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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. But
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  Speaker 1: In October of twenty fourteen, a thirty five year old
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  Speaker 1: woman who will call Olivia met her husband for lunch
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  Speaker 1: at a restaurant in Western New York. The couple had
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  Speaker 1: not originally planned to stay at this restaurant for very long,
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  Speaker 1: but one thing led to another.
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  Speaker 2: They were having a nice.
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  Speaker 1: Time, and before long it was six pm and they
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  Speaker 1: had been there for six hours, and over those six hours,
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  Speaker 1: both of them had had a lot to eat, lots
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  Speaker 1: of bread and pasta and cakes and all sorts of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and they had.
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  Speaker 2: Had some alcohol, but not very much.
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  Speaker 1: Olivia had been careful to only have four drinks over
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  Speaker 1: those six hours because she wanted to be able to drive,
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  Speaker 1: and her husband similarly limited his drinking so he'd be
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  Speaker 1: saved to drive. And so after they got the check
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  Speaker 1: and they paid for their meal, they both hopped in
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  Speaker 1: their respective cars and they began driving home. As Olivia
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  Speaker 1: was making her way home, she unfortunately got.
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  Speaker 2: A flat tire, and so she pulled off to the
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  Speaker 2: side of the road and she called roadside assistance.
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  Speaker 1: As she was waiting for help to show up, another
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  Speaker 1: motorist happened to drive by, and they misunderstood what was happening.
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  Speaker 2: They saw Olivia standing outside.
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  Speaker 1: Of her car with the tire popped off, and they
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  Speaker 1: thought she'd been in an accident, and so they called
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  Speaker 1: the police and reported it, and so the police show up.
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  Speaker 2: A few minutes later.
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  Speaker 1: They pull up right behind Olivia, and when they get out,
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  Speaker 1: they asked her, you know, are you okay?
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  Speaker 2: Do you need any help? And she would say, oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: I just had a flat tire. I'm totally fine. You know,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for stopping though.
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  Speaker 1: But the police, as they're listening to her speak, they
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  Speaker 1: see her eyes look kind of glassy and glazed over,
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  Speaker 1: like she's drunk. And as she was speaking, they could
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  Speaker 1: have sworn she was slurring her words.
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  Speaker 2: And so they said, hey, ma'am, have you been drinking tonight?
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  Speaker 1: And she would tell them that, well, yeah, I have
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  Speaker 1: had a few drinks, but only four over the last
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  Speaker 1: six hours, and I don't feel drunk at all. That
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  Speaker 1: has nothing to do with the situation i'm in now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not drunk.
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  Speaker 1: But the police were not buying it, and so they
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  Speaker 1: put her through a series of field sobriety tests that
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  Speaker 1: she managed to get through, but she struggled with enough
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  Speaker 1: that it sent up some red flags, and so they
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  Speaker 1: made her blow into a breathalyzer. A breathalyzer is a
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  Speaker 1: device that uses your breath to register how much alcohol
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  Speaker 1: is in your system, also known as your blood alcohol
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  Speaker 1: content or BAC for short, BAC is scored as a
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  Speaker 1: percentage out of one hundred and While no one should
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  Speaker 1: ever get behind the wheel of a vehicle if they
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  Speaker 1: are impaired, it is the case that in America you
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  Speaker 1: are allowed legally to operate a vehicle if your BAC
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  Speaker 1: is point zero eight percent or lower. For reference, if
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  Speaker 1: a one hundred and sixty pound female consumed about three
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  Speaker 1: alcoholic drinks maybe a little bit more, in the course
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  Speaker 1: of an hour, she would most likely have a point
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  Speaker 1: zero eight percent BAC. If that same one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: sixty pound female were to consume let's say eight alcoholic
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  Speaker 1: drinks over the course of an hour, she would definitely
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  Speaker 1: not be allowed to legally operate a vehicle because she
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  Speaker 1: would be very, very drunk.
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  Speaker 2: Her BAC would.
