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entertainment company, l.p.

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( female narrator )
in december of 1990,

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the people of toronto
were preparing to celebrate

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the christmas holidays.

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but as they went about shopping
for their loved ones,

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they could not forget
about the 12 young women

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who had been brutally raped
in the past three years.

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they were also
well aware

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that the man who had committed
these terrible crimes

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was still out there.

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at their home
in scarborough,

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a suburb of toronto,

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the homolka family
was throwing a party

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for their daughter
karla.

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she had become engaged
to paul bernardo.

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good looking and bright,

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karla's parents found him
to be the perfect son-in-law.

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her sister,
15-year-old tammy homolka

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was allowed to stay up
late that night.

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paul, in love with
his new video camera

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was taking pictures
all night long.

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( paul )
oh, here we go.

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okay, okay, whoa.

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that's so cute,
extreme close-up.

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whoa !
whoa !

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( narrator )
later that evening,

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when karla's mother and father
had gone to bed...

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karla and paul
continued to celebrate.

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her sister tammy
stayed up with them.

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and she also
continued to drink.

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( phone ringing )

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around two a.m.
that morning,

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a friend of karla's received
a startling phone call.

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we got a phone call,
it was karla,

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she was calling,
she sounded distraught,

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she did say that
her sister had died

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and she
started crying.

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it was very unclear
how she died.

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( narrator )
karla told police...

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later that night,
tammy's body was taken

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to hamilton general hospital
to be autopsied.

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the local pathologist
said that in his opinion

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the young woman
had died from asphyxia.

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she had choked
on her own vomit.

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it was speculated that
the huge burn on her face

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had probably been
caused by stomach acid.

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the next day
a funeral was held

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for 15-year-old
tammy homolka.

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her friends and family
were visibly shocked

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at the young girl's
tragic accident.

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paul would not
leave her side,

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he kept calling her,

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"this is my angel,
she's my angel,

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oh, she's gonna
be our angel",

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and he would play
with her hair.

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he wouldn't
leave her alone.

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it was very dramatic.

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it was quite
a powerful evening.

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( narrator )
about two months
after the funeral,

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a bereaved karla and paul
rented a house

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in the town
of port dalhousie.

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they seemed happy,

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but suddenly their friends
began to notice

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a change
in paul's behavior.

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paul was getting
more and more bizarre

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as time went on.

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the last time
he came over,

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he was very, very drunk
and he looked at me,

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and i said,
"paul, what do you do ?"

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and he looked at me
with the craziest look,

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he said to me,

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"you wouldn't believe
what i did if i told you,

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you wouldn't believe
what i can do."

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i felt it down into my heart,
something just so evil.

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it was frightening.

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( narrator )
in april,
another young woman

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was attacked
leaving her school.

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but unlike the others,

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she was able to give
a partial description

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of the man
who raped her.

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she described him
as a tall, blond man,

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in his 20s.

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paul bernardo, like hundreds
of other young men

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seemed to fit
the description.

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so, he was brought down
to r.c.m.p. headquarters.

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there he was interviewed
and left a sample of his blood.

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police felt that
he was cooperative
and forthcoming,

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and did not consider him
a suspect.

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in june of 1991,

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when everything
had settled down.

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paul and karla
finally got married.

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they were just so crazy
about each other.

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she was totally
infatuated with him.

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we really kind of
understood that they were

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this donald and ivana trump
kind of couple,

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that he was
to be the provider,

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and she was gonna
be taken care of,

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and they both seemed
to like that role.

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( narrator )
but on the very day
of their wedding,

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in another part of town,

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the body of
a teenage girl was found.

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she had been dismembered.

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and her hands, legs,
and even her head

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had been removed
from her torso,

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and placed in blocks
of cement.

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she was later identified
as a 15-year-old girl

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named
leslie mahaffy.

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the sexual attack showed
the same pattern of behavior

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as all the others,
except for one detail.

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the rapist who had been
prowling the streets

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for over four years,

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had now turned
to cold-blooded murder.

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after their wedding,

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paul and karla went to hawaii
for their honeymoon.

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it was a romantic trip.

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their videos show a couple
infatuated with one another.

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shortly after they returned
to their home in port dalhousie,

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another brutal murder
took place.

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the body of 15-year-old
kristen french

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was found in the woods.

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she had been choked to death
with an electrical cord.

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but she would be
the last victim.

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on february 1st, 1993,

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after two years,

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an overwhelmed
and understaffed forensic lab,

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finally sent police the results
of their blood tests.

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the dna evidence
matched one person,

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the 28-year-old,
paul bernardo.

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but the authorities still had
unfinished business.

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they were sure
that paul bernardo

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had killed leslie mahaffy
and kristen french,

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but did not have
the evidence to prove it.

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until his wife, karla,

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walked into the metropolitan
police station.

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there she told detectives

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that she was frightened
for her life.

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hospital pictures showed
that paul bernardo

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had beaten her
unmercifully.

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she told detectives

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that he made her commit
unspeakable acts,

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and that
if she didn't,

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he threatened
to kill her.

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it was just
a matter of days,

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before it was
apparent to the police,

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at least at metro,
that she could give them

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a lot more then evidence
of her being battered as a wife.

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( narrator )
the police made
a deal with karla,

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they said,
"tell us all you know,

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"and help us convict
paul bernardo for murder,

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and we will give you
a break in your sentence."

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karla agreed and spent
the next five days

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giving a videotaped
confession.

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in this tape, karla talks about
the murder of leslie mahaffy.

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the deal is dependent
on her revealing everything

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of her wrongdoings

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in connection
with paul bernardo.

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and that would include
the death of her sister.

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hi.

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can you see me ?

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( narrator )
the police learned
for the first time

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what really happened
to tammy homolka.

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karla tells them that as
a christmas gift to her husband,

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she permitted
paul bernardo

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to rape
her own sister.

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after karla's confession,

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the chief coroner
of ontario

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ordered the exhumation
of tammy's body

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from the st. charles cemetery.

