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His mind games traumatized this high school · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. On March fifteenth, twenty eleven,
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Speaker 1: just after one pm, sixteen year old Marcus Freeman sat
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Speaker 1: behind the wheel of his dad's pickup truck, belting out
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Speaker 1: the lyrics to one of his favorite songs on the
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Speaker 1: radio as he and his girlfriend Carly drove down a
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Speaker 1: highway in Northport, Florida. The pair had just left the
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Speaker 1: dentist where Marcus had just gotten some dental work done,
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Speaker 1: and in fact, his jaw was pretty sore. But he
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Speaker 1: was basically singing right now, as was Carly, in order
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Speaker 1: to distract himself from the paint. And for the most part,
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Speaker 1: this worked, but every time a song ended, it's like
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Speaker 1: all he could think about was just how sore his
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Speaker 1: jaw was. But Marcus was not like your typical sixteen
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Speaker 1: year old kid. You know, he was sort of accustomed
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Speaker 1: to having discomfort in his life, both physical discomfort and
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Speaker 1: mental discomfort, and he really worked hard to be someone
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Speaker 1: who was able to push through discomfort, including things like
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Speaker 1: jaw paint. So he was the quarterback of his varse
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Speaker 1: football team at his high school, Northport High and over
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Speaker 1: the last year he'd really begun to focus on his
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Speaker 1: physical fitness, and so he'd begun doing these really difficult
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Speaker 1: physical workouts that were sort of like, you know, vomit inducing.
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Speaker 1: And then also, you know, Marcus, he was for the
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Speaker 1: most part pretty mentally well adjusted, but you know, nerves
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Speaker 1: were definitely a thing. You know, he's the quarterback of
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Speaker 1: the varsity high school team. He's only sixteen years old,
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Speaker 1: and so you know, nerves before games and just generally
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Speaker 1: some level of anxiety sort of existed in his life,
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Speaker 1: and so he would, you know, work with a counselor
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Speaker 1: at his school to try to overcome those nerves and
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Speaker 1: try to manage those feelings when he was about to perform,
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Speaker 1: so a different type of pain. But nonetheless, it's like
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Speaker 1: this was a kid who was very forward leaning when
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Speaker 1: it came to sort of dealing with pain and discomfort
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Speaker 1: and managing it. And all this hard work that Marcus
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Speaker 1: was doing to sort of become the strongest version of
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Speaker 1: himself he could be appeared to be paying off because
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Speaker 1: you know, for example, the football team that he was
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Speaker 1: the quarterback of. You know, historically for years they had
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Speaker 1: been sort of terrible, but now, you know, under Marcus's
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Speaker 1: leadership and you know, him being the quarterback, they were
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Speaker 1: now coming off one of their best seasons ever. And
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Speaker 1: actually it was not even just Marcus and the football
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Speaker 1: team that appeared to be on the upswing these days.
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Speaker 1: The whole school was. Northport High used to have terrible
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Speaker 1: sports sort of across the board, and also low graduation
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Speaker 1: rates and bad test scores. Like this was not a
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Speaker 1: high performing school, but now it had like totally turned
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Speaker 1: a corner. Most of the sports programs beyond football were
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Speaker 1: all improving. Grades and test scores across the board were
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Speaker 1: all improving, and also just students at this school just
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Speaker 1: seemed happier and more well adjusted. It was not just Marcus,
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Speaker 1: it was like everybody. But there was a reason for this,
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Speaker 1: and basically everybody who went to Northport knew what that
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Speaker 1: reason was. There was one person to thank for this
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Speaker 1: really positive change, Principal George. He'd been Northport's principle for
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Speaker 1: a decade now, but in the last few years he'd
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Speaker 1: made some tweaks to the curriculum and put a ton
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Speaker 1: more focus on individual student support, and the result of
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Speaker 1: all of this appeared to be, you know, Marcus and
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Speaker 1: all of his classmates thriving. But right now, the pain
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Speaker 1: in Marcus's jaw was really all he could think about,
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Speaker 1: and it seemed to be getting more severe and it
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Speaker 1: was starting to actually make him feel sort of dizzy.
