital gown. She
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Speaker 1: pulled out all the cords and wires that were on
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Speaker 1: her then she put on her jeans, her boots, her jacket,
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Speaker 1: she grabbed her purse off the table, and she walked
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Speaker 1: out the door. And the second she walked out the door,
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Speaker 1: she would have been in this long hallway, except her
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Speaker 1: room was at the end of the hallway. So when
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Speaker 1: she stepped out into that hallway, if she turned right,
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Speaker 1: she would have seen a long, long stretch of hallway
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Speaker 1: with other hospital rooms and lots of staff and doctors
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Speaker 1: and nurses kind of walking around. But to her left
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Speaker 1: it would have been a dead end with a single
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Speaker 1: blue door with a green exit sign over the top
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Speaker 1: of it. And so Lynn she steps into the hallway,
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Speaker 1: she looks down the long side to the right, then
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Speaker 1: she looks to the left, she sees the blue door,
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Speaker 1: and she goes to the blue door. She opens it up,
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Speaker 1: and she disappears inside. When the nurse came back to
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Speaker 1: Lynn's room and saw she wasn't there, she reported Lynn missing. Now,
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Speaker 1: remember the hospital was well aware of the fact that
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Speaker 1: Lynn had been trying to escape for the past forty
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Speaker 1: eight hours, and so nobody was really shocked by this.
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Speaker 1: In fact, the hospital their first move was to contact Mark,
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Speaker 1: who had actually gotten home the night before. To get
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Speaker 1: some real sleep and to take a shower. And so
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Speaker 1: they contacted Mark and they said, hey, Lynn's not here.
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Speaker 1: Is she with you? And Mark was like, no, I'm home,
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Speaker 1: She's not here. I have not seen her, I haven't
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Speaker 1: talked to her. I have no idea where she is.
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Speaker 1: And so the hospital at this point began this huge
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Speaker 1: search in their building, just checking the entire property for Lynne,
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Speaker 1: but there was no trace of her. And so the
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Speaker 1: police were contacted and they launched a search both of
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Speaker 1: the hospital grounds and also of the surrounding areas, and
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Speaker 1: they too could not find a trace of Lynn. It
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Speaker 1: was like Lynn just vanished into thin air. That is
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Speaker 1: until October eighth, twenty thirteen, so seventeen days after Lynn
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Speaker 1: had strolled through that blue exit door. On that day,
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Speaker 1: October eighth, a hospital maintenance worker was walking down the
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Speaker 1: long hallway in the hospital, not on the fifth floor
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Speaker 1: where Lynn was staying, but one floor below, so on
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Speaker 1: the fourth floor, and he's walking down this long hallway
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Speaker 1: in the direction of the dead end side, so the
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Speaker 1: same side that Lynn was on where her room was,
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Speaker 1: but again one floor above, and the maintenance worker he
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Speaker 1: walks all the way to the end of this hallway
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Speaker 1: on the fourth floor, and he arrives in front of
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Speaker 1: the blue door with the green exit sign above it. Again,
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Speaker 1: this is below where Lynn was, but it looks the same,
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Speaker 1: and the maintenance worker he opened up the door, and
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Speaker 1: when he looked out of the fourth floor door, he
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Speaker 1: just froze because what he was looking at just seemed impossible.
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Speaker 1: And then he had this urge to scream, but he
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Speaker 1: knew there were all these patients and kids and doctors
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Speaker 1: and stuff in the hallway behind him, and he didn't
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Speaker 1: want to scare anyone, and so very quietly he reached
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Speaker 1: down and grabbed his radio, and he called for help.
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Speaker 1: In order to explain what happened next, you need to
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Speaker 1: look at this picture. So in this picture, on the
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Speaker 1: right hand side, you see there are two outdoor landings
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Speaker 1: with people on them. The one on top is the
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Speaker 1: fifth floor landing, and the one below it with a
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Speaker 1: single person on it, is the fourth floor landing. And
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Speaker 1: to get onto these outdoor landings you have to walk
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Speaker 1: through those blue exit doors at the end of those hallways.
