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  Speaker 1: into today's stories. On the afternoon of April twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, a twenty five year old police
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  Speaker 1: officer named Martin Arnold and his partner Michelle sat in
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  Speaker 1: their police cruiser in the parking lot of a public
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  Speaker 1: park in Heilbroun, Germany. They were on their lunch break
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  Speaker 1: and Martin was eating a sandwich and looking out across
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  Speaker 1: the park, which was mostly empty because it was a
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  Speaker 1: weekday afternoon. So Heilbrun was a medium sized city in
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  Speaker 1: southern Germany, and it was generally a pretty safe area.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, for the most part, the worst crimes committed
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  Speaker 1: here were like break ins or muggings, So Martin and
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  Speaker 1: his partner they didn't have a whole lot of action
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  Speaker 1: happening around them. However, something Martin and Michelle and basically
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  Speaker 1: all police officers for the most part in Germany were
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  Speaker 1: acutely aware of was over the last fourteen years, all
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  Speaker 1: across Germany there had been this rash of crimes, ranging
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  Speaker 1: from home invasions and robberies to at least two murders
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  Speaker 1: that had basically all been committed based on DNA evidence
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  Speaker 1: by the same person, this singular woman whose nickname was
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  Speaker 1: the Woman with No Face, and she still hadn't been
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  Speaker 1: caught yet, and so in essence, all police officers in
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  Speaker 1: Germany were sort of like always on the lookout for
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  Speaker 1: this woman. She was like the most elusive and sought
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  Speaker 1: after criminal in the whole country. But on this particular day,
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  Speaker 1: as Martin sat in his cruiser on his lunch break.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't really thinking about how he might get involved
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  Speaker 1: in capturing the woman with no face. Instead, he was
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  Speaker 1: just worried about his sandwich, and so he went to
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  Speaker 1: take another bite of his sandwich when he heard the doors,
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  Speaker 1: the back doors of his cruiser open up, and he
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  Speaker 1: whipped around and he looked, and there were these two
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  Speaker 1: people who had approached the cruiser, and each of them
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  Speaker 1: were carrying a gun, and before Martin or Michelle could
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  Speaker 1: do anything, these people raised their weapons and they fired
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  Speaker 1: and everything went black. Within minutes, officers from the Heilbron
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  Speaker 1: Police Department had swarmed the scene. They found Michelle, who
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  Speaker 1: was deceased from a gunshot wound to the head, and
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  Speaker 1: Martin had also been shot in the head, but he
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  Speaker 1: was still alive.
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  Speaker 2: He was just unconscious, and so.
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  Speaker 1: An ambulance rushed him to the hospital while detectives taped
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  Speaker 1: off the crime scene and began looking for evidence. Some
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  Speaker 1: officers immediately began canvassing the area looking for potential witnesses,
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  Speaker 1: but because the park was basically empty all day, there
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  Speaker 1: was nobody who had seen the shooting. Other officers looked
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  Speaker 1: for footprints in the ground, you know, around the car.
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  Speaker 1: They also began looking for her fingerprints on the car,
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  Speaker 1: bullet casings, hares, other fibers inside or outside the car,
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  Speaker 1: but there was nothing. And so at this point the
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  Speaker 1: investigators are like, Okay, all we know is there's been
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  Speaker 1: at least one shooter, maybe multiple. Because they have not
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  Speaker 1: spoken to Martin, who's unconscious, they have no idea what
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  Speaker 1: he's seen.
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  Speaker 2: So they're seeing that at least.
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  Speaker 1: One person has managed to come up to a police
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  Speaker 1: cruiser undetected, presumably open up the doors, shoot both officers
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  Speaker 1: in the head, and then get away without leaving behind
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  Speaker 1: any obvious evidence.
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  Speaker 2: That just seemed crazy, like have we just missed something?
