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This Thai resort is a TOURIST (DEATH) TRAP - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today's story has a very surprising ending. And I do
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  Speaker 1: Early on the evening of June 12, 2012, a 25-year-old
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  Speaker 1: woman named Noemi Belanger opened up the door to her
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  Speaker 1: hotel room on Phi Phi Island, which is a major
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  Speaker 1: tourist destination in Thailand.
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  Speaker 2: Once the door was unlocked, Noemi pushed it.
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  Speaker 1: Open, and she held it for her little sister, 20-year-old Audrey,
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  Speaker 1: who came in wheeling all their suitcases. Noemi and Audrey
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  Speaker 1: were both from Quebec, Canada, and they were also both
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  Speaker 1: college students, and they were on this big, month-long vacation
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate the end of the school year. They had
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  Speaker 1: been in Vietnam for the past three weeks, and today
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  Speaker 1: they had arrived in Thailand, and their plan was to
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  Speaker 1: stay here for a bit before finally heading back to Quebec.
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  Speaker 1: But for right now, Noemi in particular was feeling really exhausted.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there was a lot of travel getting here today, and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the past three weeks had been loads of travel,
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  Speaker 1: and Noemi was kind of hitting a wall. And so
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  Speaker 1: as soon as she got into the room, all she
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  Speaker 1: really wanted to do was just flop down on the
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  Speaker 1: bed and just lay there for a little while.
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  Speaker 2: But she had also.
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  Speaker 1: Become a fairly experienced traveler by this point, And she
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  Speaker 1: knew before she did that, she just wanted to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that, you know, the bed was cleanly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, make sure there were no bed bugs or,
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  Speaker 1: you know, unclean sheets or something. And so she went
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  Speaker 1: over and pulled the sheets back and checked and the
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  Speaker 1: sheets were pristine.
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  Speaker 2: It was beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: The room felt super nice. And so she just flopped
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  Speaker 1: down on the bed and just enjoyed the air conditioning.
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  Speaker 1: And at the same time that she was doing this, Audrey,
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  Speaker 1: who very likely was also feeling all the, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the symptoms of travel over so many weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she likely was very, very tired.
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  Speaker 1: But she, instead of laying down, went right into the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom and started getting ready for the night.
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  Speaker 2: And Noemi sort of understood why.
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  Speaker 1: So while the girls were in Vietnam, they had met
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  Speaker 1: these two really nice guys who were from Brazil.
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  Speaker 2: And they had kind of hit it off. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they had left today to go to Thailand.
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  Speaker 1: And wouldn't you know it, it turned out those guys,
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  Speaker 1: their itinerary included them coming to Thailand today. And so
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of like this revelation at the end
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  Speaker 1: of their time in Vietnam that they would not have
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  Speaker 1: to say goodbye basically forever. But instead, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: good times could keep on rolling in Thailand.
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  Speaker 2: And so the plan was that night they.
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  Speaker 1: Would meet up with these two guys, these Brazilian guys
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  Speaker 1: out on the beach and basically party with them and
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  Speaker 1: just have a fun night. Now, Noemi was looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to this night out with these two guys, but she
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  Speaker 1: also had a little bit of apprehension about it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these guys were perfectly nice and she and her sister
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  Speaker 1: had spent time with them in Vietnam and.
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  Speaker 2: Really things have been fine.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, Noemi felt like Audrey was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more naive and sort of like, easier to be
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  Speaker 1: taken advantage of than she was.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she was younger than her by five years.
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  Speaker 1: And also, when the sisters had gone on this trip,
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  Speaker 1: their parents had been really apprehensive about, you know, two
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  Speaker 1: young women traveling alone together all over the world.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they were sort of vulnerable. And so.
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  Speaker 1: The way Noemi had sort of played it to her
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  Speaker 1: parents is, you know, don't worry.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the big sister. I'll keep my eye on Audrey.
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  Speaker 2: She'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: And Audrey kind of played the role of younger sister
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  Speaker 1: and was like, yep, I'll do what my big sister says.
