WEBVTT - Season 09 Episode 24: Audi Altarem Partem 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.160 On the surface, a court room seems like the last 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:18.840 place you'd expect to find anything supernatural. The business of law, 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:23.280 with its stuffy procedure and pedantic detail, leaves little space 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:27.520 for spirits. It's a province of hard rules and objective 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:31.040 fact where, perhaps more than anywhere else, the weight of 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:36.960 verification matters. Nonetheless, at times, the other worldly has fought 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.760 its way into the legal sphere. The spiritual battle of 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.120 the Salem witch trials was not raised by religious leaders 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.599 in the churches and chapels, but by magistrates in the 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:51.400 town court. The evidence of devilry was as much a 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.959 matter of legality as religion. Hundreds of years later, the 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.800 devil was back on the stand in the tragic case 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:03.840 of Analiza Michail, as covered in Unexplained, Season seven, episode six, 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:08.800 Look Me in the Eye. In nineteen seventy six, Annalisa 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.800 died from severe malnutrition following a year long course of 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:17.120 starvation to exercise the demonic forces that her parents were 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:23.480 convinced infested. Her medical experts diagnosed the supposed possession as epilepsy, 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:28.160 but the church back to the spiritual theory. Annalisa's parents 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:32.080 and two Catholic priests were charged and convicted of negligent 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:36.040 homicide in a landmark case that has reverberated in pop 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:40.160 culture and Catholic doctrine. In the Salem Trials and the 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:44.080 Analisa Michael tragedy, it was the threat of diabolic forces 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:49.200 that came under legal interrogation, but in other even stranger cases, 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.520 spectral evidence has actually been a tool of criminal prosecution. 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.840 Perhaps the most famous episode is the case of Zona 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:03.560 Hester Schu and the Green Ghost. In January eighteen ninety seven, 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.560 Zona was found dead at the foot of the stairs 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:12.040 in her West Virginian home. Sona's husband, local blacksmith, Edward Shoe, 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.200 was at work when he got the news. He ran 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.799 home immediately and called for someone to fetch the local physician, 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:23.480 doctor Napp. When doctor Napp arrived at the Shoe property, 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.760 he found that Edward had carried his wife's body upstairs, 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.440 washed her, dressed her in a high necked gown, and 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:34.359 was clinging to her corpse, weeping and refusing any further 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:39.560 medical assessment. Despite the oddity of Edward's behavior, doctor Napp 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.440 put it down to the frenzy of grief and declared 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:46.079 the cause of death as the everlasting faint, a nineteenth 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.920 century term for a heart attack. He later changed this 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:55.520 to female trouble and then simply childbirth. Sona Shue was 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.480 buried the very next day, and Edward went on with 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:02.919 his life in a seeming stoic manner, despite his evident grief. 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:08.920 Less than a month later, Sona's mother, Mary Hester, is 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.840 said to have awoken one night to find her dead 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:22.440 daughter standing in the corner of her darkened room. Over 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.960 the course of four supposed visitations, Zona sheu told her 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.840 mother the truth of how she died. Edward, it seemed, 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.680 was far from the loving husband he portrayed. He was 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.200 violent and abusive, and on that tragic day in January, 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.560 he had apparently reacted angrily to being told that there 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:46.080 was no meat for that evening's dinner. Sona apparently described 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.480 to her mother how he'd squeezed her neck at the 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:54.440 first joint until she was dead. Mary approached local prosecutor 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:59.040 John Preston for help. Preston initially laughed off the story, 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.200 but after questioning Mary for several hours even he began 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:08.400 to have doubts. First, Preston consulted doctor Knapp, who agreed 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.960 reluctantly that he may have been too eager in his diagnosis, 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:16.279 and that he certainly remembered Edward Schues's behavior as unusual. 