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🗓️ 20 May 2020
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0:00.0 | There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the Silver Lake section of... |
0:03.9 | We have a weird... |
0:05.8 | ...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion. |
0:09.4 | Morning. |
0:09.8 | A cup of murder. |
0:11.2 | As a parent, no matter how old your child is, you worry when they are far away from home. |
0:16.9 | On May 20, 1979, a woman fell to her death while thousands of miles away in Saudi Arabia. |
0:24.3 | Her father would work tirelessly until the day he died to try and figure out what really happened to Helen Smith. |
0:31.6 | So, if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and search your day with a morning cup of murder. |
0:40.7 | Helen Linda Smith, born January 3rd, 1956, was a nurse who was working at the Batch Hospital in Jada in 1979. |
0:50.1 | She was only one of a few British people that she knew living in Saudi Arabia. |
0:55.1 | So when a fellow British couple invited her to a party, she accepted. |
0:59.7 | Dr. Richard Arna, who was a doctor at the hospital where Helen worked, |
1:03.8 | and his wife Penny were hosting a farewell party for New Zealand diver Tim Hader |
1:08.9 | in their sixth floor flat on May 20th, 1979. |
1:13.1 | A party that Helen was happy to attend. |
1:16.4 | When she arrived, she discovered that not only was she one of only two women at the party, |
1:22.0 | but that there was a large amount of homemade wines, gin, and black market whiskey. |
1:27.8 | Now, normally a party with alcohol is commonplace, but Saudi Arabia was a dry country. |
1:34.9 | So all of these drinks were not only forbidden, but highly illegal. |
1:39.6 | At some point during the party, Penny Arnott began having sex with the diver, and the party quickly began to spiral into a strange and dangerous direction. |
1:49.0 | No one knows what really happened that night. |
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