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Speaker 1: These blue doors are emergency exits, and so when you
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Speaker 1: go out these blue doors, once they shut, they lock automatically.
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Speaker 1: But now you're out on this outdoor landing, and immediately
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Speaker 1: to your right, although you can't see it in this picture,
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Speaker 1: there is actually another door that leads to this enclosed
17:37
Speaker 1: stairwell that will bring you all the way to the
17:39
Speaker 1: ground floor, where there's another door that's unlocked that will
17:42
Speaker 1: bring you out to safety. And so again, you walk
17:44
Speaker 1: out one of those blue doors, you're on this landing,
17:47
Speaker 1: you can turn, open up another door, you're in the stairwell,
17:50
Speaker 1: and you can evacuate. So, in theory, if you were
17:53
Speaker 1: a person that really wanted to escape this hospital like
17:56
Speaker 1: Lynn did, going out one of these blue door emergency
17:59
Speaker 1: exit was a great idea. It would bring you to
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Speaker 1: the ground This is a way to escape the hospital.
18:05
Speaker 1: But remember Lynn was totally confused mentally, she was just
18:09
Speaker 1: not there because of whatever illness was affecting her. And
18:13
Speaker 1: so when she walked out that door, she arrived on
18:15
Speaker 1: the fifth floor landing and the door shut behind her
18:18
Speaker 1: and it locked. And the theory is, as soon as
18:21
Speaker 1: Lynn got out there, maybe she had some second thoughts
18:23
Speaker 1: and wanted to go back into the hospital, and so
18:26
Speaker 1: she turned and she grabbed that door and tried to
18:28
Speaker 1: open it back up again. But because it locks automatically,
18:32
Speaker 1: it wouldn't open, And so Lynn did have the wherewithal
18:35
Speaker 1: to turn and see this other door that led to
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Speaker 1: this enclosed stairwell, the emergency stairwell that did go to
18:41
Speaker 1: the ground floor. She could absolutely go all the way
18:44
Speaker 1: down and escape. She could do that. She went into
18:47
Speaker 1: the stairwell and she went down one floor to the
18:50
Speaker 1: fourth floor landing, and when she got there, she left
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Speaker 1: the stairwell and she went to that door that would
18:55
Speaker 1: lead back into the hospital on the fourth floor, and
18:58
Speaker 1: she tried it, but of course it was locked. And
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Speaker 1: then again instead of her just going back into the
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Speaker 1: stairwell and going down and escaping to safety, she for
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Speaker 1: some reason just stayed on the fourth floor landing. Again,
19:12
Speaker 1: you got to remember that she's not all there mentally,
19:14
Speaker 1: and so she was confused and she just stayed there
19:17
Speaker 1: on the landing basically waiting to be rescued. But despite
19:21
Speaker 1: these huge searches of the hospital property by hospital staff
19:25
Speaker 1: and by the police, for some reason, this area, this
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Speaker 1: landing on the fourth floor, was never checked and so
19:31
Speaker 1: nobody found her, that is until October fourth. So at
19:35
Speaker 1: this point Lynn has been outside for thirteen days on
19:39
Speaker 1: this landing, and a researcher from the hospital for whatever reason,
19:43
Speaker 1: exited out one of these emergency doors and they began
19:46
Speaker 1: making their way downstairs, and when they passed by the
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Speaker 1: fourth floor landing, they spotted Lynn on the ground on
19:54
Speaker 1: the fourth floor landing, But instead of going over to
19:57
Speaker 1: her and seeing if she was okay, this research just
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Speaker 1: called security and said, hey, there's a patient outside on
20:03
Speaker 1: the fourth floor landing, like, come check it out. And
20:06
Speaker 1: then instead of waiting for security, the researcher just left,
20:09
Speaker 1: leaving Lynn alone, and security at the hospital, who said
20:13
Speaker 1: they were going to go check they didn't, And so
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Speaker 1: four more days would go by with still nobody officially
20:19
Speaker 1: finding Land, and then finally, on October eighth, the hospital
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Speaker 1: maintenance worker opened up the blue door on the fourth
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Speaker 1: floor and he saw the fourth floor landing, that exterior landing,
20:29
Speaker 1: and he saw Land and he knew she was dead.