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  Speaker 1: Like there's got to be something here that sort of
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  Speaker 1: points us in the direction of who was responsible. And so,
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  Speaker 1: in a last ditch attempt to find something helpful at
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  Speaker 1: the crime scene, one officer swabbed the inside of the
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  Speaker 1: car for potential DNA evidence. They knew that if there
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  Speaker 1: was DNA it could belong to Martin or Michelle or
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  Speaker 1: anybody else who might have been inside of this car,
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  Speaker 1: and any of those people didn't have to be the
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  Speaker 1: shooter or shooters, They could just be people in the car.
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  Speaker 1: But it was possible that DNA found inside that car
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  Speaker 1: could belong to whoever did this. However, they wouldn't know
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  Speaker 1: about this DNA sample until the crime lab analyzed the swabs,
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  Speaker 1: and that could take a really long time, but it
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  Speaker 1: was certainly worth it, and so they sent the swabs
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  Speaker 1: off for testing.
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  Speaker 2: While they waited for the DNA.
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  Speaker 1: Results to come in, the hilbron PDE continued trying to
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  Speaker 1: find witnesses or any other helpful evidence anything, but they
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  Speaker 1: kept coming up empty. Their only potential witness here was
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  Speaker 1: Martin himself, but he was still in a coma at
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  Speaker 1: the hospital. It was not until weeks later that finally
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  Speaker 1: the police had something to go on because the DNA
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  Speaker 1: results came back and not only was their DNA found
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  Speaker 1: in the car, but what this DNA revealed sent the
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  Speaker 1: media into a frenzy and brought this investigation to.
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  Speaker 2: The national level.
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  Speaker 1: At this time, it's mid two thousand and seven and
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  Speaker 1: a forty four year old German prosecutor named Gunter Horn
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  Speaker 1: was sitting in his office when he got a call
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  Speaker 1: from his boss and his boss told him the woman
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  Speaker 1: without a face has struck again, this time in Heilbraun.
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  Speaker 1: Gunter's eyes went wide and He immediately sat up and
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  Speaker 1: listened really intently as his boss explained that two police
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  Speaker 1: officers in Heilbron had been shot in the head while
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  Speaker 1: parked in their cruiser near this park, and the woman
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  Speaker 1: with no face her DNA had been found in the
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  Speaker 1: back seat of their car. Now, Gunter had always been
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  Speaker 1: fascinated by the woman without a face, so he was
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  Speaker 1: ecstatic when his boss asked if he Gunter would lead
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  Speaker 1: the investigation into this most recent crime in Heilbraun that
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  Speaker 1: was potentially connected to this woman and to try to
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  Speaker 1: finally identify.
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  Speaker 2: Who she was once and for all.
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  Speaker 1: Gunter immediately said he would do it, and he got
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  Speaker 1: to work right away. Gunter organized a task force to
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  Speaker 1: investigate this woman without a Face. The task force was
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  Speaker 1: based in Heilbraun, but at Gunter's command. Detectives on the
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  Speaker 1: team began reinvestigating all these crimes from all over Germany
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  Speaker 1: that this woman was involved in. They searched for patterns,
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  Speaker 1: for evidence or witnesses that maybe had been missed during
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  Speaker 1: the original investigation, and through this effort, this team was
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  Speaker 1: able to come up with a very rough idea of
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  Speaker 1: who this woman was. They knew that she was very
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  Speaker 1: likely a heroin user because police had once recovered a
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  Speaker 1: heroin needle with her DNA on it at a public park.
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  Speaker 1: They also knew she had a lot of criminal contacts
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  Speaker 1: because many of her crimes involved co conspirators, but anytime
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  Speaker 1: police had interrogated her co conspirators, they had refused to
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  Speaker 1: say anything about her. Was like they were afraid of her.
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  Speaker 1: And there were a couple of other details that struck
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  Speaker 1: Gunter as being pretty odd. The only evidence this woman
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  Speaker 1: had ever left behind at any of these crime scenes
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  Speaker 1: was her DNA, and they didn't have a match in
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  Speaker 1: the database to pair it with, so they only knew
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  Speaker 1: she was a woman, but they didn't know who she was.
