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first responders. Whether you are

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past, you are appreciated. It

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appreciate every single one of you.

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granted. So thank you. Welcome

1:47

weirdos. I'm Darren Marlar, and

1:49

this is weird darkness. Here

1:51

you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural.

1:55

Legends, lore, the

1:57

strange and bizarre, crime,

2:00

conspiracy, mysterious unsolved

2:04

and unexplained. Coming

2:06

up in this hour. In

2:08

Australia's infamous now abandoned

2:11

institution, physical punishment was

2:13

replaced with psychological torture.

2:16

And since the living souls

2:18

have been placed with undead

2:20

ones. Ghost are

2:22

spooky, but zombies are

2:24

even worse. But what if you came

2:26

across a ghost zombie?

2:29

That is exactly the terror Skandinavian

2:31

Vikings had to deal with. Can

2:34

you raise someone in a way to create a

2:36

phobia within them? Sure.

2:39

That would be cruel and inhumane to

2:41

do, but is it possible? That's

2:43

what a couple of behaviorists wanted to

2:45

find out. And so they went about

2:47

studying on it by experimenting

2:50

on a real, live, tiny

2:52

child. And did a woman

2:54

accidentally kill her husband because

2:57

of a bug's bunny cartoon or

2:59

was it murder? It's the bizarre

3:02

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From eighteen thirty three until eighteen

4:02

seventy seven, the convicts settlement

4:04

of Port Arthur Australia some

4:07

of Britain's most hardened criminals.

4:10

Located on the island of Tasmania off

4:12

Australia's southern coast, the

4:14

outpost was built as an inescapable

4:17

prison due to its high security,

4:19

natural defenses, and total

4:22

isolation. Port

4:24

Arthur also played host to

4:26

separate prison. An infamous

4:28

institution where physical punishment was

4:30

replaced with psychological discipline.

4:33

Prisoners were identified by number,

4:35

they wore hoods while in each other's company

4:38

and sometimes spent days

4:40

without seeing light or hearing

4:42

a sound. It's no wonder

4:44

then that an asylum stood next

4:46

door and a nearby island known

4:48

as the isle of the dead served as

4:50

a prison burial ground for more

4:52

than a thousand souls. In

4:55

its day, separate prison was not seen

4:57

as barbaric In fact, it was

4:59

believed to be enlightened. The

5:02

institution's design stemmed from

5:04

English philosopher Jeremy Benthem's

5:06

theory of the Panopticon. A

5:08

building that allowed all inmates to

5:10

be observed at once by a single

5:12

watchman. In the case of a

5:14

separate prison, this resulted in a

5:16

cross shaped building that allowed WATCHMAN

5:18

at the core to see down

5:20

each wing. Corporal

5:22

punishment was viewed as counterproductive

5:25

at separate at prison, serving

5:27

only to harden criminals rather

5:29

than rehabilitate them. Instead,

5:31

inmates were kept in line with forced

5:33

social, visual auditory

5:35

isolation. The institution

5:38

used the Silent System in

5:40

which all inmates remained quiet

5:42

at all times and wore

5:44

hoods or masks when not in

5:46

their cells. In theory,

5:48

this was intended to give prisoners time

5:50

to reflect upon their crimes. In

5:52

actuality, however, it had

5:54

far darker consequences. Many

5:58

inmates reportedly developed mental illnesses

6:00

from the seclusion while others

6:02

are said to have committed the capital offense

6:04

of murder in order to escape

6:06

incarceration via the death penalty.

6:09

All prisoners who died at Port

6:11

Arthur were sent to the isle of the

6:13

dead. Reportedly, one

6:15

thousand six hundred forty six

6:17

bodies are buried on the tiny land

6:19

mass. Of that number, only

6:21

one hundred eighty graves. Those

6:23

of prison staff and military

6:25

personnel are marked. The

6:28

waters that hemmed in Port Arthur

6:30

were said to be infested with sharks,

6:32

and the only way to reach the mainland

6:34

was to travel along a narrow peninsula

6:37

guarded by soldiers, traps,

6:39

and half starved dogs. One

6:42

prisoner named Martin Cash famously

6:44

escaped by swimming across the bay to

6:46

his freedom. He later wrote

6:48

about the escape in his eighteen seventy

6:50

autobiography the Adventures of

6:52

Martin Cash, which became the bestseller

6:54

in Australia. Another

6:57

prisoner was not so lucky. George

6:59

Billy Hunt attempted to

7:01

escape by disguising himself as a kangaroo

7:04

using a kangaroo belt. Unfortunately

7:07

for Billy, the guards were kept on

7:09

meager rations and they shot at the

7:11

apparent animal in order to supplement

7:13

their diet. Billie

7:15

survived the gunfire, throwing off the

7:17

pellet and giving himself up. He

7:20

received a hundred and fifty lashes

7:22

for the attempt. In

7:24

eighteen seventy seven, Port Arthur was

7:26

abandoned as a prison site,

7:28

at which points many of the correctional

7:30

buildings slipped into decay.

7:33

A set of fires from eighteen ninety five

7:35

and eighteen ninety seven furthered

7:38

this destruction. Locals

7:40

eager to move on from the region's

7:42

dark beginnings were happy to see

7:44

the site crumble. In

7:46

nineteen ninety six, Port Arthur added

7:48

a tragic quota to its tail,

7:51

when Martin Bryant opened fire on

7:53

tourists visiting the area. Bryant

7:56

killed thirty five people and

7:58

wounded more than twenty more. The

8:00

Port Arthur massacre was one of the deadliest

8:03

killings in the world, perpetrated

8:05

by a lone gunman and led

8:07

to stricter gun laws across Australia.

8:10

Today, Port Arthur and the ruins of separate

8:13

prison are controlled by the national

8:15

parks and wildlife service and

8:17

remain one of Australia's most

8:19

haunting tourist attractions The

8:21

land surrounding the prison is

8:23

beautiful, making the dark events

8:26

that occurred there, all the more chilling.

8:29

Ghost tours are available in the evenings

8:31

and stories are told of cells

8:33

that still echo with ghostly

8:35

screams. Rock king chairs

8:37

that move on their own, and eerie

8:39

lights flickering from

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the isle of the dead. When

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someone dies, they leave this

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world, and depending on your beliefs, they

11:48

either move on or they're

11:50

just gone. While all

11:52

deaths are tragic, there are some that

11:54

it harder than others such

11:57

as murder or suicide. Some

11:59

people die having left something unfinished.

12:02

Often we hear of the dead with unfinished

12:04

business returning as ghosts.

12:06

The concept of the dead returning

12:09

as zombies is also well

12:11

known. Though these cases leading

12:13

more towards virus outbreak

12:15

or other direct means. There

12:17

is one belief born from

12:19

Scandinavian Viking folklore though,

12:21

that combines the ghost and

12:23

the zombie into a single

12:25

entity, the Guying Ganher.

12:29

Guangher is a combination of the words

12:31

again, against, or

12:33

towards, and the word,

12:35

Ganher, which means foot or

12:37

walker. It means

12:39

walking again or walking

12:41

after death. This being is

12:43

said to have an entirely corporeal

12:45

form with no ghost like

12:47

qualities, yet behaves as a

12:49

vengeful spirit. The game

12:51

changer is often motivated by

12:53

revenge and it's extremely vicious

12:56

returning from beyond the grave to wreak havoc

12:58

and torment its family and

13:00

friends. In Swedish folklore, the

13:02

guy gang gangster appears to be nearly

13:05

identical to a person. The

13:07

guy gangbusters attacks in the dead of

13:09

night while their intended victim is

13:11

fast asleep. Their attack

13:13

is as simple as a pinch.

13:15

After which they flee the scene. The

13:18

pinch isn't so simple though.

13:20

Once awake, the victim will find a blue

13:22

spot on their skin where they were

13:24

pinched. Sickness, and

13:26

death would follow soon after.

13:29

It's believed that even the faintest

13:31

touch from a guy gander would

13:33

cause your skin to run. And

13:35

sloughed away as the infection would

13:37

travel straight to the heart. Many

13:40

of the symptoms caused by the touch of

13:42

a ghein ganger have been explained away over

13:44

the years, associating them to

13:46

real life diseases. After

13:49

all, the sloughing off of skin

13:51

could just be necrotizing fasciitis, which

13:54

occurs after an injury or simple

13:56

cut. The pinching based

13:58

disease could be the first sign of

14:00

cancer. Fear of the

14:02

dying gander led people to take

14:04

extreme precautions to make sure

14:06

they remained in their graves. A

14:08

tradition of piling stones or

14:10

twigs called a warp would be

14:12

used to mark a place where someone

14:14

died. Anytime you

14:16

pass this place, you would need to throw

14:18

another stone or twig on the varp

14:20

to commemorate what had happened

14:22

there. Sometimes this would bring a

14:24

person luck while not doing

14:26

it could result in the opposite.

14:29

Bad luck in accidents. As

14:31

the Christian religion spread, the

14:33

precautions turned to painting a

14:35

cross or other symbols on the

14:37

coffin. Roussefixes and

14:39

Christian incantations would be used.

