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This Legendary Internet Reddit Hole Will Live In Your Head Rent Free (aka The Lamp) · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today I'm
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Speaker 1: going to share three stories that demonstrate that. But before
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get into today's stories. In twenty thirteen,
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Speaker 1: Jim Stoffer's mother finally passed away from Alzheimer's disease at
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Speaker 1: the age of seventy four. Her doctors told Jim that
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Speaker 1: her disease had mutated in a way they had not
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Speaker 1: seen before, and they asked if he'd be willing to
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Speaker 1: donate her body so they could study her brain. Jim
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Speaker 1: felt like his mother would want him to say yeah, yes,
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Speaker 1: and so he agreed. But for a variety of administrative reasons,
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Speaker 1: the neurologists couldn't actually accept Jim's mother's body. At this point,
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Speaker 1: Jim was really bought into the idea that his mother's
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Speaker 1: brain was going to help other patients, and so while
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Speaker 1: he couldn't donate her body to these neurologists, he could
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Speaker 1: donate her body to the Biological Resource Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Speaker 1: This center would take dead bodies and then extract parts
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Speaker 1: of them for scientific research, and then would cremate the
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Speaker 1: rest of them and return the ashes to the family.
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Speaker 1: Jim gave his mother's body to the center, and when
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Speaker 1: he filled out the paperwork, he indicated that her brain
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Speaker 1: should be extracted for Alzheimer's research. After filling out the paperwork,
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Speaker 1: Jim left and ten days later he received a wooden
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Speaker 1: box in the mail that contained his mother's ashes. There
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Speaker 1: was no note attached to the box explaining exactly what
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Speaker 1: was done to his mother's body, but Jim assumed they did.
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Speaker 2: What he asked.
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Speaker 1: A year later, that Biological Resource Center was rated by
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Speaker 1: the FBI after accusations they were selling these donated bodies
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Speaker 1: for profit. During the FBI's investigation, they uncovered that yes,
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Speaker 1: the center had been doing that and had sold at
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Speaker 1: least twenty bodies to the US Army for various experiments,
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Speaker 1: and one of the bodies that was sold was Jim's mother.
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Speaker 1: She was sold for five eight hundred and ninety three dollars.
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Speaker 1: The FBI told Jim she had not been used for
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Speaker 1: Alzheimer's research. Instead, she had been strapped to this device
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Speaker 1: that resembled a chair and then had a bomb detonated
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Speaker 1: underneath her. The army was trying to understand the effects
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Speaker 1: on the human body when a vehicle was hit by
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Speaker 1: an ied. The ashes Jim received in that wooden box
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Speaker 1: he got in the mail were only from his mother's hand.
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Speaker 1: The rest of her body was unrecoverable. Also during this
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Speaker 1: FBI investigation, they found inside the center there was a
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Speaker 1: man's body on the wall with a female heads sewed
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Speaker 1: onto it.
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Speaker 2: It appeared to be a trophy.
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Speaker 1: Jim, along with nineteen other families, sued the center, and
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Speaker 1: finally in twenty nineteen, they were awarded fifty eight million
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Speaker 1: dollars in damages. The center no longer is an operation.
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Speaker 1: In two thousand and four, Mitch was in his final
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Speaker 1: semester at a college in Louisiana when he met another senior,
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Speaker 1: a wonderful young lady named Kayla. From the instant he
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Speaker 1: saw her, he knew he was in love. She played
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Speaker 1: hard to get at first, but after several months.
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Speaker 2: He won her over.
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Speaker 1: After graduation, the pair stayed in Louisiana and moved in
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Speaker 1: together while they got their careers off the ground. Two
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Speaker 1: years later, the pair got married, and almost immediately Kayla
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Speaker 1: got pregnant. At the time, Mitch's career was really starting
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Speaker 1: to take off, which allowed Kayla to stay at home
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Speaker 1: and take some time off.
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Speaker 2: By the time their.
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Speaker 1: Daughter was born, Mitch was making so much money that
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Speaker 1: Kayla decided to just stay home and be a full
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Speaker 1: time mom. A couple of years later, Kayla got pregnant again,
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Speaker 1: and by the time their daughter was two years old,
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Speaker 1: they had their son. Mitch adored his children. Every morning,
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Speaker 1: before he went to work, he would sneak into their
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Speaker 1: room and he would watch them sleep, and then in
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Speaker 1: the evenings they would have these big family sit down
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Speaker 1: meals and then play games together until bedtime.