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  Speaker 1: And so Noemi sort of felt like she had a
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  Speaker 1: responsibility to keep Audrey safe. And so she was feeling
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  Speaker 1: a bit apprehensive about whatever they were going.
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  Speaker 2: To do that night with these guys.
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  Speaker 1: It just sort of seemed like things were sort of
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  Speaker 1: moving quickly with these two guys, you know. They should
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  Speaker 1: have maybe just stopped in Vietnam, but they're here. And
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  Speaker 1: so who knows what was going to happen. And so Noemi,
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  Speaker 1: as she's laying there and Andre's getting ready, Noemi decides
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  Speaker 1: to just give her parents a call. Because one of
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  Speaker 1: the things Noemi had been doing over the past several
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  Speaker 1: weeks they'd been on this big vacation is sort of
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  Speaker 1: constantly updating her parents to assuage their concerns that anything
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  Speaker 1: was wrong, you know, with their two kids. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Noemi wanted her parents to see that she was doing
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  Speaker 1: everything she could. you know, to keep her and her
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  Speaker 1: sister safe. And so she pulled out her phone and
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  Speaker 1: she was about to call her parents when suddenly Audrey
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  Speaker 1: appeared from the bathroom and said, stop. And she told
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  Speaker 1: her like, Hey, remember, you know, it's, it's evening for us,
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  Speaker 1: but back home in Canada, it's the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: So you're going to be waking them up and they're
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  Speaker 1: going to have loads of questions. Like, why are you
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  Speaker 1: calling in the middle of the night? And probably you're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to tell them about, you know, how
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  Speaker 1: we're going out tonight with these two guys.
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  Speaker 2: And they're going to worry, like, don't do that. Spare them.
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  Speaker 2: We will talk to them tomorrow. They don't need to
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  Speaker 2: know what we're doing tonight. Everything is fine. And Noemi
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  Speaker 2: was thinking, you know what? She's right.
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  Speaker 1: This is a bad time to call. Noemi actually forgot,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the time change was so significant. And she also,
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  Speaker 1: you know, wasn't sure what she would say to her
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  Speaker 1: parents about, you know, going out with these two guys
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  Speaker 1: because it would raise some red flags. And so Noemi
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  Speaker 1: put her phone down and decided, you know what? Tonight's
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  Speaker 1: going to be just fine. I just got to let
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  Speaker 1: things go. And so she actually climbed off the bed
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  Speaker 1: and she joined her sister in the bathroom and began
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  Speaker 1: also getting ready for their big night out. A little
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  Speaker 1: bit later, Noemi and Audrey left their hotel room And
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  Speaker 1: they headed out to the beach, and sure enough, there,
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  Speaker 1: right outside of a beachfront bar, were the two Brazilian
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  Speaker 1: guys they were meeting up with that night. And as
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  Speaker 1: the two girls approached, they saw that each of these
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  Speaker 1: guys were holding these big buckets. They almost looked like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a toy that a child would use on
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  Speaker 1: the sand, you know, to fill it up and make
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  Speaker 1: a sandcastle with, like a big.
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  Speaker 2: you know, beach bucket.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, the girls, as they're walking over, they're
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  Speaker 1: wondering what these buckets were for. And they thought it
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  Speaker 1: was maybe like some joke these guys.
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  Speaker 2: Were going to play or they didn't know what.
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  Speaker 1: But as they got closer, they realized that these buckets
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  Speaker 1: these guys were holding were filled to the brim with
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  Speaker 1: ice and liquid. There was some sort of drink in
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  Speaker 1: these buckets. And so the girls walked up to them
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  Speaker 1: and they said hello. And very quickly, the conversation turned
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  Speaker 1: to these big drinks they were holding.
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  Speaker 2: And Noemi and Andre were like, what are those?
