This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels.

Well, letter six dropped this week.

So let's get into it.

This is an exciting one.

This is, as he promised, he's going to tell us more about, I think, what, near-death experience number three and four now.

Let's find out

what happens. And the countdown continues. Moving up a notch, it's Chad Daybell, Letter number six.

My second near-death experience happened in the summer of 1993. Eight years had passed since I had

jumped off the cliff at Flaming Gorge Reservoir. I was now nearly 25 years old.

Tammy and I had moved to Ogden the previous year

when I was hired as a copy editor for the Standard Examiner

newspaper and we now had a one-year-old son.

Ogden is about a 90-minute drive from Springville,

so we felt we were on our own, but still close enough to visit our families regularly.

I really enjoyed my new job.

I had been the city editor during my senior year for BYU's Daily Universe newspaper, but going to the standard examiner was a major step up.

The company was a full-scale operation with a bustling newsroom and dozens of employees,

and I was right on the front lines in producing the newspaper each day.

This was an exciting time when computer typesetting programs were being introduced,

but when I first started working there, we still actually cut and pasted

the newspaper together. On the copy desk, we would design the pages, edit the stories, write the

headlines, then send the articles to the production room. If an article ended up being too long for the

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