20:31
Speaker 1: Officials were never able to determine when Lynn died, so
20:34
Speaker 1: it's not clear how long she was alive out on
20:37
Speaker 1: that landing, but it is possible she could have been
20:40
Speaker 1: alive when that researcher found her, but obviously helped didn't
20:44
Speaker 1: come in time. Ultimately, Lynn's family would sue the city
20:47
Speaker 1: and the hospital and they would be awarded three million dollars.
21:01
Speaker 1: On May twenty eighth, nineteen eighty six, a Florida real
21:04
Speaker 1: estate agent named Marguerite Welty walked up to the front
21:07
Speaker 1: door of this little white stucco home sitting right on
21:10
Speaker 1: the edge of Lake Placid in Florida. Marguerite pulled out
21:13
Speaker 1: a key from her pocket, she unlocked the door, opened
21:16
Speaker 1: it up, and then she turned around and standing right
21:18
Speaker 1: in front of her were her clients, this young couple
21:21
Speaker 1: named Lois and Richard Goodman, who were thinking about buying
21:24
Speaker 1: a vacation home, and so this was one of the
21:26
Speaker 1: homes they were checking out. And so Marguerite smiled at
21:28
Speaker 1: her clients and gestured for them to come inside. The
21:31
Speaker 1: house sat at the end of a quiet, shady street
21:33
Speaker 1: lined with huge trees and other small vacation homes, and
21:37
Speaker 1: a lot of these vacation homes were perfectly manicured and beautiful,
21:41
Speaker 1: but the house they were touring today was not. It
21:44
Speaker 1: was unmaintained and overgrown. You know, the paint was chipped
21:47
Speaker 1: and fading. It just looked bad. Because the owner of
21:50
Speaker 1: this property at one time had used this house as
21:54
Speaker 1: their vacation home, but lately they had just kind of
21:56
Speaker 1: stopped coming out here, and so they really never came
21:59
Speaker 1: out to check the property, and so it definitely had
22:01
Speaker 1: the look of an abandoned property. And now the owner
22:05
Speaker 1: didn't even know if they could fix it anymore, and
22:07
Speaker 1: so they decided they would just sell it and let
22:08
Speaker 1: somebody else deal with it. And so Marguerite led Richard
22:11
Speaker 1: and Lois into the house, and she brought them right
22:13
Speaker 1: into the carpeted living room, and the house was very
22:16
Speaker 1: musky and dark. You know, all the windows were shot
22:19
Speaker 1: and all the blinds were drawn, and so Marguerite kind
22:22
Speaker 1: of instinctively walked over to the windows and began opening
22:25
Speaker 1: up the curtains and opening up the blinds, letting sunlight
22:28
Speaker 1: into the house. And so as this room is suddenly
22:30
Speaker 1: being lit up by the sunlight behind her, Marguerite, here's
22:34
Speaker 1: Lois and Richard start to laugh at something, and so
22:37
Speaker 1: Marguerite turned around to see what was so funny. And
22:40
Speaker 1: when she saw what Lois and Richard were laughing at,
22:43
Speaker 1: Marguerite did not think it was very funny. In fact,
22:46
Speaker 1: she thought the fact that they were laughing right now
22:48
Speaker 1: was kind of rude, especially when you considered what this
22:51
Speaker 1: couple had asked of Marguerite. They had come to Marguerite
22:55
Speaker 1: and said, hey, we want to buy a vacation home.
22:58
Speaker 1: It needs to be perfect, it needs to be on
22:59
Speaker 1: the water, it needs to have this and this and this.
23:02
Speaker 1: But we have a tiny budget. Go find us homes.