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  Speaker 1: And the guys told them, these are like these amazing
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  Speaker 1: cocktails that you can only get in this part of
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  Speaker 1: the world. The girls asked, you know, like, well, what
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  Speaker 1: is it? What's inside of the drink? What makes it
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  Speaker 1: so special? And the guys kind of looked at each
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  Speaker 1: other and laughed. And they're like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Just try it. It's really good. It'll make you feel great.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Noemi, being the sort of more responsible one, did
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  Speaker 1: not immediately begin drinking either of these drinks. Instead, she
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  Speaker 1: sort of paused and thought about it. But Audrey, on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, was totally sold immediately. She reached forward,
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  Speaker 1: grabbed one of the buckets and just began chugging this drink.
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  Speaker 1: And so Noemi's looking at her like, come on, like
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  Speaker 1: you can't just jump into this. We don't know what
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  Speaker 1: this stuff is. But, you know, after a couple of chugs,
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  Speaker 1: Audrey lowered the bucket and looked at her sister and
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  Speaker 1: she just grinned and she handed it back to her guy.
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  Speaker 2: And then she told Noemi, like, these taste great. This
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  Speaker 2: is awesome. Like, you got to try it. Loosen up.
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  Speaker 1: And so at this point, Noemi, you know, she's considering
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  Speaker 1: the situation, you know, They were in Vietnam with these
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  Speaker 1: guys and these guys were out partying with them.
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  Speaker 2: They were drinking with them and, you know.
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  Speaker 1: They seemed perfectly trustworthy and they were clearly drinking from
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  Speaker 1: these buckets and it didn't seem nefarious. And also Noemi
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  Speaker 1: looked around the beach and suddenly realized that basically everybody
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  Speaker 1: had these big buckets. You know, this was not just
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  Speaker 1: these two guys. Everybody's drinking this thing. And so Noemi's thinking, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: if they think it's okay and it's sort of normal,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in this part of the world, then it's
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  Speaker 1: got to be okay. And so she reached forward and
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  Speaker 1: grabbed the other bucket from the other guy, and took
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  Speaker 1: a big sip. Several hours later, well after the sun
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  Speaker 1: had gone down, Audrey and Noemi were having a great
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  Speaker 1: time with their Brazilian friends.
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  Speaker 2: They were still near this beachfront bar.
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  Speaker 1: They were actually dancing right outside of it because now
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  Speaker 1: there was a DJ blaring some music and there were
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  Speaker 1: all these people. And actually the sisters had sort of
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  Speaker 1: broken up and were sort of doing their own thing
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  Speaker 1: with their respective guy. but they were sort of near
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  Speaker 1: enough each other that they could kind of keep tabs
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  Speaker 1: on each other. And they were just having a great time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, by this point they had jumped in the
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  Speaker 1: ocean and gone swimming. They had eaten a ton of
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  Speaker 1: local food and Noemi had lost count of how many
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  Speaker 1: of these, these big bucket drinks they had all consumed together,
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  Speaker 1: but they were really just having a blast. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Noemi's vision was a bit blurry and she was kind
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  Speaker 1: of stumbling and she'd look over at Audrey and she
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  Speaker 1: was kind of in the same state, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: were the two guys they were with.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're, they're buzzed. They're having a great time.
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  Speaker 1: And so the two girls and their guys are just
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  Speaker 1: out there dancing, doing their thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's about 1am at this point.
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  Speaker 1: And Noemi's guy says to her, Hey, do you want
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  Speaker 1: to head back to the hotel room together?
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  Speaker 2: And Noemi's like, yeah, let's go back. But hold on.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to my sister first. And so
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  Speaker 1: Noemi kind of stumbles her way over to Audrey, who's
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of this big dance routine with her
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  Speaker 1: guy and She stops Audrey and she whips around and
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  Speaker 1: Audrey's all smiles too. And Noemi's like, hey, do you
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  Speaker 1: want to go back to the hotel room?
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  Speaker 2: We're going back now. Do you want to come? And
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  Speaker 2: Audrey's like, no, I want to stay here. I'm having
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  Speaker 2: too much fun. This is awesome. We're just going to
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  Speaker 2: keep on dancing. You guys should stay too. But Noemi
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  Speaker 2: was like, no, I got to go. You know, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to go back.
