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Top 3 Most Disturbing Ways To Get Yourself Sick · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 2: On the afternoon of January twenty second, twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 2: an elderly woman named Janet Lee sat in front of
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Speaker 2: her computer in an office on the second floor of
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Speaker 2: her home in Newcastle, England. She was going over some
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Speaker 2: recent bank statements, but it was kind of hard. She
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Speaker 2: was distracted because all she could hear was her boyfriend
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Speaker 2: downstairs talking to someone. So Janet's boyfriend was a guy
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Speaker 2: named Richard O'Connell, and he and Janet had been together
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Speaker 2: for about twenty years now. Despite not officially being married,
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Speaker 2: they sort of functioned like a married couple. They lived together,
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Speaker 2: you know, they shared everything. In fact, Janet had even
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Speaker 2: written Richard into her will. Janet thought her and Richard
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Speaker 2: would be together forever. I mean, clearly, if you're writing
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Speaker 2: him into your will. And she assumed that that feeling
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Speaker 2: was reciprocated that Richard also felt like they were together forever.
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Speaker 2: But lately their relationship had gotten pretty rocky, and in fact,
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Speaker 2: both of them had begun openly talking about the possibility
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Speaker 2: that they might need to break up. Now, nothing was
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Speaker 2: set in stone, and by no means were they destined
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Speaker 2: for a breakup, but it was suddenly, you know, a possibility,
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Speaker 2: and that was really hard for Janet to deal with.
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Speaker 2: And so as Janet sat upstairs trying to do these
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Speaker 2: bank statements, but you know, getting completely sidetracked just by
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Speaker 2: the sound of Richard's voice. You know, part of the
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Speaker 2: reason that was so distracting is, you know, Richard was
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Speaker 2: all she could think about.
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Speaker 1: What would happen if they broke up, what would her
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Speaker 1: life look like?
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Speaker 2: And so before long, you know, her mind was kind
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Speaker 2: of wandering, and no longer was at the bank statements.
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Speaker 2: It was what does the future hold for me? It
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Speaker 2: seems so uncertain. And so as Janet is having this
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Speaker 2: moment upstairs, she suddenly hears Richard start yelling downstairs, and
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Speaker 2: at first it kind of sounded like maybe he was
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Speaker 2: yelling at the person he had been talking to, But
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Speaker 2: the more Janet listened, she could tell it really wasn't
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Speaker 2: that he was yelling as much as he was streaming,
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Speaker 2: like he was screaming out in pain or something. And
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Speaker 2: so Janet got out of her chair and ran downstairs
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Speaker 2: to see what was going on. And when she did,
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Speaker 2: she looked towards the front door, and she saw there
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Speaker 2: was this man who she didn't recognize, but he looked
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Speaker 2: weirdly familiar to her. He was wearing a white lab coat,
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Speaker 2: his back was to her, and he was walking out
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Speaker 2: the front door. And before she could even begin to
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Speaker 2: process who this guy was and what he was doing here,
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Speaker 2: she heard the sound of Richard again, kind of calling
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Speaker 2: out in pain, less loudly this time, but definitely in
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Speaker 2: real pain. Then she turned and sure enough, there was
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Speaker 2: Richard in the living room, clutching his shoulder and grimacing,
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Speaker 2: like something's really hurting him. And so Janet she walked
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Speaker 2: over to him and she's like, what's going on, Like
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Speaker 2: what's wrong with you?
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Speaker 1: And who was that guy?
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Speaker 2: And like, tell me what's happening here, And so Richard,
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Speaker 2: through gritted teeth, would tell her that he had just
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Speaker 2: gotten a COVID vaccine shot and it really hurt, and
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Speaker 2: that guy who had just given it to him was
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Speaker 2: a guy from NHS, the National Health Service, and he
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Speaker 2: just came by to administer the shot. And so Janet
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Speaker 2: heard what he said, but it wasn't really computing, like
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Speaker 2: why aren't you getting the shot done at the doctor's office?
