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Top 3 SCARIEST places people got STUCK Halloween Scare-A-Thon (part 3) · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. On the evening of February
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Speaker 1: twenty eighth, twenty thirteen, thirty seven year old Jeff Bush
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Speaker 1: was just getting home from his job as a la
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Speaker 1: He walked through the front door of his very modest,
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Speaker 1: single story home in Stephner, Florida, which is just outside
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Speaker 1: of Tampa, and he walked into the kitchen where his
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Speaker 1: sister in law and his niece were and he said
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Speaker 1: hi to them and he checked in on them. They
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Speaker 1: both lived with Jeff, as did Jeff's brother Jeremy. After
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Speaker 1: a few minutes of small talk with them, he left
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Speaker 1: the kitchen and went to his own bedroom, the same
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Speaker 1: bedroom he had been sleeping in since he was a
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Speaker 1: little kid. He had grown up in this house. He
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Speaker 1: goes into his room and he hops on the bed,
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Speaker 1: turns on the TV, and looks forward to relaxing for
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Speaker 1: the next couple of hours before going to sleep. A
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Speaker 1: couple of hours later, Jeremy comes home from his second job.
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Speaker 1: He actually worked during the day with Jeff at the
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Speaker 1: same company, but had to pick up additional shifts at
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Speaker 1: night because he needed to support his daughter and his wife.
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Speaker 1: And so he comes home and he goes through the
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Speaker 1: front door, and he goes over to Jeff's room and
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Speaker 1: he knocks on the door and he opens it up
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Speaker 1: and he says, hey, Jeff, we don't have work tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: I just found out, so feel free to sleep in tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Jeff was pretty happy about this, and he said, okay,
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Speaker 1: thanks for letting me know, and then Jeremy shut Jeff's door,
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Speaker 1: turned around and walked out to see his wife and
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Speaker 1: his kid. About an hour or later, at eleven pm,
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Speaker 1: Jeremy his wife and his kid are on the other
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Speaker 1: side of the house from where Jeffrey is and they're
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Speaker 1: laying in bed watching TV when all of a sudden
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Speaker 1: they hear what sounds like a car smashing into the
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Speaker 1: side of the house. Is extremely loud, and immediately Jeremy
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Speaker 1: jumps out of his bed and he hears from the
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Speaker 1: other side of the house Jeff yelling out for help.
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Speaker 1: Jeremy runs into the hall. This white's right behind him
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Speaker 1: and there's no damage in the hall. There's no smoke,
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Speaker 1: there's no fire, and they see Jeff's bedroom is still shut,
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Speaker 1: so they run down the hall. They open that door
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Speaker 1: up and it's dark in his room, and as Jeremy's
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out what he's looking at, his wife
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Speaker 1: reaches behind him and flicks on the switch and the
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Speaker 1: light from the room illuminates the most bizarre and horrible scene. Jeff,
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Speaker 1: the bedroom, everything, it's all gone, and it's been replaced
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Speaker 1: by this massive sinkhole right in the middle of the room.
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Speaker 1: As Jeff was laying on his bed, apparently the sinkhole
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Speaker 1: had opened up, and when it did, it completely opened up.
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Speaker 1: Jeff fell into it, along with everything else in the room,
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Speaker 1: and then it kind of churned on top of him,
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Speaker 1: like it opened its mouth and then squeezed up over him,
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Speaker 1: so that when Jeremy is looking in, it actually looked
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Speaker 1: like a flat layer of dirt. He could only see
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Speaker 1: the corner of a bed poking out. There was no
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Speaker 1: sign of Jeff. He saw the cable from the TV
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Speaker 1: was still coming off the wall and going into the
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Speaker 1: pit and disappearing into the dirt. And so Jeremy starts
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Speaker 1: screaming for Jeff, and he can hear Jeff's muffled screams
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Speaker 1: as he's yelling for him to come save him. And
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Speaker 1: so Jeremy, without any hesitation, jumps into this hole, which
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Speaker 1: right then it was only about six to ten feet deep.