14:42

Even the tradition of carrying a

14:44

coffin three times around the church

14:46

before it could

14:46

be buried. In Icelandic sagas,

14:49

the ghein ganther exists among the

14:51

Greta's saga, Airbijia's

14:53

saga, the saga of Eric

14:55

the Red, In these tales, the

14:57

Guincher was a mortal creature as

14:59

illustrated by Gretyr, slaying the

15:01

Guincher glamour with his sword.

15:03

Is the Guincher real?

15:05

Does it still walk the earth today? Some

15:08

would say yes. What would

15:10

you say? Another

15:12

interesting piece of folklore comes out

15:14

of Ireland, the slua are

15:16

an Irish group of creatures most

15:18

commonly depicted as spey or

15:20

fairies gone wild. Most

15:23

believe them to be an otherworldly race

15:25

with no loyalty, no

15:27

mercy, and steelers of the immortal

15:29

souls of the living. Once

15:31

you human, these creatures or phantoms

15:33

were so evil that they were even

15:35

rejected from hell itself. They

15:37

come out at night, hunting,

15:40

taking on various forms from emaciated

15:42

beasts to a flock of ravens. Most

15:45

commonly, they take the shape of a gigantic

15:47

black bird with leathery wings

15:49

and disfigured legs. Regardless

15:52

of their shape, they always smell terrible,

15:55

like a rotting flesh of the deceased.

15:58

The sluok come out at night. They target

16:00

the weak, praying on those who are

16:02

sick or dying, but can

16:04

also attack the strong and healthy. If

16:06

you say their name, they will come

16:09

and there is no escape. However,

16:11

those with the broken heart or the depressed

16:13

are their victim of choice. Their

16:16

goal to devour

16:18

your soul. And just before

16:20

they do, they let out a blood curdling

16:23

screech, ensuring that this is the last

16:25

thing you hear before your soul

16:27

was ripped from your mortal body.

16:29

Stolen soul is then forced

16:31

to live forever as one

16:33

of the sluwa. You could

16:35

protect yourself from the sluwa,

16:37

knowing that they come from or

16:39

fly in from the west you should

16:41

always lock all doors and windows that

16:43

face in that direction and never

16:45

ever say their name.

16:48

Oh, Sorry

16:50

about that. Too late now, I

16:52

guess. I already said it.

16:54

But then again, I did ask you at the

16:56

beginning of the show to bolt your doors

16:58

and lock your windows. So

17:00

you're probably just

17:02

fine. Probably, I

17:05

hope. You you know what? You you might

17:07

wanna go double check though

17:09

you know, just in just in case.

17:17

In nineteen

17:22

twenty, behaviorist John

17:24

B wants and his eventual

17:26

wife, Rosalie Rainer, then a

17:28

graduate student studying under

17:30

him, set out to prove that they could

17:32

condition a child's feelings.

17:34

Specifically, they wanted to demonstrate their power

17:36

to engender ephobia within

17:38

a living being. Their

17:41

event was based on Padlov's conditioning

17:43

of

17:43

dogs, which implemented a

17:46

repetitive action in order to elicit a

17:48

desired response.

17:49

While Watson and Rainer did technically accomplish

17:51

their goal, they also clearly

17:53

yet inadvertently demonstrated the

17:55

need for ethics and psychological

17:58

studies. Their actions against

18:00

their subject, a baby known as

18:02

Little Albert, are now understood

18:04

to have been absorbent

18:06

riddled with ethical issues and

18:09

due to the researchers carelessness

18:11

determining the amount of damage they inflicted

18:13

is practically impossible. John

18:17

b Watson and his assistant,

18:19

Rosa Lee Rayner, instilled a

18:21

genuine and debilitating fear

18:23

of

18:23

white, furry objects in their subject,

18:26

a child known as Little Albert.

18:30

Watson wrote that he conditioned the child

18:32

by creating a loud noise

18:34

whenever Albert reached out to touch a white

18:35

rat, leading the boy to become

18:38

fearful of anything that looked remotely

18:40

similar to the

18:41

animal. Watson further wrote that the baby

18:43

became distressed whenever he saw

18:45

a rabbit, a dog or a

18:47

rudimentary Santa Claus mask with a

18:49

cotton ball beard. As

18:51

far as Watson could determine, the boy's

18:54

fear only extended to objects that

18:56

were both furry and

18:58

white.

18:58

Scientific experiment should record

19:01

objective observations and employ

19:03

multiple subjects as a

19:05

control group. Essentially, other

19:07

scientists should be able to step into a

19:09

laboratory and find similar

19:11

results. Rather than employing

19:13

these experimentation methods

19:15

though, Watson and Rainer carried out their experiment on

19:17

only one child without any

19:19

means to objectively evaluate

19:22

his reactions. In the

19:24

experiment, Watson and Rainer

19:26

introduced Albert to a small white

19:28

rat. Once Albert was comfortable

19:30

with the animal and began to reach out

19:32

for it, Watson struck a metal bar with a

19:34

hammer creating a loud noise.

19:36

Watson continued this cycle until

19:38

Albert was not only afraid to reach out

19:40

for the

19:41

creature, but was also afraid of the

19:43

rat itself.

19:44

Watson and Rainer concluded

19:46

that they could train Albert to fear the rat

19:48

by making noise. Though

19:51

his conclusion was far from

19:53

objective. Once Watson and

19:55

Rainer's experiment concluded, they failed

19:58

to any of the psychological damage they inflicted

20:00

upon Albert. Supposedly,

20:02

the duo didn't have time to extinguish

20:05

the child. Out fears because Albert's mother left

20:07

town the moment the study was finished.

20:09

Rather than reaching

20:10

out to Albert's mother, Watson

20:12

and Rainer assured their study's readers that Albert would

20:15

grow out of his

20:15

fear, thanks to his time in the rough and

20:18

tumble world.

20:20

According to Watson, the child used in the

20:22

little Albert experiment was a normal

20:25

docile child who could represent the

20:27

children of the world. Watson

20:30

wrote in nineteen twenty, Albert's

20:32

life was normal. He was healthy from

20:34

birth and one of the best developed

20:36

youngsters ever brought to the hospital. Weighing

20:38

twenty one pounds at nine months of age. He was

20:41

on the whole, solid, and unemotional.

20:43

His stability was one of the principal reasons

20:45

for using him a subject

20:47

in this

20:47

test. We

20:48

felt that we

20:49

could do him relatively little harm by carrying

20:51

out such experiments as those outlined

20:54

below.

20:57

We'll continue with a sad story

20:59

of Little Albert when weird darkness

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23:46

sad story of the Little Albert

23:49

experiment. Albert

23:53

likely wasn't as healthy as Watson

23:56

claimed. He may have even been

23:58

mentally

23:58

impaired. Modern researchers debate whether or not

24:01

Watson knew about Albert's possible

24:03

impairment, although some believe he

24:05

actually sought out a child with

24:07

infirmity. After the Little

24:09

Albert experiment, Watson went on to publish books

24:11

on child rearing, but he never

24:13

shared his research on the Little Albert

24:16

investigation. Before

24:18

Watson passed in nineteen fifty eight,

24:20

he burned all of his notes on the experiment,

24:23

limiting the possibility of anyone

24:25

tracking down the child at the center of

24:27

the analysis. No record

24:30

exists of Watson publishing any

24:32

additional information on the experiment

24:34

or discussing his role in the child's

24:36

condition. Modern scholars

24:38

believe Watson specifically chose a baby

24:40

for his experiment who was more passive

24:43

than active. One theory claims that

24:45

Albert suffered from a neurological disorder

24:47

and that in the film footage of the experiment,

24:49

he is alarmingly unresponsive.

24:52

Even if Albert did not have such

24:54

a disorder, he displayed antisocial

24:57

behavior. William Goldie, a

24:59

pediatric neurologist, studied the footage

25:01

in twenty wealth and noted that the child

25:03

barely acknowledges Watson or

25:05

Rainer. No evidence is provided

25:07

of mutual gaze or that Albert

25:09

sees Watson or his bonding to any of

25:11

Watson's specific actions. Albert's

25:13

temperament and behavior are not within

25:15

the normal range for his

25:17

age. And the abnormalities observed

25:19

on film cannot solely be attributed

25:21

to the hospital environment or the

25:23

physical context of

25:25

filming. One of the more unsettling

25:27

aspects of the little Albert experiment

25:29

is that the child and his mother may

25:31

not have been able to opt out of

25:34

the analysis. Whether or not

25:36

Albert's mother was provided an

25:38

opportunity to pull her child from the experiment is

25:40

unclear. Although, if

25:42

Watson is to be believed, she removed her baby from

25:44

observation and left town before

25:46

he could finish his research. The

25:48

fact that so many of the

25:50

experiment's details were

25:52

unclear, led scientific community to

25:54

seek out more ethical boundaries

25:56

in research. Although the

25:58

APA's code of ethics wasn't established until

26:01

nineteen fifty three, it firmly

26:03

states that psychologists should

26:05

avoid harm at all costs.

