Speaker 1: This is unexplained and you're listening to the second and
Speaker 1: final installment of season four, episode seven, called to the Forest.
Speaker 1: After scouring everywhere within a five mile radius of the
Speaker 1: abandoned Mercury Montego, the Yuba County Sheriff's Office had found nothing.
Speaker 1: By the end of the day. However, they would have
Speaker 1: their first significant lead. It came from a man named
Speaker 1: Joseph Shns. Around five fifty pm on Friday February twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: the night the five men went missing. Shahns was making
Speaker 1: his way into Plumus National Forest along the Aureville to
Speaker 1: Quincy Road. Fifty five year old Sons had been checking
Speaker 1: to see if the road would be accessible for a
Speaker 1: trip he planned to take that weekend when his Volkswagen
Speaker 1: bug got suddenly stuck in the snow. After trying unsuccessfully
Speaker 1: to push it out, Sons felt a painful tightening in
Speaker 1: his chest and immediately got back inside the vehicle to
Speaker 1: catch his breath. Unbeknownst to him at the time, he
Speaker 1: had suffered a mild heart attack. Being in such discomfort,
Speaker 1: he decided his best hope as to keep the engine
Speaker 1: running and try to stay warm until it passed or
Speaker 1: until someone else came by who could help. Drifting in
Speaker 1: and out of consciousness as the pain in his chest intensified,
Speaker 1: it was about eleven thirty PM when Sons was startled
Speaker 1: awake by what he took to be two sets of
Speaker 1: headlights driving in from behind him, one belonging to a
Speaker 1: car and the other to a pickup truck by. Now
Speaker 1: unable to move, he could only watch in desperation as
Speaker 1: the lights passed him by and disappeared around the next bend.
Speaker 1: Thirty minutes later, after hearing what he thought were people
Speaker 1: whistling nearby, Shns gathered the strength to investigate. Stumbling along
Speaker 1: in the dark, he followed what he now took to
Speaker 1: be voices until he came across a car seemingly parked
Speaker 1: up by the road and a number of silhouetted figures
Speaker 1: moving about in front of its headlights. Shns later described
Speaker 1: one of them as possibly being a woman who was
Speaker 1: carrying a baby, with all the other figures being men.
Speaker 1: When Shahns called out for help, the talking ceased immediately.
Speaker 1: Moments later, the headlights switched off plunged into complete darkness.
Speaker 1: Shons angrily called out again for help, but got no response. Suddenly,
Speaker 1: feeling a little exposed, he swiftly turned round and headed
Speaker 1: back to his car. A short time later, he caught
Speaker 1: sight of what he assumed to be the beams of
Speaker 1: flashlights moving about in the forest around him. Calling out
Speaker 1: once more for help, he could only watch in desperation
Speaker 1: as one by one the beams of light were switched
Speaker 1: off in response. When Schonz's engine eventually cut out at
Speaker 1: four am, he had little choice but to strike out
Speaker 1: for the nearest inhabited place that he could find. Remembering
Speaker 1: the vehicle he had seen from the night before, he
Speaker 1: decided first to check if it was still there. Sure enough,
Speaker 1: just where it had been the night before, he found
Speaker 1: What he could see then was a turquoise Mercury Montego,
Speaker 1: but no sign of its previous occupants anywhere. Despite suffering
Speaker 1: from a heart attack at the time, Joseph Shns eventually
Speaker 1: walked five miles to a nearby lodge house, from where
Speaker 1: he was later taken home by its manager. When explaining
Speaker 1: all this to the police later, although there was little
Speaker 1: doubt he had seen the abandoned car, Shns cautioned that
Speaker 1: since he wasn't entirely lucid at the time, not everything
Speaker 1: he thought he had seen could be trusted. Either way,
Speaker 1: it was certainly something to go on. What's more, if
Speaker 1: a fifty five year old man suffering a heart attack
Speaker 1: was able to walk five miles down the road to safety,
Speaker 1: there was reason to hope that the five men from
Speaker 1: Yuba County, Bill Sterling, Jack Madruga, Jack hewet Ted Weiher,
Speaker 1: and Gary Matthias could have done the same, provided they
Speaker 1: were indeed the men that Shans had seen. Under sheriff
Speaker 1: of Jack Beecham received another break shortly after, when a
