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tonight on unsolved mysteries it was
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unthinkable just days after the
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cold-blooded attacks of 9/11 America
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faced another ominous threat
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bioterrorism
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the instrument of death this time
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anthrax the toxic bacteria that can kill
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in a matter of days and did five times
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the killer is still on the loose and the
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FBI needs your help to solve this
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baffling case a Texas teenager is
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kidnapped his father has seven hours to
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collect the ransom and deliver it to his
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abductors the fate of young Kyle McElroy
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hangs in the balance
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for more than 20 years Monica Lobo has
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been searching for her birth parents her
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investigation has brought her to a
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painful conclusion at a very young age
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she may have been kidnapped perhaps you
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can help Monica learn the truth at Texas
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A&M University a suspected serial rapist
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is caught when his first victim has a
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second startling face-to-face encounter
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with it after being released on bail
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Don Richard Davis jr. dropped out of
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sight we bring you an update on his
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surprising arrest and trial
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a woman whose family was ripped apart by
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murder searches for her long-lost
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siblings thanks to our audience she is
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finally reunited with a relative she
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believed she would never see again
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join me these intriguing stories and
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more perhaps you may be the one chosen
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by fate to solve a mystery
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Tuesday October 16 2001 normal Wallace
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reported for work at the postal office
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in Trenton New Jersey
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she wasn't feeling well and thought it
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was a mild case of the flu but as a day
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wore off Norma became increasingly ill
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she could barely breathe some 200 miles
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away in Washington DC
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another postal worker Leroy Richmond was
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suffering nearly identical symptoms he
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too became gravely ill in a matter of
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days both Norma and Leroy were
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hospitalized the conditions growing
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worse by the hour they seemed to be
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slowly suffocating to death doctors
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couldn't figure out why but after
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administering a battery of tests they
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finally came up with the diagnosis
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anthrax what these veteran postal
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workers were told by doctors was
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terrifying like millions of other
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Americans
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Oh Roy Richmond and normal Wallace were
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aware of an anthrax related death in
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Florida just days earlier now they were
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suffering from the most virulent form of
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the disease fatal 95% of the time
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suddenly in the wake of September 11th
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the nation faced a second wave of
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terrorism who would commit such heinous
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crimes and why
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someone somewhere in the world had
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access to the deadly substance anthrax
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the knowledge to work with it and an
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environment appropriate for its handling
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was it an individual or the work of a
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group or were they located and what were
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their motives these questions plagued
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investigators and continue to do so
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today for a nation still reeling from
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the 9-1-1 terrorist attacks it seemed
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nearly impossible to fathom the anthrax
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time bomb started taking 11 days before
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striking Norma and Leroy on October 5th
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2001 63 year old Robert Stevens a photo
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editor at the Sun newspaper died in Boca
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Raton Florida the cause exposure to
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anthrax spores which experts believe
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came from an open letter the letter had
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been thrown away its origin unknown
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suddenly federal investigators were
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thrust into the world of bioterrorism
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they were baffled we don't have a crime
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scene in the traditional sense
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we don't have witnesses and we really
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don't have any of anyone that we can
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call an informant at this point the same
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week more media targets NBC News and the
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New York Post in Manhattan it is clear
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that the terrorists responsible for
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these attacks intended to use this
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anthrax as a weapon but this time a clue
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postmarks on the envelopes Trenton New
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Jersey
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a swarm of FBI agents checked every
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mailbox in town for traces of anthrax
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they found none only more questions
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white Trenton was the anthrax package
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there did the terrorists live in the
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area or were the letters mailed from the
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city only as a ruse whoever had the
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diabolical will and ability to put
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anthrax in the mail could easily have
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the intelligence to plot unimaginable
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false trails October 9th 2001 two more
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anthrax laced letters again postmarked
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Trenton this time politicians at targets
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senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy
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at their offices in DC a form of anthrax
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so pure and concentrator it was termed
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weapons-grade
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as dangerous dangerous stuff it was
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estimated that two trillion spores went
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into each of those envelopes which would
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have been two grams one envelope may
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have had a hundred million lethal doses
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unthinkable under the right conditions
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just two grams of anthrax could
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potentially wipe out one third of the US
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population investigators came to a