26:07

This basic guideline demonstrates

26:09

that the Little Albert experiment was not only

26:12

unethical, but also incredibly

26:15

dangerous. According to

26:17

the APA, Psychologists must

26:19

take reasonable steps to avoid

26:21

harming clients or

26:22

patients, students, supervisees, research

26:26

participants, organizational clients

26:28

and others with whom they work and to

26:30

minimize harm where it is foreseeable

26:32

and unavoidable. Even before the

26:35

APA established their code of ethics,

26:37

the emotional and psychological trauma

26:39

inflicted on Little Albert must

26:41

have left the scientific community

26:43

conflicted. Some have compared Watson's

26:45

means of instilling fear to tactics

26:47

used on inmates.

26:48

Not until nineteen forty

26:51

seven, was a set of ethical research principles created,

26:54

all of which contrasted with

26:56

Watson's methods for testing the

26:58

child. Following Watson's

27:01

experiment, not only did the scientific immunity

27:03

deem it improbable that a

27:05

scientist could gather specific results from a

27:07

psychological experiment, but

27:09

even social scientists were questioning

27:11

the amount of consent they needed in

27:13

order to conduct their research. One

27:16

theory as to why Albert's mother

27:18

allowed Watts to use her child in

27:20

this experiment is that she

27:22

worked at a hospital where the experiments

27:24

took place. Sung

27:26

claim that Albert's mother was a wet nurse at John Hopkins

27:28

Hospital, and she may have felt pressure

27:30

from her bosses to allow her young child

27:32

to be tested. While

27:34

this theory is possible, it is

27:37

unconfirmed, and the true identity of Albert's

27:39

mother is uncertain. Certain

27:41

facts Watson wrote into his paper weren't

27:44

reflected in the film he made of his

27:46

experiments. Not only

27:47

were some of Watson's details

27:49

modeled in the final paper, but some

27:51

of the facts were also blatantly

27:54

incorrect. In his paper,

27:56

Watson stated that the baby almost

27:58

fell off the research

27:59

table. However, the film clearly

28:01

shows that no table was

28:02

used. When Watson wrote about the

28:05

experiment later in life, many of the

28:07

details changed yet again. Bringing

28:09

the experiment even further into

28:11

question. Because Watson

28:13

burned his notes, the identity of

28:15

Little Albert has been lost to time.

28:18

Researchers have attempted to uncover his

28:20

identity, which has culminated in

28:22

two possibilities. Initially,

28:24

researchers believed that Little Albert was actually

28:26

a young man named Douglas Morete,

28:29

a child with hydrocephalus. Morete

28:32

passed at the age of six, and if he

28:34

was a little

28:35

Albert, Some believe the emotional stress suffered at the hands

28:37

of Watson and Rainer contributed

28:39

to his end.

28:40

However, in twenty fourteen, research

28:43

at McEwen University in Canada, posited

28:45

that little Albert was actually William

28:48

Albert

28:48

Barger, a man who lived into his

28:51

eighties.

28:52

The researchers claimed that barger was born during

28:54

the correct window of time. And while he

28:56

never spoke about the experiment, his

28:58

family claimed that he suffered from

29:00

a lifelong fear of

29:03

dogs. It

29:24

would be the first case where the bug's bunny

29:26

defense was used in a courtroom.

29:28

Around two fifty

29:30

PM, on April twenty sixth

29:32

two thousand seven, LA County Police

29:35

Department received a shocking 911

29:37

call. A

29:38

whittier area woman named Linda Duffy

29:41

mouths told the dispatcher that she had accidentally

29:43

shot her husband.

29:45

When police arrived at the hunk, they found fifty

29:47

year old Pat Duffy dead

29:49

on the couch. A large pool of blood beside him with

29:51

one spatter on the wall. Pat's

29:54

left hand was at his pants pocket, and his

29:56

right knee was supported by a

29:58

pillow due to circulation issues. It

30:00

looked like he had been sleeping.

30:02

However, Linda claimed that the two had been

30:04

joking around and speaking and

30:06

dueling Elmer Fun Voices when she

30:08

accidentally fired what she thought was an empty

30:11

gun. Linda was adamant the whole

30:13

thing was a horrible accident

30:15

and police believed her.

30:17

At first. The

30:21

combination of Linda Duffy Wautzen's

30:23

charm and lack of motive as well as

30:25

a heavy caseload for detectives

30:27

resulted in a five year gap between the

30:29

shooting and Linda's eventual

30:32

arrest. Despite being connected to

30:34

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30:36

ominous as details unfolded.

30:40

Linda Duffy

30:43

Gautz told police that her husband, Pat

30:45

Duffy, were playing a game when a

30:48

terrible accident occurred. Linda

30:50

had picked up one of Pat's revolvers

30:52

and jokingly said, no

30:54

more bullets in an Elmer Fudd

30:56

voice, which was not uncommon for the

30:58

couple who often morphed into

31:00

cartoon characters. So when

31:02

Pat allegedly replied no

31:04

more bullets in his own Elmer fought impression, Linda

31:07

fired what she thought was an empty gun

31:09

in a fan fire motion similar

31:11

to what's depicted in old westerns. It

31:13

was at that moment that Linda shot Pat in

31:15

the head, killing him. A

31:18

frantic Linda called nine eleven and

31:20

admitted that she had accidentally shot

31:22

Pat and a year's long investigation into what really

31:24

happened between Linda and Pat on

31:26

the fateful April day ensued.

31:29

In addition to being a radio engineer and

31:32

private pilot, Pat Duffy

31:34

was also an avid gun

31:36

enthusiast. In fact, Linda told authorities

31:38

that Pat had planned to go to the shooting

31:40

range the day he died. However,

31:42

Linda did not have the same interest

31:45

in guns. During her interview with she

31:47

stated, I'm not really familiar with

31:49

guns. I'm not afraid of them, but I've never

31:51

shot a gun in my

31:53

life. While it's not unreasonable

31:55

to believe Linda wouldn't share

31:57

Pat's hobby, this statement would come

31:59

back to haunt her as police

32:02

continued their investigation. In

32:04

fact, her familiarity with guns would come

32:06

into question following Pat's autopsy,

32:08

where the medical examiner determined

32:10

that Pat had been shot in the head

32:13

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32:13

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32:14

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35:14

the Bugs Bunny Murder

35:17

Defense. Detectives, Shannon Laren,

35:21

and Sean McCarthy, were

35:23

assigned to investigate Pat

35:26

Duffy's death. Laren says he didn't believe Linda's story about

35:28

accidentally shooting her husband.

35:30

But McCarthy struggled to find a

35:32

motive for Linda to commit

35:34

the murder. However,

35:36

as the investigation advanced, McCarthy

35:38

would find it increasingly difficult

35:40

to believe Linda's story. During

35:43

her first interview with detectives, Laren and

35:46

McCarthy, Linda explained she had

35:48

shot patch revolver in a fan

35:50

fire style that involved holding

35:52

down the trigger while rapidly depressing

35:54

the hammer in order to quickly fire

35:56

multiple shots. The shot Linda

35:58

described is typically done using

36:00

a single action revolver, and Pat Duffy did own

36:02

two such guns. However,

36:04

Linda had used his double action

36:06

revolver in the

36:08

fatal shooting. Firearms

36:10

expert, Tracy Pack, conducted an

36:12

exhaustive study where she used the

36:14

same gun and ammunition that Linda

36:16

did to recreate the shooting sequence she

36:19

described and found it to

36:21

be nearly

36:21

impossible, especially for someone who

36:24

claimed to know little

36:26

about guns. Peck

36:26

noted that the sound and recoil of the gun would have

36:28

also stopped Linda from firing a

36:31

second shot. Detective McCarthy

36:34

said that when this information was presented to Linda, she

36:36

had a light bulb moment

36:38

and changed her

36:39

story. Instead of

36:40

saying that she never fired a gun

36:43

in her life, Chanel told authorities that she had been practicing

36:45

fan shooting with Pat for

36:47

years, using an unloaded gun and

36:49

was trying to show off her skills when

36:51

she accidentally

36:53

shot him. According to Linda, Pat leaned

36:56

forward as the first shot rang out and she

36:58

couldn't stop shooting in time to miss

37:00

his head. When

37:02

Linda initially informed Pat's siblings about his death,

37:04

she told them that Pat had accidentally shot

37:07

himself while cleaning one

37:09

of his

37:10

guns. Pat's siblings couldn't understand how their brother

37:12

could have shot himself since they'd grown

37:14

up with guns in their home.

37:17

Pat and his siblings had apparently been taught to empty their

37:20

guns before entering their home.

37:22

So the idea that Pat was cleaning a

37:24

loaded gun

37:26

seemed off. Pat's

37:28

sister, Kathy Hunt, met with Linda

37:30

at the funeral home the following day and

37:32

asked Linda where Pat had

37:34

shot himself. But says that when Linda tapped the top of her head

37:36

to indicate where Pat had been

37:38

shot, she knew something

37:40

was wrong. Linda

37:42

what really happened, and Linda told

37:44

her the Elmer Fudd story.

