1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:05,319 Speaker 1: Once again, this episode has discussions of deaths of individuals. 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: If this sort of thing upsets you, this is again 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: not the episode for you. Welcome to Mayhem the More 4 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: with their host Doctor Kidder Crowns. Today's episode Neighbors neighbors. 5 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: Unless you own a private island, you can't escape them. 6 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: Some are good, some are bad, and some you never know. 7 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 1: But the really bad ones are the ones you really remember. Today, 8 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about a couple of problematic neighbors 9 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: that I have had over the years. When I was 10 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,559 Speaker 1: in medical school, I lived in an apartment complex on 11 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: Rainbow Boulevard in Kansas City, Kansas. It was near some 12 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: train tracks in a highway. The apartments were small, reasonably priced, 13 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: and were a few blocks away from the school, and 14 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: most of the people who lived there were actually medical students. 15 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: I walked from these apartments every day to go to class, 16 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: and they were incredibly convenient. I can still remember my 17 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 1: apartment number. It was five fourteen. It was in the 18 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: back corner of one section. I shared a wall with 19 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: one person, and I had a neighbor across from me 20 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: and one above me. Behind my apartment was a tree 21 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: covered hill that blocked out the sun, so that wasn't 22 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: really a neighbor in West you count the feral cats 23 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: and raccoons. In the years that I lived there, my 24 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: neighbor across from me was nonexistent. I saw her only once. 25 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: She too was a medical student, but a little further 26 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: along than me. She was a great neighbor, never there, 27 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: kept to herself when she was there, she was always quiet. 28 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: During my first semester of school, my upstairs neighbor was 29 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: also very quiet. He was in his final year of 30 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: school and he was never there as well, and I 31 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: never heard him except maybe once or twice. And because 32 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,639 Speaker 1: my apartment and was so quiet, I studied there a lot. 33 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: It was convenient. I could get snacks, I could nap 34 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: and occasionally watch TV, and I developed quite a routine. 35 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 1: I went home for Christmas that year, and when I returned, 36 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: I had a new upstairs neighbor. I still remember his name, 37 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: but because he isn't dead, maybe I'll refer to him 38 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: as Lane. Laine and I started medical school together. My 39 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: class size was one hundred and seventy five students, which 40 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 1: is a big group of people, and he were always busy, 41 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: and due to that I knew who he was, but 42 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: I didn't know him, and his last name was also 43 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: further down the alphabet than mine, and that meant we 44 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 1: had no interaction in labs or clinical rotations. Laine wasn't 45 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,399 Speaker 1: always in his apartment, but when he was, Laine liked 46 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,679 Speaker 1: to get drunk, and when he was drunk, he liked 47 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: to get loud, and he liked to do this at 48 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: all hours of the day. I remember one time at 49 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: two am, he sat on his back porch blowing a 50 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: Marty Gras horn for over an hour. Laine also liked 51 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 1: to entertain strippers from a local strip club called Bazookahs 52 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: at his apartment. Sometimes he would be having extracurricular activities 53 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 1: with them late at night, and it would also get 54 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: awful loud. But the most annoying thing that he did 55 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 1: was on the morning of our examinations, and that activity 56 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: was he would play the song Rooster by Alison Chains. 57 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: If you're not familiar with Alison Chains, they are a 58 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: heavy metal band that formed in Seattle in nineteen eighty 59 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: seven and they're always mixed in with the grunge musical 60 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: scene of the nineteen nineties. If you're not familiar with 61 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: the song Rooster, It's a song about a soldier in 62 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: the Vietnam War, and it is written by one of 63 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: the members of the band by the name of Jerry Cantrell. 