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significant conclusion notes contained
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within the anthrax Laden envelopes were
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so similar in handwriting they had to
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come from the same source but the
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content of the notes could be viewed as
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a clue or another ruse it references to
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9/11 death to Israel and Allah is great
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point to Arab terrorists or to someone
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who wanted investigators to think Arab
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extremists were involved we are looking
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at three broad areas the first being
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international terrorists domestic
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terrorism we're looking at some of the
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individuals within the United States and
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then we're looking at the lone wolf as
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well October 20th 2001 hundreds of
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federal investigators worked night and
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day to solve a crime like none they had
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ever encountered meanwhile postal worker
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normal Wallace fought for her life her
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temperatures soared above 100 she was in
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shock the anthrax spores were secreting
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a lethal exotoxin causing blood vessels
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to break and the bacteria too pumps
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through her bloodstream
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I felt like I was dying I felt like I I
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couldn't breathe
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once the spores enter your lungs they
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actually attack the tissues and the
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lymph nodes and causes the anthrax to
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actually take possession of your body
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Norma know her condition was serious but
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the news of just how serious was
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alarming I'm just reading about the
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survival rate and my brother brought me
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the information back it said that
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inhalation anthrax was the deadliest
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form of anthrax 95 percent of the people
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died so I said I'm ready
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whatever God decides for me I'm ready
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for it the prognosis for Leroy Richmond
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was also grim suffering excruciating
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pain
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Leroy laid helpless as as lungs filled
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with fluids worse doctors knew their
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most powerful drugs were rarely
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effective in fighting this silent killer
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I think I wasn't but his nearing death
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then that's that advil is gonna get my
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breathing had become so shallow that I
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was actually panting like a dog would
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breathe and I heard a couple guys say
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man he's not gonna last for a couple of
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hours and that'll be it for him
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but Howard to mail sorters are two
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different post offices become infected
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in the first place
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high-tech mail sorting equipment
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investigators concluded that the sheer
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speed of 30 thousand envelopes per hour
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flying through a sorter could send
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millions of anthrax spores into the air
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routine machine maintenance using air
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blowers only made the possibilities
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worse I looked up and saw this dust and
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this decision stuff coming out of the
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machine and I just looked them so my god
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and I said like that and probably that
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instance I may have been held the spores
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miraculously Norma and Leroy survived
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their harrowing ordeal however their
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lives will never be the same I can't do
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all the things that would normally do
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and the diagnosis from the doctors is
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and look mr. Richmond the toxins Albania
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on your system for at least a year and a
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half to two years the hardest part is
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not knowing what's going to happen next
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year or ten years from now you know
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whether whether my memory is going to
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come back or whether I'm just going to
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you know fade into oblivion
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despite their uncertainty normal Wallace
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and Leroy Richmond at least have a
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future for other anthrax victims weren't
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so lucky
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bringing the death toll to 5 October
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21st and 22nd 2001 Washington DC
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Leroy's co-workers Thomas Morris and
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Joseph curscene October 31st New York
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City hospital worker Kathleen Owen three
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weeks later aunt Leigh Lundgren in Derby
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Connecticut the deaths of Cathy and
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Natalie were especially puzzling
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authorities concluded they had somehow
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come in contact with anthrax tainted
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mail that may have been contaminated in
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the sorting process but no one could say
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for certain it was said that the lethal
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dose for human was eight to ten thousand
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spores it would suggest by the deaths of
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the lady in Connecticut New York City
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that probably many fewer spores led to
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their death November 30th 2001 a
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breakthrough experts determined the
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anthrax spores and each of the letters
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came from the same strain of the
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bacterial the so called Ames strain was
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confined to only six research labs in
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the u.s. that led FBI profilers to
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conclude the anthrax attacks are
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probably not the work of international
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terrorists but rather someone right here
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at home someone who may have had access
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to one of these facilities
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loading these letters with anthrax
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required specific expertise in other
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words it couldn't be done in your
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basement or your garage unless you had
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some specific equipment may 2002 still
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no prime suspect
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however scientific analysis of the
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genetic fingerprints of the anthrax
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spores reveal they may have come from
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one of two research sites both under the
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control of the US Army the Medical
