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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Crime Wi Weekly. We're
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just going to kind of spitball these topics today and
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have time to write them down. We've just been blowing
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and going here at Envision Podcast Studios. But we're going
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to talk about a former paramedic in Louisiana claiming to
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be a doctor that was finally sentenced to federal prison.
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This week, we're going.
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To talk about a private investigator that is challenging officials
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on the Bayou serial killer theory. For those of you
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that are unaware, sixteen people have been thrown in byues
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in and around Houston, Texas. We're going to talk about
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that a little bit. We've got an update on Disney
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World deaths that have increased in the last three weeks.
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Of course, we brought you one story of suicides, just
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tragic suicide from Disney World. Four people total have died
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since We're going to talk about that and so much
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more today on Crime Wire Weekly.
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I'm Jim Chapman and I'm Kelly Jennings.
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Well, Kelly, this is our first episode since Halloween. Any
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exciting Halloween stories for.
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You, No, not not necessarily exciting, but I brought y'all
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know I love my my cockatoo Teddy. He's a he's
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a cool dude. And I brought him out to see
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the Halloween festivities because he loves being outside.
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Pruss him up.
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Oh he's always dressed to impress, but you know he was,
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Oh my god, he's just majestic. But no, my daughter
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wanted to bring him out. And we didn't think this
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one through because she had put on makeup like a cougar,
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you know, like, and she had caddiers. And when I
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walked outside, he was like and he freaked out and
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how to fly away? I was like, take off your ears,
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and so she took him off and then he calmed down.
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But man, instincts, that's crazy.
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You know.
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He's hand raised. Yeah, but he still knew he did
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not like that cat.
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All right, let's get into the crimes for today. We're
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gonna start out in Louisiana, and an ex paramedic has
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been sentenced for impersonating a doctor in a striking case
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that raises serious concerns about medical integrity. Samat Muckerge, a
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former paramedic, has been sentenced to federal prison after admitting
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to posing as a doctor for multiple years. On November fourth,
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a federal judge ordered Muckerg to serve six months behind
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bars following his guilty plea to charges of making false statements.
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The sentencing marks a culmination of an investigation that had
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actually been going on since late twenty twenty two.
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Now.
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Mukerjee's deceit came to light when his employer, Akkadian Ambulance
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Service carried out inquiries prompting prompted by discussions among staff
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regarding his self proclaimed medical credentials. It was during this
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investigation they uncovered he had no legitimate medical qualifications. This resulted,
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obviously in his termination that was on December ninth of
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twenty twenty two, and in an effort to distance himself
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from fabricated claims, Muckerg subsequently surrendered his paramedical license to
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the Louisiana Department of Health. Well, that was real nice
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of him, because they were going to likely suspend it
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anyway between May nineteenth and May of twenty nineteen. Rather,
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in November of twenty twenty two, Muckergee's fraudulent activities reached
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alarming proportions. He claimed to be a licensed medical doctor
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and concocted a variety of false documents He even had
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a fake medical degree and a fabrication of a residency
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match letter. Now even more disturbing than that he participated
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in a celebratory event perpetrating to mark his graduation from
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an institution he never attended. Wow. His actions even extended
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to prescribing meta medications illegally. Muckergee called in prescriptions for
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himself and others using a fellow physician's National Prescription Identify
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Our number that's known as an NPI number. And essentially
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this is an identify identify or used by real doctors
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to manage prescriptions. It's tied to one person he was
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using that pharmacy. Claims for these prescriptions were submitted for
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healthcare benefit programs including Medicaid and Blue Cross. In one instance,
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in October of twenty twenty two, Mukerjee actually wrote a
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cancer prescription for a cancer patient without without consulting the oncologist.
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And this guy's not even a doctor.
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Yeah, And you know, as someone right now, real quick
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who has a mom who has cancer and is taking chemo,
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that pisces me off.
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It pisses me off too.
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And I only you know, I don't have anybody's reliable now.
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Yeah.
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Fortunately yeah, he forged another doc her signature on the prescription. Now,
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Mukagie's actions could have resulted in a potential sentence of
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up to five years in federal prison and a fine
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of as much as two hundred fifty thousand dollars. How
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much you think he got kJ FA can being a
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doctor prescribing scripts for even.
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What was thet he could have gotten fifty five.
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Years and two hundred and fifty dollars fine, two hundred
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fifty thousand dollars five.
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I mean, if I was the judge, you would have
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got all of it.
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Okay, Well he got six.
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Months shame, jail for shame because we won't know the
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long term effects until they happen to these people, right.
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If there's a hopefully.
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It's none, right, but you know, but you won't know.
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You won't. But yeah, six months, well you know.
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And I'm looking at photos of him online and this
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is really creepy too. He's in a flight paramedic suit
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and I zoomed in on his ID and he does
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have his name and then MD after it.
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He also, yeah, there's.
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Another picture of him in his white coat and he's
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in the blue scrub or blue scrubs and another one
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in green. But he went and had those those shirts
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monogram than things to say MD.
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And he had a fake degree.
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Yeah, he had his own party for his medical graduation.
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This is a level of deceit. That's scary because now
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nothing he ever says, you know, I would believe or
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trust nothing, nothing. So good, God, that's crazy. I'm sure
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lawsuits are going to be filed all.
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Over the lady if they already.