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Speaker 1: It would end up becoming sixty feet deep over the
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Speaker 1: next couple of days, but initially it was only about
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Speaker 1: six feet deep. He jumps in and he starts using
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Speaker 1: his hands to try to burrow down to his brother.
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Speaker 1: But for every scoop he was able to remove, about
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Speaker 1: ten times that would be created as the walls continued
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Speaker 1: to collapse and this hole continued to sink and grow.
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Speaker 1: Jeremy's wife calls the police, and Jeremy gets a shovel,
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Speaker 1: and he goes back into the hole and he's digging
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Speaker 1: as fast as he can, but he's really making no
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Speaker 1: progugm and he's screaming for his brother. But eventually Jeff's
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Speaker 1: yells for help, stop and he can't hear him, he
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Speaker 1: can't see him, and he's just digging, but he knows
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Speaker 1: he's gone. When the police arrived, they forcibly removed Jeremy
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Speaker 1: from the hole. He did not want to leave his brother.
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Speaker 1: They pulled him out of the house, they pulled his
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Speaker 1: wife and his kid out, and they've evacuated the area,
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Speaker 1: and they had to rope it off because they didn't
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Speaker 1: want anybody going near it because they didn't know how
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Speaker 1: big this hole was going to get. They weren't sure
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Speaker 1: if it was going to suddenly open up and engulf,
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Speaker 1: you know, the whole stretch of the street. And so
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Speaker 1: all of Jeff's family just had to watch in horror
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Speaker 1: as they basically did nothing to try to help him.
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Speaker 1: They had to let the sinkhole basically develop before they
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Speaker 1: were able to actually go in there and try to
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Speaker 1: help him. And so if he had been alive, there
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Speaker 1: was just no way they could have saved him. After
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Speaker 1: several hours, they were able to go up close and
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Speaker 1: feed in this microphone system that they put on top
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Speaker 1: of the actual sinkhole that would apparently be able to
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Speaker 1: pick up sound if Jeff was making any sound whatsoever,
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Speaker 1: and it wasn't picking up any signs of life, and
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Speaker 1: at this point they determined that he was de ceased.
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Speaker 1: But before they could get their audio recorder out of
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Speaker 1: the hole, the hole opened up again, got even bigger
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Speaker 1: and swallowed the recorder into the hole. But despite getting
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Speaker 1: bigger and wider and actually getting big tools in there
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Speaker 1: to start trying to pull stuff out of it, they
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Speaker 1: could never find Jeff's body, and so the decision was
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Speaker 1: made to leave him wherever he is, somewhere in the sinkhole,
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Speaker 1: and they filled it in with gravel, and then they
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Speaker 1: knocked down the house as well as the two other
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Speaker 1: neighboring houses, and so to this day, Jeffrey's body is
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Speaker 1: still somewhere underground in that sinkhole. In two thousand and eight,
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Speaker 1: Joshua Maddox was an eighteen year old guy living in
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Speaker 1: a small city in Colorado. He was known for having
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Speaker 1: a very care free attitude. He was kind of a
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Speaker 1: free spirit. He had really long hair. He liked to
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Speaker 1: play the guitar, He loved music, and he spent a
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Speaker 1: lot of his time free writing. His parents were divorced,
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Speaker 1: so Josh lived with his father, whose name was Mike,
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Speaker 1: and his two sisters, who were named Kate and Ruth.
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Speaker 1: On May eighth, he told his sister Kate that he
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Speaker 1: was going for a walk as he left the house.
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Speaker 1: Josh loved being out in nature and regularly went out
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Speaker 1: walking around the woods by himself, so this was not
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Speaker 1: out of the ordinary for him. But that night when
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Speaker 1: he didn't come back, that was out of the ordinary,
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Speaker 1: and the family was pretty concerned. By the next day,
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Speaker 1: when he hadn't shown up and they couldn't get in
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Speaker 1: touch with him, and they called around and no one
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Speaker 1: knew where he was. They would go to the police
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Speaker 1: and file a missing person report, so the police launched
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Speaker 1: this massive search, but there's nothing really to go on
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Speaker 1: besides what he told Kate before he left, which was
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Speaker 1: I'm going for a walk, So there wasn't really a
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Speaker 1: good starting point, and so they weren't getting anywhere. As
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Speaker 1: days turned into weeks turned into months, and no one's
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Speaker 1: heard from him. No one knows what happened to him.