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Speaker 2: Mitch's life was perfect.
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Speaker 1: Shortly after his son's birth, Mitch was lounging on the
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Speaker 1: couch in his TV room when he noticed out of
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Speaker 1: the corner of his eye the red lamp in the
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Speaker 1: corner of the room. It just looked funny. It was
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Speaker 1: almost like the light itself was blurry. But when he
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Speaker 1: looked a little bit closer at it, the entire lamp
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Speaker 1: looked blurry. And so Mitch looked around the room and
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Speaker 1: nothing else was blurry. He rubbed his eyes and looked
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Speaker 1: back over at this lamp, and it was still blurry.
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Speaker 1: He turned the TV off and walked over to the lamp,
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Speaker 1: and even though he was right in front of it,
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Speaker 1: the lamp was still blurry. And Mitch didn't have bad eyesight,
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Speaker 1: and so he's thinking, is there something wrong with me?
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Speaker 1: Am I having a stroke? Do I have an aneurysm?
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Speaker 1: Is there some sort of illness here that's making me
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Speaker 1: see this lamp blurry when it's really not. But Mitch
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Speaker 1: told himself he was healthy and that whatever this was,
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Speaker 1: it was an anomaly and nothing to worry about. And
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Speaker 1: so he went back over to the couch, turned the
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Speaker 1: TV back on and tried to ignore the lamp.
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Speaker 2: But as he was watching TV out of his.
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Speaker 1: Peripheral vision, he couldn't help but notice this weird, blurry lamp,
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Speaker 1: and so finally he turned the TV off again, and
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Speaker 1: he turned to look at this lamp, and now so
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Speaker 1: in addition to being blurry, it appeared to be upside down.
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Speaker 1: Now Mitch was genuinely concerned that there was something wrong
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Speaker 1: with him, because again, nothing else in the entire room
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Speaker 1: was blurry or upside down.
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Speaker 2: It was just this lamp.
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Speaker 1: And so a few minutes later, his wife and his
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Speaker 1: kids came home, and Mitch decided he would not tell
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Speaker 1: them about this lamp. He didn't want to alarm them.
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Speaker 1: He figures, he will get to the bottom of this
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Speaker 1: blurry lamp and then he will tell his wife and kids.
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Speaker 2: And so that night the.
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Speaker 1: Family has a sit down meal, and then afterwards they
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Speaker 1: play some games together and then everybody goes upstairs and
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Speaker 1: goes to sleep. But after everyone had gone to sleep,
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Speaker 1: Mitch was just laying in bed thinking about this lamp.
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Speaker 1: And so finally he snuck out of his bed and
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Speaker 1: went downstairs to the TV room and he sat on
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Speaker 1: the couch and he just stared at the lamp. And
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Speaker 1: for hours and hours, he just fixated himself on this lamp,
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Speaker 1: watching it kind of morph around and turn upside down
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Speaker 1: and get blurrier and blurrier. By the second The next day,
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Speaker 1: Kayla found Mitch lying on the couch passed out, and
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Speaker 1: she asked him if he was okay, and again Mitch
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Speaker 1: didn't tell her about this lamp that was still blurry.
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Speaker 1: He just told her that he wasn't feeling well and
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Speaker 1: he was not going to go to work that day.
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Speaker 1: But Mitch didn't go to work for three more days.
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Speaker 1: He just sat on the couch and stared at this lamp.
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Speaker 1: And Kayla obviously picked up on this strange behavior and
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Speaker 1: kept poking and prodding to get more information about what
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Speaker 1: was going on. But Mitch never told her the truth
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Speaker 1: about this lamp. He just kept telling her he felt sick.
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Speaker 1: She urged him to go see a doctor, but Mitch
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Speaker 1: told her it would be fine, he'd get better. And then,
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Speaker 1: over time, as this lamp continued to morph and get
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Speaker 1: bigger and get stranger and stranger, Mitch suddenly was unable
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Speaker 1: to respond to his wife. He became totally unresponsive, and
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Speaker 1: so obviously, his wife became desperate and called the doctor.
