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On a morning in May of 2014, a detective sat next to the hospital bed of a mortally injured 77-year-old woman.

This woman had been in a coma for the last 10 days following a vicious attack on her.

And in that time, the detective had been desperately working

to try to figure out who had attacked her. But now, somewhat amazingly, the woman had woken up

from her coma, and now this detective was finally getting the chance to ask the victim directly,

who did this to you. However, when the woman began to speak, this conversation would not go as planned.

But before we get into today's story, if you're a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious, delivered in story format, then you've come to the right place because that's all we do.

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but secretly replace their sunscreen with cooking oil. Okay, let's get into today's story.

Okay. Late in the afternoon on May 6, 2014, 77-year-old Helene Pestor sat at her office desk in Monaco with a phone pressed to her ear.

And on the other end was one of Helene's many tenants doing what they did best, which was to complain.

This time there was a problem with their water heater and apparently the plumber was late.

And Helene, like she always did, listened patiently because she was a landlord, and this was her job.

But when this tenant was finished, Helene told them in a soft but firm voice that the plumber

would be there eventually and that they, the tenant, were certainly not too important to wait.

Then she hung up.

Helene knew her tenant wouldn't like this, but she also just didn't have patience for entitled,

wealthy snobs. Unfortunately for her, though, she spent a lot of time with people like that,

because Helene was actually the single, richest woman in all of Monaco.

So, Monaco is a country located on the Mediterranean coast, and it's surrounded

on three sides by France. And so Monaco and France share a lot of cultural similarities. But unlike France,

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