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in the toxicology report
following the second autopsy,

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the conclusion
was that in fact,

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the halcion had been used
to make tammy sleepy.

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from that point then
karla and paul had used

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a drug called halothane
which is a general anesthetic,

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and put tammy
to sleep.

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with an unprotected airway
one would vomit into the lungs,

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and that in and by itself
can cause cardiac arrest.

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( narrator )
unfortunately,
the two drugs,

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halcion and halothane,

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were not part of the drug test
in the first autopsy.

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discovery of either one
of these drugs

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would've been the red flag
indicating foul play.

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on may 19th, 1995,

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in a trial that would shock
all of canada,

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paul bernardo was tried
for the murder of leslie mahaffy

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and kristen french.

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it was in court
that a horrified jury

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learned for
the first time,

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that paul and karla
had videotaped

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the raped and torture
of their victims.

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but more importantly
the jury realized that karla

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was not just
an abused wife,

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but seemed to be
a willing participant.

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one of the first tapes

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that we ultimately
had to deal with,

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was paul and karla,
in karla's area in the basement

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in front of the fireplace
having sex.

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and here is karla dressed in
tammy homolka's school clothes,

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and she performs
oral sex on him.

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so she's playing
at being tammy,

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two or three weeks
after her sister's dead.

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you could see that
she was part and parcel,

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in my opinion,
of what went on.

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i think that
by herself,

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karla homolka would never
have committed these

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or any crimes
approaching them.

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these two, in combination,
formed a personality

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that was capable of committing
this series of acts,

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and i think that's really
what happened here.

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( narrator )
paul bernardo was sentenced
to life in prison

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without possibility
of parole.

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but karla who had made
her deal with the police

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before anyone ever saw
the incriminating videotapes,

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received only
12 years in prison,

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and is due to be released
in the year 2005.

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i guess i've come to
the conclusion in my own mind,

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that it was probably
a 50/50 thing.

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just a match
made in heaven, i guess.

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( narrator )
george and denise eckersley
lived in this brick house

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on colenso road
in leeds, england.

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they had been married
for four years,

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living quiet
and uneventful lives.

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but in 1999
they purchased a small car

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that they planned to use
on their trip to europe.

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but they never
went on that trip.

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just before they
were about to leave,

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the police received a phone call
from george eckersley,

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who told them
that his wife,

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and his car
were missing.

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( narrator )
her family placed her picture
in store windows,

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and local newspapers
in the area,

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hoping that someone
might recognize her.

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several people responded
to the missing person posters.

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in fact,
an amateur photographer

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said that he had shot video
of a strange-looking woman

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wandering around the resort town
of nearby cleethorpes.

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in addition, a security camera
at a local bank

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recorded the same woman using
denise eckersley's credit card

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to take out
some money.

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this led george eckersley
to go on radio,

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to plead for his wife
to come home.

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a few days later,
mrs. ekersley sent a letter

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to her family
in which she admitted...

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denise ekersley
sounded like a woman

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who wanted to die.

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then one morning,

249
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a man found her sweater
floating in the ocean.

250
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police later
found her pocketbook,

251
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along with an empty
bottle of vodka on the beach.

252
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authorities were sure
that she had taken her own life

253
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by drowning.

254
00:18:02,834 --> 00:18:06,600
but her daughter insisted that
the suicide note was a fake,

255
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that it wasn't
her mother's handwriting.

256
00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,900
so, the criminalists
examined the envelope

257
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for traces of dna,

258
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that might have been
left by the saliva.

259
00:18:18,100 --> 00:18:22,100
they cut off a small
section of the flap,

260
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heated it,

261
00:18:23,433 --> 00:18:25,667
then placed that piece
in a centrifuge,

262
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in order to isolate
the dna.

263
00:18:28,133 --> 00:18:31,834
finally, they placed
the sample in a machine

264
00:18:31,834 --> 00:18:33,967
called
"a dna sequencer",

265
00:18:33,967 --> 00:18:37,700
which identifies
an individual's dna.

266
00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:40,567
after two hours
they discovered,

267
00:18:40,567 --> 00:18:42,533
much to their surprise,

268
00:18:42,533 --> 00:18:45,433
that the dna
found on the envelope

269
00:18:45,433 --> 00:18:50,600
was a match not for denise,
but for her husband george.

270
00:18:51,934 --> 00:18:54,367
it was he,
not she,

271
00:18:54,367 --> 00:18:58,400
who had written and mailed
the suicide note to her family.

272
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police eventually
found george eckersley

273
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at the local airport,

274
00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,600
where he was about to board
a plane for amsterdam

275
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to start a new life.

276
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confronted with the evidence,
george admitted his guilt.

277
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he said
he hit his wife

278
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over the head
with a candlestick,

279
00:19:18,133 --> 00:19:19,400
cut her up,

280
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took her body to the factory
where he worked,

281
00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,867
and then dropped her
in a smelter,

282
00:19:24,867 --> 00:19:27,066
where he
incinerated her.

283
00:19:29,767 --> 00:19:31,867
( narrator )
the strange woman

284
00:19:31,867 --> 00:19:34,100
seen wandering around
the town of cleethorpes,

285
00:19:34,100 --> 00:19:37,033
was none other
than george eckersley,

286
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dressed in
his wife's clothing.

287
00:19:41,867 --> 00:19:44,200
it was
an elaborate scheme

288
00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,233
to make people think
she was still alive,

289
00:19:46,233 --> 00:19:49,300
while he was writing
her suicide note.

290
00:19:52,066 --> 00:19:54,700
he presents himself as a very
mild-mannered family man,

291
00:19:54,700 --> 00:19:57,533
but clearly
he was capable

292
00:19:57,533 --> 00:19:59,333
of one of the most
evilest of crimes.

293
00:19:59,333 --> 00:20:02,000
the deception
that he practiced,

294
00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,066
particularly on the family
was very, very cruel.