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Speaker 1: And as she's on the phone with the doctor trying
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Speaker 1: to get advice about what to do, Mitch realizes the
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Speaker 1: lamp is now growing in leaps and bounds, and before long,
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Speaker 1: the lamp is the entire size of the room, and
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Speaker 1: all he can see is the red color of this lamp.
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Speaker 1: And then Mitch starts to hear these voices, these screams,
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Speaker 1: coming somewhere in the distance, and then he feels this
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Speaker 1: blinding pain in his head. And then he opens his
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Speaker 1: eyes and he looks up and he sees he's laying
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Speaker 1: on the sidewalk next to one of the buildings at
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Speaker 1: his college in Louisiana, and surrounding him is this crowd
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Speaker 1: of people with wide eyes that are staring at him.
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Speaker 2: Mitch had no idea.
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Speaker 1: What was going on, and so he naturally just began
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Speaker 1: scanning the crowd, looking for Kayla and his kids to
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Speaker 1: try to figure out how he got here. But before
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Speaker 1: he could ask any questions, and before he could find
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Speaker 1: his wife and kids, a police officer ran through the crowd,
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Speaker 1: picked him up, and ran him over to his police car,
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Speaker 1: put him in the back, and then began driving away.
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Speaker 1: And so while Mitch's in the back of this police car,
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Speaker 1: he turns to the officer and he says, what's going on,
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Speaker 1: and the officer would tell him he was attacked by
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Speaker 1: a huge college football player. He got hit in the
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Speaker 1: head and he fell backwards, and he hit his head
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Speaker 1: again and he fell unconscious. Mitch asked the officer where
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Speaker 1: his wife and kids were, and the cops said he
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Speaker 1: had no idea, And that's when it clicked for Mitch.
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Speaker 2: The lamp wasn't real.
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Speaker 1: Neither was his wife, neither was his daughter, neither was
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Speaker 1: his son, neither was his life for the past ten years.
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Speaker 1: It was all a hallucination while he was unconscious. After
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Speaker 1: getting attacked, Mitch was brought to the hospital where he
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Speaker 1: would make a full physical recovery, but after being released,
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Speaker 1: he was horribly depressed and he had to get intense
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Speaker 1: therapy to basically grieve for the loss of his family
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Speaker 1: that never existed. These days, Mitch says he can barely
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Speaker 1: remember what his family even looked like, but periodically, in
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Speaker 1: his dreams he will catch a glimpse of his son
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Speaker 1: in his peripheral vision, and his son is perpetually five
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Speaker 1: years old, and he's trying to talk to his father,
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Speaker 1: but Mitch can never understand what he says. In two
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Speaker 1: thousand and seven, Brett Ryan was a charming twenty six
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Speaker 1: year old man living in Toronto, Canada. He was known
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Speaker 1: as an extremely friendly guy who was always smiling ear
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Speaker 1: to ear with his trademark grin. In his spare time,
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Speaker 1: he could be found at children's hospitals reading to sick kids,
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Speaker 1: or at the community center volunteering as an umpire for
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Speaker 1: Little League baseball games. But behind his seemingly perfect exterior,
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes, Brett was struggling. He had to move
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Speaker 1: back in with his parents after dropping out of college
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Speaker 1: and racking up over sixty thousand dollars of debt. While
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Speaker 1: his friends graduated college and went on to begin their
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Speaker 1: careers in medicine and finance and education, Brett was only
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Speaker 1: able to get a job as a part time house painter.
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Speaker 1: Brett felt like he had a lot of potential that
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Speaker 1: he was squandering, but he felt like the debt that
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Speaker 1: he had racked up was really his roadblock between him
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Speaker 1: and the life he was supposed to have, and so
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Speaker 1: instead of working hard and making some money to pay
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Speaker 1: down his debt, he decided to come up with an
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Speaker 1: absurd get rich quick scheme that actually kind of worked.