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Speaker 2: Why are you having somebody come here to administer It's
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Speaker 2: that's unusual. But you know, as she was thinking about this,
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Speaker 2: she could clearly see that what was really important right
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Speaker 2: now was that Richard was in agonizing pain. I mean,
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Speaker 2: he was holding his arm and kind of rocking back
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Speaker 2: and forth, moaning. Clearly he was having some sort of
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Speaker 2: reaction to the shot. And so she forgot about the
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Speaker 2: weirdness around why he got the shot and how he
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Speaker 2: got the shot, and said to him, like, hey, do
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Speaker 2: you want to go to the hospital, I can drive you.
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Speaker 2: And at this Richard kind of sat up straight and
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Speaker 2: took a deep breath, clearly trying to calm himself down.
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Speaker 2: And even though obviously his shoulders still hurt from the shot,
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Speaker 2: he said to Janet that, you know, the guy from
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Speaker 2: the NHS told me this was normal. There's pain associated
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Speaker 2: with this particular shot and it would just go away
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Speaker 2: on its own, and so I'm just going to wait
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Speaker 2: and let this thing fade. At this point, Janet was
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Speaker 2: still worried about Richard, but you know, he seemed pretty
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Speaker 2: confident that this was not a big deal, and so
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Speaker 2: she decided she would simply follow his lead. And she said, okay,
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Speaker 2: you know, if that's what you want to do, and
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Speaker 2: then she turned and she went upstairs and continued trying
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Speaker 2: to do her bank statements. But two days later, Janet
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Speaker 2: did end up driving Richard to the hospital because over
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Speaker 2: those forty eight hours since Richard got that COVID shot,
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Speaker 2: the spot on his arm the injection site had turned
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Speaker 2: red and began to blister and bleed, and then eventually
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Speaker 2: it turned and so at that point they went to
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Speaker 2: the er hospital. Doctors would diagnose Richard with something called
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Speaker 2: necrotizing fasciitis, which is a bacterial infection more commonly known
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Speaker 2: as flesh eating disease. Basically, the skin and muscle of
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Speaker 2: Richard's arm was dying and rotting, but from the inside out.
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Speaker 2: The doctors told Richard he would have to have emergency
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Speaker 2: surgery to remove the rotting flesh to stop the spread.
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Speaker 1: Of this infection.
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Speaker 2: But before they could even do that, they needed to
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Speaker 2: figure out how this infection had even begun. And so
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Speaker 2: at this point, Richard began telling the doctors all about
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Speaker 2: how you two days earlier, he'd gotten his COVID shot
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Speaker 2: and pretty much right away it had been so painful,
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Speaker 2: and then it blistered and bled and turned black. And
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Speaker 2: then also over the course of this discussion that Janet
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Speaker 2: is listening to as well, Richard began describing the NHS
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Speaker 2: guy who had actually.
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Speaker 1: Come to his house.
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Speaker 2: Now, remember, Janet had only seen this guy for a
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Speaker 2: brief second when she had run downstairs. She had seen
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Speaker 2: him walking out the front door. She just saw the
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Speaker 2: white lab coat, but something about him seemed weirdly familiar,
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Speaker 2: but she kind of put that thought out of her mind.
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Speaker 1: But now as.
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Speaker 2: She's listening to Richard described this NHS guy with a
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Speaker 2: little more detail this time.
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Speaker 1: Suddenly something clicked.