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  Speaker 1: Have spiked to point two percent, which would put her
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  Speaker 1: in the range where she would most likely have alcohol
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  Speaker 1: poisoning and eventually she would most likely lose consciousness. If
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  Speaker 1: this same one hundred and sixty pound female were to
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  Speaker 1: consume thirteen alcoholic drinks over the course of an hour,
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  Speaker 1: her BAC would jump all the way up to point
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  Speaker 1: four percent, where she's not just and unable to operate
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  Speaker 1: a vehicle. At that level, you're talking about potentially dying
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  Speaker 1: from consuming that much alcohol. When Olivia blew into this breathalyzer,
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  Speaker 1: she fully expected that she would be below the point
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  Speaker 1: zero eight percent legal limit, because, after all, she'd only
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  Speaker 1: had four alcoholic drinks over a six hour period, and
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  Speaker 1: so that would put her well.
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  Speaker 2: Below that legal limit. But that was not the case.
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  Speaker 1: She blew a staggering point three three percent. The cops
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  Speaker 1: couldn't believe what they were looking at because they're looking
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  Speaker 1: at Olivia and they're thinking, at that level, she should
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  Speaker 1: be somewhere between losing consciousness and dying. But here she
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  Speaker 1: is just standing there talking to us, acting a little
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  Speaker 1: bit buzzed, and so they assumed their breathalyzer.
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  Speaker 2: Must have made a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: So they went back into their car, got another breathalyzer,
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  Speaker 1: did it again, and again Olivia.
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  Speaker 2: Blue a point three to three percent BAC.
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  Speaker 1: The officers couldn't understand how this woman had such an
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  Speaker 1: extreme alcohol tolerance, but regardless, they charged her with driving
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  Speaker 1: well intoxicated and then brought her to the hospital for
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  Speaker 1: medical intervention. There, her BAC remained high, even after a
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  Speaker 1: full day had passed without her consuming any more alcohol.
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  Speaker 1: This is around the time that it was discovered that
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  Speaker 1: Olivia had a very very rare medical condition called auto
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  Speaker 1: brewery syndrome, which in a nutshell, meant her body transformed
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  Speaker 1: glucose from foods, specifically carbs like bread pasta, that kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing into alcohol. Olivia, who was totally unaware of
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  Speaker 1: this condition, had developed this wicked alcohol tolerance because she
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  Speaker 1: was basically drunk all the time, not because she was
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  Speaker 1: a heavy drinker, but because she ate carbs. This condition,
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  Speaker 1: if left untreated, can do the same damage alcoholism and
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  Speaker 1: binge drinking can do to the body. The only way
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  Speaker 1: you can treat it is by drastically changing your diet.
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  Speaker 1: When Olivia's condition was discovered and made public, the charges
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  Speaker 1: against her were dropped and she would go on to
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  Speaker 1: just stop eating carbs altogether.
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  Speaker 2: In eighteen eighty.
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  Speaker 1: Seven, thirty five year old Robert Ledrux was a very
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  Speaker 1: talented detective working in Paris, France. He was so talented
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  Speaker 1: that periodically he would get called upon by other police
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  Speaker 1: departments around the country to help them solve their most
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  Speaker 1: difficult cases. And so that year there was this coastal
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  Speaker 1: town in northern France that had the string of sailors
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  Speaker 1: that went missing, and nobody had the slightest idea what
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  Speaker 1: had happened to them, and so naturally Robert was called
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  Speaker 1: in to investigate. The night Robert arrived in this town,
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  Speaker 1: it was very late and Robert was tired, so he
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  Speaker 1: went straight to his hotel and he went to bed.
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  Speaker 1: The following morning, he got up and he went straight
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  Speaker 1: to the local police department to meet the local officers
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  Speaker 1: that he would be working with on this investigation. But
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  Speaker 1: when he got there, he was told that the missing
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  Speaker 1: sailor's case had been lowered in priority because during the
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  Speaker 1: night a murder had been committed down on their beach.
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  Speaker 2: And so that was now their main focus.
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  Speaker 1: And so they apologized to Robert and said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry you came all this way for nothing, but
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  Speaker 1: since you're here, do you want to help us in
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  Speaker 1: this beach murder investigation?
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  Speaker 2: And Robert said sure.
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  Speaker 1: The victim was a middle aged man named Andre Monnet
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  Speaker 1: who owned a dress.
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  Speaker 2: Shop in Paris, France.
