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🗓️ 20 June 2022
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May 24, 2012. Bismarck, North Dakota. Eric Haider was working as a top grounds man for a plumbing and heating company. After the crew he was working with returned from lunch, Eric was never seen again. Eric’s family begged and pleaded with police to help find him. His coworkers said maybe he had walked away from work after his vacation request was denied. His family knew he never left the jobsite. Eric was found three years later. Just like his family suspected, he was buried at the jobsite his coworkers said he “walked away from.” Was Eric’s death a tragic workplace accident or was foul play involved?
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0:30.0 | Hey, Dune Suniter. |
0:43.2 | I'm doing just fine, Justin, because I'm hanging out with you. |
0:46.9 | We're motivated. |
0:47.9 | We're really ready to talk about this case tonight. |
0:50.6 | Yes, we are. |
0:52.4 | But before that, we got a few announcements, right? |
0:55.5 | Yes. |
0:56.5 | If anyone recalls, we covered a case some years ago about a man who took his mother out |
1:03.5 | for a boating trip. |
1:05.2 | He was able to return. |
1:06.7 | She wasn't. |
1:07.7 | And according to his story, well, the boat had taken on water and he went to the life raft |
1:13.9 | to try and escape and was calling for her, but he never saw her again. |
1:18.6 | Just this week, as of this recording, which we're recording this in what early part of |
1:22.9 | May, Nathan Carmen has now been arrested. |
1:27.6 | And according to the authorities, he killed his mother and his grandfather in separate |
1:32.2 | incidents to gain control of the family's estate, which was many millions of dollars. |
1:39.7 | So if you have missed this case somehow, please look it up. |
1:43.6 | I know when we covered it before, this case fascinated me because there were plenty of |
1:48.1 | witnesses. |
1:49.1 | There were people who had a lot to say about Nathan and about how all this went down. |
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