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Monk's Monastery: The Blood Behind the Tranquility · Scary Paranormal Stories

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  Speaker 1: A woman beats her fists against a glass door on
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  Speaker 1: a quiet street in Bilbao. She is screaming. A man
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  Speaker 1: grabs her by the arm and drags her backward into
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  Speaker 1: the dark. The street is empty, almost empty. One person
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  Speaker 1: is watching. That witness calls emergency services. What the police
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  Speaker 1: find when they break through the door is not what
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  Speaker 1: any one expected. It is not even what the worst
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  Speaker 1: case scenario looked like. There is something in this case
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  Speaker 1: that stayed with me long after I finished reading the files.
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  Speaker 1: Not the violence, the mask, but careful, deliberate identity that
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  Speaker 1: one man built over years, and what he was hiding
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  Speaker 1: behind it. On the morning of June second, two thousand thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: officers from the Spanish National Police and the Guardia Civil
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  Speaker 1: forced their way into a building on the Golden Mile
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  Speaker 1: of Bilbao. To get inside, they had to cut through
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  Speaker 1: a metal gate and break open three padlocks, three each
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  Speaker 1: one added separately, each one a deliberate decision. The man
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  Speaker 1: they found inside was crouched on the floor, shirtless, his
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  Speaker 1: hands dark with blood, his eyes open but unfocused. He
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  Speaker 1: did not run, he did not speak. He looked, according
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  Speaker 1: to the officers who entered first, like someone performing stillness.
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  Speaker 1: Beneath a tarpaulin on the floor of that same room,
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  Speaker 1: they found a twenty nine year old woman named Maureen.
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  Speaker 1: She was alive, her wrists and ankles were bound. There
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  Speaker 1: was duct tape wrapped around her neck. The whites of
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  Speaker 1: her eyes had turned red, completely red from the pressure
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  Speaker 1: of what had been done to her. She survived the
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  Speaker 1: entry of the police. She did not survive the week.
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  Speaker 1: The building had a name. One Carlos Aguila Gomez had
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  Speaker 1: given it one the Monastery of the Ocean of Tranquility.
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  Speaker 1: That is not a translation error. That is what the
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  Speaker 1: sign read on a commercial street in one of the
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  Speaker 1: wealthiest districts of Bilbao. He had chosen the location deliberately,
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  Speaker 1: the same way he had chosen everything about the life
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  Speaker 1: he constructed around himself. Juan Carlos called himself Wain, he
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  Speaker 1: told anyone who would listen. But he had traveled to
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  Speaker 1: China more than twenty years earlier and trained with Shaolin
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  Speaker 1: monks until he became, in his own words, the first
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  Speaker 1: western shao Lin monk in history. He claimed three world
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  Speaker 1: titles in kung fu. He claimed eight national championships in Spain.
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  Speaker 1: He gave interviews, he appeared on television. He posted videos
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  Speaker 1: of himself on social media in white robes, moving slowly
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  Speaker 1: the image of spiritual discipline. The Spanish Karate Federation confirmed
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  Speaker 1: he had never been registered with them, The only officially
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  Speaker 1: recognized Shaolin association in Spain, confirmed he had no connection
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  Speaker 1: to their order, not a single title, not a single credential.
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  Speaker 1: Every piece of the identity called Arwain was invented inside
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  Speaker 1: the building, behind the reception desk where students paid for
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  Speaker 1: classes that were mostly a pretext. There was a basement.
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  Speaker 1: In the basement, a bathtub, a tripod, a computer, and
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  Speaker 1: archived photographs and videos of dozens of women, not two dozens.
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  Speaker 1: That detail matters, and it matters right now before the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the story unfolds, because the two women at
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  Speaker 1: the center of this case were not random. They were
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  Speaker 1: the product of a system, a structure, something that had
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  Speaker 1: been running long enough to fill herd. Maureen had arrived
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  Speaker 1: in Spain from Nigeria in twenty ten. By twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 1: she was living in Bilbao. She was twenty nine years old,
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  Speaker 1: and she sent money home every month to her parents
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  Speaker 1: and six siblings, the youngest of whom was six years old.