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Speaker 1: But Marcus had been you know, working on pain management,
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Speaker 1: and he sort of had some tactics and techniques that
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Speaker 1: he would use when you know, pain got sort of overwhelming,
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Speaker 1: whether it was physical pain in this case, or mental
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Speaker 1: anguish or whatever. It was, like, he was going to
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Speaker 1: employ the tactics and techniques that he had been working on.
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Speaker 1: And so Marcus, as he's driving and you know, Carly
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Speaker 1: singing next to him, he took a deep breath and
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Speaker 1: tried to relax and just breathe and just think of
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Speaker 1: anything else besides the pain, just put his mind somewhere else.
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Speaker 1: This was actually literally what he did, you know, during
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Speaker 1: football games, when he'd be super exhausted and beat up.
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Speaker 1: But you know, he's the leader of the team, he's
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Speaker 1: the quarterback, Like he has to find a way to
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Speaker 1: push through that pain and keep going. And this is
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Speaker 1: what he would do. He would do this mental exercise
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Speaker 1: where he basically sort of let his mind drift away
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Speaker 1: from the physical uncomfortability he was experiencing then just focus
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Speaker 1: on other things and it was sort of like meditative
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Speaker 1: and it generally worked. But this time it just didn't
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Speaker 1: appear to be working. His jaw pain, you know, kept
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Speaker 1: on throbbing, and he couldn't stop thinking about it. And
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Speaker 1: then soon it sort of felt like the pain was growing,
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Speaker 1: like it was radiating up his cheek into his whole
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Speaker 1: head and it was like really becoming overwhelming. But he
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Speaker 1: stayed focused. He kept you know, trying to allow his
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Speaker 1: mind to sort of separate from the pain, and all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, that throbbing pain in his jaw stopped,
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Speaker 1: and Marcus relaxed because truly the pain was now gone.
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Speaker 1: At the same time Marcus was sort of going through
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Speaker 1: this mental exercise in the passenger seat, Carly was fiddling
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Speaker 1: with the trying to find another good song to sing
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Speaker 1: along to. Carly loved being with Marcus so much so
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Speaker 1: that she'd just gone to the dentist with him just
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Speaker 1: so they could spend more time together. She felt like
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Speaker 1: Marcus was super kind and he was funny, and when
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Speaker 1: she was with him, they could just talk and laugh
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Speaker 1: for hours and it would just feel like a second.
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Speaker 1: Except now, as Carly was still fiddling with the radio,
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Speaker 1: she realized that Marcus was acting unusual. He was being
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Speaker 1: really quiet, and actually, when she looked over at him
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Speaker 1: and stared at him, she sort of gasped because Marcus
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Speaker 1: appeared to have gone almost like completely rigid. His arms
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Speaker 1: were sort of stuck out in front of him, like
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Speaker 1: gripping the steering wheel, but in this weird stiff way,
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Speaker 1: and his hands they were turning white from gripping the
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Speaker 1: steering wheels as tightly as he could. And then also
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Speaker 1: his head was sort of tilted back and as his
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Speaker 1: eyes actually were beginning to roll back into his head.
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Speaker 1: And so when Carly saw that that, like literally his
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Speaker 1: eyes were being taken off the road, she began screaming
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Speaker 1: as name and snapping and clapping and being like, hey,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing? But Marcus didn't answer, he didn't
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Speaker 1: even react. He just continued blazing along at nearly one
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Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour in this weird, like rigid state.
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Speaker 1: And so Carly she really began to panic. She's screaming,
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Speaker 1: she's grabbing Marcus, she's trying to like get him out
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Speaker 1: of this trance he's in, but he just wouldn't move.
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Speaker 1: He wouldn't look at her. It was like he was gone.
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Speaker 1: And then Carly turned and looked out the windshield and
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Speaker 1: she screamed as the truck veered off the road and
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Speaker 1: careened into a tree. And for Carly, as soon as
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Speaker 1: that happened, everything went black. A few hours later, Carly
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Speaker 1: opened her eyes and her whole body ached and her
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Speaker 1: her head pounded, and at first she really had no
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Speaker 1: idea where she was, but then she heard beeping sounds
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Speaker 1: which were coming from these machines near her, and she
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Speaker 1: looked around and saw the room she was in was
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Speaker 1: very white, and she realized she was definitely in a hospital.