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Right, all right, well let's take it to Texas. It's
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too soon to rule out a potential serial killer behind
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a string of mysterious deaths in Houston's Murky Bayous. According
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to a local private investigator, they're saying they don't have
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a serial killer, but I'm not sure this is according
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to Coleman Ryan, who is working with the family of
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twenty two year old Kenneth Cutting Junior, maybe their objective
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isn't sexual assault, it's not robbery, but they're just throwing
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people in the Bayou. Authorities have not yet accessed Cutting's
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phone or location records, Ryan said. With Cutting's calls and
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manner of death ruled undetermined in the autopsy and negative
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toxicology results, Ryan believes geolocation data and other digital clues
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should shed more light on his final hours. Houston leaders
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have downplayed the possibility of a serial killer following a
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rash of recent deaths involving the city's twenty five hundred
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miles of byus, with Mayor John Whitmeyer blaming homelessness and
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substance abuse. Sixteen bodies, that's crazy, huh. Sixteen people have
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been recovered from the VYUS so far this year, including
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a University of Houston student named Jade McKissick, who was
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last seen leaving a downtown bar on September eleventh. The
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twenty year old McKissick was found dead in Braze BYU
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days later. Neither McKissick nor Cutting was homeless, Ryan said,
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and neither of them had signs of trauma. I think
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they're just too quickly dismissing it, he said. Cutting was
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seen leaving Pete's Dueling Piano Bar on January twenty eighth,
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twenty twenty four, after an apparent argument with one of
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his roommates. They reunited that evening, and at around two am,
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his roommate's text his father to say that he had
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gone quote unquote crazy and got out of their car
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on a highway outside town. Days later, police recovered his
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remains from Buffalo by You, about a mile from where
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the roommates said he got out. A toxicology report found
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no drugs in his system. Now there are alleged discrepancies
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in his autopsy, and that's raised additional questions from his relatives.
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Lauren Freeman is his cousin and said that a reference
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to orthopedic hardware in his neck had perplexed the family.
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No one was aware of him ever undergoing a surgery
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that would have placed it there. Now she claims that
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someone from the Medical Examiner's office told her the line
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was the result of a clerical error and that no
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such hardware had been found in Cutting's neck after looking
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over everything in detail. There are other odd things, according
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to this cousin. For example, her cousin stood at five
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foot three inches tall, but was listed as four foot
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eight inches tall in the autopsy report. Although he was small.
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She also took issue with the official weight of his
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remains at eighty nine pound. According to his father, Kenneth
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Cutting Senior, the victim weighed about one hundred and fifteen
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pounds when he went missing three days before being found
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in the Bayou. To me, his credibility is shot. Freeman said,
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each cause has to be dissected on its own merits, time, timelines, reinterviews,
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and autopsy reports. Said Joseph Jack Jackaloone Jockolone. I believe
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that's how you would say this, a retired NYPD sergeant
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and criminal justice professor at Penn State Lehigh Valley. Those
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reports and autopsies now come with a whole host of
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new problems.
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Yeah, and you know, if you gorse, we do a
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lot of research on this stuff, and those numbers, that's
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sixteen shocking enough, but some people's some articles I came
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across say.
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It's as high as twenty eight. Wow bodies.
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And you know, initially they were tracking these or they
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were chalking these up to transients and people that were homeless.
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But you know, Kylie, students, I ain't homeless. And now
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there have been several of those end up in that
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by you.
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And do we know if they're all the sex of them?
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Are they male and female or are they all male?
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I think I think it's a mixture, but I'm not
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one hundred percent more on that.
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Yeah, because I mean, we had our serial killer down
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here in New Orleans years ago, and you know, he
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was knocking off men that were, you know, homosexual male.
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He was a homosexual male, and then he was targeting
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certain groups. So I was curious if there was a
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commonality maybe between these victims. But to dismiss that many
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bodies as something not connected seems very interesting. That's a
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lot of bodies and I don't believe a lot.
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Of bodies in it.
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You know, it's said twenty five hundred miles of by you,
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so that's also a.
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Lot of area.
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Yeah, but like historically with.
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One hundred miles is almost the entire I mean, think
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about it, that's almost from here to California.
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Well, yeah, I guess, but historically, how many bodies are
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they pulling out at this rate? Because in comparison, if
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we look at the last say twenty years, and they've
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pulled out nine, and now in this short period of
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time we've pulled out sixteen to twenty whatever the number is,
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there's something going on there. Trends need to be looked at.
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You know, I agree one hundred percent, and I'll say this.
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You know, several of those were Houston students, went to
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college in Houston.
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Well, if that's the.
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Case, then they were probably in the same general area
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that they were found. They weren't twenty five hundred miles
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from each other.
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And not to be a total that's going on, Not
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to be a total and complete nerd here, but I'd
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also be interested. Even if the toxicology came back and
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was saying nothing in the system, what if they are
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being drug with something with a very very short half
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life and so by the time they get the body
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it's gone, Because that could be a link that's not
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there because it's not there, but it was, So that
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would be something too. I'd be interested. Not to be
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a total nerd.
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All right, we'll dig into it, Okjay, I'm going to
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see that episode on Let's Go to Florida, And of
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course we brought you a tragic story about a woman
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who committed suicide in Florida. Well, people are now in
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utter shock as a fourth person has died at Disney
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World in Florida. The most magical place on Earth, has
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been home to some tragedies. As of late, four people
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have reportedly died at the popular theme park over the
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last three weeks. A deceased person was reported most recently
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on November two now. The call was reportedly placed shortly
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after two am in the morning, and a spokesman for
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the Sheriff's office set a woman in her forties have
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passed away, noting that there were no signs of foul play.
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A thirty one year old woman woman was found dead
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at the park after being reported missing. She was later
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to have been found dead by suicide. And that was
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the one that we reported to you. A week later,