64 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: It's a very loud, guitar and drum driven song, and 65 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: at seven am on every test day it would start, 66 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: like clockwork. I would be sitting eating my cheerios next 67 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: to my kitchen sink, reading my panic notes that I 68 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: put together the night before to do some last minutes, 69 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: and I would hear the opening guitar riff to the song, 70 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: followed by the lyric ain't found a way to kill 71 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: him yet, and a few seconds later the chorus, here 72 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: they come to snuff the rooster. You know he ain't 73 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: gonna die, And all the while Laine was screaming at 74 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: the top of his voice along with the song. It 75 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: was obviously his pretest ritual, and we all have those. 76 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: I always liked to wear a particular shirt, but for me, 77 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: his was really annoying. Before that time, I thought Allison 78 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: Chains were a decent band, But after this sonic torture 79 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: that I endured during this time period, I've never been 80 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: able to listen to them again. It was incredibly frustrating 81 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:40,559 Speaker 1: because he was so noisy and loud and irritating, often 82 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: at weird and bizarre times. I just started avoiding my apartment. 83 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 1: I would try to study at school to just not 84 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 1: listen to him, but that really wasn't working for me 85 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: because I had a routine before he got there, and 86 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: studying at school also had its problems as well. It 87 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 1: wasn't always convenient. I didn't have food there and napping 88 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: in the study cubicles. This wasn't as comfortable. I had 89 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: to do something so I could get back to my routine. 90 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 1: I decided I would try talking to him about the noise. 91 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: I tried several times, and his response always was a 92 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: pleasant f off ah, yes, f off, a truly educated response. 93 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: I complained to the apartment manager, Polly, but there was 94 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: only so much she could do and she wasn't always there. Finally, 95 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: I took matters into my own hands. I know this 96 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: is the point in a true crime story where someone 97 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: ends up dead, dismembered, and disposed of in a refrigerator, 98 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: but instead of that option, I went with option B, 99 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: and that was I initially pounded on the ceiling with 100 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: the handle of my broom. This was ineffective because it 101 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: was often actually not loud enough for him to notice, 102 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: and when he did, he would either turn up the 103 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: noise or pound on his floor back. I even put 104 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:52,919 Speaker 1: a couple of holes in my ceiling pounding so hard, 105 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: and when my dad came up to visit, he had 106 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: to help me patch them up. After the pounding was unsuccessful. 107 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: I got creative. The apartments we were living in had 108 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: the same footprint, so I pretty much knew the layout 109 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: of his I knew where his bed was, where his 110 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 1: television was, etc. Etc. I found his phone number in 111 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 1: the student directory, and this is, of course a time 112 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 1: before cell phones and caller ID. It was good old 113 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 1: fashioned land lines. I could track where he was in 114 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: his apartment based on his thunderous footsteps, and of course 115 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 1: I knew the location of his phone. It was the 116 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: same spot as mine, because all the phone jacks were 117 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,039 Speaker 1: in the same place. My diabolical plan was when he 118 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 1: got really loud, I waited until he was at the 119 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: farthest point from his phone in his apartment, and I 120 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: would call and I could hear his phone ringing, his 121 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: music would turn off, or whatever activity he was participating 122 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: in would cease, and he would walk across the floor thump, thump, thump, 123 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: and when his footsteps would get to his phone, click, 124 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 1: I'd hang up. I could hear him pick up the 125 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: phone and say hello, Hello, and then hang up frustrated. 126 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: The footsteps would move away from the phone, heading back 127 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 1: to his noisy activity, and I would call again. His 128 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:07,919 Speaker 1: phone would begin ringing, and he would run over to 129 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: the phone, and just before he'd reach it again, click, 130 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: I would hang up and sometimes sen in my apartment 131 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: and laugh a little bit. After a few times, this 132 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: would usually agitate him and cause him to leave his 133 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: apartment in frustration, and for a little while the noise 134 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 1: would be completely gone and I could study until he 135 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: returned to start to cycle over. There was one occasion 136 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: he even got so frustrated that he threw his phone 137 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: across his apartment, screaming about why did his phone keep ringing? 