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.680 Then the prosecutor looked more deeply into Edward's life and 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.600 found that he had been married twice before, both times 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:30.479 to women who died under strange and unresolved circumstances. Armed 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.280 with this new information, Preston was able to gain an 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:37.760 order to exhume Zoner's body. According to the local paper, 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:42.080 The Green Briar Independent, the discovery was made that Zna's 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:46.920 neck was broken and her windpipe mashed. On the throat 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.839 were the marks of fingers, and the neck was dislocated 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:55.120 between the first and second vertebrae. It was an injury 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.640 that had never been recorded before, but it matched precisely 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:03.240 what Zona's apparent ghost had told her mother. Edward Schu 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:07.839 was immediately arrested and subsequently charged with murder. He was 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:13.000 given a life sentence. In court, Mary Hester was asked 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.760 about her daughter's spectral visits, whether they were in fact 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:20.680 dreams founded upon her distressed condition of mind. As it 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.880 was put to her, no, sir, she replied adamantly, it 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.480 was no dream, for I was as wide awake as 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.560 I ever was. Sona came to me in the very 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.360 dress that she was killed in, and when she went 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.839 to leave me, she turned her head completely around and 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.600 looked at me like she wanted me to know all 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:45.080 about it. It's often said that the Greenbrier episode remains 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:49.279 the only case in which ghostly testimony was directly involved 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.840 in the conviction of a murderer, while skeptics argue that 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.760 the passing of time has helped to embellish it into 0:05:55.800 --> 0:06:00.640 a neater, more satisfying story than it probably was. But 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:04.200 there is in fact another case where a spirit or 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.360 something like it is said to have found the means 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.720 to address the court, and it happened much much more recently. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.640 You're listening to Unexplained and I'm Richard mc lean smith. 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:29.520 Terisee to Baza always loved music. From the very first 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.799 time her fingers touched the keys of the family piano, 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.360 she was infatuated. Even as a child, she knew that 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.960 making and studying music would be the purpose of her life. 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.039 Yet for a woman born in the Philippines in nineteen 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:48.920 twenty nine, a serious musical career was highly unlikely. Her 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.320 father was a successful lawyer and the Bazar family were 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:56.560 comfortably middle class, but a life in the small Dumaguete 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:01.880 city provided scant opportunity to someone of Terry's talent. To 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.359 have any chance of distilling her skills into success, she 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.280 knew she had to make her way to the United States. 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.280 It took her all of her adolescents and her twenties 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.520 to make it possible, but in her early thirties she 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:19.040 finally succeeded in gaining a place to study music at 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:23.480 the University of Indiana. She worked hard and graduated with 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:27.840 her master's diploma, but then, like so many others hoping 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:31.000 to pursue a career in the arts, Tera Sita was 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:35.560 spewed out into an unforgiving world. Without the comforts of 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.120 home and family, Terasita put her dreams on halt and 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:44.000 took a regular job. She worked at Chicago's Edgewater Hospital, 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.160 and over the course of several years, worked up to 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:51.200 the position of respiratory therapist, all the while keeping up 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:55.400 her musical studies. At some point she was accepted into 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.560 the Graduate School of Music to study for a PhD. 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.560 It was a busy life, long days at the hospital 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.360 followed by long evenings of work on her thesis, but 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:11.200 she was making her way. She was happy. Colleagues described 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.520 how she would eat her lunch every day in the 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:20.040 same spot in the cafeteria, humming gently to herself between mouthfuls. Finally, 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.760 she saved enough money to buy herself a piano of 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:27.480 her own. Maybe this gave her confidence, and colleagues noted 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.680 that Teresita became more sociable once the instrument was installed 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.800 at her home. She began hosting parties in her small, 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:41.280 fifteenth floor apartment in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Friends and 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.640 colleagues would cram into the humble space and sing as 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.720 Terasita played along. One night, her mother was there too, 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:53.200 having flown over to visit her daughter. She watched on 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.640 with a gentle melancholy at how relaxed her middle aged 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.280 daughter seemed in her adoptive home among her new knew 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:06.199 American friends, how radiant she was. A few days later, 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.360 when Pterasita's mother was leaving, she handed her daughter a 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:14.959 jewelry box. Teresita opened it and her eyes began to water. 