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  Speaker 1: Her community in Bilbao knew her from church. They described
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  Speaker 1: her as kind and devout. She worked the streets near
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  Speaker 1: the gymnasium because there was no other way to send
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  Speaker 1: enough money home fast enough. Eight people depended on what
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  Speaker 1: she could earn. Jenny Sophia Ribolo to Iran was forty
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  Speaker 1: years old and Colombian, originally from Monterea in the department
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  Speaker 1: of Cordoba. She had lived in Europe for fourteen years.
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  Speaker 1: By the time of her death. She had left Columbia
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  Speaker 1: after her first child, a four year old boy, was
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  Speaker 1: killed by a car that las reshaped everything. She came
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  Speaker 1: to Spain, built something new, married a Spanish man, had
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  Speaker 1: another son. By May of twenty thirteen, she was in
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  Speaker 1: the process of separating from her husband. Her mother in
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  Speaker 1: Columbia was raising her eight year old Jenny called her
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  Speaker 1: every week without exception. She also worked as a hair dresser.
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  Speaker 1: Her family in Columbia did not know about the other work.
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  Speaker 1: What they knew was the weekly call, the voice on
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  Speaker 1: the other end of the line, the proof that she
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  Speaker 1: was still there. Security cameras recorded Juan Carlos picking Jenny
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  Speaker 1: up in his vehicle in the early hours of May
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifth, twenty thirteen. She was not seen alive again.
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  Speaker 1: Approximately eight days later. On the morning that the police
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  Speaker 1: broke down the door, they found Maureen under the topaulin.
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  Speaker 1: They were still processing the room when the found something else.
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  Speaker 1: Seven black garbage bags stacked in the corner of the
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  Speaker 1: same building where Jenny had last been seen. Inside those
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  Speaker 1: bags were human remains, a body dismembered with a saw
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  Speaker 1: and an axe. Among the pieces a face. The man
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  Speaker 1: sitting on the floor with bloody hands had not just
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  Speaker 1: been there when police arrived. He had been living inside
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  Speaker 1: that building with those bags for days. The security camera
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  Speaker 1: on the corner of the street recorded the moment at
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  Speaker 1: seventeen minutes past two in the morning on May twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand thirteen. Jenny Sophia Rubolo to Iran stepped toward
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  Speaker 1: a vehicle, The door opened, she got in. The camera
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  Speaker 1: never captured her face again. What happened inside the Monastery
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  Speaker 1: of the Ocean of Tranquility between that moment and the
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  Speaker 1: morning of June second is something Juan Carlos Agolargomez never
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  Speaker 1: fully explained to investigatus. He claimed a tumor in his
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  Speaker 1: brain created gaps in his memory. He said he could
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  Speaker 1: not account for the hours. The prosecution did not accept
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  Speaker 1: that explanation, and the evidence left behind told a story
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  Speaker 1: far more deliberate than any neurological condition could produce. The
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  Speaker 1: gym was his home. He lived among the equipment, the
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  Speaker 1: hanging banners, the photographs of himself in fighting Stanzas that
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  Speaker 1: covered the walls. He had three padlocks on the front gate.
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  Speaker 1: Three not because the building held anything valuable in the
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  Speaker 1: conventional sense, but because it held everything he needed to
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  Speaker 1: keep hidden. A man who genuinely believed his own mythology
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  Speaker 1: of spiritual discipline would not fortify a martial arts studio
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  Speaker 1: like a vault. Prosecutors reconstructed a time line where Jenny
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  Speaker 1: was held inside that building for days after she entered
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  Speaker 1: the vehicle. At some point point during those days, she
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  Speaker 1: was tortured, photographed, then killed with tools that had to
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  Speaker 1: be located, prepared, and used with sustained effort a saw,
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  Speaker 1: an axe. A body was separated into seven portions and
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  Speaker 1: placed into seven garbage bags. Those bags were not moved.
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  Speaker 1: They were left inside the building, in the same space
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  Speaker 1: where Juan Carlos continued to live. That detail stopped investigators
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  Speaker 1: when they first encountered it, not the violence itself, which
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  Speaker 1: was extreme, but the stillness. Afterward, he remained in the
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  Speaker 1: building with those bags for days. He went about whatever
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  Speaker 1: routines constituted his life, and then approximately eight days after
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  Speaker 1: Jenny entered that vehicle, he went back to the same street.