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Speaker 1: And once she realized that, it was like the whole
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Speaker 1: terrible ordeal came rushing back to her. She remembered Marcus
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Speaker 1: and how strange she had looked rigid at the wheel,
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Speaker 1: and then she remembered crashing and hitting that tree. And
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Speaker 1: so as she's processing this horrible thing, a nurse came
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Speaker 1: into the room, and Carly immediately asked them, like, where
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Speaker 1: is Marcus and when could she talk to Marcus? But
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Speaker 1: that's when she found out from the nurse that Marcus
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Speaker 1: was dead. Almost a month later, on April eighth, Carly
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Speaker 1: was now out of the hospital, sitting in her Spanish
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Speaker 1: class at Northport High School, and she was trying her
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Speaker 1: best to pay attention to what the teacher was saying,
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Speaker 1: but concentration was not something that came easily to Carly
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Speaker 1: these days. Physically, she had healed from the accident, but
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Speaker 1: emotionally she had not. Marcus's death had truly devastated her.
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Speaker 1: But perhaps the worst part of his death was there
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Speaker 1: was just no good explanation for it, like why was
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Speaker 1: he acting the way he was acting before they crashed?
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Speaker 1: What happened to him? Like what was going on? And truly,
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Speaker 1: at this point it was still just a huge mystery
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Speaker 1: to basically everyone. Now the media had come out and
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Speaker 1: said that what happened was Marcus simply lost control of
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Speaker 1: his vehicle, but Carly was right there with Marcus, and
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Speaker 1: that did not seem like what happened. Again, Marcus went
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Speaker 1: into this trance of sorts and it was him being
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Speaker 1: sort of locked in that position that ultimately caused the
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Speaker 1: car to at one hundred miles an hour, veer off
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Speaker 1: the road and crash. But like there was no weather,
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Speaker 1: there were no obstacles in the road. It was like,
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Speaker 1: whatever caused Marcus to freeze up is what caused the crash.
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Speaker 1: But it was like nobody was talking about it or
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Speaker 1: nobody understood it. Now, there were some theories about maybe
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Speaker 1: what could have caused Marcus to act that way, In
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Speaker 1: particular at the high school at Northport High people believed that,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe Marcus when he was at the dentist
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Speaker 1: had gotten some kind of sedation, that maybe he had
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Speaker 1: had a bad reaction to like a late on set
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Speaker 1: bad reaction while they were driving home and that caused
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Speaker 1: him to stiffen up, or maybe he had just had
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Speaker 1: a random medical event that caused him to act that way. However,
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Speaker 1: when his autopsy came out, it showed there had been
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Speaker 1: no trace of drugs or any indication that Marcus had
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Speaker 1: had anything like a seizure or a stroke or an aneurysm,
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Speaker 1: So those theories were sort of pushed aside. But you know,
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Speaker 1: this tragedy was considered an accident, not any sort of
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Speaker 1: foul play, and so the police were not investigating further.
