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Speaker 1: today's stories. In early twenty twenty, a very popular Russian
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Speaker 1: Instagram influencer named Ektorina Didenko was getting ready to celebrate
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Speaker 1: her twenty ninth birthday. She along with her husband and
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Speaker 1: some of her influencer friends, were planning to enjoy the
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Speaker 1: occasion at a popular spa in Moscow, Russia. The group
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Speaker 1: rented out a private section of the spa that included
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Speaker 1: a steam room and a small indoor pool, and then
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Speaker 1: once the reservations were made to Danko and all of
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Speaker 1: our influencer friends began eagerly talking about how excited they
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Speaker 1: were about this party on their various social media accounts.
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Speaker 1: When the day finally came February twenty eighth, which was
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Speaker 1: Dadenko's birthday. Dadenko, her husband, and the eight other people
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Speaker 1: they invited, they all descended on this spa. So they
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Speaker 1: go inside, they go back to their private area, and
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Speaker 1: it's great. There's food, there's alcohol, there's music. They're jumping
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Speaker 1: into the pool and getting in the hot tub, and
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Speaker 1: everyone's just having a great time. Everyone's taking pictures, filming
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Speaker 1: and live streaming. I mean, it's really going as well
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Speaker 1: as it possibly could be. And then at some point,
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Speaker 1: Diadenko's husband signals the rest of the group minus Dadenko,
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Speaker 1: and they all begin to pull out these white hazardous
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Speaker 1: material suits. Imagine what you would see in a movie
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Speaker 1: if there was some huge chemical league, a full body
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Speaker 1: white suit with a mask. And so they're all putting
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Speaker 1: on these hazmats and they give one to Dadenko, who
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Speaker 1: puts it on as well, and they tell her this
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Speaker 1: is part of her big surprise. Now it's unclear if
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Speaker 1: Dadenko actually didn't know what was going to happen next
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Speaker 1: or if she's just pretending to be surprised, because it
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Speaker 1: would do better on social media because this is all
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Speaker 1: being filmed and she's an influencer. But either way, she
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Speaker 1: puts on her hazmat suit and once everyone has their
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Speaker 1: suits on, Dadanko's husband wheeled in this huge cooler like
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Speaker 1: you would bring to a picnic, and he placed it
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Speaker 1: right on the edge of the pool. When he opened
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Speaker 1: the lid, the crowd all gasped and laughed and smiled
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Speaker 1: and filmed as these huge clouds of smoke or steam
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Speaker 1: came pouring out of it. What it was was roughly
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Speaker 1: fifty five pounds of dry ice. Dry ice is just
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Speaker 1: frozen carbon dioxide. It's commonly used for things like refrigerating
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Speaker 1: perishable goods for long periods of time because dry ice
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Speaker 1: stays cold for a really long time. Also because of
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Speaker 1: the huge white gas clouds that come off of dry ice,
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Speaker 1: it's also very commonly used as a sort of spooky
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Speaker 1: decoration because you had these very cool white clouds going everywhere.
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Speaker 1: And in fact, that's what Tadenko's husband planned to use
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Speaker 1: this dry ice for. He was going to dump it
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Speaker 1: into the pool and create those big white gas clouds.
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Speaker 1: All over the pool. The reason they call it dry
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Speaker 1: ice is because as it starts to heat up, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't melt into a liquid state the way frozen water does. Instead,
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Speaker 1: it goes directly from a solid state to a gas state.
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Speaker 1: Dry ice is considered to be quite hazardous if it's
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Speaker 1: handled inappropriately. And while these partygoers all had their hazmat
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Speaker 1: suits on, it's unlikely they were actually wearing them for safety.
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Speaker 1: It's far more likely they were wearing them because it
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Speaker 1: would look good on social media and would kind of
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Speaker 1: hype up the stunt they were about to do. And so,
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Speaker 1: after the dry ice was revealed inside of this cooler,
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Speaker 1: Tadenko's husband and another of the partygoers grabbed the sides
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Speaker 1: of the cooler and they dumped its contents directly into
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Speaker 1: the water. And as soon as the dry ice hit
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Speaker 1: the water, it rapidly began to warm up, which caused
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Speaker 1: a massive, almost explosion of carbon dioxide gas to completely
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Speaker 1: fill the lower half of the room. Now, none of
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Speaker 1: the partygoers are even a little bit phased by what's happening.
