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Top 3 stories that sound fake but are 100% real Part 1 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today we're
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  Speaker 1: going to look at three stories that demonstrate that.
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  Speaker 2: But before we get into those stories.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get into today's stories. A twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: year old Russian man named Artiem Sidorkin started having severe
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  Speaker 1: chest pains, and at first he tried to ignore it,
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  Speaker 1: but it got so bad he could barely stand up,
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  Speaker 1: and then he began coughing up blood, and so finally
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  Speaker 1: he went to the emergency room. When he got there,
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  Speaker 1: even before the doctors examined him or gave him an
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  Speaker 1: ex just based on the way he presented to them,
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  Speaker 1: being pale in the face and hunched over and very
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  Speaker 1: sick looking. They assumed this must be something very serious.
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  Speaker 1: So that day they brought mister Sidorkan in for an examination,
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  Speaker 1: and after talking to him and hearing about all of
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  Speaker 1: his symptoms and just looking at him, the assumption was
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  Speaker 1: he probably has a tumor in his lungs, and so
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  Speaker 1: they sent him in for an x ray, and afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: the radiologist looked at the x ray and confirmed that, yep,
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  Speaker 1: there is a mask growing inside of your lungs. And
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  Speaker 1: so before they went to just start removing huge pieces
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  Speaker 1: of his lung, they told him that they would like
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  Speaker 1: to do a biopsy where they remove a small piece
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  Speaker 1: of the tissue and test it to see if it's
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  Speaker 1: cancerous or not. And so mister Sidorkan is terrified, but
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  Speaker 1: he says, okay, he schedules his surgery. He goes in
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  Speaker 1: a couple days later, and the surgeon pulls out a
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  Speaker 1: piece of his lung tissue and as it's sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the tray, he looks down at the tissue. The surgeon
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  Speaker 1: does and he realizes there is something hidden inside of
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  Speaker 1: the tissue, as if the tissue was like an envelope
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  Speaker 1: holding something inside of it, and so he opened it
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  Speaker 1: up and they are growing. On the side of his
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  Speaker 1: lung was a small fir tree five centimeters long. It
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  Speaker 1: was green, It looked very lively. It was just a
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  Speaker 1: thriving little tree. The doctors believed mister Sidorkin, who was
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  Speaker 1: a botanist, had inhaled a seed of a fir tree
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  Speaker 1: and it got lodged inside of his lung tissue, and
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  Speaker 1: then as it grew, its pine needles began piercing his
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  Speaker 1: blood capillaries, causing him to cough up blood. After the
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  Speaker 1: discovery of what was inside of his lung, a spokeswoman
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  Speaker 1: for the Royal Botanic Gardens in London said that it
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  Speaker 1: is possible for a seed to germinate inside of the dark,
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  Speaker 1: damp conditions inside of a lung, but it is unbelievably bizarre.
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  Speaker 1: When doctors informed mister Sidorkan that he did not have cancer,
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  Speaker 1: he had a tree. Mister Sidorkan was shocked and he said,
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  Speaker 1: I never got the sense that there was a tree
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  Speaker 1: growing inside of me. But more than shocked, he was
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  Speaker 1: just relieved that he was cancer free. There is a
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  Speaker 1: picture of this tree inside of his lung tissue, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a bit graphic, so if you want to see it.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and google tree and Lung and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you'll find it. Growing up, Pauline Day always suspected that
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  Speaker 1: there was just something off about her family, and years
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  Speaker 1: later she would find out she was right. In nineteen seventy,
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  Speaker 1: when she was five years old, her parents, Ruth and Warren, separated,
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  Speaker 1: and to Pauline, it wasn't that much of a shock
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  Speaker 1: because her father, Warren.
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  Speaker 2: Was a heavy drinker and he's extremely violent.