138 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 1: And why did that person keep hanging up? Success was achieved. 139 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: Were my tactics wrong? Were they a little juvenile? Yes? 140 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: Yes they were, but it was down to him or 141 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: me at that point, and I was going to win. 142 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: We kept this game up for most of the semester. 143 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: He never took his phone off the hook, which is 144 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: what I would have done if the phone kept ringing 145 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: and people kept hanging up, But he didn't do it 146 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: for whatever reason, and I kept calling and he would 147 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: leave longer and longer, giving me longer periods of quiet. 148 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: But the one thing is I could never stop the 149 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: rooster from arriving on Testay. I just learned to adapt 150 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 1: and be gone before the music started. Eventually, my dad 151 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: came up with a very reasonable solution. One time when 152 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: he was coming up to visit me, he brought with 153 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: him some gun range earmuffs. He told me, this will 154 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: probably take some of the edge off that noise, and 155 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: it did. I started wearing them and it was a 156 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: little easier to deal with Lane's rambunctiousness. And things continued 157 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: on for a while. But then there was a turning 158 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: point for Lane in school, and it had nothing to 159 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: do with me and my phone calls. It was during 160 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety three national championship game for the NC 161 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:50,679 Speaker 1: DOUBLEA tournament in basketball, or March Madness. Kansas University was 162 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: playing the North Carolina tar Heels and the winner would 163 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,679 Speaker 1: be crowned the NC DOUBLEA champion the next day, though 164 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: after the game, we were scheduled to have several very tests, 165 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 1: but the professor said if Kansas University won, the tests 166 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 1: would be postponed for a few days, but if they lost, 167 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 1: the tests would proceed as normal. All my classmates were 168 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 1: a buzz with Oh, if they win, we don't have 169 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:17,719 Speaker 1: to take the test for another few days and we'll 170 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: have more time to study. Some are like, oh, forget it, 171 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: I'm going to study anyway. For me, I was really 172 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: hopeful that KU would win, and that night I had 173 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: the game on my television, but I didn't have the 174 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: sound on because Lane's television was so loud I could 175 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: hear the announcers through my ceiling. I was half heartily 176 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: studying and watching the game, but by halftime it wasn't 177 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: looking good. I knew that a true fan would not 178 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: have given up and would have had faith that KU 179 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: would have won. But this was medical school, after all, 180 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: and I couldn't fail a test. I turned off my TV, 181 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 1: slipped on my shooting range earmuffs, and started studying. After 182 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: about an hour or so, there was a sudden boom. 183 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:00,200 Speaker 1: My overhead light shook and dust fell from the ceiling 184 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,719 Speaker 1: onto my papers. I took my earmuffs off to hear 185 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: what was going on. I could hear Lane screaming and 186 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: destroying his TV and by the sounds of it his apartment. 187 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 1: Kansas University had lost and the tests were going to happen, 188 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: and Lane was not happy at all. The next morning, 189 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: test day, I left before the rooster began. I don't 190 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: know how he did on the tests, but I know 191 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:27,559 Speaker 1: after that he started to drink and yell more and more, 192 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:32,199 Speaker 1: and there were often loud, angry arguments with his stripper friends. 193 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: And that phone, that phone just wouldn't stop effing ringing. 194 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: What the hell? The semester was ending and we rolled 195 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 1: into finals. On the day final started, I had shown 196 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: up to school to take the first of several tests 197 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: of that day, and I heard some people talking that 198 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 1: Lane had been pepper sprayed the night before the tests 199 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: by one of his girlfriends from the strip club. He 200 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: had run out of his apartment and stuck his face 201 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,079 Speaker 1: in the bird bath by the pool at the apartment complex. 