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Speaker 1: They don't realize how dangerous this actually is, and so
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Speaker 1: they're just filming and laughing and kind of thinking this
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Speaker 1: is so funny. And then Didenko's husband actually leaps through
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Speaker 1: the cloud into the water and kind of disappears below,
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Speaker 1: and then shortly after that, two other partygoers would also
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Speaker 1: leap into the pool. One of the main reasons dry
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Speaker 1: ice is considered to be so hazardous if handled inappropriately,
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Speaker 1: is because dry ice emits that carbon dioxide gas, which
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Speaker 1: at high concentrations will displace oxygen. So imagine if you're
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Speaker 1: in a very small room that has very poor ventilation,
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Speaker 1: if you had lots of carbon dioxide in there, you
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Speaker 1: would suffocate. And so this indoor pool was a small,
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Speaker 1: confined space with poor ventilation. And so the seven people
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Speaker 1: on the pool deck, shortly after this dry ice has
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Speaker 1: been tossed into the pool, they started to realize it
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Speaker 1: was really hard to breathe because the oxygen was basically
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Speaker 1: being sucked out of the room, and so they were
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Speaker 1: able to turn and actually run out of the pool
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Speaker 1: deck before it was too late. Meanwhile, Dadenko's husband and
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Speaker 1: the other two people who leapt into the pool, when
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Speaker 1: they came back to the surface, they breathed in thinking
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Speaker 1: they would be breathing in oxygen, but instead they breathed
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Speaker 1: in an entire lung full of carbon dioxide, which, in
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Speaker 1: addition to displacing oxygen at higher concentrations inside of confined
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Speaker 1: spaces with poor ventilation, it is also poisonous at higher
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Speaker 1: concentrations inside of confined spaces with poor ventilation, and so
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Speaker 1: when the three of them surfaced, they breathed in this
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Speaker 1: poisonous gas, which caused two of them to immediately pass
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Speaker 1: out and then just die, while the third Diadenko's husband,
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Speaker 1: he managed to stay conscious enough that he was able
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Speaker 1: to climb barely out of the pool, and he tried
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Speaker 1: to get to the door, but he couldn't get out
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Speaker 1: in time. Eventually he was pulled out and rushed to
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Speaker 1: the hospital, but he would later die not only from
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Speaker 1: carbon dioxide poisoning, but also from having gone without oxygen
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Speaker 1: for as long as he had. On Saturday September thirtieth,
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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, a staff member at a North Wales country
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Speaker 1: club noticed water leaking out of the bottom of an
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Speaker 1: outside wall of one of their many bungalows. These bungalows,
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Speaker 1: which were generally justifacation rentals, were single story white structures
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Speaker 1: situated up on this beautiful green hillside. The staff member
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Speaker 1: after seeing this league, they just turn around and go
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Speaker 1: back to the front office and they tell their boss
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Speaker 1: about it. And then shortly after two maintenance workers were
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Speaker 1: sent out to check on this leak. And so these
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Speaker 1: two workers they go over to this bungalow and they
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Speaker 1: knock on the front door. But after a while, when
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Speaker 1: no one comes to the door, they pull out their
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Speaker 1: master key and they begin to turn the lock, and
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Speaker 1: as they do that, they yell out just in case, Hey,
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Speaker 1: you know, we're here just to check on a leak.
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Speaker 1: We have to come in. You know, it's a potential emergency.
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Speaker 1: And so they open up the door. They swing it open,
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Speaker 1: and no one comes to the door. It's still silent,
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Speaker 1: and they're looking into this property and what they see
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Speaker 1: is on the left from their perspective is a kitchen
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Speaker 1: and on their right is a living room. It was
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Speaker 1: basically one big room that had been designated for two
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Speaker 1: distinct functions. And so they yelled out again into this bungalow, Hey,
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Speaker 1: you know, we're coming inside. We're just checking on this leak.
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Speaker 1: And then they just walked straight across past the living
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Speaker 1: room and passed the kitchen to the back of this property,
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Speaker 1: where they reached a door, and this door led into
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Speaker 1: a bedroom, and this door was shut, and so just
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Speaker 1: as a precaution, they knocked on the bedroom door, but
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Speaker 1: nobody came to the door again. So they opened up
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Speaker 1: the bedroom door and they looked into this room and
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Speaker 1: on the right side of the room, tucked up against
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Speaker 1: the right wall or two twin beds where the head
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Speaker 1: of each bed was tucked up against the wall. And
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Speaker 1: then in the middle of the room at the base
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Speaker 1: of these two beds was a pile of unopened luggage.