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  Speaker 1: In fourteen years. She never left behind a fingerprint, a footprint,
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  Speaker 1: a hair or anything else. So it seemed like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: her crimes were extremely deliberate, very clean, very well planned.
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  Speaker 1: But also she was clearly leaving behind her DNA at
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  Speaker 1: all these crime scenes. It almost seemed like that was
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  Speaker 1: her calling card. Also, what Gunter and his task force
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  Speaker 1: discovered is that in many of the crimes committed by
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  Speaker 1: the woman without a face, witnesses described seeing what looked
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  Speaker 1: like a man at the scene, not a woman, and
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  Speaker 1: this was obviously weird because based on the DNA evidence,
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  Speaker 1: they knew unequivocally that their suspect, this woman without a face,
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  Speaker 1: was biologically female, not male. And so to Gunter, it
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  Speaker 1: seemed like, you know, maybe this man that was being
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  Speaker 1: seen at these crime scenes was just one of the
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  Speaker 1: woman's co conspirators, or maybe the woman without a face
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  Speaker 1: dressed as a man to avoid being caught, But it
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  Speaker 1: was impossible to know without a first hand witness who
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  Speaker 1: had actually seen.
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  Speaker 2: The suspect up close. That was what Gunter really needed.
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  Speaker 1: And in late May, about a month after the shooting
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  Speaker 1: in Heilbraun, Gunter got a call about that exact type
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  Speaker 1: of witness that he was looking for. That same day,
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  Speaker 1: Gunter walked into a hospital in Heilbroun and he saw
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  Speaker 1: heilbron police officer Martin Arnold laying in a hospital.
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  Speaker 2: Bed with his eyes open.
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  Speaker 1: He'd been in a coma for a month now after
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  Speaker 1: being shot, but he had woken up and he clearly
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  Speaker 1: was Gunter's best chance of catching the woman without a
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  Speaker 1: face because presumably before he was shot he might have
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  Speaker 1: gotten a look at her. So he was that witness
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  Speaker 1: who might be able to describe her, and so Gunter
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  Speaker 1: he walked over, sat down next to Martin's hospital bed,
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  Speaker 1: and he asked him to please tell him everything he
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  Speaker 1: remembered about what happened. And Martin, you know, he was
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  Speaker 1: very distraught about the whole thing. He's just woken up,
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  Speaker 1: he's just learned that his partner has died, and so
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  Speaker 1: he's very emotional. But he ultimately tells Gunter that, you know, realistically,
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  Speaker 1: he can't really remember what happened.
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  Speaker 2: He basically turned around.
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  Speaker 1: He saw there was, you know, these two figures, but
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  Speaker 1: after he got shot, it was like he just didn't
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  Speaker 1: remember anything. And so realistically, Martin had almost nothing to offer,
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  Speaker 1: which meant Gunter was back to square one. For the
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  Speaker 1: next two years, Gunter and his task force worked tirelessly
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  Speaker 1: to try to catch the Woman without a Face. They
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  Speaker 1: spent millions of euros, clogged thousands of hours of overtime,
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  Speaker 1: and even offered a reward equivalent to four hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: US dollars for information, but.
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  Speaker 2: None of it led anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: And adding insult to injury was the fact that the
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  Speaker 1: whole time this investigation is going on, the woman without
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  Speaker 1: a Face kept committing crimes the task force connected her
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  Speaker 1: to at least six more break ins, one more robbery,
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  Speaker 1: and another murder, and these crimes weren't even just happening
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  Speaker 1: in Germany anymore. They also found the woman's DNA at
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  Speaker 1: crime scenes in France and in Austria. So now the
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  Speaker 1: entire region was on alert for this woman who seemed
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  Speaker 1: like this impossibly cunning international criminal genius, and Gunter he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't help but start to wonder if he would ever
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  Speaker 1: be able to catch her. But then, in March of
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, Gunter got a call from a
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  Speaker 1: police officer in France, and what this officer told him
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  Speaker 1: would change everything. According to this officer, the French police
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  Speaker 1: were currently investigating a potential murder. They told Gunter that
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  Speaker 1: a badly burned body had been found in France, and
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  Speaker 1: it was so disfigured that for a while all police
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  Speaker 1: knew was that it was a man. However, an asylum
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  Speaker 1: seeker who had come to France had recently been reported missing,
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  Speaker 1: and police wondered if maybe.