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  Speaker 1: Maureen had arrived in Spain in two thousand ten and
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  Speaker 1: had been living in Bilbao since twenty twelve. She was
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine years old. Every week she sent money to Nigeria,
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  Speaker 1: where her parents and six siblings, the youngest only six
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  Speaker 1: years old, depended entirely on what she could earn. She
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  Speaker 1: knew the street well. She knew how to read the
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  Speaker 1: men who slowed their vehicles. What she had no way
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  Speaker 1: of reading was the one who presented himself differently, who
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  Speaker 1: spoke about peace and discipline, who called himself Wayne. He
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  Speaker 1: picked her up. She did not walk back out. When
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  Speaker 1: the woman on the street heard the screaming On June's second,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and thirteen, she made a decision that took
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  Speaker 1: less than a second and changed the outcome of everything.
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  Speaker 1: She called emergency services. She described what she saw, a
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  Speaker 1: woman striking a glass from the inside, a man pulling
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  Speaker 1: her by the arm a door closing. The call went through.
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  Speaker 1: The call went through. Officers from the local p lease
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  Speaker 1: and the Civil Guard arrived at the Monastery of the
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  Speaker 1: Ocean of the Ocean of Tranquility and found three padlocks
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  Speaker 1: on a gated entrance. They broke through. What they found
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  Speaker 1: inside was one Carlos Aguilar Gomez on the floor, shirtless,
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  Speaker 1: his hands dark with blood, his expression absent. He was
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  Speaker 1: not combative, he was not attempting to flee. He appeared
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  Speaker 1: to be in some state that looked from a distance
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  Speaker 1: like shock. Some officers described it as catatonic. The rational
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  Speaker 1: explanation tried to hold here a man found in that
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  Speaker 1: condition in those circumstances might be a secondary victim, might
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  Speaker 1: have discovered something, might have been attacked himself. The explanation
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  Speaker 1: lasted approximately as long as it took to follow the
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  Speaker 1: sounds coming from beneath a tarpaulin on the far side
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  Speaker 1: of the room. Maureen was underneath it, alive. Her wrists
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  Speaker 1: and ankles were bound. Strips of duct tape had been
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  Speaker 1: wound around her neck. The deep groove left by a
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  Speaker 1: cable was still visible on her skin when she was
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  Speaker 1: brought out and examined. Her eyes were fully engorged with blood,
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  Speaker 1: both of them, the whites completely red from the sustained
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  Speaker 1: pressure of near strangulation. She had been kept alive in
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  Speaker 1: this condition for an unknown number of hours, beneath that covering,
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  Speaker 1: in a building also containing a man sitting with his
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  Speaker 1: hands soaked in blood. She could not speak. Officers could
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  Speaker 1: not determine how long she had been under the tarpaulan.
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  Speaker 1: The bags were in a different section of the building,
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  Speaker 1: seven of them black industrial, the kind designed to hold
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  Speaker 1: construction waste. When investigators opened them, they found human remains.
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  Speaker 1: The forensic identification took time, but the condition of the
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  Speaker 1: remains made one thing immediately clear. This was not a
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  Speaker 1: body that had been moved in a hurry. What was
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  Speaker 1: inside those bags was the result of methodical, extended work.
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  Speaker 1: Genny Sophia Ribolo to Iran had been thirty seven years
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  Speaker 1: from Monterea, Columbia, and fourteen years from Europe, and she
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  Speaker 1: was found forty feet from where Maureen was still breathing.
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  Speaker 1: Two women the same building, one already dead for days,
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  Speaker 1: one still alive. The question that changed everything about this
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  Speaker 1: case was not how, The question was what else. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: went downstairs the basement of the Monastery of the Ocean
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  Speaker 1: of Tranquility contained a bathtub, a professional grade photographic tripod,
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  Speaker 1: a laptop computer, and external storage drives. On those drives
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  Speaker 1: were image files and video files. The files documented dozens
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  Speaker 1: of women, different women, different sessions, organized with enough internal
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  Speaker 1: sens structure to suggest they had not been made impulsively.