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Speaker 1: And so to the two maintenance workers, this told them
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Speaker 1: that someone clearly was staying in this bungalow, either they
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Speaker 1: had just arrived or they were getting ready to leave,
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Speaker 1: but apparently they were not there right now, And so
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Speaker 1: the workers walked around the luggage and around the two beds.
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Speaker 1: So they walked on the left side of the room
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Speaker 1: all the way to the back where there was another
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Speaker 1: closed door, and it went into the bathroom. And based
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Speaker 1: on where the leak had been coming out of the structure,
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Speaker 1: they believed it would be coming from this particular bathroom.
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Speaker 1: And so again they get up to this store and
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Speaker 1: they knock on it because they want to make sure
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Speaker 1: no one's in there, but there's more silence, and so
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Speaker 1: they open up the bathroom and right away they see
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Speaker 1: water all over the bathroom floor. But as they scan
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Speaker 1: around the bathroom, they look at the sink, they look
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Speaker 1: at the shower, the toilet, none of them are overflowing
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Speaker 1: or running. So it was not any of the usual
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Speaker 1: suspects that had caused this leak. However, there was one
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Speaker 1: other area in the bathroom that could have caused a
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Speaker 1: water leak, and that was the airing cupboard. An airing
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Speaker 1: copboard is typically where you keep a hot water heater.
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Speaker 1: It's basically like a walk in closet where the majority
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Speaker 1: of the space is taken up by this heater. And
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Speaker 1: also generally people put in shelves in front of the
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Speaker 1: heater to store their linens and towels and that sort
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Speaker 1: of thing. And in this bungalow, the airing cupboard had
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Speaker 1: its own door, and it was right in the bathroom.
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Speaker 1: And this door to the airing cupboard was right to
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Speaker 1: the left of the door that led into the bathroom
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Speaker 1: from the bedroom. And so these two workers they reached
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Speaker 1: over and they opened the door that led into this
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Speaker 1: airing cupboard, and as soon as it swung in, they
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Speaker 1: could tell right away where the league was coming from,
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Speaker 1: and they could tell right away they had a much
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Speaker 1: much bigger problem. Seven days earlier, sixty year old former
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Speaker 1: policewoman Mary Isherwood arrived at the North Wales country club.
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Speaker 1: She and her ex husband had for a long time
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Speaker 1: owned one of these bungalows. However, they almost never stayed
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Speaker 1: in it. They basically used it as an income property,
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Speaker 1: renting it out to vacation goers. But they had recently
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Speaker 1: decided that they wanted to actually sell the property, and
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Speaker 1: so before the sale became final, Mary had told her
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Speaker 1: ex husband that she just wanted to go and spend
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Speaker 1: a way week actually enjoying the property and actually take
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Speaker 1: a vacation there. And so originally she and some friends
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Speaker 1: were going to go to this bungalow and spend a
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Speaker 1: week there, but right before they were going to leave,
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Speaker 1: Mary's friends all said they couldn't make it, and so
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Speaker 1: Mary decided she would just go on her own. And
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Speaker 1: so Mary arrives at this country club. It's late at
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Speaker 1: night when she gets there. She gets to the bungalow,
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Speaker 1: she puts her luggage down in her bedroom and then
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Speaker 1: instead of just kind of getting settled in and going
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Speaker 1: to sleep, she decides she's going to go exercise. Mary
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Speaker 1: was incredibly fit and healthy. She'd loved playing golf and
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Speaker 1: running and exercising in general. And she knew the club
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Speaker 1: had a pool, and so she reached into her luggage
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Speaker 1: and she just pulled out a bathing suit. She switched
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Speaker 1: into that, and then she went down to the pool
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Speaker 1: and did some lap swimming. After that, she came back
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Speaker 1: to her room where she took a shower, and then
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Speaker 1: she climbed in bed without any clothes on. And that
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Speaker 1: was just how Mary liked to sleep. And then at
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Speaker 1: some point in the middle of the night, Mary woke
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Speaker 1: up to go use the bathroom, and so she hopped
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Speaker 1: out of her twin bed. She walked around to the
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Speaker 1: door that led into the bathroom room. She went inside,
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Speaker 1: she did her business, and then afterwards, as she was
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Speaker 1: attempting to go back into her bedroom, she accidentally grabbed
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Speaker 1: the door handle of the airing cupboard, which was right
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Speaker 1: to the left of the door leading back to her bedroom.