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  Speaker 2: The body belonged to him.
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  Speaker 1: So on hunch, they had gotten his asylum application paperwork,
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  Speaker 1: which included his fingerprints, and they'd been able to lift
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  Speaker 1: a DNA profile from those prints, but when they had
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  Speaker 1: the DNA analyzed, the results didn't make any sense, and
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  Speaker 1: the French police were so baffled by these results that
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  Speaker 1: they were now calling Gunter because they knew if there's
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  Speaker 1: someone who needs to know about this, it's Gunter. And
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  Speaker 1: so Gunter, after being fully filled in about the baffling
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  Speaker 1: results that they had found, he was also at first
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  Speaker 1: very confused, but at the same time, he felt this
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  Speaker 1: new surge of hope because to him it felt like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as bizarre as this was, maybe this was
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  Speaker 1: the break he'd been looking for for the past two years.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe this was the time he was finally going to
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  Speaker 1: figure out who.
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  Speaker 2: This woman really was.
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  Speaker 1: So he thanked the French police officer and then brought
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  Speaker 1: this new information to his team, and within just a
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  Speaker 1: few days, this new information from France did lead Gunter
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  Speaker 1: and his team to the woman with no Face. It
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  Speaker 1: would turn out this woman, the international criminal mastermind behind
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  Speaker 1: dozens of crimes, including at least former who had evaded
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  Speaker 1: capture for sixteen years, all across the entirety of Germany
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  Speaker 1: and beyond, appeared to everybody who actually knew her as
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  Speaker 1: a totally normal person like nobody suspected she was actually
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  Speaker 1: responsible for all these horrible crimes. She was a young
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  Speaker 1: woman who lived in southern Germany, who during the day
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  Speaker 1: she appeared to work at a factory, and at night
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  Speaker 1: she appeared to just go home like she lived a
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  Speaker 1: very ordinary life. And so again nobody ever suspected her.
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  Speaker 1: But what the French police found when they analyzed the
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  Speaker 1: DNA from the missing man's asylum application was that that
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  Speaker 1: man's fingerprints somehow contained this woman's DNA. This was clearly impossible,
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  Speaker 1: I mean primarily because the man was biologically male and
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  Speaker 1: the woman without a face was biologically female. They knew that,
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  Speaker 1: so even if the asylum seeker had secretly been this woman,
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't really possible. And so when the French police
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  Speaker 1: all this, they knew they had to tell Goonter because
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  Speaker 1: he was in charge of the Woman without a Face investigation.
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  Speaker 1: And when he and his team looked into this, they
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  Speaker 1: figured out something shocking. It was precisely this woman's normal
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  Speaker 1: seeming life, in particular her very normal seeming job at
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  Speaker 1: the factory that made everything she did possible.
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  Speaker 2: Because at this.
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  Speaker 1: Factory, this woman sat on an assembly line, helping to
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  Speaker 1: manufacture the very cotton swabs that police use in DNA testing.