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Speaker 1: They basically were there on site. You know, they saw
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Speaker 1: what happened, they documented it, but there was not like
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Speaker 1: a deeper investigation happening here. So for Carly, I mean,
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Speaker 1: she knew that it was very possible that she and
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Speaker 1: everyone else would really never get the answers that they
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Speaker 1: were looking for here, that it would just be a
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Speaker 1: mystery what happened to Marcus. So for Carly, it just
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Speaker 1: was really difficult to sort of just go back to
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Speaker 1: normal life, go back to school, and just be a
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Speaker 1: kid again when there was this huge hole in her
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Speaker 1: life life that just felt like it was never going
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Speaker 1: to be filled. But Carly was not the only one
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Speaker 1: grieving here. Marcus had been incredibly popular at Northport High
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Speaker 1: and after their principal, mister Kenny, had notified the student
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Speaker 1: body about his death, there had been a whirlwind of
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Speaker 1: memorial services and student gatherings, and mister Kenny had made
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Speaker 1: sure that counselors were brought into school to help kids
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Speaker 1: process what had happened. And so now, as Carly sat
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Speaker 1: there in her Spanish class, trying her best to concentrate,
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Speaker 1: she suddenly heard the crackle of the school's announcement system
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Speaker 1: kick on, and then she heard mister Kenny's voice, and
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Speaker 1: he said he had something to tell them, and Carly
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Speaker 1: could tell pretty much right away that whatever he was
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Speaker 1: going to tell them was not going to be good news. Now,
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Speaker 1: normally mister Kenny was a very enthusiastic and very sort
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Speaker 1: of positive person, but right now his voice was very solemn,
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Speaker 1: and there was a slight tremor to it as he
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Speaker 1: began to speak. And then at some point he kind
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Speaker 1: of stopped himself and he cleared his throat, and then
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Speaker 1: he just said, another Northport student has just died. In
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Speaker 1: the weeks following that announcement, Carly tried to wrap her
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Speaker 1: head around how it was possible that two students had
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Speaker 1: died at their school in two months now. The second
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Speaker 1: death was not similar to Marcus's death in terms of
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Speaker 1: how they died. The second death was self inflicted, but still, Northport,
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Speaker 1: which was a small, tight knit school, was not a
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Speaker 1: place where young people just suddenly started dying like this
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Speaker 1: didn't happen. But then, just weeks later, in early May,
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Speaker 1: Carly's confusion turned into outright disbelief when another Northport student died,
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Speaker 1: also self inflicted. And this really sent Carly and the
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Speaker 1: rest of the already very fragile student body at Northport
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Speaker 1: into a state of shock. I mean, two students dying
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Speaker 1: so close together was already so difficult to process, but
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Speaker 1: three was unthinkable, And so now it was like the
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Speaker 1: entire student body was on edge, like almost brace for
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Speaker 1: more awful news, like more deaths just almost felt inevitable. However,
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Speaker 1: one night, soon after the third death, Carly was at
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Speaker 1: her home in her room on her computer, scrolling around
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Speaker 1: on Facebook when she saw a post from another classmate,
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Speaker 1: And when she read what this person had written, which
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Speaker 1: was very short, she couldn't believe she hadn't thought of
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Speaker 1: this sooner. This person's post pointed out that all three
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Speaker 1: of these deaths had one thing in common, so many
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Speaker 1: students and staff and parents at Northport High believed that
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Speaker 1: the school's overall recent improvements in athletics and testing and
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Speaker 1: general student satisfaction were all because of their principle, mister Kenny.
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Speaker 1: Mister Kenny was very student focused and he offered the
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Speaker 1: kids at Northport a lot of individual attention, but he
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Speaker 1: also had a secret. So over the last three years,
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Speaker 1: mister Kenny had been meeting with students and staff members
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Speaker 1: to resolve various persons issues like people's anxiety or pain
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Speaker 1: management or mental health issues, test scores, being better at
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Speaker 1: concentrating like he was there, and working with people to
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Speaker 1: try to sort of make them the best version of themselves.
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Speaker 1: To do this, he put the students and the staff
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Speaker 1: members under hypnosis. Mister Kenny would invite sometimes as many
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Speaker 1: as two students a day into his office for these private,
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Speaker 1: recorded hypnosis sessions, and he would do the same thing
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Speaker 1: for teachers. He even sometimes brought entire school sports teams
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Speaker 1: into his office and he would hypnotize them before games
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Speaker 1: to improve performance. But critically, mister Kenny not only performed
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Speaker 1: the hypnotism himself. He also taught the students how to
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Speaker 1: do it on themselves. Mister Kenny had only ever taken
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Speaker 1: a brief course in hypnosis and certainly did not have
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Speaker 1: a license to be using it to diagnose or resolve
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Speaker 1: actual mental health issues or even physical issues like He
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Speaker 1: was not licensed to be doing this, But a lot
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Speaker 1: of kids really responded to his sessions and reported improvements
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Speaker 1: in their anxiety and their focus, and some athletes started
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Speaker 1: excelling in their sports. But along with these good developments,
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Speaker 1: there were some alarming side effects. Some Northport parents reported
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Speaker 1: that their children began experiencing these strange personality changes and
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Speaker 1: they would have these blank stares on their faces after
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Speaker 1: they had begun hypnosis with mister Kenny. Others said that
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Speaker 1: after these sessions, their child became disoriented, or started doing
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Speaker 1: things they wouldn't normally do, or began thinking about hurting themselves.