202 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: And when I heard that, it explained the screaming that 203 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 1: it had woken me up at three am that morning. 204 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 1: Eventually we finished finals, I packed up and I went 205 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: home for my short summer break. I kept my apartment 206 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: over the summer, because my break wasn't very long. And 207 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 1: when I came back, my neighbor across the way was 208 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: again still there, still quiet, still non existent, but Lane 209 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: was suddenly incredibly quiet. Did something happen over the summer? 210 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 1: Did he change his ways? I went to class that 211 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: first week and I didn't see him around, and I 212 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: asked one of the other medical students that knew everybody's business, 213 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: because there's always one of those in every class, what 214 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: happened to Lane? And they said, well, no one really knows. 215 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: He just never came back. Later that week, I saw 216 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: my apartment manager and I asked her, Hey, what happened 217 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,439 Speaker 1: to the guy who lived above me? And she said 218 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 1: that she didn't know. He just never came back. They 219 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 1: couldn't find him. They called the list of phone numbers, 220 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: no one ann and when his lease ran out, they 221 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: entered into his apartment and it appeared he just picked 222 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: up all of his stuff and left. And there was 223 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: trash everywhere and damage to the apartment, and there was 224 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:14,200 Speaker 1: a phone. The base had been smashed pieces, and the 225 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: receiver was broken in half, and the parts were all 226 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 1: over the place. When I heard this, I smiled, and 227 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: I thought to myself victory. The apartment manager went on 228 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:27,559 Speaker 1: and said he won't be getting his deposit back if 229 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: he ever shows up again. I did find out that 230 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: Lane's grades had been on the decline most of the semester, 231 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 1: and he actually never showed up for the second half 232 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 1: of finals. I guess the mixture of medical school and 233 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: strippers was just a recipe for disaster. I never heard 234 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: of him again, and I don't know what happened to him. 235 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: He just disappeared. One thing is, though, every time I 236 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: hear the opening to Rooster by Alison Chains, I changed 237 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: the channel and I think of him, and it reminds 238 00:12:56,280 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: me of how irritating it was to live under him 239 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: that time period. Wow Wow. After I finished medical school, 240 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 1: I moved to Memphis, Tennessee for residency. I had nice 241 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: neighbors there for the entire time, and then we moved 242 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: from Tennessee to Illinois, specifically the western suburbs of Chicago, 243 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: and there we had wonderful neighbors. And we moved from 244 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 1: there to Texas, and my new neighbor in Texas was 245 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: my most unpleasant neighbor of all. At my new home 246 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: in Texas, the backyard opened up into a field. The 247 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: one side of the house face a roadway with the 248 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:39,079 Speaker 1: neighbor across the street, and the other side faced an 249 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: empty lot. I really only had the one neighbor on 250 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 1: one side, and on the day I moved in, I 251 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: was talking to the builder when my new neighbor walked up. 252 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: He was kind of a short, elderly man with gray 253 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,559 Speaker 1: white hair. He was wearing a white T shirt, suspenders, 254 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,839 Speaker 1: and blue jeans. The builder said, hey, Doc, this is 255 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: your new neighbor. And the old man turned to me 256 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 1: and he said, so, I hear tell you're a doctor. 257 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: Well they call me Doc. And I said to him, well, 258 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:11,320 Speaker 1: nice to meet you, sir. That's interesting. And they call 259 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 1: me Kendall. And from that moment on, that is how 260 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 1: our relationship was. He was unpleasant and sometimes aggressive, trying 261 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: to always tell Beth or me how to handle our 262 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: house or our yard or things like that. He would 263 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: tell us we couldn't plant trees, have a fence. He 264 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: was always frustrated when we wouldn't listen to him and 265 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: we didn't get his way. He would try to cite 266 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: his own obtuse version of the HOA rules, and then 267 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: if he didn't get