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  Speaker 1: On the afternoon of June sixth, nineteen eighty, a fifty
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  Speaker 1: six year old man named Zigmund at Amski, who just
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  Speaker 1: went by Ziggy, was having a late lunch with his
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  Speaker 1: wife and his cousin inside of Ziggy's little brick house
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  Speaker 1: in the English village of Tingley. That day had been
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  Speaker 1: a particularly stressful day for Ziggy and his family because
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  Speaker 1: the following day was Ziggy's goddaughter's wedding, and Ziggy was
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  Speaker 1: very close with his goddaughter. Ziggy and his wife couldn't
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  Speaker 1: have kids because of medical issues, and so his goddaughter
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  Speaker 1: had basically become, at least in Ziggy's mind, like his
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  Speaker 1: own daughter, and so in fact, at her wedding, Ziggy
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  Speaker 1: was going to be walking her down the aisle. And
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  Speaker 1: while Ziggy was really excited about this, he was also
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  Speaker 1: very stressed out that he was going to screw it up.
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  Speaker 1: And so he had gone over and over, you know
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  Speaker 1: what responsibilities he had as part of the wedding party,
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  Speaker 1: and he had this little speech he had to give
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  Speaker 1: that he had rehearsed fifty times, he had it written out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he was ready, but he was very much
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  Speaker 1: in his own head about something potentially going wrong that
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  Speaker 1: he would be responsible for. And on top of that stress,
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  Speaker 1: Ziggy had gotten into a fight that day with his
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  Speaker 1: cousin because he felt like the cousin was being kind
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  Speaker 1: of disrespectful in some way to his goddaughter, and so
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  Speaker 1: Ziggy had stepped up and defended his goddaughter to his cousin,
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  Speaker 1: And so there was this undercurrent of tension at the
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  Speaker 1: lunch table, not to mention this overarching stress that Ziggy
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  Speaker 1: was under about this wedding. And so as Ziggy and
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  Speaker 1: his cousin and his wife have this kind of tense meal,
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  Speaker 1: Ziggy suddenly realizes that he forgot to get potatoes when
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  Speaker 1: he went to the store earlier to buy ingredients for
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  Speaker 1: this meal. And for some reason, Ziggy decides, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to just put my stuff down now go
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  Speaker 1: to the store and get those potatoes, even though at
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  Speaker 1: this point it was too late to make the potatoes
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  Speaker 1: for the meal. And so maybe Ziggy just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go out and do anything to get away from his
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  Speaker 1: cousin for a minute and away from all this wedding
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  Speaker 1: planning they were doing, and just kind of go out
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  Speaker 1: and clear his head. And so Ziggy put his napkin
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  Speaker 1: down on the table, he stood up, he told his
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  Speaker 1: cousin and wife that he was going out to get potatoes.
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  Speaker 1: They were like okay, And the cousin actually said, do
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  Speaker 1: you want me to come with you? You know, like,
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  Speaker 1: is there anything else you need to get while you're out?
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  Speaker 1: And Ziggy said nope, I'm good. He grabbed some cash
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  Speaker 1: out of his wallet and he headed out the door.
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  Speaker 1: The village of Tingley, where Ziggy and his wife lived,
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  Speaker 1: was a very safe place. He and his wife had
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  Speaker 1: actually moved there after fleeing from Poland during World War Two,
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  Speaker 1: where both Ziggi and his wife, whose name was Lottie,
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  Speaker 1: had been held prisoner at some point. And so after
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  Speaker 1: all this trauma of being held prisoner and having to
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  Speaker 1: flee their home country, they had looked for the safest,
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  Speaker 1: best place to kind of resettle and stay for good,
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  Speaker 1: and Tingley was it and they loved it. Ziggy had
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  Speaker 1: gotten a job in Tingley as a coal miner, and
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  Speaker 1: he had been doing that for twenty seven years. As
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  Speaker 1: for Lottie, she didn't work because she had a disease
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  Speaker 1: called multiple sclerosis, which meant she was confined to a wheelchair.