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  Speaker 1: He had recently moved to this coastal town to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the beautiful scenery. When his body was discovered early that morning,
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  Speaker 1: it was quickly determined he had been killed by a
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  Speaker 1: single gunshot wound to the chest where the bullet actually
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  Speaker 1: went clear through him out the other side, but they
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  Speaker 1: hadn't found the bullet. There were no suspects, there were
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  Speaker 1: no leads, there was no clear motive However, they were
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  Speaker 1: able to rule out robbery because there was still money
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  Speaker 1: in Andre's pockets, and so Robert and the other local
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  Speaker 1: officers left the police station and made their way down
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  Speaker 1: to the beach, where they began examining.
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  Speaker 2: The area where Andre had been found.
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  Speaker 1: The local officers focused on looking for the bullet, while
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  Speaker 1: Robert decided to walk a little ways down the beach
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  Speaker 1: to see if there was any evidence.
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  Speaker 2: That had been overlooked in the initial search.
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  Speaker 1: And after only walking a very short distance, Robert noticed
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  Speaker 1: some barely visible footprints that appeared to pass right by
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  Speaker 1: where Andre's body had been found, and these footprints they
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  Speaker 1: continued past that area and then up a flight of
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  Speaker 1: stairs up onto the road where they disappeared. Robert called
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  Speaker 1: over the other officers and told them to make plaster
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  Speaker 1: casts of these footprints so he could analyze them. What
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  Speaker 1: that meant is the officers would literally just pour liquid
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  Speaker 1: plaster inside of these prints, and then when they dried,
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  Speaker 1: they would pull that plaster out and it would literally
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  Speaker 1: be a three D model of the foot that had
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  Speaker 1: made the princes. And so, as the officers are working
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  Speaker 1: on these casts, Robert says to one of the officers
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  Speaker 1: that these prints looked really odd to him, like they
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  Speaker 1: were familiar in some way, but he just couldn't place
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  Speaker 1: where he had seen them before. Less than an hour later,
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  Speaker 1: when the plaster had dried, the officers pulled them out
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  Speaker 1: and they handed them to Robert, and as soon as
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  Speaker 1: Robert looked at them, he physically reacted to what he
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  Speaker 1: was seeing.
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  Speaker 2: It was like he was disappointed.
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  Speaker 1: And then, without saying anything, he just walked down the
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  Speaker 1: beach with these plaster casts until he got to the
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  Speaker 1: secluded area where he sat down. And he sat there
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  Speaker 1: for hours and hours, just stare at the plaster casts,
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  Speaker 1: seemingly unaffected by the sun that was blazing down on
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  Speaker 1: him the whole time and the tide that was very
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  Speaker 1: quickly creeping up on him. The local officers who were
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  Speaker 1: watching this, they didn't know anything about Robert. All they
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  Speaker 1: knew is his reputation, which is he is this totally
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  Speaker 1: legendary detective, and so they didn't dare question his methods,
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  Speaker 1: even though this seemed really odd what he was doing. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: by mid afternoon, Robert would put the cast down, he
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  Speaker 1: would stand up, and he would walk back over to
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  Speaker 1: the mystified local officers, and when he walked up to them,
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  Speaker 1: he would say, there's no reason to stay at the
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  Speaker 1: beach any longer or interview any more witnesses. I think
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  Speaker 1: I've solved the case. But then instead of elaborating, he
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  Speaker 1: just turned around and walked up off.
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  Speaker 2: The beach and headed back for his hotel.
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  Speaker 1: The local officers just looked at each other and shrugged,
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  Speaker 1: and they left too early.
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  Speaker 2: The next day, the bullet that had killed.
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  Speaker 1: Andre Monette was found on the beach, and so when
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  Speaker 1: Robert showed up to the beach, the chief of police
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  Speaker 1: handed him this bullet in an effort to help him
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  Speaker 1: continue the investigation. And as soon as Robert looked at it,
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  Speaker 1: he saw and said, okay, now I know for sure
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  Speaker 1: what happened. And then Robert proceeded to break down the murder.
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  Speaker 1: He said, the killer woke up in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night on the night that Andre was killed.
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  Speaker 2: And he got out of this bed. He put on
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  Speaker 2: his clothes, and then he headed down to the beach.
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  Speaker 1: There he encountered Andrea Monette, a man he didn't know
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  Speaker 1: who was most likely out for a midnight stroll as well.