37:46

I couldn't quite understand why she had lied,

37:49

unstated on forty eight hours, though Linda

37:51

said it was because she thought Pat's family

37:53

would hate her for

37:56

shooting it. After Linda's initial interview in April two thousand

37:58

seven, she wasn't interviewed again until

38:00

early two thousand nine when

38:02

McCarthy

38:03

and Lauren drove by her home and noticed it for sale

38:06

sign. The detectives

38:06

soon discovered that Linda was set to

38:09

marry a famous Saxophone player

38:11

named Lawrence Welch. Whom

38:13

she had met online. Linda had

38:16

already moved to Mississippi where

38:18

Dolores was a music professor, and the

38:20

two were planning a honeymoon in Italy

38:22

following their wedding. Those

38:24

close to Linda noticed she had dyed

38:26

her hair blonde and started dressing

38:28

differently once she began seeing

38:29

Lawrence, not long after

38:32

Pat's death. Police were not

38:34

the only ones who thought it strange how

38:36

quickly Linda had moved

38:37

on. When Linda asked her longtime

38:40

friend Julie Pendergast to

38:42

sing at the wedding, she declined

38:44

due to these circumstances surrounding

38:46

Pat's death. As Pat

38:48

Duffy's death began to be reinvestigated,

38:51

Blood spatter expert, Paul Delhaize,

38:53

was brought in to look at the

38:55

scene, even examining the couch on which

38:57

Pat Duffy died. While Linda had told authorities that she

38:59

had fired rapidly from the same spot,

39:02

Delhaize determined that Linda must have

39:04

changed positions while firing

39:06

the revolver. In

39:08

fact, Delhaize determined that the revolver would have only

39:10

been three inches from Pat's head

39:12

when the first shot was fired.

39:15

Which created blood spatter on the walls as

39:17

well as Linda's clothes. The

39:19

second shot was responsible for the large

39:21

pool of blood next to Pat, which is

39:23

where Linda initially told detectives she had been

39:26

standing. Delhaize told forty

39:28

eight hours that jets of

39:30

blood would have been hitting Linda if she had been

39:32

standing where she said she was. But

39:34

McCarthy and confirmed that

39:36

she had very little blood

39:38

on her.

39:39

Delauro theorized Linda shot Pat

39:41

once while he was sleeping, then

39:43

fired the second shot when

39:45

he woke up. After nearly two years, the case

39:47

had suddenly turned into a murder

39:50

investigation. With blood spatter

39:52

analysis pointing towards murder, investigators

39:56

began interviewing Linda's friends

39:58

from Whittier to get a sense of her

40:00

character. McCarthy and Lauren

40:02

began noticing a pattern with people

40:04

had about Linda. She would start

40:06

out incredibly charming, but would

40:08

eventually turn out to be a

40:10

compulsive liar. Linda's

40:12

longtime friend, Julie Prendergast,

40:14

even said, Linda claimed to

40:16

have had her gallbladder removed on three

40:20

different occasions. Even though the human body only has one

40:22

gallbladder. Prendergast added that

40:24

Linda always needed to be the center of

40:26

attention. to

40:28

put it, you either really, really

40:30

liked Linda or you really

40:32

thought, wow, she cannot be

40:35

trusted. Following the findings of the second blood spatter

40:38

analysis and interviews with Linda's

40:40

friends, Sean McCarthy decided that

40:42

Linda needed to

40:44

be prosecuted. The detective

40:46

flew to Mississippi where Linda told

40:48

McCarthy she thought the investigation was

40:50

over. It was at that point that detective

40:53

McCarthy arrested Linda for the murder of her

40:55

late husband. Linda would have to stand trial

40:56

for Pat's death a full five years after

40:59

the two thousand seven shooting.

41:01

prosecutor for the case, deputy district attorney

41:04

Robert Villa, said that there was a

41:06

zero percent chance Pat's death was

41:08

an accident. Beelah's belief

41:10

would turn out to be more difficult to

41:12

prove than he thought.

41:14

Linda's attorney cited the bug's bunny

41:16

cartoon Linda had referenced the day of

41:18

the murder. And prosecutor

41:20

Robert Villa said it was the first time in

41:22

his twenty seven year career that he

41:24

had seen a defense rely on

41:26

a cartoon. As it turned out

41:28

the jury could not reach a

41:30

verdict. After one day of deliberation,

41:32

they were

41:34

hopelessly deadlocked. In a second trial, the prosecution gave the jury

41:36

the bare facts of the case and

41:38

left out Linda's initial interview

41:40

with the

41:42

police. The second jury deliberated for just one day before

41:44

finding Linda Guilty a second degree

41:46

murder. When describing Linda

41:50

Duffy Quouts, detective Sean

41:52

McCarthy stated, that night,

41:54

I liked her. As the investigation went

41:55

on, I liked her a

41:58

lot

41:58

less. As

41:59

with friends and family. Investigators and

42:01

the prosecution maintained that

42:03

Linda could not be trusted to

42:05

tell the truth. When

42:07

Linda's guilty verdict was read, she

42:09

burst into tears. Pat Duffy's

42:12

sister Kathy noted that it was the first

42:14

time she had ever really seen

42:16

Linda

42:16

cry. Linda even

42:18

collapsed as she was escorted out of

42:20

the courtroom by police and had to be

42:22

wheeled out in an

42:23

office When asked

42:24

about the incident, deputy district attorney Robert Villas

42:27

said, I've always thought she was an

42:29

actress, so that was

42:31

her moment. In September twenty sixteen,

42:34

Linda appealed her conviction in which

42:36

she was sentenced to forty years to life

42:38

in prison.

42:39

Linda said that

42:40

none of her initial statements from two thousand seven

42:42

were played in court, which led

42:44

to an unfair, guilty verdict. However,

42:47

a panel of three appellate court justices

42:50

upheld the verdict, stating that

42:52

Linda failed to take the necessary steps to

42:54

preserve this issue for

42:56

appellate

42:56

review. One of the issues

42:58

that left the original jury deadlocked was

43:00

a lack of motive for Linda to

43:03

murder Pat Duffy.

43:04

The couple was known to have a happy marriage, and there was never any

43:06

reports of domestic disputes. Pat

43:08

did have a three hundred thousand

43:11

dollar life insurance policy but

43:13

the policy had been taken out years before he

43:15

was shot by Linda. Even

43:18

deputy district attorney Robert Villa

43:20

admitted, she never expressed what the

43:22

motive

43:22

was. She said that he was

43:24

her best friend.

43:24

The only possible motive was Linda Sphere that she might

43:26

have to care for an ailing pet.

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48:11

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a seasoned paranormal investigator described

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what they heard in

48:18

an abandoned

48:19

asylum. We'll also take a look

48:21

at a few asylum that are said

48:23

to be creeping, so

48:26

haunted that you would never want to be locked in

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there, day or night.

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if we have time, A

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Kansas City, Missouri on January second nineteen

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50:07

me into the weird darkness. The

50:14

story I'm about to

50:16

share with you was

50:18

written by Purinormal investigator and

50:21

author John Dean MEMS. And you

50:23

know that if it chilled him to

50:25

the

50:25

bunk, it had to be

50:27

something particularly

50:29

eerie. It is rare

50:33

to experience paranormal phenomenon

50:35

and it's even

50:38

rarer to experience at multiple times in the same

50:39

location. I am

50:41

one of

50:42

the fortunate few to hold that

50:45

distinction. It happened

50:47

in an old abandoned sanatorium.

50:49

The dark

50:50

hallways in the rooms frozen in

50:52

time from a primitive medical era

50:55

were enough put hackles on any man's

50:58

neck. However, to know that you were

51:00

not alone in that

51:02

darkness, took it to a

51:04

completely new

51:05

level of fear.

51:06

The first time I was

51:08

at this location, we picked up the image

51:10

of a little girl on a flyer,

51:12

a forward looking infrared radiometer

51:15

thermal camera. She was

51:17

just dancing in the hallway.

51:19

According to the camera, her temperature

51:21

was much lower than

51:23

the air's temperature. Several of us walked out to where she

51:25

was and experienced extreme cold when

51:28

we passed through

51:29

her. After several minutes of

51:31

observation, she vanished through

51:34

a wall Fast forward about four

51:36

months, we traveled back to

51:38

that sanatorium. I was with

51:40

the group in

51:42

the exact same location in the hallway, doing an EVP,

51:44

an electronic voice phenomenon

51:46

session. We didn't see or

51:48

hear

51:49

anything But the next morning, I received the

51:52

shock of my life.

51:54

We

51:54

picked up the sound of a little girl

51:56

singing and moving around. At

52:00

the end of the recording, you

52:02

can hear her call playfully. I'm down in this room.

52:46

Six months later, a group

52:48

returned to the sanitarium for a joint

52:50

investigation with a group

52:52

in Texas

52:54

We arrived at the sanatorium and unloaded our equipment.

52:56

Soon after

52:57

that, we received a call from the Texas

53:00

group saying that they

53:02

were lost. The three other

53:04

members of our group drove into town

53:06

to meet the others and to lead them out to the

53:08

site. As the

53:10

technical manager, I was designated to stay behind and watch the

53:12

equipment. I was not completely

53:14

comfortable with this idea,

53:16

but I was not going to be

53:18

a sissy so I

53:20

agreed. The equipment was

53:22

in one of the few rooms with power in

53:24

the building. It also happened to be directly

53:27

below the floor where we had experienced

53:29

the little

53:29

girl. It was a dark

53:32

stairwell right beside the door to the

53:34

conference room.