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Research Institute at Fort Detrick
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Maryland and the Dugway proving ground
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in Utah today federal investigators are
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in the midst of a controversial program
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to administer voluntary polygraph tests
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to large numbers of employees at these
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two sites the goal to smoke out
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individuals who might have information
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about the anthrax attacks meanwhile with
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no assurance the elusive killer has ties
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to any of these facilities the manhunt
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continues at home and abroad that person
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has to be a serious coward and unable to
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deal with reality to have done something
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like that and and it's not just that it
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could have happened here but it could
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have happened anywhere we are in the
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middle of an exhaustive national
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international investigation we've
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interviewed over 5,000 people already
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we've issued well in excess of 1300
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subpoenas and every little piece of the
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puzzle helps
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[Music]
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Stacia tha's over time for the real
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workers 18 year old Kyle McIlroy is
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among the most promising young citizens
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of the small town of troupe Texas he
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works for his father Kevin who owns a
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plastics factory at the end of each day
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Kevin turns the reins of the business
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over to Kylie
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despite his youth he has proven himself
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to be an adept supervisor of the night
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shift together father and son have made
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the McElroy plastics company a booming
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success Friday March 10th 9:20 a.m.
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plastic Barney came in and told me that
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SB if I knew Becerra and I said what
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company did she work for she said she
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wouldn't tell me nothin
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this is McIlroy how can I help you take
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the 110 South you'll find his truck
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there look in the truck for further
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instructions do not call the police
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you're watching you I'm not really in
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the mood for this right now I'm thinking
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you know it's might be a joke that's not
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funny
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and I'm really not believing what I'm
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hearing put him on the phone so she put
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Kyle on the phone just for maybe five
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seconds or so the last time Kyle had
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been seen was at the end of his work
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shift the previous night Kevin was now
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certain the mysterious Sarah was dead
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serious Kevin McLeroy had only moments
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to decide what course of action to take
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despite the kidnappers warning he
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contacted the troupe Texas Police
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Department the officers were determined
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to keep their involvement a secret from
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cows abductors following sarah's orders
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kevin set out to retrieve the written
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instruction from Kyle's abandoned truck
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as a precaution kevin allowed a troop
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Texas police officer to follow him
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discreetly the officer posing as a
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rancher would stop further along the
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road and observed Kevin from a distance
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both men knew they had to expect the
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unexpected
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the truck was locked and Kevin had no
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keys the first thing I was thinking is
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we dated him with a a bunch of
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terrorists or what if while I'm trying
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to get in the pickup it bums up the
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ransom note was just for Sarah said it
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would be the letter said that they were
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asking for $200,000 in hundred-dollar
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bills and that I had seven hours to come
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up with the money and then go back to my
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office and that's when they would call
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me and tell me were to drop that off at
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the six and a half hours remaining until
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the kidnappers deadline
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Kevin arrived at a pre-arranged staging
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area to meet with the authorities the
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FBI was now in charge of the case there
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was nothing in that note to tell us
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where Cowell was where to deliver the
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money or what means Cowell will be
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released so we knew the abductors had to
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contact mr. McElroy again with him so I
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sent two agents with him for their plan
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to work
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FBI agents had to be present at Kevin's
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factory when the kidnappers phoned again
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but they had to do so under conditions
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of absolute secrecy all of Kevin's
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employees were sent home under the
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pretense of a major mechanical breakdown
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at the plant 4:00 p.m. the way was now
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clear for the FBI to move in by this
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time Kevin had collected only half of
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the demanded $200,000 the next meters
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belonged to the kidnappers 6:30 p.m.
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hello what I mean most the money I can't
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get the whole 200 it's Friday the banks
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don't have it the FBI worked furiously
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to trace the call dad asked me to stall
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her I said you're gonna get your money I
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said but I want to talk to Connor I want
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to make sure he's all right she said
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he's fine she said you're not gonna get
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to talk to take the money you have Sarah
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instructed Kevin to drive to a pay phone
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outside a local restaurant there he
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would find a note directing him what to
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do next
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the call was traced to a rural phone
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booth but by the time the FBI got there
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had vanished the only course of action
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now was to follow her orders and take
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every precaution possible
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7:15 p.m.
