Before we start this next episode, a warning.

This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence, torture, and genocide.

It may not be suitable for all listeners.

Hang Noor survived Cambodia's killing fields, but part of him died there with his wife Hoy.

He carried her memory with him through the blood-soaked jungles and rice paddies of Cambodia.

And when he finally escaped to Thailand, he spent what little money he had on a piece of jewelry.

In Bangkok's Chinatown district,

I had Hoy's picture photographically copied

onto a small heart-shaped piece of porcelain,

then hand-colored. This is an actor reading from Heng's autobiography, Surviving the Killing Fields.

You'll hear him throughout the episode.

I took the porcelain to a goldith and ordered a gold locket to fit.

When the locket was done, I hung it around my neck on a chain.

Hang wanted to take H Hoy everywhere he went.

The locket was a talisman.

Its heavy reassuring weight was always there,

under my shirt, over my heart.

I truly believe that Hoy would guide and protect me as long as I wore it.

I never took it off." In Los Angeles, prosecuting attorney Craig Hum argued that because police never found Hang's Gold prosecutor When it's tried to take Dr. Noor's Lockett, he would have resisted that.

Everyone who knew him said that he would not want to give up this Lockett because of its emotional

significance to him.

This becomes a huge part of the story. Hum will tell the jury when the case goes to trial because the

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