53:35

It

53:35

led to the dusty, pitch black floors

53:38

above. The others have

53:39

been

53:39

gone about ten minutes when I heard a

53:42

scream of agony come from

53:44

above me.

53:44

I froze,

53:45

listening, and then slowly walked to

53:47

the door. The instant I

53:49

stepped into the

53:50

hallway, I heard it again. To

53:54

describe it with words is very difficult to do.

53:57

The voice sounded close yet at

53:59

the same time so

54:02

far away. most

54:04

pitiful and horrifying cry

54:06

I had ever heard. The

54:08

voice was female, but that all

54:11

I could tell. It could have been a

54:13

little girl or it could have been a

54:15

grown

54:15

woman. The incredible agony

54:18

in the voice masked the age.

54:21

I retreated into the room

54:23

and awaited the return of the others

54:25

with a hammering

54:25

heart. It

54:26

was the longest thirty minutes

54:29

of my life. Later that same

54:30

evening, I was leading a group on an investigation

54:32

of the building. We were on the

54:34

same floor where the other occurrences happen

54:37

I carried the

54:38

thermal camera as we hoped to catch a

54:40

glimpse of the little girl again. Everyone

54:44

assembled in a semicircle in

54:46

front of so they could see the

54:48

screen. We'd not stopped for long when I felt someone

54:50

grab my elbow from behind,

54:53

yanking me backwards. I knew

54:56

everyone in my group was in front, so

54:58

my first assumption was that someone

55:00

else had snuck up beside me to

55:02

play a

55:02

prank. When I turned however, I

55:05

realized that no one was there. I had a

55:07

sudden realization that my elbow was

55:09

numb with cold, It

55:11

was as if I had stuck it in a deep

55:13

breeze. We

55:14

quickly retreated to the equipment room

55:16

where my elbow was analyzed with

55:19

the thermal camera. It was fifteen

55:22

degrees colder than the rest of my

55:23

arm. I had

55:24

a few other experiences in my

55:26

tenure as a paranormal researcher but

55:31

none so compelling as the sanatorium. Author

55:39

and paranormal researcher John D. MEMS, he did not tell

55:41

us at which particular abandoned

55:43

asylum he had

55:45

his terrifying experience. But

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it wouldn't surprise me if it's one of the five that

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Author and paranormal researcher John Dean MEMS, he didn't

57:24

tell us at which particular abandoned asylum

57:27

he had his terrifying experience, but I'm guessing

57:29

it might have been one of

57:32

these. A

57:33

favorite location of modern horror movies and television shows, insane

57:36

asylums, have captured our

57:38

imaginations for

57:40

ages. They terrify us, but we can't seem to get enough these

57:42

mysteries surrounding them. Many of

57:44

the most famous mental institutions have

57:48

sorted histories. With

57:50

famous patients, terrifying ghosts, and scads of

57:53

abuse. Abandoned asylums have become

57:55

popular tourist spots, but one thing

57:57

is for certain. You

57:59

don't want to be caught stuck inside

58:02

any of these asylum's walls when

58:04

night rolls

58:04

around, or even during

58:07

the daytime.

58:07

Located just a few miles from

58:10

downtown LA, Rancho Los

58:12

Amigos asylum was originally

58:14

created in eighteen eighty eight

58:16

to assist people living in they can work in

58:18

exchange for care from the local government.

58:21

Over time, the

58:23

grounds were extended. And the

58:25

space evolved into a

58:27

hospital. Eventually, it grew to include

58:30

a mental hospital. Though the

58:32

hospital itself is still

58:34

in use, that moved to another location. In the

58:36

nineteen fifties, it began to shut down the

58:38

warts, including the

58:40

mental hospital. Along

58:42

the way, some gruesome secrets were discovered.

58:45

In two thousand six, during

58:47

a training exercise, Marines uncovered

58:49

a freezer in

58:52

the moored And inside, they found mummified and

58:54

amputated limbs and brain tissue

58:56

samples that were left behind from when the

58:58

hospital was

59:00

abandoned. Criedmoor psychiatric

59:04

hospital opened in nineteen

59:06

twelve as the farm colony of Brooklyn

59:08

State Hospital and is still

59:10

running in

59:10

Queens, New

59:10

York. There are some places that have been abandoned

59:13

to rot. Most notably,

59:15

Building twenty five, which the hospital

59:18

ceased using in nineteen seventy

59:20

five. This ward gained

59:22

its reputation from a series of

59:24

reports documenting brutal treatments

59:26

of patients. In the nineteen seventies, rumors began to

59:28

emerge about an abundance of patient

59:30

abuse, including sexual assault,

59:32

murders, suicides, and beatings.

59:36

In

59:37

nineteen eighty four, a nurse's aid hit a patient in the throat

59:39

with a black jacket. The man,

59:41

Robert Barnaghus, was restrained in a straight

59:43

jacket at the time. And

59:45

died due to asphyxiation. The aid

59:48

had crushed his throat.

59:50

Shortly after the asylum was closed

59:53

for good, Intrepid explorers still explore

59:55

building twenty five, which is now covered

59:57

in pigeon excrement and filled

59:59

with detriment from its

1:00:02

former

1:00:02

days. And maybe even a few ghosts.

1:00:04

Built

1:00:04

in eighteen seventy four

1:00:07

and originally intended for

1:00:09

attending two tuberculosis patients,

1:00:12

Athen's lunatic asylum in Athens Ohio

1:00:14

housed patients far over its capacity

1:00:16

for most of its functioning years.

1:00:19

This overcrowding caused the care for each

1:00:22

patient to decrease until the hospital

1:00:24

began abusing

1:00:26

its patients. Athens, also called The Bridges, is

1:00:28

notable because of its famed

1:00:30

physician, doctor

1:00:32

Walter Jackson. Dr.

1:00:34

Jackson was a big fan of the trans orbital lobotomy, calling

1:00:36

it the cure all for

1:00:39

every mental

1:00:40

illness. He performed over

1:00:42

two hundred lobotomies during his time

1:00:44

there. While there were hundreds of deaths

1:00:46

when the hospital was open, the most

1:00:48

famous is that of Margaret Schilling. She

1:00:51

went missing while on the

1:00:53

ward, and either no one noticed or

1:00:55

no one cared. Over

1:00:56

a month later, her body was found

1:00:58

in a locked room in an abandoned part

1:01:00

of the tuberculosis ward. Her body

1:01:03

left a gruesome stain on the ward

1:01:05

floor that can still be

1:01:08

seen today. Opened

1:01:10

to ease the overpopulation of the

1:01:12

other two mental hospitals in Newtown, Deerfield

1:01:15

Hills State Hospital quickly became

1:01:18

overcrowded itself and resorted

1:01:20

to unconventional methods of treating its

1:01:22

patients. Aside from the

1:01:24

then normal automase and thorazine prescriptions,

1:01:27

this hospital became known for its

1:01:29

use of hydrotherapy. Now you're thinking

1:01:31

that's not so bad, right? Well,

1:01:33

not exactly. Used as a

1:01:36

calming method, this treatment

1:01:38

involved patients being submerged in

1:01:40

ice water. Sometimes for

1:01:42

more than a full day. They

1:01:44

were not permitted out even to relieve

1:01:47

themselves. Many locals believe the remnants

1:01:49

of the Fairfield State Hospice little to

1:01:51

be haunted, especially the tunnels used to shuttle patients dead

1:01:54

and alive throughout the sprawling

1:01:56

campus.

1:01:57

Fairfield Hills, shut down in

1:02:00

nineteen ninety

1:02:01

five. And then,

1:02:02

there's the Trans Allegheny lunatic asylum

1:02:05

in Westin, West Virginia. Which

1:02:07

opened its doors in eighteen sixty four

1:02:10

just in time to begin admitting

1:02:12

soldiers from the

1:02:14

civil

1:02:14

war. At the time, there

1:02:16

was no understanding of shell shock or post traumatic stress. The doctors

1:02:18

treated their understandably traumatized

1:02:21

patients by doling out

1:02:24

lobotomies and other brutal tactics. During the century,

1:02:26

it was running thousands of patients

1:02:30

died there. Most were

1:02:32

buried in mass graves on the

1:02:34

grounds. Its most famous patient,

1:02:36

Charles Manson, lived there in the

1:02:38

latter years of the

1:02:40

hospital's functioning. After decades of mistreatment and abuse, Trans

1:02:42

Allegheny closed its doors in

1:02:44

nineteen ninety four. You can now

1:02:46

visit the

1:02:48

Trans Allegheny any with what

1:02:50

are their ghost tours. Maybe just don't stay overnight though.

1:03:00

While the

1:03:00

name may sound made up, I assure

1:03:02

you the tail is anything, but

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In Chicago, Illinois, on the south side of

1:03:07

the seventeen hundred block of West

1:03:10

Diversey Parkway, you will find

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residential

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condominiums. But it wasn't always that way.

1:03:16

Once that

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area was

1:03:17

home to a factory, a sausage

1:03:19

factory to be precise

1:03:22

and now home to the

1:03:24

sausage coast.