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that it see a the note or guys kaya
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expected you a little brown envelope
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like the rats of milk come here and so I
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went to picking through all that trash I
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thought well you know maybe there's
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something in this trash maybe on the
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candy wrapper so you know what do it and
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in the very bottom of that pile was a
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note the note ordered Kevin to deliver
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the ransom money to a laundromat a half
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a mile away he would then receive
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another call at his office informing him
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where he could find Kyle the FBI rapidly
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deployed his SWAT team near the back of
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the laundromat
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when kevin drove up to the laundromat to
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drop off the ransom money there was it
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was a lot of tension anytime someone's
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life is on the line there's a lot of
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tension you want to get this done and
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find the victim as soon as possible
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one hour past two suspects approaching
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from the north fini caps blue
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sweatshirts blue jeans look around gone
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for the money got the money there go
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one of the men arrested was an employee
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of the McElroy plastics company a friend
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of Kyle's Viktor for a tiss the FBI
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learned his real name was Daniel Rios
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two alleged accomplices were also
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arrested but the woman who called
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herself Sarah was nowhere to be found
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the following day the suspects told the
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FBI
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Kyle could be found on an abandoned farm
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outside of town
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Kevin waited anxiously as agents went in
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search of his son he was light and
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evening they asked me if I could speak
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to me they had some information for me
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and I could tell by the looks on their
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face that it wasn't good and they said
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it he was he was dead they found him
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dead it's like somebody walking up and
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hit him but you can't feel it you know
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you think about it and just it just
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bites man the medical examiner
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determined Kyle had been choked to death
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before the first ransom call was ever
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made the FBI believes his abductors made
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a recording of Kyle then killed him
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Sarah then played the tape for Kevin
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over the phone
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they say they learned this sarah was in
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fact Desiree dawn lingo Perkins the FBI
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believes she was a prostitute known to
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frequent migrant worker camps in the
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area she is now wanted for murder she is
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five foot six and her weight fluctuates
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between 170 and 200 pounds
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may 1970 in a small Texas town a fragile
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child clutched her only friend and
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waited patiently her family was on the
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move again a routine that had become all
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too familiar
