Speaker 1: The control group contains scenes of realistic violence and graphic sexuality.
Speaker 1: It is intended for mature listeners. Eaton County Sheriff's Office.
Speaker 1: This is Ken Bailey at the Dixie Hotel over on
Speaker 1: the Highway twenty nine. We've um there's there's been an accident.
Speaker 1: You see, one of our guests has fallen from a
Speaker 1: window under the pool day. How far did he fall?
Speaker 1: Is it a man or woman? Man? He fell from
Speaker 1: her over room. He was on the fifth floor, five twelve.
Speaker 1: We're sending an ambulance now, the best to first available
Speaker 1: rescue to the Dixie Motel on twenty nine cars in
Speaker 1: the vicinity. Are you there, Ken? Yes? My Now do
Speaker 1: you know the victim's name? Yes, I with. We looked
Speaker 1: in his wallet. I hope that's fine, Ken, but trying
Speaker 1: not to move him or otherwise. Grand from Columbus. Is
Speaker 1: he responsive all right? Yes? To see. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's all right. That's why he took his wallet. Now
Speaker 1: he fell from the fifth floor. What did he land on?
Speaker 1: The pool deck? The metal lunge chair. When you say
Speaker 1: pool deck, what is that exactly? It's concrete, but the
Speaker 1: pool deck, it's concrete. Fifth floor onto concrete. Just ma'am,
Speaker 1: all right? Did he jump or fall? Do you have
Speaker 1: any way of knowing why? I don't think he didn't fall.
Speaker 1: I don't see how. What do you mean? Okay? Ken?
Speaker 1: Are you with me? Because he he came through his window,
Speaker 1: through the glassy, through the glass curts. Have you been
Speaker 1: conscious at any time? Have you been able to get
Speaker 1: any information from him? No? I don't think I came
Speaker 1: to ask him what happened. He tried up all night.
Speaker 1: Hold the line please, David. Three. I'm in the southwest corner.
Speaker 1: You might want to tend five the sergeant. Come have
Speaker 1: a look at this Ali by the parking grash. Bring
Speaker 1: the night manager if he's around. It was up. What's
Speaker 1: your guy? Barred all the doors? Got someone in the
Speaker 1: stairwell ground level. I want to get out. He saw
Speaker 1: the lights stuck back in. Did you get a look
Speaker 1: at him? No? They're lying low. Okay, good. Hey he
Speaker 1: thinks we got somebody trapped in the stairwell. Hey Ken, Ken,
Speaker 1: could they get back into the hotel. No, these are
Speaker 1: fire escapes, so they lock on all the floors except
Speaker 1: the lobby. No roof access, no soon any place that
Speaker 1: could be hidening in there. On this level, there's a
Speaker 1: stairwell going down, but it dead ends on a basement
Speaker 1: door two floors down. What are we waiting on on?
Speaker 1: Jam the door and let's go take him. Don't you
Speaker 1: think we ought to you? Over there? Hands where I
Speaker 1: can see him. Don't move, I wasn't doing hands against
Speaker 1: the wall. I'm just trying to leave there. She goes there,
Speaker 1: she goes her hands up. You're goddamn hand off of me.
Speaker 1: I heard him. Just relax and do as you're told. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing anything. Tell me, don't touch me. You
Speaker 1: just don't touch me, Steve. You want to give me
Speaker 1: a hand here? You don't need his help. You just
Speaker 1: have to tell me what it is you want to know.
Speaker 1: I'm perfectly willing to answer your questions. You don't have
Speaker 1: to force me. Put your heads on the wall. I
Speaker 1: want to talk to the person in charge. Grab her
Speaker 1: other arm's not gonna listen. Stop it. You can't touch me.
Speaker 1: You don't have the rights. You hear that, Steve, She
Speaker 1: says we can't touch her. Show us to regret this.
Speaker 1: Why are you going to arran? You do not have
Speaker 1: the right to touch me? All right? Why don't you
Speaker 1: tell me, what's going on? I'm trying to Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: Look look at my purse. There's a card with a
Speaker 1: number on it. Call the number on the card. You
Speaker 1: can call your lawyer. Want you're formally detained. No, no,
Speaker 1: it's not a lawyer. But it's so many good. He'll
Speaker 1: fix all this, baby. President Kennedy himself couldn't get you
Speaker 1: out of this fix unless you're renascent. And then what
Speaker 1: do you gotta worry you? Really, I don't know who
Speaker 1: you're dealing with. Hey, kid, why don't we start with
Speaker 1: your name? Your name? All right? You hadgit chance. Hey,
Speaker 1: we're coming up, We're coming up. Authorities have released the
Speaker 1: name of the man found dead on the night of
Speaker 1: August fourteen at the Dixie Hotel in Birmingham. The party
Speaker 1: was identified as that forty year old Ronald Grant, a
Speaker 1: businessman from Columbus, Ohio. The police have released no further
Speaker 1: details on the circumstances of Grant's death, pending a full investigation.