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  Speaker 1: But after they separated and Pauline, her mother and brother
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  Speaker 1: had moved into another house on the other side of Vancouver, Canada,
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  Speaker 1: Pauline noticed her mom started to act really anxious all
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  Speaker 1: the time, but she never knew why. When Pauline was nine,
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  Speaker 1: her mother told her and her brother that they were
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  Speaker 1: going to go on a vacation to Winnipeg, which is
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  Speaker 1: one thousand miles away from Vancouver, And so they loaded
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  Speaker 1: up the van they hopped in and they drove all
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  Speaker 1: the way to Winnipeg, and when they got out, they
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  Speaker 1: went inside their new vacation home and Ruth informed her
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  Speaker 1: children that they were actually never going back to Vancouver.
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  Speaker 1: And when Pauline and her brother said, why, Dad's still
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  Speaker 1: back in Vancouver. I want to see dad, but Pauline said, sorry, kids,
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  Speaker 1: this is the way it has to be, and when
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  Speaker 1: you're old enough, I'll explain everything. Confused and sad, Pauline
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  Speaker 1: and her brother began starting a new life in Winnipeg.
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  Speaker 1: Over the next four years, Pauline never saw her father
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  Speaker 1: and so she lost touch with him, but she started
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  Speaker 1: making a couple close friends in Winnipeg and she was
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  Speaker 1: starting to feel like this was home. But right as
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  Speaker 1: she was starting to feel normal, her mother told her
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  Speaker 1: and her brother that they needed to move right now,
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  Speaker 1: all over again. This time they were going to go
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  Speaker 1: all the way to New Brunswick, the far east side
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  Speaker 1: of Canada. Their mother made them swear they would tell
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  Speaker 1: no one about this move, but later that day, when
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  Speaker 1: Pauline was with her best friend Wendy, she let it
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  Speaker 1: slip that she was moving, and so when Ruth came
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  Speaker 1: to pick Pauline up from Wendy's house, the two girls
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  Speaker 1: had to affect these sort of breezy goodbyes to each
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  Speaker 1: other so that Pauline's mother wouldn't suspect anything. Once in
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  Speaker 1: New Brunswick, the family did put down roots and they
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  Speaker 1: stayed there for many years, but Pauline's mother still was
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  Speaker 1: just incredibly anxious and paranoid about something.
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  Speaker 2: The kids just had no idea what it was.
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  Speaker 1: Fast forward to nineteen eighty eight, when Pauline was twenty
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  Speaker 1: three years old. She had moved two hours away from
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  Speaker 1: the family home in New Brunswick and was living with
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  Speaker 1: her boyfriend and was working as reporter at a local newspaper.
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  Speaker 1: And during that time, her mother called her and said, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to meet you at a motel. I'm finally
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  Speaker 1: ready to tell you everything about your childhood.
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  Speaker 2: Pauline was really intrigued and excited.
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  Speaker 1: This was a conversation that was literally decades in the making,
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  Speaker 1: and so Pauline eagerly went to the motel. She saw
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  Speaker 1: her mother waiting outside, kind of pacing around, looking very anxious,
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  Speaker 1: and so she walks up to her mom and she waves,
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  Speaker 1: and she's about to speak when her mother just looks
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  Speaker 1: up at her and puts her finger over her lips,
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  Speaker 1: telling her to be quiet, and then she jams an
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  Speaker 1: envelope into Pauline's hands, and on the envelope it just says,
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  Speaker 1: don't say anything. Put your jewelry inside of this envelope.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably bugged. I will explain everything inside. Just please
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  Speaker 1: don't speak. And so now Pauline's really confused, but she
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  Speaker 1: did as she was told. She took her jewelry off,
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  Speaker 1: put it in the envelope, and gave it back to
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  Speaker 1: her mother, and then the two of them silently walked
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  Speaker 1: into the motel into the room where Pauline's mother was staying.
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  Speaker 2: When they went inside, there was.