Speaker 1: print dusting of the car revealed no other marks inside
Speaker 1: apart from those belonging to the missing men. Though it
Speaker 1: wasn't conclusive, it seemed to suggest at least that the
Speaker 1: car had not been stolen. By the end of that
Speaker 1: first day, nine inches of snow fell across the Plumous
Speaker 1: National Forest region, further complicating the search. Buoyed by Schanz's
Speaker 1: witness statement, however, the various local sheriff's departments expanded their
Speaker 1: search to as far as Buck's Lake, some twenty miles
Speaker 1: up the road from where the car was found. Having
Speaker 1: discovered that Bill Sterling's family owned a cabin near the lake,
Speaker 1: there was a chance that the men might have tried
Speaker 1: to reach it, but again, no footprints, clothing, or any
Speaker 1: other sign of them could be found. Back in the
Speaker 1: Uber City area, the families of the missing, crippled by worry,
Speaker 1: continued to wait helplessly for any sign of their sons
Speaker 1: and brothers. With the police continuing to draw a blank,
Speaker 1: some of the parents suggested contacting a psychic, in the
Speaker 1: expectation that even if they couldn't give them any clues,
Speaker 1: it might at least give them some hope. Doctor Gloria
Speaker 1: Daniel was a member of the Church of Zadi, an
Speaker 1: organization that claimed to teach its members how to become psychic.
Speaker 1: Although Daniel had not come officially recommended by the Yuba
Speaker 1: County Police, it is said that she had successfully helped
Speaker 1: them with similar cases in the past. On the morning
Speaker 1: of Friday, March third, a handful of family members gathered
Speaker 1: together with doctor Daniel and watched expectantly as she ran
Speaker 1: her hands through a series of clothes belonging to the
Speaker 1: missing men. Then she sat back and closed her eyes.
Speaker 1: After a short pau with the relatives in wrapped silence,
Speaker 1: Daniel began to speak. She could see people gathered together
Speaker 1: in a shack or a cabin in a wooded hilly area,
Speaker 1: somewhere near a body of water, she said. And something else,
Speaker 1: a small detail, A row of men tucked into what
Speaker 1: looked like green sacks made of canvas, sleeping bags. Perhaps,
Speaker 1: she thought, So, they're still alive, asked one of the relatives. Hopefully.
Speaker 1: Doctor Daniel hesitated, then opened her eyes. I'm afraid that
Speaker 1: is all I can tell you, she said. By Saturday,
Speaker 1: March fourth, as the search entered its second week, the
Speaker 1: Butte and Plumas County sheriffs began to question the merits
Speaker 1: of continuing. With the recent storms showing no sign of
Speaker 1: letting up and the snow continuing to fall heavily, they
Speaker 1: decided to pull back their resources for under Sheriff Jack Beecham,
Speaker 1: who was supervising the entire search, and his superior Sheriff Grant. However,
Speaker 1: there was no question of calling it off any time soon.
Speaker 1: Not only did the men's lives depend on it, but
Speaker 1: the entire reputation of the Uber County Police Department was
Speaker 1: resting on it too. It was only the year before
Speaker 1: that then Under Sheriff Lloyd Finlay was arrested on charges
Speaker 1: of corruption, having been accused of stealing weapons, money, and
Speaker 1: other valuable articles from the county evidence room. The dye
Speaker 1: who had prosecuted him believed the crimes were merely symptomatic
Speaker 1: of a corrupt undercurrent in local police practices which had
Speaker 1: been left unchallenged for too long. The case had been
Speaker 1: dragging on for almost a year by now, with it
Speaker 1: looking increasingly lightly that Finley was indeed guilty, finding the
Speaker 1: five missing men alive was the perfect opportunity to win
Speaker 1: back the community's trust for under Sheriff Beecham, who had
Speaker 1: been drafted in to replace Lloyd Finley and Sheriff Grant
Speaker 1: facing reelection later that year. The personal stakes could barely
Speaker 1: have been any higher. At the beginning of that second week,
Speaker 1: having put posters up of the missing men all across
Speaker 1: the Uber and Sutter area, and with the reports of
Speaker 1: their disappearance a daily feature in the local news, the
Speaker 1: pair finally had another lead to follow up. Carol Waltz
Speaker 1: was the owner of a local store in Brownsville, another
Speaker 1: foothill town of the Sierra Nevada just south of Oraville.