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Speaker 1: She opened it up, it swung inward. She stepped into
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Speaker 1: the airing cupboard, which was totally pitch black, and as
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Speaker 1: she walked in. She might have bumped into the shelves
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Speaker 1: or realized, you know, this was the wrong turn. But
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Speaker 1: as soon as this happened, the door behind her had
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Speaker 1: actually shut, and so she's inside of this tiny airing
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Speaker 1: cupboard realizing, Okay, this is not where I need to go.
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Speaker 1: I've made a silly mistake. She turned around to grab
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Speaker 1: the door handle to open the airing cupboard back up again,
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Speaker 1: but when she grabbed the knob, it disintegrated in her hands.
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Speaker 1: It broke into multiple parts and fell to the ground. Now,
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Speaker 1: this space she is in is pitch black. She has
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Speaker 1: no way of knowing which parts go where for this doorknob,
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Speaker 1: and so by touch, she reached down and she grabbed
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Speaker 1: all these pieces and she probably tried to put them
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Speaker 1: together and put it back on this door to try
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Speaker 1: to get it open, but she just couldn't do it.
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Speaker 1: And so eventually Mary would have realized this is a
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Speaker 1: pretty serious situation. She was staying at this bungalow by herself,
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Speaker 1: and she was not expected to check out for another week,
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Speaker 1: so no one was going to be checking on her.
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Speaker 1: And without this doorknob, she could not open this closet door.
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Speaker 1: It was a hard wooden door. The locking mechanism was solid.
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Speaker 1: There was just no way to open it without this doorknob,
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Speaker 1: and so Mary began banging on the door and screaming
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Speaker 1: out for help. But her bungalow was not actually connected
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Speaker 1: to any other structures. It was a standalone and so
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Speaker 1: her voice did not carry very far, and the banging
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Speaker 1: sound she was making those also did not carry very far,
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Speaker 1: and so no one heard her. And so after several hours,
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Speaker 1: she just standing in this closet, probably thinking to herself,
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Speaker 1: how in the world did I get myself in this position?
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Speaker 1: But after the initial shock of this totally bizarre situation
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Speaker 1: she was in had worn off, she decided to act,
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Speaker 1: and so she turned away from the door and she
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Speaker 1: faced towards the back of this closet. She would have
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Speaker 1: been face to face with a row of shelves, but
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Speaker 1: she wouldn't have been able to see the shelves because
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Speaker 1: it was totally dark. And then beyond the shelves, farther
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Speaker 1: into this closet was the actual hot water heater. There
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Speaker 1: was no wall behind the shelves. Basically there was a
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Speaker 1: space behind the shelves where this heater was, and so
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Speaker 1: Mary grabbed one of these shelves, and she managed to
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Speaker 1: break it off the wall. And then she turned around
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Speaker 1: and used this piece of wood and tried to smash
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Speaker 1: the door, but very quickly realized that was just going
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Speaker 1: to do nothing. However, she began striking the wall right
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Speaker 1: next to the door, and she realized she could break
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Speaker 1: through the dry wall. She was starting to kind of
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Speaker 1: burrow a hole. And so maybe she thought to herself,
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Speaker 1: if I can just build a hole big enough right
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Speaker 1: next to the door, I can reach through the hole
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Speaker 1: and maybe open this cupboard from the outside. And so
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Speaker 1: she began using the shelf to smash this wall, and
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Speaker 1: she's burrowing as fast as she came, but the progress
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Speaker 1: must have been very, very slow, because she decides she
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Speaker 1: needs a different tool. So she turns back around, so
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Speaker 1: she's facing the shelves again, and she breaks down a
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Speaker 1: few more shelves to clear a path to get to
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Speaker 1: the water heater. And then once she could step past
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Speaker 1: the shelves, once there was a path, she got right
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Speaker 1: in front of this water heater and then by touch
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Speaker 1: began feeling around for any pipes extending off of the heater,
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Speaker 1: and when she found one, she got a good grip
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Speaker 1: of it, and she began yanking and tugging on it
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Speaker 1: until she managed to rip a piece of pipe off
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Speaker 1: of the hot water heater. Now, as soon as she
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Speaker 1: did that, she now had a pipe that was a
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Speaker 1: far better tool for burrowing and creating this hole in
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Speaker 1: the wall. However, as soon as that pipe broke off,
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Speaker 1: cold water began leaking out of this hot water heater,
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Speaker 1: the water that had not been heated yet, and it
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Speaker 1: was being sprayed all over the inside of this cupboard.