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Speaker 1: On October twentieth of that year, Brett walked into a
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Speaker 1: bank near his home and he had hospital bandages wrapped
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Speaker 1: around his head, in his face, and his left arm
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Speaker 1: was in a sling. Then he walked up to one
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Speaker 1: of the tellers and he handed her a note that
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Speaker 1: just said, I have a gun underneath this sling. Give
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Speaker 1: me two thousand dollars. And the teller very quickly complied
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Speaker 1: and she gave him a little over one thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: That was all the money she had, and Britt took
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Speaker 1: the money, turned around and calmly walked out of the
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Speaker 1: bank and he got in his car and he got home,
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Speaker 1: and he was totally exhilarated, and he's half expecting the
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Speaker 1: police to just show up at his front door, but
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Speaker 1: they never did. He was never caught, and after that
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Speaker 1: he was hooked. For the next eight months, Brett robbed
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Speaker 1: a dozen other banks in the area, stealing almost thirty
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. He became so confident in his ability to
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Speaker 1: steal without getting caught that he began dressing up in
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Speaker 1: these ridiculous outfits that included this huge, obviously fake beard,
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Speaker 1: and in fact, the media dubbed him the fake bearded Bandit.
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Speaker 1: The reason Brett wasn't getting caught is because the police
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Speaker 1: would get his fingerprints at the crime scene, but because
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Speaker 1: he did not have a criminal record, his prints were
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Speaker 1: not in the database, and so the police basically just
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Speaker 1: had to set up and hoped to catch this guy
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Speaker 1: in the act, and in the summer of two thousand
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Speaker 1: and eight they finally would catch the fake bearded bandit.
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Speaker 1: At Brett's trial, dozens of his friends wrote letters of
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Speaker 1: support to the judge, saying that Brett was actually a
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Speaker 1: great guy, that this was a product of desperation and
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Speaker 1: a total break from his normal character. And some of
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Speaker 1: the organizations that he volunteered with did the same thing,
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Speaker 1: writing letters to the judge saying what a meaningful contributor
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Speaker 1: Brett was to the community. When Brett spoke at his trial,
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Speaker 1: he was incredibly remorseful and said he had allowed his
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Speaker 1: debt to get totally out of control and that admittedly
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Speaker 1: he had not handled it well. And so the judge
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Speaker 1: took all of this into account, all the letters of
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Speaker 1: support and Brett's overall appearance in court, and he decided
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Speaker 1: that this was indeed a break from character, and that
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Speaker 1: Brett was actually a very promising young man, and that
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Speaker 1: he did not deserve the harshest penalty, and so Brett
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Speaker 1: was sentenced to just under four years, which, considering the crime,
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Speaker 1: was a very lenient sentence, and so Brett went to jail.
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Speaker 1: But then less than two years later, in twenty ten,
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Speaker 1: he was granted parole and allowed to move back in
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Speaker 1: with his parents, and his parents would say he was
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Speaker 1: a changed man, ready for a fresh start, but Brett
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Speaker 1: would find life outside of jail was exponentially harder now
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Speaker 1: that he was an ex con. It was extremely hard
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Speaker 1: to get a job, which meant he had no income,
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Speaker 1: and without an income, he couldn't pay down all those
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Speaker 1: debts he had, and so he had to declare bankruptcy.
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Speaker 1: As for life at home, it was very difficult. Brett's
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Speaker 1: family was very embarrassed about what he had done, and
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Speaker 1: when Brett moved back home, it was obvious that all
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Speaker 1: the neighbors were gossiping constantly about their family, and so
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Speaker 1: Brett and his family actually moved to another Toronto neighborhood
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Speaker 1: just to get away from all of that. But once
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Speaker 1: they settled into this new neighborhood, Brett really knuckled down
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Speaker 1: and decided he was going to get his life together
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Speaker 1: and he was going to do it all on his own,
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Speaker 1: and so he applied to dozens and dozens of jobs
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Speaker 1: all over the place, and finally he was able to
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Speaker 1: get some low paying work and retail. It wasn't great,
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Speaker 1: but it was a start, and so Brett began working
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Speaker 1: countless hours at this really low paying job, and his
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Speaker 1: parents noticed how hard he was working to try to
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Speaker 1: get his life back together, and so they decided they
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Speaker 1: would help him out financially so he could re enroll
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Speaker 1: in college and finish his degree in biophysics. While Brett
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Speaker 1: was in school, he met a woman named Kristin who
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Speaker 1: had a full time job and lived in this beautiful
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Speaker 1: home and by and large, she had the life that
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Speaker 1: he wished he could have, and the two of them
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Speaker 1: quickly fell in love love, and Brett told her about
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Speaker 1: his criminal past as the fake Bearded bandit, and she
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Speaker 1: accepted him and she didn't judge him, and she said,
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Speaker 1: I still love you, I still want to be with you.