Speaker 1: Waltz had been working on Saturday, February twenty fifth, the
Speaker 1: day after the men had last been seen, when two
Speaker 1: men matching the descriptions of Jack Hewett and Gary Matthias
Speaker 1: came into her store. The pair were said to have
Speaker 1: bought a variety of snack foods before heading back outside
Speaker 1: to eat. A second witness also called that same day,
Speaker 1: claiming to have seen at least four of the men
Speaker 1: at the same store. The day after, two of them,
Speaker 1: who she took to be Bill Sterling and Ted Weir,
Speaker 1: were sitting in a red pickup truck, while two others,
Speaker 1: who she assumed to be Jack Madruga and Jack Hewett,
Speaker 1: were seen at a telephone booth nearby. Having previously focused
Speaker 1: their search to no avail on the immediate vicinity of
Speaker 1: the abandoned car, Beecham now feared that he had missed
Speaker 1: a trick. In response to the possible sighting in Brownsville,
Speaker 1: he promptly split the investigation into four parts, with the
Speaker 1: Mountain search still continuing. One unit was instructed to go
Speaker 1: back over all the evidence they had, tracing the men's
Speaker 1: movements up to the night that they disappeared. Another would
Speaker 1: focus on reinterviewing the family and friends, while the fourth
Speaker 1: focused its energies on trying to locate any more witnesses
Speaker 1: from Brownsville. Of immediate interest was the description of the
Speaker 1: pickup truck, now mentioned by two separate witnesses. A short
Speaker 1: time later. One friend of Garry Matthias's suggested he might
Speaker 1: have taken the men to visit friends in nearby Forbestown,
Speaker 1: but when the police contacted them, they claimed not to
Speaker 1: have heard from Garry for months. A fund set up
Speaker 1: by the desperate families for any vital information raised almost
Speaker 1: three and a half thousand dollars, but failed to yield
Speaker 1: any significant leads. On and on, the exhaustive search continued,
Speaker 1: entering a third and then a fourth week, but still
Speaker 1: the men could not be found. The police also failed
Speaker 1: to find any trace at the apparent pickup truck. On
Speaker 1: March twenty first, nineteen seventy eight, under Sheriff Beecham had
Speaker 1: no choice but to make the painful decision to call
Speaker 1: off the search. After hundreds of hours, having used almost
Speaker 1: one hundred personnel, sniffer dogs, helicopters and snowmobiles, the five
Speaker 1: friends who had supposedly left home merely to watch a
Speaker 1: game of basketball, had completely vanished off the face of
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Speaker 1: deputy was put in place of collecting any further information
Speaker 1: that might come to light. Having gone to Marysville High
Speaker 1: School with ted Weer and his brothers. Deputy Lance Heirs
Speaker 1: had been affected by the men's disappearance, perhaps more than most,
Speaker 1: taking it as his personal mission to bring closure to
Speaker 1: the families, in whatever shape that may take. For the
Speaker 1: next few months, Heirs spiritedly followed up on each and
Speaker 1: every piece of information that came in, from apparent sightings
Speaker 1: of the men in Sacramento to as far as Ontario
Speaker 1: and Tampa in Florida. He chased them all to no avail.
Speaker 1: When one local psychic claimed that the men had been
Speaker 1: murdered in Oroville in a two story house numbered either
Speaker 1: four seven two three or four seven five three, Airs
Speaker 1: spent two days driving the streets for any sign of it,
Speaker 1: but no such house existed. On some nights, Deputy Airs,
Speaker 1: dreaming that he had found them, would find himself walking
Speaker 1: toward them with open arms, only to wake up alone
Speaker 1: in the cold darkness of his bedroom, his arms still
Speaker 1: outstretched before him. By the end of May, even the
Speaker 1: families had begun to lose hope of ever finding out
Speaker 1: what had happened to their children. But high up on
Speaker 1: the mountain, the snow was steadily beginning to thaw, and
Speaker 1: soon it would be time to begin letting up some
Speaker 1: of its secrets. On the afternoon of June fourth, three
Speaker 1: bikers went for a week end ride through plumous forest.