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  Speaker 1: A man sitting in the middle of the room that
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  Speaker 1: Pauline immediately recognized. It was the reverend of their church
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  Speaker 1: when they used to live in Vancouver, was Stan Sears,
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  Speaker 1: and Pauline's mother had been his secretary the whole time
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  Speaker 1: they'd gone to that church. Pauline always knew her mother
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  Speaker 1: and Stan were close friends, and in fact had kept
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  Speaker 1: in touch after they left Vancouver and were in Winnipeg
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  Speaker 1: and then New Brunswick. In fact, Pauline remembers periodically seeing
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  Speaker 1: Stan show up in Winnipeg and New Brunswick to visit
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  Speaker 1: with Pauline's mother. So it was a surprise, but not
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  Speaker 1: a total shock, when Pauline's mother confessed to her that,
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  Speaker 1: in fact she and Stan had fallen in love, and
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  Speaker 1: in fact they had had a secret relationship from the
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  Speaker 1: time they lived in Vancouver, but this revelation was nothing compared.
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  Speaker 2: To what Pauline heard next.
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  Speaker 1: Her mother explained that the reason they had had to
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  Speaker 1: move so many times during her childhood was because Pauline's father, Warren,
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  Speaker 1: was actually a mobster and was a key member of
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  Speaker 1: an organized crime syndicate in Vancouver. Right after they separated,
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  Speaker 1: Pauline's mother found out she had a hit put on
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  Speaker 1: her head because the mob now believed that the husband
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  Speaker 1: could not control her anymore and she knew too much.
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  Speaker 1: Stan also found out that he had a hit on
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  Speaker 1: his head because Ruth discovered that the mob wanted to
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  Speaker 1: kill him too because they knew about their relationship.
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  Speaker 2: And then also apparently.
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  Speaker 1: Stan was counseling a man that was in his congregation
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  Speaker 1: that wound up being a mobster, and so the mob
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  Speaker 1: believed this man had given up critical information to Stan,
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  Speaker 1: making him even more of a liability. At first, Stan
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  Speaker 1: said he didn't believe any of this, but when he
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  Speaker 1: found out the man he had been counseling had been assassinated,
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  Speaker 1: he knew it was true. They decided not to tell
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  Speaker 1: the police and instead go into hiding together because Pauline's
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  Speaker 1: mother knew what.
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  Speaker 2: Happened to families that snitched on the mob.
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  Speaker 1: They were made examples of, and so when Pauline and
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  Speaker 1: her family moved to Winnipeg and then to New Brunswick,
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  Speaker 1: Stan actually moved there as well, in tandem, which is
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  Speaker 1: why Pauline had seen.
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  Speaker 2: Him periodically showing up at their house to visit with
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  Speaker 2: Pauline's mother.
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  Speaker 1: Pauline was understandably completely shocked, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: she was kind of happy to have some sort of
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  Speaker 1: explanation for all the strange things that had happened in
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  Speaker 1: her childhood. And so over the course of the next
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  Speaker 1: several hours, Pauline sat in this motel room with her
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  Speaker 1: mother and Stan and asked them every question she could
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  Speaker 1: think of, and she discovered that whenever she came home
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  Speaker 1: from school and she found her mother furiously pulling all
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  Speaker 1: the food out of the fridge and the pantry, throwing
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  Speaker 1: it all away with no explanation, that was actually because
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  Speaker 1: they found out the Mob had tried to poison them.
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  Speaker 1: Or these six different times, Pauline was unenrolled from the
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  Speaker 1: school she was at and then moved to a different
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  Speaker 1: school across town. That was because there was a credible threat.
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  Speaker 1: The Mob had discovered where Pauline was going to school,
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  Speaker 1: and so by the end of the weekend, Pauline not
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  Speaker 1: only learned about this totally crazy past she had, but
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  Speaker 1: she also learned that she was still in danger. And
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  Speaker 1: so before Pauline headed back home, she asked her mother
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  Speaker 1: and stand what she should do to stay safe, and
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  Speaker 1: Pauline's mother said, well, that's actually the reason we called
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  Speaker 1: you here now, because after all these years, we were
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  Speaker 1: just tired of being in hiding, and so we've already
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  Speaker 1: spoken to the authorities and they've moved us into a
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  Speaker 1: special witness protection program for families connected to the Mob.
