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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

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True Crime, Mrballen, Mysterious, True Story, Storytelling, Strange, Dark

4.9 • 27K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On a January afternoon in 2015, a medical examiner stood over a dead woman’s body in the county morgue. He’d already opened up the woman’s abdomen, and he was using his scalpel to cut the tissues around her stomach. The woman had been murdered, and the medical examiner had already determined her cause of death — but now, he was searching for something specific. He placed the stomach on a metal tray and sliced it open, revealing everything she’d eaten before her death. To his surprise, there was almost nothing there, which meant the woman hadn’t eaten for several hours. This struck the medical examiner as very odd, because detectives had told him that the woman bought Mexican food less than half an hour before her death, and they found the empty wrapper at the crime scene. But if the murder victim didn’t eat it, that left only one other possibility: her killer did. The medical examiner put his scalpel down and looked at the woman on his autopsy table. He tried to imagine what sort of person would want to murder her and then eat her lunch, while standing right beside her body.

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0:10.6	On a January afternoon in 2015, a medical examiner stood over a dead woman's body in the county morgue.
0:16.0	He had already opened up the woman's abdomen and he was now using his scalpel to cut the tissues around her stomach.
0:22.0	The woman had been murdered and the medical
0:23.9	examiner had already determined her cause of death but now he was searching for
0:27.6	something specific. After cutting away the tissue he removed her stomach and
0:31.7	placed it on a metal tray and cut it open,
0:34.0	revealing everything she'd eaten before her death.
0:36.0	To his surprise, there was almost nothing there,
0:39.0	which meant the woman had not eaten for several hours.
0:42.0	This struck the medical examiner as being very odd
0:44.4	because detectives had told him that this woman bought Mexican food less than half an hour
0:48.4	before her death and they found the empty wrapper at the crime scene. But if the murder victim didn't eat the food,
0:54.6	that left only one other possibility.
0:56.9	Her killer did.
0:58.2	The medical examiner put his scalpel down
1:00.2	and stared down at the woman on his table. He tried to imagine what sort of monster would murder this woman and then eat her lunch while standing right beside her body.
1:09.0	But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark and Mysterious
1:13.7	delivered in story format, then you come to the Right Podcast because that's all we do and we upload
1:18.4	twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday.
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