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Speaker 2: She realized she knew why this guy seemed so familiar,
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Speaker 2: and this realization filled her with horror. It would turn
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Speaker 2: out that NHS nurse was not really an NHS nurse. Instead,
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Speaker 2: they were a man that both Janet and Richard knew
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Speaker 2: very well. However, they were extremely well disguised, and so
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Speaker 2: Janet and Richard did not recognize them. This man's name
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Speaker 2: was Thomas Kwan, and Thomas, after coming inside their home,
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Speaker 2: did not inject Richard with COVID nineteen vaccine. Instead, he
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Speaker 2: injected Richard with a deadly pesticide called iodomathane. That pesticide
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Speaker 2: immediately caused that excruciating pain that Richard was feeling that
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Speaker 2: caused him to scream out and ultimately killed and began
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Speaker 2: to rot away the flesh in his own It would
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Speaker 2: turn out Thomas Kwan was Janet's son, and he was
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Speaker 2: furious at her for putting Richard in her will and
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Speaker 2: allowing Richard to get her house when she died, and
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Speaker 2: so he decided he would basically inject poison into Richard,
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Speaker 2: killing Richard to secure the house for himself. But Richard
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Speaker 2: would survive the ordeal, he would have to undergo several
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Speaker 2: pretty intense surgeries, but he.
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Speaker 1: Ended up being okay.
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Speaker 2: As for Thomas, he was arrested and convicted of attempted
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Speaker 2: murder and sentenced to thirty one years in prison.
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Speaker 2: On a Sunday afternoon in August of twenty fourteen, a
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Speaker 2: twenty four year old tourist who we're gonna call Angela Lyons,
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Speaker 2: drove a rented moped were a busy street in Vietnam.
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Speaker 2: Angela had come here about a week earlier from Scotland,
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Speaker 2: where she lived, and so far the trip had been great.
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Speaker 2: She'd been going to nightclubs and partying and eating local
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Speaker 2: food and swimming.
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Speaker 1: In local rivers. I mean, all in all, she was
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Speaker 1: having a blast.
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Speaker 2: And now she was just cruising slowly on her moped,
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Speaker 2: looking at all the shops around her and kind of
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Speaker 2: taking in the scenery. And at some point, as she
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Speaker 2: was driving, she turned her head and then she felt
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Speaker 2: her moped hit something really hard and she actually fell
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Speaker 2: off her bike onto the ground. She hit her head
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Speaker 2: pretty hard, but luckily she was wearing a helmet, and
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Speaker 2: so she was able to stand up and kind of
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Speaker 2: assessed that she was physically going to be okay. And
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Speaker 2: she looked and saw what she had run into, and
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Speaker 2: it was actually another moped and fortunately, you know, the
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Speaker 2: crash was kind of low speed, and so the other
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Speaker 2: moped driver clearly was physically okay as well, and you know,
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Speaker 2: their mopeds.
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Speaker 1: Were not actually damaged at all.
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Speaker 2: And so after she said she was sorry, and the
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Speaker 2: two kind of just acknowledged that they were just going
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Speaker 2: to go their separate ways. The other moped driver hopped
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Speaker 2: back on their moped and drove off, and Angela just
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Speaker 2: to make sure she really was okay here, because again,
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Speaker 2: you know, she hit her head pretty hard on the concrete,
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Speaker 2: and so Angela she took off her helmet and kind
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Speaker 2: of felt around her scalp and sure enough, she felt
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Speaker 2: a little bump on her head from where she'd hit
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Speaker 2: the ground, but other than that, she seemed fine. Now
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Speaker 2: because it was a head injury, albeit a small one,
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Speaker 2: Angela did consider just going to the hospital just to
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Speaker 2: be sure, but you know, as she felt it a
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Speaker 2: couple more times, She's like, you know what, it's pretty small.
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Speaker 1: This is not a big deal.
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Speaker 2: I'm okay, And so she put her helmet back on,
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Speaker 2: got on her moped and went on about her business.
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Speaker 2: About a week later, Angela was back home in Glasgow, Scotland,
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Speaker 2: and she was inside of her doctor's office about to
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Speaker 2: be examined. Following that moped accident, Angela had stayed in
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Speaker 2: Vietnam for a few more days, and the whole time
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Speaker 2: she had checked that bump on her head every single day,
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Speaker 2: and it had gone away pretty quickly. However, when she
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Speaker 2: landed back home in Scotland, almost right away, she began
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Speaker 2: developing this kind of startling new symptom that she couldn't
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Speaker 2: help but feel must be connected to the moped accident.