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.719 Inside was a beautiful emerald pendant that her father had 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.439 bought for her mother during a trip to France years 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:26.560 before she had always admired it, and now her mother 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.480 was passing it down to her, a poignant symbol of 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.320 love from a parent who knew their daughter was never 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:47.600 going to come back home. At just after ten pm 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.640 on Monday, the twenty first of February nineteen seventy seven, 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:55.920 at Terasita's apartment block, the scent of smoke hung thick 0:09:55.960 --> 0:10:00.120 in the air. Terasita's neighbors were the first to notice it, 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:04.520 the acrid tang of something burning somewhere in the building. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:10.200 They traced it down the corridors to Terraceata's door. They 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:14.000 banged and banged on it, but no one answered. When 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.120 tendrils of black smoke then began to curl out from 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.720 under the door, they did the only thing they could 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:25.360 do and called nine one one. The building superintendent led 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:29.520 the firefighters into Terra Seater's apartment, where they immediately found 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:33.080 the source of the smoke, a low blaze simmering in 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.200 the center of the living room and its noxious smoke 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:40.560 pluming from a bare mattress. They made short work of 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:45.679 extinguishing the fire. Then, with worried neighbors peering in, the 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:49.600 firefighters lifted the mattress to reveal what they first assumed 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.160 to be a pile of clothes. When the smoke cleared, 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.760 they saw, to their horror that it was, in fact 0:10:55.880 --> 0:11:00.200 the body of a woman. The neighbors would immediately identify 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:04.560 her as Teraceata Basa. She was naked and laid out 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:09.000 on her back, with her legs spread apart. A butcher's 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:14.319 knife was embedded deep into her chest. While the firefighters 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.199 waited for police to arrive, they took a closer look 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.720 at the mattress, hoping to establish how the fire was started, 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:25.360 but they found no obvious catalyst or accelerant. The fact 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.160 that the mattress had really only been smoldering when they 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.760 arrived led them to believe it was the work of 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:35.040 an inexperienced arsonist. Then they turned their attention to the 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:40.680 wider apartment. The whole place was in disarray. Cupboard doors 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:45.360 hung open, Teraceta's belongings were strewn everywhere, and the air 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.840 was heavy with dust, as if freshly disturbed. It looked 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.520 less like the clutter of a busy life than the 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:57.880 aftermath of a robbery. A short time later, detectives Joe 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:09.160 Stahula and Lee Epplin took over the scene. Stahula and 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:13.720 Epplin had worked on many murders, but almost immediately something 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:18.880 about this one felt different. Next to Teresita's body lay 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.600 a pile of clothes that appeared to have been torn 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.959 off her with violence. That and the positioning of her 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:29.080 body suggested that she had been sexually assaulted before or 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:33.080 after she was murdered. The door to the apartment had 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:36.920 two dead bolts that Terasita was known to use. It 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.560 would have been impossible for an intruder to force his 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.600 way into the apartment, and he certainly couldn't have climbed 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:46.800 the fifteen floors to the window. The two detectives concluded 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.320 that whoever it was that killed Terasita, she must have 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:55.160 let them in voluntarily. The coroner determined that she died 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.400 from the single stab wound in her chest. It was 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.360 unsurprising that life had been driven deep or most to 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:06.920 the hilt in a single remorseless thrust. There were no 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.360 marks to suggest any hesitancy on the part of the killer. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:15.320 It was a murder committed with great violence, efficiency, and 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:20.960 it seemed to the detectives some experience. Then came a surprise. 