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Top 3 stories that sound fake but are 100% real Part 13 · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today we're
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Speaker 1: going to look at three stories that demonstrate that. But
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. Just after midnight on June
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Speaker 1: twenty second, nineteen ninety one, Charles Holden was on his
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Speaker 1: way home from work when he decided to stop at
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Speaker 1: a fast food restaurant near his house in Harrington, Delaware.
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Speaker 1: After grabbing a quick bite to eat, Charles left the
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Speaker 1: store and got back in his truck. He turned it
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Speaker 1: on and he was about to drive out of the
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Speaker 1: lot when he stopped because there was this man running
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Speaker 1: towards him, waving, trying to flag him down, So Charles
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Speaker 1: put his truck back in park and he rolled his
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Speaker 1: window down to see what this guy wanted. And when
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Speaker 1: this stranger got close enough, he told Charles that his
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Speaker 1: sister was having a baby and he needed a ride
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Speaker 1: to the hospital, which was about twenty minutes away. Charles
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Speaker 1: couldn't tell that this guy was lying. It was super late.
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Speaker 1: He didn't know this guy, and he said a bad
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Speaker 1: feeling about him, and so he told him, no, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: it's too late. I got to get home. It's too
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Speaker 1: far out of the way. The stranger immediately looked dejected
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Speaker 1: and turned around and started walking away, and as Charles
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Speaker 1: was watching him go, he felt bad and said, you
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Speaker 1: know what, hey, come back here. I'll give you a
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Speaker 1: ride part of the way there, And so the stranger smiled,
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Speaker 1: hopped in his passenger seat, and they took off. Charles
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Speaker 1: drove him approximately three miles in the direction he had
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Speaker 1: asked to go, before pulling over on the side of
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Speaker 1: the road and telling him this is as far as
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Speaker 1: I'm going to take you. Charles lived only about a
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Speaker 1: block away and he didn't want to drive too far
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Speaker 1: away from home so late at night. But the stranger,
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Speaker 1: upon hearing he was being let out, so soon suddenly
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Speaker 1: became angry and began fumbling in his pocket like he
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Speaker 1: was going to get a night for some sort of weapon,
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Speaker 1: and he starts screaming at Charles, hand over your keys,
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Speaker 1: hand over your walletor I'm gonna kill you. Charles meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: was on edge just being in the car with this
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Speaker 1: guy because he had a bad feeling about him, and
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Speaker 1: so he immediately jumped into action. He turned off his truck,
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Speaker 1: he ripped the keys out of the ignition, and he
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Speaker 1: leapt out of his truck and started running. Charles saw
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Speaker 1: way off in the distance was a convenience store and
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Speaker 1: he figured he could run to there and get some help.
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Speaker 1: But as he's running, he turns around and sees the
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Speaker 1: stranger has also left out of the car and was
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Speaker 1: now sprinting up to him with a screwdriver in his hand.
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Speaker 1: And this stranger was running really fast. He was gaining
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Speaker 1: on Charles, and soon Charles realized he wasn't gonna make
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Speaker 1: it to the convenience store before this guy caught up
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Speaker 1: to him, and so at some point Charles just stops.
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Speaker 1: He turns around and he puts his hands up and
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Speaker 1: he says, okay, okay, okay, I'll give you a ride
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Speaker 1: wherever you want to go, and then you can have
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Speaker 1: my keys, my wallet, you can have anything you want.
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Speaker 1: And so the stranger runs right up to Charles and
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Speaker 1: he stops and he smiles because he's very pleased with
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Speaker 1: this result, and he pokes him with the screwdriver and
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Speaker 1: kind of gestures for him to go back to the truck.
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Speaker 1: So Charles walks back to the truck with the stranger
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Speaker 1: right behind him, with the screwdriver periodically poking him in
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Speaker 1: the back. They finally get to the vehicle and the
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Speaker 1: stranger tells Charles to get in the car and then wait.