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Speaker 1: And so, after the third student death, that Facebook post
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Speaker 1: that Carly found had revealed that all three of those
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Speaker 1: students had been repeatedly hypnotized by mister Kenny. Now, mister
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Speaker 1: Kenny swore he was not the one responsible for these deaths.
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Speaker 1: He was charged with practicing therapeutic hypnosis without a license,
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Speaker 1: and he did receive a year of probation. In addition,
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Speaker 1: the Sarasota County School Board paid a total of six
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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars to the three victims' families, and as
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Speaker 1: for mister Kenny, he has since retired from teaching. Shortly
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Speaker 1: after eight pm on October ninth, nineteen ninety six, thirty
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Speaker 1: one year old Anthony Irvin walked down a dark sidewalk
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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, towards a local grocery store. It was
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Speaker 1: not that cold outside, but you know, it was kind
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Speaker 1: of windy, and it was dark, and you know, Anthony,
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Speaker 1: he only had a light jacket on, and so he
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Speaker 1: wasn't feeling that comfortable, and so he pulled his jacket
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Speaker 1: tight around him as he walked. And as he was walking,
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Speaker 1: you know, all he wanted to do was just go
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Speaker 1: home where it was warm, but he couldn't. He really
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Speaker 1: needed money first. Once he had money, then he could
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Speaker 1: go home. So Anthony had a pretty tough life, and
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Speaker 1: for the most part, he really was just a career criminal.
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Speaker 1: He had not had a regular job in a very
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Speaker 1: long time, and instead, when he needed money, like tonight,
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Speaker 1: he would steal from local businesses, or he would mug people.
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Speaker 1: In the past nine years, he'd been arrested eight times
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Speaker 1: for things like robbery and assault, and so for the
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Speaker 1: most part, he was just a huge nuisance to the
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Speaker 1: people in this neighborhood. Even if they felt bad for him,
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Speaker 1: he was just a problem. But you know, despite how
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Speaker 1: often he committed crimes, his crimes were always relatively petty,
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Speaker 1: and so he really didn't serve much time at all
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Speaker 1: in prison. He always ended up back out on the street,
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Speaker 1: and he always ended up continuing to you know, be
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Speaker 1: a problem. But tonight, though, as Anthony walked down the road,
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Speaker 1: he was not thinking about how his behavior impacted his neighbors.
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Speaker 1: He was thinking about finding some place or someone to rob.
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Speaker 1: And tonight in particular, he thought, I'm gonna look for
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Speaker 1: a person I need, I need a target. And so
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Speaker 1: he's walking down the road and he actually began to
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Speaker 1: get kind of worried because it seemed like it was
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Speaker 1: it was quieter than usual out on the street, like
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Speaker 1: there was nobody out here, and he started to worry
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Speaker 1: that if he didn't find somebody soon, like he was
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Speaker 1: gonna be out of luck, no money. But just then,
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Speaker 1: right up ahead, a young man turned the corner and
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Speaker 1: began walking up the sidewalk in Anthony's direction. He was
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Speaker 1: sort of a smaller, younger looking guy. He appeared to
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Speaker 1: be all alone, and right away, Anthony's like, oh my goodness, perfect,
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Speaker 1: I have my mark. I'm gonna rob this guy. And
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Speaker 1: so Anthony he begins walking towards you know, this this
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Speaker 1: unsuspecting young man, and as he got closer, Anthony realized
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Speaker 1: he knew who this guy was. This was Harry, his neighbor.
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Speaker 1: And he's like, oh my gosh, perfect, cause I know
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Speaker 1: Harry is super soft spoken and gentle, like, he's so calm,
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Speaker 1: he's not gonna do anything, like he's gonna be so
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Speaker 1: easy to rob. Yeah, it's horrible to rob your neighbor.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna know I did it, But what's he gonna do.