1:03:26

Adolf Luttgart moved to the

1:03:28

United States in the eighteen sixties from

1:03:30

his home country of

1:03:32

Germany. Starting in New York City, he stayed with his older brother

1:03:34

Henry, who had immigrated sometime before

1:03:36

him. A few months

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later, he picked up and moved to

1:03:40

Illinois where he

1:03:42

found work at a tannery, tanning being a skill that

1:03:44

he and his brothers had all learned from their

1:03:46

father. Work in pay

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were unsteady, so he took on

1:03:50

side jobs here

1:03:52

and He worked until he had saved up four thousand

1:03:54

dollars enough to start his own

1:03:56

business. Initially, Adolph opened

1:03:58

a liquor

1:04:00

store, but ultimately started the Luttgart sausage and

1:04:02

packing company. In time, he would

1:04:04

earn himself the nickname, sausage

1:04:06

king of

1:04:08

Chicago. He married twice. His first wife, Carolyn Repti,

1:04:10

with whom he had two sons,

1:04:12

died after just five years of marriage.

1:04:16

Two months later, he found himself buried again this time

1:04:18

to Louisa Bickney's. Together, they

1:04:20

had four children giving Adolf

1:04:23

a total of

1:04:24

six. Unfortunately,

1:04:26

only three of these children survived

1:04:28

beyond the age of two. Adolf

1:04:30

and Louisa

1:04:31

were known for being good natured

1:04:33

people. Their customers loved them and loved their

1:04:36

sausage even more. While

1:04:38

they were successful, things at

1:04:40

home weren't

1:04:42

so great. During the panic of eighteen ninety six, the couple

1:04:44

ran into money

1:04:45

problems. Adolf began

1:04:46

courting a rich widow who he

1:04:49

planned to marry. Only problem, he was

1:04:51

already married to Louisa. Louis Salute Kurt

1:04:54

disappeared. Adolph told their children

1:04:56

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When we left the story, on the night

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of her disappearance, Louisa was seen entering the

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sausage factory with her husband at

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around ten thirty pm. confirm that fact, but

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he could not account for

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what happened afterward.

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You see, Adolph had given him an errands to run

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and gave him the rest of the evening

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off. During their search,

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police found receipts, noting

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Adolph's purchase of arsenic and

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potash the day before

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Louisa

1:07:56

disappeared. All signs pointed to the husband.

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An employee suggested

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they look in the scheme vat in the

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cellar, which was used during the

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sausage making process. There,

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they found the vet half full with a reddish brown

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liquid. Pulling the plug revealed

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a slimy liquid

1:08:13

and even bones. Nearby, they found

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hair and clothing. The accounts of

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what truly happened to

1:08:19

Louisa Luttgart vary. And

1:08:22

there are two accepted beliefs. The

1:08:24

explanation given by police and

1:08:27

prosecutors says that she was

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murdered. Her body boiled in rye,

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then burned in a factory furnace. The more popular explanation is

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farm or grimm, and

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I'm sure you know where

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we're going with this. Rumors swirled throughout Chicago.

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Sausage sales decreased amid claims that the sausage king had

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killed his wife ground

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her up and sold her as sausage to

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unknowing customers. People reported that

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the quality of

1:08:53

their sausage had dropped significantly.

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People claimed they had found bone chips and hair in their

1:08:58

sausage. Some just said it tasted

1:09:00

funny. Eenov

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Luttgart was arrested and tried. The damning

1:09:05

evidence was Louis' ring.

1:09:07

If not for

1:09:08

that, he may have walked

1:09:10

free.

1:09:10

Instead, on

1:09:11

February ninth eighteen ninety eight, he

1:09:13

was found guilty and sentenced to

1:09:16

life

1:09:17

in prison. On July seventh eighteen ninety

1:09:19

nine, he was found dead in his cell.

1:09:21

The official cause of death being fatty degenerative

1:09:24

heart disease.

1:09:26

Since

1:09:26

her death, it's believed that Louisa

1:09:29

Luttgart still haunts the area. What

1:09:31

was once a factory

1:09:33

and now homes There have been

1:09:35

sightings up and down the street.

1:09:37

Though

1:09:37

she has

1:09:38

done no harm, she is

1:09:41

known as the sausage

1:09:43

ghost. While men have been known to kill

1:09:45

their wives, their method of hiding isn't

1:09:47

usually this creative, women

1:09:51

take the win on that. Just ask

1:09:53

Leonardo Chancui, the soap

1:09:55

maker. A

1:09:56

mother would do anything for

1:09:59

her son. It doesn't matter how old he gets. He'll always be her

1:10:01

baby boy. She's been there from

1:10:03

the beginning, first

1:10:06

to feed and care for watches kissing

1:10:08

his booboos. She watches as

1:10:10

he grows up, meets a

1:10:14

girl, gets married, starts a family of his own. Through

1:10:16

all of this, he is still her

1:10:18

little boy. So what would a mother

1:10:20

do when her son is about

1:10:23

to head off to

1:10:24

war? Whatever it takes to

1:10:26

keep him safe. In nineteen thirty

1:10:27

nine, Leonardoichi and Julie learned that

1:10:29

her eldest son and

1:10:31

favorite child, Youssepe, was

1:10:34

going to join the Italian army in preparation for

1:10:36

World War two. Just as many

1:10:38

Italians at the time, he believed he

1:10:41

needed to step up and do his

1:10:43

part for the war effort. There was nothing

1:10:45

she could do to stop him. So she did the only thing she

1:10:47

could think of in order to protect Yosepe.

1:10:51

take lives others. Leonardo grew

1:10:53

up in Montela Avelino.

1:10:56

While a young girl,

1:10:59

she attempted suicide twice, She

1:11:01

was able to overcome. And

1:11:03

in nineteen seventeen, she married a local registry office clerk, Rafael In

1:11:08

this time, it was not uncommon for her parents to

1:11:10

plan the marriage of their daughters, and her parents were no different. So

1:11:12

it was no surprise when her

1:11:15

parents were upset and unsupported. Of

1:11:18

her marriage. In fact, Leonardo's mother cursed the couple. In nineteen twenty one, they moved to

1:11:20

her husband's native

1:11:23

town of Moria Potenza, and

1:11:27

it was here just seven years later that Leonardo was

1:11:29

convicted of

1:11:29

fraud. Upon a

1:11:30

release, the couple made the

1:11:33

decision to move to Les Sidonia, Abilino,

1:11:35

which was relatively close to her hometown. There they remained

1:11:37

until nineteen thirty when the

1:11:40

herpini

1:11:42

earthquake struck, their home being one of thousands lost to

1:11:44

the disaster. They

1:11:46

then moved to Carreggio Ruggio

1:11:48

Amelia, where Leonardo was able

1:11:50

to open a small shop. She

1:11:52

became very popular and well respected within her

1:11:54

neighborhood. Her neighbors described her as wonderful, noting

1:11:57

how she doted

1:11:59

on her children. During the

1:12:01

course of her marriage, Leonardo had seventeen pregnancies. Three

1:12:03

of these were

1:12:07

lost to miscarriage, ten of these

1:12:09

children died early before the age of ten. With only four children left, she became

1:12:12

overly protective.

1:12:16

Crippled by the deaths of her children

1:12:18

coupled with the curse from her mother, she became what some would call paranoid.

1:12:20

She went to see a

1:12:22

Romani who practiced palm reading, hoping

1:12:26

for relief or confirmation of her fears. In your right hand, I see In your left,

1:12:28

a criminal asylum, the

1:12:31

fortune teller told her. This

1:12:35

prediction did not sit well with Leonardo, who at an

1:12:37

earlier date had visited with another fortune

1:12:40

teller, one who told her

1:12:42

that she would marry and have

1:12:44

children. But that all of her children

1:12:46

would

1:12:46

die young. With the news of Hassan Youssepe joining the army, she was

1:12:49

forced to do

1:12:52

the unthinkable. Leonard invited Faustina Seti

1:12:54

a local spinster woman over under the guise of setting her up with a husband.

1:12:56

She told her that she had

1:12:58

found a suitable man in Poland.

1:13:02

But asked her to tell no one of

1:13:04

the news.

1:13:04

She then asked Faustina to write letters

1:13:07

to her family members, telling them

1:13:09

that she would be visiting the man

1:13:11

abroad. Letters that Leonardo would mail once Faustina reached

1:13:13

POLA. As she prepared for

1:13:15

her departure, Faustina went

1:13:17

to visit Leonardo one

1:13:20

last time. The women sat

1:13:22

down for a glass of wine

1:13:24

together, unbeknownst to Faustina, one of

1:13:26

the classes was drugged. It was then

1:13:28

when Leonardo killed her with an x

1:13:30

and dragged her body into a closet. She cut her in a nine parts and

1:13:33

gathered her blood

1:13:35

in a basin. What

1:13:37

happened next, she described in her official statement. I threw the pieces

1:13:39

into a pot, seven kilos

1:13:43

of caustic soda which I had

1:13:46

bought to make soap and stirred the mixture until the pieces dissolved in a thick, dark mush that poured

1:13:48

into several buckets and emptied

1:13:50

in a nearby septic tank. As

1:13:54

for the blood in the basin. I weighed it until

1:13:56

it coagulated, dried it in the oven,

1:13:58

ground it, mixed it with flour,

1:14:01

sugar, chocolate, milk, and eggs, as well as

1:14:03

a bit of barge when needing all the ingredients together. I made of crunchy tea cakes and

1:14:05

serve them to the ladies who

1:14:07

came to visit

1:14:10

though Yuseppe and I also ate them.