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Speaker 1: But as soon as Charles sat down, he fired up
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Speaker 1: his truck and sped off before the stranger could hop
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Speaker 1: in the passenger side door. And so Charles is lying
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Speaker 1: away from this guy. He looks in his rear view
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Speaker 1: mirror and he can see the guy is chasing after
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Speaker 1: him with a screwdriver held over his head, but he
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Speaker 1: sees the stranger at some point just stops, turns around
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Speaker 1: and walks away. Charles was totally relieved that he had
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Speaker 1: escaped this horrible encounter, and he was thinking about calling
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Speaker 1: the police, but ultimately decided he wouldn't because it was
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Speaker 1: his decision to allow some stranger to get in his
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Speaker 1: car in the middle of the night, and so Charles
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Speaker 1: kind of blamed himself for the whole ordeal. What Charles
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Speaker 1: was concerned about, though, was where he had ditched. The
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Speaker 1: stranger was not far from his house, and he was
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Speaker 1: worried if he just turned around and drove right back
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Speaker 1: to his house, that this guy could recognize the truck
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Speaker 1: and then follow him to his house, and then who
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Speaker 1: knows what could happen. And so Charles decides he's just
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Speaker 1: going to stay outside of town and drive around for
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Speaker 1: a while to make sure this stranger is long gone
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Speaker 1: by the time he comes back. So after about an
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Speaker 1: hour of doing just that, driving around outside of town,
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Speaker 1: Charles goes back into Harrington, Delaware, and he gets on
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Speaker 1: his street and he's shocked when he sees the stranger
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Speaker 1: who had just tried to kill him is walking down
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Speaker 1: the road right in front of him. But luckily, the
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Speaker 1: stranger did not hear or see Charles pull onto his street,
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Speaker 1: and so Charles immediately throws in a reverse and he
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Speaker 1: gets out of there, and he drives off at this point,
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Speaker 1: Charles decides he needs to tell police because he doesn't
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Speaker 1: know if this stranger actually knows him, and that maybe
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Speaker 1: he's targeting him and he's waiting for him at its property,
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Speaker 1: and so he calls nine to one one and he
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Speaker 1: tells the dispatcher about what had happened earlier and how
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Speaker 1: this guy is now lurking around his property, and the
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Speaker 1: dispatcher tells him they'll send an officer out to him,
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Speaker 1: and so a few minutes later, an officer showed up
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Speaker 1: at the payphone where Charles was and they told Charles
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Speaker 1: they would escort him back to his property and if
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Speaker 1: this stranger was still out in the area, they would
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Speaker 1: arrest him, and so the two of them made their
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Speaker 1: way back to Charles's property. They get there, the stranger's
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Speaker 1: long gone, and then Charles goes into his house. There's
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Speaker 1: no sign of a break in, there's no sign that
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Speaker 1: anyone was near his property, and so Charles thanks the officer.