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  Speaker 1: The two men struck up a friendly conversation, but at
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  Speaker 1: some point it turned into some sort of quarrel, at
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  Speaker 1: which point the killer drew his pistol, shot Andre in
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  Speaker 1: the chest, and then fled the scene. Robert told the
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  Speaker 1: local police chief that the reason he knew all these
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  Speaker 1: details is because he had been the killer.
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  Speaker 2: He killed Andre Monette, but.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't do it on purpose, and he didn't remember
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  Speaker 1: because he killed andre Monette while he was sleepwalking, he
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  Speaker 1: told the chief. When he was given those plaster casts
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  Speaker 1: of those footprints, he knew immediately why he thought those
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  Speaker 1: prince looked so familiar, because as soon as he looked
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  Speaker 1: at the casts, he could tell whoever had made the
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  Speaker 1: prince was missing a tow, and as it happened, Robert
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  Speaker 1: was missing a toe.
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  Speaker 2: So those princes looked at exactly like his footprints.
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  Speaker 1: And that morning, when he had woken up in his
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  Speaker 1: hotel room, before even going down to the beach, he
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  Speaker 1: had noticed that his shoes and his socks which were
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  Speaker 1: next to his bed were sandy and damp, and he
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  Speaker 1: thought that was so strange because he couldn't remember how
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  Speaker 1: they got that way, but he was too busy to investigate.
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  Speaker 1: And that night, after he had sat all day looking
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  Speaker 1: at the casts, and then left the beach, leaving the
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  Speaker 1: local police officers totally mystified.
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  Speaker 2: He had gone back to his room and the.
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  Speaker 1: First thing he did was get his revolver out from
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  Speaker 1: under his pillow, and he discovered that one bullet was missing,
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  Speaker 1: and he always kept his revolver fully loaded, and so
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  Speaker 1: he spent the rest of the night trying to convince
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  Speaker 1: himself that this was just one big coincidence.
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  Speaker 2: But the following morning.
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  Speaker 1: When he was given that bullet, he knew immediately that
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  Speaker 1: this was not a coincidence. The bullet that had killed
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  Speaker 1: Andre Monet was the same type of ammunition that he
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  Speaker 1: loaded his revolver with, and so he had to be
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  Speaker 1: the killer. He had effectively caught himself. The police were
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  Speaker 1: totally shocked and did not believe this at first. More specifically,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't want to believe that Robert, their star detective,
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  Speaker 1: was behind this horrible homicide, but eventually, after examining all
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  Speaker 1: the evidence, they agreed he had to be the killer.
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  Speaker 1: But to test whether this really was sleepwalking and not
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  Speaker 1: some elaborate cover up by Robert, they decided to conduct
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  Speaker 1: an experiment. Robert, who was fully cooperative with the investigation,
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  Speaker 1: was told to sleep in this jail cell where he
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  Speaker 1: would be monitored twenty four to seven by armed guards.
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  Speaker 1: And in this cell with him would be a revolver
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  Speaker 1: loaded with blank rounds, and he was told to keep
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  Speaker 1: it under his pillow. For the first couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: nothing happened. Robert never touched the revolver during the day
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  Speaker 1: or when he was asleep. But about a week into
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  Speaker 1: this experiment, Robert suddenly woke up in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night in this trance like state.
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  Speaker 2: He reached under his pillow, pulled.
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  Speaker 1: Out the revolver and began firing at the guards right
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  Speaker 1: outside of the cell. And so this convinced the police
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  Speaker 1: that Robert had been telling the truth about what happened
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  Speaker 1: to Andre Monet. He really had killed him while he
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  Speaker 1: was sleepwalking. A decision was made not to prosecute Robert
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  Speaker 1: for the u murder. Instead, they decided to basically exile
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  Speaker 1: him for everybody's protection, and so from then until nineteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven, when Robert died, he was forced to live
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  Speaker 1: alone on the secluded farm outside of Paris, where the
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  Speaker 1: only visitors he ever got were doctors who would only
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  Speaker 1: show up during the.
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  Speaker 2: Day and with armed bodyguards.
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  Speaker 1: On December eighteenth, nineteen fifty six, a brand new game
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  Speaker 1: show called to Tell the Truth aired on a major
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  Speaker 1: American television network.
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  Speaker 2: The premise of the show was relatively simple.
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  Speaker 1: Four celebrity judges would be presented with three people called contestants,
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  Speaker 1: who all claimed to be.
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  Speaker 2: The same person.