his way, he would write up 268 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: a lengthy complaint and turn them into the HOA to 269 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: try and get us in trouble. The HOA would come 270 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 1: by and investigate, and they never found that we had 271 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: any real violations. One example of this is we had 272 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: a shed built that was one inch too close to 273 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 1: the property line based on the HOA rules, and he 274 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: measured this with a tape measure and filed an aggressive 275 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 1: complaint about our chef wanting it destroyed probably burned. The 276 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: HOA looked at it and said the one inch discrepancy 277 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: really wasn't that important. Plus the shed was on the 278 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: other side of our fence and really didn't affect his 279 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: property at all, and they told him he just needed 280 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: to calm down, which made him really mad. The other 281 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: thing he used to do was have loud karaoke parties 282 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 1: late at night. And like I said, he was an 283 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: old man. He was in his late sixties early seventies, 284 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: and he and his friends would become intoxicated and sing 285 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 1: songs by the Eagles, Bob Seeger and Cher and carry 286 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: on like they were college kids until well past midnight. 287 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 1: And let's just say he couldn't sing, nor could his friends. 288 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: And I again added a couple more songs to my 289 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 1: list of songs that they can't stand when they come 290 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 1: on the radio, which includes Desperado and Believe. This continued 291 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: on for quite a while. During this time, I had 292 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: a garden in my backyard, and one time I was 293 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: out there watering my tomatoes. It was a bright summer day. 294 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: The sun was shining and it was warm outside. There 295 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: was a dove quietly cooing on the edge of my fence. 296 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: I was focusing on the status of my plants. There 297 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: were weeds in the garden and some of the tomatoes 298 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 1: were starting to ripen. When out of the blue, there 299 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: was this pop, and the cooing dove fell dead at 300 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: my feet. Then pop, one of my tomatoes exploded. I 301 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: looked up and I could see my neighbor in his 302 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 1: boxers and white tshirt and bathrobe, pointing a gun at 303 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 1: me and taking aim. I dropped my watering can and 304 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: I ran zigzagging in the yard. I heard another pop 305 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: while I was running, but I don't know where that 306 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 1: one went. When I got in the house, I told 307 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: Beth that the neighbor was shooting at me. She called 308 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: nine one one, and the Sheriff's office responded but we 309 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: lived out in the country, so it took them probably 310 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: about twenty minutes for them to get there. During that time, 311 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 1: I looked outside and noticed he was gone. I went 312 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: out there and picked up the dead bird. I looked 313 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: at the poor dead dove. He was bleeding from his chest, 314 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 1: and I wanted to find out why he died. I 315 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:04,160 Speaker 1: cleaned the feathers off the wounds and found an entrance 316 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 1: an exit wound consisted of a gun shot. They weren't 317 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: very big, so whatever the gun was, it didn't have 318 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:13,120 Speaker 1: a lot of power or kinetic energy. Plus the bird 319 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 1: was still intact, so if it had been a high 320 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:19,400 Speaker 1: velocity rifle, the bird would have exploded. When the sheriff's 321 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 1: officer arrived, I went out to the driveway and met 322 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 1: her with the dead bird in my hand. I told 323 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:26,919 Speaker 1: her what had occurred, and then I showed her the 324 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: dead bird and began showing her the entrance and exit wounds, 325 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,399 Speaker 1: and I started telling her my theory about the gun. 326 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 1: The officer looked at me perplexed, and she said, who 327 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 1: are you. Where did you get this bird from? Again? 328 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: And I said to her, well, actually, I'm one of 329 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,439 Speaker 1: the medical examiners of this County, and this is the 330 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: bird that was shot by my neighbor on my fence, 331 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 1: right next to me when I was watering my tomatoes. 