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Speaker 1: He feels totally relieved, but before the officer leaves, he
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Speaker 1: asks him if he wouldn't mind doing a quick sweep
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Speaker 1: of his mother's property. She lived right behind Charles on
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Speaker 1: the other side of some bushes, he told the officer
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Speaker 1: her name was Dorothy, she was seventy years old and
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Speaker 1: she lived alone, and he just wanted to make sure
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Speaker 1: nothing happened to her. So the officer said, no problem,
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Speaker 1: I'll go check in on her. So the officer leaves
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Speaker 1: Charles and goes across his backyard through those bushes into
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Speaker 1: Dorothy's backyard, and right away he can see the back
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Speaker 1: window on the back door has been smashed, and the
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Speaker 1: door itself is slightly ajar. And so the officer draws
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Speaker 1: their pistol and they go up and they enter the
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Speaker 1: house and they look inside. They're yelling for Dorothy, but
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Speaker 1: there's no answer. It's totally dark in the house. It's
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Speaker 1: totally silent, and so after searching the first floor and
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Speaker 1: finding nothing, they make their way up the flight of
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Speaker 1: stairs and they find blood at the top of the
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Speaker 1: landing and they follow this trail of blood and it
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Speaker 1: brings them into one of the bedrooms where a woman
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Speaker 1: is sprawled out on a bed. It was Dorothy. She
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Speaker 1: had been stabbed to death. It would turn out, after
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Speaker 1: Charles had ditched the stranger and sped off without him,
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Speaker 1: the stranger, whose name was Gilbert Cannon, began looking for
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Speaker 1: a place to sleep, and the house he ultimately selected
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Speaker 1: just happened to be Charles's mother's house. After Gilbert broke
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Speaker 1: in through her back door, he saw Dorothy coming down
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Speaker 1: the steps to confront him, and because he was worried
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Speaker 1: she'd be able to identify him, he attacked her with
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Speaker 1: a screwdriver. Gilbert would later tell police that the attack
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Speaker 1: on Charles was completely random. He was just at this
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Speaker 1: fast food restaurant. He saw Charles get into his truck,
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Speaker 1: and he thought to himself, if I can get in
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Speaker 1: that guy's truck, I bet I can rob him. And
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Speaker 1: then after this failed robbery, when Gilbert is out looking
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Speaker 1: for a place to sleep and he breaks into this
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Speaker 1: house and this woman comes down the stairs that he
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Speaker 1: attacks and kills, he has no idea that this woman, Dorothy,
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Speaker 1: is Charles's mother. The entire night was one big, horrible coincidence.
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Speaker 1: Gilbert would plead guilty to the murder and would be
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Speaker 1: sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Speaker 1: In nineteen forty nine, fifteen year old problem child ken
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Speaker 1: Rex mckilroy dropped out of school and moved to a
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Speaker 1: tiny farming town called Skidmore, Missouri. There he began his
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Speaker 1: life of crime, which consisted primarily of theft. At night,
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Speaker 1: he would drive his truck onto Skidmore residence property and
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Speaker 1: he would steal their livestock, alcohol, grain, food, antiques. Anything
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Speaker 1: he could get his hands on and that he could sell,
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Speaker 1: he would take. And if the owners ever caught him
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Speaker 1: in the act, he would just raise his rifle at
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Speaker 1: them and tell them to go back inside and never
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Speaker 1: report it to the police, or he would kill them.
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Speaker 1: And because Rex was this big, two hundred and seventy
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Speaker 1: pound monster of a man who was known for having
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Speaker 1: a bad temper and for being really aggressive, people generally
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Speaker 1: just did what he asked and his crimes went totally unreported.
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Speaker 1: In the rare instances that victims would report Rex's crimes
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Speaker 1: to police, Rex would begin intimidating them and their family
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Speaker 1: by staking out their houses at all hours of the night,
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Speaker 1: or he would just walk directly up to these victims
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Speaker 1: and he would say, I will kill you if you
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Speaker 1: testify against me. And if none of those tactics worked,
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Speaker 1: Rex used some of his illegal money to hire one
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Speaker 1: of the very best defense lawyers in the entire state,
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Speaker 1: a lawyer who had famously represented the mob, and he
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Speaker 1: would step in and get Rex off of virtually any charge,
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Speaker 1: including the time Rex actually did shoot one of the
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Speaker 1: owners who caught him in the act. Over the years,
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Speaker 1: Rex would use these fear and intimidation tactics not just
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Speaker 1: to make money, but also to prey on young women
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Speaker 1: and girls. In the nineteen seventies, when Rex was in
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Speaker 1: his forties, he began stoking a local Skidmore girl who
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Speaker 1: was twelve years old named Trina. After assaulting her dozens
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Speaker 1: of times, Rex learned her family was going to be
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Speaker 1: pressing charges against him, so Rex burned down Trina's family's
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Speaker 1: house and killed the family dog, and then threatened to
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Speaker 1: kill the entire family unless they signed paperwork that would
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Speaker 1: legally marry their daughter Trina to Rex. This would protect
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Speaker 1: him legally in case they pressed any charges against him.