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  Speaker 1: So you sure you want to stay? And Audrey was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll stay. We'll see you at the hotel soon. Now,
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  Speaker 1: typically Noemi and her sister really rarely separated, especially when
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  Speaker 1: they were out drinking and partying. you know, because of
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  Speaker 1: all the inherent risks of being alone at night, potentially intoxicated.
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  Speaker 1: And so, you know, this was kind of a rare
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  Speaker 1: thing for her to break away from her sister and separate.
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  Speaker 2: But it just seemed like this was okay. It was safe.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, these guys they were with, they really
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  Speaker 1: seemed like stand-up guys. And again, they were just having
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  Speaker 1: a blast here. And Noemi didn't really want to stop
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  Speaker 1: her from having a good time. And so ultimately she
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  Speaker 1: did say bye to her sister and said she'd.
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  Speaker 2: See her soon.
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  Speaker 1: Noemi turned and with her guys, she headed back to
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  Speaker 1: the hotel. and Audrey kept on dancing with her guy
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  Speaker 1: in front of the beach bar.
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  Speaker 1: On the evening of June 15th, a member of the
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  Speaker 1: housekeeping staff at the hotel where Noemi and Audrey were
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  Speaker 1: staying walked up to the girls' room and they knocked.
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  Speaker 2: And like it had been the past two days, they
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  Speaker 2: didn't get a response.
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  Speaker 1: Because over the past couple of days, the housekeeping staff
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  Speaker 1: had not seen anybody come in or out of this room.
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  Speaker 1: And now it had gotten to the point where they
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  Speaker 1: really had to get in there to clean the room.
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  Speaker 1: And basically, if they didn't get a response, this staff
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  Speaker 1: member was going to have to unlock the door and
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  Speaker 1: just go in there. And so one more time, they
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  Speaker 1: knocked on the door and called out, you know, housekeeping,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just in case somebody was in there. But again,
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  Speaker 1: there was silence. So the staff member put their card
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  Speaker 1: into the door. They unlocked it. They opened it up
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  Speaker 1: and stepped inside. And seconds later, that staff member was
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  Speaker 1: literally running out of the hotel room screaming for help.
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  Speaker 2: At 9 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: That night, a team of police officers led by Lieutenant
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  Speaker 1: Colonel Rat Sombun arrived at the hotel room. Sambun was
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  Speaker 1: an experienced police officer, and he'd already been briefed on
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  Speaker 1: what was found inside the hotel room. So when he
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  Speaker 1: and his team walked inside and saw it for themselves,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't shocked. When they got in there, they found
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  Speaker 1: two women inside. It was Noemi and André Balanchet. And
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  Speaker 1: both of them were lying in their respective beds, tucked
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  Speaker 1: up in their sheets, lying perfectly still, and each of
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  Speaker 1: them was completely surrounded by vomit. Sambun estimated that these
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  Speaker 1: two women had been dead for between 12 and 20 hours.
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  Speaker 1: And his first theory as to what might have killed
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  Speaker 1: them was alcohol poisoning.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that would explain the vomit.
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  Speaker 1: This was also a big tourist destination and clearly these
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  Speaker 1: people were tourists. And so maybe they were out partying
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  Speaker 1: and they died from alcohol poisoning. However, when Sambun looked
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  Speaker 1: more closely at the bodies... he noticed a confounding detail.
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  Speaker 1: There was all this dried blood on the girls' gums
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  Speaker 1: and also under their fingernails. And so that was not
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  Speaker 1: consistent with alcohol poisoning. And so Sambun thought, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe the reason they have blood in these
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  Speaker 1: parts of their body is because those are defensive injuries.