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Speaker 2: And it made her really scared, and so she had
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Speaker 2: gone to the doctor. Her new symptom were these sudden,
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Speaker 2: kind of extreme nosepleads, and so she had made an
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Speaker 2: appointment to go see her doctor to figure out what
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Speaker 2: the heck was going on. And so finally Angela's doctor
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Speaker 2: came into the room and he would examine her, and
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Speaker 2: he would look at her nose and her head and
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Speaker 2: he would listen to her story about the moped, but
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Speaker 2: after he was done with the exam, he would tell
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Speaker 2: Angela that he did not think her nosebleeds had anything
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Speaker 2: to do with the moped accident. Much more realistically, the
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Speaker 2: nosebleeds were from her body adjusting to the weather in
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Speaker 2: Scotland Vietnam. It was a very hot environment and Scotland
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Speaker 2: was very cold, and so that shift was likely causing
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Speaker 2: these nosebleeds. And so the doctor recommended that Angela put
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Speaker 2: some basiline inside of her nostrils to keep it moist
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Speaker 2: and just wait for this to clear up as her
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Speaker 2: body transitioned back to Scotland. A few days later, Angela
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Speaker 2: was back home, inside of her bathroom, looking into a mirror.
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Speaker 2: She was applying some vasoline to her nostrils. Now, she
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Speaker 2: had been doing this every day, multiple times a day,
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Speaker 2: since the doctor had made that recommendation, But despite following
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Speaker 2: the doctor's orders, her nosebleeds had persisted. If anything, they
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Speaker 2: were getting worse. I mean she was having these things
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Speaker 2: multiple times a day. But for now, Angela simply turned
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Speaker 2: on her shower and waited for the water to warm up,
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Speaker 2: and then she hopped inside and after a few minutes
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Speaker 2: of just kind of standing under the water, Angela began
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Speaker 2: just kind of touching her nose, something she was doing
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Speaker 2: a lot of, you know, since these nosebleeds had begun,
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Speaker 2: except as she touched her nose, she began to feel
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Speaker 2: something weird, sort of deep inside of her nostril that
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Speaker 2: she maybe hadn't noticed before.
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Speaker 1: And at some point she.
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Speaker 2: Actually pushed pretty hard on whatever this was inside of
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Speaker 2: her nasal cavity, and when she did that, it sent
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Speaker 2: this blinding wave of pain over her. And then simultaneously
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Speaker 2: blood began pouring out of her nose and she couldn't
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Speaker 2: get it to stop. It was like this flood of
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Speaker 2: just constant bleeding, and it terrified Angela. I mean, she'd
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Speaker 2: had these terrible nose bleeds, but this was the worst
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Speaker 2: one and it was clearly connected to something inside of
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Speaker 2: her nose. And so she's starting to panic. Blood's getting
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Speaker 2: out everywhere, and she's thinking, this has gotta be connected
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Speaker 2: to that mopet accident. Maybe I have some horrible brain injury,
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Speaker 2: maybe I'm dying here. And so in a panic, she
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Speaker 2: jumps out of the shower, towels off, gets dressed, and
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Speaker 2: rushes to the nearest hospital. When Angela got to the
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Speaker 2: emergency room, a nurse quickly brought her into an exam
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Speaker 2: room and had her sit down and tilt her head
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Speaker 2: back so the nurse could look into her nostrils to
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Speaker 2: see what was going on.
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Speaker 1: And so Angela she's.