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  Speaker 1: When you enter this program, it's referred to as entering
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  Speaker 1: the weird world, where basically you're not really safe, but
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  Speaker 1: you have agents that follow you around, that are undercover,
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  Speaker 1: that track what you're doing and make sure there's no
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  Speaker 1: assassination attempt on you. And before Pauline could even ask,
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  Speaker 1: her mother told her that as a measure of her
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  Speaker 1: and Stan entering the weird world, they asked that a
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  Speaker 1: couple of agents monitor Pauline and her brother, even though
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  Speaker 1: they didn't know they were being monitor At this point,
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  Speaker 1: Stan reached forward with the radio, and he said, here's
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  Speaker 1: a radio that actually broadcasts to the agents that are
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  Speaker 1: following you pretty much all the time. But you should
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  Speaker 1: only use it if you're truly in a desperate situation,
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  Speaker 1: because as soon as you call out for help, there
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  Speaker 1: are going to be people that are risking their lives
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  Speaker 1: to come save you. As Pauline is holding this radio,
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  Speaker 1: she looks at her mom and Stan and she says.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what happened to dad? Is he in jail? And
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  Speaker 2: at this point Pauline's mother says, no, he's not. He's
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  Speaker 2: in the.
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  Speaker 1: Weird world too, and she handed Pauline a letter that
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  Speaker 1: was from her father, addressed to Pauline, and it basically
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  Speaker 1: spelled out that he had been moved into the weird
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  Speaker 1: world and he was looking forward to Pauline joining them
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  Speaker 1: at some point when she was ready.
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  Speaker 2: So now Pauline has this radio and this letter, and
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  Speaker 2: she's looking at her mother and Stan and she's just
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  Speaker 2: totally overwhelmed, and her.
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  Speaker 1: Mother just tells her go home, think about what you
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  Speaker 1: want to do next, and if you want to join
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  Speaker 1: the Witness Protection program and join the weird world with us,
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  Speaker 1: just let me know and we'll make it happen. And
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  Speaker 1: so Pauline, who's in a total state of shock, gives
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  Speaker 1: her mom a hug and gives Stan a hug and says, okay, bye,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be in touch. And she leaves the motel and
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  Speaker 1: she gets in her car and she's about to back
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  Speaker 1: up when she looks and sees Stan running outside holding
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  Speaker 1: something in his hand, and so Pauline stops. Stan runs
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  Speaker 1: up to the window and he says, hey, I forgot
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  Speaker 1: to give you this, and he held up this round
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  Speaker 1: piece of metal that he told her was a GPS transponder.
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  Speaker 1: It was magnetized and she should put it out of
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  Speaker 1: sight underneath her car. And what it does is it
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  Speaker 1: constantly gives off her location to the agents that are
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  Speaker 1: following her, so if she was in trouble, it would
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  Speaker 1: be easier for them to find her. And so Pauline
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  Speaker 1: thanked him put the transponder under her car, and Stan
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  Speaker 1: went back into the motel, And so Pauline went back
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  Speaker 1: home with the intention of just digesting this information, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that she was being watched. She had this radio, she
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  Speaker 1: was relatively safe, and her plan was to just give
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  Speaker 1: it a couple of days before she committed to joining
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  Speaker 1: the Witness Protection program and joining the weird world. But
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  Speaker 1: after only a couple of days, her paranoia was so
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  Speaker 1: high that she dumped her boyfriend, she quit her job,
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  Speaker 1: and she moved out of her house into a separate apartment,
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  Speaker 1: and she called her mother and said, I can't take
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  Speaker 1: it anymore. I feel totally unsafe. I want to join
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  Speaker 1: the weird world. Her mother and Stan were delighted at
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  Speaker 1: her decision, but they told her it wasn't a simple
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  Speaker 1: process getting into the weird world, that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people were involved in her basically giving up her old
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  Speaker 1: life and entering this new one. And so Pauline's mother
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  Speaker 1: told her that she would be in touch with one
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  Speaker 1: of her agents and they would contact Pauline when it
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  Speaker 1: was time for her to go.