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it was the eighth moved to five
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different states and Monica Lobos young
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life eventually she would move a total
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of 28 times and 15 years I would come
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home from school you know and there
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would be boxes everywhere and I knew it
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was time to go again Monica's parents
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Pablo and Berman LeBeau were older her
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two half sisters grown and never around
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however the lonely little girl didn't
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question her family's nomadic lifestyle
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or why she was always kept home from
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school on class picture days
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Monica simply learned to fend for
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herself but it wasn't easy I would get
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kind of angry because by the time I made
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friends we were up and gone again so
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that was kind of hard
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then at age 16 when most teams are
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thinking about boys in the latest
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fashion rage Monika's life was turned
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upside down my mother got ill and I had
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to transfer my mother's medical papers
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to where she was in the hospital and I
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was reading through my mom's folder and
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I read some words that just probably
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changed my life forever and that's when
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I found out that my mother had a total
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hysterectomy in 1945 there's no way I
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could have belonged to her imagine
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finding out your mother had a
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hysterectomy nearly two decades before
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you were born she couldn't possibly have
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been your mother and for 16 years he'd
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been lied to
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if burr malabo wasn't Monica's mother
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than who was the search for that answer
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is consumed Monica's life leading her
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into an incredibly tangled web of lies
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half-truths and innuendos what makes a
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story even more disturbing however is
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where it all may lead to an unthinkable
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crime ask my mother I said if you're not
00:28:07
my mother I want to know who is my
00:28:09
mother she got mad but she told me that
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my mother was a family member my sister
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I was shocked and that was probably the
00:28:32
worst shock of my life
00:28:38
it was true that Monica's half-sister
00:28:39
was much older nineteen years in fact
00:28:42
but could she really be her mother I
00:28:45
asked her straight out if she was my
00:28:48
mother and she said no I'm not your
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mother
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she said well mom just doesn't want to
00:28:57
face the truth and I said well what is
00:29:00
the truth and my sister told me that my
00:29:08
real mother sold me for a bus ticket to
00:29:14
New York and that she was trash and
00:29:19
no-good and I didn't need to know her
00:29:20
anyway
00:29:21
she gave you had Monica really been sold
00:29:27
for the price of a bus ticket or was
00:29:29
this simply another bizarre story about
00:29:31
her birth mother Monica didn't know who
00:29:34
to trust or who to believe
00:29:36
again she haunted her parents to tell
00:29:39
her the truth the more I asked the more
00:29:43
they wouldn't tell me anything and I
00:29:48
started wondering at that point maybe
00:29:51
something bad happened
00:29:54
Monica was not convinced her parents had
00:29:57
something to hide
00:29:58
she began snooping around the house in
00:30:00
search of any link to her past and soon
00:30:03
ran across a sturdy metal box inside was
00:30:07
a very document Monica had hoped to find
00:30:10
her birth certificate but the details
00:30:15
seem sketchy
00:30:16
there was no Hospital listed no address
00:30:19
no doctor and the document had not been
00:30:23