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  Speaker 1: On any given single shift, this woman would touch hundreds
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  Speaker 1: or even thousands of these swabs and would accidentally leave
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  Speaker 1: her DNA behind on each one. There was no international
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  Speaker 1: serial killer, you know, woman, criminal mastermind parading around the
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  Speaker 1: whole country. No, there was just a lot of contaminated
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  Speaker 1: cotton swaps, and so in essence, police had wasted all
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  Speaker 1: this time, nearly two decades, millions and millions of europe
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  Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of hours of overtime chasing a criminal
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  Speaker 1: who didn't exist. It was later determined that the police
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  Speaker 1: officer Martin Arnold and his partner Michelle were shot by
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  Speaker 1: two members of a neo Nazi group. However, many of
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  Speaker 1: the other murders previously attributed to the Woman without a
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  Speaker 1: Face are still unsolved, primarily because police spent so long
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  Speaker 1: chasing the wrong suspect. Today, the case of the Woman
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  Speaker 1: without a Face is considered one of the biggest embarrassments
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  Speaker 1: On the afternoon of May second, nineteen thirty, a middle
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  Speaker 1: aged woman named Gim sou Jin walked into her farmhouse
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  Speaker 1: in a small village called b bong.
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  Speaker 2: Miun in what is now South Korea.
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  Speaker 1: She had spent the whole day working outside on her farm,
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  Speaker 1: and now all she wanted to do was grab some water,
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  Speaker 1: sit down, and finally.
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  Speaker 2: Just rest for a second.
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  Speaker 1: But before she could do any of that, she heard
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  Speaker 1: a knock at her door, and even though she was exhausted,
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  Speaker 1: the sound of this knock actually sort of energized her
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  Speaker 1: because she was pretty sure that her sixteen year old son,
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  Speaker 1: Bach chung su had finally come home.
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  Speaker 2: So Sujin and her son ran.
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  Speaker 1: This farm together, just the two of them, and they
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  Speaker 1: really barely made any money doing it. In fact, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the time they didn't even grow enough food
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  Speaker 1: to feed themselves. So to try to make ends meet,
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  Speaker 1: Sujin's son had recently started a full time job at
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  Speaker 1: an inn in town, and he also frequently did odd
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  Speaker 1: jobs in the village for extra cash. The problem was,
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  Speaker 1: Sujin's son would sometimes go straight from his job at
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  Speaker 1: the inn to one of those odd jobs, and he
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  Speaker 1: didn't always have time to stop by to tell his
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  Speaker 1: mother where he was going first. And remember this was
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  Speaker 1: nineteen thirty in rural Korea, so it wasn't like he
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  Speaker 1: could just call her, and so basically this mother was
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  Speaker 1: left to worry about her son kind of frequently, and
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  Speaker 1: over the past six days that is all Sujin did
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  Speaker 1: because she had not seen or heard from her son
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  Speaker 1: at all, and even though he did go, you know,
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  Speaker 1: days at a time in the past, you know, doing
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  Speaker 1: these different odd jobs. This stretch was a pretty long
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  Speaker 1: time for him to be gone. But she told herself,
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  Speaker 1: what must have happened is he must have found work
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  Speaker 1: with a family who was you know, having him work
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  Speaker 1: and live with them full time. This was just a
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  Speaker 1: great opportunity and he had taken it, and surely he
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  Speaker 1: would be home soon. And now it seemed like, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: just maybe he was home. So su Jin she rushed
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  Speaker 1: to the front door. She opened it up, and the
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  Speaker 1: smile on her face faded immediately because it was not
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  Speaker 1: her son standing at the door. Instead, it was two
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  Speaker 1: police officers, and the first thing they asked her was
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  Speaker 1: if she knew of any teenage boys who were missing
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  Speaker 1: from the village, and Sujin told them that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: she had a son of her own who was a teenager.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: He was sixteen, and the reality was is she didn't
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: know where he was, and he'd been gone for the
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: past week. But don't worry, you know, he wasn't missing.