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  Speaker 1: And this person, who they claimed to be, was always
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  Speaker 1: remarkable in some way. They had some incredible talent or
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  Speaker 1: some crazy job, or they had accomplished something extraordinary. One
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  Speaker 1: of these three contestants was the real person they were
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  Speaker 1: claiming to be. The other two people were doing their
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  Speaker 1: best to pretend to be that person, and it was
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  Speaker 1: the job of the celebrity judges to try to figure
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  Speaker 1: out who was telling the truth. So for a set
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  Speaker 1: amount of time on the show, the celebrity judges would
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  Speaker 1: ask the contestants' questions about their background and try to
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  Speaker 1: figure out, you know, who was who, And then at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the time, the celebrities would cast a
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  Speaker 1: vote about who they thought was the real remarkable person.
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  Speaker 1: After the votes were tallied up, the host would have
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  Speaker 1: the real remarkable persons stand up to reveal themselves and
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  Speaker 1: the entire audience would go crazy, and that was the
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  Speaker 1: show and the show became quite popular, so popular in fact,
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  Speaker 1: that today, nearly seventy years later, it's still on the air.
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  Speaker 1: And over this show's very long history, virtually all the
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  Speaker 1: episodes are pretty similar. It's a pretty redundant show, but
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  Speaker 1: there is one episode that will forever go down as
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  Speaker 1: the most unique. In October of nineteen seventy two, three
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  Speaker 1: contestants walked out onto the stage in front of the
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  Speaker 1: four celebrity judges and they all introduced themselves as Ed Edwards.
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  Speaker 1: Then the host of the show read aloud the biography
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  Speaker 1: of the real Ed Edwards, and he would say that
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  Speaker 1: ed at one point was on the FBI's list of
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  Speaker 1: the top ten most wanted criminals in America for crimes
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  Speaker 1: like armed robbery and impersonating a federal officer. And then
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  Speaker 1: after he was finally caught by law enforcement and went
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  Speaker 1: to prison, a prison guard helped him turn his life around,
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  Speaker 1: and then upon release from prison fourteen years later, Ed
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  Speaker 1: remained this reformed criminal and became a successful author and
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  Speaker 1: motivational speaker who specialized in telling people how to identify
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  Speaker 1: con men and criminals and how to protect themselves from
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  Speaker 1: these people. After the real Ed Edwards biography was read aloud.
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  Speaker 1: The three contestants sat down and the celebrity judges began
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  Speaker 1: asking them questions about their past, and then after the
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  Speaker 1: time was up, the celebrities cast their votes, and then
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  Speaker 1: the real Ed Edwards was revealed, and even though two
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  Speaker 1: of the four celebrity judges had correctly identified the right
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  Speaker 1: Ed Edwards, the crowd was totally astonished who this guy
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  Speaker 1: actually was because he did not look like this ex convict.
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  Speaker 1: He looked like this kind of all American middle aged
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  Speaker 1: father who was totally harmless and wouldn't hurt a fly.
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  Speaker 1: But either way, the show ended and then the world
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  Speaker 1: forgot about Ed Edwards until two thousand and nine. That year,
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  Speaker 1: Ed's a strange daughter, forty year old April Bolacio, finally
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  Speaker 1: decided to investigate something.
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  Speaker 2: That had plagued her for her whole childhood.
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  Speaker 1: Despite her father's claims that he was this reformed criminal
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  Speaker 1: and this stand up law abiding guy, she didn't believe it.
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  Speaker 2: She never believed it.
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  Speaker 1: She thought he had never been reformed and just was
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  Speaker 1: a criminal and always had been. Behind closed doors, Ed
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  Speaker 1: was violent and abusive, and he was a compulsive liar,
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  Speaker 1: she remembered in the nineteen seventies and eighties. When she
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  Speaker 1: was a young kid, Ed would make their family pack
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  Speaker 1: up and move, sometimes in the middle of the night,
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  Speaker 1: and April always assumed it was because her dad was.
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  Speaker 2: Wrapped up in something criminal.
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  Speaker 1: But every time she asked him, he would say, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I was an informant when I was in jail,
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  Speaker 1: and I snitched on some people and some of those
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  Speaker 1: people had figured out where we live, and so we
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  Speaker 1: got to move.
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  Speaker 2: April knew he was lying.