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Speaker 1: Hope was fading that they were going to find him alive.
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Speaker 1: In fact, hope was fading that they were even going
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Speaker 1: to find his body. Seven years after Josh went missing,
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Speaker 1: a startling discovery was made. A builder named Chuck Murphy
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Speaker 1: had this little, tiny cabin he owned in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the woods, about a mile away from where Josh's
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Speaker 1: family home was in Colorado. The cabin had fallen into disrepair.
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Speaker 1: At one time he might have used it, but now
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Speaker 1: the land it was on was much more valuable than
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Speaker 1: the cabin itself. So the decision was made to demolish
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Speaker 1: the cabin and sell the land, and so he brings
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Speaker 1: out a demolition crew. They start knocking down walls, and
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Speaker 1: when they crack open the chimney, when they're standing inside
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Speaker 1: of the cabin and the chimney is now coming down,
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Speaker 1: they see a body crammed into the chimney in the
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Speaker 1: fetal position, with its legs over its head. Chuck calls
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Speaker 1: the police, who come over and they're able to identify
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Speaker 1: this body as being that of Josh Maddox. The cabin
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Speaker 1: had been consistently overlooked during the different searches for Josh
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Speaker 1: because it just didn't look like a place anybody would go.
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Speaker 1: It was like this broken down, caving in pile of wood,
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Speaker 1: and they just kind of wrote it off and no
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Speaker 1: one thought to actually go check it out. Chuck, the
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Speaker 1: owner of the cabin, said that he was really never there,
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Speaker 1: but he had gone in in the time between when
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Speaker 1: Josh disappeared and now, and he said when he went inside,
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Speaker 1: there was no signs of anything unusual. It looked like
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Speaker 1: the same old cabin and he was only in there
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Speaker 1: for a couple of minutes, but he didn't see anything.
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Speaker 1: The autopsy revealed Josh had been wedged inside of this
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Speaker 1: chimney for seven years, meaning as soon as he went missing,
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Speaker 1: he wound up wedged in the chimney less than a
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Speaker 1: mile from his house. He had no drugs in his system,
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Speaker 1: he had no trauma to his body, so no broken
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Speaker 1: bones or knife marks or gunshot wounds. Initially, authority said
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Speaker 1: this death was an accident and what must have happened
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Speaker 1: is Josh came to this cabin and he wanted to
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Speaker 1: get inside. It was locked, and so he thought he
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Speaker 1: would go through the chimney and he got stucked. But
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Speaker 1: Chuck Murphy said no that's not possible because I put
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Speaker 1: this really heavy duty rebar cage over the top of
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Speaker 1: the chimney cap to prevent animals and other debris getting
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Speaker 1: inside the chimney, and certainly a person could not have
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Speaker 1: fit through there. However, they couldn't go back and confirm
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Speaker 1: there was indeed this chimney cap because the cabin had
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Speaker 1: already been demolished. In addition to the chimney cap, that
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Speaker 1: kind of contradicted this whole accident hypothesis. There were a
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Speaker 1: few other significant unanswered questions about this case. The first
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Speaker 1: one was there was this big breakfast bar, this wooden
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Speaker 1: breakfast bar that was ripped off the wall inside of
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Speaker 1: the cabin and up against the fireplace, And if that
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Speaker 1: wasn't there, you would be able to see the underside
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Speaker 1: of Josh because he was tucked up just underneath where
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Speaker 1: you could see. So that means either Josh ripped it
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Speaker 1: off the wall and put it in front of the
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Speaker 1: chimney before going into the chimney, or he was in
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Speaker 1: the chimney and somebody else broke it off and put
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Speaker 1: it in front. The second big question mark is Josh's
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Speaker 1: body position. His legs were over his head, so his
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Speaker 1: position indicates he would have had to go into the
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Speaker 1: chimney head first. And so I don't know about you,
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Speaker 1: but if you were going to go into a chimney,
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Speaker 1: I would not be leaping head first. It just seems
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Speaker 1: counterintuitive and unnecessarily risky. And the third question mark are
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Speaker 1: Josh's clothes or lack thereof. He was only wearing a shirt.