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  Speaker 1: You know, maybe somebody attacked these girls and that's how
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  Speaker 1: they've been killed. But after doing a cursory check around
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  Speaker 1: the hotel room, there was no sign of a struggle
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  Speaker 1: or any sort of break-in or anything like that. And
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  Speaker 1: so You know, if there had been some sort of
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  Speaker 1: lethal struggle in here, it certainly didn't show. And so
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  Speaker 1: Sam Boone and his team really didn't have any idea
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  Speaker 1: what had happened here. I mean, they had some ideas,
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  Speaker 1: but clearly they needed more information. Specifically, they needed to
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  Speaker 1: do an autopsy and a full toxicology report on both women.
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  Speaker 2: That would be the only way to really see what
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  Speaker 2: happened here. But that would take time.
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  Speaker 1: And so while they waited for those results to come in,
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  Speaker 1: Sam Boone decided that what he would focus on instead
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  Speaker 1: is trying to figure out what these girls were doing
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  Speaker 1: in the hours before they died.
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  Speaker 2: You know, where were they? What did they eat? What
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  Speaker 2: did they drink? And who were they with?
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  Speaker 1: Over the next couple of days, Sam Boon and his
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  Speaker 1: team interviewed several of the hotel staff. And from those interviews,
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  Speaker 1: they learned that Audrey and Noemi were visiting Thailand from Canada.
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  Speaker 1: And on the first night they were here, the two
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  Speaker 1: women went out early in the evening, and then one
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  Speaker 1: of them came back with some guy, some unidentified man,
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  Speaker 1: at 1 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: They came back to the hotel.
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  Speaker 1: And then at 4 a.m., the other girl came back
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  Speaker 1: to the hotel also with an unidentified man. And so
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  Speaker 1: there are Noemi and Audrey and these two unidentified men
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  Speaker 1: that are in the hotel room, presumably, from 4 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: until 6 a.m., when both of these unidentified men left
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  Speaker 1: the hotel room together and the two girls were presumably
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  Speaker 1: left inside the hotel room. Lieutenant Sombun reviewed some security
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  Speaker 1: footage from the hotel and which confirmed this entire timeline
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  Speaker 1: was correct, which meant Sambun really needed to speak to
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  Speaker 1: these two unidentified men because they clearly were the last
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: ones to see these girls alive. And so the police
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: department put out an announcement about Noemi and Andre's deaths,
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: as well as a public call for help in identifying
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: these two unidentified men. And shortly after making this announcement,
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: the police learned that these two men were Brazilian men,
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, they had already left Thailand on their way
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: back to Brazil. And so obviously Brazil is outside of
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: his jurisdiction. And so he had to appeal to Interpol,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: which is an international police organization, and appeal to them
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: to find these two Brazilian men and interview them. About
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: a week later, Sambun finally got a call from Interpol.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: They had found these two men and they had interviewed them.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: And they told Sambun that when they informed these two
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: guys that Noemi and Audrey had died, The two men
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: seemed genuinely shocked. And then when they were asked, why
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: were you so quickly on a flight out of Thailand
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: back to Brazil? They said, no, no, no, no, no.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: There's nothing suspicious about it. We already had booked those
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: tickets way in advance. We just got on the flight
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: and left. There's nothing more to it. And so Interpol
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: said they continued to press these guys and ask them,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: you know, hey, you were the last ones who were
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: with these girls before they died. Tell us about their condition.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Tell us how you left them when you left the
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: hotel at 6 a.m. And the two guys, they said, look,
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: like they did seem like maybe they were already hung
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: over or sort of sick from, you know, partying the
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: night before. They definitely did seem a little bit down,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: but They were basically fine. However, Interpol said it was
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: fairly interesting that the two men did admit that following,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: you know, their night out with Noemi and Andre, that
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: the next two days they were stuck in bed themselves,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: totally sick, vomiting, ill. They didn't know what from, but
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: they said they were very, very sick following their encounter
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: with these two girls. Sambun thanked the Interpol officer and
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: then hung up. And even though Sambun couldn't help but
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: feel still pretty suspicious of these two Brazilian guys... he
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: now was thinking, okay, well, if they said they got
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: really sick after, you know, spending time with Noemi and Audrey,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: maybe what happened here is, you know, all four of
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: them got sick with something, some illness, and the guys
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: survived it and the girls didn't. And so Son Boon
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: began to think of, you know, what type of illnesses