295
00:20:05,066 --> 00:20:07,567
george eckersley
had taken every precaution,

296
00:20:07,567 --> 00:20:09,567
except for one.

297
00:20:09,567 --> 00:20:12,967
he never realized that
by licking that envelope,

298
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he put himself
in prison

299
00:20:15,567 --> 00:20:17,600
for the rest
of his life.

300
00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:45,600
in 1997, a man named
anthony turner

301
00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,800
was arrested for the rape
of three women.

302
00:20:50,333 --> 00:20:52,467
one of his victims

303
00:20:52,467 --> 00:20:54,467
said she was
standing at a bus stop,

304
00:20:54,467 --> 00:20:56,033
when a man came
from behind her,

305
00:20:56,033 --> 00:20:58,133
and put a knife
to her throat.

306
00:20:59,700 --> 00:21:01,467
she said he dragged her
into an alley,

307
00:21:01,467 --> 00:21:04,200
and then raped her
repeatedly.

308
00:21:06,867 --> 00:21:09,066
not only did
she identify turner,

309
00:21:09,066 --> 00:21:12,934
but his dna matched
the dna samples,

310
00:21:12,934 --> 00:21:15,834
found on
the other two victims.

311
00:21:17,767 --> 00:21:20,400
but he insisted that the police
had made a mistake.

312
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,433
he said,
"i didn't do it !

313
00:21:22,433 --> 00:21:24,233
"there must be
somebody out there,

314
00:21:24,233 --> 00:21:28,233
who looks like me
and has my dna."

315
00:21:28,867 --> 00:21:31,834
the police realized
that was virtually impossible,

316
00:21:31,834 --> 00:21:34,433
and threw him
in jail.

317
00:21:36,467 --> 00:21:38,033
( narrator )
several months later,

318
00:21:38,033 --> 00:21:39,900
while turner was sitting
in his jail cell,

319
00:21:39,900 --> 00:21:42,300
another woman
in the neighborhood

320
00:21:42,300 --> 00:21:44,166
came to the police
and said

321
00:21:44,166 --> 00:21:47,367
that she also had been
attacked and raped.

322
00:21:48,767 --> 00:21:51,033
when police checked
the semen samples,

323
00:21:51,033 --> 00:21:53,233
that they had taken
from the young woman,

324
00:21:53,233 --> 00:21:55,100
they were surprised
to find

325
00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:58,567
that the dna was
a perfect match for turner,

326
00:21:58,567 --> 00:22:00,700
but that
was impossible,

327
00:22:00,700 --> 00:22:02,967
he had been sitting
in a jail cell

328
00:22:02,967 --> 00:22:04,867
when all of this
had happened.

329
00:22:04,867 --> 00:22:07,600
( narrator )
but after being interviewed
for several hours,

330
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,967
the young woman
became frightened,

331
00:22:09,967 --> 00:22:12,300
and confessed
to the police,

332
00:22:12,300 --> 00:22:15,033
that she had really
never been raped.

333
00:22:16,066 --> 00:22:18,867
she had
made it all up.

334
00:22:18,867 --> 00:22:21,100
she said
that turner

335
00:22:21,100 --> 00:22:23,467
had mailed her a sample
of his own semen,

336
00:22:23,467 --> 00:22:26,266
in a small plastic
ketchup packet,

337
00:22:26,266 --> 00:22:29,266
and that she had been paid $50
by turner's family

338
00:22:29,266 --> 00:22:32,967
to place the semen
somewhere on her body

339
00:22:32,967 --> 00:22:35,700
and to make up a story
that she'd been raped.

340
00:22:35,700 --> 00:22:38,967
she said
it was all a lie.

341
00:22:40,767 --> 00:22:42,700
( narrator )
turner had made a futile attempt

342
00:22:42,700 --> 00:22:44,467
at fooling the police,

343
00:22:44,467 --> 00:22:47,266
but he was caught
and ultimately convicted

344
00:22:47,266 --> 00:22:49,567
for the three rapes
and received a sentence

345
00:22:49,567 --> 00:22:52,800
of 120 years in prison.

346
00:22:53,266 --> 00:22:56,033
he didn't realize
that the odds

347
00:22:56,033 --> 00:22:58,700
of two people
having the same dna

348
00:22:58,700 --> 00:23:02,900
is almost
three trillion to one.

349
00:23:13,166 --> 00:23:16,266
( dog barking )

350
00:23:23,834 --> 00:23:26,734
( narrator )
on the morning
of december 22nd, 1999,

351
00:23:26,734 --> 00:23:29,900
at a diner
in dearborn, michigan,

352
00:23:29,900 --> 00:23:33,600
customers began complaining
about a horrible odor

353
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,500
coming from the grease dumpster
behind the restaurant,

354
00:23:37,500 --> 00:23:41,000
they said that it
smelled like rotting meat.

355
00:23:42,467 --> 00:23:45,066
when detectives arrived
and looked in the bin,

356
00:23:45,066 --> 00:23:49,767
they found plastic bags
containing human arms and legs

357
00:23:49,767 --> 00:23:52,233
that were beginning
to decay.

358
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,200
when i arrived
at the restaurant,

359
00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,600
i looked into the bag.

360
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,200
i saw the limbs.

361
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,633
and it's hard to
describe your feeling

362
00:24:04,633 --> 00:24:07,533
when you see
something like that.

363
00:24:07,533 --> 00:24:11,133
i have been a police officer
for 35 years.

364
00:24:11,133 --> 00:24:13,800
i have never
seen a person

365
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,533
cut apart
like that before.

366
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,433
( narrator )
the torso,

367
00:24:19,433 --> 00:24:21,467
as well as the head,
were missing.

368
00:24:21,467 --> 00:24:25,900
and the fingertips
had been sliced off.

369
00:24:26,266 --> 00:24:29,266
there was no way
to identify the body.

370
00:24:31,333 --> 00:24:33,400
so, police,
after taking blood samples,

371
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,533
stored the body parts in
the freezer of a local morgue.