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  Speaker 1: But there was nothing she could do, and so they
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  Speaker 1: just kept on moving around. But she always thought something
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  Speaker 1: else was going on. So in two thousand and nine,
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  Speaker 1: when April is now this forty year old woman, she's
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  Speaker 1: laying in bed one night and finally says, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to start googling some stuff. So she
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  Speaker 1: hops in her laptop and she starts typing in the
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  Speaker 1: different names of towns that she and her family lived
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  Speaker 1: in as a kid, and then after she'd write the
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  Speaker 1: name of the town, she'd write unsolved mystery or unsolved crime,
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  Speaker 1: and she would see if anything popped up, and so
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  Speaker 1: as she began looking, she found one in nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: It was an unsolved murder in a town called Watertown,
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  Speaker 1: Wisconsin that happened right around the time that her family
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  Speaker 1: very briefly lived in this town. There was this young
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  Speaker 1: teenage couple that had left this wedding and they had
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  Speaker 1: driven down this dead end road and they were just
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  Speaker 1: kind of enjoying each other's company when an unknown assailant
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  Speaker 1: who matched the description of Ed Edwards walked up to
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  Speaker 1: their car, broke in, shot them both to death, and
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  Speaker 1: then disappeared. And so, on a hunch, a Pool called
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  Speaker 1: the Watertown police department the following day and told them
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  Speaker 1: that I think my father might have been responsible for
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  Speaker 1: this double homicide.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a hunch, but he matches the description.
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  Speaker 1: We were there in this very small window of time
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  Speaker 1: when it happened, and so the police said, okay, we'll
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  Speaker 1: go have a look. And so the Watertown police they
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  Speaker 1: tracked down Ed Edwards, who was living in Kentucky at
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  Speaker 1: the time, and they got him to give them a
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  Speaker 1: DNA sample, and when they tested the DNA sample, it
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  Speaker 1: matched these samples that were taken at the crime scene
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty and so Ed Edwards he was arrested
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  Speaker 1: and brought back to Wisconsin and as soon as he
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  Speaker 1: was in custody, he confessed to the murder, and then
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  Speaker 1: he requested the death penalty, but he was told the
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  Speaker 1: maximum punishment for this crime was.
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  Speaker 2: Life in prison.
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  Speaker 1: Ed didn't like this, and so he confessed to another
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  Speaker 1: double homicide from nineteen seventy seven in Ohio, where he
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  Speaker 1: killed another teenage couple, thinking that would give him the
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  Speaker 1: death penalty, but through a loophole, they said, well, actually,
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  Speaker 1: that still won't get you the death penalty. You're still
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: facing life in prison. And so, frustrated, ed revealed a
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  Speaker 1: third murder he had perpetrated in nineteen ninety six. He
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  Speaker 1: had killed his own foster son for the insurance money,
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  Speaker 1: and so for this crime he was eligible for capital punishment,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: and so he was sentenced to death, but he would
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  Speaker 1: die of natural causes two years later in twenty eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Before the state could execute him.
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  Speaker 1: Since his death, cold case investigators and members of his
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  Speaker 1: own family have theorized that ed Edwards is almost certainly
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  Speaker 1: responsible for more killings beyond just the five he happened
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  Speaker 1: to confess to. In fact, many people believe ed Edwards
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  Speaker 1: could actually be the infamous Zodiac killer, who's one of
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the nation's most notorious uncaught serial killers that killed thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven people in northern California in the nineteen sixties and
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. If this is true, then Ed Edwards did
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: not become a killer after he was on that game
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: show in nineteen seventy two. Now, when he showed up
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: for that game show and stood in front of the
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: audience and smiled and answered questions to the celebrity panelists
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: at that time, and as you're watching him on TV,
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  Speaker 1: he would have already been a seasoned serial killer with
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: dozens and dozens of victims. But Ed stopped confessing to
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  Speaker 1: murders after that third confession because he was just kind
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  Speaker 1: of using those murders as bargaining chips to get what
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: he wanted, the death penalty, and once he got it,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: he went silent. And now that he's dead, we're never
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: going to get another confession out of him, and there's
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  Speaker 1: no proof connecting him to any unsolved murder cases, and
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  Speaker 1: so unfortunately, it's unlikely we'll ever know the full extent
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: of Ed's reign of terror.
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