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: could they have contracted? And the first thing that Son
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Boon began to think about that could have been an
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: illness that all four of these tourists could have contracted
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: was food poisoning. You know, tourists come to Thailand and
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Try the local food, and sometimes it makes them.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Really, really sick.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: In particular, there were two types of food in Thailand
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: that were sort of notorious for giving tourists just the
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: worst food poisoning. One of them was a particular type
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: of mushroom, and another was blowfish. And these two items,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: you know, if your body reacted badly enough to them,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: it could be lethal.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: However, when Sambun got back the autopsy reports and the
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: toxicology reports.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: he realized his theory about food poisoning was definitely wrong.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: So it would turn out those drinks that the girls
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: had with the guys in those big buckets, they were
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: unique to Thailand. Those are not drinks that are served
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: really anywhere else in the world. And that's because those
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: drinks are just not safe. And for whatever reason, it
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: sort of blossomed in Thailand and it's sort of an
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: accepted thing. But when you hear the ingredients of what's
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: in this drink, you'll understand why it's not like a
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: sanctioned or more popular thing outside of this small part
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: of the world. So there is no alcohol in these
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: big buckets of liquid. Instead, it includes crushed up narcotics,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: it includes cough syrup and Coca-Cola, and in some cases, pesticide.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: In fact, specifically, DEET, which is the main ingredient in
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: mosquito repellent. And wouldn't you know it, in the reports
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: that Sambun got back, he saw both of these girls
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: clearly had ingested DEET, which again is a highly toxic chemical. However,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: despite learning this, even though this seemed to be clearly
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: what happened here, this is a deet poisoning case, Sambun's
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: thinking to himself, how could.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: This have happened?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, these drinks, which are called 4x100s, are pretty
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: popular in Thailand, and people are not just turning up
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: dead left and right. It's a dangerous drink, no doubt, but,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: you know, people do not die with any regularity from
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: drinking it. And so Sambun thought, you know, what must
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: have happened here was is whoever mixed this particular batch
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: of 4x100s must have accidentally included too much DEET. And
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: so that would explain how, you know, the two girls
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: died from DEET poisoning, you know, too much DEET in
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: their drinks, and that very likely the guys as well
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: consumed the same batch, which had tons of DEET in it, but,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: you know, their bodies were able to withstand it, and
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: they survived it, despite getting very, very sick. And so
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: nine days after the two girls had died, their.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Bodies were sent from Thailand back to Canada... along.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: With the Thai police's official findings that this was an
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: accidental deed poisoning. However, when Noemi and Audrey's remains arrived
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: in Canada, they did not go straight to their family. Instead,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: they went to a leading coroner in Quebec whose name
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: was Renee Roussel. So by this point, the girls' parents
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: were obviously heartbroken. But more than that, they were furious.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: The way they found out about the deaths of their
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: daughters was on the media. I mean, despite the fact
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that the police were immediately called when the girls were
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: found dead, the Thai police did not get in touch
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: with the family. They only got in touch after their
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: investigation was done. And they're like, hey, by the way,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: your daughters are dead.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: And it was a deep poisoning. It is what it is.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Good luck.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: And so the parents felt like, are you kidding me? Like,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: you didn't loop us in at all. We're spending days
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: trying to get in touch with our daughters. And you
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: knew all along they were already dead. Like, so the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: parents have no faith, no trust in the Thai police.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: And then to find out, wait a minute, so they
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: drank this drink that apparently is sold at this beach
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: bar all the time.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: And, oh yeah, it killed them. No big deal.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: What, there's no warnings at this beach bar about how
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: dangerous this drink is? Shouldn't there be like a tourist
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: warning or something? And also, it's kind of a lazy
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: explanation that, well, you know, the two guys they were
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: with drank the same poison, but they didn't die just because.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: And our daughters did. Like, that doesn't add up either.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: This whole thing feels... like laziness, you know, at best,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: or at worst, a cover-up. You know, maybe this looks
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: really bad for Thailand that these tourists have died and