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Speaker 2: Got all this gauze to kind of trap the blood,
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Speaker 2: and she's got her head way back and she's letting
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Speaker 2: the nurse do this exam. And after a while, Angela
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Speaker 2: starts to realize that this exam is taking a really
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Speaker 2: long time. The nurse is just kind of standing there,
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Speaker 2: clearly looking at her nostrils, but not saying anything. And
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Speaker 2: you know, from Angela's perspective, she can't really see the
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Speaker 2: nurse her head is tilted too far back. But the
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Speaker 2: silence that's grown in the room is so loud at
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Speaker 2: this point that Angela finally just kind of sits up
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Speaker 2: and looks at the nurse to see what's going on here,
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Speaker 2: and she sees the nurse is kind of frozen, like
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Speaker 2: she's looking at Angela's nostrils like she can't believe what
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Speaker 2: she scene. And then the nurse kind of snaps out
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Speaker 2: of it and looks at Angela and says, stay calm,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna get the doctor, and Angela's like, I am calm,
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Speaker 2: what's going on here? But then the nurse just turns
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Speaker 2: around and speed walks out of the room. It would
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Speaker 2: turn out Angela's primary care doctor had been right when
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Speaker 2: he said he didn't think her nose bleeds had anything
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Speaker 2: to do with that moped accident. You know, this was
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Speaker 2: not a brain injury or anything connected to the trauma. However,
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Speaker 2: her nosebleeds were connected to something else she had done
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Speaker 2: while in Vietnam. Because in Vietnam, in between you know,
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Speaker 2: going out to nightclubs and partying and trying all that
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Speaker 2: great food, Angela was also swimming in these local rivers,
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Speaker 2: and at one point, when she was in one of
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Speaker 2: those rivers, something found its way into her nose, a
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Speaker 2: three inch long, bloodsucking leech. It had been living deep
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Speaker 2: inside of Angela's nostril and sinus cavity for over a week,
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Speaker 2: separated from her brain only by this extremely fragile bone
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Speaker 2: that's only about a half millimeter thick. Hospital doctors would
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Speaker 2: spend about thirty minutes painstakingly pulling this leech out of
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Speaker 2: Angela's nose and then once it was out, she would
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Speaker 2: go on to make a full recovery. One morning in
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Speaker 2: February of nineteen eighty seven, a forty five year old
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Speaker 2: woman named Janet Overton stood in front of her bathroom
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Speaker 2: mirror inside of her home in Dana Point, California. Janet
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Speaker 2: was a member of the board for the school district
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Speaker 2: that her seventeen year old son attended, and she had
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Speaker 2: a big meeting that day. But as she looked at
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Speaker 2: herself in the mirror, she looked terrible. She was pale
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Speaker 2: and exhausted, and she had these big dark circles under
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Speaker 2: her eyes.
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Speaker 1: Now Janet knew why she looked this way.
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Speaker 2: It's because the last couple of days she'd felt really sick,
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Speaker 2: kind of out of nowhere. She'd been all stuffed up,
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Speaker 2: she had bouts of nausea off and on. She wasn't
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Speaker 2: sleeping very well. She figured she just had a bad
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Speaker 2: cold and hoped if she could just kind of muscle
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Speaker 2: her way through it, she could avoid going to the doctor.
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Speaker 2: But now here she was about to tap this big
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Speaker 2: school board meeting, still feeling sick, still looking terrible. But
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Speaker 2: instead of kind of canceling her plans and going to
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Speaker 2: the doctor, She just caked on more makeup, did up
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Speaker 2: her hair, and headed out the door. A few weeks later,
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Speaker 2: Janet suddenly woke up in the middle of the night
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Speaker 2: feeling so nauseous that she leapt out of her bed
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Speaker 2: and ran to the bathroom and vomited, and then afterwards
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Speaker 2: she just sat on the ground.
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Speaker 1: Sweating and shaking.
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Speaker 2: So over the last few weeks, Janet's cold had not
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Speaker 2: really gone away. In fact, if anything, it had just
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Speaker 2: gotten progressively worse. Now, Janet had gone to the doctor
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Speaker 2: about it eventually, and the doctor had agreed with her that,
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Speaker 2: you know, maybe you do have.