372
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,200
several days later,

373
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,333
on a farm located
over 60 miles away,

374
00:24:45,333 --> 00:24:49,266
a farmer found
another plastic bag

375
00:24:49,266 --> 00:24:51,967
containing
a dismembered body.

376
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,133
when pathologists brought
the torso back to the lab,

377
00:24:57,133 --> 00:25:00,000
they found that it
and the arms and legs

378
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,800
found in the dumpster
had come from the same person.

379
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,834
but the police
still had no head,

380
00:25:06,834 --> 00:25:09,934
and more importantly,
no leads.

381
00:25:13,166 --> 00:25:15,934
the story of the murder
quickly disappeared

382
00:25:15,934 --> 00:25:17,533
from the local newspapers.

383
00:25:17,533 --> 00:25:20,266
and the police lost hope
of ever finding the person

384
00:25:20,266 --> 00:25:22,967
who had committed
this horrible crime.

385
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,266
but several weeks later,

386
00:25:27,266 --> 00:25:29,867
they received a phone call
from a woman in england,

387
00:25:29,867 --> 00:25:32,166
named anita ross,

388
00:25:32,166 --> 00:25:34,633
who said that
she had been frantically

389
00:25:34,633 --> 00:25:37,600
trying to reach
her sister, tracy.

390
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,667
she said tracy
had gone to america

391
00:25:40,667 --> 00:25:44,333
to visit her husband
and their children
for christmas.

392
00:25:45,233 --> 00:25:47,533
but mrs. ross said
that she never heard

393
00:25:47,533 --> 00:25:49,633
from her sister again.

394
00:25:51,266 --> 00:25:54,300
her husband,
dr. azizul islam,

395
00:25:54,300 --> 00:25:57,633
was a well-respected
biochemist.

396
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:02,767
he and tracy had been
happily married for 17 years.

397
00:26:03,934 --> 00:26:08,533
here they're celebrating
their daughters 19th birthday.

398
00:26:10,467 --> 00:26:12,367
but just
one year later,

399
00:26:12,367 --> 00:26:14,867
tracy and her husband
separated.

400
00:26:15,633 --> 00:26:18,667
he assumed responsibility
for the kids

401
00:26:18,667 --> 00:26:22,467
and she went back to england
to stay with her sister.

402
00:26:28,867 --> 00:26:31,266
when detectives went
to the home of dr. islam,

403
00:26:31,266 --> 00:26:34,400
he told them that
he and his wife had
had an argument,

404
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:38,667
and that she left
for england the next day.

405
00:26:39,333 --> 00:26:41,800
commander carroll and i
asked dr. islam,

406
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,967
if he would like us
to check his house,

407
00:26:44,967 --> 00:26:49,100
to see if, in fact, somebody
had broken into the house,

408
00:26:49,100 --> 00:26:52,233
and he requested
that we did do that.

409
00:26:56,967 --> 00:26:59,700
( narrator )
detectives searched his house,

410
00:26:59,700 --> 00:27:04,166
but found nothing
out of the ordinary.

411
00:27:05,567 --> 00:27:09,033
then they went
down to the basement.

412
00:27:13,433 --> 00:27:16,066
the basement floor
had been freshly painted,

413
00:27:16,066 --> 00:27:19,300
but only
in certain areas,

414
00:27:19,300 --> 00:27:21,600
where the washer
and dryer sat,

415
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,767
the floor had been painted
around those items.

416
00:27:23,767 --> 00:27:26,834
there was a roller
and a paint tray

417
00:27:26,834 --> 00:27:28,800
with fresh paint
still on it,

418
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,300
and we asked the doctor about
when the floor was painted.

419
00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:35,767
he stated that he had
begun painting the floor

420
00:27:35,767 --> 00:27:37,367
after his return
from new york.

421
00:27:37,367 --> 00:27:38,934
and the reason
he was painting it,

422
00:27:38,934 --> 00:27:41,633
was because he wanted
to sell the house,

423
00:27:41,633 --> 00:27:44,467
and he wanted
to move to new york.

424
00:27:44,467 --> 00:27:44,533
( narrator )
detectives did not
believe his story.

425
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,834
they felt that
the fresh paint on the floor

426
00:27:50,834 --> 00:27:54,467
indicated that he was
covering something up.

427
00:27:55,467 --> 00:28:00,533
forensic pathologists
recommended that
they call on eagle,

428
00:28:00,533 --> 00:28:03,567
a cadaver dog
that was world renowned

429
00:28:03,567 --> 00:28:05,633
for his talent
in detecting blood

430
00:28:05,633 --> 00:28:07,633
and human remains.

431
00:28:10,867 --> 00:28:13,333
eagle had recently
been in panama,

432
00:28:13,333 --> 00:28:15,533
where he helped the government
locate victims

433
00:28:15,533 --> 00:28:18,834
that were murdered and buried
by the noreiga government.

434
00:28:21,633 --> 00:28:24,066
so, eagle and his trainer,
sandy anderson,

435
00:28:24,066 --> 00:28:25,633
were called
into the case.

436
00:28:25,633 --> 00:28:27,667
from the minute
we walked into that house

437
00:28:27,667 --> 00:28:31,133
that dog was headed
for a stairway.

438
00:28:32,767 --> 00:28:35,633
that stairway belonged
to the basement.

439
00:28:37,033 --> 00:28:39,266
from the time
we hit that basement,

440
00:28:39,266 --> 00:28:42,500
he would down
and bark and touch.

441
00:28:43,834 --> 00:28:45,967
and the matter of fact,
one of the first things

442
00:28:45,967 --> 00:28:47,367
he hit on
was a paint roller,

443
00:28:47,367 --> 00:28:48,867
in a paint tray,
in paint.

444
00:28:48,867 --> 00:28:50,600
and there were
other paint trays around it,

445
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,667
but he didn't focus on those,
he only focused on this one

446
00:28:52,667 --> 00:28:54,767
particular paint tray
with some wet paint.