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: it could have been prevented. And so the parents felt
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: like we can't just take their explanation at face value. Like, clearly,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: something is going on here.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Something's wrong.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: And apparently, the Canadian government felt the same way as
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: the parents. You know, this case was all over the news.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: And they also felt like, wait a minute, guys, like
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: we haven't looked closely enough at this. What's really going
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: on here? And so it was actually the Canadian government
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: who told Rene Roussel to go ahead and do another
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: autopsy on.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: These girls' remains.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Let's really see if it was Deet that killed them
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: or maybe if it was something else. And when Rene
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: checked Noemi and Audrey's bodies, she did discover... there was
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: DEET in their system. However, not nearly enough to kill them.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: So while it seemed plainly obvious that yes, they must
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: have consumed those four by 100 drinks, that couldn't have
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: been the thing that actually killed them. However, Renee didn't
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: find any other poisonous substances in these girls' bodies. Like
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: there wasn't another explanation. It just showed there was DEET,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: but that was basically it. And so Renee, she's thinking
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: like there's gotta be some explanation here. And so Renee
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: really began to do some serious research into this whole case,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: and eventually she found something. And it horrified her, it
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: horrified the family, it horrified the world. It would turn out,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: from Renee Roussel's additional research, Noemi and Audrey were far
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: from the first tourists to die this way in Thailand.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Between 2009 and 2015, at least 20 tourists have been
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: found dead under very similar circumstances. Now, René believed that
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: what must have happened here is all these people, including
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Noemi and Audrey, must have been poisoned, but the common
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: denominator did not appear to be food or drink. It
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: had to be something else that was poisoning them, something
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: that was damaging blood vessels that would account for the
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: blood under the fingernails and the gums, but also metabolized
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: so quickly that after death, this particular poison was could
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: not be detected.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: And Renee figured out she was correct.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: So when Noemi and Audrey first arrived in Thailand, they
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: went to their hotel room. And one of the first
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: things that Noemi did is she pulled back her sheets
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: to check for bed bugs. You know, she wanted to
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: make sure her bed was clean before she laid down
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and relaxed. And when she looked, it appeared clean. And
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: it was because the sheets were clean. They had actually
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: just been treated for bedbugs, so there were no bedbugs.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: However, the way this.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Hotel and other hotels, not just in Thailand but in
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: other parts of the world, the way they were treating
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: for bedbugs was by.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Spraying the sheets with pesticides.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Specifically phosphine gas, which is highly toxic to bed bugs,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: so it gets rid of the bed bugs, but it's
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: also highly toxic to people. For reference, it is illegal
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: to do this. You're not allowed to spray sheets with pesticide.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: And so based on all the evidence, it's believed that
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: what actually happened to Noemi, Audrey, and the two Brazilian
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: men they were with is that they climbed into those
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: beds on the night they came back, and the men
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: were in there with them for some time, and all
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: four of them were being exposed to this phosphine gas.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: It was going in through their skin. They were breathing
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: it in and they likely had no idea. And so
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: they're getting sicker and sicker. And then finally, the two men,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: they get up out of the beds and they leave
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: at 6 a.m. They've now been, you know, totally contaminated
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: by this poison, but not enough to kill them. So
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: they go home and over the next couple of days,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: they get really sick from their exposure to this gas.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: But Audrey and Noemi, they didn't leave their bed. They
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: stayed in those beds all night. And unfortunately, as they
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: laid there, Their bodies continued soaking in all of this poison,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and their bodies just could not handle it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: And so it eventually killed them.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: But despite learning this, and despite the fact that clearly
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: something illegal was done here, you cannot spray your bedsheets
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: in a hotel with pesticide to get rid of the
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: bed bugs.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: It's incredibly hazardous. You can't do it.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Despite that, to this day, no one has been held
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: accountable for these girls' deaths. Thank you so much for watching.
• 24:58
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• 25:00
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• 25:12
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• 25:15
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