Speaker 1: In world news, tensions continued amount over the isolation of
Speaker 1: Soviet occupied East Germany, citing the failure to obtain a
Speaker 1: peace treaty at the Vienna Summit. Premier Crucia has ordered
Speaker 1: the closure of the Brandy. In the field of psychiatric medicine,
Speaker 1: it was an exciting time, a time of innovation and discovery,
Speaker 1: a time when mental health institutions struggled to redefine themselves,
Speaker 1: to become something more than repositories of the sick. Unorthodox
Speaker 1: methods and aggressive therapies were not only permitted, but encouraged.
Speaker 1: This is a record of that time. This is the
Speaker 1: control group. Ye. This is admissions interview with patient Myers, Karen.
Speaker 1: The date is September eight. Also present is ward head
Speaker 1: nurse Virgery Will Burn. Hello, Karen, I'm gonna keep you.
Speaker 1: Just want to have a little chat. See how you're
Speaker 1: settling that? Okay? Sure? H average weight right, well, appetite normal? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sleep okay. Well they brought me in at three a m.
Speaker 1: And woke me up at seven. We'll call that and
Speaker 1: though fair report from ward nurses socializing. What would you say?
Speaker 1: Not much opportunity yet, doctor, but I will have Charlotte
Speaker 1: show her around the ward. Good girl, what can you
Speaker 1: tell us about the circumstances that brought you here? Huh?
Speaker 1: Why were you arrested? Listen, I'm innocent. This is all
Speaker 1: just a bigness. And I didn't ask you if you're
Speaker 1: innocent and guilty, that's for the court decide. I simply
Speaker 1: asked why you were arrested. Okay, what was the charge? Well,
Speaker 1: this this guy had an accident and died. He killed himself,
Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, they they don't want to call
Speaker 1: it a suicide. Since I was there and I saw,
Speaker 1: I saw what happened. Um, and well they they're putting
Speaker 1: the him on me and and they're trying to turn it.
Speaker 1: They're trying they're trying to pin it and turn it
Speaker 1: into something more serious. And I had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with it. I swear, sure enough. UM, so you understand
Speaker 1: you're not here to be punished. Don't think of this
Speaker 1: as incarceration. Does that mean I can leave. You're here
Speaker 1: for examination and evaluation. Once you've settled, animal have another
Speaker 1: chat and to term the best plane at treatment. Okay. Sure.
Speaker 1: This concludes admission interview for Myers Karen, Dr Hayes, Um.
Speaker 1: Just so there's no doubt in your mind, I want
Speaker 1: you to know that I intend to cooperate with you
Speaker 1: to the fullest. I appreciate that, Karen, and I'll do
Speaker 1: anything that's required of me as long as it makes
Speaker 1: better and brings me closer to being released. Least you
Speaker 1: just got here. Besides which, Karen, you were put here
Speaker 1: by the court. It's not only my decision when you're
Speaker 1: ready to be released. I mean, you make a recommendation,
Speaker 1: don't you. I mean after the evaluation, after your evaluation. Okay,
Speaker 1: then well, I'm not asking for special treatment. I just
Speaker 1: want something to work towards, you know, to show you
Speaker 1: my willingness to cooperate. And in order to do that,
Speaker 1: I need you to tell me, to show me what
Speaker 1: it is you want me to do. Ms Myers, listen
Speaker 1: to me. I've seen your file. I know who you are,
Speaker 1: I know what you are, and I assure you, why well,
Speaker 1: whatever tricks you play with men on the outside, all
Speaker 1: those tricks are not going to work here. What I
Speaker 1: want is to see you free of the symptoms of
Speaker 1: your particular illness and nothing more. I'm not thinking, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel perfectly well. We'll make a note of that
Speaker 1: in your records and send you right back to the
Speaker 1: course your before I judge in less than two weeks.
Speaker 1: How's that sound. Yeah, So don't you get too comfortable here.
Speaker 1: But while you're here, we ask for your cooperation and
Speaker 1: expect to receive it. Is that clear? Yes, sir, you
Speaker 1: may go and just second perjury. She shouldn't be here,
Speaker 1: you know, no, she shouldn't. I'm supposed to not just
Speaker 1: on top of everything else, drop everything, do a full
Speaker 1: enny on a criminal case. I'm certain that's exactly why
Speaker 1: they decided to dump her here in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night. Where are we on the morning schedule? We're set.
Speaker 1: I just need to go call an attendant from the
Speaker 1: Men's war Bergery. Sir, this new girl, Karen, there's no
Speaker 1: reason she should be treated any differently from the others.