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Speaker 1: Some really bad cold or some other virus here.
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Speaker 2: But the only thing they told her to do was just,
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Speaker 2: you know, rest and stay really well hydrated, and whatever
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Speaker 2: this is, it'll just run its course. And so that's
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Speaker 2: exactly what Janet had been doing over these several weeks,
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Speaker 2: but it hadn't Helpedanett's nausea had gotten so bad and
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Speaker 2: so severe that she basically couldn't eat, and then she
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Speaker 2: had also fallen behind on her work for the.
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Speaker 1: School board because she was so weak all the time.
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Speaker 2: Janet forced herself to stand up off the bathroom floor.
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Speaker 2: Then she turned on the sink and began splashing cold
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Speaker 2: water on her face. But as she did that, she
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Speaker 2: noticed something new. She saw there was this red, scaly
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Speaker 2: rash on her arms, and so she stepped back and
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Speaker 2: pulled her sleeves up. Then she saw the rash extended
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Speaker 2: up onto her shoulders and up onto her neck and
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Speaker 2: down her back, and when she touched it, it really hurt.
17:32
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a brand new symptom here, and
17:35
Speaker 2: she could tell it had to be connected to whatever
17:37
Speaker 2: this mystery illness was, and it terrified her, like what
17:40
Speaker 2: was happening to her body? And so she decided that
17:43
Speaker 2: night she had to go to the ar. The next day,
17:46
Speaker 2: Janet laid in a hospital bed with an ivy in
17:48
Speaker 2: her arm and her husband and her son sitting right
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Speaker 2: beside her.
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Speaker 1: She still felt absolutely horrible.
17:54
Speaker 2: She still felt nauseous, she had cold symptoms, and that
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Speaker 2: rash had now spread up to her neck and on
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Speaker 2: her face, and it had begun to blister.
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Speaker 1: All night.
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Speaker 2: The doctors had been running tests on Janet to try
18:06
Speaker 2: to figure out what was going on, but every test
18:09
Speaker 2: they ran came back negative. She didn't have the flu,
18:12
Speaker 2: and she didn't have at least any known infections or
18:14
Speaker 2: diseases that could cause these symptoms, and so the doctors
18:18
Speaker 2: were at a loss. However, scans of Janet's abdomen did
18:22
Speaker 2: reveal something concrete. She had all these ulcers in her stomach,
18:25
Speaker 2: which basically are like open sores in her stomach lining,
18:29
Speaker 2: and so the doctors told her very likely it was
18:31
Speaker 2: these ulcers that were causing her extreme nausea and making
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Speaker 2: it really hard to eat. But like everything else they
18:37
Speaker 2: were seeing with Janet, they had no idea why she
18:40
Speaker 2: was developing these ulcers in the first place, and so
18:43
Speaker 2: ultimately all the doctors could really do for Janet was
18:46
Speaker 2: just treat her symptoms. They gave her ulcer medication, and
18:49
Speaker 2: they also gave her some topical treatments for her rash,
18:52
Speaker 2: and over the next couple of days, these treatments seemed
18:54
Speaker 2: to work, you know, her ulcers went away, and her
18:57
Speaker 2: rash basically disappeared, and overall she felt it's a lot better.
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Speaker 2: Not back to one hundred percent, but pretty close to
19:03
Speaker 2: the point where she was discharged. And so Janet and
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Speaker 2: the doctors were like, Okay, we don't really know what
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Speaker 2: this was or why it started.
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Speaker 1: We just hope it never comes back.
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Speaker 2: Several months later, on January twenty fourth, nineteen eighty eight,
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Speaker 2: Janet was at home getting ready for a whale watching
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Speaker 2: trip with her seventeen year old son, and she felt horrible.