filed until the early 1970s when Monica
00:30:26
was 7 years old she had only one place
00:30:30
to turn for help one of her half sisters
00:30:34
she said your mom and dad
00:30:37
paid a lawyer $2,000 to make this false
00:30:42
birth certificate was Monica's whole
00:30:45
life of fraud it now made sense why
00:30:48
growing up she never had her own social
00:30:51
security number but he was her father's
00:30:53
instead Chicago was listed as Monica's
00:30:58
place of birth and in 1990 at age 26 she
00:31:02
contacted Illinois Judge Jean Scott in
00:31:05
hopes of finding an adoption record
00:31:07
judge scott answered her in a letter she
00:31:12
told me that she could not find anything
00:31:15
from the years 62 63 64 that she had
00:31:21
searched all the records that they had
00:31:22
there Chicago returned into another dead
00:31:27
end
00:31:27
sadly it all seemed like a bad soap
00:31:30
opera but Monica thrust into the lead
00:31:32
role for the next decade Monica was
00:31:36
haunted by the strange and conflicting
00:31:38
stories surrounding her past still she
00:31:42
managed to get on with her life
00:31:44
marry and have a daughter of her own
00:31:52
during a rare family get-together
00:31:54
Monica decided to try one last time to
00:31:58
find out the truth my mom at that point
00:32:04
was just angry very angry she started
00:32:09
getting mad and my sister they just kind
00:32:12
of looked at each other according to
00:32:15
Monica her half-sister suddenly became
00:32:17
irate
00:32:20
she began ranting about her nearly four
00:32:23
decades earlier her mother had hidden a
00:32:25
tiny baby from the police
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Monica was stunned in an instant the
00:32:36
past came flooding back
00:32:38
she remembered as a teenager overhearing
00:32:41
her father talk about stashing a
00:32:43
cardboard box in a bar something about
00:32:46
roadblocks and the need to tell the
00:32:48
truth a picture began to emerge it was
00:32:52
both ugly and sinister the indication
00:32:57
that I got from the whole thing is that
00:33:00
my mother had probably kidnapped me I
00:33:03
really started thinking my god had they
00:33:07
just up and take me you know from
00:33:09
somebody to this day that question and
00:33:13
others remain unanswered miss Monica
00:33:18
abducted as an infant an appalling crime
00:33:21
that forced a bluebird Malabo to stay
00:33:23
one step ahead of the law with a tiny
00:33:28
baby sold by a desperate young girl for
00:33:30
the price of a bus ticket or as Monica's
00:33:33
half sister not her sister at all but
00:33:36
her mother I would be willing to go
00:33:40
through anything a DNA test anything at
00:33:45
all
00:33:46
to be able to find out the truth behind
00:33:49
all this if Monica's half-sister agreed
00:33:53
to be tested it would answer at least
00:33:55
one of these puzzling questions however
00:33:58
according to relatives she recently left
00:34:00
her husband of 25 years and simply
00:34:02
disappeared
00:34:05
on another sad note Monica's own husband
00:34:08
passed away in 1998 he was only 31 years
00:34:11
old the tragic loss has only deepened
00:34:16
Monica's resolved to find her birth
00:34:18
mother I am without an identity and I am
00:34:27
searching and I'm probably gonna keep
00:34:29
searching I'm not gonna give up Monica
00:34:34
was born with only half an ear lobe on
00:34:36
her left ear a clue that may help
00:34:38
unravel this mystery and if Monica was
00:34:42
indeed kidnapped she believes it
00:34:44
happened in the Miami Florida area in
00:34:47
1963 or 1964
00:34:58
[Applause]
00:34:59
[Music]
00:35:01
previously we brought you the story of
00:35:03
the fear that gripped Texas A&M
00:35:05
University when police thought that a
00:35:07
serial rapist was on the loose now that
00:35:10
a suspect is behind bars
00:35:12
the residents of a small college town
00:35:14
can finally feel more secure the rapist
00:35:19
hid his intentions behind a show of
00:35:21
normalcy it looked like just another
00:35:23
student out for an evening jog
00:35:25
but as they turned to go back toward his
00:35:27
intended victim his casual demeanor
00:35:30
turned violent a suspect kept that knife
00:35:34
within her sight and she had every
00:35:37
indication at that point that he would
00:35:41
use that knife on her thirty minutes
00:35:46
later the rapist disappeared into the
00:35:48
shadows University Police released a
00:35:52
composite sketch and character profile
00:35:54
of the suspect several months later a
00:35:57
knife wielding assailant attacked
00:35:59
another Texas A&M student from nowhere
00:36:03
she said a knife appeared and was placed
00:36:06
against her throat he threatened her he
00:36:09
told her that if she screamed he was
00:36:10
gonna kill her and then took her to the
00:36:12
location that he was he had already
00:36:14
prepared this composite was based on the
00:36:17
second victims description a comparison
00:36:21
were the first drawing bolstered
00:36:22
investigators suspicions that a serial
00:36:24
rapist was stalking the campus
00:36:26
authorities papered the campus community
00:36:29
with posters but the rapes went unsolved
00:36:32
for 10 months the critical break in the
00:36:35
case came from the first victim herself
00:36:37
when she happened to stop for groceries
00:36:40
at a local market
00:36:45
Hey
00:36:48
this is a knife the young woman was
00:36:50
convinced that she was face to face with
00:36:52
a man who raped her excuse me you forgot
00:36:58
something
00:37:03
police would soon learn that the clerk
00:37:05
was named Don Richard Davis jr. he was
00:37:09
scheduled to graduate from Texas A&M in
00:37:11
three weeks when this photograph of