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Speaker 1: Two years later, Brett moved out of his parents' house
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Speaker 1: and into Kristen's house, and for once in his life,
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Speaker 1: he felt like his life was going.
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Speaker 2: The way it should be.
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Speaker 1: Then a year later, tragedy struck when Brett's father passed away,
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Speaker 1: and suddenly Brett had to go to his mother's house
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Speaker 1: all the time to try to help her out, and
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Speaker 1: his mother was very appreciative of the time he was
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Speaker 1: spending with her, and so she actually began paying him
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Speaker 1: for the work he was doing around the home, and
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Speaker 1: considering Brett was a broke college student, this was a
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Speaker 1: huge help and in many ways it really brought Brett
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Speaker 1: and his mother together. A year later, in twenty fifteen,
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Speaker 1: Brett proposed to Kristen and she said yes. But at
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Speaker 1: the same time, school was getting overwhelming for Brett.
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Speaker 2: And he dropped out.
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Speaker 1: But he was too embarrassed to tell his fiance or
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Speaker 1: his family because everybody thought he was on the right path,
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Speaker 1: and he didn't want to explain why he had dropped out,
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Speaker 1: and so he just pretended to still be in school. Then,
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Speaker 1: in the spring of twenty sixteen, when Brett should have
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Speaker 1: been graduating, he got a very lucky break when a
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Speaker 1: big tech firm in Toronto offered him a job. On paper,
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Speaker 1: Brett should not have gotten this job. He wasn't qualified,
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Speaker 1: he didn't have a degree. But in getting this job,
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Speaker 1: Brett was able to tell his fiance and his family
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Speaker 1: that he had just graduated college and that was how
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Speaker 1: he was getting this job. His family and his fiance
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Speaker 1: were a little confused while they weren't invited to his
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Speaker 1: graduation ceremony, but nonetheless they were very excited for him,
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Speaker 1: and they took him out and they celebrated. Then a
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Speaker 1: week after Brett accepted this job, the tech firm rescinded
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Speaker 1: their offer when they discovered Brett was, in fact the
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Speaker 1: fake bearded Bandit. Now, Brett panicked because this job represented
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Speaker 1: this perfect piece to his web of lies that allowed
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Speaker 1: him to pretend he had his degree and that everything
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Speaker 1: was so great, and so he couldn't possibly tell his
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Speaker 1: fiance and his family that he didn't get this job,
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Speaker 1: and so he decided he would just lie and pretend
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Speaker 1: to go to this job every day. Meanwhile, Brett's mom
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Speaker 1: began bragging to all of her new neighbors about her
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Speaker 1: son Brett, who had really turned his life around.
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Speaker 2: He graduated from college.
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Speaker 1: You got this great job, he's got a beautiful fiance,
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Speaker 1: he's got this wonderful home. Everything is just going great
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Speaker 1: for Brett. At first, Brett was able to push the
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Speaker 1: guilt out of his subconscious and just live this ridiculous lie.
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Speaker 1: But as his wedding day approached, the weight of all
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Speaker 1: these lies and the guilty felt it became overwhelming, and
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Speaker 1: practically speaking, he was worried about how he would explain
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Speaker 1: to his new wife why he had no income despite
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Speaker 1: having this full time job. And so he went to
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Speaker 1: his mother and he told her the truth about dropping
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Speaker 1: out of college, about not getting that job offer, and
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Speaker 1: then he said.
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Speaker 2: Can you keep all of this a secret?
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Speaker 1: And can you give me a whole bunch of money
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Speaker 1: so I can keep living this lie? And she said no,
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Speaker 1: And in fact, you need to tell your fiance that
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Speaker 1: you're lying, or I will. This was the worst case
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Speaker 1: scenario for Brett, and one that he was not prepared for.