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  Speaker 1: He was very likely just working for a family somewhere
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: and he'd be home soon. But after she said this,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: the police looked at Sujin with clear pity on their faces.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: And told her they were so sorry, but they were
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: nearly certain that her son had been murdered. Sujin just
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: stared at them in shock and disbelief as they told
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  Speaker 1: her that a few days ago, during the time her
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: son was gone, a teenage boy's body had been found
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: on a nearby mountain. An autopsy showed he'd been beaten
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: and strangled to death, and for the last couple of days,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: the police had been traveling all over the village interviewing
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: people and trying to figure out who this boy was,
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  Speaker 1: and based on everything they learned so far, Sujin's son
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: was actually the only teenager in the area who wasn't
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: accounted for. But hearing all of this, Sujin did not
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: think this could be true. Her son stayed out of
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: trouble and worked really hard. She couldn't imagine why anybody
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: would want to hurt him, so she just told the police,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: this has got to be a mistake. But the police
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: didn't seem to think so. They just said that they
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: needed her to come to the local hospital, Morgue to
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: identify the body. A little while later, Sujin arrived at
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  Speaker 1: the hospital with the two police officers, and as they
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: led her through the entrance, down a few hallways and
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: towards the morgue. She kept telling herself that her son
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: was okay, he was still alive, and this really has
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: to be some sort of horrible mistake.
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  Speaker 2: It has to be.
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  Speaker 1: But the second she actually walked into the morgue and
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: saw the body lying on the table, her eyes welled
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: up with tears because she knew it was her son,
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  Speaker 1: and to sue Jin, at this moment felt like leaving
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  Speaker 1: real life and entering a nightmare. Her son's face and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: body were covered in bruises and wounds, and he was
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: very clearly decomposing. I mean, it was just awful to see.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: But as this mother is sort of just staring down
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: at basically a parent's worst nightmare, here she noticed something strange.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: She turned to the police officers and she told them
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: that this was her son definitely, but the clothes he
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: was wearing were actually not his. And for some reason,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: to sue Jin, the clothes thing felt very important, so
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: she started rattling off ideas for you know, where they
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: could have come from, you know, it was her brain
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: suddenly became fixated on this one aspect. To avoid touching
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: on the trauma of losing her son. You know, she
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: began telling them that, you know, maybe the family he
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: was working for let him borrow them, or maybe he
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: bought them without her knowing, and or maybe whoever killed
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: him dressed him up for some reason. But when she
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: said that last part, it was like all at once,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the reality of her son being dead just came crashing
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: down on her. She started shaking, and before she knew it,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: she had collapsed onto the floor and was sobbing hysterically.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Less than a week later, sue Jinn was sitting in
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: her farmhouse staring at her front window in a daze
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: when she saw the police walking towards her house.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 1: Over the past few days, she hadn't heard any updates
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: about her son's case, so she'd just been at the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: farmhouse all alone, trying.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: To make sense of his death. But now, you know,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Sue Jin sees.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: These officers, and so she goes right outside and she
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: meets them, and she asked them, like, do you have
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: news for me about what happened to my son? And
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: they tell her that she was likely going to have
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: to sit down to hear this. Sujin figured it couldn't
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: be worse than finding out your son's been murdered. So
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: she said, okay, let's go inside, and so they went
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: inside the farmhouse. They sat down, and then the police
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: told her that they figured out who had killed her son.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: They told her they had not one, but two people
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: in jail right now who had both issued full confessions.