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Speaker 1: Now this was a very small space, and so there
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Speaker 1: was no way for Mary to get out from under
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Speaker 1: this cold water. And so it was a shocking and
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Speaker 1: probably very painful experience. But she now had her tool
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Speaker 1: and figured, Okay, you know this is awful, but I'll
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Speaker 1: just use this tool. I'll burrow this hole, I'll get
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Speaker 1: this cupboard open, and I'll get out of here. And so,
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Speaker 1: with the water raining down on her, Mary used her
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Speaker 1: new piece of pipe and began digging and burrowing at
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Speaker 1: that spot right next to the door. But after a while,
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Speaker 1: probably several hours, she struck a brick wall. There was
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Speaker 1: no way she could actually push through this wall and
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Speaker 1: reach around and open the copverard door. There was nothing
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Speaker 1: she could do. It was a dead end, and so
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Speaker 1: totally devastated and probably very exhausted from all the energy
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Speaker 1: she used to burrow this hole, she stopped. She's still
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Speaker 1: getting rained down on by all this freezing cold water,
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Speaker 1: and instead of just totally giving up, she just turned
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Speaker 1: and faced the wall that was leading into her bedroom.
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Speaker 1: She began digging again, using this tool all over again
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Speaker 1: to now dig a new hole on this other wall,
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Speaker 1: most likely hoping that she could literally burrow a hole
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Speaker 1: big enough that she could actually crawl through into her
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Speaker 1: bedroom and escape. And so, after several more hours of
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Speaker 1: digging as fast and as hard as she could, while
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Speaker 1: also periodically banging on the door and screaming out for help,
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Speaker 1: she did eventually push through into her bedroom. However, in
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Speaker 1: a cruel twist of fate, when she did finally poke
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Speaker 1: through this wall, there was no bricks in the way.
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Speaker 1: She hit what felt like another dead end, but in
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Speaker 1: fact what it was was a picture frame with a
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Speaker 1: glass cover across it had been screwed onto the wall
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Speaker 1: in her bedroom, and this painting was right over where
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Speaker 1: she was digging this hole, and so in her totally
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Speaker 1: exhausted and panicked and saddened and scared state. She hits
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Speaker 1: the back of this painting, and again it's pitch black,
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Speaker 1: and she's feeling through the hole most likely, and she's
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Speaker 1: touching this hard back of this painting, and she's realizing, oh,
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Speaker 1: my goodness, I've hit another dead end. There's nowhere for
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Speaker 1: me to go. Even though in reality, she could have
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Speaker 1: very easily just broken through that frame and then maybe
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Speaker 1: made the hole a little bit bigger and then she
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Speaker 1: could have squeezed through it and escaped, but she didn't
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Speaker 1: know that, and so she eventually just slouched to the
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Speaker 1: ground and accepted her fate. Six days later, when those
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Speaker 1: two maintenance workers opened the airing cupboard door, they found
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Speaker 1: Mary's body slumped up against the wall inside this closet.
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Speaker 1: She had died of hypothermia. It would turn out, other
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Speaker 1: residents of the other bungalows nearby heard banging coming from
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Speaker 1: this bungalow on Saturday night, the night that Mary actually
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Speaker 1: got stuck, and then they also heard the banging the
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Speaker 1: following morning on Sunday morning, but none of the other
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Speaker 1: residents reported it because they believed it was just construction
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Speaker 1: or some other maintenance work. However, there was one couple
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Speaker 1: staying in one of the nearby bungalows that thought there
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Speaker 1: was something off about this banging, and they told each
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Speaker 1: other if the banging persists passed five pm on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: So that's the day after Mary got stuck. This couple
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Speaker 1: told each other that if it continues past five pm,
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Speaker 1: will report it. But as it happened, Mary stopped banging
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Speaker 1: on the walls and yelling for help right around five
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Speaker 1: pm on Sunday, and so this couple, right as they're
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Speaker 1: getting ready to go tell the front desk, the banging stopped,
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Speaker 1: and so they stopped worrying about it. It's unclear how
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Speaker 1: long Mary survived after she stopped banging around five pm
18:20
Speaker 1: on Sunday. It could have been minutes, it could have
18:22
Speaker 1: been hours, it could have been days. Mary's family would
18:25
Speaker 1: ultimately sue the country club for negligence. However, the outcomes
18:29
Speaker 1: of this case have not been made public. On July thirtieth,
18:37
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, fifty six year old Roger Muro grabbed a
18:40
Speaker 1: bag of trash from his apartment and then walked out
18:43
Speaker 1: into the hall. He turned right and walked down the
18:45
Speaker 1: hall until he reached the trash chute, which was right
18:48
Speaker 1: on the side of the wall. He opened it up.