447
00:28:54,767 --> 00:28:57,066
and then a paint can
and then the floor,

448
00:28:57,066 --> 00:28:59,467
he was hitting
all over the floor.

449
00:29:00,333 --> 00:29:02,333
and he started
hitting on a mop,

450
00:29:02,333 --> 00:29:05,433
and a shopvac.

451
00:29:05,433 --> 00:29:07,066
he was obsessed
with the shopvac.

452
00:29:07,066 --> 00:29:08,967
we had to pull him
off of it.

453
00:29:08,967 --> 00:29:11,100
and i turned
to the detective

454
00:29:11,100 --> 00:29:13,233
with the first indication
and said,

455
00:29:13,233 --> 00:29:15,600
"my dog says there is
human remains in here,

456
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,033
"my assumption is,
based on my experience

457
00:29:19,033 --> 00:29:21,834
and his indication,
that it's human blood."

458
00:29:24,066 --> 00:29:26,467
( narrator )
detectives returned
with a search warrant,

459
00:29:26,467 --> 00:29:28,533
and sprayed the basement
with luminol,

460
00:29:28,533 --> 00:29:32,266
a chemical that is used
to detect the presence of blood.

461
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,800
when they were done,

462
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,433
the luminol proved
that eagle was right,

463
00:29:40,433 --> 00:29:44,767
it revealed the presence
of tiny droplets of blood

464
00:29:44,767 --> 00:29:47,734
on the paint roller
and on the floor.

465
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,600
the amazing thing
was the dog located

466
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,734
not really large quantities
of blood under the paint,

467
00:29:53,734 --> 00:29:55,834
but small
quantities of blood.

468
00:29:55,834 --> 00:29:58,734
somebody had made an effort
to do a very good clean-up job.

469
00:29:58,734 --> 00:30:01,467
same thing with the mop,
same thing with the wall,

470
00:30:01,467 --> 00:30:03,367
same thing
with the shopvac.

471
00:30:03,367 --> 00:30:05,200
we weren't talking
about blood spills,

472
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,533
we were talking about
blood splatter evidence,

473
00:30:07,533 --> 00:30:10,333
and all of this
had been concealed

474
00:30:10,333 --> 00:30:13,467
either with cleaning fluids
or paint.

475
00:30:14,066 --> 00:30:16,133
but there was plenty there
to obtain,

476
00:30:16,133 --> 00:30:18,567
and plenty there to prove,
that it was indeed

477
00:30:18,567 --> 00:30:21,033
dr. islam's
missing wife.

478
00:30:22,233 --> 00:30:24,767
( narrator )
pathologists found
that the dna in the blood

479
00:30:24,767 --> 00:30:27,567
matched the dna found

480
00:30:27,567 --> 00:30:29,934
in his wife's
dismembered body.

481
00:30:30,500 --> 00:30:32,734
eagle had uncovered
the evidence

482
00:30:32,734 --> 00:30:34,433
that would send
dr. islam to jail

483
00:30:34,433 --> 00:30:36,867
for the rest
of his life.

484
00:30:37,934 --> 00:30:40,300
sandra anderson
and eagle,

485
00:30:40,300 --> 00:30:43,934
were the main players
in solving the homicide

486
00:30:43,934 --> 00:30:46,867
of tracy islam.

487
00:30:46,867 --> 00:30:49,467
without eagle,
we would've never
obtained the search warrant,

488
00:30:49,467 --> 00:30:51,700
and without
the search warrant,

489
00:30:51,700 --> 00:30:54,700
dr. islam would not
have been brought to trial.

490
00:31:05,967 --> 00:31:07,967
( narrator )
52-year-old kay sybers

491
00:31:07,967 --> 00:31:10,934
lay dead on
an embalming table.

492
00:31:11,133 --> 00:31:15,567
she was being prepared
for her funeral.

493
00:31:16,934 --> 00:31:21,000
her blood was slowly
being replaced with formalin,

494
00:31:22,667 --> 00:31:25,867
so that her body
would not immediately decay.

495
00:31:27,467 --> 00:31:30,100
the procedure
was routine,

496
00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:33,934
but apparently
her death was not.

497
00:31:45,500 --> 00:31:47,300
dr. william sybers,

498
00:31:47,300 --> 00:31:50,000
chief medical examiner
of north west florida,

499
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,633
and his wife, kay,

500
00:31:51,633 --> 00:31:54,633
had been married
for over 30 years.

501
00:31:56,233 --> 00:31:58,467
but on the morning
of may 30th, 1991,

502
00:31:58,467 --> 00:32:02,533
kay sybers
suddenly died.

503
00:32:05,467 --> 00:32:07,800
dr. sybers told police

504
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,033
that at 5:00 that morning,

505
00:32:10,033 --> 00:32:12,967
his wife suddenly
awoke from her sleep.

506
00:32:13,667 --> 00:32:15,900
dr. sybers said
his wife had woke him up,

507
00:32:15,900 --> 00:32:18,834
and was complaining
of chest pains,

508
00:32:18,834 --> 00:32:21,433
and pains radiating
down her left arm.

509
00:32:21,433 --> 00:32:24,900
he said that he tried
to draw blood from her,

510
00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:28,567
to prove to her
that she had diabetes

511
00:32:28,567 --> 00:32:31,400
and that
she needed to go

512
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,467
to a physician
to check that.

513
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:37,967
( narrator )
dr. sybers went on to say

514
00:32:37,967 --> 00:32:39,533
that after a few hours,

515
00:32:39,533 --> 00:32:43,200
his wife was feeling better,
so, he left to go to work.

516
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,166
he called one of
his investigators

517
00:32:47,166 --> 00:32:49,433
who works for him as
a medical examiner investigator,

518
00:32:49,433 --> 00:32:51,934
to go check
on his wife.

519
00:32:53,834 --> 00:32:56,700
( narrator )
by the time they arrived
at the sybers home,

520
00:32:56,700 --> 00:32:58,367
some three hours later,

521
00:32:58,367 --> 00:33:01,133
kay sybers was dead.