Speaker 1: Heading along the Oureville to Quincy road, they decided to
Speaker 1: take a turn eastwards on to one of the narrower
Speaker 1: forest roads that headed higher up into the mountain. A
Speaker 1: short time later, the group pulled into the dawn annual
Speaker 1: Zinc campground, located about three miles deeper into the forest
Speaker 1: off the main road. The bikers pulled over and made
Speaker 1: their way to a large forest service cabin at the
Speaker 1: back of the site, hoping to find a map of
Speaker 1: the local area. Approaching the building, having just noticed a
Speaker 1: window that had been smashed in, the riders were hit
Speaker 1: by a sweet, putrid stench coming from inside. Going in
Speaker 1: to investigate further, the bikers soon located the source of
Speaker 1: the smell. There, stretched out on a camp bed before them,
Speaker 1: lying under multiple layers of darkly stained sheets, they could
Speaker 1: clearly see the outline of a steadily decomposing body. When
Speaker 1: the call came into the Yuba County Sheriff's office later
Speaker 1: that day, under Sheriff Beecham grabbed his hat and made
Speaker 1: his way to the nearest patrol car, arriving to find
Speaker 1: forensics and deputies from the Plumous County Sheriff's Office already there.
Speaker 1: Beecham could tell by the look on their faces that
Speaker 1: they had found. One of them covering his nose from
Speaker 1: the stench. Beecham made his way into the cabin and
Speaker 1: approached the body. With the sheets now rolled back, he
Speaker 1: could see the emaciated figure lying underneath the way the
Speaker 1: cordroy trousers had been rolled up to reveal clear signs
Speaker 1: of gangrene on the legs. Next to it, on a
Speaker 1: side table lay a brown wallet, a bead necklace, and
Speaker 1: a ring. Beecham picked it up and examined the engraving
Speaker 1: on the inside, which read simply ted. The body would
Speaker 1: later be formally identified as that of thirty two year
Speaker 1: old Ted Weier, last seen alive almost a hundred days before.
Speaker 1: The pathologist ruled the cause of his death to be
Speaker 1: the result of a pulmonary edema brought on by exposure,
Speaker 1: having survived for up to six weeks after he had
Speaker 1: first gone missing. To get to the cabin, Wea would
Speaker 1: have to have tracked almost twenty miles up hill in
Speaker 1: minus temperatures through six foot snowdrifts in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night. The shirt and Cordroy trousers found on his
Speaker 1: body were the only clothes he had been wearing. What's more,
Speaker 1: he had most likely been sheltering in the cabin alive
Speaker 1: and reasonably well throughout the entirety of the original search,
Speaker 1: but Beecham couldn't understand it. A cursory look around the
Speaker 1: service cabin revealed thirty one cans of food that had
Speaker 1: been taken from a storage locker and eaten, but an
Speaker 1: entire other locker's worth that had been left untouched. Propane
Speaker 1: gas linked to a heating system was also discovered, as
Speaker 1: well as stoves and matches, but also books and furniture
Speaker 1: that could easily have been used as fuel for a fire.
Speaker 1: None of it had been utilized. And then there were
Speaker 1: the missing shoes. Weir had been wearing a pair of
Speaker 1: sturdy leather shoes the night he went missing, but when
Speaker 1: they found his body, his shoes had gone. They did, however,
Speaker 1: find another pair of shoes left in the cabin, a
Speaker 1: pair of tennis shoes that had belonged to Garry Matthias,
Speaker 1: a recently burned out candle, suggested that perhaps someone else
Speaker 1: had also been there too, long after Weir had died,
Speaker 1: but had since left. The discovery of Weir's body prompted
Speaker 1: an immediate response from the Plumus and Uba County police,
Speaker 1: reconvening the search they had called off three months previously.
Speaker 1: Two days later, tracing likely lines from the service cabin
Speaker 1: back to where the Montego had been abandoned, officers soon
Speaker 1: uncovered another body, or what was left of it. It
Speaker 1: was found roughly halfway between the cabin and the abandoned car,
Speaker 1: lying face up next to a small stream. The face
Speaker 1: and extremities had been eaten away by forest animals sometime
Speaker 1: after death. Car keys found in the trouser pockets revealed
Speaker 1: it to be the body of thirty year old Jack Madruga.
Speaker 1: Later that day, not far from Madruga's body, more human
Speaker 1: bones were discovered scattered across an area of roughly fifty feet.