18:50
Speaker 1: It was like a mailbox. He opened it up, he
18:52
Speaker 1: dropped his trash bag inside. He closed the trash chute
18:55
Speaker 1: and then walked back to his apartment. When he got
18:57
Speaker 1: back inside, he instinctively reached down to his right pocket
19:00
Speaker 1: to grab his cell phone, but it wasn't there, so
19:03
Speaker 1: he grabbed his left pocket. Wasn't there either. He checked
19:06
Speaker 1: his back pockets. He's fishing around and he realizes he
19:08
Speaker 1: doesn't have his phone. So he figures, okay, I must
19:10
Speaker 1: have put it down somewhere in my apartment. Now, Roger
19:13
Speaker 1: was legally blind, so it made looking for small things
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Speaker 1: in his apartment quite difficult. But nonetheless, he began looking
19:20
Speaker 1: all over his apartment for his phone. He started in
19:23
Speaker 1: the kitchen. He looked all over the place, checked all
19:25
Speaker 1: the surfaces. No cell phone. He went to the living room,
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Speaker 1: to the bedroom, to the bathroom, but there was no
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Speaker 1: cell phone. And so Roger thought maybe when he walked
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Speaker 1: to the trash chute, he might have dropped the phone
19:36
Speaker 1: in the hallway, and so he left his apartment. He
19:38
Speaker 1: turned right and he walked along, retracing his footsteps all
19:41
Speaker 1: the way to the trash chute, but all along the
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Speaker 1: way there was no phone on the ground. And so
19:46
Speaker 1: as he's standing in front of the opening to this
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Speaker 1: trash chute, he thinks to himself, you know, maybe I
19:52
Speaker 1: accidentally put my phone in the trash bag that I
19:55
Speaker 1: have now just dropped down this trash chute. And so,
19:58
Speaker 1: as Roger is standing there wondering what he's supposed to do,
20:01
Speaker 1: one of his neighbors walked out into the hall and
20:04
Speaker 1: looked down and saw Roger standing there kind of inquisitively
20:07
Speaker 1: looking at this opening to the trash schute, and they asked, Roger,
20:10
Speaker 1: you know what's going on, and Roger explained the whole
20:13
Speaker 1: phone situation, and the neighbor said, well, you know, hey,
20:16
Speaker 1: why don't you go down to the first floor and
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Speaker 1: ask the manager if you can get the key to
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Speaker 1: the trash room on the first floor where all the
20:22
Speaker 1: trash goes. And so Roger said, thank you very much,
20:25
Speaker 1: he turned and made his way to the elevator, and
20:27
Speaker 1: the neighbor went back inside of his apartment. Roger went
20:30
Speaker 1: down to the first floor. He went to the manager's office.