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  Speaker 1: This is where the head fake completes itself and the
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  Speaker 1: case becomes something the prosecution had not fully anticipated. Every
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  Speaker 1: witness who knew Juan Carlos from the gym described him
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  Speaker 1: as controlled, focused, spiritually disciplined. His public persona was built
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  Speaker 1: on the language of restraint, mastery of the body, harmony
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  Speaker 1: of the mind, the warrior who transcends ordinary impulse. That
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  Speaker 1: persona was the product he was selling classes in his gym.
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  Speaker 1: Access to his supposed lineage, the identity of Wayham first
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  Speaker 1: Western Schalin Monk created a gravity around him that made
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  Speaker 1: people want to be near him. The files in the
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  Speaker 1: basement were the other side of that equation. He had
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  Speaker 1: been using the gym to attract women, not to recruit
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  Speaker 1: them into martial arts, to identify which ones were alone,
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  Speaker 1: which ones had limited social networks, which ones would not
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  Speaker 1: be immediately missed. The archive on those drives was a
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  Speaker 1: record of that process extended over time. Dozens of images
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  Speaker 1: meant dozens of encounters that had never been reported, never
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  Speaker 1: been connected, never been examined. The Spanish Karate Federation, contacted
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  Speaker 1: during the investigation, confirmed that one Carlos Aguilar Gomez had
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  Speaker 1: never been registered as a competitor. He had never been
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  Speaker 1: federally licensed. The only accredited Shaolin association in Spain confirmed
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  Speaker 1: he had never been a member and had no connection
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  Speaker 1: to any recognized monastic tradition. Every credential he displayed in
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  Speaker 1: that gem, every title on every banner, every photograph of
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  Speaker 1: supposed championships was fabricated. What the fabrication purchased was access.
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  Speaker 1: Women came to the gym because a world champion monk
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  Speaker 1: seemed safe, a spiritual teacher seemed safe. A man who
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  Speaker 1: spoke about inner piece while surrounded by photographs of himself
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  Speaker 1: in ceremonial poses seemed, if anything, unusually safe. Three women
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  Speaker 1: who had visited the gym came forward after the arrest
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  Speaker 1: to report that one Carlos had sexually assaulted them inside
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  Speaker 1: the building. Three who came forward the files on the
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  Speaker 1: basement drives suggested the number of women he had encountered
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  Speaker 1: there was significantly larger. The police acknowledged publicly that they
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  Speaker 1: believed additional victims existed beyond Jenny and Maureen. They could
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  Speaker 1: not confirm it, but the archive pointed in a direction
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  Speaker 1: that the investigation could not close. Maureen was transferred to hospital.
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  Speaker 1: The medical team documented the injuries, the groove from the cable,
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  Speaker 1: the contusions on her cheek bone consistent with blows delivered
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  Speaker 1: to hold a person still, the capellier ruptures throughout both
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  Speaker 1: eyes from sustained compression of the airway. She had survived
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  Speaker 1: whatever had been done to her inside that building. She
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  Speaker 1: had survived being left under the tarpaulim. She had survived
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  Speaker 1: long enough for a stranger on the street to make
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  Speaker 1: a phone call. She died three days later, June fifth, approximately.
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  Speaker 1: The rational explanation for Juan Carlos had always been the
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  Speaker 1: one he offered a man with spiritual credentials, a respected teacher,
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  Speaker 1: possibly disturbed by a medical condition he could not control.
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  Speaker 1: That explanation required the credentials to be real. It required
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  Speaker 1: the tumor to be exculpatory. It required the violence to
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  Speaker 1: be aberrational rather than structural. None of those conditions held.
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  Speaker 1: What remained was a man who had built a systematic
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  Speaker 1: infrastructure for hunting inside a building he had spent year
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  Speaker 1: years securing against the outside world in a neighborhood wealthy
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  Speaker 1: enough to make the gym seem prestigious and marginal enough
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  Speaker 1: that certain women would walk its streets alone at night.