23:06
Speaker 1: And so Marguerite had really struggled to find vacation homes
23:09
Speaker 1: that were in their budget. But then she had found
23:12
Speaker 1: this diamond in the rough, this house on the coast
23:14
Speaker 1: of Lake Placid. It had three bedrooms, two bathrooms, It
23:18
Speaker 1: had a garage, direct access to the water. It even
23:21
Speaker 1: had a boat dock. I mean, this house was perfect. Now,
23:24
Speaker 1: of course, this house had obvious downsides, like the fact
23:28
Speaker 1: that it was clearly a fixer upper. I mean, anybody
23:31
Speaker 1: who bought this home would have to put a lot
23:33
Speaker 1: of work into just making it livable again. And then
23:36
Speaker 1: also there was a distinct weird vibe about the property
23:39
Speaker 1: itself because the owner was never there. They had covered
23:43
Speaker 1: all the furniture inside of this home with white sheets,
23:47
Speaker 1: which kind of gave it a sort of haunted house vibe.
23:49
Speaker 1: And then also there was virtually nothing of value inside
23:52
Speaker 1: of this home, because again the owner was like never here.
23:56
Speaker 1: But for some reason, there was this super intense security
24:00
Speaker 1: system on the house. I mean there was cameras everywhere,
24:03
Speaker 1: and the windows had metal bars over them, and so
24:06
Speaker 1: the esthetic inside and outside this house was not a
24:09
Speaker 1: good one. But again, you know, Marguerite felt like if
24:12
Speaker 1: they could just look past the negative stuff, this was
24:16
Speaker 1: really the perfect place for them. But now here Marguerite's
24:20
Speaker 1: clients were laughing away at the kind of goofy interior
24:23
Speaker 1: of this home. It's like they were being totally disrespectful
24:27
Speaker 1: both to Marguerite and frankly to the owner of this property.
24:30
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a good opportunity. What are you doing?
24:33
Speaker 1: But ultimately, Marguerite couldn't force her clients to be appreciative
24:37
Speaker 1: of this, and so she just kind of laughed along
24:39
Speaker 1: with them, but then very quickly changed the subject and
24:42
Speaker 1: told them, you know, hey, let's go walk around the
24:43
Speaker 1: rest of the house. Make sure you see the whole
24:45
Speaker 1: place before you pass judgment. But Marguerite only had to
24:49
Speaker 1: lead Richard and Lois around the house for a couple
24:51
Speaker 1: more minutes to figure out they definitely were not in
24:54
Speaker 1: the market for this house. They could not look past
24:57
Speaker 1: the bizarre kind of spooky almost atmosphere inside the house
25:01
Speaker 1: and how run down it was. You know. So they
25:03
Speaker 1: were just not going to put an offer on this house,
25:05
Speaker 1: and Marguerite knew it. And so even though Marguerite was
25:08
Speaker 1: definitely frustrated, she told her clients, you know, don't worry
25:11
Speaker 1: about it. I'll go back to the drawing board. I'll
25:13
Speaker 1: find more properties and we'll check those out. And so
25:16
Speaker 1: Marguerite led Richard and Lois out of the property. She
25:19
Speaker 1: shut and locked the door behind her, and then she
25:21
Speaker 1: and her clients left. Two days later, on May thirtieth,
25:25
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, the owner of this run down old
25:28
Speaker 1: vacation home came by to check on the property, basically
25:31
Speaker 1: because they were trying to sell it. They just wanted
25:33
Speaker 1: to go up and make sure there were no obviously
25:36
Speaker 1: bad things about the property. They knew it was in
25:38
Speaker 1: rough shape, but you know, they're just doing a sanity check.
25:41
Speaker 1: And so they get to this property, they open up
25:43
Speaker 1: the door and they step inside, and right away the
25:45
Speaker 1: owner is hit with this horrible smell. Now the owner
25:48
Speaker 1: knew it normally did not smell great inside this home,
25:52
Speaker 1: but this smell, he was smelling now was just so bad.
25:56
Speaker 1: It was so pungent. He knew it was not normal,
25:59
Speaker 1: And so the owner began walking around the house trying
26:01
Speaker 1: to figure out where the smell was coming from. And
26:03
Speaker 1: at some point he found himself in the living room
26:06
Speaker 1: and his eyes happened to land on the thing that
26:10
Speaker 1: Richard and Lois Goodman had been laughing at two days earlier.