Speaker 1: It was all that was left of twenty nine year
Speaker 1: old Bill Sterling that those three had now been discovered
Speaker 1: was understandably devastating for the relevant families, but equally so
Speaker 1: for those of Garry Matthias and Jack Hewett, with neither
Speaker 1: having been heard from in over a hundred days. In
Speaker 1: all likelihood, they hadn't made it out of the forest
Speaker 1: alive either. Believing it to be only a matter of
Speaker 1: time before the others would be found, scores of volunteers
Speaker 1: joined the police to help speed up the search. On
Speaker 1: the morning of June eighth, Jack Hewett's father, also named Jack,
Speaker 1: arrived to help. Deputy Lance. Heirs, who had been entrusted
Speaker 1: with the case after the initial search had been ended,
Speaker 1: did his best to discourage him from joining in, but
Speaker 1: Jack would not be dissuaded. A few hours later, searching
Speaker 1: an area of roughly five miles from the cabin where
Speaker 1: were had been found, Jack spotted something out of place
Speaker 1: in the undergrowth. It was a faded Levi's denim jacket.
Speaker 1: He immediately recognized it as his sons. When he picked
Speaker 1: it up from the ground, a human spine fell out
Speaker 1: of it. Jack recoiled in horror as police quickly gathered
Speaker 1: round to take it from him. Hewett's skull was found
Speaker 1: a further one hundred yards down the hill, barely a
Speaker 1: quarter of a mile away. Investigators also found three wall
Speaker 1: blankets and flashlights, which had likely been taken from the
Speaker 1: service cabin but no matter how hard they looked, they
Speaker 1: found no sign of Garry Matthias. After two further weeks
Speaker 1: under Sheriff Jack Beecham called off the search for a
Speaker 1: second time. The bodies, or rather remains, of the four
Speaker 1: men that had so far been found had been placed
Speaker 1: into green canvas bags after all, just as supposed psychic
Speaker 1: doctor Daniel had apparently seen, only they weren't sleeping bags
Speaker 1: but body bags. Bill Sterling, Jack Madruga, and Jack Hewett's
Speaker 1: deaths were all found to have been the result of hypothermia,
Speaker 1: with no apparent signs of foul play. That their bones
Speaker 1: and bodies were in the state that they were was
Speaker 1: thought merely to have been down to the animals that
Speaker 1: got to them after they died. All that was left
Speaker 1: for Beecham was to try and piece together exactly what happened,
Speaker 1: and he knew just where to start. Beecham had his
Speaker 1: doubts about the twenty five year old Garry Matthias from
Speaker 1: the beginning. Where the others had intellectual disabilities of one
Speaker 1: form or another, Matthias had no such thing. Early on
Speaker 1: in the investigation, Beecham learned from Matthias's family that his
Speaker 1: involvement with the Gateway project, and how he met the
Speaker 1: others in the first place, was due to his struggles
Speaker 1: with schizophrenia. What Beacham also discovered, however, was that his
Speaker 1: history was a little more complicated than that. Matthias had
Speaker 1: in fact been in and out of psychiatric hospitals since
Speaker 1: the age of fifteen, first being committed after seemingly having
Speaker 1: suffered an adverse reaction from taking hallucinogenic drugs. After being
Speaker 1: drafted into the army at the age of eighteen, despite
Speaker 1: his clear medical records, Matthias is said to have suffered
Speaker 1: another psychiatric breakdown as the result of his continued drug use.
Speaker 1: At one point, Matthias was arrested after going a wall
Speaker 1: while waiting in his cell. He demanded to speak to
Speaker 1: the officers on duty, only to attack them when they
Speaker 1: opened his door. Matthias had stripped completely naked before carrying
Speaker 1: out the attack. Around the same time, the nineteen year
Speaker 1: old Matthias, now living back home in Olivehurst, went to
Speaker 1: visit his cousin. At some point in the night, Matthias
Speaker 1: was discovered sexually assaulting his cousin's wife while she slept.
Speaker 1: After being charged with assaulting a police officer and intent
Speaker 1: to rape. Matthias was facing up to twelve years in prison,
Speaker 1: but eventually accepted a plea deal and served only eight months.
Speaker 1: After his release, Matthias's behavior became ever more erratic. With
Speaker 1: his drug use escalating, he found himself increasingly on the
Speaker 1: wrong side of the law. There were a number of
Speaker 1: bar fights, as well as complaints of disturbing the peace.