332 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 1: The sheriff's officer said, well, okay, I don't need to 333 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: see the dead bird, but you can show me where 334 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,239 Speaker 1: this incident occurred. And I put the bird down and 335 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: we walked into the back yard where my garden was. 336 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: I was pointing out to her where I was standing 337 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:05,159 Speaker 1: when the bird died, and she said, where was the 338 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 1: shooter at I turned and I pointed at the door 339 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 1: my neighbor had shot from. And when I did that, 340 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 1: I saw him standing on his deck eavesdropping on what 341 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 1: I was saying to the sheriff's officer. I said to her, well, 342 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,159 Speaker 1: that's him right there. He's the one that shot at me. 343 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 1: And the sheriff's officer said, sir, I'd like to speak 344 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 1: to you. His eyes got real wide and he took 345 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,680 Speaker 1: off running, and the sheriff's officer started yelling, excuse me, sir, 346 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 1: I need to speak to you. And he kept running 347 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 1: and he ran to his driveway and he got in 348 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 1: his golf cart and began driving away at the golf 349 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:40,400 Speaker 1: cart's top speed, which wasn't very fast. The sheriff's officer 350 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:42,920 Speaker 1: ran and got into her cruiser and chased after him 351 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: down the road, and she cut him off with the 352 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:47,680 Speaker 1: cruiser and got out, saying, sir, I need to speak 353 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 1: to you. It was quite the spectacle, but I didn't 354 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 1: catch what happened next because I went in the house. 355 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:55,400 Speaker 1: And when she got done with the interview of him, 356 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: she later called me and told me what the results 357 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:00,679 Speaker 1: of her interview had found. She said that he claimed 358 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 1: to be an air force sniper, which didn't make a 359 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 1: lot of sense. He claimed that he knew his way 360 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 1: around guns, and he was using a co two charge 361 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: air rifle and shooting pellets and would never have shot 362 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:16,159 Speaker 1: at me intentionally. But he closed with because if he 363 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: wanted to shoot me, he could have done it and 364 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: he wouldn't have missed, because you know, he was a sniper. 365 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:25,679 Speaker 1: And he told her his true intentions were to just 366 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 1: get rid of the doves because he found their cooing 367 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: to be irritating and he didn't like birds, and the 368 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 1: birds needed to go. And she told him what he 369 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 1: had done constituted a reckless act and he could be 370 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 1: charged with reckless endangerment, and she asked me what I 371 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: wanted to do and if I wanted to pursue charges, 372 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 1: and I told her I didn't want to pursue charges 373 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: as long as he stopped with the shooting of his 374 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: air rifle in my general direction or towards my yard, 375 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,719 Speaker 1: because at that time I had a lot of small 376 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 1: children who loved to play outside in the yard most 377 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 1: of the day, and I didn't want them to get 378 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,159 Speaker 1: hurt because I knew that air rifles were dangerous and 379 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 1: just one well placed pellet or bebie could easily enter 380 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: your body and kill you. Because I had had cases 381 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: like that, we didn't press charges. He stopped shooting his 382 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 1: air rifle in my general direction, and we continued on 383 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 1: with our armed truce. He'd occasionally called the HOA and 384 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: complained about us, and it went on and on like 385 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: that for a few more years, just like with Lane, though, 386 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,439 Speaker 1: a turning point came. It was in late March and 387 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,200 Speaker 1: I was set to go back to testify in Chicago 388 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 1: on a case. The case was yet another gangland shooting, 389 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: lots of bullets, lots of wounds, and one very dead 390 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: gang member, and I had to fly back on a Sunday. 391 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: Bethel drove me to the airport, and I flew out 392 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:54,439 Speaker 1: that afternoon and was in Chicago by that evening. The 393 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: next morning, I got up and took a cab to 394 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,919 Speaker 1: the courthouse, and when I got there, I had some 395 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,120 Speaker 1: time to kill, so I called Beth to see how 396 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: she was doing. When she answered, she told me something 397 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 1: weird had occurred. When she was taking the kids to 398 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 1: school that morning. The neighbor was standing at the end 399 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 1: of our driveway. She was wearing a rumpled overcoat and 400 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 1: her house slippers. Her hair was crazy, and she had 401 