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  Speaker 2: And so, anxious and scared.
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  Speaker 1: Pauline began to wait and wait and wait, and her
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  Speaker 1: mother said, oh, just give it some time.
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  Speaker 2: They'll be in touch soon.
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  Speaker 1: But the waiting dragged on for five years, and in
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  Speaker 1: that time, Pauline met a new boyfriend, Kevin, who became
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  Speaker 1: her husband, and in conversations with him, Pauline started to
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  Speaker 1: doubt this whole mafia thing was even true.
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  Speaker 2: And so she decided, in.
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  Speaker 1: Order to find out if this really was a real thing,
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  Speaker 1: that the mafia was actually after them, that Pauline would
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  Speaker 1: need to set up a sting operation on her mother
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  Speaker 1: and stay. And so Pauline called her mother and very
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  Speaker 1: convincingly told her that, oh my goodness, someone just broke
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  Speaker 1: into my apartment. I think it was someone from the mafia.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened, but can you tell me
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  Speaker 1: what to do? Should I call the police?
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  Speaker 2: What do I do?
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  Speaker 1: And her mother said, no, don't call the police. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: you do, don't call the police. I'm going to get
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  Speaker 1: in touch with Stan and see if he knows what
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  Speaker 1: to do. And just a couple of minutes later, Pauline's
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  Speaker 1: mother called back and said, okay, honey, I spoke to Stan,
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  Speaker 1: and he spoke to the undercover agents that sit outside
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  Speaker 1: your house and have been watching you for all these years,
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  Speaker 1: and they said that, yes, unfortunately, not one, but two
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  Speaker 1: men from the mafia broke into your house today, but
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  Speaker 1: luckily they went up, they grabbed them. They're in custody,
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  Speaker 1: so you're safe now. And Pauline said, Mom, I made
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  Speaker 1: that up. No one's been in my apartment. I've been
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  Speaker 1: here the whole day. I lied to you. No one
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  Speaker 1: broke in. And it was at this point that Pauline
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  Speaker 1: realized her mother and Stan had been living a lie
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  Speaker 1: since she was five years old. There was no mafia,
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  Speaker 1: her father was not a mobster in some Vancouver crime syndicate.
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  Speaker 2: It was all made up.
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  Speaker 1: It would turn out, Stan was suffering from something called
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  Speaker 1: delusion syndrome, where totally normal people that are totally lucid
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  Speaker 1: and abnormal lives have one distinct delusion. And sometimes that
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  Speaker 1: delusion is not a big deal, but sometimes it is
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  Speaker 1: like they believe the mafia is after them. And during
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  Speaker 1: his relationship with Pauline's mother, he passed on his delusion
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  Speaker 1: to her through something called fali adieu, which translates to
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  Speaker 1: madness for two, which is shared delusion syndrome, where someone
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  Speaker 1: who's delusional who's a dominant personality can pass that on
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  Speaker 1: to a subordinate personality. After confronting her mother and then
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  Speaker 1: also confronting Stan at a later date, neither of them
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  Speaker 1: said this is a lie. You're right, you caught us,
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  Speaker 1: because they believed it, and they took to their graves
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  Speaker 1: the belief that the mafia was after them, Their biggest
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  Speaker 1: concern after Pauline said this isn't true was not that
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  Speaker 1: they had been exposed as potential frauds. It was that, oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: Pauline's going to expose herself to the mafia because she's
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  Speaker 1: not using her GPS transponder or her radio or living
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  Speaker 1: in the weird world with us.