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Speaker 1: So Anthony marches right up to Harry and he stops
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Speaker 1: right in front of him, blocking his path, and then
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Speaker 1: Anthony delivers, you know, his classic mugging threat. A few
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Speaker 1: minutes later, a detective with the Philadelphia Police Department named
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Speaker 1: Perry Kelly drove his cruiser fast down a city street.
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Speaker 1: He'd been called to the area about a mugging, and
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Speaker 1: he was hopeful he would get there in time to
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Speaker 1: potentially catch the mugger, or at least see who they
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Speaker 1: were or see where they went so that maybe he
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Speaker 1: could catch them. And so Kelly he turns the corner
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Speaker 1: and he pulls up in front of the address where
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Speaker 1: he's been told to go. And as he's pulling up,
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Speaker 1: he sees there are two men out on the sidewalk.
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Speaker 1: One is lying motionless on the ground and the other
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Speaker 1: is sitting on top of him, And Kelly's thinking, perfect,
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Speaker 1: I have caught the mugger, like he's the one on
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Speaker 1: top of the other. I've caught him in the act. Great,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna jump out of the car and arrest this guy.
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Speaker 1: But no, when Kelly got out of the car and
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Speaker 1: learned what actually happened here, this became easily the strangest
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Speaker 1: thing he had ever come across in his twenty five
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Speaker 1: year career. So when Anthony mugged people, what he would
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Speaker 1: do is he would put his hand into his coat
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Speaker 1: pocket and he would press his fingers forward like he
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Speaker 1: had a gun in his pocket, and he would sort
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Speaker 1: of aim his hand inside of his jacket towards the
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Speaker 1: person he was mugging, and he would say to them
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Speaker 1: as soon as he walked up to them, like, hey,
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Speaker 1: I got a gun, give me all your money, or
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna shoot you. And they would often look down
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Speaker 1: they'd see what they thought was a gun in his jacket,
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Speaker 1: although they couldn't be sure, and you know, instead of
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Speaker 1: questioning whether really Anthony had a gun or not, they
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Speaker 1: would just hand over their money like it wasn't worth it. Here,
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Speaker 1: take my money, and Anthony would take their money and
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Speaker 1: run off, right. So this worked most of the time,
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Speaker 1: and he's thinking, Harry, here's my easy mark this this
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Speaker 1: young meek kid. I'm going to use this same thing
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Speaker 1: on him. It's going to be so easy. And so
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Speaker 1: he walks up to Harry and literally stands in front
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Speaker 1: of him and blocks his way, and Harry actually kind
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Speaker 1: of walks into him and is like, what's going on?
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Speaker 1: And Anthony he delivers the line he's got his hand
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Speaker 1: in the pocket, pretending he's got his gun, and he's like,
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Speaker 1: hand over all your money or I'm gonna shoot. But Harry,
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Speaker 1: you know, whether or not he believed that Anthony had
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Speaker 1: a gun or not, he actually had virtually no way
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Speaker 1: of confirming it one way or another, because Harry was
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Speaker 1: actually blind, and Anthony knew Harry was blind because they
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Speaker 1: were neighbors, and that was a big reason why he
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Speaker 1: thought this was going to be so easy. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: rob the slight blind kid, That's what I'm gonna do.
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Speaker 1: But what Anthony didn't realize is that, in addition to
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Speaker 1: being blind, Harry also happened to be a karate master
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Speaker 1: and a master wrestler as well, and so when Harry
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Speaker 1: was suddenly being told, you know you're gonna get shot
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Speaker 1: if you don't hand over your money, his instincts kicked
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Speaker 1: in and he grabbed Anthony. He slipped him over his
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Speaker 1: shoulder and slammed him into the ground and broke his
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Speaker 1: neck and killed him, and then he sat on top
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Speaker 1: of his body until police arrived. Harry was never charged
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Speaker 1: in connection with Anthony's death, since it was determined he
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Speaker 1: acted in self defense, and even though the media called
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Speaker 1: him a hero for defending himself, Harry actually felt terrible
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Speaker 1: that he had killed Anthony. He didn't mean to, he
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Speaker 1: was just protecting himself, and so he called the whole
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