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:26.520 Pteroceata's body showed no signs of sexual assault. In fact, 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:30.000 the coroner had good reason to believe she'd never had 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.880 sexual intercourse at any time in her life. Testing on 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:38.439 her clothes found no evidence of sexual assault either, which meant, 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:42.240 for some reason, the killer appeared to have deliberately made 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:46.280 the assault look sexually motivated when it wasn't. But to 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:51.440 what end? They only found one clue to pursue, a 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:55.840 note found in a journal written in Teraceata's handwriting, which 0:13:55.920 --> 0:14:01.440 read get theater tickets for asctives to Hula and Epplin 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.840 asked around, but quickly determined that Teraesita didn't have any 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.800 romantic acquaintances, and none of her close friends knew of 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:14.600 anyone in her personal life with the initials as. The 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:18.280 only scant thread was the word of Ruth Loeb, a 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:22.240 hospital colleague who'd spoken to Teraster on the phone little 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.680 more than an hour before her body was discovered. They 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:30.440 spoke for several minutes, and according to Lob, Teraesita sounded 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.600 happy and calm. There was nothing to give her friend 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:37.640 any cause for concern, and when Teresita mentioned she was 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.760 expecting a man to come over that evening, perhaps to 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:44.040 buy a concert ticket from her Lobe barely registered the 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:48.360 detail until the detectives got in touch with her. Was 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:52.440 this the enigmatic as they wandered, but Lobe couldn't say. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.840 Neither could she confirm if the man arrived or not, 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.520 and offered no further insight into how her friend came 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:09.920 to be murd At some point in a Venstant, a 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.280 small town just north of Chicago, in the early hours 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.840 one morning, Remi Ture tossed and turned in her bed. 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:22.320 Her husband Jose, sat up over her with concern. Remi 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.680 began to mumble something, as though something in the dream 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:30.400 was terrifying her. Jose urged her to wake up, and 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:35.640 finally she did, gasping for air. It was yet another nightmare, 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:41.360 all about the same thing, Terraceita. Remi Tua worked at 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:46.680 Edgewater Hospital as a respiratory specialist, just like Terresita, and 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.760 also like Terraesita. She'd been born in the Philippines before 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.760 moving to the United States. Because the two women had 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.280 similar jobs, they were rarely on shift together and only 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:02.560 knew each other casually. Because of that, Remy was surprised 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.400 by how hard she took the news of Teraceita's murder 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:10.120 and how unnerved she felt in the aftermath. That's why 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:15.000 she thought little of the dreams At first. Dreaming of 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.880 her dead coworker was probably a normal reaction to such 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:23.800 recent and traumatic events, Remy thought. Then one lunch break, 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:28.400 a colleague spotted Remy sitting in Terraceita's favorite spot in 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:33.320 the cafeteria. It wasn't especially strange until she did it 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:37.360 again the next day and the day after that too. 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:42.320 Then one day, Remy was overheard humming while eating her lunch, 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:47.040 just like Terresita used to do. Then some one else 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:51.240 noticed that Remy had taken a new locker. She started 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:57.000 using Terraceita's old locker instead. Her co workers were rapidly 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.920 growing disturbed by the behavior, which seemed orbit at best 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:05.720 and pathological at worst. Eventually one of them found the 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.480 courage to ask Remy about it, but she simply refused 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.520 to engage. When pushed further, she flew into a sudden 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:18.119 rage and told them to leave her alone. Several weeks 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.800 after the murder, during a late shift, Remy was sat 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:25.280 in an armchair in the staff lounge when she drifted 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:29.320 off to sleep. A few minutes later, she woke with 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:34.600 a horrifying scream, startling everybody in the room. Remy bolted 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.520 out at the door, seemingly in a state of utter 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:42.239 fear and confusion. A nurse eventually managed to catch up 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.679 with her and tried to calm her down. Did you 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:49.800 see her, said Remy. It was Tera Sita. She was 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:53.480 in the room standing over me. But the nurse just 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:59.520 shook her head. She hadn't seen anything. The event unsettled everyone, 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.800 but the next day Remy acted as if nothing had 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:07.240 happened at all. With disquiet growing on the ward, senior 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:11.720 staff called Remy to a meeting to address the deteriorating situation. 