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  Speaker 1: But Ziggi and Lottie had quickly made lots of friends
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  Speaker 1: in town who were very supportive, and so it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: long before Ziggi and Lottie had a very and stable
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  Speaker 1: life in this town. The little shop where Ziggy was
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  Speaker 1: going to was only about three blocks away from his house,
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  Speaker 1: which meant walking to the store, getting potatoes and coming
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  Speaker 1: back would only take a few minutes, and so Lottie
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  Speaker 1: and the cousin back home. They expected to see Ziggy
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  Speaker 1: really come back within ten to fifteen minutes, But when
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  Speaker 1: he didn't, and after about thirty minutes went by, Lottie
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  Speaker 1: actually got really concerned because Ziggy was just not the
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  Speaker 1: type of person to do stuff unannounced. He was incredibly methodical.
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  Speaker 1: He was very punctual and reliable, and so being late
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  Speaker 1: from this little trip to the store was just so
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  Speaker 1: uncharacteristic that Lottie told the cousin, Hey, you go to
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  Speaker 1: the store and see if Ziggy is there. See what's
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  Speaker 1: going on here. Ziggy had worked in the coal mine
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  Speaker 1: for nearly thirty years, and he had some serious lung
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  Speaker 1: issues from breathing in all of the coal, and so
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  Speaker 1: Lottie was thinking, you know, maybe he collapsed or something
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  Speaker 1: along the way from these breathing issues. But when the
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  Speaker 1: cousin got to the shop, the shop owner hold the
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  Speaker 1: cousin that they had seen Ziggy. He had come in
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  Speaker 1: about twenty five minutes earlier. He had bought a bag
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  Speaker 1: of potatoes, seemed totally normal, everything was fine, and he
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  Speaker 1: had left walking back in the direction of his home,
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  Speaker 1: and so the cousin thanked the shopkeeper and then left
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  Speaker 1: and began jogging back towards Ziggy's house, thinking, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he had just not seen him on the way,
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  Speaker 1: that maybe Ziggy was sitting down somewhere on this three
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  Speaker 1: block path. But the cousin got all the way home
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  Speaker 1: and didn't see any sign of Ziggy, And so after
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  Speaker 1: going back inside of the house, the cousin and Lottie
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  Speaker 1: talked about what they should do, and they actually went
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  Speaker 1: back out into the neighborhood asking around, asking neighbors and
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  Speaker 1: other people if they had seen Ziggy. But after a
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  Speaker 1: couple of hours of canvassing the neighborhood and not finding
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  Speaker 1: Ziggy or finding any indication of what happened to him,
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  Speaker 1: Lottie ended up calling the police. But the police were
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  Speaker 1: not inclined to launch a huge investigation for a grown
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  Speaker 1: man who's only been missing for a couple of hours
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  Speaker 1: in his neighborhood with no sign of foul play or
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  Speaker 1: any other sign that anything really bad had happened. And
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  Speaker 1: after the police began asking questions of Lottie and the
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  Speaker 1: neighbors about what Ziggy's life was like. They learned that recently,
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  Speaker 1: Ziggy had been declined for an early retirement from the
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  Speaker 1: coal mine because of those breathing issues he was having.
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  Speaker 1: He had requested to retire now, but they said no,
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  Speaker 1: and so Ziggy was really upset about that. He was
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  Speaker 1: really stressed about this wedding of his goddaughter. The next day.