522
00:33:03,166 --> 00:33:06,934
as soon as he was told
by the people

523
00:33:06,934 --> 00:33:09,633
he had sent out
to check on mrs. sybers

524
00:33:09,633 --> 00:33:12,300
that mrs. sybers
was dead,

525
00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:14,834
his first words
were "no autopsy".

526
00:33:14,834 --> 00:33:16,900
( narrator )
dr. sybers explained

527
00:33:16,900 --> 00:33:18,700
that his wife had said
on many occasions,

528
00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:22,200
that she never wanted
to be autopsied.

529
00:33:23,567 --> 00:33:25,767
so, later that day,
on her husband's orders,

530
00:33:25,767 --> 00:33:29,033
mrs. sybers' body was sent
to the southerland funeral home

531
00:33:29,033 --> 00:33:31,233
to be embalmed.

532
00:33:38,333 --> 00:33:40,467
i knew kay sybers
very well,

533
00:33:40,467 --> 00:33:43,600
over 10 years of association
with her husband.

534
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,000
frequently ate dinner
with her,

535
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,633
and still knew her
to be in good health.

536
00:33:49,633 --> 00:33:52,066
and i was shocked
that she died

537
00:33:52,066 --> 00:33:54,033
of a massive heart attack.

538
00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:56,734
( narrator )
authorities were disturbed

539
00:33:56,734 --> 00:33:58,900
that william sybers
did not follow protocol

540
00:33:58,900 --> 00:34:01,033
and have
his wife autopsied.

541
00:34:03,367 --> 00:34:05,934
so, on the recommendations
of state medical examiners

542
00:34:05,934 --> 00:34:08,533
and despite
her husband's protest,

543
00:34:08,533 --> 00:34:11,333
mrs. sybers' body
was sent to the morgue

544
00:34:11,333 --> 00:34:15,533
at sacred heart hospital
to be examined by a pathologist.

545
00:34:17,567 --> 00:34:21,367
at the autopsy,
it was found that mrs. sybers

546
00:34:21,367 --> 00:34:24,500
did indeed have
needle marks in her arm,

547
00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:27,633
supporting
sybers' story.

548
00:34:27,633 --> 00:34:31,333
but when the pathologist
removed the heart,

549
00:34:31,333 --> 00:34:34,000
they found that
it was perfectly normal,

550
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,100
normal in size,
normal in shape,

551
00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:41,000
the coronary arteries
were widely open,

552
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,767
there was no evidence
of a heart attack.

553
00:34:43,767 --> 00:34:47,200
the blood in the body
had already been replaced

554
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,400
by embalming fluid,

555
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,000
so it was very
difficult to gather

556
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,333
any evidence
for toxicology.

557
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,700
but because her death
was still a mystery,

558
00:34:58,700 --> 00:35:00,834
the pathologist
removed her heart

559
00:35:00,834 --> 00:35:03,400
and portions
of her liver,

560
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,133
and put them in jars
filled with formalin,

561
00:35:06,133 --> 00:35:10,166
in order to preserve them
for further investigation.

562
00:35:10,734 --> 00:35:12,767
when the autopsy
was finished,

563
00:35:12,767 --> 00:35:15,400
the pathologist,
out of frustration,

564
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,133
put down on
the death certificate,

565
00:35:18,133 --> 00:35:23,266
"sudden unexpected death
due to undetermined causes".

566
00:35:23,266 --> 00:35:24,900
in other words,

567
00:35:24,900 --> 00:35:28,567
he couldn't figure out
what the cause of death was.

568
00:35:29,633 --> 00:35:31,800
( narrator )
but the police
grew more suspicious

569
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,533
when they learned that
for the past six months

570
00:35:33,533 --> 00:35:36,233
dr. sybers had been
having an affair

571
00:35:36,233 --> 00:35:38,867
with a woman
named judy ray.

572
00:35:39,767 --> 00:35:42,033
but without
a cause of death,

573
00:35:42,033 --> 00:35:44,567
authorities
still had no case.

574
00:35:44,567 --> 00:35:46,400
there was still
no evidence

575
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,433
that a crime
had even been committed.

576
00:35:51,100 --> 00:35:54,400
a year later,
sybers married ms. ray,

577
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,767
and they moved
to british columbia

578
00:35:56,767 --> 00:35:58,467
to begin a new life.

579
00:35:59,633 --> 00:36:02,066
but timothy sybers,
the youngest son,

580
00:36:02,066 --> 00:36:05,200
never got over
his mother's death.

581
00:36:06,633 --> 00:36:12,133
and on february 21st, 1993,
at his home in wisconsin,

582
00:36:12,133 --> 00:36:14,700
he took
his own life.

583
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,400
dr. sybers' son,

584
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,433
while on the phone
with his girlfriend

585
00:36:19,433 --> 00:36:20,734
mentioned something about

586
00:36:20,734 --> 00:36:23,000
that he could
not live with the fact

587
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,200
that his father
had killed his mother.

588
00:36:26,567 --> 00:36:28,800
i believed that he had placed
the shot gun in his mouth.

589
00:36:35,333 --> 00:36:38,967
( narrator )
but kay sybers' death
would not be forgotten.

590
00:36:40,233 --> 00:36:42,533
through the years
forensic experts

591
00:36:42,533 --> 00:36:44,700
would continue
to examine the tissues

592
00:36:44,700 --> 00:36:46,734
that were preserved
from the autopsy,

593
00:36:46,734 --> 00:36:50,633
looking for
a cause of death.

594
00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:57,734
finally,
in the year 2000,

595
00:36:57,734 --> 00:37:01,000
at the national medical services
laboratory in pennsylvania,

596
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,166
scientists
armed with new

597
00:37:04,166 --> 00:37:06,333
and more sensitive
testing procedures

598
00:37:06,333 --> 00:37:08,767
made an incredible
discovery.