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Speaker 1: He didn't have pants or underwear or anything else on,
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Speaker 1: just a thermal shirt, and the clothes he didn't have
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Speaker 1: on were neatly folded and stacked inside the cabin next
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Speaker 1: to the fireplace, Meaning for this to be an accident,
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Speaker 1: he would have had to gain access to the cabin,
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Speaker 1: take off most of his clothing, fold it up, put
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Speaker 1: it next to the fireplace, rip off the breakfast bar,
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Speaker 1: put it in front of the fireplace, go outside, climb
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Speaker 1: onto the roof, rip off the rebar cage, and then,
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Speaker 1: only wearing a T shirt, go headfirst down a chimney
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Speaker 1: and then get stuck and die. Very few people, including authorities,
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Speaker 1: by this is truly just an accident, but they're lacking
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Speaker 1: evidence to suggest it's something else, and so to this
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Speaker 1: day it remains an accident. On December sixth, nineteen forty one,
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Speaker 1: twenty year old US Navy sailor Clifford Olds met up
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Speaker 1: with a couple of his shipmates at the Monkey Bar
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Speaker 1: for a night out in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A barmaid
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Speaker 1: took this picture of Cliff all the way on the
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Speaker 1: right with his friends and then offered to sell this
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Speaker 1: back to them, to which they said, that's a ripoff,
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Speaker 1: you can keep it. This would be the last picture
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Speaker 1: of Cliff alive. The next morning, just before eight am,
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Speaker 1: Cliff was back on board his ship, the USS West Virginia.
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Speaker 1: He was starting his workday when the Japanese launched the
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Speaker 1: surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Cliff's ship was a prime
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Speaker 1: target and was quickly hit with two bombs, seven torpedoes.
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Speaker 1: Hundreds of people are dying on board, and very quickly
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Speaker 1: his ship is starting to sink. On board a Navy ship,
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Speaker 1: there's all these different conditions the ship is set to
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Speaker 1: depending on what you're doing, whether you're at war or
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Speaker 1: you're just docked in peace time, and all of these
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Speaker 1: different conditions have very specific instructions, and one of those
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Speaker 1: conditions is condition Z better known as setting Z. IF
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Speaker 1: The captain of a ship calls this out over the loudspeakers,
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Speaker 1: every single hatch inside of that ship is shut and locked.
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Speaker 1: If your ship is sinking and you say set z,
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Speaker 1: you are sealing all of those compartments so no more
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Speaker 1: water can flow into them, and you can maintain a
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Speaker 1: little bit of buoyancies you don't sink quite as fast.
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Speaker 1: But if you set z as your ship is sinking,
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Speaker 1: especially if you're getting attacked and there's all these holes
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Speaker 1: in your ship, there's a good chance when you seal
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Speaker 1: those hatches, you're going to be sealing people inside of
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Speaker 1: these rooms and they will not be able to get
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Speaker 1: out again. So when that call comes out over the loudspeakers,
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Speaker 1: set z, everybody knows to get the heck out of
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Speaker 1: the compartments so that they do not get trapped inside
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Speaker 1: of one of those rooms. On Cliff's ship, set z
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Speaker 1: was called over the loudspeakers, and Cliff, along with Ron Endicott,
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Speaker 1: who was eighteen, and Buddy Costin who was twenty one,
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Speaker 1: were at the bottom of the ship in the freshwater
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Speaker 1: pump room, and when someone came by and shut and
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Speaker 1: sealed their room, they did not see them in there,
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Speaker 1: and so probably the three of them ran to the
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Speaker 1: door and were banging on it and trying to get
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Speaker 1: someone's attention. But in the chaos of the moment, that
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Speaker 1: person on the other side of the door that could
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Speaker 1: have opened it up again was now gone. Even though
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Speaker 1: the set Z procedure did prevent water from going into
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Speaker 1: certain cabins on the West Virginia, it still would sync
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Speaker 1: to the bottom of the ocean along with seventeen other ships.