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  Speaker 1: Both of these suspects were people that Sujin's son chong Su,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: had worked with at the inn in town. One of
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: them was a young man and one was a young woman,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and apparently Chang Su had gotten involved in the woman's
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: personal life. She was having an affair with a married man,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: but was planning to run away with a different man
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: from the village soon, and chong Su.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Had told the married man about it.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: When the woman found out that cheng Su had done that,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: she was furious, so furious that she conspired with her
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: co worker, the young man the other suspect to lure
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: cheng Su out to the mountains under the guise of
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: gathering wild vegetables, and then when they got there, the
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: man and the beat up Chang Su and then strangled
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: him to death. This had all happened on the first
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: night that chong Su had left the farmhouse, so over
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: that six day period, he pretty much went out and
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: immediately was killed.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: And so over those six days he was.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Never you know, living with a family and working for them.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: He was just dead on the mountain the whole time.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: The police told Sujin that they had charged both suspects
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: with murder. But after hearing all this, Sujin still had
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: one question, what about her son's clothes? Was there anything
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: in the suspects confessions about that? But the police just
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: shook their heads no and said the clothes didn't really
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: seem relevant to the case anyway.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: And this time, even though su Jin.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: You know, did feel like the clothes have to mean something,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: she didn't argue or even you know, try to come
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: up with other theories about the clothes.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: She just sort of accepted what the police had told her.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: As horrible as it was to know that her son
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: was murdered over something so petty, she was at least
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: glad to know that his killers were behind bars. Sujin
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: eventually got her son's body from the police and she
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: was able to bury him in the law cemetery, and
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: then after that she did her best to try to
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: move on, but she never could, and as this nightmare
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: kept happening, night after night, sue Jin slowly became convinced
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: that her son was haunting her dreams, and so sue
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Jin basically stopped sleeping, couldn't really eat, certainly couldn't work,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: her farm fell into disrepair. She actually began to think
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: she was just gonna wither away and die here unless
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: something changed.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, this was horrible.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: She was overcome with grief and sadness and also just scared.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: These dreams were terrifying. But then on the night of
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: October eighteenth, nineteen thirty one, so about six months after
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: her son was killed, sue Jin woke up from yet
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: another nightmare, and when she opened her eyes, she saw
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: this shadowy.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Figure at the foot of her bed, and.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: She immediately realized that it was her son's ghost coming
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: to visit her. But sue Jin, she wasn't scared. She
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: actually felt tears welling up in her eyes, and she
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: actually just began speaking. She told the ghost, you, but
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: you have to move on. You have to rest in peace, now,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: you have to now. Sujin really didn't know what she
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: expected to happen here when she began speaking to the ghost,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: but what did happen was definitely not something she would
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: have considered, because suddenly the ghost opened their mouth and
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: they spoke, and what the ghost said changed everything. It
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: would turn out Chong Su Sujin's son had been viciously
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: attacked by that man and woman up on the mountain.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: They really had beaten and strangled him and left him
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: for dead, but he didn't die. He survived the attack,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: and when he came to he fled the area because
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: he was fearful if he went back home they would
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: finish the job, they would attack him and kill him.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: So he didn't have a chance to tell his mom
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: that he was basically on the run, and so for
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: six months he's living in random towns doing odd jobs
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: to survive. But eventually, you know, six months in he
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: misses his mom. He misses and he goes back and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: he walks into a room in the middle of the night.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: He is the ghost and when she said to him,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: you need to rest in peace now, he just says
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: to his mom, I'm not dead, and he was just
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: being honest.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I'm here, I'm back. I survived.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: It would turn out the body that was found on
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the mountain was just some other teenage boy who was
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: never identified by the way, who happened to be in
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the same area where he had been attacked. And so
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: when word got out about this body being found on
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: the mountain, the man and the woman who had attacked
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Chung Su, they're like, shoot, that's him. That was us,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: And they confessed to killing him because that's what they
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: tried to do. They tried to kill him. It just
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: they didn't kill him. There was some other body. And
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: then when Sue Jin went to the morgue and saw
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: this body, you know, it was decomposing, and he basically
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: looked like her son, and so she misidentified him. She
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: thought it was her son, but it really wasn't and
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: she fixated on his clothes and she was like, something's off. Well,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: she was right, it wasn't her son. It was someone
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: else's close. And so in the end, the man and
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: woman who had attacked Chong Su had their murder charges
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: dropped because they didn't commit a murder, and they were
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: both ultimately released from jail after serving about a year
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: in prison for the assault.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: As for the actual person.
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  Speaker 1: Who is found dead on the mountain, they were never
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: identified and they were buried in a sort of unmarked grave,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and the location of that grave has been lost to time,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: and so even though we have the ability today to
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: test for DNA, we're not able to exhume them because
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: we don't know where their grave is, and so very
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: likely we'll never know who that person was.
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• 26:46
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