599
00:37:08,767 --> 00:37:10,567
what we found
in these tissues

600
00:37:10,567 --> 00:37:15,133
was the unequivocal presence of
succinylmonocholine.

601
00:37:15,133 --> 00:37:20,066
the levels that we saw
in the kidney and the brain

602
00:37:20,066 --> 00:37:22,400
would be enough
to paralyze someone,

603
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,667
which in turn,
if someone is paralyzed,

604
00:37:24,667 --> 00:37:26,800
has their
diaphragm paralyzed,

605
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,467
and they're not
on a respirator,

606
00:37:28,467 --> 00:37:30,433
they suffocate
to death.

607
00:37:30,433 --> 00:37:32,600
but it's not particularly
difficult to obtain,

608
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,600
particularly in
a hospital setting.

609
00:37:37,100 --> 00:37:39,500
( narrator )
nine years after her death,

610
00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:42,367
the riddle of
why kay sybers died

611
00:37:42,367 --> 00:37:45,133
had finally been solved.

612
00:37:45,967 --> 00:37:48,000
her husband,
dr. william sybers

613
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:52,033
had injected her with
an overdose of succinylcholine,

614
00:37:52,033 --> 00:37:55,300
putting her
to sleep forever.

615
00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,166
on march 23rd, 2001,

616
00:38:00,166 --> 00:38:03,033
dr. william sybers
finally stood before a judge,

617
00:38:03,033 --> 00:38:07,333
with his new wife,
judy ray, looking on.

618
00:38:07,333 --> 00:38:10,066
( female )
we, the jury,
find the defendant guilty

619
00:38:10,066 --> 00:38:12,934
of first degree murder,
as charged in the indictment.

620
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,867
( sobbing )

621
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,000
what is ironic
about this case,

622
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,133
is that dr. sybers,
a forensic pathologist,

623
00:38:35,133 --> 00:38:40,567
believed that embalming would
destroy the succinylcholine

624
00:38:40,567 --> 00:38:42,734
that he had used
to kill his wife,

625
00:38:42,734 --> 00:38:46,567
but instead, the embalming
had preserved the drug,

626
00:38:46,567 --> 00:38:51,100
so that it could be discovered
10 years later.

627
00:38:52,867 --> 00:38:55,333
( narrator )
it took 10 years
and forensic science

628
00:38:55,333 --> 00:38:58,066
to bring dr. william sybers
to justice,

629
00:38:58,066 --> 00:39:01,367
but only four hours
for the jury to convict him,

630
00:39:01,367 --> 00:39:04,900
and hand down the verdict
of life in prison.

631
00:39:28,100 --> 00:39:31,633
in 1931,
in los angeles,

632
00:39:31,633 --> 00:39:34,333
a 72-year-old woman
named esther carlson

633
00:39:34,333 --> 00:39:36,033
went on trial

634
00:39:36,033 --> 00:39:39,133
for poisoning a man
named august lindstrom.

635
00:39:41,734 --> 00:39:44,767
but no one knew much
about this woman,

636
00:39:44,767 --> 00:39:47,900
nor just how evil
she really was.

637
00:39:59,667 --> 00:40:03,233
our story begins
in the year 1900,

638
00:40:03,233 --> 00:40:07,300
with a 41-year-old woman
named belle sorenson.

639
00:40:09,433 --> 00:40:11,467
she and
her husband mads,

640
00:40:11,467 --> 00:40:15,000
had been married
for only six years
when he died.

641
00:40:16,233 --> 00:40:17,967
to make matters worse,

642
00:40:17,967 --> 00:40:20,600
she had already lost
two of her children

643
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:22,400
to what doctors described

644
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,700
as a mysterious
intestinal disease.

645
00:40:27,166 --> 00:40:30,600
in november of 1901,
she took her insurance money,

646
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,633
and her two remaining children,
lucy and myrtle,

647
00:40:33,633 --> 00:40:37,934
and moved to a farm
in la porte, indiana.

648
00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:40,567
to support herself

649
00:40:40,567 --> 00:40:43,667
belle began to raise
and slaughter hogs.

650
00:40:45,333 --> 00:40:48,934
at over six feet,
and weighing over 200 pounds,

651
00:40:48,934 --> 00:40:51,567
she was
a powerful woman.

652
00:40:52,767 --> 00:40:54,767
two years later,
she remarried,

653
00:40:54,767 --> 00:40:58,367
this time to a man
named peter gunness.

654
00:40:59,500 --> 00:41:02,834
but once again tragedy
seemed to be

655
00:41:02,834 --> 00:41:05,300
a close companion
to belle.

656
00:41:05,300 --> 00:41:09,100
in 1902 peter
was found dead,

657
00:41:09,100 --> 00:41:11,734
lying under
a large meat grinder.

658
00:41:11,734 --> 00:41:15,200
it had apparently
fallen on his head,

659
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,166
crushing his skull.

660
00:41:18,867 --> 00:41:21,767
belle was
once again alone.

661
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,133
very soon after
peter's death,

662
00:41:25,133 --> 00:41:28,367
the widow began
looking for a man.

663
00:41:29,033 --> 00:41:32,533
a man with money...

664
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,200
one gentleman who answered
her ad was ralph littleton,

665
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:41,734
who after a short visit
was never heard from again.

666
00:41:42,867 --> 00:41:45,233
another was
andrew hegelein,

667
00:41:45,233 --> 00:41:47,100
who like the others
that followed

668
00:41:47,100 --> 00:41:50,300
just seemed to disappear
into thin air.

669
00:41:51,667 --> 00:41:56,066
in 1907 her pig farm
had grown in size,

670
00:41:56,066 --> 00:41:59,700
so she hired a man
named ray lamphere

671
00:41:59,700 --> 00:42:01,934
to help
with the chores.

672
00:42:02,867 --> 00:42:04,467
but the next year,

673
00:42:04,467 --> 00:42:08,000
misfortune once again
caught up with her.