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Speaker 1: After the family finally relented and signed off in the marriage,
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Speaker 1: Trina was forced to come live with Rex at his house,
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Speaker 1: and within two years she became pregnant. After the birth
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Speaker 1: of her child, she took her baby and tried to
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Speaker 1: run away from Rex, and she ran back to her
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Speaker 1: family's new house and she was hiding there, but Rex
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Speaker 1: tracked her down, He took her and their baby back,
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Speaker 1: and then Rex proceeded to burn her family's house down
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Speaker 1: again and again killed their new family dog. By the
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Speaker 1: end of the nineteen seventies, Rex wasn't only just the
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Speaker 1: most hated person in Skidmore, he was the most destructive person.
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Speaker 1: He had hurt so many people in town, but it
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Speaker 1: seemed like no one could do anything about it. It
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Speaker 1: was like he was untouchable. Then a single piece of
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Speaker 1: candy changed everything. In nineteen eighty, one of Rex's children
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Speaker 1: was at a local grocery store in Skidmore when they
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Speaker 1: were caught stealing a piece of candy. When the shopkeeper
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Speaker 1: asked the child to put the candy back, they refused
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Speaker 1: and caused this huge fight. And before long Rex has
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Speaker 1: found out about this huge fight, and Rex, instead of
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Speaker 1: being upset with his child for stealing, he becomes enraged
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Speaker 1: that the shopkeeper had the audacity to accuse his child
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Speaker 1: of a crime, and so Rex began stalking the owner
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Speaker 1: of the store, a seventy year old man named Bo,
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Speaker 1: along with the rest of Bo's family at all hours
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Speaker 1: of the night. Rex would just show up in front
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Speaker 1: of their house with a gun slung across his lap
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Speaker 1: and he would fire shots into the air, and then
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Speaker 1: during the day he would walk right up to Bow
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Speaker 1: and he would tell him, I'm going to kill you.
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Speaker 1: And so Bo and his family knew it was only
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Speaker 1: a matter of time before Rex did become violent, and
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Speaker 1: they were right. In July of that year, Rex showed
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Speaker 1: up at Bo's grocery store with a shotgun in hand,
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Speaker 1: and Bo, who was in the back of the shop
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Speaker 1: loading groceries through the back door, he turns around and
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Speaker 1: he sees Rex walking up to him. They have this
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Speaker 1: heated confrontation where at some point Rex just raises a
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Speaker 1: shotgun and he fires a shot into Bo's neck. Bo
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Speaker 1: was gravely wounded, but he would survive. And Rex would
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Speaker 1: actually get arrested and would be charged with attempted murder,
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Speaker 1: and it seemed like, for once, maybe Rex was actually
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Speaker 1: going to get what was coming to him. He didn't.
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Speaker 1: The attempted murder charge was lowered to just assault and
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Speaker 1: he was given two years in prison, but he would
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Speaker 1: only serve one day in jail before being released on bond.
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Speaker 1: And as soon as he was out on bond, he
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Speaker 1: went right to his house and he got his rifle
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Speaker 1: that had a bayonet attached at the end of it,
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Speaker 1: and he went right to the tavern in the middle
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Speaker 1: of Skidmore and he began telling anybody who would listen
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Speaker 1: that he planned to finish the job. I e. He
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Speaker 1: was going to kill Bo. And he described in very
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Speaker 1: graphic detail how he planned to do it, which involved
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Speaker 1: this rifle and this bayonet. Patrons that were at the
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Speaker 1: tavern that saw Rex and heard these claims, they were
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Speaker 1: scared for Bo, and so they left the tavern and
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Speaker 1: they told city leaders about these threats. And so city
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Speaker 1: leaders at this point they'd had enough of Rex, and
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Speaker 1: they decide they're going to host this secret meeting that
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Speaker 1: will not include Rex the following morning. So the next
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Speaker 1: morning comes around and all these angry residents they come
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Speaker 1: to this meeting and they begin discussing, you know, how
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Speaker 1: are we going to handle Rex. We can't use police,
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Speaker 1: we can't use politicians, nothing can be done. So what
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Speaker 1: are we going to do? How are we going to
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Speaker 1: put an end to his reign of terror? And after
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Speaker 1: a while they came up with a plan, and after
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Speaker 1: the meeting was done, everybody left the town hall. They
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Speaker 1: got their guns and they made their way over to
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Speaker 1: the tavern where Rex was seen earlier that morning. About
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Speaker 1: forty of these armed men surrounded the outside of this tavern,
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Speaker 1: and once they were all in place, another smaller group
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Speaker 1: of men that were all armed walked inside the tavern
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Speaker 1: and they saw Rex sitting at the bar with Trina
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Speaker 1: sitting right next to him, and so these men they
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Speaker 1: walk up right behind Rex, uncomfortably close right behind him,
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Speaker 1: and they just stand there with their guns looking at him.