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Speaker 2: Ever since leaving the hospital, she had periodically just kept
19:26
Speaker 2: getting sick over and over and over again, and each
19:29
Speaker 2: time she would go back to the hospital and they
19:31
Speaker 2: would just you know, treat her symptoms because no one
19:34
Speaker 2: could figure out what was wrong with her, and then
19:36
Speaker 2: eventually she'd get better and go back home and the
19:38
Speaker 2: cycle would repeat and so. On this particular day, even
19:41
Speaker 2: though Janet felt sick as a dog, she just told
19:44
Speaker 2: herself she was going to push through this and try
19:47
Speaker 2: to have a good day with her son on this
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Speaker 2: whale watching trip.
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Speaker 1: So she put on a.
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Speaker 2: Ton of makeup, she put her hair up, slammed some coffee,
19:54
Speaker 2: and then went downstairs to meet her son. Then the
19:56
Speaker 2: two of them headed outside, walked over to the car,
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Speaker 2: and right as Janet was about to grab the car
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Speaker 2: door handle and get inside, she stood there for a
20:05
Speaker 2: second and then just collapsed. Janet's husband and son immediately
20:09
Speaker 2: rushed Janet to the hospital, but by the time they
20:11
Speaker 2: got there, it was already too late Janet was dead.
20:15
Speaker 2: Her doctors were obviously baffled, because they had been baffled
20:18
Speaker 2: for months now. Nobody knew what was happening to her,
20:21
Speaker 2: and so ultimately they brought in a corner to do
20:24
Speaker 2: an autopsy to try to figure out once and for
20:26
Speaker 2: all what was going on with Janet. And as soon
20:28
Speaker 2: as the coroner cut open Janet's stomach to examine the contents,
20:32
Speaker 2: he was hit with the smell that was very distinct
20:35
Speaker 2: that instantly told him exactly what.
20:38
Speaker 1: Had killed Janet.
20:39
Speaker 2: As soon as he smelled it, he stopped what he
20:41
Speaker 2: was doing and contacted the police, and the police immediately
20:45
Speaker 2: sent detectives to Janet's house and they began gathering up
20:48
Speaker 2: all these items inside the house to be tested, and
20:51
Speaker 2: the results of these tests confirmed the coroner's theory. As
20:54
Speaker 2: Janet got sicker and sicker, she had this mentality of like,
20:58
Speaker 2: I'm going to push through this thing and not go
21:00
Speaker 2: to the doctor. I'm just gonna pretend this isn't even happening.
21:04
Speaker 2: And so when she was caking on all that makeup
21:06
Speaker 2: every day and chugging all this coffee, you know, to
21:08
Speaker 2: combat the tiredness, that was all just an effort to,
21:11
Speaker 2: you know, pretend this wasn't really happening. But what she
21:14
Speaker 2: didn't realize is that the makeup and the coffee were
21:18
Speaker 2: actually killing her. It would turn out there was a
21:21
Speaker 2: deadly chemical in her makeup called selenium that was slowly
21:25
Speaker 2: killing her, and then in her coffee was cyanide. And
21:29
Speaker 2: cyanide has a very distinctive smell. It smells like amins,
21:33
Speaker 2: and that's what the coroner smelled when he opened up
21:35
Speaker 2: her stomach. But these deadly chemicals did not appear in
21:38
Speaker 2: her makeup and coffee naturally. They were put there by
21:42
Speaker 2: Janet's husband. He believed Janet was having an affair, and
21:46
Speaker 2: so we set out to murder her. He first began
21:49
Speaker 2: placing the selenium in her makeup, and it was slowly
21:52
Speaker 2: killing Janet, but it was not happening fast enough, and
21:55
Speaker 2: so finally, on the day of the whale watching trip,
21:58
Speaker 2: her husband put the cyanide in her coffee and it
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Speaker 2: killed her pretty much right away. Richard Overton was convicted
22:03
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22:06
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