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 1: this wild look on her face. She was shaking her 402 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 1: fist and screaming and waving a white towel that was 403 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: stained red aggressively back and forth. Beth was attempting to 404 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:34,120 Speaker 1: back out of the driveway with our kids in the van, 405 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 1: and one of our children said to her, why is 406 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 1: the neighbor acting so weird? And Beth said, I don't know, 407 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,159 Speaker 1: but we're just going to get around her, and she 408 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,879 Speaker 1: maneuvered the van and got around her and drove away 409 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: while the neighbor continued to scream and shake her fist 410 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: at the car. Beth told me all of this, and 411 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 1: I said to her, that's incredibly odd. That doesn't even 412 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: make sense. I wonder what they're up to now. I 413 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: will be getting a call from the HOA sometime this week. 414 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: Beth agreed, but she said this time it was really different, 415 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 1: and it was exceptionally odd. I went on to testify 416 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 1: in the case later that day, and after I got done, 417 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 1: I was driven to the airport, bordered a plane of 418 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:20,919 Speaker 1: O'Hare and flew home. The next morning, I got up 419 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,679 Speaker 1: and went to work like I always did. Arrived around 420 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 1: six am and I cut through the death investigator's office 421 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: on my way to my office. One of the death 422 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 1: investigators saw me and she said, Hey, we think we 423 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 1: got your neighbor in here late Sunday night. And I 424 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: said to her, are you kidding me? And she pulled 425 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: up the file and the pictures on her computer and 426 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: showed them to me, and sure enough, it was my 427 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: neighbor wearing the same white tshirt, same suspenders, and blue 428 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,920 Speaker 1: denim pants that he was wearing when I met him 429 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,920 Speaker 1: for that first time all those years ago. The only 430 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: difference was he was laying there dead on an autopsy table. 431 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 1: I asked her what had happened to him, and she 432 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 1: told me the case was pending. He had evidently gotten 433 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,159 Speaker 1: in his wife's car, driven to the end of the street, 434 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 1: pulled up in the driveway of another person's house, which 435 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: was for sale, got out of his car, walked along 436 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,240 Speaker 1: the driveway into the yard, and that's where he was 437 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:18,399 Speaker 1: found dead with two separate gunshot wounds of entrance to 438 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: his head. The gun was at the scene, which made 439 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: it seem like it was a suicide, but there were 440 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,679 Speaker 1: other circumstances that called the manner of death into question, 441 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 1: and these were when the sheriffs arrived at the scene. 442 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,679 Speaker 1: His wife was hysterical and screaming, and she had the 443 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: hoa president and her husband sitting in her house with her. 444 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: She was carrying on and on, moaning and incredibly enraged, 445 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: crying and yelling, and she kept telling the sheriff's officers 446 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: that responded she didn't want that son of a bitch 447 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 1: doctor touching her husband. And she kept saying this over 448 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:54,199 Speaker 1: and over. The sheriff's officers were like, what doctor are 449 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 1: you talking about? And she pointed out her window towards 450 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,160 Speaker 1: my house, and one of the sheriffs officers looked over 451 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: and noticed sitting in my driveway my car. At that time. 452 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: I had a very distinctive blue Mustang that I drove 453 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 1: all the time, and all the officers knew about it. 454 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: I didn't take it to the airport when I left 455 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. And when the sheriff's officers saw that car, 456 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: they knew who that son of a bitch doctor was. 457 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,399 Speaker 1: It was me. And then they both thought, wait, this 458 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: is the crazy neighbor. The doctor Crowns is always talking 459 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,439 Speaker 1: about the one who shot at him and the one 460 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 1: who does all those other crazy things. And while they 461 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,119 Speaker 1: were taking their notes, the neighbor's wife alleged that I 462 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 1: had something to do with his death, and that created 463 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,879 Speaker 1: the issue with the manner of death. They had to 464 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: rule out a homicide. A suicide in which two gunshot 465 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,920 Speaker 1: wounds of the head occur is unusual. In the US, 466 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: twenty thousand people die each year from gunshot wounds to 467 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 1: the head. There's a five percent survival with these, and 468 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: three percent of those people have a good call of life. 469 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: There are a few factors that come into play that 470 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: determine if a person can have purposeful movement after they're 471 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,640 Speaker 1: shot in the head. A low speed, small bullet will 472 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: fracture the skull but lose most of its energy doing that, 473 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: and the resultant damage is just along the wound track. 