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Speaker 1: And at some point Rex turns around and sees them,
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Speaker 1: and he's about to lash out and start fighting them,
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Speaker 1: but he realizes he's totally outnumbered and these men they're
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Speaker 1: standing all around him. They look like they mean business,
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Speaker 1: and so he stands up. He grabs Trina, and he
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Speaker 1: brushes past them, try and act up, and he walks
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Speaker 1: out of the tavern. When he gets outside, he's taken
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Speaker 1: aback at this additional group of armed men, which is
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Speaker 1: much larger, who were all standing there just looking in
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Speaker 1: at him. And so Rex at this point becomes visibly frightened,
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Speaker 1: but he grabs Trina and he walks out to his truck,
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Speaker 1: which is parked a little ways out in front of
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Speaker 1: the tavern. He gets in the driver's side She hops
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Speaker 1: in the passenger side and Rex lights a cigarette up.
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Speaker 1: He turns on his truck and he's about to try
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Speaker 1: to drive away when a gunshot rings out and Rex
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Speaker 1: immediately slumps forward onto his wheel. One of the Skidmore
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Speaker 1: residents runs up to the truck. They open up the
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Speaker 1: passenger side and they grabbed Trina, who was unhurt, pulled
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Speaker 1: her out and rushed her to safety. Once she was clear,
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Speaker 1: the other residents with their guns just moved in on
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Speaker 1: the truck and for twenty seconds they opened fire on Rex.
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Speaker 1: The shooting was over, nobody called an ambulance. Everyone just
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Speaker 1: stood there and watched as the town bully died. In all,
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Speaker 1: there were forty six witnesses that were there when Rex
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Speaker 1: was murdered, but they all said they had either not
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Speaker 1: seen the shooting or they didn't know who the shooter was,
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Speaker 1: and despite a lengthy federal investigation, none of the witnesses
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Speaker 1: ever changed their stories, and so as a result, no
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Speaker 1: one was ever charged with Rex's murder. Years later, a
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Speaker 1: Skidmore resident when asked what happened here, they just said
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Speaker 1: that man needed a killing. On the morning of March eighteenth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety, a young woman named Karen parked her car
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Speaker 1: just outside of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Speaker 1: This famous museum is home to over fifteen thousand pieces
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Speaker 1: of priceless art from Ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia,
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Speaker 1: the Islamic world, in nineteenth century France, and America. The
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Speaker 1: outside of this four story building is strikingly plain, but
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Speaker 1: inside is strikingly gorgeous. There is this lush, green, open
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Speaker 1: air courtyard that sits right in the middle of the
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Speaker 1: museum that all of the galleries looked down into. Karen
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Speaker 1: was an art enthusiast and she was a security guard
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Speaker 1: at this museum, and that day she was on duty.