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  Speaker 1: He had been fighting with his cousin. Also, Ziggy was
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  Speaker 1: basically taking care of his wife, who's in this wheelchair
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  Speaker 1: all the time. And so because of all these stressors
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  Speaker 1: in Ziggy's life, the police started to wonder if maybe
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  Speaker 1: it was possible that Ziggy had not been going to
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  Speaker 1: get potatoes but in fact was just kind of abandoning
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  Speaker 1: his family. And so ultimately, on the day that Ziggy
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  Speaker 1: went missing, the police told Lottie and Ziggy's cousin that
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  Speaker 1: they should just sit tight see if he comes back
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  Speaker 1: tonight and if he doesn't go to the wedding tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Because Ziggy is so close with the god daughter, if
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  Speaker 1: he's had having some sort of issue right now, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's very likely to come back for something as significant
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  Speaker 1: as this wedding, and so Lottie and Ziggy's cousin stayed
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  Speaker 1: at the house all night. Ziggy did not come back.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't hear from him, and the next day they
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  Speaker 1: went to the wedding, but Ziggy didn't show up for
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  Speaker 1: that either, even though he's supposed to walk his goddaughter
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  Speaker 1: down the aisle. And so after coming back from this wedding,
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  Speaker 1: Lottie called the police, She called local hospitals, she talked
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  Speaker 1: to all of her neighbors. I mean, she really put
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  Speaker 1: out like an all points bulletin to everybody in the
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  Speaker 1: area that something terrible has happened to Ziggy and we
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  Speaker 1: need to find him. But despite police beginning to lean
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  Speaker 1: into this and her neighbors really going out in force
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  Speaker 1: to try to find Ziggy, no one could find him.
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  Speaker 1: five days after Ziggy went to get potatoes and then vanished,
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  Speaker 1: a man named Trevor Parker got to work at his
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  Speaker 1: father's coal yard in the English town of todd Morden.
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  Speaker 1: The coal yard was basically just this big open lot
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  Speaker 1: that had a chain length fence around it that butted
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  Speaker 1: up against some railroad tracks, and inside of this lot
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  Speaker 1: were just these huge mounds of coal up against the
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  Speaker 1: perimeter of the lot. And then also inside of the
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  Speaker 1: coal yard was one small office building, and so on
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  Speaker 1: this morning, when Trevor pulled through the gates of this
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  Speaker 1: coal yard, first of all, he could see the entire yard.
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  Speaker 1: The second he went in, and as he looked out,
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  Speaker 1: all he noticed was the fact that everything was wet
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  Speaker 1: from an early morning storm. And so after just kind
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  Speaker 1: of surveying around the lot to make sure none of
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  Speaker 1: the coal got blown around from the storm, he made
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  Speaker 1: his way to the small office building to do some paperwork.
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  Speaker 1: Trevor would work inside of that office building for a
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  Speaker 1: while and then around lunchtime, Trevor decided to just go
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  Speaker 1: and get some lunch and kind of have a nice
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  Speaker 1: long lunch break, and so he left. He went to
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  Speaker 1: the pub. He was there for a couple of hours,
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  Speaker 1: and then around three forty five pm he came back
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  Speaker 1: to the coal yard and when he went through the gates,
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  Speaker 1: everything looked the same, except there was this dark thing
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  Speaker 1: on top of one of the coal piles in the
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  Speaker 1: back of the yard. Now Trevor didn't know if he
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  Speaker 1: had seen it when he had first arrived that morning
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  Speaker 1: or if it was new, but whatever it was on
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  Speaker 1: this pile, it immediately caught Trevor's attention, and so after
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  Speaker 1: parking his vehicle, Trevor began walking over to this twelve
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  Speaker 1: foot tall coal pile with this thing on it, And
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  Speaker 1: when he got about thirty feet away from it, he
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  Speaker 1: realized he saw someone's shoe, that this dark figure was
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  Speaker 1: a person, and right away Trevor started rolling his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Because there was a group of homeless people that lived
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  Speaker 1: near the railroad tracks just outside of the coal yard,
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  Speaker 1: and it wasn't uncommon for them to get really drunk
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  Speaker 1: and then wander their way into the coal yard, where
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  Speaker 1: sometimes they would fall asleep, and so Trevor's thinking, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: clearly one of these drunk, homeless people has found their
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  Speaker 1: way into the coal yard and they've passed out on
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  Speaker 1: top of this pile of coal. And so instead of
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  Speaker 1: going over and talking to this person directly, Trevor just
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  Speaker 1: turned around, went back inside of the office building, and
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  Speaker 1: he called for an ambulance. The ambulance arrived a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes later. They did not have their sirens on, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't come flying into the yard. This was a routine
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  Speaker 1: thing they were doing. They were scooping up a drunk
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  Speaker 1: and bringing them back to the hospital. And so when
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  Speaker 1: the medics got out of their ambulance and Trevor directed
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  Speaker 1: them over to the proper coal pile, they were just
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  Speaker 1: cracking jokes along the way. This was not a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: When the two medics got to the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: coal pile, one of them began climbing up the coal
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  Speaker 1: to go see this drunk person and get them down.