474 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: A high velocity bullet, on the other hand, can cause 475 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: a massive wound track with a pressure wave and results 476 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,639 Speaker 1: in significant damage and it almost always kills the individual. 477 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 1: It's really truly about the velocity, so as always speed kills. Also, 478 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 1: if you just damage one side of your brain, the 479 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: other side of the brain can be still functioning and 480 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: take over and you'll survive at least for a little while, 481 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 1: depending on how much hemorrhage there is, so it can 482 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: occur you can shoot yourself more than once in the 483 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,400 Speaker 1: head and still be able to move around and pull 484 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: the trigger again, or even survive. When I saw my 485 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: boss later that morning, questioned me about my whereabouts on 486 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,199 Speaker 1: Sunday and Monday, and I told them, well, you know 487 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: where I was at. I was in Chicago testifying. And 488 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 1: my boss said it would be in my best interests 489 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 1: to have an alibi stating where I was at on 490 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 1: Sunday and Monday. And I said, well, wait a second, 491 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,920 Speaker 1: am I being blamed for something? And my boss emphasized 492 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 1: saying it would just be best if I could prove 493 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 1: my whereabouts on that Sunday evening, due to the allegations 494 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,640 Speaker 1: that were being made, I called the lawyers in Chicago 495 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 1: and I told them my situation and how I needed 496 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,879 Speaker 1: a certified letter from them verifying that I had been 497 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 1: there on Sunday and Monday. And the lawyer said to me, well, 498 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,679 Speaker 1: that's highly unusual, doctor, what kind of place are you 499 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 1: working in. But if that's what you need, well we 500 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,680 Speaker 1: can provide you with one, and they did. They sent 501 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: me a letter by overnight mail, and it was fancy. 502 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,159 Speaker 1: It was unofficial Cook County stationery. And I took that 503 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 1: letter and I gave it to my boss, who showed 504 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 1: it to the sheriff's officers that were investigating the death. 505 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,120 Speaker 1: And I was able to prove I wasn't there when 506 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,879 Speaker 1: my neighbor killed himself, And eventually the investigation showed that 507 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,920 Speaker 1: he had shot himself twice. I mean, it was two 508 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: contract range wounds, and the gun was at the scene 509 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: with two fired casings still in the gun. And it 510 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 1: turned out he had been making suicidal gestures to his wife, 511 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,479 Speaker 1: to the point that his wife had taken away all 512 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 1: of his guns, but she had kept hers because it 513 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 1: is Texas, and the gun he used was one of hers, 514 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,719 Speaker 1: and it was a small caliber, low velocity firearm, so 515 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,639 Speaker 1: it made sense why he was able to shoot himself twice. 516 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: The cause of deaths was made gun shot wounds of 517 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 1: the head, manner of death's suicide case closed. And what 518 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,160 Speaker 1: was on that towel you ask, Well, she had walked 519 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,919 Speaker 1: down to the scene and was noticed by the people 520 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: who lived in the house to be cleaning up the 521 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: area where her husband had shot himself, So what was 522 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 1: on that towel was probably some of his remains. About 523 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 1: a year after the incident, we moved away and new 524 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 1: neighbors came in and things returned to normal, and eventually 525 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:07,679 Speaker 1: we moved away as well, and now we have new 526 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: neighbors too, and that whole incident has just become a distant, 527 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 1: bizarre memory. And that brings us to the end of 528 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 1: the episode. I hope you learned something like the call 529 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: is coming from inside the house sort of. I hope 530 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 1: you were entertained until the next time.