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Speaker 1: He really thought his mom would be like, yep, let's
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Speaker 1: do it, let's keep this thing going. But when she didn't,
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Speaker 1: he didn't really know what to do. He believed if
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Speaker 1: Kristen found out the truth, she would leave him and
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Speaker 1: that would ruin his perfect life, and so he decided
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Speaker 1: he would not tell Kristin. Instead, he would kill his mother.
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Speaker 1: Because he was an ex con, he couldn't buy a firearm. However,
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Speaker 1: he could buy a crossbow, and so he ordered his crossbow.
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Speaker 1: He watched a couple of YouTube videos about how to
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Speaker 1: operate it, and then on one of his trips to
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Speaker 1: his mother's house to help out, he stashed the crossbow
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Speaker 1: and some arrows on a shelf in her garage. Then
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Speaker 1: when he got home, he began designing these bizarre contraptions
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Speaker 1: that were built out of fans and pulleys and broomsticks that,
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Speaker 1: when turned on, would move around the room and click
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Speaker 1: on his keyboard and turn his phone off and on.
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Speaker 1: It was designed to help him build an alibi when
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Speaker 1: he was out committing murder, his devices would be turning
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Speaker 1: on and off again, giving the impression that he was at.
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Speaker 2: Home the whole time.
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Speaker 1: On August twenty fifth, twenty seventeen, all his preparations were done.
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Speaker 1: He woke up early that morning and he began getting
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Speaker 1: ready for his fake job. At the same time, Kristin
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Speaker 1: was also getting ready for her real job. And then
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Speaker 1: at seven point thirty, when they were both ready to go,
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Speaker 1: they hopped in their respective cars and headed out for
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Speaker 1: the day, but Brett slowed down at the end of
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Speaker 1: the street and waited for Kristin to disappear around the corner.
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Speaker 1: Brett turned back went back into his house. He went
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Speaker 1: up to his room and turned on all of his
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Speaker 1: bizarre alibi contraptions that he made sure were turning off
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Speaker 1: and on his devices correctly. And after a while, once
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Speaker 1: he was confident these devices would work, he hopped in
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Speaker 1: his car and he drove over to his mother's house.
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Speaker 2: He got there around ten am.
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Speaker 1: He walked inside and his mother was sitting in the kitchen,
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Speaker 1: and he approached her about changing her mind about telling
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Speaker 1: the truth to Kristin. But his mother was staunch and
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Speaker 1: she said, no, I'm going to tell her before your
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Speaker 1: wedding unless you do. And so their exchange got really heated,
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Speaker 1: and before long his mother actually called one of his
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Speaker 1: older brothers, Chris, to come to her house and talk
17:37
Speaker 1: to Brett to diffuse this situation. Brett was furious and
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Speaker 1: stormed out of the kitchen. He grabbed the door that
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Speaker 1: led into the garage and he stormed in to try
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Speaker 1: to get his crossbow off the shelf, but his mother
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Speaker 1: followed after him. Now, the crossbow had not been loaded
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Speaker 1: when he put it up on that shelf, and Brett
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Speaker 1: was not very good at loading it and it would
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Speaker 1: take several seconds to actually do it. So he's thinking
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Speaker 1: to himself when I pull that down and begin loading it.
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Speaker 1: She's going to see the weapon, and she's going to
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Speaker 1: run outside before I can get to her. And so
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Speaker 1: when he reached up, he didn't grab the crossbow. He
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Speaker 1: grabbed the arrows and in a swift motion, he pulled
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Speaker 1: them down, regripped them like a knife, faced his mother
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Speaker 1: and began.
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Speaker 2: Attacking her viciously.
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Speaker 1: She fell backwards and a shelf actually landed on top
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Speaker 1: of her, pinning her to the ground, at which point
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Speaker 1: Brett seized the opportunity. He got up, grabbed a piece
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Speaker 1: of nylon.
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Speaker 2: He wrapped it.
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Speaker 1: Around her neck, and he suffocated her. As soon as
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Speaker 1: she was dead, Brett pulled her out from under the
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Speaker 1: shelf and dragged her to the side of the garage.
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Speaker 1: He put the shelf back up, and then he began
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Speaker 1: loading his crossbow. Because he knew Chris, his older brother
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Speaker 1: that his mother had called, was going to be here soon,
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Speaker 1: and so he hid behind the door inside of the
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Speaker 1: garage and just waited, and at some point he heard
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Speaker 1: Chris's car pull into the driveway. Chris walked into the house.