20:32
Speaker 1: He knocked on the door, and when the door opened,
20:35
Speaker 1: the manager was obviously very busy with something, and Roger
20:38
Speaker 1: would say, hey, you know, I'm just looking to get
20:40
Speaker 1: into the trash room. I think I might have accidentally
20:42
Speaker 1: thrown my phone away, and I just want to have
20:44
Speaker 1: a look in the trash to see if I can
20:46
Speaker 1: find it. Now, this manager knew he was not allowed
20:49
Speaker 1: to let anybody who lived in the apartment complex go
20:52
Speaker 1: into that trash room on their own. It was a
20:54
Speaker 1: dangerous space, and so the manager was supposed to go
20:57
Speaker 1: in there with them if they needed to go in
20:59
Speaker 1: and look around in the trash. But right when Roger
21:02
Speaker 1: went up to the manager's office, the manager was waiting
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Speaker 1: for a very important phone call and so couldn't really
21:09
Speaker 1: leave his office. But the manager kind of empathized with
21:12
Speaker 1: Roger and felt bad for him and said, Okay, you
21:14
Speaker 1: know what, I'll just give you the key. You can
21:16
Speaker 1: go in there on your own and go looking for
21:18
Speaker 1: your cell phone. I hope you find it, and when
21:20
Speaker 1: you're done, just bring the key back here. And so
21:23
Speaker 1: Roger said, thank you very much. He took the key,
21:25
Speaker 1: he left the office, and he made his way down
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Speaker 1: the hall to the trash room, and when he got there,
21:29
Speaker 1: he unlocked the lock and went inside a few hours later,
21:32
Speaker 1: Roger's wife came home from work, and when she got
21:35
Speaker 1: to the apartment, Roger wasn't in there. She tried calling
21:38
Speaker 1: his cell phone, but he didn't pick up, and so
21:40
Speaker 1: she walked around the apartment, hoping there would be some
21:42
Speaker 1: indication of where he might have gone, like a letter
21:45
Speaker 1: or something, but there was nothing. And so Roger's wife
21:49
Speaker 1: was really concerned about this because this was totally out
21:52
Speaker 1: of character for her husband to go out at night
21:54
Speaker 1: on his own, and so she, operating on a gut instinct,
21:58
Speaker 1: called the police and reported him missing. And so a
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Speaker 1: few minutes later, two police officers show up at this
22:03
Speaker 1: apartment building. They go up to Roger's apartment, they speak
22:06
Speaker 1: to Roger's wife, and then they go into the hall
22:08
Speaker 1: and they knock on some doors of other neighbors in
22:11
Speaker 1: the area, and after speaking with them, one of the
22:13
Speaker 1: neighbors who had seen Roger earlier said, you know, hey,
22:17
Speaker 1: he lost his phone and the last I spoke to him,
22:19
Speaker 1: he was going to go down to the trash room
22:20
Speaker 1: to try to see if he could find his phone
22:22
Speaker 1: down there, And so the officers go down to the
22:25
Speaker 1: first floor, they go to the trash room and they
22:27
Speaker 1: try the door and it's unlocked. And when they open
22:30
Speaker 1: up the door and they look inside, right in the
22:32
Speaker 1: middle of this totally nondescript, windowless room that basically looked
22:36
Speaker 1: like a basement was this huge green dumpster. And above
22:40
Speaker 1: the green dumpster, high up on the ceiling, was this
22:42
Speaker 1: round opening, and that was the bottom of the trash chute.
22:46
Speaker 1: So when people like Roger and the other people who
22:48
Speaker 1: lived in this apartment building dropped their trash down their
22:51
Speaker 1: respective trash chute on each floor, the trash would come
22:55
Speaker 1: tumbling down and literally fall out of the ceiling into
22:58
Speaker 1: the dumpster. Now this dumps was unique. It was not
23:01
Speaker 1: like other dumpsters where the top was just wide open
23:03
Speaker 1: and anyone could lob a bag of trash in. Now
23:07
Speaker 1: this dumpster, only the left side of the dumpster had
23:10
Speaker 1: an opening for trash. The rest of the dumpster was
23:13
Speaker 1: completely welded shut. There was no way into it. And
23:16
Speaker 1: so on the left side where this dumpster opened up
23:19
Speaker 1: to allow trash to come in, it was positioned right
23:22
Speaker 1: underneath that opening in the ceiling where the trash came
23:25
Speaker 1: tumbling down. And it wasn't just an opening, it was
23:28
Speaker 1: like this near vertical tunnel that was welded on to
23:31
Speaker 1: the top of this dumpster, and it went straight up,
23:33
Speaker 1: and it had this big open mouth at the top,
23:35
Speaker 1: almost like a funnel, and it was there to catch
23:38
Speaker 1: the trash as it fell down and it would go
23:40
Speaker 1: down this tunnel down into the dumpster. And so the
23:43
Speaker 1: gap between the ceiling and the top of this near
23:46
Speaker 1: vertical tunnel, the shoot, was maybe three or four feet.