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Speaker 1: After parking her car, she got out and walked her
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Speaker 1: way over to the employee entrance, and there she pressed
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Speaker 1: the buzzer and announced her arrival to the two night
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Speaker 1: shift guards that she would be relieving. But after a
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Speaker 1: few seconds, the night shift guards did not respond to her,
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Speaker 1: and they did not unlock the door. And so after
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Speaker 1: a li while, Karen pressed the bugger again and said
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Speaker 1: I'm here, can you please open the door? But again
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Speaker 1: the guards that were on duty did not respond back
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Speaker 1: to her and the door did not open. This was
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Speaker 1: highly unusual, So Karen left the door, found a payphone
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Speaker 1: and called the chief of security for the museum, who
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Speaker 1: lived out in town, and told him she couldn't get
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Speaker 1: in the building. So about ten minutes later, the chief
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Speaker 1: of security shows up and he takes Karen and he
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Speaker 1: walks her around to the other side of the building.
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Speaker 1: He leads her up an outdoor flight of stairs to
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Speaker 1: another entrance to the museum. He pulls out a big
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Speaker 1: ring of keys, he finds the right one, and he
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Speaker 1: opens the door. The entrance they were going through placed
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Speaker 1: them in this dark hallway that stretched out straight in
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Speaker 1: front of them, and then at the very end of
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Speaker 1: the hallway on the right was this very brightly lit
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Speaker 1: room that the door was wide open to, and that
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Speaker 1: was the security office where the guards were supposed to be.
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Speaker 1: And so Karen and the chief they begin walking down
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Speaker 1: this hallway expecting to get to the end of it
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Speaker 1: and look inside this room and see these guards and
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Speaker 1: get an explanation for why they didn't buzz Karen in
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Speaker 1: in the first place. But when they reached the into
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Speaker 1: the hallway and they look in this office, there's nobody inside.
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Speaker 1: Of there, and now that they were up closed, they
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Speaker 1: could see the door leading into the security office had
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Speaker 1: been smashed open. In fact, the doorknob to this door
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Speaker 1: had been smashed off and was laying on the ground.
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Speaker 1: And then next to it, right in front of them,
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Speaker 1: was this metal crowbar. And then above them the one
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Speaker 1: camera that would have seen whatever had happened in the hallway,
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Speaker 1: it had been turned around and was facing the wall.
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Speaker 1: So Karen and the chief they know they've stumbled on
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Speaker 1: something that's probably really bad. They don't know what it is.
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Speaker 1: They don't know if there's still people inside the museum,
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Speaker 1: they don't know where the guards are. So the chief
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Speaker 1: just grabs the crowbar for protection and he and Karen
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Speaker 1: run into the office and they call police. Although they
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Speaker 1: didn't know it yet, Karen and the Chief had just
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Speaker 1: discovered one of the most famous crimes in history. The
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Speaker 1: night before, twenty three year old security guard Rick Abath
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Speaker 1: trudged his way down the walkway towards the employee entrance
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Speaker 1: of the museum. He and another young man named Randy
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Speaker 1: were scheduled to work the overnight shift that night. Rick
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Speaker 1: hated his job at the museum because it was incredibly boring,
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Speaker 1: but Rick didn't really have many other employment opportunities to
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Speaker 1: choose from. He was a guy that had dropped out
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Speaker 1: of music school and spent most of his time smoking marijuana,
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Speaker 1: drinking beer, and playing in his friend's rock band, and
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Speaker 1: so he just kept this job that he hated. Once
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Speaker 1: Rick got inside the museum, he walked over to the office,
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Speaker 1: where he found his partner that night, Randy, was already
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Speaker 1: sitting behind the desk. After chatting with him for a
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Speaker 1: few minutes, Rick said he would do the first set
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Speaker 1: of security rounds, and so he grabbed a walkie talkie
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Speaker 1: in a flashlight and he headed out to the exhibit halls.
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Speaker 1: Almost immediately, a fire alarm went off. Rick went to
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Speaker 1: the area where it was going off, and he investigated
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Speaker 1: and did not see a fire, and so he just
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Speaker 1: turned the alarm off. The building was very old and
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Speaker 1: it wasn't uncommon for their electronics to fail or glitch,
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Speaker 1: and so after this Rick didn't think much of it.