674
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,367
a fire broke out
on the farm,

675
00:42:14,367 --> 00:42:17,033
and consumed
all of the buildings

676
00:42:17,033 --> 00:42:18,867
in an enormous blaze.

677
00:42:21,900 --> 00:42:24,667
several days later
the sheriff and his men

678
00:42:24,667 --> 00:42:27,934
came to look for her body
in the rubble.

679
00:42:28,667 --> 00:42:32,533
but what they found
shocked them.

680
00:42:33,700 --> 00:42:35,633
they began
to dig up bodies,

681
00:42:35,633 --> 00:42:37,166
lots of them.

682
00:42:37,166 --> 00:42:40,266
they found her boyfriend
andrew hegelein.

683
00:42:40,266 --> 00:42:44,133
they identified jennie olson,
one of her daughters.

684
00:42:44,133 --> 00:42:46,900
when they were done,

685
00:42:46,900 --> 00:42:49,400
they had collected
10 bodies in all.

686
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,934
the men did find the body
of a headless woman,

687
00:42:52,934 --> 00:42:55,800
and a set
of false teeth.

688
00:42:55,800 --> 00:43:00,700
but no one could be sure
if belle had died,

689
00:43:00,700 --> 00:43:02,867
because the height
and weight of that body

690
00:43:02,867 --> 00:43:04,767
didn't match belle.

691
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,633
even though the dentist
said that the false teeth

692
00:43:08,633 --> 00:43:11,233
belonged to her.

693
00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:15,633
when the stomachs
of the victims were examined,

694
00:43:15,633 --> 00:43:19,300
the toxicologist found
that they all contained

695
00:43:19,300 --> 00:43:22,500
large amounts of
strychnine and arsenic.

696
00:43:22,500 --> 00:43:25,734
which meant that belle
had murdered all of suitors,

697
00:43:25,734 --> 00:43:27,700
and all
of her children,

698
00:43:27,700 --> 00:43:30,200
so that she could collect
the insurance money

699
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,400
on all of them.

700
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,300
( narrator )
eyewitnesses said
that they had seen ray lamphere

701
00:43:37,300 --> 00:43:42,033
with a gallon of kerosene
running away from the fire.

702
00:43:43,433 --> 00:43:46,166
and in 1908,
he was convicted of arson,

703
00:43:46,166 --> 00:43:49,200
and sent to prison
for starting the blaze,

704
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:52,500
but was not implicated
in the murders.

705
00:43:54,033 --> 00:43:56,500
right before
he was sent to prison, he said,

706
00:43:56,500 --> 00:43:58,533
"belle must
have loved me,

707
00:43:58,533 --> 00:44:01,700
"because i am the only man
she never killed.

708
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,100
"she said she
would've married me

709
00:44:06,100 --> 00:44:08,066
"if i had had
any life insurance.

710
00:44:08,066 --> 00:44:10,834
one thing i do know,"
he added,

711
00:44:10,834 --> 00:44:13,400
"i know she is
still alive !"

712
00:44:16,967 --> 00:44:20,800
the police spent the next
23 years looking for belle,

713
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:23,133
but never found her.

714
00:44:26,166 --> 00:44:30,166
which brings us back to 1931
and esther carlson.

715
00:44:30,166 --> 00:44:33,367
right before esther
was to be tried for murder,

716
00:44:33,367 --> 00:44:35,800
she died.

717
00:44:36,300 --> 00:44:38,767
a neighbor from her
hometown of la porte,

718
00:44:38,767 --> 00:44:40,600
recognized her picture
in the paper,

719
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:45,000
and identified her
as belle gunness.

720
00:44:46,233 --> 00:44:48,367
when police
searched her room,

721
00:44:48,367 --> 00:44:50,333
they found
an old steamer trunk,

722
00:44:50,333 --> 00:44:54,166
and inside was a picture
of belle's little girls,

723
00:44:54,166 --> 00:44:56,633
myrtle and lucy.

724
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:01,767
it was estimated
that belle gunness

725
00:45:01,767 --> 00:45:05,100
had butchered
more than 20 people
in her lifetime.

726
00:45:05,100 --> 00:45:08,367
some say that a great
many of these victims

727
00:45:08,367 --> 00:45:11,767
became food
for her beloved pigs.

728
00:45:13,233 --> 00:45:15,166
she was so evil

729
00:45:15,166 --> 00:45:17,667
that she became
a legend in her own time.

730
00:45:17,667 --> 00:45:23,100
in fact, in 1938
they wrote a song about her,

731
00:45:23,100 --> 00:45:26,834
it goes
something like this...

732
00:45:26,834 --> 00:45:32,033
♪ in old indiana,
not far from la porte ♪

733
00:45:32,033 --> 00:45:36,700
♪ there once lived a woman,
a home-loving sort ♪

734
00:45:36,700 --> 00:45:42,066
♪ belle wanted a husband,
she wanted one bad ♪

735
00:45:42,066 --> 00:45:47,834
♪ she placed in the papers
a lonely hearts ad ♪

736
00:45:47,834 --> 00:45:51,633
♪ men came
to belle gunness ♪

737
00:45:51,633 --> 00:45:54,233
♪ to share food
and bed ♪

738
00:45:54,233 --> 00:45:58,233
♪ not knowin' that soon
they'd be knocked in the head ♪

739
00:45:58,233 --> 00:46:03,266
♪ but while they were sleepin',
she'd lift the door latch ♪

740
00:46:03,266 --> 00:46:07,400
♪ she'd kill them
and plant them ♪

741
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,166
♪ in her 'tater patch ♪

742
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,266
( narrator )
whether death
occurred yesterday

743
00:46:19,266 --> 00:46:21,867
or hundreds
of years ago,

744
00:46:21,867 --> 00:46:25,500
the dead's
long silent voices

745
00:46:25,500 --> 00:46:27,767
return to answer
the questions

746
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put to them
by the forensic pathologist.

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he is their interpreter,

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and understands
their language.

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for him death is not
the end of the story,

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but just
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