23:49
Speaker 1: And so when these officers looked into this room and
23:51
Speaker 1: they saw the stumpster and the shoot and this hole
23:53
Speaker 1: in the ceiling, they also saw a ladder had been
23:56
Speaker 1: propped up on the left side of the dumpster, right
24:00
Speaker 1: up against that near vertical tunnel, as if someone was
24:03
Speaker 1: trying to look down into the dumpster itself. And so
24:06
Speaker 1: one of the officers walked over, they climbed up the ladder,
24:09
Speaker 1: and when they looked down into this tunnel, down into
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Speaker 1: the dumpster, they found Roger. After a lengthy investigation, this
24:17
Speaker 1: is what is believed to have happened to him. After
24:19
Speaker 1: Roger got that key from the manager, he went to
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Speaker 1: the trash room, he opened it up, and then he
24:24
Speaker 1: went inside and found this huge dumpster. And he would
24:26
Speaker 1: have quickly realized the only way to look into the dumpster,
24:30
Speaker 1: and so to go looking for his phone was to
24:32
Speaker 1: look down into this tunnel. There was a ladder nearby,
24:36
Speaker 1: so he grabbed it and he propped it up against
24:38
Speaker 1: the side of the dumpster, and he climbed up on
24:40
Speaker 1: top and he looked down into the tunnel, down into
24:43
Speaker 1: the dumpster. And as he was looking, either some trash
24:46
Speaker 1: from the ceiling fell down and struck him, causing him
24:49
Speaker 1: to lose his balance, or he just slipped somehow, but
24:52
Speaker 1: either way, he lost his balance and he tumbled into
24:55
Speaker 1: the tunnel, down into the dumpster. And what Roger didn't
24:58
Speaker 1: know is as soon as that happened, he was doomed
25:01
Speaker 1: because this was not some ordinary dumpster. This was a
25:05
Speaker 1: trash compactor. And as soon as Roger fell down that tunnel,
25:09
Speaker 1: his body triggered an electronic sensor that activated the trash compactor.
25:14
Speaker 1: And so the way this worked is there was this
25:16
Speaker 1: big metal ram inside the dumpster. There's a ram on
25:19
Speaker 1: one side, and once it gets activated, it will press
25:22
Speaker 1: There's a hydraulic press that pushes it all the way
25:25
Speaker 1: to the other side. So any of the trash in
25:27
Speaker 1: the dumpster will get compressed against the other side of
25:30
Speaker 1: the dumpster, and then at that point the ram comes
25:32
Speaker 1: all the way back, and so every time trash would
25:35
Speaker 1: come down that chuot, it would trigger that sensor, the
25:37
Speaker 1: trash compactor would start, it would flatten the trash, and
25:40
Speaker 1: so on and so forth. And so Roger has fallen
25:43
Speaker 1: down into the dumpster. He's triggered this compactor, but he's
25:46
Speaker 1: legally blind, he's probably dazed from the fall, and so
25:49
Speaker 1: by the time he realizes what's going on and he's
25:51
Speaker 1: kind of looking around, there is a hydraulic press bearing
25:55
Speaker 1: down on him, and so he probably tried to jump
25:58
Speaker 1: up the tunnel to try to escape dumpster, but there
26:01
Speaker 1: was no ladder inside this tunnel, and it was nearly vertical,
26:04
Speaker 1: so there was no way to climb up and out
26:06
Speaker 1: of it. And inside of the dumpster itself, there was
26:09
Speaker 1: no emergency shut off switch and there was no emergency exit,
26:13
Speaker 1: and so at some point it's assumed that Roger realized
26:16
Speaker 1: he was not going to be able to climb up
26:18
Speaker 1: the tunnel, and so he only had one direction he
26:21
Speaker 1: could go, which was to retreat to the far side
26:24
Speaker 1: of the dumpster as far away from the press as
26:26
Speaker 1: he possibly could be. But once he got over there,
26:29
Speaker 1: there was nowhere for him to go, and so he
26:32
Speaker 1: was forced to just wait as this hydraulic press slowly
26:36
Speaker 1: moved across until it finally reached him and crushed him.
26:39
Speaker 1: Now we don't know if that very first hydraulic press
26:42
Speaker 1: actually killed Roger. All we know is Roger was trapped
26:46
Speaker 1: inside of the dumpster for several hours, and over that
26:49
Speaker 1: period of time, more and more trash was dropped down
26:53
Speaker 1: the chute, activating the press over and over and over again,
26:56
Speaker 1: and so by the time the police actually looked down
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Speaker 1: into the dumpster, they saw a part of Roger's body
27:03
Speaker 1: and immediately they could tell there was nothing they could do.
27:05
Speaker 1: Roger was definitely deceased. Roger's wife would sue the manager
27:09
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27:12
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27:16
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