1:14:12

It's believed that Leonardo took

1:14:14

Faustina's life savings, a total of

1:14:16

thirty thousand lira or three hundred and

1:14:18

twenty dollars when adjusted for twenty twenty inflation as

1:14:20

payment for her matchmaking services.

1:14:22

The second victim was lured

1:14:25

in with the opportunity of a

1:14:27

job at a school for girls in

1:14:27

Piazza. Francesca Sawave

1:14:29

went to Leonardo's home

1:14:31

and justice Costina was

1:14:34

asked to write postcards to be sent to her friends with

1:14:37

the details of her

1:14:38

plans.

1:14:38

Before her departure, she returned to

1:14:40

Leonardo's home where the women sat

1:14:43

for a glass of wine. On September

1:14:45

fifth, nineteen forty, Francesca was killed with an ax. Her

1:14:47

body was treated the same as that

1:14:50

at Faustina. And this

1:14:52

time, Leonardo walked away with

1:14:54

three thousand lira. Virginia Cassioca was a singer, a former Soprano,

1:14:56

said to have

1:14:59

sung at

1:15:00

Macabre. Liana had found

1:15:02

her work as the secretary for mysterious and mysterious in Florence, or so she

1:15:07

claimed. Once

1:15:08

again, she was asked to

1:15:10

write postcards and not tell anyone. On September thirtieth nineteen Virginia paid

1:15:13

one last visit

1:15:16

to Leonardo. The two

1:15:18

women sat down for a glass of

1:15:20

wine and it would be Virginia's last. She was

1:15:22

killed with an x and cut into pieces.

1:15:26

Just as the previous two had

1:15:27

been. She ended up

1:15:29

in the pot, like the other two,

1:15:31

her flesh was fat and white. When

1:15:33

it had melted, I added a bottle

1:15:35

of cologne. And after a long time on the I was able to make

1:15:37

some most acceptable creamy soap. I

1:15:39

gave bars

1:15:42

to neighbors and acquaintances. The cakes too were better, woman was

1:15:45

really sweet. Leonardo received

1:15:48

fifty

1:15:50

thousand lira, assorted jewels and public bonds for her

1:15:53

services. She even sold all of

1:15:55

her clothing and shoes. What

1:15:57

Leonardo did not count for was Virginia's

1:16:00

sister. Suspicious of her

1:16:02

sister's sudden disappearance, she

1:16:04

went straight to the

1:16:06

superintendent of police and Rajil Amelia and reported

1:16:08

her to the police as a

1:16:10

missing

1:16:10

person. An investigation was opened and

1:16:13

had immediately pointed to the

1:16:15

silkmaker. was arrested and maintained that she

1:16:18

had nothing to do with Virginia's

1:16:20

disappearance. It wasn't until police

1:16:22

began to suspect Yussape as being

1:16:25

involved that a full confession was made. She

1:16:27

confessed to the murders and even provided detailed accounts

1:16:29

of what she

1:16:32

had done

1:16:33

just to save her son from

1:16:35

any blame. In nineteen forty six, was tried for a murder in Riggio Amelia.

1:16:40

She remained unapologetic and even spoke up to

1:16:42

correct the prosecutor when he had gotten particular

1:16:47

details wrong. Some say she exuded pride as she concluded,

1:16:50

I gave the copper ladle which I used to skim the

1:16:52

fat off the

1:16:55

kettles to my country. Which was

1:16:57

so badly in need of metal during the

1:16:59

last days of the war. Leonardo was found guilty

1:17:02

of her crimes, years in prison and

1:17:05

three years in a criminal asylum, thus

1:17:07

fulfilling the prophecy of

1:17:10

the palm reader, While incarcerated, she pinned her

1:17:13

memoirs, titled confession of

1:17:15

an embittered

1:17:15

soul. Within these memoirs,

1:17:18

she even provided helpful hints

1:17:20

on how to use the human

1:17:23

body in the creation

1:17:24

of cakes or soap. She died of

1:17:26

cerebral apoplexy similar to a stroke in

1:17:29

a women's criminal asylum in

1:17:31

Pizumi on October fifteenth nineteen seventy. Today, you can find

1:17:34

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this is Chris.

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I'm a truck driver

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driving across the United States. My

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siblings and I really don't talk about

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this incident much. But when I was seven back

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in nineteen seventy five,

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we lived in Florida

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in a kind of a wooded neighborhood, typical backwoods

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home with sparse houses around us,

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of the property, there

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was a nursery and the owner lived in

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a house there at the nursery. My siblings, I have two brothers and his

1:21:12

older sister and sister being the

1:21:14

oldest. She's eleven years older than

1:21:16

me. We

1:21:18

were all home being watched by our sister because my parents were at their bowling but

1:21:20

one of my brothers

1:21:23

came into the house just

1:21:27

gray faced. He said, there's

1:21:29

a UFO outside. So, of course,

1:21:31

all of us went flying

1:21:33

out into the backyard and

1:21:36

no kidding. Probably a hundred

1:21:38

and fifty feet away from us, about sixty feet in

1:21:41

the air,

1:21:44

is this disc, kinda like

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a inverted saucer, you know, upside down saucer.

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But the top section would be

1:21:53

much larger than an actual dish, you

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know. The the actual

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dish has, like, a small

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round part

1:22:04

that it sits on the table. Well,

1:22:06

this one would have been sticking up

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much taller, but it was

1:22:10

very similar shape. Underneath that had

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multiple different colored lights,

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your primary colors, red,

1:22:17

blue, yellow, and

1:22:20

it was a smaller white light

1:22:22

on the side that would be the angled

1:22:25

up part of

1:22:28

the saucer and another white light

1:22:30

at the very top, which would be the top circular part. It was

1:22:33

moving very,

1:22:36

very slowly. Unbelievably

1:22:40

slowly across this pasture area behind

1:22:42

the house. Hi. If I had

1:22:44

to guess I would say this thing

1:22:47

was probably at two miles an hour, maybe three

1:22:49

at most. And it traversed this field from our left to

1:22:51

the right for a good three

1:22:55

hundred yards. And then it started angling upwards and

1:22:57

it rose above the tree line

1:23:00

and in a flash. I

1:23:02

mean, literally a blink of an

1:23:04

eye this thing

1:23:06

took off at an accelerated speed that no aircraft

1:23:08

known to mankind

1:23:11

could have possibly gone. And

1:23:15

within probably a second and a

1:23:17

half, maybe two seconds, it was completely

1:23:19

gone from our site. And, of

1:23:21

course, being a bunch of kids

1:23:23

left at home our parents took the

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story like, yeah. Right. Sure. Whatever. But all of us were visibly

1:23:28

shaken. My

1:23:31

parents knew that we'd saw something, but they didn't quite

1:23:33

believe us. And, of course, we

1:23:35

didn't really pursue

1:23:38

it. I mean, who are we gonna tell if our parents don't

1:23:40

believe us? Who's gonna believe

1:23:42

us? This happened probably I

1:23:45

wanna say it was

1:23:48

late early summer. And then a

1:23:50

couple months later, I would

1:23:53

say late summer

1:23:56

early fall, my same sibling, my older brother,

1:23:58

came out of his room where he had been looking through

1:24:03

his telescope and was super excited. My brother Tom had

1:24:05

us all run out in the backyard,

1:24:07

and we looked up in the

1:24:09

sky, and there was a

1:24:12

red dot. Dancing

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around the sky at

1:24:16

an unbelievable speed and directions.

1:24:18

Again, nothing that any aircraft could

1:24:20

possibly duplicate,

1:24:23

but it was also

1:24:25

surrounded by what appeared

1:24:27

to be aircraft of

1:24:30

a traditional nature who appeared to be chasing this thing across the sky. And it was going all over

1:24:32

the place. And these lanes

1:24:34

and helicopters, we assume, were trying

1:24:39

to catch this thing, but it was an impossibility.

1:24:41

My sister got on the phone, hit

1:24:43

the operator, got a number

1:24:46

for Patrick Air Force Base,

1:24:48

which was the closest military base. He

1:24:50

called in and tried to find out what was going on. And, of course, Patrick and

1:24:52

I said there

1:24:55

was no aircraft flying in our

1:24:57

area whatsoever. No military aircraft. And as they were saying that

1:25:00

a military helicopter

1:25:03

flew so low to the

1:25:06

house that the lady on the phone could actually hear it. And she was like,

1:25:08

I gotta go click.

1:25:10

I hung up on her.

1:25:14

So it was definitely something odd

1:25:16

and strange flying around the sky, and they

1:25:18

didn't wanna admit to it, and there was

1:25:20

a whole bunch of aircraft chasing after

1:25:22

it. We think it was the same thing that we had

1:25:24

seen a few months

1:25:26

prior. So, anyway, that's my story.