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:17.440 She attended, but flatly refused to discuss her behavior. Instead, 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:21.200 she reeled off a litany of complaints about her job, 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:26.280 her coworkers, and the management itself. Her outburst was so 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:30.080 out of character that her supervisor suggested she take a 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:34.399 short leave of absence, assuming with some compassion that Remy 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:38.120 was suffering the after effects of grief or shock. But 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:42.040 Remy flew into such a rage and response the management 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:53.440 decided instead to terminate her contract there and then. Now 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:57.760 untethered to the routines of work, Remy's behavior became even 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:03.399 more bizarre at home. Her dreams of Teracita continued, and 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:08.000 her husband, Jose, a doctor at another Chicago hospital, found 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:12.040 it harder and harder to wake her from them. One night, 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:14.879 Remy is said to have told Jose that she was 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:20.359 exceptionally exhausted and retired to bed early. Jose was understandably 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.280 worried about his wife, but agreed that a good night's 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:27.080 rest would do her good. Minutes later, he heard his 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:30.879 wife calling him from their bedroom, but something in the 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:35.359 tone of her voice was off. He opened the door 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.800 to the bedroom and in the darkness could just about 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:42.200 make out the figure of Remy lying prostrate on their bed. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:49.040 Are you okay, he asked, but Remi didn't respond. He 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:53.119 realized then that she was fast asleep. But then she 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:58.679 spoke again. Doctor, She said, in an unfamiliar voice, I 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.679 would like your help. The man who killed me is 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:07.360 still at large. What said Jose, taking a step closer, 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:10.840 I would like your help. The man who killed me 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:15.639 is still at large. Unnerved, Jose tried to wake his wife, 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:21.320 but Remy's eyelids remained tightly shut, and still the words came, 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:26.200 the man who killed me is still at large. There 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:30.000 were other words too, that Jose didn't recognize at first, 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:35.240 until he realized they were to garlog words of Filipino language, 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:41.680 which Remi used rarely and ineloquently. Jose shook Remy some more, 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:46.880 but still she wouldn't wake up. He began to panic, Doctor, 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:51.639 I need your help, came the voice again. Then this 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:57.040 time Jose tried something different. Who am I speaking to? 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:04.160 He asked, I am teraceeitaza, The woman replied. Jose felt 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:08.200 a chill run through his body. Then Remy opened her eyes. 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:21.959 When Remy woke up, she was alarmed to find her 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:25.439 husband standing over her with an anxious look on his face. 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:28.679 She claimed to have no memory of whatever she had 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:31.680 been dreaming at the time, or of saying anything during 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:36.280 her sleep. After that, she refused to discuss it any further. 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.639 At a loss how to respond, Jose simply tried to 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:44.439 forget about the whole incident. Then the following week, it 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:49.480 happened again. Once asleep, Remy began to speak once more 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:55.000 in that uncanny alternate voice, addressing Jose as doctor and 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:59.840 repeating the same plea. This time, however, she also said 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:05.439 someone's name, Alan Showy. Then the voice claiming to be 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:09.200 Terasita berated Jose for not telling the police that she 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:13.119 had been trying to communicate with him. Jose replied meekly 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:17.479 that he couldn't possibly approach the authorities without evidence, But 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:21.000 what is this if not evidence? Snapped the voice in return, 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:25.880 as All the while, his wife appeared to remain completely unconscious. 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:31.159 A short time later, she seemed to wake again. Remy 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:34.600 claimed to have had no awareness of what had just transpired, 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:37.800 but then Jose told her the name that she said 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:42.160 in her sleep, Alan Showery, and Remy jerked to attention. 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:47.760 She knew him Allan, it turned out, was an orderly 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:52.600 within the same respiratory team as her and Terasita. Remy 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:56.359 had always considered him an intimidating individual, and though she 0:22:56.440 --> 0:22:59.640 remembered that Terasita seemed to have got on well with him, 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:05.239 she herself avoided him wherever possible. She described him as 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:08.360 an arrogant man who liked to pretend he was a doctor, 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:12.720 and had even coined the nickname Doc for himself. She 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:15.720 didn't find it hard to believe that Showery could have 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:19.720 killed Terasita, but what on earth were they supposed to 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:23.880 do on the word of a supposed ghost. Another week 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:28.440 passed while the chewers worried and deliberated, both feeling guilty 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:31.880 for not reporting what they knew or at least suspected. 