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Speaker 1: He continued doing his security rounds and after about thirty
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Speaker 1: more minutes of that, he made his way back down
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Speaker 1: Rick took the seat behind the desk, and Randy took
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Speaker 1: the walkie talkie and flashlight and headed out into the exhibits.
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Speaker 1: About thirty minutes later, while Randy was still doing his
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Speaker 1: security rounds, Rick had his head down on the desk
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Speaker 1: when he heard the sound of the buzzer coming from
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Speaker 1: one of the outside doors. He lifted his head up
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Speaker 1: and he looked at the screen that was connected to
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Speaker 1: the camera, looking down at whoever was outside at this door,
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Speaker 1: and he saw there were two police officers standing right
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Speaker 1: outside the door, and so he reached over and he
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Speaker 1: pressed the intercom button and he said, hey, can I
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Speaker 1: help you? And the officers said they were there responding
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Speaker 1: to a disturbance call. Can they come inside? Now? Rick
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Speaker 1: didn't know what this was about. He assumed it must
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Speaker 1: have to do with maybe the fire alarm that had
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Speaker 1: gone off earlier, or maybe somebody outside had seen someone
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Speaker 1: trying to break in and they had called it in.
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Speaker 1: But either way, he felt like it was important enough
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Speaker 1: that he should let them in, even though it was
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Speaker 1: against protocol to allow anyone into the museum after hours,
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Speaker 1: including police. And so the two officers they come through
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Speaker 1: the doors and they wind up in the hallway right
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Speaker 1: outside of the security office, and there's a window into
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Speaker 1: the security office, so both the officers and Rick can
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Speaker 1: see each other. And the officers immediately say to Rick, hey,
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Speaker 1: are you working alone tonight? And Rick says, no, my
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Speaker 1: partner is out doing security rounds. He'll be back soon,
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Speaker 1: and so the officers just kind of nod heads and
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Speaker 1: they're looking around the room for a second, and one
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Speaker 1: of them, as he glances at Rick again, he does
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Speaker 1: kind of a double take and he goes, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: I think I know you. There's a warrant out for
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Speaker 1: your arrest. You need to come out here and show
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Speaker 1: me your ID. And so Rick is caught completely off guard,
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Speaker 1: because it's a police officer. And so Rick stands up,
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Speaker 1: he walks out of the office, he goes out into
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Speaker 1: the hallway, and as he's about to present his ID
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Speaker 1: to the inquiring officer, the officer just grabs him, pushes
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Speaker 1: him up against the wall, and handcuffs him. And so
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Speaker 1: before Rick can say anything, Randy, his partner, comes back
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Speaker 1: from doing his security rounds. He walks into the hall
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Speaker 1: and has no idea what's going on. The other officer
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Speaker 1: the one that had not handcuffed. Rick grabs Randy and
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Speaker 1: and handcuffs him. And so as Randy and Rick are
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Speaker 1: standing there up against the wall with their hands behind
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Speaker 1: their back, they're looking at each other. They're looking around
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Speaker 1: thinking what's going on here? And at some point Randy
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Speaker 1: just blurts out, why are we being arrested? And that's
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Speaker 1: when one of the officers just says, oh, you're not
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Speaker 1: being arrested, you're being robbed. Rick and Randy were led
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Speaker 1: by the imposter cops down into the basement of this building,
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Speaker 1: where they were bound and gagged with duct tape. And
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Speaker 1: then these two thieves proceeded to spend the next eighty
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Speaker 1: one minutes walking all around the museum, ultimately stealing thirteen
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Speaker 1: pieces of art before destroying the security footage and then
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Speaker 1: fleeing the building. Rick and Randy were discovered unhurt later
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Speaker 1: that morning by police, still tied up in the basement.
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Speaker 1: Despite dozens of suspects, numerous viable theories, and a massive
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Speaker 1: remain at large today. As for the thirteen pieces of
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Speaker 1: painting called The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, which
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Speaker 1: is his only seascape in existence. They are still unaccounted for,
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