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  Speaker 2: She's going to get assassinated by the mafia.
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  Speaker 1: And so, even though Pauline never got an apology from
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  Speaker 1: her mother or got to really talk about the insanity
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  Speaker 1: of this whole situation, because again her mother and Stan
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  Speaker 1: took to the graves the belief that the mafia was
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  Speaker 1: in fact after them. Pauline ultimately made peace with the
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  Speaker 1: situation by writing a best selling memoir called Run, Hide, Repeat.
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  Speaker 2: It is linked in the description below check it out.
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  Speaker 1: In November of two thousand and four, fifty two year
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  Speaker 1: old Peter Porko and his wife, fifty four year old
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  Speaker 1: Joan Porko were like so many other middle aged, middle
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  Speaker 1: class Americans. They lived in Delmar, New York, in a
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  Speaker 1: comfortable two story home, and they worked for a living.
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  Speaker 1: Peter was an appellate court clerk and Joan was a
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  Speaker 1: speech pathologist. They'd been married for over thirty years, and
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  Speaker 1: they had two sons. Christopher was a twenty one year
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  Speaker 1: old student at the University of Rochester and his brother,
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: Jonathan was a twenty three year old naval officer stationed
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  Speaker 1: at a submarine base in Groton, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 2: On Monday, November.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: Fifteenth, two thousand and four, woke up to start his
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  Speaker 1: typical Monday morning work routine. He got up, he got
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: out of bed. He went into the bathroom. He relieved himself,
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  Speaker 1: He looked in the mirror, he shaved, He got dressed
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  Speaker 1: in his work clothes.
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  Speaker 2: He went downstairs. He put in a pot of coffee.
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  Speaker 1: While the coffee was brewing, he unloaded the dishwasher and
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: then put the dirty dishes into the dishwasher and started it.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: He wanted to get his newspaper, so he went outside.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: He got his newspaper, but he realized he locked himself
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  Speaker 1: out of the front door, so he got the spare
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: key out from underneath the mat, opened the front door,
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  Speaker 1: went inside. He sat down, had some coffee, read the newspaper.
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  Speaker 1: After a few minutes, he put his coffee cup in
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  Speaker 1: the sink. He packed himself a lunch in his lunchbox,
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  Speaker 1: and then he headed for the door to head for work.
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  Speaker 1: Peter was known as a very reliable employee who was
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: also very punctual and rarely missed work.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: So when he.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't get to work that Monday morning, the court was
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  Speaker 1: a little bit confused. They called him to see if
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: he was okay. He didn't pick up, so they dispatched
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: a court officer to go make sure he was okay.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: And so the officer arrives at his house. He sees
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  Speaker 1: cars in the driveway, the front door shut. He goes up,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: he knocks on the door, he answers, He tries the
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: handle of the front door, he realizes it's opened, so
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  Speaker 1: he opens the.
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  Speaker 2: Door and he yells out, hey, I'm just looking for Peter,
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  Speaker 2: and the door hits something on the ground.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Pokes his head inside and looks down and there on
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  Speaker 1: the ground the thing blocking the door is Peter Porco's body.
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  Speaker 2: He's clearly deceased and he clearly has a massive head wound.
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  Speaker 1: The court officer steps outside, immediately calls nine to one
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: one local police show up. They go inside and sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: Peter is dead. They go upstairs and they find his wife,
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  Speaker 1: Joan in bed, also with a massive head wound.