Speaker 1: One time, Matthias is even said to have turned up
Speaker 1: high at the house of a couple he knew, telling
Speaker 1: them he was going to stab a woman in the jaw.
Speaker 1: Two subsequent attempts to have him committed ended in failure
Speaker 1: when Matthias managed to escape on one account by crawling
Speaker 1: out of a storm drain. In nineteen seventy five, Gary
Speaker 1: Matthias enrolled at Huber College, but struggled with both its
Speaker 1: conventions and fitting in with other students. Eventually he moved
Speaker 1: out to Oregon in Washington State to live with his grandmother,
Speaker 1: only to turn up at his mother and stepfather's house
Speaker 1: weeks later tired and disheveled. He had apparently walked the
Speaker 1: five hundred and forty mile journey home, eating food he
Speaker 1: found along the way to stay alive, all of which,
Speaker 1: for Beecham, made Matthias not only a potential candidate for
Speaker 1: the murder of the other men, or at least to
Speaker 1: have led them astray, but also one who might even
Speaker 1: have been capable of getting out at the forest alive.
Speaker 1: That Gary Matthias has never been found only serves to
Speaker 1: heighten this theory. It has also been speculated that at
Speaker 1: least Matthias and possibly Jack Hewett had made it to
Speaker 1: the service cabin with Ted Weir, only to leave soon after,
Speaker 1: with Matthias being the one most likely to have taken
Speaker 1: weird shoes. Unless Gary Matthias is found to have survived
Speaker 1: after all, it is unlikely there will ever be an
Speaker 1: answer as to what exactly happened on that mysterious night
Speaker 1: in February nineteen seventy eight. Why five men found themselves
Speaker 1: driving high up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains seventy miles
Speaker 1: in the wrong direction. Why having gone as far as
Speaker 1: they could, the men then seemingly abandoned their car and
Speaker 1: undertook a treacherous journey through thick forest and six foot snowdrifts,
Speaker 1: reaching ever higher into the mountains, only to find death
Speaker 1: waiting for them at the end of it. Much has
Speaker 1: been made about the men's intellectual capacities, suggesting this may
Speaker 1: have been a significant factor in what could have been
Speaker 1: little more than a horrifically wrong turn. Some have suggested
Speaker 1: this might also account for why those who made it
Speaker 1: to the forest to serve his cabin didn't eat the
Speaker 1: food and engage the heating apparatus to survive. Others suggest that,
Speaker 1: due to their innocence with such things, a worry that
Speaker 1: they were breaking the law made them too afraid to
Speaker 1: do so. As for Garry Matthias, despite under Sheriff Beecham's
Speaker 1: reservations in the time leading up to his disappearance, he
Speaker 1: appeared to have turned his life around. Not only was
Speaker 1: he holding down a steady job, but having finally been
Speaker 1: treated properly for his schizophrenia, of which most of his
Speaker 1: erratic behavior was likely just a symptom, he hadn't suffered
Speaker 1: any negative effects from it for over two years. Once
Speaker 1: lost in the forest, however, we could only speculate how
Speaker 1: quickly he may have deteriorated without his medication. Certainly, for
Speaker 1: Garry's mother and stepfather, theirs was an especially difficult anguish,
Speaker 1: Not only did. They never get closure, but in the
Speaker 1: absence of it, they were also forced to endure the
Speaker 1: inevitable suspicions that arose once Garry's past came to the
Speaker 1: attention of the public. Like many of the other parents,
Speaker 1: Garry's mother and stepfather had also joined in with the
Speaker 1: search for the missing men. His stepfather, Robert, had spent
Speaker 1: most of his time hunting for Garry's distinctive, thick, black
Speaker 1: rimmed glasses, reasoning that if a bear had taken him,
Speaker 1: it would have at least left those uneaten. In all
Speaker 1: the time spent waiting for news of her son's whereabouts,
Speaker 1: Garry's mother, Ida refused to turn on her television to
Speaker 1: afraid of what she might find out. But no news
Speaker 1: ever came. She would spend the rest of her life
Speaker 1: looking for him. I'd like to thank Ryan Vaughn's in
Speaker 1: New York for bringing this extraordinary story to my attention.
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