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  Speaker 1: And so Trevor, as this is happening, he walked a
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  Speaker 1: little bit closer, and when he did, he realized that
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  Speaker 1: the person who had fallen asleep on the coal they
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  Speaker 1: had really nice pants on, like tailored pants. They were
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  Speaker 1: certainly not what Trevor expected this person to be wearing.
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  Speaker 1: But before Trevor could even really react to the clothes
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  Speaker 1: this person had on, the medic who had climbed up
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  Speaker 1: had finally reached this person. They reached down and began
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  Speaker 1: trying to move the person around, and suddenly, when they
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  Speaker 1: had manipulated this person's body enough, the medic's facial expression
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  Speaker 1: completely changed. They went from somewhat routine to totally horrified,
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  Speaker 1: and they backed off of this person on the coals.
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  Speaker 1: They turned around and ran down the coal, practically falling
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  Speaker 1: over themselves. And when they got down there, Trevor heard
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  Speaker 1: the medics say to his partner, call the police. Call
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  Speaker 1: the police right now. And Trevor said, what's going on?
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  Speaker 1: What did you see? And the medic who had reacted
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  Speaker 1: that way, just shook his head and walked away to
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  Speaker 1: kind of compose himself. And so Trevor at this point
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  Speaker 1: was starting to get spooked himself. Clearly, whatever the medic
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  Speaker 1: had just seen had really shaken him up, and so
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  Speaker 1: Trevor just kind of stood there while the other medic
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  Speaker 1: ran in and called police. And then a few minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: a police car came flying into the coal yard and
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  Speaker 1: an officer named Alan Godfrey, along with his partner, got
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  Speaker 1: out of the car and right away the medic, who
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  Speaker 1: had gone to the top of the pile and been
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  Speaker 1: freaked out by what he saw, walked over with a
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  Speaker 1: very ashen face and he told Alan Godfrey that something
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  Speaker 1: was terribly wrong with the person on top of this pile,
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  Speaker 1: and so Alan, not really sure what to expect, walked
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  Speaker 1: over with his partner to this coal pile and with
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  Speaker 1: the medics and Trevor standing back, Alan on his own
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  Speaker 1: climbed up the coal and he looked down at this
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  Speaker 1: person and what Alan saw was a man lying on
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  Speaker 1: his stomach wearing a beautiful three piece brown suit. And
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  Speaker 1: Alan immediately noticed that there was absolutely no soot from
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  Speaker 1: the coal that this guy was laying on on his suit,
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  Speaker 1: even though Alan, just to get up here had basically
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  Speaker 1: covered himself in black soot, and so he was wondering,
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  Speaker 1: how did this guy get up here and not get
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  Speaker 1: covered in soot? It didn't make any sense. Also, Alan
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  Speaker 1: noticed that this guy's hair looked totally bizarre. It looked
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  Speaker 1: like someone had given him like a really bad haircut
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  Speaker 1: with dull scissors, like they just grabbed tufts of his
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  Speaker 1: hair and kind of chopped randomly. I mean, his hair
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  Speaker 1: was kind of all over the place. There were bald spots.