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  Speaker 1: The building itself had been the weapon. Everything inside it
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  Speaker 1: was a component of the same machine. At the trial,
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  Speaker 1: which opened on April seventeenth, two thousand and fifteen, Juan
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Aguilar Gormez did something that confused almost everyone in
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  Speaker 1: the court room. On the first day, he confessed completely
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  Speaker 1: and without apparent hesitation. He acknowledged killing both women inside
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  Speaker 1: the gym. His defense did not contest the core facts,
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  Speaker 1: the prosecution, the families, the nine jurors, all of them
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  Speaker 1: had anticipated a contested proceeding. Instead, the man in the
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  Speaker 1: defendant's chair simply agreed. It looked like remorse, it looked
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  Speaker 1: like accountability. It was neither. The confession was the architecture
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  Speaker 1: of a reduced sentence. By admitting guilt on the first
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  Speaker 1: day one, Carlos positioned himself for the most favorable possible
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  Speaker 1: outcome Under Spanish law. What he did not do was
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  Speaker 1: answer a single question from the lawyers representing Jenny's family
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  Speaker 1: or Maureen's family. He confessed to the court he gave
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  Speaker 1: the families nothing. When asked about the circumstances, about what
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  Speaker 1: happened in the hours between entry and death, about the basement,
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  Speaker 1: about the files, he declined to respond. His posture throughout
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  Speaker 1: the trial was the same posture he had practiced for
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  Speaker 1: years in the gym, eyes closed, spying straight, hands resting
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  Speaker 1: in his lap, the meditation of a man who had
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  Speaker 1: decided the performance was still useful. The jury of five
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  Speaker 1: men and four women returned a verdict of guilty on
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  Speaker 1: two counts of murder with premeditation. They did not find
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  Speaker 1: that the cruelty constituted deliberate aggravation, the Eagle threshold for
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  Speaker 1: what Spanish law calls insanimento. That distinction mattered. It shaped
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  Speaker 1: the sentence thirty eight years. Under Spanish sentencing practice, a
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  Speaker 1: prisoner demonstrating good conduct and qualifying for standard reductions will
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  Speaker 1: not serve the full term. The realistic projection was somewhere
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  Speaker 1: below twenty five years. Divided across two deaths, that figure
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  Speaker 1: becomes approximately twelve and a half years per victim. Both families,
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  Speaker 1: through their attorneys, stated that the outcome did not constitute
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  Speaker 1: adequate justice for what had been done. Somewhere in the
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  Speaker 1: sentencing documents, in the legal language that converts human loss
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  Speaker 1: into years and reduction coefficients, Genni Safia Ribolo to Iran's
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  Speaker 1: son in Columbia, is a number Marine's six siblings in Nigeria,
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  Speaker 1: the youngest still only a child, are an absence that
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  Speaker 1: appears in no calculation. The question the police raised but
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  Speaker 1: could not answer, remained open after the court room emptied.
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  Speaker 1: The files on the basement drives documented dozens of women.
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  Speaker 1: The investigation identified three who reported assault. Two were found
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  Speaker 1: inside the building. The gap between those numbers has never
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  Speaker 1: been formally closed. Juan Carlos kept his eyes shut the
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  Speaker 1: entire time the prosecution displayed the evidence, not in anguish,
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  Speaker 1: not in shame, in the same position he had assumed
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  Speaker 1: for years in the gym at the center of the
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  Speaker 1: Golden Mile, presenting himself to whoever walked through the door
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  Speaker 1: as a man who had mustered himself completely. The padlocks
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  Speaker 1: are gone. The building has been empty since the arrest,
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  Speaker 1: but the archive existed, and what a documented did not
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  Speaker 1: disappear when the drives were locked into evidence. Somewhere there
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  Speaker 1: are women who appeared in those files, who have never
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  Speaker 1: been contacted by investigators, who never knew they were part
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  Speaker 1: of a record, who went home from that gym and
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  Speaker 1: moved on with their lives, or didn't. The police believe
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  Speaker 1: there are more, they cannot confirm it. That is the
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  Speaker 1: version of this story that has no ending. The trial
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  Speaker 1: opened on the seventeenth of April twenty fifteen. The court
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  Speaker 1: room in Bilbao held nine jurors, five men, four women,
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  Speaker 1: and one. Carlos Aguila Gomez sat among them with his
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  Speaker 1: eyes closed, not in sleep, in the position he had
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  Speaker 1: always used, the posture of a man at peace with himself.