Speaker 1: Let's get her ec T regiments started today. Don't you
Speaker 1: think we should at least p we had our chat.
Speaker 1: I've seen what I needed to see very well. Dr Right,
Speaker 1: good morning, laz We'll be getting started shortly. You may
Speaker 1: have nervously having resided on us. Her name is Karen.
Speaker 1: It's her first day on the reward. Let's get rid
Speaker 1: of some time to get interested in. It's Wednesday, the
Speaker 1: third team of teniber and it's going to be that
Speaker 1: glorious day. H Karen. Yeah, I'd like to introduce you
Speaker 1: to Charlotte. Hello, Charlotte is one of the senior residents
Speaker 1: here at New Canaan, and I'd like you to spend
Speaker 1: a little time with her this morning. You just just
Speaker 1: to help you get oriented. M would would you do
Speaker 1: that for me? I guess good. Then I'll leave you
Speaker 1: girls to it. Hi, Hi, you want to take a
Speaker 1: little walk? Sure? Started. Well, this is the day ward
Speaker 1: where you'll spend most of your time. Is this your
Speaker 1: first time in an institution, Yeah it is. It's not
Speaker 1: so bad, really, if you can just find something to
Speaker 1: keep your mind occupied. You know, there's jigsaw puzzles, a
Speaker 1: few games, there's some old magazine. Oh my god. So
Speaker 1: there's look therapy once a day and E C T
Speaker 1: three times a week. If you ever want to skip
Speaker 1: the group, just say you have cramps and don't feel
Speaker 1: up to it. They'll let you off. Just don't do
Speaker 1: it too often. They'll start keeping track of your cycle.
Speaker 1: No kidding. They have a little calendar for menstrual complainers.
Speaker 1: Are you serious? M hm? Oh? What else? We do?
Speaker 1: Calisthenics in the sun room after breakfast. Yeah, I saw that,
Speaker 1: and that just about sums it up. So what do
Speaker 1: you do all day? We watch television, you're kidding. Nine
Speaker 1: o'clock time for Women's World. It's our favorite. A flatter
Speaker 1: form dress pattern made flatter's shapes looking high some of
Speaker 1: those trouble spots you can't seem to get rid of.
Speaker 1: I know, I am hundreds of women have sworn by
Speaker 1: this dress. Stop. I mean, we used to all have jobs.
Speaker 1: They called it occupational therapy. That was cooking and sewing.
Speaker 1: Buchanan even had its own lumber mill and apple orchard.
Speaker 1: Our sider was the best in the state. But then
Speaker 1: some do good or felt like the hospital was exploiting
Speaker 1: the mentally ill, so they got rid of all the
Speaker 1: work programs. So they took away our jobs. They took
Speaker 1: away my garden. There's a greenhouse up by the founder's mansion,
Speaker 1: but I can't bear to look at it. It makes
Speaker 1: me so sad. But we do. We do get to
Speaker 1: watch television. I pretty still keep the doctor my rain.
Speaker 1: Someone's not in a participatory mood today. What's this? Oh?
Speaker 1: This is easy T Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Who's grath
Speaker 1: He's the big fella there. He's an attendant from the
Speaker 1: Men's Word. They bring him downstairs just to maintain order
Speaker 1: on Easy T. Days. You're never allowed to be alone
Speaker 1: with Grath why not? Well, that's the rules. And if
Speaker 1: he ever tries to take you to a private place,
Speaker 1: just one of the nurses. Really, Karen, don't be alone
Speaker 1: with him. I was, I was. Oh, I'm sorry. Don't
Speaker 1: know that hurts. I don't. I don't like the easy.
Speaker 1: You don't need to be what's going on? Don't be scared? Okay?
Speaker 1: What what is easy? T Listen, Karen, You're going to
Speaker 1: have to trust me, okay. Just you a brave girl.
Speaker 1: I'm not even supposed to be here, Charlotte, It's okay, Grass,
Speaker 1: just trying to help the new girl relax. What are
Speaker 1: you looking at? Deaf girl? Carol? Please come, I'll say
Speaker 1: this for you. You've got nervous great hop up on
Speaker 1: this journey and like back, yes, ma'am. Okay, can I
Speaker 1: ask you a question? Yeah? Answer to your side? And
Speaker 1: do you have anything in your mouth? No, ma'am? What
Speaker 1: is um? Life? Still? Please? What are you doing? Okay?
Speaker 1: This is going to feel a little cold on your temples?
Speaker 1: What it? What is that? It's a conductant? That's all?
Speaker 1: What is on this? Please? Karen give us a second? Okay?
Speaker 1: What is a kid, give all right, Who's Next. The
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