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  Speaker 1: And then as Alan looked from this guy's hair down,
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  Speaker 1: he noticed, almost hidden in his hairline was this fairly
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  Speaker 1: deep wound in the back of his neck that was
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  Speaker 1: still bleeding. But there was this weird, green jelly like
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  Speaker 1: substance very obviously placed over this wound, and Alan had
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  Speaker 1: no idea what the substance was. But as weird as
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  Speaker 1: all that was, that didn't explain why the first medic
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  Speaker 1: had basically completely panicked and run away. When Alan tried
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  Speaker 1: to roll this guy over onto his back to try
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  Speaker 1: to wake him up and see if he was okay,
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  Speaker 1: he rolled him over and Alan got a look at
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  Speaker 1: this guy's face, and immediately Alan let go of him
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  Speaker 1: and kind of had to step back for a second
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  Speaker 1: because the guy's face was contorted in this frozen look
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  Speaker 1: of absolute terror. His jaw was opened so wide it
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  Speaker 1: was almost like his lower jaw was dislocated, and his
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  Speaker 1: teeth were baring and his eyes were bulging out of
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  Speaker 1: his head. And so Alan quickly realized that obviously this
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  Speaker 1: was not just some drunk, homeless person who passed out here.
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  Speaker 1: This was a dead person, and whatever happened to them
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  Speaker 1: must have been unbelievably terrifying to leave someone looking like
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  Speaker 1: that in their death pos It would turn out this
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  Speaker 1: deceased man in the coal yard was Ziggiadamski, but this
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  Speaker 1: did not solve the mystery of what happened to Ziggy
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  Speaker 1: five days earlier. In fact, his discovery really only created
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  Speaker 1: more questions. This town where this coal yard was, Todd Morden,
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  Speaker 1: was located twenty five miles away from where Ziggy lived,
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  Speaker 1: and as far as anyone knew, Ziggy didn't know anybody
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  Speaker 1: in todd Morden, so there was no reason for him
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  Speaker 1: to be there. And number two, when he had left
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  Speaker 1: to go get potatoes, he had been on foot, so
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  Speaker 1: did he walk twenty five miles to this random town. Also,
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  Speaker 1: assuming he did just walk to this coal yard, this
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  Speaker 1: coal yard is a big, wide open lot that if
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  Speaker 1: you were standing anywhere near it, even outside the fence,
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  Speaker 1: you could look in and basically see the entire place.
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  Speaker 1: So it just seemed really unlikely that Ziggy could just
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  Speaker 1: walk into this very public open space and get to
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  Speaker 1: the top of one of these coal piles without somebody
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  Speaker 1: noticing him, whether that was Trevor or one of the
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  Speaker 1: other employees that were there, or one of the truck
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  Speaker 1: drivers that were in and out of there all the
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  Speaker 1: time all day doing deliveries, or the homeless people who
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  Speaker 1: were near the railroad tracks, or the people who rode
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  Speaker 1: the trains that passed by there every day. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of eyes on this coal yard,
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  Speaker 1: but nobody saw Ziggy. It was like he just kind
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  Speaker 1: of appeared at the top of this pile. And again,
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  Speaker 1: even if Ziggy had managed to slip in and sneak
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  Speaker 1: to the top of this pile, why didn't he have
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  Speaker 1: soot from the coal all over his clothes? And if
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  Speaker 1: maybe he had been brought there, if someone had killed
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  Speaker 1: him and put him on this coal pile, there's even
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  Speaker 1: more reason he would have soot all over him because
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  Speaker 1: they would have had to drag him up to the
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  Speaker 1: top of the pile. And even putting all that aside,
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  Speaker 1: if someone really did kill Ziggy and they placed him
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  Speaker 1: on this pile, why this is a very open public place.