26:14
Speaker 1: Except when the owners saw this thing, he didn't think
26:17
Speaker 1: it was funny at all. In fact, what he did
26:19
Speaker 1: is he instantly turned around, ran out of the house,
26:22
Speaker 1: grabbed a phone, and called nine to one one. Four
26:25
Speaker 1: days earlier, on May twenty sixth a twenty eight year
26:28
Speaker 1: old man named Thomas Lopez Ruiz who was living in
26:32
Speaker 1: this makeshift campsite down by the water near Lake Placid.
26:35
Speaker 1: He decided to leave his campsite and go into town
26:38
Speaker 1: to try to earn some money. Thomas did not have
26:40
Speaker 1: a steady job. Instead, he did odd jobs in town
26:43
Speaker 1: whenever he could to earn a few bucks. But on
26:46
Speaker 1: this day when Thomas went into town, there was no work,
26:50
Speaker 1: so Thomas decided he would go rob one of the
26:53
Speaker 1: many vacation homes along the coastline of Lake Placid. And
26:57
Speaker 1: the home that he picked is the same vacation home
27:01
Speaker 1: that Marguerite would take the Goodman's too two days later.
27:04
Speaker 1: And so Thomas arrives in front of this overgrown property
27:07
Speaker 1: and he tries the doors and they're all locked. However,
27:10
Speaker 1: Thomas had a plant. Thomas was a pretty small guy.
27:13
Speaker 1: He was about five foot two inches tall, only weighed
27:16
Speaker 1: about one hundred and forty pounds, and so he figured
27:18
Speaker 1: he could just slip through the chimney. That's how he
27:20
Speaker 1: could break into the house. And at first it went great,
27:23
Speaker 1: you know, he slipped in no problem, and before long
27:26
Speaker 1: he was making his way down towards the inside of
27:28
Speaker 1: the house. But what Thomas realized as he went down
27:32
Speaker 1: the chimney is the chimney was not perfectly straight up
27:35
Speaker 1: and down. Instead, it was sort of tapered, where at
27:38
Speaker 1: the top it was wide. But the deeper you got,
27:41
Speaker 1: so the farther down you went in the chimney, the
27:44
Speaker 1: narrower the inside of the chimney got. And so when
27:47
Speaker 1: Thomas was almost all the way down the chimney, he
27:50
Speaker 1: got stuck. He could not get the rest of the
27:53
Speaker 1: way down. But where he got stuck, he couldn't grab
27:57
Speaker 1: the top of the chimney, he couldn't pull himself out,
27:59
Speaker 1: and so he is absolutely wedged, can't go down, can't
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Speaker 1: go up. And making matters even worse was every time
28:06
Speaker 1: he exhaled, his chest would shrink a little bit, and
28:09
Speaker 1: that would cause him to slip a little bit farther,
28:12
Speaker 1: a little bit deeper into the chimney, and then when
28:14
Speaker 1: he would try to breathe in again, his chest would
28:17
Speaker 1: not be able to fully expand again. And so basically
28:21
Speaker 1: every second that went by, Thomas was sinking lower and
28:24
Speaker 1: lower and lower by little bits, making it harder and
28:27
Speaker 1: harder and harder to breathe. And you got a figure
28:30
Speaker 1: that he was screaming for help, which again was causing
28:33
Speaker 1: him to breathe a bunch, causing him to sink even farther,
28:36
Speaker 1: and so it would have made breathing extremely difficult. And
28:39
Speaker 1: so Thomas is like in this absolute claustrophobic nightmare, and
28:44
Speaker 1: without outside help he had no chance of survival. Two
28:47
Speaker 1: days later, Marguerite Welty brought the Goodmans into that property
28:51
Speaker 1: and she would open up the blinds and sunlight would
28:54
Speaker 1: come into the living room, and Marguerite would hear Lois
28:56
Speaker 1: and Richard laughing at something, and she would turn around
29:00
Speaker 1: and she would see they were pointing at the fireplace
29:03
Speaker 1: and visible in this fireplace, or two legs dangling down
29:07
Speaker 1: inside the chimney. They were not so far down that
29:10
Speaker 1: they were touching the ground. They were just kind of
29:12
Speaker 1: suspended in the air. And Lois and Richard based on
29:16
Speaker 1: the way the house looked already, you know, the kind
29:18
Speaker 1: of spooky vibe. You know, there's white sheets over all
29:21
Speaker 1: the furniture, there are these bars on all the windows.