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  Speaker 2: But she was still alive.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Joan was rushed to a hospital where she underwent emergency
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: surgery and then was put into a medically induced coma. Meanwhile,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: the police began their investigation into who could have done this.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: They quickly discovered that the Holmes alarm system had been smashed,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: and a phone line because there still was landlines at
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: the time, had been cut from the outside, and a
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: screen in one of the windows had been slashed that
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: looked like the way someone climbed into the house. However,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: nothing appeared to have been stolen, because police almost immediately
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: found Peter's wallet with money inside of it, still sitting
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: in the house, as well as very expensive jewelry that
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: belonged to Joan still sitting in the house. As they
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: continued to search the house, they discovered a fireman's axe
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: that belonged to the Porcos hidden inside of one of
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  Speaker 1: the bedroom closets, and it was very clear this was
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: the murder weapon.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: The Porco sons had been away during this attack.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: John was on his submarine in Connecticut and Chris was
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: at the University of Rochester, and in fact, Chris found
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: out about the attack on his parents when he saw
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: a news report because this story of this innocent, typical
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: seeming American couple in a quiet suburb getting struck down
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: by some axe wielding maniac had gone totally viral and
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: it was all over the news, and so Chris called
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: the police to get more information about his parents' death.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Here's the recording. Hi, my name is Chis Porko. I
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: was just called by a climagine and saying that my
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: parents were some dead sesternoon. I'm also ran to the information.
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  Speaker 2: I'm at school in Rochester, New York.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we're in Rochester. Yes, okay, you were hearing from
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: my time as union.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my parents were so I guess I didn't say
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  Speaker 2: how or anything. So you will be here, probably gonna
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  Speaker 2: go right to all many men. I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: any know. My mom is, Yeah, she is at all
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: my meds Okay, no, because I haven't talked for her.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Let me give you my page your number. As you
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: can tell, Chris is extremely emotional. He's beside himself. He
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: can barely speak. He's so upset about what's happened to
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: his parents.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Actually he sounds as calm as if he's ordering a pizza.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Because Chris Porko was actually a psychopath, and he was
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: the one who attacked his parents with the acts. As
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: it turns out, Chris was failing at school and taking
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: out huge loans in his father's name by forging his signature,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and his father found out about it.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: So mister and Missus Porko.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Write their son a strongly worded email where they tell
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  Speaker 1: him this behavior has to stop and they're very disappointed
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: in him, but they love him and they will help.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Him get back on his feet.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Chris responded by driving home in the middle of the night,
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  Speaker 1: sneaking into his house, and attack backing his parents with
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: an ax. While this case is already disturbing and horrific
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: and tragic, it's what happens to Chris's father after the
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: attack that makes it one of the most brutal cases.
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  Speaker 2: Of all time.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: After being struck sixteen times in the head and laying
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: unconsciously in his bed as his son snuck out of
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  Speaker 1: his house, Peter suddenly sat up and began his morning routine.
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  Speaker 1: He got dressed, he went to the bathroom, he shaved,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: He went downstairs, he made coffee, He did his chores.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: He went outside to get the newspaper, he got locked out,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: he got to keep from under the mat, went back inside,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: he packed his own lunch. When he was finally ready
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: to go, he headed to the door, and then he
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: collapsed and he died. Due to the severity of Peter's
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: head wound, his brain was basically broken and it was
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: unable to recognize he had been gravely injured, so in
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: his final moments, he believed it was just a typical
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Monday morning going about his work routine, when in reality
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: he had a gaping head wound and he was basically
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: dead after the sixteenth blow to his head. One of
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the more surprising and heart wrenching details of this case
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: is that Joan Porko she did survive the attack, and
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: after she came out of that medically induced coma, she
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: said she forgot all the details of the attack, even
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: though when she was discovered in her bed, she did
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: indicate that Chris her Son was the attacker. Nonetheless, she
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: got together two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to post
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Chris's bail, and she allowed him to come stay with
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: her during his trial, and the two attended the trial together.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Walking into the.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Courthouse hand in hand, Chris was very quickly found guilty
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: of killing his father and attempting to kill his mother,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and he was sentenced to fifty years to life in prison.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Despite the verdict, Joan Porcos still speaks to Christopher over
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the phone and frequently visits him in prison. It's unclear
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: if she still believes he is innocent.
• 20:39
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