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:43.800 Then Remy fell into a third and final trance once again. 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:47.359 It began with Remy going to bed early as Jose 0:23:47.600 --> 0:23:52.000 lay beside her waiting. Then, in the darkness of the room, 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:57.639 as Remy lay absolutely still, the apparent voice of Terasita returned. 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:01.479 It said that she and Allan Shari had been on 0:24:01.560 --> 0:24:04.280 friendly terms and that he'd offered to come to her 0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:08.680 apartment to help fix her broken television. When she let 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:12.119 him in, according to the voice, he knocked her senseless 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:14.520 to the floor, then picked up a knife from her 0:24:14.600 --> 0:24:18.680 kitchen and drove it deep into her chest. After that, 0:24:18.880 --> 0:24:23.399 he systematically removed her clothes and posed Teresita's body to 0:24:23.480 --> 0:24:28.040 imply a sexual assault, just as the investigative team had suspected. 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:32.800 The thing was, As Remy and Jose would later find out, 0:24:33.359 --> 0:24:37.440 no one outside the investigation knew this because the police 0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:42.680 had never released this information to the press. Terasita's supposed 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:46.920 voice went on describing how while she was dying, Showy 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:51.399 pocketed her jewelry, including a distinctive pearl ring and the 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:55.639 emerald pendant that her mother had given her if further 0:24:55.680 --> 0:24:59.600 evidence was required. The voice also told jose the names 0:24:59.640 --> 0:25:03.080 of terror family members who could help verify that the 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:08.280 stolen jewelry was hers. Then all went quiet again, and 0:25:08.400 --> 0:25:11.560 once more, Remy claimed to have no memory of speaking 0:25:12.119 --> 0:25:16.040 or any knowledge of the event. She described. Unable to 0:25:16.040 --> 0:25:20.439 wait any longer, and now utterly convinced that Terasita was 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:24.520 using her as a conduit for justice, Remi Chow finally 0:25:24.600 --> 0:25:29.400 contacted the Chicago Police Department. To her surprise, the man 0:25:29.480 --> 0:25:32.720 she spoke with listened to her story with patients and 0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:36.240 urged her to contact the homicide detectives covering the case. 0:25:36.960 --> 0:25:41.400 But Remy still wasn't sure going public with her strange 0:25:41.400 --> 0:25:45.280 claim ran the risk of harming her husband's professional reputation. 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:50.960 But then the officer told her something unexpected. According to him, 0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:54.760 Remy wasn't the only staff member from her old hospital 0:25:55.040 --> 0:25:59.960 there had been experiencing strange visions of Terracetera. Three others 0:26:00.200 --> 0:26:06.360 had two, and eventually Remy agreed to talk. As preposterous 0:26:06.359 --> 0:26:10.000 as it all sounded, having gone six months without a lead, 0:26:10.400 --> 0:26:14.760 detective Joe Stahula was willing to try anything. When he 0:26:14.800 --> 0:26:17.439 met the Chewers at their house, the first thing he 0:26:17.560 --> 0:26:22.440 noticed was Jose's restless, anxious energy. You're rubbing your hands 0:26:22.480 --> 0:26:25.400 together like you're trying to start a fire, Stahula said, 0:26:26.000 --> 0:26:29.320 you have something you want to tell me. As Remy 0:26:29.440 --> 0:26:33.000 looked on nervously, her husband raised his eyes to meet 0:26:33.000 --> 0:26:38.160 the detectives. Do you believe in ghosts? He said? If 0:26:38.200 --> 0:26:41.399 the question took Stahula by surprise, he tried not to 0:26:41.480 --> 0:26:44.960 let it show. A good cop keeps an open mind, 0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:49.320 he said. Perhaps he struck upon exactly the right answer, 0:26:49.840 --> 0:27:01.200 because with that the Chewer's floodgates opened. Remi and Jose 0:27:01.400 --> 0:27:05.680 Tua told the detective about everything that had apparently transpired 0:27:05.720 --> 0:27:11.040 in their home since Pterasita's murder, the dreams, the apparitions, 0:27:11.520 --> 0:27:16.480 and what they'd finally resolved to call Remy's possession. Stahula 0:27:16.640 --> 0:27:19.960 listened to it all without interruption, as bit by bit, 0:27:20.280 --> 0:27:23.919 the Chewers revealed the details of the stolen jewelry and 0:27:24.040 --> 0:27:28.560 even that withheld truth about the body's suggestive positioning, and 0:27:28.600 --> 0:27:33.960 then they gave him a name, Alan Shawi. Stahula felt 0:27:34.000 --> 0:27:36.600 the hairs on the back of his neck bristle as 0:27:36.640 --> 0:27:40.160 he recalled the cryptic note that he'd found at Terasita's apartment, 0:27:41.040 --> 0:27:46.680 the initials A and S. Until then, alan Shahi had 0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:50.720 not even been on the police's radar, But now armed 0:27:50.720 --> 0:27:55.040 with the most specious of probable causes, the detectives decided 0:27:55.040 --> 0:27:58.320 to pay him a visit. Alan Shawi lived with his 0:27:58.480 --> 0:28:03.760 girlfriend Yanka, less than a block from Terasita's apartment. Later 0:28:03.840 --> 0:28:07.720 that day, detectives, to Hula and Epplin knocked on his door. 0:28:08.560 --> 0:28:11.439 He answered with a friendly smile and asked if they 0:28:11.440 --> 0:28:16.000 were there to talk about Teraceita Basa. Ever since her murder, 0:28:16.080 --> 0:28:19.040 He told the detectives he'd been very open with people 0:28:19.080 --> 0:28:22.520 about how he'd visited her the night she died. It 0:28:22.600 --> 0:28:26.080 was an unusual admission to make, and one that gave Sta, Hula, 0:28:26.160 --> 0:28:30.520 and Epplin enough reason to bring him in for questioning. First, 0:28:30.640 --> 0:28:34.280 then terrogated Shari, who just repeated what he said. He'd 0:28:34.280 --> 0:28:38.000 already told everyone that he went to Terreceta's apartment on 0:28:38.040 --> 0:28:40.760 the night of the twenty first of February to fix 0:28:40.800 --> 0:28:45.160 her TV, but after quickly judging it beyond repair, he 0:28:45.240 --> 0:28:48.040 told her he was going home to fix some electrical 0:28:48.080 --> 0:28:51.600 problems of his own, but when the detectives put his 0:28:51.680 --> 0:28:56.240 account to Yanker, she was confused. Allan had never shown 0:28:56.320 --> 0:28:59.520 any aptitude with electronics, she said, and there were never 0:28:59.560 --> 0:29:03.680 any alle pactrical issues with their apartment. She then revealed 0:29:03.720 --> 0:29:06.680 that in late February, Alan had presented her with a 0:29:06.720 --> 0:29:10.880 pair of belated Christmas presents, a pearl ring and a 0:29:10.920 --> 0:29:15.680