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Speaker 1: The next day, there was a whole bunch of marines
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Speaker 1: that were on the dock right next to where the
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Speaker 1: wreckage of the West Virginia was underneath the water, and
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Speaker 1: as they're standing in the dock, they start hearing a
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Speaker 1: banging sound, and at first they think it's probably just
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Speaker 1: a salvage team, or it's some strap clanging against the
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Speaker 1: side of one of these ships. But they started to
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Speaker 1: notice that tapping sounds started to sound like intentional rhythms
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Speaker 1: that a human might make, and it dawned on them
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Speaker 1: that someone is trying to get our attention underwater. There
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Speaker 1: are people trapped in the West Virginia. But when the
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Speaker 1: marines ran to their superiors and told them there are
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Speaker 1: people trapped inside of the ship. We have to get
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Speaker 1: them out. They broke the horrible news that there's nothing
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Speaker 1: they could do for them if they went down and
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Speaker 1: began trying to cut a hole in the side of
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Speaker 1: the ship so they could swim out. As soon as
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Speaker 1: there's even a tiny little hole on the side of
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Speaker 1: that ship, there's so much pressure that it would rush
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Speaker 1: inside and fill that space almost immediately, and they wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be able to cut a hole big enough fast enough,
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Speaker 1: and so cutting into the ship is going to kill them. Also,
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Speaker 1: just lighting that torch presents a unique problem because there's
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Speaker 1: so many chemicals in the water from all of the
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Speaker 1: attacks that happened the day before, we run the risk
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Speaker 1: of lighting a fire or lighting off an explosion that
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Speaker 1: could take even more life. And because they were still
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Speaker 1: months away from being able to raise the ship out
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Speaker 1: of the water, which would save them, the decision was
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Speaker 1: made that we're going to have to let them die.
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Speaker 1: And so for the next sixteen days, marines and sailors
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Speaker 1: were put on guard duty right next to the wreckage
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Speaker 1: of the USS West Virginia, and they would listen to
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Speaker 1: the tapping as they desperately tried to tell people, come
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Speaker 1: down here, save us. We're alive. We're not going anywhere,
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Speaker 1: Please help us. And the marines and sailors were so
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Speaker 1: distressed about this, it was so horrible to listen to.
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Speaker 1: They would cry and cover their ears because they wanted
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Speaker 1: to save them. They're so close, but they're so far away. Finally,
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Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve, the banging stopped. Six months later, they
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Speaker 1: were finally able to raise the West Virginia out of
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Speaker 1: the water. And as crews were going through all the
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Speaker 1: different compartments and removing bodies, they got to the freshwater
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Speaker 1: pump room where cliff Ron and Buddy had been. They
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Speaker 1: open it up and they find three bodies, and they
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Speaker 1: realized right away the torture of these poor guys had
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Speaker 1: gone through. Inside this airtight section was this locker full
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Speaker 1: of food rations they're also in the freshwater pump room,
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Speaker 1: and so they just opened up the tank and they
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Speaker 1: had all the fresh water they needed, but what they
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Speaker 1: didn't have enough of was air. And so for sixteen days,
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Speaker 1: sitting in the dark at the bottom of the ocean,
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Speaker 1: knowing they're not going to get out of here, they
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Speaker 1: slowly suffocated. And we know they were alive for those
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Speaker 1: sixteen days because they had a calendar where they were
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Speaker 1: marking off each of the days they were down there
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Speaker 1: in red pen. This story was so distressing the Navy
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Speaker 1: decided not to share the information about what happened to
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Speaker 1: those three to their families. It wasn't until years later
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Speaker 1: the truth came out. But even today, on memorials and
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Speaker 1: monuments commemorating what happened at Pearl Harbor, they are listed. Cliff, Buddy,
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Speaker 1: and Ron are listed as killed in action on December seventh.
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