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  Speaker 1: Legs settled, hams loose, back straight. The prosecution presented the photographs,
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  Speaker 1: the forensic reports, the contents of the basement archive. He
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  Speaker 1: did not open his eyes. On the first day he
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  Speaker 1: confessed to both killings. It seemed in that moment like
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  Speaker 1: a man except responsibility. It was not that his lawyers
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  Speaker 1: had calculated that in early confession would reduce his sentence
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  Speaker 1: under Spanish law. What he refused immediately after confessing was
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  Speaker 1: to answer a single question from the lawyers representing Jenny's
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  Speaker 1: family or Maureen's family. The confession was the only word
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  Speaker 1: he chose to give them. Everything else he kept. The
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  Speaker 1: jury deliberated and returned a verdict of guilty on two
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  Speaker 1: counts of murder with premeditation. It did not find deliberate aggravation.
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  Speaker 1: The distinction mattered legally. The sentence came back at thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight years. Both families and their attorneys said it was
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  Speaker 1: not enough under Spanish law. With good conduct provisions and
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  Speaker 1: the possibility of parole, the realistic expectation was that he
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  Speaker 1: would serve fewer than twenty five years. That works out
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  Speaker 1: to approximately twelve and a half years per victim. Jenny's mother,
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  Speaker 1: who had raised Jenny's eight year old son in Columbia
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  Speaker 1: while Jenny rebuilt her life in Europe, learned the number
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  Speaker 1: Maureen's family in Nigeria. Two parents, six siblings between the
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  Speaker 1: ages of six and twenty one, had lost the person
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  Speaker 1: who sent them money each month. The sentence did not
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  Speaker 1: address either of those absences. There is one detail about
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  Speaker 1: the sentencing that has no clean resolution. The police investigators
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  Speaker 1: who worked the case came away believing with significant confidence
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  Speaker 1: that Jenny and Maureen were not the only people Juan
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  Speaker 1: Carlos had killed. The basement archive documented dozens of women.
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  Speaker 1: Three came forward after the arrest to report sexual assault
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  Speaker 1: inside the gymnasium. The gap between those three and the
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  Speaker 1: number captured in the files was never closed. The investigators
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  Speaker 1: could not prove additional homicides they believed them. Believing and
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  Speaker 1: proving are not the same thing, and the law only
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  Speaker 1: works with one of them. What remains is a set
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  Speaker 1: of facts that do not add up to anything comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: A man spent years in Bilbo's wealthiest district, calling himself
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  Speaker 1: a warrior monk, a three time world champion, a spiritual teacher.
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  Speaker 1: He appeared on television. He filled a gymnasium with students.
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  Speaker 1: He built a fortress with three locks and a security gait,
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  Speaker 1: and a basement that held abaft a tripod and a
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  Speaker 1: hard drive cataloging what he had done to women whose
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  Speaker 1: names he never gave to anyone. The morning Jenny's mother
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  Speaker 1: stopped receiving her weekly call, she did not know yet
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  Speaker 1: that the call would never come again. She raised Jenny's son.
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  Speaker 1: She is still raising him. Maureen's family in Nigeria is
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  Speaker 1: still there. The two parents the six siblings. The money
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  Speaker 1: that arrived each month stopped arriving on approximately the fifth
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  Speaker 1: of June two thousand thirteen. Nobody sent a formal notification.
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  Speaker 1: The money simply stopped Somewhere. In a Spanish prison, a
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  Speaker 1: man sits with his eyes closed. Whether he is meditating
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  Speaker 1: is a question only he can answer, and he has
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  Speaker 1: demonstrated in every setting that mattered that he does not
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  Speaker 1: answer questions. The police file on the case notes, in
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  Speaker 1: language that is careful and official, that investigators believe additional
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  Speaker 1: victims may exist. That sentence has not changed. It remains open.
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  Speaker 1: The names, if there are names, remain unknown, and the
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  Speaker 1: archive that might have held them was sealed as evidence
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  Speaker 1: in a trial where a man confessed on the first
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  Speaker 1: day and then said nothing more. This show is made
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  Speaker 1: by Obo Media.