1:25:30

I

1:25:30

actually laughed myself when a woman at the

1:25:32

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1:25:34

was happening while simultaneously hearing

1:25:37

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1:25:40

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what has come to be known

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as the room ten forty six

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mystery, a man

1:30:34

calling himself Roland t

1:30:36

Owen, checked into room ten

1:30:38

forty six of the hotel president in Kansas City, Missouri on January second

1:30:43

nineteen thirty five. In just two days

1:30:45

time, he would be dead. When he was discovered in

1:30:47

his room, he was already dying from

1:30:49

injuries sustained in what

1:30:52

was obviously

1:30:53

a brutal attack.

1:30:55

The question was, who

1:30:55

killed Roland t Owen? And why?

1:31:01

But

1:31:01

the man known as Roland t Owen brought

1:31:03

with him more mysteries than answers. His behavior during his

1:31:05

brief stay in room ten

1:31:07

forty six was baffling

1:31:10

to hotel, staff, and authorities alike.

1:31:13

And as the investigation into

1:31:15

his slaying continued, it soon

1:31:17

became clear that even his name

1:31:19

was a fabrication. Who was

1:31:21

Roland t Owen? And what

1:31:23

happened to him in that

1:31:25

room? We may never know all the

1:31:27

answers, but the pieces of the puzzle

1:31:30

are as haunting as any solution could ever

1:31:32

be. And the man calling

1:31:34

himself Roland t Owen arrived at the hotel president a little after one PM on January

1:31:36

second nineteen thirty five.

1:31:39

He had some specific instructions.

1:31:43

He provided a Los Angeles address,

1:31:45

paid for just a single night

1:31:47

and requested a room facing

1:31:49

the hotels in her courtyard rather

1:31:51

than

1:31:51

street. Witnesses later

1:31:53

placed demands age anywhere from twenty

1:31:55

to thirty years old and

1:31:57

described him as having

1:31:59

a cauliflower ear a common

1:32:02

malady among boxers and wrestlers, and a scar on the side of his scalp, which he partly

1:32:04

covered up by combing

1:32:06

over it with his hair.

1:32:10

On the way up to his room, he didn't mention why

1:32:12

he was in town. He did however

1:32:14

complain that he had spent the

1:32:17

previous night at the nearby Mulebach hotel and

1:32:19

left after they tried to charge him what he felt was an unreasonable five dollars

1:32:24

per night. When Roland

1:32:26

T'Owen or whatever his real name may have been, arrived at the hotel president, he had no luggage.

1:32:28

Witnesses described him

1:32:31

as neatly dressed, wearing

1:32:35

a black overcoat. The only items he

1:32:37

brought with him were a hairbrush, a

1:32:39

comb, and some toothpaste, all

1:32:41

of which were in his

1:32:44

overcoat pocket. He placed all three

1:32:46

items above the sink when the porter let him into his room, but all three would be gone

1:32:49

even before

1:32:52

Owen was. Hotel staff

1:32:54

later observed that the man who called himself Roland T. Owen was a strange customer from moment

1:33:00

he arrived. Whenever maids or

1:33:02

porters went up to his room, they always found it dark, with the shades drawn and a single desk

1:33:05

lamp providing the

1:33:08

only illumination. When

1:33:10

Mary Soptic, a maid at the hotel, returned

1:33:12

from a few days off, she found

1:33:14

herself assigned to room ten forty

1:33:17

six. When she arrived and found its occupant sitting in the

1:33:19

dark, she offered to come back later. But the man told her to go ahead

1:33:22

and clean the room.

1:33:24

She later told the police that Owen

1:33:26

seemed like he was afraid or worried about something and that

1:33:29

he always wanted to kinda

1:33:31

keep in the dark. When

1:33:34

the maid was first cleaning Owen's room, he told

1:33:36

her not to lock the door as he was

1:33:39

expecting a friend in a few

1:33:41

minutes. When she returned to the room

1:33:43

later that day, she found Owen lying on his still

1:33:45

made bed fully clothed, seemingly asleep. A note on the

1:33:47

desk said, Don,

1:33:51

I will be back in fifteen minutes. Wait. The

1:33:53

following morning,

1:33:54

she overheard a brief

1:33:57

phone conversation in which Owen

1:33:59

said, No, Don. I don't want to I am not

1:34:01

hungry. Later that afternoon,

1:34:02

when she went to drop

1:34:06

off fresh towels, she heard two men speaking in Rome

1:34:08

ten forty six. When she knocked a

1:34:10

rough voice that she didn't

1:34:11

recognize, answered from the

1:34:14

other side of the door, telling her they did not need towels.

1:34:16

In fact, the maid

1:34:17

knew the

1:34:18

room didn't have any, as she herself

1:34:20

had taken them

1:34:23

earlier

1:34:23

in the day. In an ironic twist, the

1:34:25

woman in room ten forty eight, next door to the man calling himself Roland to

1:34:28

Ewen, was Jean

1:34:30

Owen of Lee Summit,

1:34:32

Missouri. She was of

1:34:34

no relation to her neighbor and no However, told she

1:34:36

heard noises on her

1:34:39

floor throughout the night. That

1:34:42

consisted largely of men and women

1:34:45

talking loudly and

1:34:46

cursing.

1:34:46

She considered

1:34:47

calling the front desk but

1:34:49

never

1:34:50

did. There was apparently a rather raucous

1:34:52

party going on in room ten

1:34:54

fifty five that night, which could

1:34:56

have been the source of disturbances,

1:34:58

Gino and noticed, but that wasn't the only oddity. The

1:35:00

elevator operator that night reported taking

1:35:02

a woman who regularly frequented the

1:35:06

hotel with different men up to several different floors search

1:35:08

of a customer who was always

1:35:10

very prompt. In spite of spending

1:35:13

more than an hour

1:35:15

looking around the

1:35:16

place, it seems she never found

1:35:18

it. On the night of January third, at around eleven PM,

1:35:20

a water department employee named

1:35:22

Robert Lane was flagged down in

1:35:26

the street, not far from the hotel president,

1:35:28

by a man matching the description

1:35:30

of Roland t Owen. The

1:35:33

man lane picked up was hurt.

1:35:35

He had a bad scrape on his arm, and Lane suspected

1:35:37

he may have had more serious

1:35:39

injuries. He was also just

1:35:41

in his shirt sleeve. Despite it being a

1:35:43

January night in the middle of Kansas

1:35:45

City and thus not exactly climate

1:35:48

weather.

1:35:48

You look

1:35:48

as if you've been in it bad,

1:35:51

Lane said, when the man asked him if he would take him to find a

1:35:53

cab. The man's

1:35:54

reply, I'll kill that bleep tomorrow.

1:35:58

The

1:35:58

newspapers at the time didn't print the x what

1:36:01

if the man uttered so we'll just have

1:36:03

to use our imaginations just as we

1:36:05

can only guess who he may

1:36:07

have been

1:36:07

talking about. On Friday morning, the day after

1:36:09

a man matching Owen's description was picked up in the street by Robert

1:36:12

Lane. The operator

1:36:15

at the hotel noticed that the phone in room

1:36:18

ten forty six was off the hook. She dispatched a bellhop to see what was going

1:36:20

on. The

1:36:23

bellhop arrived at the room and found the door locked

1:36:25

with a do not disturb sign.

1:36:27

After knocking repeatedly, he

1:36:29

finally heard a voice on the other side of the door telling

1:36:32

him to come in. With the

1:36:34

door still locked

1:36:34

however, the bell hop knocked

1:36:37

again. Turn

1:36:38

on the lights, the voice said this time.

1:36:40

Unable to get

1:36:41

into the room, the bell hop

1:36:44

simply shouted, put the phone back on

1:36:46

the

1:36:46

hook, and

1:36:46

then returned to the lobby.

1:36:48

On the morning

1:36:49

of Friday, January fourth, the phone

1:36:51

in room ten forty six

1:36:53

was off the

1:36:54

hook. At first, a bellhop was sent up to fix it.

1:36:56

He never got inside the room but simply

1:36:58

yelled to the door and instruction to

1:37:01

reconnect the phone. About

1:37:03

an hour later, the phone was still off

1:37:05

the hook. So a different bell hop, Harold Pike, went up to the room

1:37:07

and knocked. Receiving no answer, he

1:37:10

used his passkey to unlock the

1:37:12

door. Indicating

1:37:14

that it had been locked from the

1:37:16

outside and saw its occupant

1:37:18

lying in bed naked.

1:37:20

Pike later told

1:37:21

police that he no wished what appeared to

1:37:23

be dark shadows in the bedclothes, but that

1:37:25

he assumed the room's resident was

1:37:27

simply drunk. He replaced

1:37:29

the phone on a cradle, and went back

1:37:31

downstairs locking the door behind him. After a

1:37:33

long morning of dealing with room

1:37:35

ten forty six's phone,

1:37:37

they off the hook and his guests' Roland T.

1:37:40

Owen being naked and passed out on

1:37:42

his

1:37:42

bed, the hotel operator was frustrated to

1:37:44

once again find the phone off

1:37:46

the hook a

1:37:47

few hours later. She sent Randolph Proposed. The same bellhop

1:37:49

who had initially taken O went up to his room two

1:37:51