29:23
Speaker 1: Everything is dark and dirty and kind of gross, like
29:26
Speaker 1: there's this haunted house vibe to this place. And they're
29:29
Speaker 1: thinking this must be a halloween decoration or some sort
29:33
Speaker 1: of prank, you know, a mannequin kind of jammed up
29:36
Speaker 1: into the chimney, maybe to look like a robber breaking
29:38
Speaker 1: into your house or something that the owner never took down,
29:41
Speaker 1: because clearly the owner stopped taking care of this property,
29:44
Speaker 1: and so it kind of makes sense that these decorations
29:47
Speaker 1: would be left out. And so Lois and Richard are
29:49
Speaker 1: laughing at this halloween decoration, and Marguerite she looks at
29:53
Speaker 1: the legs too, and also thinks they're just some halloween decoration,
29:57
Speaker 1: doesn't think anything of it, and so finally they end
29:59
Speaker 1: up leaving and that was it. But as I'm sure
30:02
Speaker 1: you all have guessed, of course, those legs were not
30:05
Speaker 1: mannequin legs. Those were Thomas's legs. And in fact, the
30:09
Speaker 1: creepiest part about this is Thomas may have been alive
30:14
Speaker 1: during the house tour. The autopsy showed he actually did
30:17
Speaker 1: not die of asphyxiation, so he didn't suffocate. He died
30:21
Speaker 1: from dehydration, which takes about two days, and this house
30:25
Speaker 1: tour was about two days in and the day prior
30:28
Speaker 1: to the house tour, a neighbor had been outside and
30:31
Speaker 1: they thought they heard someone yelling inside of the property,
30:34
Speaker 1: but for some reason, you know, the neighbor just didn't
30:36
Speaker 1: do anything about it. And so there's a pretty good
30:38
Speaker 1: chance Thomas was barely alive as they were touring the house.
30:43
Speaker 1: But you know, by the time the owner came back
30:46
Speaker 1: two days later and smelled that horrible smell, Thomas had
30:48
Speaker 1: passed away, and that smell was the smell of his
30:51
Speaker 1: body decomposing. Also, just to close the loop on this,
30:55
Speaker 1: it's not clear why the homeowner had that really aggressive
30:58
Speaker 1: security system with the bars on the wind windows. He
31:01
Speaker 1: just did. On the morning of May twenty sixth, nineteen ninety,
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Speaker 1: Marlene Warren was at home inside of her beautiful mansion
31:11
Speaker 1: in Florida when she heard a knock on the front door.
31:14
Speaker 1: Marlene was busy and was hoping that her adult son
31:16
Speaker 1: might go answer the door, but when she looked over
31:19
Speaker 1: to the living room where her son was, she saw
31:21
Speaker 1: he was laying down watching TV and didn't even seem
31:24
Speaker 1: to have heard the knock on the door. So Marlene
31:26
Speaker 1: sighed and just walked over to the front door herself
31:29
Speaker 1: and opened it up, and to her surprise, standing on
31:32
Speaker 1: the other side of the door was a person dressed
31:34
Speaker 1: up in a clown costume holding flowers and balloons. Now,
31:38
Speaker 1: Marlene loved clowns and she had recently celebrated her fortieth birthday,
31:43
Speaker 1: so she figured this must be someone's birthday gift to her,
31:45
Speaker 1: and she was thrilled. But after the clown handed Marlene
31:49
Speaker 1: the flowers and balloons, there was this loud popping sound
31:53
Speaker 1: inside of Marlene's house, and then Marlene fell to the floor,
31:57
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