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  Speaker 1: Someone is going to find him. You're gonna get caught
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  Speaker 1: if you're the killer and then of course there is
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  Speaker 1: the issue of what Ziggy was wearing. That brown three
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  Speaker 1: piece suit he was wearing that had no soot on it.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't his, and it wasn't put on right. The
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  Speaker 1: buttons were not lined up. It almost looked like somebody
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  Speaker 1: else who didn't know how to put a suit on
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  Speaker 1: had tried to dress Niggy. And then Ziggy also did
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  Speaker 1: not have an undershirt on, just the jacket over his skin.
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  Speaker 1: And then also Ziggy had this totally bizarre haircut that
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  Speaker 1: looked like someone who didn't know how to give a
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  Speaker 1: haircut had cut his hair with scissors and said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: good enough. And then of course you have this wound
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  Speaker 1: on the back of Ziggy's neck. Now, the wound itself
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  Speaker 1: was determined not to be fatal. It was a fairly
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  Speaker 1: deep cut, but it wouldn't have killed him. However, the
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  Speaker 1: most significant part of that wound was that green jelly
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  Speaker 1: that had been placed across the back of it. During
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  Speaker 1: Ziggy's autopsy, they were unable to figure out what this
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  Speaker 1: green jelly was, and they ran dozens and dozens of
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  Speaker 1: tests on it. And also during the autopsy, the corner
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  Speaker 1: would determine that Ziggy had actually died the same day
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  Speaker 1: he had been found, so he was doing something for
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  Speaker 1: five days between going missing and being on this coal pile,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: but nobody knows what it was. And as for his
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  Speaker 1: cause of death, the corner was not entirely sure, but
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  Speaker 1: it did seem like he died of a heart attack.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: The corner would search all of Ziggy's body for signs
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  Speaker 1: of some fight. He might have gotten into some sort
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  Speaker 1: of defensive wound on his body, but there was nothing. However,
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  Speaker 1: the corner did find there were very small burns on
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  Speaker 1: the back of his neck that were caused by acid,
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  Speaker 1: but it was unclear how those got there. When they
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  Speaker 1: inspected Ziggy's stomach, they determined that he had been eating
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  Speaker 1: and drinking regularly, and so he was not malnourished, he
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  Speaker 1: was not dehydrated, he was relatively healthy when he died.
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  Speaker 1: He just had this heart attack for unknown reasons, and
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: apparently whatever gave him the heart attack scared him so
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  Speaker 1: badly his face contorted in that horrible way. Ultimately, the
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: corner just kind of gave up and ruled that Ziggy
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: had died of natural causes, and then the case was closed.
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  Speaker 1: But to this day, no one really has any idea
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  Speaker 1: how Ziggy went from going out to get groceries to
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: winding up twenty five miles away, dressed differently, with this haircut,
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  Speaker 1: with this jelly on him and acid burns dead, with
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: this horrible look on his face on this coal pile.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense. This case has become very
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: famous because people say it is the best example of
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: alien abduction. That Ziggy had left his house to get groceries,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: got abducted by aliens, and then over five days, you know,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: these aliens did stuff to Ziggy, including cutting into his
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: neck and dropping acid on him, and then they put
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: that green stuff on the back of his neck. They
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: dressed him the way they thought people dressed in a suit,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: but they didn't really do it right. And then they
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: literally just dropped him on top of this coal pile,
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  Speaker 1: which would explain why he didn't have soot all over him.
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  Speaker 1: He was dead. They dropped him and he just landed
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  Speaker 1: on the top of the coal pile. And even if
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: you think that's totally far fetched, keep in mind still
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  Speaker 1: today we do not know what that green jelly compound
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: was on the back of his neck. It's literally never
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: been identified and people have been trying to figure it
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: out for forty plus years. Also, it's worth noting that
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: one of the responding police officers, Alan Godfrey, claimed to
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: have seen a UFO within weeks of finding Ziggia Damski.
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