00:37:15
Davis was shown to the second victim she
00:37:17
too identified him as the rapist DNA
00:37:23
tests confirmed the identification with
00:37:25
90 percent certainty Don Richard Davis
00:37:28
jr. was charged with aggravated sexual
00:37:30
assault and released on bail six days
00:37:33
later Davis disappeared for the next
00:37:36
five years police had a fugitive case on
00:37:39
their hands in October of 2000 a routine
00:37:48
traffic violation in Cleveland would be
00:37:50
the beginning of the end for Davis Don
00:37:52
Davis got stopped on a traffic stop one
00:37:54
day and when they rolled his
00:37:56
fingerprints at that point in time
00:37:58
that's when they connected up as a hit
00:38:00
with Don Davis and then that information
00:38:01
just kind of mushroomed from there Davis
00:38:06
was brought back to Texas to stand trial
00:38:08
in the rapes of the two women but before
00:38:11
his trial began he pled guilty to the
00:38:13
charges a jury heard testimony to
00:38:16
determine his sentence
00:38:17
Don Richard Davis will serve 99 years in
00:38:21
prison pending his appeal with the
00:38:24
conviction of mr. Davis justice has been
00:38:26
served and I know for a fact that the
00:38:30
two victims that we had are extremely
00:38:34
relieved they feel better and I think
00:38:38
they probably sleeping a lot better now
00:38:40
because mr. Davis will no longer be out
00:38:43
on the streets
00:38:45
you
00:38:48
[Music]
00:38:51
on a previous broadcast we brought you
00:38:54
the story of lorry Delorme magnin at the
00:38:57
age of three lorry was adopted under
00:38:59
mysterious circumstances by a family in
00:39:02
Kansas City Missouri the reason for her
00:39:05
adoption was kept secret by all parties
00:39:08
involved Laurie had no idea what
00:39:11
happened to her birth parents or her
00:39:13
brother and three sisters as she grew
00:39:16
older Laurie searched for her family but
00:39:19
only discovered that her mother Frances
00:39:21
Camarena died on November 27th 1956
00:39:29
along with her husband and son Laurie
00:39:32
decided to look at the Kansas City Star
00:39:34
on the day of her mother's death staring
00:39:38
back at her from the front page was a 14
00:39:40
month old lorry surrounded by her four
00:39:43
siblings that's why first time saw the
00:39:46
picture of me and my brother and my
00:39:47
sisters first time the accompanying
00:39:51
article finally revealed the dark
00:39:53
violent secret in Laurie's past
00:39:55
[Music]
00:39:58
in the pre-dawn hours of November 26
00:40:01
1956 Lori's father Alexander Camarena
00:40:06
murdered Laurie's mother Laurie learned
00:40:13
that her father was convicted of
00:40:14
second-degree murder and died in 1991
00:40:17
but her efforts to find her older
00:40:19
sisters Phyllis rosemary and Nancy and
00:40:22
her younger brother Robert have failed
00:40:25
my real brother and sisters we lost both
00:40:30
our parents now and I think they need me
00:40:35
like I need them shortly after our
00:40:45
broadcast
00:40:45
Ruth crook Laurie's birth cousin
00:40:48
contacted our telecenter a friend of
00:40:50
roofs had seen the show and told her
00:40:53
that her long-lost cousin was looking
00:40:55
for her birth family it was a happy
00:40:59
shock and very exciting to know that she
00:41:03
had been found because everyone always
00:41:05
wondered what happened to those children
00:41:07
my dream my dreams coming true
00:41:10
three weeks later Laurie found herself
00:41:13
at her adopted sister's house outside of
00:41:15
Kansas City eagerly awaiting the arrival
00:41:18
of the relatives she spent her entire
00:41:20
life searching for first out of the car
00:41:28
was Laurie's older sister rosemary I
00:41:32
just was just looking at her I just
00:41:34
couldn't believe it
00:41:35
and we were both crying and it was just
00:41:38
it just felt good to hold her we we just
00:41:41
held each other so happy they're here
00:41:46
and I was just shaking when I got out of
00:41:48
the car you know just nervous and happy
00:41:52
very joyful soon Laurie was surrounded
00:41:59
by aunts uncles and cousins she never
00:42:01
even knew she had as her birth family an
00:42:07
adopted family became acquainted Laurie
00:42:10
circle of loved ones grew larger than
00:42:12
she could have ever imagined surrounded
00:42:20
by love I feel really great I have all
00:42:23
these pictures of me when I was a baby
00:42:25
I've ever seen and for the first time
00:42:28
Laurie got to see a picture of her
00:42:31
mother the elder sister Phyllis was
00:42:36
unable to attend the reunion but she and
00:42:38
Laurie met each other shortly after the
00:42:40
rest of the family reunited
00:42:42
sadly Laurie's younger brother Robert
00:42:44
seen as an infant in the news photo died
00:42:47
in 1982 and after our original broadcast
00:42:50
Laurie finally located the last sibling
00:42:52
Nancy Nancy and Laurie have spoken on
00:42:56
numerous occasions hope to have another
00:42:57
family reunion in the near future
00:43:01
[Music]
00:43:04
wonderful family of families we
00:43:07
especially thank you now that we're all
00:43:09
back together that we have each other
00:43:11
now we'll write each other call each
00:43:13
other visit each other nothing will keep
00:43:17
us apart everybody's just all excited is
00:43:19
there it's all excitements are good for
00:43:32
every mystery there is some knows the
00:43:34
truth perhaps it's you
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[Music]
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[Applause]
00:44:12
[Music]
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[Applause]
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