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Speaker 1: He yelled for his mom. He yelled for Brett, but
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Speaker 1: he didn't get her response, and Eventually, Chris made his
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Speaker 1: way to the open door leading into the garage. He
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Speaker 1: stepped inside, and as soon as he did, Brett silently
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Speaker 1: got up behind him, and he fired one shot directly
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Speaker 1: into the back of his neck, killing him.
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Speaker 2: In stead, Brett took.
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Speaker 1: Chris's body and piled it on top of his mother's
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Speaker 1: and as he was putting a tarp over top of them,
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Speaker 1: he heard another car pulling into the driveway. It was
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Speaker 1: his younger brother Aj. Now at this point Brett knows
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Speaker 1: he is in too deep and he has to finish
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Speaker 1: the job, and so he doesn't have time to load
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Speaker 1: his crossbow, and so again he just grabs one of
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Speaker 1: the arrows and he walks outside and he sees Aj
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Speaker 1: getting out of his car, and he runs up to
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Speaker 1: him and he jabs the arrow into his brother's neck.
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Speaker 1: So they're fighting in the driveway. Meanwhile, Brett's other brother, Lee,
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Speaker 1: who's actually in the house sleeping, he wakes up to
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Speaker 1: the sound of this commotion outside in the driveway. He
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Speaker 1: looks out the window and he sees his brother's fighting,
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Speaker 1: and so he runs downstairs and he comes outside and
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Speaker 1: at this point Aj is laying on the ground and
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Speaker 1: he's basically motionless, and Brett is standing over him, and
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Speaker 1: Brett turns and he sees Lee in the doorway and
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Speaker 1: he runs off after him. Lee sees his brother running
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Speaker 1: at him and just turns and runs into the house,
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Speaker 1: but he only gets a few feet before Brett jumps
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Speaker 1: on top of them, and then the two of them
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Speaker 1: have this vicious fight where Brett is trying to stab
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Speaker 1: with the arrows and they're basically both fighting for their lives,
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Speaker 1: and at some point, after Lee suffered several very deep cuts,
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Speaker 1: he manages to throw Brett off of him and he
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Speaker 1: runs outside to his brother, Aj, who's now crawled all
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Speaker 1: the way to the street, and in fact, Aj had
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Speaker 1: managed to flag down a neighbor and got his neighbor
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Speaker 1: to call the police.
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Speaker 2: As for Brett, after Lee.
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Speaker 1: Had managed to fight him off and ran outside, he
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Speaker 1: knew he was done, and so instead of chasing his
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Speaker 1: brother outside, he put his arrow down and he walked
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Speaker 1: into the kitchen. He opened up the fridge, he took
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Speaker 1: a bottle of water out. He left the fridge door
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Speaker 1: open and just walked out to the front steps and
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Speaker 1: sat down and drank his water while.
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Speaker 2: He waited for police to show up.
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Speaker 1: When they did arrive, his brother Aj died before they
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Speaker 1: could save him. As police were arresting Brett, he kind
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Speaker 1: of casually said, yeah, I should have taken Aj to
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Speaker 1: the hospital. I could have saved him. And the other
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Speaker 1: guys in the garage are dead. Crossbow to the head.
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Speaker 2: It was me.
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Speaker 1: In court, Brett was extremely remorseful and pled guilty to
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Speaker 1: all of his charges. The judge told Brett that he
20:56
Speaker 1: was appreciative of the fact that he was taking the
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Speaker 1: full ownership of his heinous crime times and that in
21:01
Speaker 1: many ways he was a victim too, a victim of
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Speaker 1: this huge web of lies that Brett just couldn't get
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Speaker 1: out from under. But nonetheless, Brett was given three consecutive
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Speaker 1: life terms, one for each of the murders he committed.
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Speaker 1: The only surviving family member, Lee, the brother who was
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Speaker 1: attacked last and managed to run outside and escape Brett.
21:18
Speaker 1: He said that his life was shattered that day and
21:21
Speaker 1: that he can barely go outside because of his extreme
21:23
Speaker 1: post traumatic stress.
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